Hi again, since 2.4 has been deprecated, which is the latest 2.6.x kernel with full support for SMP on alpha (titan)? Also, is written that gentoo-sources or vanilla-sources should work well the same, so I wonder which one I should try first. Also, while I was trying the stage 1 installation I've went through an error emerging binutils: /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.18-r1/work/binutils-2.18/bfd/ trad-core.c: In function 'trad_unix_core_file_p': /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.18-r1/work/binutils-2.18/bfd/ trad-core.c:122: error: 'PAGE_SIZE' undeclared (first use in this function) /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.18-r1/work/binutils-2.18/bfd/ trad-core.c:122: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.18-r1/work/binutils-2.18/bfd/ trad-core.c:122: error: for each function it appears in.) make[4]: *** [trad-core.lo] Error 1 I've found this: http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2007-10/msg00003.html that is a patch for glibc-2.4 but also works on 2.5 d /* Davide Cittaro HPC and Bioinformatics Systems @ Informatics Core IFOM - Istituto FIRC di Oncologia Molecolare via adamello, 16 20139 Milano Italy tel.: +39(02)574303007 e-mail: davide.cittaro@ifom-ieo-campus.it */