That does sound strange. So many people seem to
have problems with Mandrake, so i guess it's not
to surprising.

It may have just been a symlink thing. That is,
two links with the same name.

Iv'e found using a common boot partition
simplifies things a lot, when it comes to updating
Lilo's map file. I use a 100 Mb partition, hdb1,
and mount it on /boot, just for the update. I leave
it unmounted normally. It's just a matter then of
remembering to directly copy the relevant system.map
files over to root's boot directory.

Just to make the module/symbol table detection
at boot go smoothly.

Not to worry though

jm