Kernel stuff's going straight over my head, sorry, but I *do* know that the emergency TTY on Slackware runlevel 4 is tty6, not tty1. The rest is Greek to me ;-) Meredydd -- MSN Developer, Everybuddy project http://www.everybuddy.com/ MSN: blip109 at hotmail.com AIM: blip109 Yahoo: modula7