On Thursday 11 December 2003 03:15, fedora wrote: > Is there a first boot-like mechanism available thats text only? I'm not sure I've understood the question, but couldn't you add append="text" to the kernel line in grub.conf ? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland