Hi, > And as a home user who left windows behind (in part) because they > were always hiding information from me. I'd be VERY frustrated with > that long blank wait... And like somebody said, it can be disquieting > when you can't see whats happening. I rebooted my system with ctrl-alt-del twice before I found out the screen was _supposed_ to be blank for a while when booting. After running Linux for about 10 years not seeing the kernel start up was very shocking at first :) Bye, Sander.