> > The RH9 manual (the best doc I can find) says to go to the Graphical GRUB > > boot loader screen, type e to edit it, arrow down to the kernel line, > > type e to edit it, at the prompt, type the number of the runlevel (e.g. > > 3), press Enter to get back to the GRUB screen, type b to boot. > > that would be **append** 3 to the end of that line, not replace the > entire line. might that be what's happening here? Yup, I was appending (I had almost thought of replacing, but, naw, that couldn't be it!). But I was missing a space. Works fine, lasts a long, long time! Thanks for the suggestion. -- Whil Moving to Linux: Freedom, Choice, Security, Opportunity http://www.hentzenwerke.com