Nothing happens at all when I press CTRL-T Up to the point where it hangs all seems to be going well. I boot with the flags 0,20000 so I can see what is going on and there are plenty of messages showing certain files being loaded and configured etc. All of the %EXECINIT processes appear to load OK and then it changes to the %SWAPPER messages and this all hangs with the second %SWAPPER message where it checks the status of the system disk !!! Robin _____ << ella for Spam Control >> has removed 1845 Spam messages and set aside 241 Newsletters for me You can use it too - and it's FREE! www.ellaforspam.com