Hi Paul (Bame), I tried booting 712 with "bo scsi.4.0 isl" with the palinux-0.5.iso image on a regular hard disk. I wanted to edit the "root" parameter so it would be /dev/sdb (also had a disk at scsi.0.0) instead of /dev/scd0. palo wouldn't accept any ps/2 keyboard input. Don't know if this is a palo or PDC bug. Any ideas? thanks, grant