> Sorry, I wasn't precise enough. I want the rest of the kernel to continue > until the 10 seconds is up. The only way I've ever done this is to set a timer for 10 seconds, and have the hander for said timer be panic, or reboot, or whatever you want it to do... That's going to require that timer interrupts work. (I think MPE/iX _STILL_ has a routine in the kernel called delayed_reboot...) lamont