On my c3k, everytime I boot up a kernel running 2.4.18-pa2 (narrow kernel), I get a lot of garbage characters during bootup (sometime between hardware inventory and scsi init). Has anyone else seen this? I use minicom has my serial terminal and the garbage kills minicom.... randolph -- @..@ http://www.TauSq.org/ (----) ( >__< ) ^^ ~~ ^^