Yes Mitchell. First of all, I don't hit shift to make a selection; I have aliases for my kernels and my dOS OS in my lilo.conf, so I just press the number/letter for what I want to bring up. so i'm not sure how your setup differs from mine, but here's how I got that beep. I uncommented the line in my lilo.conf that says message=boot/bootmess.txt Then I typed the following from the shell prompt: echo -e \\a >bootmess.txt Now, if you have other text also in your bootmess.txt, you will want to use two greater-than >> signs instead of one, so it appends the control-g to the file and doesn't erase the text you already have there. And you really do want the > or >> sign right before the filename; no space between the sign(s) and the filename. Cheryl