Here's some additional info to the problem: I created a VM to watch it boot up so I could see what was happening where. Well, the first step where the scrolling text stops is as shown below: SELinux: Disabled at runtime. Type=1404 audit(1242405997.079:2): selinux=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 On my main server, nothing else appears here until I get the login prompt. On the VM I see right after the SELinux stuff above the following: INIT: version 2.86 booting Welcome..... So what would cause messages spewed by INIT not show up and also the lack of the kernel selection screen and also kill output to the serial console? Tia, tkb. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos