OK so a little fiddling and I have a boot and root disk and I am up to a login: prompt That is as far as I get Regardless of the user name I enter it just returns ELKS .. login: A little assistance if you please Richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html