On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 00:09 +0200, Grégoire Favre wrote: > Could I just take some pictures of the boot process and send them to > you ? Not really, the messages I need will be embedded in a lot of other output and will likely scroll off the screen > Or is there any way to use an usb palm to catch the console output ? If it has a serial port, sure, just use a serial console. If it doesn't, try removing the DVD during boot, then plug it back in again and trigger a device add echo scsi add-single-device <n> 0 1 0 > /proc/scsi/scsi where <n> is whatever SCSI number the rest of your CD-ROM's appear on (it was 1 in your first trace). James - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html