sorry for posting this to the list but i can't type your emial address - it's sort of ahrd ;) anyway: can you send me the boot disks and i'll figure it out? alternately: try changing one of the consoles (e.g. tty1) to console. /dev/console usually points to the first console, as far as i remember. here is a ls -l: crw--w--w- 1 root tty 5, 1 Mar 13 13:49 /dev/console