I use X....gee that sounds so dirty.. :) Is it possible to pause the boot process before the X-Windows logon comes up so as to read it. Then allowing the machine to continue to boot with maybe an odd pause here and there? ie similar to the Windows step by step confirmation accessed by pressing F8 on bootup? I would prefer to not have to log in to view the boot log before deciding to reboot because something I changed hasn't worked. -- The Little Helper ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Licenced ex-Windows user (apart from Quicken) Registered Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Using SuSE 9.0 with KDE 3.1 ========================================================================