I had it sort of running just now ... In order to achieve this I had to: - add "-nopentium" to rmgr's menu.lst line - add this to rmgr.cfg.linux: task modname "rmgr.cfg" - comment out the "boot_priority" lines in rmgr.cfg.linux - switch the machine right off beforehand - rebooting isn't sufficient - add init=/bin/sh as a boot argument to Linux - be lucky - it doesn't seem to work every time I try! (because of this element of luck it's hard to know which of the other actions is really necessary ...) I then had no cursor, but a shell, with which I could walk around the file system using pwd, cd and echo *. It reboots as soon as I do anything that involves a fork, such as ls, cat or sh. So I'll worry about configuring X later, right? :-) My menu.lst contains: title = Linux kernel=(fd0)/rmgr -nopentium -sigma0 -configfile module=(fd0)/main -nokdb module=(fd0)/sigma0 module=(fd0)/rmgr.cfg.linux module=(fd0)/glinux.gz root=/dev/hda2 init=/bin/sh I built main and sigma0 myself under Debian 2.1, i.e. gcc 2.7.2.3 and binutils 2.9.1.0.19a, from the sources dated 981207. Everything else was already on grub-ext2fs-floppy from the ftp site. I compile on a 686 machine and run Fiasco on a 486 machine. Any ideas? Edmund