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All: I've used my TP701cs, 16Mb, 720Mb disk. 3Com 3C589C network card, for about a month now, and am mostly quite pleased with the total performance and utility IBM placed in this little package... However, twice I've encountered a problem with Linux (apologies to those that don't use Linux...). The installation and configuring of Linux Slackware is fairly straightforward, and I've been successfully running for about 3 weeks now, including X. But now, when the system boots it never gives a login prompt. The display goes though the usual bootup messages and then freezes at this point: >Adding Swap: 44388k swap space Ctl-Alt-Del will reboot, and during the freeze there is some disk activity - probably update is working. DOS will boot up fine. The first time this happened, rebuilding linux solved the problem; I attributed the first failure to infamiliarity with the system and thought I just screwed something up, and wanted to rebuilt the system anyway. Now, I'm less happy with the prospect of a system rebuild, and the failure seemed to have no traceable cause. Has anyone experenced this problem? Is there a fix? The backup boot floppy of the kernel I made during installation has the same problem. I have booted the rescue disk, and can mount the hard drive, but I don't know where to look at this point. Thanks in advance for your help. - Dennis Dennis Edwards Currently Servicing 5.27GHZ of NMR NMR Support Services edwards@chemistry.utah.edu University of Utah TEL (801) 581-4208 Department of Chemistry FAX (801) 581-8433 Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 USA