On that same 2.1.7 pre I get another wierd error when trying to reboot the system; again, dbootstrap exits and restarts dbootstrap w/o actually rebooting the system. On tty3 I see: pid 290 exited, status=ff00 Executing sbin/dbootstrap -- .....A. P. Harris...apharris@onShore.com...<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>