Tad, your patch isn't working. I built with it -- when init from the ramdisk ran, it says: init: error in loading shared libraries: init: symbol__ctype_tolower, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference Then we die, of course. .....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>