Okay, it is official, the problem lies within the new gcc 2.95.2. I compiled a new kernel with gcc 2.7.2.3 and now it's working like a charm. Although this may still be a small bug, when I boot the ramdisk is still mounted ro and I still get the open errors on /dev/tty3. I assume the open errors are related to the ro mounted fs. Anyway, thanks. -- Jason Mesker Internet Tool & Die System/Network Admin jasonm@tool.net