I think you can probably boot to it with a carefully crafted initrd that performs a pivot_root into the debootstrapped chroot. Or, perhaps you could run a UML kernel there? Has anyone tried that? -- mailto: (Karl M. Hegbloom) karlheg@microsharp.com http://www.microsharp.com phone://USA/WA/360-260-2066 jabber: karlheg@jabber.org