Here's a pretty good document from Red Hat on the linux boot process.... http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/ref-guide/s1-boot-init-shutdown-process.html Eric -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://cs.georgefox.edu/pipermail/csis450/attachments/20070301/a35fc372/attachment.htm