hpa, since Ive asked a few dumb questions, and gotten good & gentle answers, I did some pennance. in README.menu, you say 'copy to appropriate location'. I was left a bit unsure what appropriate was, but in absense of any specifics I went with the obvious 1st guess, and it worked. attached makes it specific - ie same directory as your syslinux.conf. obviously, you might have better wording.. PS. Ive posted to soekris-list wrt whether the 1.26 bios fixes the serial & console escape-sequence spew. I havent heard back yet, but when I do, I'll let you know whether my NOCONSOLE request is obsoleted by it. fwiw, the spew happens w LILO too, so its not a pxelinux specific interaction. -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: patch.readme.menu URL: <http://www.zytor.com/pipermail/syslinux/attachments/20050103/e15c46e8/attachment.ksh>