Hi Robert If you mean by 'top post' pasting the content as well as the link, I see your point. Just put it down to an old guys excitement with a little bit of success :-)) Eric > not to be overly pedantic, but please don't top post -- it makes > reading your post unnecessarily confusing. > > as to the issue you ran into, i suspect a simpler solution would > have been to override the invocation of the init program by using > "init=/bin/sh" at the grub boot line. that option causes the kernel > to skip executing /sbin/init in favour of whatever executable you put > there. i haven't verified it but i'm guessing that if you boot > straight to a shell, you can change the properties of whatever files > you want in the root directory, includind the permissions on > /sbin/init or whatever else you want. > > rday > -- http://www.therecycledteenager.blogspot.com/ "Some people will tell you that slow is good – but I’m here to tell you that fast is better. I’ve always believed this, in spite of the trouble it’s caused me. Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube."~Hunter S. Thompson But K-eep L-ocktite R-eady and stay in the D-irt R-iding Z-one