On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 9:31 AM, wrote: > The only way to hook up a terminal is using Ethernet, as the screen on th= e device only shows a 'booting' message and no Linux prompts. Would it be p= ossible to interrupt the boot process this way? My suspicion is that this w= ouldn't be active until it was already up and running in multi-user mode. Agreed. You need to be on the console (serial port most likely) to do this. --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .