Please commit this patch and help me retain my sanity =) This will keep 'Welcome to Linux Mandrake' and 'Press "I" for interactive startup" from wrapping screen on vesa startup (vga=788/791/etc). \n would not work so I had to find an appropriate string to move the cursor back to column 1. I blatantly ripped it off from /etc/sysconfig/init where it is used to define where [OK] or [FAIL] will appear during non-Aurora boot. -Rob *** rc.sysinit Tue Feb 27 07:29:19 2001 --- rc.sysinit.fixed Thu Mar 1 10:46:09 2001 *************** *** 36,48 **** # C-like escape sequences don't work as 2nd and up parameters of gprintf, # so real escap chars were written if [ "$BOOTUP" != "serial" ]; then ! gprintf "\t\t\tWelcome to Linux %sMandrake%s" `echo -en "\\033[1;36m"` `echo -en "\\033[0;39m"` else gprintf "\t\t\tWelcome to Linux %sMandrake%s" "" "" fi echo if [ "$PROMPT" != "no" ]; then ! gprintf "\t\tPress 'I' to enter interactive startup." echo sleep 1 fi --- 36,48 ---- # C-like escape sequences don't work as 2nd and up parameters of gprintf, # so real escap chars were written if [ "$BOOTUP" != "serial" ]; then ! gprintf "%s\t\t\tWelcome to Linux %sMandrake%s" `echo -en "\\033[1G"` `echo -en "\\033[1;36m"` `echo -e "\\033[0;39m"` else gprintf "\t\t\tWelcome to Linux %sMandrake%s" "" "" fi echo if [ "$PROMPT" != "no" ]; then ! gprintf "%s\t\tPress 'I' to enter interactive startup.%s" `echo -en "\\033[1G"` `echo -en "\\033[1G"` echo sleep 1 fi