AdeV may or may not have intoned: [snippage] Hmm, thought I'd see what would happen if I just added it in anyway.... and it booted, hurrah! Mounted the CDROM, which seems to be quite readable; it's currently in the process of restoring vms073.b/save_set; hopefully, I can then unplug it from the network & have it boot standalone..... -- Cheers! Ade.