Interesting to see what a debate my 'B: not found' caused. However the =
first
soultion was the one I needed. vi had placed a 'B' on the first line of =
my
rc.conf, probably while playing around with the arrow keys.

I have not used my youth to play games with the "hjkl" keys and my
experience in UNIX is completely based on editing with emacs. Therefore =
the
natural thing was to install that editor as soon as my new system was up =
and
running. Unfortunately I was forced to use vi for some files (e.g. =
rc.conf)
and along the way some strange things happened with the files... ;-)

Thanks for the help!
/Fredrik

> >I have a newly installed i386 (Celeron) box. Just after the=20
> kernel has=20
> >loaded (when the text on the screen turns from green to white) the=20
> >system types "B: not found" on the screen. At system=20
> shutdown serveral=20
> >lines with the same text are printed. Does anyone know what's wrong?
>=20
> it sounds like you have a stray B somewhere in one of the rc=20
> files. try this
>=20
> 	# grep '\<B\>' /etc/rc* /etc/rc.d/* /etc/defaults/*
>=20
> and see if it points anything out.  a stray B can occur by=20
> accident if you're using vi to edit something and the escape=20
> character portion of the down arrow key arrives some interval=20
> before the other two characters.  i don't really know why=20
> this happens (all the characters should arrive at the same=20
> time afaict), but it does.  and it annoys me.