On Mar 22, 2007, at 4:11 PM, john heasley wrote:
>>  no exec
>    ^^^^^^
> This is the key command.  Without it, the cisco is spitting out  
> Username
> prompts and causing interruption of the boot process.

   Ahh, I can see how "no exec" (or "no login".  Does "no exec" imply  
"no login" ?) could change that.  Excellent, thanks!  I'll give that  
a shot RSN...

> A conflict of flow control (flowcontrol (soft|hard|none)) when the  
> cisco is
> configured for software flow control also seems to interrupt the  
> process.

   Hmm.  Okay.  I'll keep that in mind in the future, but that is not  
likely affecting me right now.

                         - Chris