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I'm not certain that I ever got the shell prompt- normally this would come up after boot up and hitting the [enter] key, no?


Hmmm, don't recall Enter doing anything... 'q' should do it, but Ctrl-c appears to be more certain.

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Shouldn't I see a "->" for a prompt? But I never got one... hmm.


Been a while, but you ahould get a [bash] prompt, whatever it is... '#'?. Try 'ls /' or similar simple command to see yhat you're there...

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Nevertheless, the RAM test functioned properly when I hit [ctrl]T, so I betcha [ctrl]C will also work.
I'll post again tonight after a few more tests.


Good luck!
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/Michael