Greetings!

Well, I put the normal kernel in place, and I was able to do my disk changes. I reloaded hijack and am running fine now. I know I have seen similar issues without hijack loaded, so there might be an intermittent problem somewhere.

If it is of any help, after the error, any command that I executed, no matter how tame (i.e., "ls") locked the empeg. If you need any testing or debugging assistance (short of mailing the unit to the UK), let me know.

I just want to bring any strangeness to your (collective) attention because I tend to be bleeding edge with disk. Others will follow...