I'm now up. A possible "what happened": after coming up from an INSTALL and START NORECOVERY, I restored @.PUB.SYS;olddate;keep, possible restoring the file JOBQFILE which would not match the current JOBQ settings (none). I was rebooting with START RECOVERY and always hanging. I finally did START NORECOVERY and all came up well. +===================================== Keven Miller KC7LYD [log in to unmask] (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA) +=====================================