minim on Slax linux

[roadster]

Thanks. I appreciate your help but as everything is now working well I don't think its worth putting any further effort in. I'll leave my 60 second delay in place just before the final command in startd so that when I do boot in graphics mode I won't get any problems. I wouldn't be surprised if it was something to do with the use of a USB stick as the boot and configuration device. The X server startup is very slow with a lot of activity on the memory stick. Once underway things are pretty good because everything is happening in memory or on the VFS mounted hard drives.