Bug#337806:

[Frans Pop <aragorn@tiscali.nl>]

(Please always reply to the bug report)

On Monday 07 November 2005 15:48, you wrote:
> I had to boot into Windows and change my laptop power configuration so
> that it wouldn't hibernate after 10 minutes, but it's been stopped at
> 'Starting periodic command scheduler: cron' for about 30 minutes now.
> I think it's probably hung up.

Yes, I agree. Can you still scroll the console back (using shift-PgUp)?
If you can it is not completely hung. You can also try Ctrl-C to try to 
break the hanging process.

> Can you advise me on a way to record the console messages for
> debugging help, or do I just have to copy down what I see on the
> screen (which would provide a pretty incomplete picture, since this is
> about 4 screens deep into the boot process)?

Using the rescue mode I referred to, enable bootlogd in /etc/default.
Then reboot, then go into rescue mode again. Then the directory
/target/var/log should have files boot, kern.log and syslog.
Before you send these, make sure you delete everyting that is not relevant 
for the last boot from the last two files.