Vikki Roemer wrote:
Pigeon wrote:I wouldn't be surprised if time was involved: that if you deliberately put some delay in early on in the boot process, it wouldn't get so far before it hung.Prolly. But I noticed that merely deleting symlinks (not the smartest thing in the world, but I figured it couldn't hurt at this point) didn't make a significant amount of difference; I'm not sure that doing that made much difference in the boot time, though, either. So that's why I'm not *entirely* sure that the hanging is time-dependent, but I've a hunch it is.
So boot into single-user mode, or start Linux from the lilo prompt with something like:
boot: linux single init=/bin/bash or boot: linux -b (see man init)to start a minimalist system (-b = "emergency"), and see if the machine lasts for any length of time.
Then the hardware is probaby okay, and you've just got some file corruption or something similar. The "linux -b" option at the lilo prompt should allow you to then start running the startup scripts manually to find out which ones are causing you grief.Tried booting from tomsrtbt, and it runs like a charm.
-- Kent West (westk@acu.edu)