On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 09:58:32AM EDT, ron.l.johnson@cox.net wrote: > boot procedure still mounts / as RO, and so "it" can't write to /var (which is part of /) and thus the boot process freezes just after S55something. > > (No, it doesn't drop me into single-user mode. I think it wants to, but things fly by so fast that I can't see.) CTRL+S .. maybe? Also, wrapping at column 72 would help. CJ