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.) Thanks P.S. - Yes, I see the irony in this email, based upon what I wrote a couple of days ago questioning the need for separate partitions... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org