Christian Groessler writes:

 > To get the machine to boot again, I had to enter the BIOS, disable the 
 > network card there,

Hmmm... you could have tried with a single user mode bootstrap, that
could have avoided you going to the BIOS.

 > Quite a dance instead of just typing "^C"....

^C could be unresponsive nevertheless, the process being stuck in kernel
space and thus completely oblivious of the signals thrown at it.

-- 
 /\           ___                                    Ubuntu: ancient
/___/\_|_|\_|__|___Gian Uberto Lauri_____               African word
  //--\| | \|  |   Integralista GNUslamico            meaning "I can
\/                 coltivatore diretto di software       not install
     giĆ  sistemista a tempo (altrui) perso...                Debian"

Warning: gnome-config-daemon considered more dangerous than GOTO


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