[newbie] 6.0 hangs on boot :(

[Mike Armour]

Greets all,

my newly installed hangs (completely ctrl-c and the three finger salute
don't work) on "Starting optimisation for hda" and "Starting optimsation on
hdc" upon boot.
a reinstall hasn't done any good and from the boot disk i'm can't figure out
how to pass it -s (or is it -S?) for a single user boot ... any ideas on why
it hangs ??

Cheers
Mike