I had trouble booting into Linux today. The boot just stopped at the
point when the "system logger" was being loaded. This has happened
once before but it went away after I rebooted with "Linux" rather
than "Linux-up" in LILO. I don't think the other boot option made a
difference in that case, they both use the same kernel but Linux-up
has an extra option.
Today though, the system would just stop booting at the "system
logger" point. I tried an interactive boot, disabled system logging,
but X-windows wouldn't start. I hit the reset button, Linux did a
check of root and home, found some errors, and everything proceeded
properly from there on in. But I'd like to know what was going on and
how to fix it if it ever happens again. Can I force a disk check
during boot? Well, with the reset button I could, but that may not be
the best way. I also booted into Windows, but found that internet
wasn't responding properly (couldn't load web pages, but telnet and
mail worked fine). Was Linux perhaps just encountering network
problems at boot time, and should I have just waited?
Thanks for any information,
John Hendrickx
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