Mystery solved, Urs. Entirely my own fault. There was an SL_LIVECD directory with gzipped password and shadow files in it on one of the hard disk partitions that must have been left over from playing around with an earlier live cd/dvd over a year ago. I had completely forgotten about it, if I ever knew it was there in the first place. When I removed that, booting proceeded with no problem. Sorry to have wasted your time.

Stephen Isard

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