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,
This has happened to me a few times on a couple o machines, I fixed it by
reinstalling sysklogd. Unfortunately, I haven't found the service which is
causing the conflict.
Re-boot the machine, and enter interactive mode during service start-up
(press "I")
Select "NO" for syslog this time.
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