Hi, You say "it stops" but really you need to say what it does - you're assuming it stops. For instance, it might switch to a video mode that doesn't show you the prompt you expect and blithely waits for you to login as you always have.
What do you see up until "it stops", what do you see when "it stops", and has it ever worked before? Is this a change in a working system, or an install that didn't complete successfully? If it was working, what did you attempt last (that changed something so the outcome is different now)? Cheers, Bret On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 18:33, Dan Banyard wrote: > Hi, > > I have a linux box which is hanging when it boots up. At this stage I am > not as to why this has happened (hardware or software) but I am trying to > work out what to do. I watch it go through the boot sequence and when it > gets to the point where should give me a login prompt is just stops. > > So far I have managed to restart the box in rescue mode (i am using SuSE > 7.2) and can successfully mount the hard disk. I am really trying to find > information on what exactly is going wrong. I have been looking through the > /var/log files and nothing jumps out. I realise there could be a million > things going wrong but can anyone think of where I can look for clues? Does > anyone know of anyone who offers a good linux doctor type service? > > thanks in advance > > dan > -- bwaldow at alum.mit.edu -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
