I have RH9, and for some reason it stopped booting for no apparent reason. It has been working fine for the last 6 months, but it now hangs on boot. I see booting kernel for a max of 20 minutes(that is as long as I have waited), then I ctrl+alt+del and wait a minute and it shuts down.

I have tried ctrl+alt+F1-12 and most other keys, but nothing happens.

In /var/log/boot.log I can see no differences in the boot when it was working and when it isn't (knoppix networking doesn't work so i can't cut and paste easily) but it starts wine, then shuts down anacron:
Jan 19 20:09:07 localhost rc: Starting wine: succeeded
Jan 19 20:27:42 localhost atd: atd shutdown succeeded

In /var/log/messages after it starts wine there is this
Jan 19 20:09:07 localhost xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic (unreadable)
Jan 19 20:27:41 localhost shutdown: shutting down for system reboot

If I look back at a successful boot, I see this line after the cyrillic (unreadable)
Dec 16 18:48:45 localhost gdm(pam_unix)[2999]: session opened for user etpeters by (uid=0)

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

If you hand it the parameter "single"
at your bootmanagers prompt ... does
that work?


Cheers,
Tink

By handing it the parameter single do you mean adding single to the line that (for me grub) uses to boot? This is the new line:

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ single

and no, that didn't change anything.

Anyone have any other ideas? Anything will be helpful.