Good morning, again...
had a shell prompt again - at least it didn't freeze...
That means that your problem comes from one of the init scripts you didn't test ;-)
Oh, thank you, I didn't know what to test...
shm is a tmpfs (a filesystem living in RAM, not hard disk) that is mounted to /dev/shm. The echo-command Berthold mentioned just tries to create a little file in this filesystem.
I see! ok, tried this "echo 'foo...", nothing happened (got next prompt), so this seems to be ok.
If this also doesn't freeze your system, try the other init scripts:
cd /etc/init.d/boot.d/ for file in S* ; do echo "--- Starting $file... ---" ./$file start echo "done - press enter" read done
Just wait some seconds after each script, then press enter to start the next one. (You could also type each script name manually, but the above script is easier ;-)
Thank you, Christian for detailed descrition that even learners like I can understand ;-) I very much appreciate this. So, here's the result: S01boot.proc S02boot.shm S03boot.rootfsck S04boot.udev seemed to run like they should, some messages, but not looking like errors, then S05boot.colplug freezed "Tons" of messages run over the screen. I just wrote down the last few that I could see: hw-random: RNG not detected ACPI-0768: ***warning: Thread 865 could not acquire Mutes [NULL] AE_BAD_PARAMETER shpchp: acpi_shpchprm: get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x1001 phci1394: $Rev: 1299 $ Ben Collins <(email-addr of bcollins)> PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:02:03.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 for device 0000:02:0a.0 phci1394: fw_host0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI) IRQ=[9] MMIO=[ed000000 - ed0007ff] Max-Packet=[2048] tg3.c: v3.37 (August 25, 2005) PCI: found IRQ 10 for device 0000:02:05.0 Then it freezes. ------------------------------ The "tg3.c"-line makes me remember another experiment I've tried earlier: I tried to update with Yast (staring it from the boot CD). After collecting the software list Yast said, it found some hardware and gave the message: load device driver TG3 Then it freezed. ----------------------------- Ok, I hope these "tests" will bring me closer to a solution. What should I do next? Thanks for any help!