Hello, I hope someone will be able to help me with a system that will not boot. I've searched the SuSE Knowledge Base but haven't found any pointers. I have LiLO installed on the MBR of hda. My SuSE 5.1, kernel 2.0.36 system is installed on hda6. After uncompressing the kernel, identifying the hardware, and reading /etc/fstab the boot process starts passing multiple error messages. Most scroll by too quickly to read but they begin with: "starting sbin/init.d/boot:starting /sbin/swapon: no such file or directory" After mounting hda6 read-only the boot hangs permanently at: "INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for five minutes" : : "INIT: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for five minutes" Powering down is the only way out of the situation. Fortunately, I didn't wipe my installation (now on hdb) when I upgraded my main hard drive some months ago so after booting from a rescue disk I was able to edit /etc/conf.lilo and I'm now booting to my 2.0.33 system on hdb3. My setup: SuSE 5.1 kernel 2.0.36 on hda6(W95 on hda1) SuSE 5.1 kernel 2.0.33 on hdb3(W95 on hdb1) YaST .97.1 gcc 2.7.2.1 Everything was working fine until... In preparation for upgrading to kernel 2.2.1,I decided to install the required versions of the various utilities/programs needed by 2.2.1. Not finding the most recent versions in the various SuSE 5.3 directories, (that should have caused me to stop right there!), I downloaded and installed rpms for kernmod, ppp, binutils,libc5.4.46-2.i386, net-tools, sh-utils, sh-libs from the 6.0 and 6.0 evaluation directories. YaST issued warnings about conflicts for the binutils and the sh-utils package but I continued to install. (I know, I know .... I've been kicking myself since then.) The warnings were: "/usr/include/ansidecl.h conflicts with file from libc-5.4.33-6" and a few other warnings related to man pages and etc/ppp/options and etc/ppp/pap-secrets. I'm assuming these latter warnings aren't directly related to my booting problem. In some (but not all) cases YaST prompted me to save backups to /var/adm/backup/installation-990217.0 I've attached this file in the hope that someone can point me to the steps to take to rescue my system. Initially I thought that the problem was directly caused by using SuSE 6.0 rpms in a SuSE 5.1 system - the utilities/libaries might be installed in different directories in 6.0.