I have searched google and found allot of other people with this problem, but all the solutions are for /after/ logging in. Unfortunately I can't login in to even try these solutions. On boot I get the following error: ... Freeing unused kernel memory: 88k freed INIT: version 2.78 booting INIT: Entering runlevel: 2 INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel _ Then the "respawning too fast" part loops continuously I have tried to boot to INIT 1 from LILO, as well as INIT 3, but both generate the same error. I have tried to boot to the following at LILO also: "linux init=/bin/bash" and "linux init=/bin/csh" This does not generate the "respawning too fast" but it instead hangs the system in the same spot... just after "Freeing unused kernel memory: 88k freed" in the boot processes. I also tried booting from the SuSE DVD "boot to already installed system" but that did not help. I just need to get to the login prompt...can anyone help? -SuSE 7.0 kernel 2.2.19 Thanks, jeric