There was a spelling error in my email (the GRUB command is correct - kernel)
Thanks for the suggestion on init 3. The error is in the firewall. I attempted to add nofirewall as a kernel parameter... but didn't work. Aside from reinstalling without a firewall, is there any way to bypass this initialization?
chkconfig is the script that manages what services start at boot time. To turn off the "firewall" services - ipchains, iptables and ip6tables - try something like the following:
chkconfig --level 2345 ipchains off chkconfig --level 2345 iptables off chkconfig --level 2345 ip6tables off
When logged in as root.
Good luck!
