Somebody in the thread at some point said: > final state of boot is that it gets to the login prompt, where i can > enter a login name but then does not ask for a password ! I guess this can be because your root filesystem is left mounted read-only... > on the way it stalls at 'starting system logger' which i would guess > times out and proceeds Hum > usbfs seg faults when 'starting /udev' - if that answers your qu. correctly > > init scripts as i understand run Right. Well if it was me, knowing that I pushed my luck pretty hard attempting a Redhat 9 --> FC6 upgrade, especially after the box was trashed beforehand, I would ask myself if it will be quicker overall to thresh around meddling trying to fix the problems, or to place a new HDD in the box, clean install FC6 or F7 on to it, and then add the original HDD back in and copy the important stuff on to the new drive, before removing the old HDD and keeping as an archive. Probably the answer to that doesn't depend much on the complexity of what is on the old drive, since you radically updated all the daemons anyway you will probably have to go around fixing things up. If you want to meddle on, press A at the grub menu and add the letter S to the kernel commandline. This might get you up in "single user mode" allowing you to look around. If that succeded, you might try mount to see if your / really is mounted read-only, then mount /dev/hda2 / -oremount,rw and see if that does succeed to remount it rw. Also on the grub prompt, try adding selinux=0 to see if that is causing troubles. -Andy
