folder. On a subsequent reboot of the system, the system is not coming up. During the boot-up process, after the default system font is set, the prompt for Interactive bootup comes up and then the screen blanks out as if going into X windows. The X changes into an hourglass and keeps turning and turning. It never seems to come up. I can't ping the system, so I guess it isn't going into that part of the startup.
Try rebooting the system with command line option "3" to go into runlevel 3 (which doesn't start X during startup), or command line option "-s" (which hardly starts anything at all). To do so, simply add the option to the end of the boot line. To do this in grub scroll to the menu option you want to boot, type "e" to get the editor, scroll to the line you want, type "e" to edit, then make your changes. If I got that wrong for some reason, the notes at the bottom of the menu will have details.
And the kicker-I have been working on this site and JUST got the last bit of it up this morning and intended to back up everything now that it is completed...ARGH!
As Vince pointed out, probably the first thing you should do is backup your data before you poke around more. Good luck.
--John
Tim N.
