Hi Andy,

here’s the rub - I also thought networking had started, but I’m getting sendmail errors about “could not find any active network interfaces” on console after letting it stew for a while. Iptables is disabled.

As mentioned - I _am_ getting console messages - just up to the point where some of those S03 services start, then only the occasional error messages.

I’m no longer using the rescue VM, because it’s finally able to find the bootloader (again, thanks).

the info you asked for:

ganesha:/# grep ^co /etc/inittab

ganesha:/#

I’ve attached the output of dmesg, bootlog, and syslog (I cleared these before rebooting so they should only show a “bad” boot and the subsequent boot into single user mode after I destroy the instance from console)