Re: Help... won't boot

["Adam Williams" <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Apr 10,  1:35am, Hank wrote:
> Subject: Re: Help... won't boot
> Here is my original message:
>
> Not sure what happened here, but I shutdown to install a new mouse. It
> didn't shut down properly as it froze during shutdown. I turned off the
> machine, plugged in the new mouse and now all I get is this when it boots.
> Get the normal booting dialog, then:
>
> Enter runlevel:    I then enter 3 (even tried 5) and then I get
> INIT: Entering runlevel: 3
> INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel
>
> and it freezes there. Can anyone help this newbie out... not a clue on what
> I did to make this happen.

Try starting to run level 1 (single user).  Also can you show us the output of
dmesg (could be difficult if the machine won't start).