On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Jim <<a href="mailto:mickeyboa@sbcglobal.net">mickeyboa@sbcglobal.net</a>> wrote: <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> FC10 My Dell Laptop is locking up in the boot process just after; Starting anacron: [ OK ] how can i tell what is locking it up</blockquote><div> Can you get a console with ctl-alt-f1? Can you ssh in? Or is it just a dead thing? Try booting into text mode or single user - hit space bar after bios is done to get into the boot menu (grub?), hit tab to edit the boot params, put a 3 at the end of the kernel line. (Or something like that - I am going from memory. s or S might boot to single user?) If you can get that far, you can try to start up various things and see what won't. Or do interactive boot, I never do so I don't remember how to get it started. There is probably a hint spalshed on the screen at the critical time ' hit something to enter interactive boot'. ??? anacron is about the last thing to start up (this is from fc9, hoping fc10 similar): ls -1 /etc/rc5.d [snip] S98cups S99anacron S99fedora-late-live S99local Does X get started, or act like it is trying to start? Dave </div></div>