Linux doesn't boot up

[Martin Stone]

Nancy Demers wrote:
> There was a spelling error in my email (the GRUB
> command is correct - kernel)
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion on init 3.  The error is in
> the firewall.  I attempted to add nofirewall as a
> kernel parameter... but didn't work.  Aside from
> reinstalling without a firewall, is there any way to
> bypass this initialization?

chkconfig is the script that manages what services start at boot time.  To turn 
off the "firewall" services - ipchains, iptables and ip6tables - try something 
like the following:

chkconfig --level 2345 ipchains off
chkconfig --level 2345 iptables off
chkconfig --level 2345 ip6tables off

When logged in as root.

Good luck!