Fedora 2 not booting

[David Curry]

Rithin Shetty wrote:

>Hi,
>    I have been running FC 2 on my IBM T42 for the last six months or
>so without any issues. But suddenly it is refusing to boot today. I
>have a dual boot setup with Grub allowing me to choose between Win XP
>and Linux. I don't seem to have any issues in booting into Win XP but
>when I try to boot into Linux it stops at "Red Hat nash version 3.5.22
>starting". I tried to boot into single user mode as well but without
>any success.
>    Has anyone else faced this problem in the past ? Some help would
>be very helpful in rescuing my data.
>
>Thanks,
>Rithin.
>
>  
>
Rithin, do you have a rescue CD?  If so, you might try booting from it 
and taking a look at your init files.

Did you encounter the problem after updating one or the other of the OSes?