Comment 72 for bug 543506

Sigh. I commented out the "console output" line in the four files in /etc/init that had it:

/etc/init: grep "console output" *
mountall.conf:#console output
rc.conf:#console output
rc-sysinit.conf:#console output
ufw.conf:#console output

I have rebooted three times in a row and every time it's the same runlevel unknown. So that wasn't a fix.

Other bits of info (in case they help):

- this machine has several firewire and usb hard drives attached. the OS is on an internal SATA drive.
- this machine has two network interfaces, one is static IP, the other dynamic (DSL - this is my firewall)

 I just installed the OS a few days ago and I don't think I've had a successful boot even once. I'll give this a few more days before I just blow away 10.04 and reinstall 08.04 which took longer to boot but was rock solid. In the meantime, I could do some tests on Saturday and try to dig up more clues. It does appear my case is 100% repeatable at the moment.