Below I have summarised the steps the boot process goes through before hanging or reseting if this helps:
*machine starts to boot *detects hds, floppy, etc *measures checksum speed *does a scsi detect *md.c sizeof(mdp_super_t)=4096 *does partition check *autorun... *...autorun done *VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem readonly) *Freeing unused kernel memory:60K fixed (then reset or hang)
Could be several things: A buggered swap partition to me, although I can't see why this would screw the bootdisk. One possibility is that your partition table has been corrupted, and that the boot disk is attempting to do something to the disk at the same time. Another is that your BIOS has got confused about the size of your disks - check it's not lost its settings. At around this time, the kernel starts loading modules, so it could be a piece of hardware not playing ball.
Did you change anything during the stint of uptime before this happened? I assume the 'boot floppy' is different to the installation floppy you mentioned? (some distros use the same for both)
Sorry I can't be more helpful :/
Paul
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