System hanging at boot

[Charlie Farinella]

On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 17:46, bscott at ntisys.com wrote:

> > At the login prompt I would type a username, hit enter, and the username
> > would disappear.  Over and over.  I could not login, so I hit reset.  
> > Oops!
> 
>   Weird.  Hmmmm.  I wonder if maybe the system's been hacked.  It may be
> that an attacker tried to replace the kernel with a trojan'ed copy, but
> screwed something up.

How might I tell, and what can I do about it?
As to how long I let the 'Freeing unused memory' sit there, at least 20
minutes.  It's hung.

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Charlie Farinella, Appropriate Solutions, Inc.
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