How to overcome a boot-up endless loop?

[Jason Spatafore]

Per this link:

http://fixunix.com/mandriva/250704-boot-i-get-bin-usleep-input-output-error.html

Turn acpi off in boot options. (On booting, type acpi=off into the boot
options.) 

Does that do it?


On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 17:01 -0700, Eric Shubert wrote:
> Josef Lowder wrote:
> > Tried changing usleep from 100000 to 1
> > and that had no effect.  Still this continuously on the screen
> > until I have to pull the power to stop it.
> > 
> > /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: line 1333: /bin/usleep: Input Output error
> > /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: line 1333: /bin/usleep: Input Output error
> > /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: line 1333: /bin/usleep: Input Output error
> > /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: line 1333: /bin/usleep: Input Output error
> > /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: line 1333: /bin/usleep: Input Output error
> > /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: line 1333: /bin/usleep: Input Output error
> > /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: line 1333: /bin/usleep: Input Output error
> 
> Change usleep to sleep (no u).
>