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# 15  
Old 11-18-2008
I edited the file and commented out rc.tcpip and rc.nfs and still hanging at the same place. I'm tired.
# 16  
Old 11-18-2008
Hm ... What you could try next (i.e. tomorrow Smilie ):
- boot into single user mode and look into errpt and bootlog (# alog -ot boot)
- boot into single user mode and run diagnostics (# smitty diag) to find a potentially broken device,
- boot into single user mode without mounting a rootvg and run a full fsck on every FS...
# 17  
Old 11-19-2008
Did all those things and it's still stopping at "Multi-user initialization completed". I think this must be something simple.
# 18  
Old 05-28-2009
Similar problem
Hi,

I was wondering how you solved this problem? I have similar issue and read through this thread. All the suggestions given here are very useful.
Could you also inform if the problem was solved and how? Thanks!!
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