Thanks for that, Kal. On my computer it stops for just a moment. Based on that, the problem must be something else ... bother! Is there a boot log file that can be uploaded for analysis to help work our why it is stopping and going no further? I have tried leaving it for 1/4 hour or more without any...

I'm also getting the ... cat: /etc/rc.d/PUPSAVE: No such file or directory cat: /etc/rc.d/PMEDIA: No such file or directory (... which is then followed by ... 0: old priority 0, new priority 19 986: old priority 0, new priority 19 # ... at which point it stops and goes no further.) ... when booting ...