[conspire] Daniel G - can't boot iMac after pushing power button instead of button for cd-rom tray

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 22:50:35 -0800, Darlene Wallach wrote:

> I can't get to a virtual console - ctrl-alt-F8, ctrl-alt-F2
> do not get me to a console with a login prompt. I get either
> a blank screen
> ctrl-alt-F8 gets me to a console with the messages from booting
> stopping/halting at
> * Configuring network interfaces... [ok]
> ctrl-alt-F1 takes me to the console with the insmod messages.
> ctrl-alt-F2 takes me to a blank console

Have you tried just sitting there and waiting a few minutes to see whether
it moves on from there?