On Aug 27, 2009, at 12:43 PM, Josef Lowder wrote:

> Recently, I found a way to put my IBM Thinkpad T40 running PCLinuxOS
> to sleep rather than turning it off by using:  apm -s
>
> This has worked well for a couple of months with instant restarts
> whenever I opened the lid ... until yesterday.  Something went amiss,
> and when I tried to restart, I saw this repeating endlessly:
>
> /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: line 1333: /bin/usleep: Input Output error
>
> So, I tried rebooting ... same thing ... and now I can't get the
> system to boot at all.
>
> How can I recover from this?

Buy a Mac? ;)