what exactly do you mean? The power turns off? It just hangs there with blinking cursor forever, the screen off? wha?
sorry, yes the electricity suddenly stops. off.
Does it ever say:
"Press 'I' to enter interactive startup."
it does, then udev, then off
Ok, well, subtle things like that are all the difference in the world to me. Above you said it was after the blag line and there are just `echo`s there, so I was a bit wondering.... So it's udev related, perhaps.
once, though, just after posting this, it did boot up, but hung on adt or atd or something. when ctrl-alt-del, it said logged in 90001 oxygen. but just that one time. could it be heat? that laptop gets sizzling hot after staying on a while, and i want it to stay on 24/7...
Ah, well, if it got to atd, the next thing is avahi. I've seen it "hang" at points like that, but just let it sit there for a bit as it churns something out. I'm not sure what's up there, but i've seen it too. It eventually goes so i'm guessing a DNS timeout or similar.
A sizzling hot laptop can *definitely* be a problem. Maybe udev turns something on and it quickly overheats. Just guessing.