Re: [Sheflug] Boot messages

[Alex Hudson <nospam [at] alexhudson.com>]

On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 09:53:04AM +0100, Ian Wright wrote:
> The installation is based initially on the RedHat distro but this kernel is
> built from virgin sources from ftp.kernel.org and the RTAI site. I am
> guessing from what I have learned now that the problem probably is with the
> network stuff as the machine hangs immediately after saying 'bringing up
> interface lo' and before it gives me the 'OK' on that. Initially I'll try
> taking out the eth0 entry in conf.modules (or modules.conf whichever) and
> see if it will get any further then.

Are you definitely sure it's hanging? After lo I would expect eth0 - so it's
concievable that the machine is waiting to bring that up (if you had it
configured for DHCP and there were no servers, that would cause a long pause
which might appear as a hang for example).

You might find it worth turning it on and leaving it for ten minutes. If it
hasn't booted by then, it's hung ;) But, it sounds like the kernel has
booted fine, in which case it sounds strange that the problem would be
caused by a faulty kernel.

Cheers,

Alex.
   
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