[Gllug] Hang on Boot

[Walid]

 --- Ian Northeast <ian at house-from-hell.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Ade McGonigle
wrote:
> > 
> > I have Redhat 7.2 running on my thinkpad X20

Is there redhat 7.2! I thought it was just a Rumour ?

> > I set it up for DHCP, all working ok, not thinking about using it
> > away from a network, now when I boot it if Im not connected it hangs
> > when loading eth0, it just sits doing nothing, is there a way to force
> > it to bypass this whilst booting into a non network environment
> 
> Is this a PCMCIA network card? If so, what happens if you remove it when
> not networked? I would expect this to cause the module to fail to load
> and then the activation of the interface to fail immediately.
> 
> Is RH still using pump for DHCP? If so the "retries" and "timeout"
> configuration file options look useful. The man page doesn't say what
> the defaults are, but when I had a RH6.2 DHCP client with a dodgy NIC,
> it too hung up forever. Another possibility is to look into replacing
> pump with the ISC's "dhclient" which in my experience is more flexible.
> I havn't looked at it with this particular job in mind though.
> 
> Finally you could make eth0 ONBOOT=no but that would mean you would have
> to activate it manually when networked, not very convenient.
> 
> Regards, Ian
> 
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