Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 14:50:27 +0200 From: Julian Howard Stacey <jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: hanging boot Message-ID: <199506271250.OAA00707@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>
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I've just seen my system appear to hang on boot (at a similar point a friend's machine (me@freebsd.org) did a couple of weeks ago) it's a fresh install of 2.0.5 rel. on previously proven hardware, The problem is that I scattered the ether number of my master freebsd box in too many places on the new box while installing, & now the new box is hanging waiting for name server etc that the old box is not running. It's currently hanging for a few minutes on each line of add net default: gateway 134.98.91.21 add net 224.0.0.0: gateway lion, starting routing daemons: routed When it finally boots the whole way, I'll fix my /etc/ files Thing is newbies may do this too, see the thing hang, & not know what the problem is, & reset. Perhaps after "Automatic reboot in progress" we should on a virgin fresh release have in /etc/rc something like: echo "If this appears to hang, leave it for a half hour, then look again, in case your net config is bad & needs to time out" Julian Stacey Recommended <jhs@freebsd.org>, Alternate <jhs@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>
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