From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 28 08:13:05 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA08809 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 28 Jun 1995 08:13:05 -0700 Received: from eikon.regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (root@eikon.regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de [129.187.42.3]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA08801 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 1995 08:12:59 -0700 Received: from vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de ([129.187.142.36]) by eikon.regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de with SMTP id <55615>; Wed, 28 Jun 1995 17:10:32 +0200 Received: (from jhs@localhost) by vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA00707 for hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 27 Jun 1995 14:50:27 +0200 Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 14:50:27 +0200 From: Julian Howard Stacey Message-Id: <199506271250.OAA00707@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: hanging boot Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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 , Alternate