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Date:      Wed, 24 May 2000 17:05:26 +0100
From:      "Andy Coates" <andy@friends-tv.net>
To:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Help! :(
Message-ID:  <000701bfc59b$b6092a80$2a2029d4@blade>

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Hi,

I've just settled down and finally happy with my FreeBSD machine. Got
everything working the way I want it now, and has been up for 23 days
without any problems.

Today I had to move the server, so shut down the server, unplugged it and
took it back home with me. When I got home and plugged it back in, I
presumed it would just boot up fine and everything would be good to go
again.... not so. It appears to hang on the initialization parts, when rc
files are loading/configuring the system - stops on:

Local package initialization: <cursor here>

and thats it. Being new to FreeBSD, I'm not sure how to find out what has
gone wrong.
The situation here is that I am not at home at the moment, so I have no
access to any bootdisks or CDroms.

Does anyone know what might have caused this? The only difference in setup
is that the network cable to my windows machine is no longer present (NIC
card still there). I'm running FreeBSD3.4-STABLE, having installed a quite a
few programs over the 23 days uptime, but all seem to have installed and
working fine.

Oh, and i've left it in that state now for 10 minutes before presuming
something is wrong and emailing the list - will post again if it decides to
boot up eventually :-)

Can anyone help me out here and suggest a plan of action?

Thanks for any help,
Andy.



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