From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 28 11:11:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA18939 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 May 1996 11:11:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from enteract.com (root@enteract.com [206.54.252.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA18929 for ; Tue, 28 May 1996 11:11:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from chris@localhost) by enteract.com (8.7.5/8.7.6) id NAA16509; Tue, 28 May 1996 13:11:01 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 13:11:00 -0500 (CDT) From: dcastle To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: booting takes forever Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I just installed FreeBSD 2.1 on a 486 box, and I'm having trouble with it hanging during bootup. It gets to this point: add net default: gateway 204.119.47.50 (204.119.47.50 is the default gateway used by the entire office.) It hangs on the above line for probably 5-10 minutes. Eventually it will boot up, and the default gateway DOES work. I've also noticed that if I ^C at the point where it hangs, it continues booting again until it tries to start sendmail. It then hangs at sendmail until I ^C again. Then I finally get the login prompt. Why the grueling bootup? Thanx in advance for any help you might be able to throw my way. Chris Odom