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Subject: Re: preventing 'watchdog timeout'
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What I do is hit Ctrl-C. This is probably not the best way but it works...

-Stephen


> If I boot FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE with no cable attached to the NIC, I get a
> slew of "dc0: watchdog timeout" errors. Sometimes, I want to boot and
> run the system without being physically connected to the network. Is
> there any way to get rid of the timeout errors short of disabling
> networking all together?
>
> C. Ulrich
> --
> http://bityard.net