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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-mannheim.de!news.rhein-neckar.de!birdland.rhein-neckar.de!troia.rhein-neckar.de!boerdix.oh.sub.org!vector.oh.sub.org!berni From: berni@vector.oh.sub.org (Berni Ernst) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: BSD machine halts during bootup phase Date: 20 Apr 1997 08:34:01 GMT Organization: PUM => Private Unix Machines Lines: 27 Message-ID: <5jckdp$ah@boerdix.oh.sub.org> References: <01bc4c9a$642d5ba0$05c9b0cf@reality> Reply-To: Bernhard.Ernst@giessen.netsurf.de NNTP-Posting-Host: vector.oh.sub.org X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39424 Kurt Schafer (kschafer@cyberbeach.net) wrote: : One of my 2.2.1 machines always halts during the bootup phase just after it : says it's adding in the default gateway. : Hitting a CTRL-C moves it past that phase and the machine says it's : clearing /tmp out and it then completes booting to the login prompt. : Can anybody shed some light on what is causing the machine to choke at this : point ? : TIA : -Kurt Probably the machine cannot find the gateway (gateway down, wrong IP address ?). If you do not have a gateway say "gateway=NO" in /etc/sysconfig. berni -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Please respond to: Bernhard.Ernst@giessen.netsurf.de | | or: berni@troia.rhein-neckar.de | | and to nothing else ! | -----------------------------------------------------------