Slow boot when not plugged into network

[Olaf Hoyer]

On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Duane Winner wrote:

> Does anybody know of a workaround for this?
>
> When I'm not connected to my ethernet network, it takes an extra 90
> seconds to boot my FreeBSD laptop, as it hangs on this boot message
> before timing out:
>
> "Doing initial network setup: hostname"
>
> I'm guessing it has something to do with DNS lookup and can't reach the
> server(s), but I'm not sure.

Hi!

Will most likely be the dhcp request, which of course does not find any
dhcp server.

When you are sitting at the console, simply press CTRL-C after "Doing
initial network setup: hostname" ist displayed and the box is sitting
there. The process dhclient will then be terminated and the boot process
continues.

HTH
Olaf


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