[DAPPER] Slow boot "Configuring network interfaces..."

[Derek Broughton]

Pekka Tiittanen wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 08:25 +0000, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> 
>> There should be more diagnostic output and you should see what exactly
>> hangs at this point. Post this output if you still have problems..
> 
> I probably forgot to mention that ifup/ifdown works normally after the
> boot, it only hangs at the boot. 

I thought that was a given.  It's fairly normal behavior.

> I haven't tried building the initrd 
> image, that's the only thing I haven't tried yet. Adding the module
> to /etc/modules didn't help at all.
> 
> But I'll try to see if that gives any output at all... Maybe I just
> should modify the script so that it writes everything to a file at the
> boot...

Wouldn't it just be easier to _assume_ the network's not yet available,
remove "auto eth0" from /etc/network/interfaces, and get on with life? :-)
-- 
derek