slow startup without network

[Michael Shulman]

The only item I notice that fails when the network doesn't exist is
the ntp sync; are there others that depend on it in some way?

Billy Pollifrone <billy at silverbaseball.com> wrote:
> That is because the timeout for a DHCP renew is 60 seconds. Looking at some
> of the items after the configuring of network devices, there are some items
> that depend on the success or failure.
>
> On 2/11/06, Michael Shulman <shulman at math.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > When booting Ubuntu (breezy) in a network-less situation (i.e.
> > unplugged and no wireless around) it takes a very long time starting
> > the network interfaces and waiting for them to come up before finally
> > realizing they aren't going to.  Is there a way to configure it so it
> > can do this waiting in the background and continue booting the system
> > meanwhile?