Disable network init on boot?

[Toralf Lund]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:

>Toralf Lund wrote:
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>>Tim wrote:
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>>>On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 14:47 +0100, Toralf Lund wrote:
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>>>>I need to be able to start up the system in single user mode at least.
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>>>Stick a 1 on the end of the kernel line (edit the GRUB entry by pressing
>>>the e key when the GRUB menu appears)
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>>Obviously, you missed my point. I know how to request single user mode.
>>The problem is that the system hangs in the hardware init phase i.e.
>>before it even gets to the stage where it would present me with a shell
>>in single user.
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>In that case, you are probably going to have to boot from a
>rescue CD. In single user mode, the network in not supposed to
>be initialized. 
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The problem is, it seems, that "network hardware init" is done a lot 
earlier in the boot sequence than the actual network startup, and 
includes some ifconfig or iwconfig calls, which is what breaks 
everything in my case. In fact, this step is done even for networks that 
have ONBOOT=no. Qlearly, a related question is why things have been done 
this way. Shouldn't the network config be left alone until it is time to 
start the network? And shouldn't disabled configs (as in ONBOOT=no) be 
skipped completely?

- T