Boot problems (FC4)

[Tony Nelson]

At 10:05 AM +0100 6/24/06, Anne Wilson wrote:
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>On Saturday 24 June 2006 03:49, Tony Nelson wrote:
>> At 7:16 PM +0100 6/23/06, Anne Wilson wrote:
>>  ...
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>> >It's somewhat disconcerting that when ntpd failed to make the connection
>> > the whole bootup process failed.  I would have wished for a failure
>> > notice then the rest of the bootup to continue.
>>
>> It times out eventually.
>
>How eventually?  I did leave it a few minutes.  The ntpd looked to have timed
>out, more messages appeared (in vga text) then it froze after the message
>that it was enabling swap.  It certainly didn't look as though there was any
>hope of continuing.

Probably not.  I thought you said that the problem was with ntpd hanging.
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