Will not fully boot

[Jeff Kinz]

On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 10:09:27PM -0700, Sam Duvall wrote:
> I have Red Hat 8 and the power went off. Now it will
> not boot past this;
> 
> Bringing up interface ppp0:
> 
> how can I force it past this?

ppp0 - is usually a dial-up modem connection.
(Can also be DSL - sometimes)

If it can't bring up the connection, and that connection is required
for one of the boot time services, like "sendmail", then your boot 
can take a long time.

Does it really stop booting completely or, if you wait 10-15 minutes
does it then continue? 

(P.S. is the modem still plugged into the phone line? )





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