Red Hat Enterprise Linux server fails to boot when connected to the network

[Barry Brimer]

Can you boot successfully off of CD .. i.e Disc 1 into rescue mode, or 
Knoppix?  That would eliminate your on-disk installation and allow you to 
focus on the hardware.

On Sat, 17 Feb 2007, Tom Greaser wrote:

> I have seen LONG boot times with boxes
> running sendmail not setup right.. it just times
> out.. and since it boots fine with the nic down
> I could see where the system skips a lot of checks since
> the nic is down and it cant query network info.
>
> This dosent explain the error " killing the services "
> ok.. what run level does your dell boot into ?
> cat /etc/inittab
> mine boots to 5
> # Run runlevel 5
> id:5:initdefault:
>
> I could be wrong but i think swap is
> brought up in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
>
> now that you know the runlevel..
> look in your /etc/rc5.d
>
> look for the script between your network
> start up and sendmail  (look for scripts
> that start with S )
> example mine
> S10network
> S80sendmail
>
>
> try disabling sendmail from startup
> (mv S80sendmail K80sendmail )
>
>
> Aslo would you post all your S scripts in your runlevel ?
> And like Ray Van Dolson asked anything in the messages file ?
>
> (no im not talking down to you about the run levels and startup scripts
> just
> trying to make this post easy for newbies)
>
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