At 11:17 AM -0400 10/26/05, Claude Jones wrote: >On Wednesday 26 October 2005 10:39 am, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 07:33:59AM -0600, Jon D. Slater wrote: >> > James Pifer wrote: >> > >> > I just posted a similar problem 2 days ago with the same two kernels. >> > In my case it was on a HP Pavilion 8150, and the problem was, no network. >> >> I don't know if that is what you mean but the two latest kernels will >> not boot on my system if nop network connection is available. >> >Come to think, I had the same problem, yesterday. It got to the ntp time >check >and stalled. My ISP was down momentarily. My machine hung for many minutes. A >little while later, I tried booting again and ntp succeeded and the machine >booted. I'm on 2.6.13-1.1532_FC4 Yes, I too wish that NTP started up in the background they way, say, Netatalk can. I'm not quite ready to roll my own solution. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>