At 10:05 AM +0100 6/24/06, Anne Wilson wrote: >Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2860223.0XLoA55FzA"; > protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >On Saturday 24 June 2006 03:49, Tony Nelson wrote: >> At 7:16 PM +0100 6/23/06, Anne Wilson wrote: >> ... >> >> >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. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
