<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">During boot, you'll see (for a real brief moment), something to the effect "press I for interactive startup...".<div><br></div><div>A few seconds after pressing it, you will be prompted to load services with a y/n.</div><div><br></div><div>Once in Ubuntu, I entered rescue mode by entering grub startup options at the command prompt, namely single user mode but I can't recall exactly how I did this I imagine it would apply to any Linux distro.</div><div><br></div><div>For me, sendmail and other network services (not NFS though) took forever to load because of fubar'd network stuff.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Oct 25, 2009, at 1:01 PM, Mathew S. McCarrell wrote:</div><div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Kemp, Larry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Larry.Kemp@usmetrotel.com">Larry.Kemp@usmetrotel.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I have a CentOS system that is hanging at boot. Sendmail takes forever (and a few other apps hang as well...mainly network apps). This has proven in the pas to be a NIC misconfiguration or a network issue. I think that is what it is on this one too. Is there a way when I see an app haning at boot to make the server stop trying to load the hung app and bring the OS up into the GI so that I get to fixing it? Thanks in advance.<br> <font color="#888888"><br> Larry Kemp<br> Network Engineer<br> U.S. Metropolitan Telecom, LLC<br> </font><div><div></div><div class="h5">_______________________________________________<br> </div></div></blockquote><div><br>If your having network apps hang, I would take a look at your /etc/hosts file and make sure it is correct. I've had an issue in the past with sendmail hanging during boot and an incorrect /etc/hosts file was the cause. <br> <br>Matt<br clear="all"><br>--<br>Mathew S. McCarrell<br>Clarkson University '10<br><br><a href="mailto:mccarrms@gmail.com">mccarrms@gmail.com</a><br><a href="mailto:mccarrms@clarkson.edu">mccarrms@clarkson.edu</a><br> 1-518-314-9214<br></div></div></div> _______________________________________________<br>CentOS mailing list<br><a href="mailto:CentOS@centos.org">CentOS@centos.org</a><br>http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>