"Bringing up loopback address" hangs boot process

Callahan · 11-02-2002, 04:30 PM

Question is in the subject. I'm running Red Hat 8.0 on a Sony VAIO laptop. I have a Netgear 410TX which apparently works on the Tulip driver but I've yet to try it. The only way I can bring up the OS is to do an interactive boot and stop both the network starting and the PCMCIA starting. I've also tried installing RH without the PCMCIA card installed and still problems.

Any help appreciated.

acid_kewpie · 11-02-2002, 04:49 PM

check you have a line like "127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain" in your /etc/hosts file, also check you have a proper loopback interface configured, in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo mine says

Code:

DEVICE=lo
IPADDR=127.0.0.1
NETMASK=255.0.0.0
NETWORK=127.0.0.0
# If you're having problems with gated making 127.0.0.0/8 a martian,
# you can change this to something else (255.255.255.255, for example)
BROADCAST=127.255.255.255
ONBOOT=yes
NAME=loopback

also, try bringing up the interface from the command line directly (ifup lo), you should be able to get more information out f it that way. that's if it actually is the lo that's giving you your problem

Callahan · 11-03-2002, 12:19 PM

All fixed, along with a few other problems related to the PCMCIA service starting. All I needed to do was to set the PnP OS installed option in the BIOS to "No" and all was well.

acid_kewpie · 11-03-2002, 02:06 PM

bum, thought i'd have been useful. nevermind.

henryzhou · 12-07-2002, 03:32 AM

i also set PnP os installed to NO

but all the problems still.....

What can I do?