Gayle Posted October 12, 2008 Report Share Posted October 12, 2008 After booting Mandriva 2009 Free, my computer hangs after the message: Determining IP Information for eth0. This is a wired nic- realtek RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+. I don't have any problems connecting with it in 2008 Spring Free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gayle Posted October 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2008 This is strange- I just tried the live cd and had no trouble connecting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 12, 2008 Report Share Posted October 12, 2008 So it's working fine on the LiveCD, just not with the full installation you did? How long does it stay there for? Normally, DHCP will wait for one minute before failing and continuing to boot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gayle Posted October 13, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2008 It hung indefinately. I tried various things-the last thing I tried was to boot from the linux-nonfb kernel instead of the default one. I was shocked that everything worked!!! I have no idea why linux-nonfb worked and not the default one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 14, 2008 Report Share Posted October 14, 2008 What you could do is when booting, press the i for interactive mode, then you can choose what to load and not to load. We can then troubleshoot and see where the problem lies. Try booting without activating the network, and then we can see what happens. What's the contents of your /boot/grub/menu.lst file? Can you post here and then we can see if there is anything obvious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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