FC3T2 Hangs at enabling swap space

[Mike Loiterman]

ncoghlan at iinet.net.au <mailto:ncoghlan at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> Quoting Mike Loiterman <mike at ascendency.net>:
> 
>> Mike Loiterman <mailto:mike at ascendency.net> wrote:
>>> I just upgrade from FC2 to FC3T2 and my system just hangs at
>>> enabling swap space.  Any ideas what to do?
>> 
>> Its actually hanging on bring up my network interface.  How can I
>> tell it not to bring it up on startup?
> 
> Interactive startup should let you get into Fedora initially.
> 
> Then run system-config-network, edit the device which appears to be
> causing the problem, and uncheck 'Start this device when computer
> starts'. 
> 
> I do it that way anyway, since I have a laptop with both wireless and
> ethernet. Having one or the other fail to come up (which is a common
> situation) seriously slows down boot time.
> 
> Cheers,
> Nick.

I got it to work the "harder" way: boot with the resue CD, change
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcg-eth0 to ONBOOT=no.

Thanks for the tip, though.

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