I have 2 nics on the motherboard, only 1 configured. I'm having trouble booting and it seems to crash when starting networking. I want to disable networking from starting during normal boot. I can get to "linux rescue" from the Fedora Core 6 install disk. How would I make changes to the normal boot to prevent network from starting while in rescue?

BTW - I'm pretty sure it's the nic because when going into linux rescue it asks if I want to start networking. If I answer "yes" then rescue crashes. If I answer "no" rescue starts and functions fine.

Thanks for any help!

Well if only using the one nic the easiest solution is going into the BIOS and disabling the nic that is not being used alternatively when having chosen the not start from the rescue mode put the module that is used by the second one in either the hotplug or udev blacklists respectively depending on which of those you use and it should not be loaded during your normal boot.

Thanks for the reply!

I ended up cd'ing from the "rescue prompt" to /mnt/sysimage where the rescue CD mounts the existing linux unstall. Then cd to /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices and edited the ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-eth1 files to read "ONBOOT=no". Then to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts and did the same edit to the ifcfg-ethX files there.

Exited the rescue mode an upon re-boot I was able to get in to the linux installation. Checked the network settings and sure enough both devices were inactive.

Thanks again!