I am trying to boot RedHat 7.3 on my slave disk. I am not able to show the boot log, because linux won't boot.
While it's booting, it says;

Bringing up loopback interface: [OK]
Bringing up interface eth0;

Then it stops. Not freezes, I can still type things, but nothing happens.
Any ideas?
Thanks, Julien

when redhat boots up it asks to enter 'i' for interactive mode

so enter into interactuive mode and then it asks u to start for all the services u want to start
and u do not start the eth0/networking service
once this happens
se ur network configuration

regards
gaurav

hey julienroger,

when eth0 takes a long time to start, it either means that you have an incorrect ethernet configuration, or that you don't have a cable plugged into it. When it is set to search for broadcasted IP's through DHCP but there isn't a router/switch or whatever you use then it just sits and waits until like.. 3-5 minutes passes and it says [FAILED]. Just do what masand said, press "i" when it says "Press i to enter interactive mode" when booting, and don't start the eth0, and edit your ethernet configuration (i know in mandrake the command 'drakconf' brings up all the configurations for the computer.. i don't know what to do for RH7.3..)

If you have a router or switch or whatever connected to your ethernet card, and would like to see if you can connect, here are some commands (as superuser.. root):

"ifconfig eth0 up" (to 'turn on' the card ('down' would do the opposite)).
"dhclient eth0" (to search for a DHCP connection, and connect to it).

hope this helps..
-student04

Thanks masand and student04, I have it worked out fine. The times when it woulden't load is when I have the ethernet cable unplugged. Thanks for your help!
-Julien

even if the cabe is unplugged it should load after some time it should not freeze (even if u have kept ur ip adress to obtain automatically)
i my system it waits for just 30 secs.
how the timeout goes i i have no idea about that

regards
gaurav