Yes, linux-speakup.org seems to be down. My messages bounced too. The CD is
on the web. You should have no problem downloading it with your laptop. This
probably won't work, but what if you try this as root?
dhclient
I don't know why you aren't getting to a login prompt. Are you getting a
message to enter your root password for system maintenance? If so, you
probably have a disk or hardware problem. It could be your hard drive going
bad which explains why it won't boot and you get the looping errors. Even
without DHCP and the network down, you should still eventually get a login
prompt. The only reasons why you wouldn't are because you chose single user
mode, there is a problem with your initrd (doubtful since your system ran
168 days) or fsck didn't pass and your drive is corrupted. In the later
case, I hope you have good backups. I know that isn't very helpful, but
without sitting at the machine, I can't offer much else. If you aren't
getting any prompt at all, you're in serious trouble as you can't even run
fsck without a live CD. I really, really hope you have recent backups.
On 4/18/2016 6:36 AM, Hart Larry wrote:
Thanks so much Tony. Also rather surprised my message to the Speakup list
bounced. Yes I have speech if I just hit enter on 2 of the 3 kernel options,
but errors involving ifup and several items beginning with dhc continue
looping. The Gateway is fine, as other items such as Magic Jack and my
Uverse boxes are all connecting just fine. In trying to find out how to boot
in an interactive session, seemingly I could hit "escape" at that kernel
beep, but from that point on, I had no speech. So an extreme point here was
I had no way of going past those errors to a login prompt. And since I
cannot get to an ncftp prompt I couldn't try your CD. Thanks once again
Hart 636AM
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