I think I could have asked this question more specific. The boot outputs of networked and non-networked boots are given below. The fact that "INIT: version 2.85 booting" does not show up in the no-network output makes me think it is not the run-level scripts but the kernel that does the endless dhcp query. Can you judge which one it is from the output below? Thanks, Bahadir No network cable plugged in: ===================== smc91x.c: v1.0, mar 07 2003 by Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxx> eth0: SMC91C11xFD (rev 1) at 0xc881a000 IRQ 25 [nowait] eth0: Ethernet addr: 00:02:f7:00:10:20 Using anticipatory io scheduler Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.6 (Sun Aug 15 07:17:53 2004 UTC). NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 8Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 16384) NET: Registered protocol family 1 NET: Registered protocol family 17 VFP support v0.3: implementor 41 architecture 1 part 10 variant 9 rev 1 eth0: link down Sending DHCP requests ...... timed out! IP-Config: Reopening network devices... eth0: link down Sending DHCP requests ..... Connected to network: ================= smc91x.c: v1.0, mar 07 2003 by Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxx> eth0: SMC91C11xFD (rev 1) at 0xc881a000 IRQ 25 [nowait] eth0: Ethernet addr: 00:02:f7:00:10:20 Using anticipatory io scheduler Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.6 (Sun Aug 15 07:17:53 2004 UTC). NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 8Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 16384) NET: Registered protocol family 1 NET: Registered protocol family 17 VFP support v0.3: implementor 41 architecture 1 part 10 variant 9 rev 1 VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem) readonly. Freeing init memory: 80K INIT: version 2.85 booting Mounting /tmp as tmpfs Mounting /var as tmpfs Setting up IP spoofing protection: rp_filter. Configuring network interfaces... eth0: link down eth0: link up, 100Mbps, half-duplex, lpa 0x40A1 done. Starting portmap daemon: portmap. INIT: Entering runlevel: 2 Creating the the /var/dev/ttySA* links -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
