Sweet, so managed to boot my machine using your suggestions Rik. My current situation is that every time I boot the machine and at other times too, the DNS Servers listed under Network settings get reset so it only contains 10.1.1.1 and I can't connect using firefox, thunderbird, etc. If I set this to 4.2.2.2 everything is sweet. So, not sure how to resolve this for good. Using other DNS servers such as
nameserver 202.27.158.40 nameserver 202.27.156.72 as suggested, doesn't work either. Cheers Matt > Matthew Whiting wrote: >> so perhaps it was a little too good to be true. i only just tried >> rebooting and it hangs when 'Configuring network interfaces...' Damn! >> Not >> sure how to solve this now, since I can't actually successfully boot the >> machine. >> >>> On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 04:02:57PM +1200, Matthew Whiting wrote: >>>> it freakin worked!! cheers :) what does this imply? > > Yes, that was what i was getting at in suggesting you use the > Networking GUI only for this (kind of) task. The command line hacking > of config files will only muck you up, because these are written, on > the fly, by the GUI. > > Try selecting the 'recovery mode' boot, which gives you a login - use > root. Then enter: > > # startx > > to start Gnome. Start the Networking GUI, deactivate eth0. Then you > should be able to reboot normally. Only use the Networking app for > changing your settings, which will be a very simple process this way.. >
