Re: How to interrupt hung boot process?

2009-02-14 Thread Dieter
Shaun writes: Have you tried ^X or ^Z? Often when my cable modem has lost its link and I reboot, FreeBSD will hang waiting to start sendmail because it can't determine the local IP. Sometimes it will hang while processing my ipfw scripts due to DNS failures. I usually try ^C, ^X, and ^Z in

Re: How to interrupt hung boot process?

2009-02-13 Thread Tim Judd
On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 22:32 +, Dieter wrote: Working on updating a amd64 box from 7.0 to 7.1. A shell script called from rc.local hung. (Still don't know why, works fine in 7.0, works fine in 7.1 executed manually once system is up.) Tried ^C, ^\, ^P and nearly every other key on the