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  From: Mike Andrew <mikero@norfolk.nf>
  To  : linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 14:19:18 +1130

Re: 2.2.15 kernel boot freezes at "running ntpdate..."

From: Mark Phillips <mark@ist.flinders.edu.au>
> My friend has a Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop.  We are having problems with
> the 2.2.15 kernel.  It boots fine with the 2.0.36 kernel, but recent
> attempts to boot the 2.2.15 kernel have it freezing at the line
>
> "running ntpdate to syncronise clock""

certainly, and why not? That program is attempting to get to the outside
world (via ethernet) to update the cmos / system clock. Your network is
presumably not connected at boot time.


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