Finally figured it out. I was stuck at the boot, but found out how to boot single user mode via grub and then removed it alla rc-update. All is good now
I will take your advice about adding ntpdate to my local.start. Although I think adding to Cron would be better. I'll try both.:) Thanks for the help. Bobby R. Cox On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 10:09, David wrote: > You can remove it from boot with: > rc-update del ntpd default > > I stopped using ntpd and just put ntpdate in my /etc/conf.d/local.start file. > > # ntpd doesn't work to well so use this for clock setting > ntpdate ntp0.mcs.anl.gov > > not sure if this would stop the problem if it cannot connect to the server yet. > But ntpdate works better. > > On Wednesday 11 June 2003 05:19 pm, Bobby R. Cox wrote: > > Silly situation, but I just set up ntpd at work, and now I am off site > > trying to serial connect into a Nortel Switch. Thing is Gentoo hangs at > > boot trying to sync ntpd. > > > > Is there any possible way to get past this at boot time, or disable it > > during the boot. > > > > Any advice is appreciated. I don't have a boot disk or cd handy either. > > > > > > TIA > > Bobby R. Cox > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
