I don't have an entry for net.eth1 in rc-update show I don't have any mention of eth1 in /etc/conf.d/net (only eth0)
Nonetheless something continues to try to start net.eth1 during boot. What else controls that? If its not in rc-update or /etc/conf.d/net it shouldn't happen. I have a few other boot problems...I'm not sure where they arise from. hwclock is meddling about during shutdown. Again, it isn't shown in rc-update and /etc/conf.d/hwclock has this in it: # If you want to set the Hardware Clock to the current System Time # during shutdown, then say "YES" here. You normally don't need to # do this if you run a ntp daemon. clock_systohc="NO" Still, on a shutdown I can't get past this output: hwclock waiting for localmount (Over and over) I have to hit a manual reset on the computer to get past hwclock waiting for localmount Also klogd cannot be stopped by reboot or shutdown. But at least, unlike hwclock, after a pause the shutdown proceeds anyway. eix -Ic openrc sys-apps/openrc (0....@12/25/08): OpenRC manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host eix -Ic udev [I] sys-fs/udev (135...@12/24/08): Linux dynamic and persistent device naming support (aka userspace devfs)