Subject: [opensuse] mounts not mounting at boot time, etc Hello, Not sure at what point during the boot process mounting is taking place, but after a couple of new installs mounts, ntp, etc are not occurring even though they are set to run at boot time in the runlevel. I think bringing up the network is taking place *after* the other services were attempting to start (but failing because the network connection was not yet established). How can I ensure the network connection takes place before the other services start? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ After a little poking around I found the network in rc3.d runs early, S04network. The last few lines in 'dmesg' shows the network initialized and CIFS error out, but nothing happens afterwards. None of the NFS or CIFS mounts in fstab are mounted unless I run 'mount -a' manually. <snip> r8169: eth0: link up r8169: eth0: link up NET: Registered protocol family 17 NET: Registered protocol family 10 lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions Mobile IPv6 eth0: no IPv6 routers present ip6_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team CIFS VFS: Send error in SETFSUnixInfo = -5 <end> Found an error in the massages that ntp can't find ntp.example.com and the tail of /var/log/messages shows dhcp getting an address, which, I think, should be happening much earlier. Any ideas on how to force dhcp to get an address as soon as eth0 is up? Many thanks, ~James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org