[Cialug] Bypassing the Network on Boot

[Todd E Thomas]

I ran into this a while back. If I remember right, I went into the BIOS and
disabled (PXE) network booting, then pushed it all the way down in the
list. Boot order:

1. CD/DVD
2. HDD

There was an OS step as well but I ran into it on fedora; I don't use
Ubuntu. Does this sound like your situation <http://goo.gl/YLdpPa>? This
one looks similar <http://goo.gl/iYxuKK> and fairly recent.

If so, plug it in as Dave suggests; configure, unplug, reboot and test.

Or...go fish?,

TT


On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 5:17 PM, David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com> wrote:

> It should time out eventually, may take 5 minutes or so.
>
> Or, try plugging it into your network and see if that does the trick.
>
> Re-installing most of the "easy" Linux distributions is pretty painless
> these days, mostly just boot, click "Next" a few times and let it go.
>
> -dc
>
> On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 5:04 PM, Todd Pierce <toddcpierce at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Crew,
> >
> > Being on topic (for once) I'm running into an issue with a laptop with
> > Ubuntu server installed.  The weird part, is that I set it up for a
> client
> > and she ended up giving it to me now that she's done with it.
> >
> > However, it doesn't want to boot with no network plugged in.  It gets to
> > the point where it's "configuring network devices" and it doesn't want to
> > go any further.
> >
> > It doesn't have wireless capability.
> >
> > Is there a quick fix to be able to use it until I get around to
> > re-installing linux?  (sorry, I'm not exactly a linux administrator... )
> >
> > Any ideas appreciated.
> >
> > -Todd
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