[iyonix-support] Re: Booting problems
- From: Chris Evans <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 13:18:12 +0100 (BST)
On Thu 04 May, David J. Ruck wrote:
>
> Chris Evans <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed 03 May, John Ballance wrote:
> > > and edit !Boot.choices.internet.startup file to remove line starting
> > > dhcpexecute
> >
> > My suggestion was to copy in the copy on the supplied CD but that file
> > doesn't seem to be on the CD! Fortunatly the customer had made a complete
> > back up his hard disc to a CD before sending it away, so he was going to
> > copy that in place when he found it.
> >
> > If it isn't there, is it automatically created?
>
> Its automatically created by !Configure's Internet setup component.
> Unticking DHCP will remove the line from the file, but if you have had to
> escape from the boot sequence to reach the desktop, !Configure wont work.
> Manual editing of the file will allow a reboot to reach the desktop
> normally, whereafter !Configure should be run, and DHCP unselected.
Actually the customer found that the directory didn't exist on his backup
(he uses a modem) so deleting/moving the whole choices.internet directory
did the job:-)
Chris Evans
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