Re: Tried to boot my laptop from a cafe...

[Floris <jkfloris@dds.nl>]

Op Sun, 01 Feb 2015 12:24:08 +0100 schreef Jarle Aase <jgaa@jgaa.com>:

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> Normally I use my laptop as a workstation, with wired Internet and a 1 T
> extra disk in the cd-tray.
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> Today I tried to boot it in a cafe, off-line and without the extra disk.
> It was not possible. Systemd would just wait indefinitely for some
> start-up jobs (it was waiting for the missing disk to come on-line among
> some other things). Fortunately, I had the extra disk with me, so I
> attached it and tried again. Still for no use. Systemd now waited for
> the network interfaces. So I had to actually connect an ethernet cable
> to a router just to get the crap to boot, and then unplug it and walk
> back to my table.
>
> How did this happen? How come Debian is now  /more/ useless than
> Windows? It can't even boot if the hardware configuration is not exactly
> the way it assumes. WTF!
>
> Jarle

Maybe a solution for the network part.

remove or command out eth0 in /etc/network/interfaces and use the
network-manager-applet to set the interface.

and/or

a firewall is started at boot time and will wait for the interface.


success,

floris