On Thu, 6 Sep 2012 14:10:21 +0200, Michael Hampicke wrote
> 2012/9/6 pat <pat@xvalheru.org>
>

Hello,
>
> I've installed Gentoo into VirtualBox. I want it to has static IP address and
> I've followed Hand book instructions and the OpenRC/net.example. After reboot
> there's a warning: "WARNING: net.lo has already been started" and each network
> depending service failes to start with: "<service_name>: waiting for net.eth0
> (51)"; where the 51 is a time which decrements to 0.
>
> I've searched net, but without success :-\
>
> Can someone help me? The installation is fresh one.

>
> Did you create a symlink for /etc/init.d/net.eth0 and did you add it to the runlevel (rc-update add net.eth0 default)?

Hi,

Yes, I did. When the Gentoo boots to shell there's only loop back interface.

Pat

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