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)?