[ale] forgetting to start lo...

[David S. Jackson]

Hi,

I recently upgraded to RH 5.1 from 4.2 and discovered that my loopback
device doesn't get initialized after a reboot.  Consequently I have to go
back in and do it manually with ifcfg and add the route to the routing
table.  In looking through /etc/rc.d/init.d/ and
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ I see that heavy use is made of linuxconf,
of which I know next to nothing.

Can anyone tell me why I can't seem to get the lo device to initialize
automatically during startup?  (And don't say "because you're kinda dumb,
Dave!"  :-)

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