After writing all that crap, the solution proved to be that apparently
dhclient was grabbing the lo interface after setting me up on eth0. I
don't know why this made a difference, but it did.
Nothing was wrong with the bootup, but it wasn't the first thing I went
looking at.
BTW, I never sorted out that business of hotplug insisting on giving me
a usb-2.0 module which sent the usb here jamming syslog. I used a
workaround
rm -f /lib/modules/2.5.12.1-0705/kernel/drivers/usb/host/ehci_hcd.ko :-D
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With best Regards,
Declan Moriarty.
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