@Rhywden hah... "just... everything" (duh..)
-> Board, CPU, Memory, Peripherals, just everything.. (is this a VM running on <whatever>, BareMetal, Virtualbox | VMware Player...)
I mean, it loads some of the time.
... don't faff around with the kernel, just try to find the culprit and toggle the "tryHarder"-parameter or at least the "didn't work, plod on silently and let <user> deal with it"to True.
Memory lane: one upon a time one decided to set <firewall rules> initially to "deny everything at boot" and missed the fact that <custom firewall-script> was started as last thing
-> what happened to starting ntpd (ntpdate foo.pool.ntp.org) immediately after eth0 came up is left as exercise to the reader.
/hint: since eth0 blocked everything and ntpdate hat no timeout ... ahem