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On Sunday 09 September 2007, Colleen Beamer wrote: |
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> Thanks Alan, |
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> Whew! You gave me a lot to respond to and it will take a bit of time |
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> since I have to run between two computer. |
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:-) |
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[snip Media Direct stuff] |
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> Truthfully, I'm not sure what it does. I have never had a computer |
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> with that button either and I don't have Windows on the laptop - I |
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> installed Gentoo right away. All I know is that when I hit that |
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> button thinking that I had hit the power button and walked away, the |
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> splash screen with "Dell Media Direct" was displayed. |
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Google found this: |
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http://www.goodells.net/dellrestore/mediadirect.htm |
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So it's a mini-OS type of thing to play media. It hides itself and does |
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other weird stuff so I'm not surprised it went ballistic on your |
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partition table... |
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I'd advise you to go into the BIOS setup screen at the next boot and see |
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if there's a way to switch it off or disable it |
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[snip steps taken to fix stuff] |
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All those steps look correct proper and fine with the expected results |
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[snip] |
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> > The output of e2fsck, run on each of your filesystems |
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> e2fsck for both sda1 (boot) and sda4 (home) come back clean |
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> Output from e2fsck for /dev/sda3 is: |
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> Pass |
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> 1 Checking inodes, blocks and sizes |
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> 2 Checking Directory Structure |
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> 3 Checking Directory connectivity |
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> 4 Checking Reference counts |
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> 5 Checking Summary information |
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> /dev/dsa3: 437650/4889248 files (4.3% non-contiguous) 2203865/9767520 |
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> blocks |
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/me scratches head wondering what could it be... |
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You might have an incorrect kernel config, with the filesystem or disk |
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drivers not compiled in anymore. Could you post the output of lspci, |
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plus your config? Use 'zcat /proc/config > /path/to/some/file' and |
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attach it so we are sure we have the right one |
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What version and USE flags are you using for grub? |
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MediaDirect *might* have done weird things to your BIOS setup, it's |
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worth a try to make a note of all current settings, then reset |
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everything to default and try once more. Long shot, but I've seen |
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stranger things... |
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> Anyway, let me know what else you need (besides maybe contents of |
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> fstab and grub.conf |
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> Although the fstab and grub.conf are exactly what they were before |
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> hitting that damned "Media Direct" button. |
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If they are the same then there's no real need to go further down that |
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route. For the record, your boot stanza will have minimally something |
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like this: |
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root (hd0,0) |
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kernel /vmlinuz ro root=/dev/sda3 console=/dev/tty1 |
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alan |
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Optimists say the glass is half full, |
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Pessimists say the glass is half empty, |
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Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za |
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+27 82, double three seven, one nine three five |
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