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On 6 February 2014 16:09:32 CET, Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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>On Thursday 06 Feb 2014 14:30:24 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> On 06/02/2014 08:19, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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>> > On Wednesday 05 Feb 2014 20:02:00 Joseph wrote: |
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>> >> Here it is: grub.conf |
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>> >> |
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>> >> default 0 |
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>> >> timeout 30 |
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>> >> |
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>> >> title Gentoo Current Kernel |
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>> >> root (hd0,0) |
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>> >> kernel /boot/kernel-current root=/dev/hda3 |
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>> > |
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>> > Shouldn't that hda3 in the kernel line be sda3? |
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>> |
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>> No, he said earlier in the thread that this is an ancient box using |
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>the |
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>> old deprecated IDE subsystem. |
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>> |
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>> His fstab refers to drives as hd? |
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>Yes, I saw that after I hit Send. (So what else is new?) |
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>Seems to me that too many things need updating before Joseph can switch |
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>to the |
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>latest thing in init systems. |
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> |
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>Maybe he should go back to his last working system (from backup?), go |
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>through |
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>his kernel config piecemeal, setting sensible options, and generally |
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>bring the |
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>box up to date. Then he can start experimenting with the latest ideas. |
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>(Sorry |
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>Joseph, I don't mean to talk about you as though you weren't here!) |
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>I forget: how many years is it since the ancient /dev/hd? scheme was |
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>superseded and deprecated? |
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> |
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>-- |
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>Regards |
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>Peter |
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Not sure. I switched my last machine over to the sd-scheme 2 holidays (sometime in 2012) ago. (It's a netbook I only use during holidays as a picture store and viewer) |
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Joost |
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Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. |
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