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On Tuesday 02 February 2010 23:30:54 Philip Webb wrote: |
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> 100202 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > 100201 Valmor de Almeida wrote: |
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> >> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> >>> I had this on my stand-by machine & discovered it was waiting |
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> >>> for a broken CD drive; when I unplugged the drive, all was well. |
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> >> I had a drive that had not been used w no partitions or file system. |
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> >> I booted the machine from a Gentoo LiveCD with no problem (weird), |
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> >> made a partition and created a fs then rebooted and all worked. |
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> >> Don't know why I was able to boot from a LiveCD in the first place; |
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> >> maybe my kernel still need some fine tuning. |
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> > You keep saying weird. It is not weird. |
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> > What you describe is exactly the way it should work. |
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> Without further explanation from you, I don't agree: |
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> the machine shouldn't wait 5 min (mine) to decide the drive is broken |
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> & there is a puzzle why the Gentoo CD wouldn't encounter the same delay. |
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> Your explication wb of interest to us both (smile). |
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The thread quoted above did not mention time. The addition of that fact |
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changes everything (as it always does). The omission of time gives one a |
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completely different picture of the circumstances. |
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