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On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 09:05 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote: |
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> On Sun, 2010-07-25 at 22:08 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > On Sunday 25 July 2010 10:18:33 Dale wrote: |
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> > > Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > [snip] |
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> > > > When done, reboot as normal and see if the machine boots up properly. |
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> > > And I would stand guard to make sure housekeeping doesn't come around. |
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> > > ;-) Cutting power during all this wold not be good. |
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> > Here in Africa we use pythons for that. |
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> > Real genuine live 10 foot snakes. In a terrarium of course. |
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> > Trust me, it takes about 30 seconds after the first housekeeping person sees |
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> > it until none of them goes anywhere near your stuff. |
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> > :-) |
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> I like the idea of pythons, as they swallow the prey whole its much less |
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> messy than the redback spiders suggested for use here in West Oz ... |
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> someone would have to clean up the bodies in the morning. |
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> Must be a coincidence, didnt update the MBR after installing grub and |
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> failed to boot this morning - though the signs are more like disk |
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> failure - even the live CD isnt helping :( |
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> Another job for tonight when I get home. |
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> BillK |
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Fixed it - was grub after all - it renumbered my drives (0 and 1 |
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swapped :( |
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Complicated because this was one of the early sata boards with a fake |
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raid chip to handle the sata while the old IDE drives were on the normal |
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bus. |
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Further complicated by the bios and raidchip changing drive assignments |
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depending on which drive/cd/floppy you booted from (i.e., what grub sees |
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as the drive numbers changes when the real OS is booted). I forgot what |
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hoops I had to jump through to get this going originally. |
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Might be time for a new setup - amd athlon 2500+ are not so cool these |
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days :) |
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BillK |