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Hi, |
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I'm still struggling with this situation |
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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Sunday 09 September 2007, Colleen Beamer wrote: |
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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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I tried this, but couldn't find a way to switch it off. |
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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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I don't know what you are talking about here. First, I can't boot from |
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the hard drive, so where do you want me to do lspci? From the chroot'd |
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environment? I did it and it looks okay, but I suppose I could compare |
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it to what I get when I've booted from the install CD |
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I don't know how to post any file since the problem is on my laptop |
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where I don't have e-mail and I'm writing on my old desktop. I have no |
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means of getting the file to the old computer. |
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> What version and USE flags are you using for grub? |
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I'm using the latest stable version of 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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I've checked all the BIOS settings and they all look fine. I didn't see |
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anything related to Media Direct in there. |
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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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I'm going to post my grub.conf file, just to be sure. I have a SATA |
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drive on the laptop and I use genkernel. |
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default 0 |
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timeout 30 |
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splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz |
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title=Gentoo Linux (2.6.22-gentoo-r5) |
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root=(hd0,0) |
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kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.22-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 |
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init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/sda3 udev |
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initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.22-gentoo-r5 |
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Note: The line starting with kernel and ending with udev is all on one |
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line, but wordwrap is on so it displays on 2 lined |
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I am getting really frustrated here, 'cause my partitions all mount |
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properly and I can edit files on them. When I try booting to the hard |
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drive, it says "grub loading", or something to that affect, but then it |
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won't boot properly. |
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Anyway, I've been at this all night, so I'm giving up till tomorrow |
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after work. |
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Regards, |
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Colleen |
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