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From: Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Installation problems on AMD64 box
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 21:26:20
Message-Id: 9A92CF5D-E899-4BBA-B1F6-D5DE6AECE16B@stellar.eclipse.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Installation problems on AMD64 box by Iain Buchanan
1 On 28 Nov 2008, at 11:56, Iain Buchanan wrote:
2
3 > R C Mitchell wrote:
4 >> I use Ubuntu for every day but as my box has a spare 40GB hard disk
5 >> I decided
6 >> to have a go at installing Gentoo on it for evaluation
7 >> ...
8 >> I'm in complete denial over this blatant non-specific hardware
9 >> fault ...
10
11 IFIFY.
12
13 > hm, this screams hardware fault all over - I haven't seen one issue
14 > like this come to anything else.
15
16 +1.
17
18 > Usually it's the RAM. Can you humour me and try a stick from
19 > another machine, or at least reseat it?
20
21 I'm gonna disagree. RAM is like the classic answer, but my recent
22 experiences suggest it can be frikkin' anything. I mean, try the RAM
23 first, because it's easy, but due to the number of components in the
24 average PC I reckon that the statistics say it's something else
25 (especially in the case of typical home-build PCs built from parts
26 salvaged, donated, scrounged and hung-onto-for-sentimental-reasons
27 over the course of several years). The only way to be sure is to
28 unplug the USB headers and currently-unused floppy & optical drives,
29 then swap out the remaining components one at a time. This is why I
30 HATE messing around with hardware.
31
32 If everything else works fine under LameLunix, maybe it's the hard-
33 disk? I've certainly seen hard-drives cause BSODs, even after zeroing
34 them & reformatting.
35
36 > but girls don't exist on tha interwebz!
37
38 Nevertheless I will indulge in the suspension of my disbelief & be
39 extra extra helpful. [1]
40
41 Stroller.
42
43
44 [1] Perhaps you haven't seen me when I'm being unhelpful?.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Installation problems on AMD64 box Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au>