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From: Bruce Hill <daddy@×××××××××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 compatibility with modern cpus
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 18:36:17
Message-Id: 20121214183449.GM8486@server
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 compatibility with modern cpus by felix@crowfix.com
1 On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 01:24:10PM -0500, felix@×××××××.com wrote:
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3 > That's what I've been using.
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5 > But the hardware failure is illogical too; why would USB and SATA fail at the same time? Or why would southbridge fail when it had been running perfectly fine?
6 >
7 > I don't really think it was 3.7.0, but who knows, did I answer some config question incorrectly and tell it to load some firmware? Without access to the disk, I can't tell. I don't remember any question about loading BIOS firmware, and can't see why the kernel would even care about that.
8 >
9 > The whole mess makes no sense.
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11 Boot with SystemRescueCd and you can't get to a prompt?
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13 If you do, do you have internet access once you're there?
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15 If neither, take a photo and post a link to a *clear* snapshot.
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17 Yes, your southbridge chipset could just happened to have failed at the same
18 time; or it failed on the reboot; or USB and SATA are both on the southbridge
19 that failed so you lost both, basically.
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