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On Tuesday 02 February 2010 16:23:46 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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> > 100201 Valmor de Almeida wrote: |
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> >> Recently I bumped up the number of HDD on a relatively old system |
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> [snip] |
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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 yet and had no partitions or file |
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> system on it. I booted the machine from a gentoo LiveCD (with no |
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> problem; weird), made a partition and created a fs then rebooted and |
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> all worked. Don't know why I was able to boot from a LiveCD in the |
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> first place; 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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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |