On Tuesday 02 February 2010 23:30:54 Philip Webb wrote: > 100202 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > 100201 Valmor de Almeida wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote: > >>> I had this on my stand-by machine & discovered it was waiting > >>> for a broken CD drive; when I unplugged the drive, all was well. > >> > >> I had a drive that had not been used w no partitions or file system. > >> I booted the machine from a Gentoo LiveCD with no problem (weird), > >> made a partition and created a fs then rebooted and all worked. > >> Don't know why I was able to boot from a LiveCD in the first place; > >> maybe my kernel still need some fine tuning. > > > > You keep saying weird. It is not weird. > > What you describe is exactly the way it should work. > > Without further explanation from you, I don't agree: > the machine shouldn't wait 5 min (mine) to decide the drive is broken > & there is a puzzle why the Gentoo CD wouldn't encounter the same delay. > Your explication wb of interest to us both (smile). >
The thread quoted above did not mention time. The addition of that fact changes everything (as it always does). The omission of time gives one a completely different picture of the circumstances. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
