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As is my usual practice since Mandrake 7.1; somewhere during the run-up from cooker to "final" I do a re-install. This time I did it at the RC1 stage. A few interesting things to report, and maybe a question or two. As usual I did a "fresh" install using two of the five hard disks available. I kept the existing partitions and just formatted /boot, /, /var, /usr, and /tmp. All but /boot and swap are Reiser formatted. hdb is miscellaneous storage (music etc) and 'backups' accumulated over time, plus a complete Mandrake-devel tree copy, rsynced twice daily. System: Pentium 3 @ 500 MHz stepping 6, model stepping 3 Katmai 3x256 MB Infineon PC 133 SDRAM Macronix MX9875x5 PCI ethernet card to external cable modem Creative Graphics-Blaster (nvidia) Riva TNT 128 (16 MB) Creative SoundBlaster Live! assorted odds'n'ends, +; Maxtor 4D040H2 at 40 GB set as master on IDE0, Maxtor 6L060J3 as slave on the same channel CD-ROM (LiteOn 40X 403L) master on IDE1, CD-RW (Mitsumi CR-4804TE 24x4x24) as slave. The motherboard is an A-Bit BX6 Revision 2 using BX6 chipset. No scsi cards exist in the box. Add in PCI cards to handle extra hdd drives etc. are unplugged at the moment. It was a "smokin' system" back when I first built it back in 1999. It's getting a little cantakerous now though. Like me. ;) Interesting thing number one; these are the listings for the hard drives c'n'p'ed from harddrake2: Model: 4D040H2 Vendor: Maxtor Bus: ide Channel: primary New devfs device: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc Old device file: /dev/hda Media class: hd Model: 6L060J3 Vendor: Maxtor Bus: ide Channel: secondary New devfs device: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/disc Old device file: /dev/hdb Media class: hd Huh? Aren't those scsi emu devfs listings? As a result of this; I have no working swap partition, even though diskdrake identifies it and claims it's mounted. As hda8, but fstab uses the sudo scsi devfs designation. I've tried every way I can think of (command line, graphic drakxtools, anything) to mount the swap partition. I think I first have to find out why devfs decided my drives were to be scsi emulated. Then I can take care of a couple other nagging little things that relate. Another weird thing; lmsensors have decided to suddenly accumulate CPU temperature readings and set off that ear shattering alarm at odd times. The CPU temperature reading shown when I had to save this message to the drafts folder and shut down was 260.7 degrees Fahrenheit instead of the actual 107. I suppose the major question is are these things likely to be assorted hardware gremlins and signs of impending doom for old reliable? Or are there glitches in the software causing what was once an (almost) stable collection of parts to go nuts? Or is it all TLNOTKB? "The Loose Nut On The Key Board." I actually reinstalled the release twice thinking I had screwed up, but got basically the same result. I even tried a brand new network install with a brand new network.img but the server told me I couldn't have it since I was running the wrong kernel. What??? Hard drive install wouldn't work either. The boot images seemed to be screwed when I tried it yesterday. I really do need to find time to stick my new box together soon. Throw an old dog a bone gang, OK? Dissect the report so far, ask for whatever information will help make sense of this stuff and help me figure this out? Call it an early birthday present; Sunday isn't *that* far off. <g> Regards; C. - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-5mdk 13:15:34 up 1:24, 1 user, load average: 0.23, 0.10, 0.10 Everybody has something to conceal. -- Humphrey Bogart -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/WPjsG11CaRuZZSIRAnGQAJ0ftkavLXjYg40guln/xVpzAIPepQCbBt28 5vF5ZyBQ9El/5XBXOvP5/Ds= =Dn08 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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