I'll start from the beginning: I booted from Lilo. The progress meter quickly filled...then...went off the screen...and back on the other side. That was weird... So I rebooted, pressed esc, and booted in text mode. Since I shut down improperly, and hda5 wasn't unmounted right, it had to check whatever it checks. So it takes an unusually long time. Then it goes to boot. I see many many things I've never seen before, and it asks me if I want to run a config tool, because sdc0(my cd-rom drive/burner) was removed and hdc was added. I don't know what that was about. Then something didn't load...something with 'char' in it. Then something was 'passed'. It was 'fs', and said something about not recognizing NTFS. Then, my wlan0 device didn't load, and neither did my sound.
So then I proceeded to login. Apparently /home was read-only. So I logged into root, and looked in /home. And /home/marc is gone. My sound doesn't work, as was expected, and neither did my wlan connection. So i rebooted, and booted the old kernel. Everything worked fine, and my /home/marc was there. This could have been a nerdy horror movie. =/ Okay so here's what I figure: My snd-ali5451 module isn't loading properly, and neither is my prism2_cs. I don't know why, because I did a make oldconfig, and enabled mostly everything. I guess that has something to do with the cd-rom drive too. I have no clue what was up with the original graphic boot, nor do I know why my /home/marc directory was gone, then back. Any advice would be greatly appreciated --Marc
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