Re: [gentoo-user] Something weird and I'm confused. BIOS and SATA is empty

Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Friday, November 11, 2011 08:48:42 AM Dale wrote: Now that you mention it, maybe they will run out of test subjects. o_O They're currently in the middle of negotiations to take over the penal system of the rabbits ;) Once they get that contract, they'll have a r

Re: [gentoo-user] Something weird and I'm confused. BIOS and SATA is empty

On Friday, November 11, 2011 08:48:42 AM Dale wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Tue, November 8, 2011 10:33 am, Dale wrote: > >> The only report that raccoon will give is a bright flash of light. > >> Shorting out 250,000 volts sort of puts a period on the end of the > >> briefest report there ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Something weird and I'm confused. BIOS and SATA is empty

J. Roeleveld wrote: On Tue, November 8, 2011 10:33 am, Dale wrote: The only report that raccoon will give is a bright flash of light. Shorting out 250,000 volts sort of puts a period on the end of the briefest report there has ever been. Those lines are the TVA lines that come from a few hundr

Re: [gentoo-user] Something weird and I'm confused. BIOS and SATA is empty

On Tue, November 8, 2011 10:33 am, Dale wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: >> On Mon, November 7, 2011 1:32 pm, Dale wrote: >>> All this from a raccoon knocking out power. Pesky critter. >> Raccoons are doing some behaviour studies in your area, didn't you get >> the >> memo? :) >> >> -- >> Joost >> > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Something weird and I'm confused. BIOS and SATA is empty

On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:18:05 -0500, Mike Edenfield wrote: > > There is, but the file is called .version. The contents of this are > > appended to the kernel name when you have the relevant options set. > > There is no manual intervention needed. > But I still need to create .version every time I

Re: [gentoo-user] Something weird and I'm confused. BIOS and SATA is empty

On 11/9/2011 8:55 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 08:47:07 -0500, Mike Edenfield wrote: Are you saying then that every time you download new source files you have to create or cp new localversion* files in /usr/src/linux/ for this auto-numbering to work? Yeah, though I wouldn't b

Re: [gentoo-user] Something weird and I'm confused. BIOS and SATA is empty

On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 08:47:07 -0500, Mike Edenfield wrote: > > Are you saying then that every time you download new source files you > > have to create or cp new localversion* files in /usr/src/linux/ for > > this auto-numbering to work? > > Yeah, though I wouldn't be surprised if there was alre

Re: [gentoo-user] Something weird and I'm confused. BIOS and SATA is empty

On 11/9/2011 2:04 AM, Mick wrote: On Wednesday 09 Nov 2011 02:43:43 Mike Edenfield wrote: On 11/6/2011 8:54 PM, Dale wrote: Mine is like this: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4547936 Aug 22 03:53 /boot/bzImage-3.0.3-1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4548640 Sep 1 07:19 /boot/bzImage-3.0.4-1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root r

Re: [gentoo-user] Something weird and I'm confused. BIOS and SATA is empty

On Wednesday 09 Nov 2011 02:43:43 Mike Edenfield wrote: > On 11/6/2011 8:54 PM, Dale wrote: > > Mine is like this: > > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4547936 Aug 22 03:53 > > /boot/bzImage-3.0.3-1 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4548640 Sep 1 07:19 > > /boot/bzImage-3.0.4-1 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5162

Re: [gentoo-user] Something weird and I'm confused. BIOS and SATA is empty

On 11/6/2011 8:54 PM, Dale wrote: Mine is like this: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4547936 Aug 22 03:53 /boot/bzImage-3.0.3-1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4548640 Sep 1 07:19 /boot/bzImage-3.0.4-1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5162752 Oct 12 21:49 /boot/bzImage-3.0.4-2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5167840 Oct 13 00:05

Re: [gentoo-user] Something weird and I'm confused. BIOS and SATA is empty

J. Roeleveld wrote: On Mon, November 7, 2011 1:32 pm, Dale wrote: I looked for such a option but I can't find it anywhere. It may be there but I can't find it. Since it is working and the AHCI controller sees the drives, I'm going to leave well enough alone. I checked my desktop at home las

Re: [gentoo-user] Something weird and I'm confused. BIOS and SATA is empty

On Mon, November 7, 2011 1:32 pm, Dale wrote: > I looked for such a option but I can't find it anywhere. It may be > there but I can't find it. Since it is working and the AHCI controller > sees the drives, I'm going to leave well enough alone. I checked my desktop at home last night and the d

Re: [gentoo-user] Something weird and I'm confused. BIOS and SATA is empty

Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Dale wrote: IF by the 'first screen' you mean what you see when booting up then it may or may not be a problem. I suspect your BIOS settings got scrambled a bit. With my Asus MB there is an option to tell it to show the drives on the first scr

Re: [gentoo-user] Something weird and I'm confused. BIOS and SATA is empty

On Mon, 7 Nov 2011 12:00:39 +1100, Adam Carter wrote: > > All it does it copy the kernel, system map and config to /boot and > > reset the symlinks to point to the new and previous kernels. You can > > still keep as many kernels as you want in /boot, but you can always > > boot the last two withou

Re: [gentoo-user] Something weird and I'm confused. BIOS and SATA is empty

Pandu Poluan wrote: On Nov 7, 2011 8:18 AM, "Pandu Poluan" > wrote: > > > On Nov 7, 2011 8:03 AM, "Adam Carter" > wrote: > > > > > All it does it copy the kernel, system map and config to /boot and reset > > > the symlinks to point to t

Re: [gentoo-user] Something weird and I'm confused. BIOS and SATA is empty

On Nov 7, 2011 8:18 AM, "Pandu Poluan" wrote: > > > On Nov 7, 2011 8:03 AM, "Adam Carter" wrote: > > > > > All it does it copy the kernel, system map and config to /boot and reset > > > the symlinks to point to the new and previous kernels. You can still keep > > > as many kernels as you want in

Re: [gentoo-user] Something weird and I'm confused. BIOS and SATA is empty

On Nov 7, 2011 8:03 AM, "Adam Carter" wrote: > > > All it does it copy the kernel, system map and config to /boot and reset > > the symlinks to point to the new and previous kernels. You can still keep > > as many kernels as you want in /boot, but you can always boot the last two > > without modif

Re: [gentoo-user] Something weird and I'm confused. BIOS and SATA is empty

> All it does it copy the kernel, system map and config to /boot and reset > the symlinks to point to the new and previous kernels. You can still keep > as many kernels as you want in /boot, but you can always boot the last two > without modifying GRUB's config. Can you please ls -l /boot so i can

Re: [gentoo-user] Something weird and I'm confused. BIOS and SATA is empty

On Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:22:41 -0600, Dale wrote: > > Or you could use make install and remove the possibility for > > screw-ups. After all, you trust make to build and kernel, then build > > and copy the entire module tree. Surely you can manage to trust it > > with one more file :-O > I did use i

Re: [gentoo-user] Something weird and I'm confused. BIOS and SATA is empty

Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 06 Nov 2011 13:21:33 -0600, Dale wrote: Odd thing. I never noticed they were symlinks. A simple `sudo cp ...` does the right thing here. Did you use `cp -a`, maybe through an alias? I do use -av out of habit. That habit started when I was copying installs from one

Re: [gentoo-user] Something weird and I'm confused. BIOS and SATA is empty

On Sun, 06 Nov 2011 13:21:33 -0600, Dale wrote: > > Odd thing. I never noticed they were symlinks. A simple `sudo cp ...` > > does the right thing here. Did you use `cp -a`, maybe through an > > alias? > > I do use -av out of habit. That habit started when I was copying > installs from one dri

Re: [gentoo-user] Something weird and I'm confused. BIOS and SATA is empty

Florian Philipp wrote: Am 06.11.2011 15:26, schrieb Dale: Mick wrote: Can you set in your BIOS which controller IDE or SATA manages the drives? I'm not sure why you have a symlink to your /usr/src/linux files from /boot (I don't understand it). In /boot you should have the image files themselve

Re: [gentoo-user] Something weird and I'm confused. BIOS and SATA is empty

Am 06.11.2011 15:26, schrieb Dale: > Mick wrote: >> Can you set in your BIOS which controller IDE or SATA manages the >> drives? I'm not sure why you have a symlink to your /usr/src/linux >> files from /boot (I don't understand it). In /boot you should have the >> image files themselves of your des

Re: [gentoo-user] Something weird and I'm confused. BIOS and SATA is empty

Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Hi, is it an Asus board? Because Asus went cheap on bios chips not too long ago. Now we have the fun of Asus bioses getting confused because of stuff like turning off and similar cruel treatment. The fuck up with your transformer might habe caused a short spike, dama

Re: [gentoo-user] Something weird and I'm confused. BIOS and SATA is empty

Hi, is it an Asus board? Because Asus went cheap on bios chips not too long ago. Now we have the fun of Asus bioses getting confused because of stuff like turning off and similar cruel treatment. The fuck up with your transformer might habe caused a short spike, damaging the settings. In my

Re: [gentoo-user] Something weird and I'm confused. BIOS and SATA is empty

On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Dale wrote: >> IF by the 'first screen' you mean what you see when booting up then it >> may or may not be a problem. I suspect your BIOS settings got >> scrambled a bit. With my Asus MB there is an option to tell it to show >> the drives on the first screen or not

Re: [gentoo-user] Something weird and I'm confused. BIOS and SATA is empty

Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 4:43 AM, Dale wrote: When I did my ls on /boot, the kernels were symlinks to the kernel sources on /usr which is not mounted yet. Why in the world would a kernel on /boot _ever_ be a symlink? That's just not right for guys like you and me Dale! Re

Re: [gentoo-user] Something weird and I'm confused. BIOS and SATA is empty

On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 4:43 AM, Dale wrote: > When I did my ls on > /boot, the kernels were symlinks to the kernel sources on /usr which is not > mounted yet. Why in the world would a kernel on /boot _ever_ be a symlink? That's just not right for guys like you and me Dale! > > I reboot and the

Re: [gentoo-user] Something weird and I'm confused. BIOS and SATA is empty

Mick wrote: Can you set in your BIOS which controller IDE or SATA manages the drives? I'm not sure why you have a symlink to your /usr/src/linux files from /boot (I don't understand it). In /boot you should have the image files themselves of your desired kernels (plus corresponding System and

Re: [gentoo-user] Something weird and I'm confused. BIOS and SATA is empty

Dale wrote: Hi, This is weird and I'm not sure what info to give yet. This is the events tho. First, a raccoon got on the power substation transformer that supplies power for the whole county, excluding my local city which has its own transformer. So, we lost power. It was sudden just lik

Re: [gentoo-user] Something weird and I'm confused. BIOS and SATA is empty

On Sunday 06 Nov 2011 12:43:06 Dale wrote: > Hi, > > This is weird and I'm not sure what info to give yet. This is the > events tho. First, a raccoon got on the power substation transformer > that supplies power for the whole county, excluding my local city which > has its own transformer. So, w

[gentoo-user] Something weird and I'm confused. BIOS and SATA is empty

Hi, This is weird and I'm not sure what info to give yet. This is the events tho. First, a raccoon got on the power substation transformer that supplies power for the whole county, excluding my local city which has its own transformer. So, we lost power. It was sudden just like a power swi