Wild strange problems

[Karl Larsen]

Todd Denniston wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote, On 01/11/2008 08:17 AM:
>> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>> On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>>   i realize i'm going to regret this immediately but, karl, if you
>>> plan on starting a brand new thread every time you want to post
>>> something about nvidia, could you at least (as you have been
>>> encouraged to do countless times) use a meaningful subject line?
>>>
>>>   we *have* had this conversation before but, sadly, the lesson seems
>>> to have worn off.
>>>
>>> rday
>>> -- 
>>>
>>>   
>>    I have not and never will learn a lesson from you.
>>
>> Karl
>>
>
> Will you try to learn a lesson from someone else then?
>
> If you will, then the lesson I would like you to learn is that:
> Placing the name, where name is output from /sbin/lspci, of the 
> hardware that seems broken into the subject line, when you send a 
> message to a mailing list may tend to direct people who know how to 
> solve your problems to your messages.
>
> The second possible lesson is:
> Subjects that don't even list which sub system[1] you are having 
> difficulty with tend to only irritate folks who might otherwise make 
> an attempt at helping you.
>
> [1] subsystems: audio, video, USB, hard drives, removable media, 
> printing, networking.
>
>
> BTW to your original email provided insufficient information, I 
> suggest providing the following info may help:
> 0) a new subject line along the lines of "hard drives changing order 
> of detection, WHY?"
> 1) how is hard drive 0 connected (PATA, SATA, SCSI, USB, FIRE WIRE)
> 2) how is hard drive 1 connected (PATA, SATA, SCSI, USB, FIRE WIRE)
> 3) can your machine be set to boot from USB, SCSI, FIRE WIRE?
> 4) can your bios be set to reorder the disk boot order?
> 5) how is your bios set to boot now?
> 6) what order is your bios set to now for the disk order?
> 7) full lspci output.
>
    Here is what happened. At first I was real happy because the new 
kernel and Nvidia were working fine on F7. I got busy with some other 
things and when I got back to thunderbird the pointer was acting odd. I 
tried to send a email and got a weird error saying it could not find 
things.

    I decided to reboot. It didn't work. I had goto init 3 and login as 
root and then type reboot. That worked but it didn't come back up. In 
fact it came back up to the bios page which didn't work. After a minute 
or more it called grub which found the proper kernel image but errored 
out with error 15.

    Played around with BIOS and finally got on and it looked fine as far 
as I can tell. It is Award Bios and I really do not like it. I have not 
found out how to set the order of the hard drives. I thought that was 
fixed. It is not so I discovered.

    Came up in the F8 DVD in rescue mode and looked at 
/boot/grub/grub.conf and it looked perfect. Not the problem. I looked at 
many things and found nothing. Then I turned on fdisk and found that 
hard disk assignments were wrong. The IDE hard drive was the first 
forever. The SATA drive was fifth hard drive forever. But now the sata 
drive is the first and ide is now second. How this happened I have no idea.

    Next I changed root (hd 0,5) to (hd 1,5) and when I rebooted off the 
DVD and got it out the F7 came right up.

    I need to learn how the bios changes hard drive numbers and get it 
to quit :-)


Karl


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