Re: Live CD says all fs clean, but...

2009-07-23 Thread ron.l.johnson
"s. keeling" wrote: > : > > boot procedure still mounts / as RO, and so "it" can't write to > > /var (which is part of /) and thus the boot process freezes just > > after S55something. > > > > (No, it doesn't drop me into single-user mode. I think it wants > > to, but things fly by so fast t

Re: Live CD says all fs clean, but...

2009-07-23 Thread ron.l.johnson
Chris Jones wrote: > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 09:58:32AM EDT, ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: > > boot procedure still mounts / as RO, and so "it" can't write to /var (which > > is part of /) and thus the boot process freezes just after S55something. > > > > (No, it doesn't drop me into single-u

Re: Live CD says all fs clean, but...

2009-07-23 Thread ron.l.johnson
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: > > boot procedure still mounts / as RO, and so "it" can't write to /var > > (which is part of /) and thus the boot process freezes just after > > S55something. > > Just to exclude the obvious: > what's the output of 'df' from the li

Live CD says all fs clean, but...

2009-07-23 Thread ron.l.johnson
boot procedure still mounts / as RO, and so "it" can't write to /var (which is part of /) and thus the boot process freezes just after S55something. (No, it doesn't drop me into single-user mode. I think it wants to, but things fly by so fast that I can't see.) Thanks P.S. - Yes, I see the ir

Re: [Semi-OT] Need advice on AMD mobo

2009-07-18 Thread ron.l.johnson
Wayne Topa wrote: [snip] > > I recently had to replace a MD and ended up with a Gigabyte > GA-MA790X-UD4P. It meets or exceeds your specs and was not as expensive > as I had expected (newegg) > [snip] > 8 x SATA 3GB connectors [snip] > > Working like a champ here. Thanks. I'll look into it.

[Semi-OT] Need advice on AMD mobo

2009-07-17 Thread ron.l.johnson
Just got an ASRock A780GXE/128M, and it seems to have difficulty seeing more than 4 devices. (I've got 4 SATA HDDs, a SATA DVD-RW and a PATA HDD.) Here are my needs: - AM2 socket - ATX form factor, - 6 (or even 8) SATA sockets, - 4 DIMM slots. On-board 1394 would be useful. The A780GX

Re: To mirror a huge tree...

2009-07-16 Thread ron.l.johnson
Paul E Condon wrote: > On 2009-07-15_23:53:27, ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: [snip] > > So you have 600/630 = 95% of the job done. To finish, I suggest rsync > starting with > this as the destination of the copying. Even if the source data is changing a > bit > from day-to-day, I'm sure the

RE: To mirror a huge tree...

2009-07-15 Thread ron.l.johnson
David Christensen wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > ... external USB hard drive, I'm getting a consistent 30MBps, > > ... is 30MBps about as good as I can get from the combination of the > > USB software and hardware? > > 30 MB/s is good for USB. You need Firewire, eSATA, or an internal drive >

Re: Unappending boot options in Lilo?

2008-11-12 Thread ron.l.johnson
Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 08:40:51AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Last night, I (foolishly) added a couple of items (hda=noprobe hdb=noprobe) > > to the "append" line of lilo.conf without testing them first, and now the > > boot proces

Unappending boot options in Lilo?

2008-11-12 Thread ron.l.johnson
Hi, Last night, I (foolishly) added a couple of items (hda=noprobe hdb=noprobe) to the "append" line of lilo.conf without testing them first, and now the boot process panics with: Cannot open root device "hda2" or unknown-block(0,0) Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on un