On Wednesday 20 June 2001 00:38, Jarmo wrote: > 20.6.2001 2:15:38, silkythreads <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Have you checked your machines "Date/time" lately ??? > > > >I got your message with this DTG - "00/06/19 01:58 AM" > > > >I'd say your "year's" are off a little !!!! > > OOPS! > > Bran new fujitsu-siemens lifebook with win98...seems that > beginning to forget WIN-HOWTO -) > > So time has nothing to do with my home computer where problem > exists. > > For curiosity made yesterday lm 7.2 expert/developement > installation and no problem in booting...Installation took 10 > mins between cd in--> startx !!!!!! > Working like sun....Think,my HW can't be reason...there must > be changes in new 8.0 what differs from 7.2 . > I'd say 7.2 is more ata-100 compatible than 8.0... > > Greetings > Jarmo If you have drop in ATA/100 controllers you have to do a huge configuration job after install. And you are certainly right, our patched 2.2.17-21mdk kernel runs Promise controllers much better than anyone's 2.4 kernel. The reason lies in the drivers which have been withdrawn for reunification (too many changes from Promise resulting in too many band-aids, etc.) So IF you got 8,0 running with an off-board (or improperly embedded on-board) Promise ATA-100 controller you would find the disk operation very slow, 2-3Mb/s instead of the expectable 29-35Mb/s on the hdparm -t test. To get 8.0 running with that nasty controller, you install, and (quick way) remember which partition had the root filesystem, like say /dev/hdg5. Then when you get to bootloader installation, you do this Add linux-0 root filesystem /dev/hda5 Add linux-1 root filesystem /dev/hdb5 Add linux-2 root filesystem /dev/hdc5 Add linux-3 root filesystem /dev/hdd5 Add linux-4 root filesystem /dev/hde5 Add linux-5 root filesystem /dev/hdf5 Now ONE of those will get as far as mounting the root filesystem. Erase the others including the original, when you have the system functioning fully. To make the system function fully, you must go in with the rescue disk--say linux-2 worked, then /dev/hdg entries have to be changed for /dev/hdc So use the install CD and hit F1 at the splash screen, then type "rescue" without the quotes. The system will come up with the root prompt # And you type the following things # mount /dev/hdg5 /mnt # chroot /mnt # mount /usr You now can use your editors in console mode You want to edit /etc/fstab and change all occruuences of hdg to hdc (but watch it, if you have pre-existing lines with /dev/hdc, then you have to comment those out for now til you find where hdc has been moved) So the first thing I do is put in a floppy (dos formatted) # mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy # cat /etc/fstab > /mnt/floppy/fstab To save my old information. I am then able to seek out those old ones because I know the patterning of partitions on each and I can analyze any drive's partition table by fdisk -l /dev/hdx, and having root and /usr mountable is all I need for that. Anyway, then with an editor, I try changing all the hdgs to hdcs Now, I should be able to save, quit, take out the Install CD, and reboot. From there it is still a hunt for the rest of the flock, but at least that starts me. Civileme
