Re: Dual boot on Dell X300

2006-10-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 11:20:01PM -0400, Daniel Devost wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Dell X300 and I want to dual boot between Sarge and Etch. I > have two drives, /dev/hda that holds Etch (/dev/hda1) and /dev/sda that > holds Sarge (/dev/sda1). Both drives have swap space and grub and fstab >

Re: Laptop recommendation

2006-10-20 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Philip Bellenoit wrote: Sometimes bad experiences can be helpful. Here is mine. [...] I'm sure that in time I'll get all these issues resolved--part of the problem is my own inexperience. But next time I buy it won't be anything too new. It's a pitty that still hardware manufacturers don

Re: Laptop recommendation

2006-10-20 Thread Miroslav Maiksnar
Dne pátek 20 říjen 2006 06:16 Philip Bellenoit napsal(a): > Several SMP kernels I've tried make my laptop freeze so I'm > don't get dual core support. As for SMP kernel freezing, try adding "noapic" to kernel parameters. It is quite common issue, that motherboards for dual-core CPUs don't have A