On Tuesday 02 February 2010 16:23:46 Valmor de Almeida wrote: > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote: > > 100201 Valmor de Almeida wrote: > >> Recently I bumped up the number of HDD on a relatively old system > > [snip] > > > I had this on my stand-by machine & discovered it was waiting > > for a broken CD drive; when I unplugged the drive, all was well. > > I had a drive that had not been used yet and had no partitions or file > system on it. I booted the machine from a gentoo LiveCD (with no > problem; weird), made a partition and created a fs then rebooted and > all worked. Don't know why I was able to boot from a LiveCD in the > first place; maybe my kernel still need some fine tuning.
You keep saying weird. It is not weird. What you describe is exactly the way it should work. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com