100202 Alan McKinnon wrote: > 100201 Valmor de Almeida wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote: >>> 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 w no partitions or file system. >> 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.
Without further explanation from you, I don't agree: the machine shouldn't wait 5 min (mine) to decide the drive is broken & there is a puzzle why the Gentoo CD wouldn't encounter the same delay. Your explication wb of interest to us both (smile). -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
