On Sun, December 23, 2007 4:41 pm, rbw wrote: > Lan Barnes wrote: >> I've moved some HW around to make a new F8 box for my granny user. Like >> to >> have it ready Tuesday. >> >> I have a WD-1600 jumpered and cabled as /dev/hdb, except now (and I do >> NOT >> get this) everything in F8 configures as /dev/sd[a-d]. I just HATE it >> when >> they change shit and leave me wondering why. >> >> So the box BIOS finds this drive as Auto and fills in its size, but >> doesn't offer it to me as a resource during the install. >> >> So I guess my real question is, why is a person who used to do two >> installs before breakfast (that's me) now finding it so frakin' hard to >> even understand why he's failing? >> >> If they improve Linux much more, I may have to switch to windoze. >> >> Tell me what I need to tell you to get this moving. >> >> TAI, >> > > did you see this yet? > > ls -al /dev|grep sr0 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 > 2007-12-23 16:05 cdrom -> sr0 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 > 2007-12-23 16:05 cdrw -> sr0 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 > 2007-12-23 16:05 dvd -> sr0 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 > 2007-12-23 16:05 dvdrw -> sr0 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 > 2007-12-23 16:05 scd0 -> sr0 > brw-rw----+ 1 root disk 11, 0 > 2007-12-23 16:05 sr0 > > and I had to make the /dev/cdrom and /dev/dvd > links... >
Now that is substantive help. Because in the new config, I got what says it was a clean install, but apparently it didn't write anything to the MBR. So I was goint to read man grub and try rescuing by hand. I'll check out /dev while I'm there. > rb (you're gonna have to support this F8 thing > but it sure will be pretty ;^) > The message of hope. > P.S. > Did you see that Red Hat wants a less bleeding > edge Redhat Desktop? > I don't mind bleeding a little if only I can find hints on where to bind the wounds. I had assumed my problem was too much M$-like automation, not things left undone. Thanks rbw. eval "(Merry|Happy) $HolidayOfChoice" -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
