I just started dual booting RedHat and Mandrake to give the latter a try. I
couldn't get the alsa volumes to remain after rebooting, so I tried changing
the permission of /dev/mixer and also moving the line "above snd-via82xx
snd-pcm-oss" that Mandrake kept insisting on adding to my modules.conf to the
top of it in the hopes that the usual
post-install snd-card-0 /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
pre-remove snd-card-0 /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
would maybe then have an effect (yes, quite clearly I had no idea what I was
doing). Anyhow, as far as I know these were the only changes I made, besides
installing gnome-alsamixer even though the auto-download thingy said it had a
bad gpg-key.
Anyhow, the problem is that when I rebooted, during early startup
something
fails that I can't quite catch but with ends with
unknown group: "video", defaulting to GID=0
and then..
Loading default keymap: /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: line 265: /dev/tty0: No such
file or directory. [FAILED]
...
checking root filesystem
fsck.exts /dev/hda9 <---- / for the mandrake install
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
:No such file or directory while trying to op /dev/hda9
if I run e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/hda9 I get the same message as right before
starting with "The superblock..." preceded by:
/sbin/e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hda9
I'm really puzzled as to what's going on. /dev/hda9 mounts fine from my
Redhat install, and everything in it's intact as far as I can tell. I tried
reconfiguring the bootloader (grub) with the Mandrake cd, and it noticed
nothing amiss when it looked over the 9.1 install looking to update.
I'm just glad I've got redhat on here two. I think I'm going to always try to
have a couple installs parallel, in case one goes kapooey. It's proven
extremely useful in trying to debug the other one. Any input is appreciated.
I liked some things more about Mandrake, but right now I'm leaning more
towards sticking primarily with redhat. It just feels nicer. Though the
fact that Mandrake has a Mesa 5.0 rpm that works great with my nvidia card
really makes it more attractive, as well as some other available packages.
But it's just seemed full of little glitches and annoyances. When I check to
'remember password' box it doesn't remember the password, I don't like their
graphical login system, glut for somereason wasn't picking up right button
clicks, instead of saying "You don't have permission to do that" it
condescendingly says something like, "No no, only ROOT can do that. Good
boy", it's emacs color defaults are the most hideous green and off-yellow
things I've ever seen, and part of them are preserved in the upper button
area even when the faces are changes in .emacs.... But, like I said, it's got
some good stuff. It's been friendly, when it works. Though urpmi hasn't
grown on me yet like apt-get.
-James Nickerson
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