From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1R2RSq-00035p-5q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 17:35:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1147E21C23E; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 17:35:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outbound.icp-osb-irony-out8.iinet.net.au (outbound.icp-osb-irony-out8.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.134]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FF0221C20F for ; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 17:33:23 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Al0IAHWea058lPmS/2dsb2JhbABChFWUb4gXhj54gVIBAQUjSgEbCw0LAgImAgJXiBSjLpEfgSyEMYERBIdrkGcfi3U X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.68,361,1312128000"; d="scan'208";a="147467157" Received: from unknown (HELO moriah.localdomain) ([124.148.249.146]) by outbound.icp-osb-irony-out8.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 11 Sep 2011 01:33:22 +0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D7D455AC5 for ; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 01:33:22 +0800 (WST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at localdomain Received: from moriah.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (moriah.lan.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id dEadPZYp-8DD for ; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 01:33:17 +0800 (WST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD1AE5353C for ; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 01:33:17 +0800 (WST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot From: William Kenworthy To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <4E6B17D2.6010608@gmail.com> References: <201108191109.34984.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <11342928.W3O2ONNTLv@tux> <4E69D406.9000909@gmail.com> <20110909111559.46bf85b5@rohan> <4E6ABC82.3020900@gmail.com> <4E6AC43F.4070307@gmail.com> <20110910093044.4aaa8262@rohan> <4E6B17D2.6010608@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 01:33:17 +0800 Message-ID: <1315675997.7072.2.camel@moriah> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: e478534bfb62effd588eca32d8c52aba On Sat, 2011-09-10 at 02:54 -0500, Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > You give me too much credit :-) > > > > There's also Neil, Wonko, Volker, Stroller, Grant, meino.cramer, Mick, > > Paul, Harry, Albert, Alex, Walter, Alan Mackenzie (awesome name!), > > James, kashani, Pandu and about a 1000 more whose names I can't exactly > > recall right now. > > > > This here mailing-list has got the most varied and highest skills of > > any technical list I've ever subscribed to. We have regular desktop > > users, folks who work in server rooms, devs, owners of software > > companies, regular sysadmins, fellows who ship embedded devices, and at > > least one of everything in between. > > > > I don't mean to go all fuzzy feel-good here, but it's an honour to be > > able to communicate and interact with so many skilled people for so many > > years. > > > > > > That is true. There are lots who post a lot here. I just recall seeing > some stats somewhere and me and you were the top two. That was about a > year ago so it may have changed. Just had to go find that link again. > Here it is: > > http://archives.gentoo.org/stats/gentoo-user-per-year.xml > > We have a new comer. lol > > I think the mailing lists, and forums, are one of the key features of > Gentoo. The docs seemed to have slumped some but I think it was down to > one or two people for a while. I think someone jumped in the fire a few > weeks ago tho. Maybe they will catch up. I'm sure it is hard to keep > up with all the changes that are going on tho. Gentoo has a LOT of > stuff to document. > > If we are so skilled, why is the Fedora dev not listening you reckon? > > Dale > > :-) :-) > Ha, I got on the list in 2005! Unfortunately it doesnt go back into the 90's when I started with Gentoo and the learning curve was REALLY steep :) BillK