From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-69393-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@gentoo.org>) id 1IVXwI-0003Lz-QW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:31:55 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l8CJNQh5017188; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:23:26 GMT Received: from psmtp09.wxs.nl (psmtp09.wxs.nl [195.121.247.23]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l8CJHPWQ008751 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:17:25 GMT Received: from graskamp (ip51cfa1ef.direct-adsl.nl [81.207.161.239]) by psmtp09.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 2.15 (built Nov 14 2006)) with ESMTP id <0JO900D82S8ZV3@psmtp09.wxs.nl> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:17:24 +0200 (MEST) Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:17:09 +0200 From: Benno Schulenberg <benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Boot situation In-reply-to: <46E7DEB8.605@gmail.com> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <200709122117.09470.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <46E40A8F.6000809@gmail.com> <200709120001.32331.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> <46E7DEB8.605@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 4d24275f-1900-4afc-a7ea-5dfb77436c68 X-Archives-Hash: e7254c01cc646bf0302d37a02dc10459 Colleen Beamer wrote: > So what I thought was some residual problem with > screwing up and hitting the 'Media Direct' button wasn't really > the problem after all. It might still be, depending on how you've reinstalled. If you blanked the first few gigabytes of the disk with 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda' and then repartitioned the drive, there shouldn't be anything left of what that evil button did. But if you kept the partition table as it was and just recreated the file systems, there might still be some marker in the partition header of /dev/sda3 that doesn't look right to the kernel. But it is quite unlikely. Anyway, the solution could have come from yourself, if you had told the list what it was that you missed in the kernel config: http://readlist.com/lists/gentoo.org/gentoo-user/18/90989.html :) Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list