[ale] Boot failed

H. A. Story adrin at bellsouth.net
Fri Feb 10 18:41:12 EST 2006


They are broken if you paid $29.95 for the printer and the ink cost 
$49.95. :)


Jeff Hubbs wrote:

>"SATA isn't supported in the 2.6 kernel??" he exclaimed, typing on his 
>dual-SATA 2.6 machine.  I can't speak for the vanilla 2.6.15, however.
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>Gee, I would have just switched distributions rather than buy a new server.
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>That's OK - I've gotten four free printers from someone who apparently 
>thinks printers are broken when their ink runs out...
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>Jeff
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>Paul Cartwright wrote:
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>>On Fri February 10 2006 10:10 am, danlambert at bellsouth.net wrote:
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>>>Because of problems I've experienced in the past with some BIOS
>>>versions not liking to cooperate when using multiple boot devices,
>>>I've been using  only the CD drive (usually configured as the first
>>>boot device, and then the drive I prefer (IDE or SATA) as the second
>>>boot device.
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>>>>While troubleshooting the current issue, I switched it to:
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>>>>1: CD-ROM
>>>>2: Floppy
>>>>3: IDE
>>>>4: SATA
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>>unless you got updated drivers, SATA isn't supported in the 2.6 kernel, 
>>to the best of my knowledge..
>>I just did a RHES install, V3 update 4, and it failed to load with dual 
>>SATA drives. The customer had to go out and buy a new server with a 
>>SCSI drive.
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