Crash and burn
So I fucked up 2 machines today, how's that for a days work?
We have my old workstation, Teller, acting as a router and DHCP server at work. The idea was that I was gonna throw in another NIC so it could do pretty much the same job over at the boss' wife's bed and breakfast, with one private network segment and one for the guests to roam. Secondly I was putting in a 200GiB disk so it could act as a fileserver, and thirdly, a Firewire card so it could hook up to the external hard disks we use for backup. No big deal, right?
Well, fistly i did a aptitude dist-upgrade to bring it up to sarge. Then I started throwing cards around. First problem: Lack of PCI slots. With 4 PCI slots an 3 already used for video card and NICs, there wasn't room for 2 more. So I dug out Kevin who'd been mail server, but got retired when we moved. It had a AGP graphics card, nick that and we I could free up another PCI slot.
Then I tried booting, and it only showed 2 NICs and wouldn't have anything to do with the 200GiB disk.. At all. Apart from the fact that LILO only got at 'LI', and the CPU fan was dead.
So I looked at Kevin and figured it might be a better bet, it's slightly newer, and could have a BIOS that supported larger disks. So I tried putting the disk in and booting, and lo and behold, we had a disk!.. At 137GiB. "Aha!" I say, "that's probably because the kernel is to old and doesn't have the LBA48 patch, I'll upgrade the kernel".
So I did, and rebooted, and ended up looking at 'LI'..
So if someone could please tell me how I managed to screw up the second stage loader twice in a row, only by updating packages, I'd be very grateful..
And secondly, why using the sarge install disk and giving it a root=/dev/hda1 doesn't work anymore..
I don't think I can be arsed trying to repair them. If I get any of them up, I still gotta spend time removing a lot of old cruft, might as well do a fresh install.. But on second thought, there might be some files from Teller I'd want to rescue, though I think I've already done that.
And while I had no problem hooking up the boxen directly to the ADSL router and having them do a DHCP request, when I tried doing the same thing with my spanking new laptop, I got nothing. Which pisses me off immensely. That's exactly the situation where I need it to do that kind of thing, so it damn well should. I donno if Norton Internet Security was being to effective, or what went wrong. I even tried from an emulated Linux box, but as its packages have to go through the Windows interface, Norton could still be messing with its juju..
But I got to play some OpenTTD tonight. It's still marvelously good waste of time.
We have my old workstation, Teller, acting as a router and DHCP server at work. The idea was that I was gonna throw in another NIC so it could do pretty much the same job over at the boss' wife's bed and breakfast, with one private network segment and one for the guests to roam. Secondly I was putting in a 200GiB disk so it could act as a fileserver, and thirdly, a Firewire card so it could hook up to the external hard disks we use for backup. No big deal, right?
Well, fistly i did a aptitude dist-upgrade to bring it up to sarge. Then I started throwing cards around. First problem: Lack of PCI slots. With 4 PCI slots an 3 already used for video card and NICs, there wasn't room for 2 more. So I dug out Kevin who'd been mail server, but got retired when we moved. It had a AGP graphics card, nick that and we I could free up another PCI slot.
Then I tried booting, and it only showed 2 NICs and wouldn't have anything to do with the 200GiB disk.. At all. Apart from the fact that LILO only got at 'LI', and the CPU fan was dead.
So I looked at Kevin and figured it might be a better bet, it's slightly newer, and could have a BIOS that supported larger disks. So I tried putting the disk in and booting, and lo and behold, we had a disk!.. At 137GiB. "Aha!" I say, "that's probably because the kernel is to old and doesn't have the LBA48 patch, I'll upgrade the kernel".
So I did, and rebooted, and ended up looking at 'LI'..
So if someone could please tell me how I managed to screw up the second stage loader twice in a row, only by updating packages, I'd be very grateful..
And secondly, why using the sarge install disk and giving it a root=/dev/hda1 doesn't work anymore..
I don't think I can be arsed trying to repair them. If I get any of them up, I still gotta spend time removing a lot of old cruft, might as well do a fresh install.. But on second thought, there might be some files from Teller I'd want to rescue, though I think I've already done that.
And while I had no problem hooking up the boxen directly to the ADSL router and having them do a DHCP request, when I tried doing the same thing with my spanking new laptop, I got nothing. Which pisses me off immensely. That's exactly the situation where I need it to do that kind of thing, so it damn well should. I donno if Norton Internet Security was being to effective, or what went wrong. I even tried from an emulated Linux box, but as its packages have to go through the Windows interface, Norton could still be messing with its juju..
But I got to play some OpenTTD tonight. It's still marvelously good waste of time.