[plug] SATA boot problem

[WolfBite]

Which is why you keep a stock kernel also :)

Go one better
currently dual boot
4 drives
1 xp os (games machine :)
1 ubuntu & sabayon
1 xp ntfs data drive (xp games & files)
1 linux data drive everything else :)

any time I have any trouble I can jump to any os and check if os/hardware issue
I can also bootup with a livecd, set root & kernel & regrub
I can wipe xp and reinstall then regrub
I have a sata switch which disables all hd except xp drive so can wipe and install and xp so it leave the FRIGGEN drive order alone (and protects the drives :)

worst down time? couple of mins to regrub

who said tinkering wasnt fun :D



--- On Fri, 19/6/09, Daniel Pittman <daniel at rimspace.net> wrote:

From: Daniel Pittman <daniel at rimspace.net>
Subject: Re: [plug] SATA boot problem
To: plug at plug.org.au
Received: Friday, 19 June, 2009, 11:28 PM

Adrian Chadd <adrian at creative.net.au> writes:

>> Oh, I absolutely agree, having done kernel development before.  I have a
>> lot of sympathy for that.  I was more curious why Adrian asserted that
>> *all* Gentoo users ...
>
> I was just taking a little bit of fun. This is gentoo after all and there
> have been a few examples of some of their users taking things a little
> too far:

Ah. ;)  Yeah, my having no sense of humor would definitely explain my
confusion about your comments.

[...]

>> *nod* Aside from the fact that a kernel with (almost) all the drivers build
>> as modules costs you almost nothing ??? a bit of CPU during the build, a
>> touch of extra load time for a bigger initramfs ??? the more you tie your
>> kernel to your current hardware the more you waste your time, and you make
>> your life harder when it comes to hardware changes.
>
> Cool. Right until you have a hardware failure and the only thing you have to
> plug it into is something a little smaller. Then you go "shit, I have this
> p3 but I can't run it on that because I compiled with flags that enable
> optimisations for the very latest core 2 stepping."

I think we are in violent agreement here, actually. :)

Regards,
        Daniel
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