[GRLUG] Self introduction and plea

[Faeren Madza]

Hello Skip,

I don't know if this will help you any, but here goes.

The other day I tried to revive a really old HDD with a build of SUSE
10 from a couple of years back but as soon as the kernel loaded, it
would stall.

After looking carefully at the logs, I saw that it was expecting my
storage devices to be /dev/hda* and not /dev/sda* like the new machine
was referring to them. Probably had to do with the new IDE controller.

Anyway, I booted up a rescue disc and changed the references of
/dev/hda to /dev/sda in a couple of spots in /etc and /boot. After
that, most things worked fine, but like with yours, several things are
wonky. In my situation though, it's pretty simple, I know all the
things that are failing are failing because of hard-coded references
to /dev/hda*

Perhaps you can look for similar wrong hardware references?

HTH.


Faeren.


On Feb 10, 2008 8:39 PM, George (Skip) VerDuin <verduin at ameritech.net> wrote:
> Greetings from Grand Haven on a really-cold evening...
>
> I have been stumped by FC-8 and its dependency on the motherboard.
> The previous board was by Digiboard, the new one is by Tyan.
> The short version of my past week(+) is that I am in the last stages of
> replacing motherboard, power supply, and memory, after (I believe) an
> electrolytic capacitor faulted and took those components with it.  The
> good news is that the 3 hard drives, DVD R/W, and AMD processor, got
> thru the event without damage that has shown up [yet].  Oh yes -- for
> completeness the former single AMD MP 2000+ worked OK on the new MB for
> the initial boots, but now has been replaced by a pair of MP 2600+ that
> report no errors working in SMP.
>
> I am operating on a "workstation" build of FC-8 [1/5/08 upgrade] based
> on FC-7 [upgrade] from FC-6 [fresh start a year ago].  Many things work
> just as before the event (for example: firefox, evolution, SMB,
> boinc, ...), but Apache, moin-moin, CUPS, bind(?), fail.  The services
> are active but not able to service requests.
>
> Now I've reached "brain dead" after the nth time thru /var/log/... and
> all my configuration notes from the past years...  I hope a little rest
> and some conversation with this group might get rid of the blockage over
> the next few days.
>
> Here is my request: if moving a running system hardware-to-hardware has
> revealed any subtle secrets to anyone in this list, I'd like to chat.
> If I find nothing new in the next few days, my next approach is to
> rebuild the system from scratch...
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