{"id":328,"date":"2003-02-03T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-03T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hamusutaa.com\/blog\/?p=328"},"modified":"2003-02-03T11:01:00","modified_gmt":"2003-02-03T19:01:00","slug":"computer-hell-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/03\/computer-hell-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, here&#8217;s where we are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Linux machine is having conniptions, see below.\n<li>PC is still awaiting a new motherboard, will be getting it from Fry&#8217;s after work today.\n<li>Mac Cube is still refusing to turn on, just to feel included.\n<li>PowerBook is still working just fine.  It won&#8217;t ever leave me.  <b>It won&#8217;t!<\/b>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more Here's what happened--><br \/>\nSo, after last night&#8217;s entry, I started the process of taking the old hardware from the PC and putting it in the Linux machine.  After booting I got a weird error, saying it couldn&#8217;t load a Linux module that I didn&#8217;t have installed in the first place.  Figuring that just running an old install of Linux on new hardware probably wouldn&#8217;t have worked anyway, I booted off of the Debian CD and installed a new install onto another hard drive.<\/p>\n<p>Of course that didn&#8217;t work.  That would have been <i>easy<\/i>.  Instead I get a LILO error (L 02 02 02 02 02 02 &#8230; ad infinitum) which is supposed to be a transient &#8220;media error&#8221; but is hardly transient.  I can still boot using the rescue CD, bypassing LILO, but I still get the same &#8220;modprobe: modprobe: can&#8217;t locate module net-pf-1&#8221; over and over, which I finally found a post as to <i>why<\/i> it repeats (it can&#8217;t find the module, so it tries to log the message, but the logging program requires the module, but it can&#8217;t find the module, so it tries to log the message&#8230; etc.) but I can&#8217;t figure out why it&#8217;s appearing in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>So I try recompiling the kernel onto a floppy.  Unfortunately, as it&#8217;s the same version of Linux, it&#8217;s using the same module directory, so I get the same stupid error on startup.<\/p>\n<p>So I try recompiling a <i>newer<\/i> version of the kernel onto a floppy, which of course&#8230; <b>doesn&#8217;t fit on the floppy<\/b>.  (Thing to try tonight #1: Throw more stuff out of the kernel that I don&#8217;t absolutely need to make it fit.)<\/p>\n<p>The unfortunate thing, and the one mistake that I can&#8217;t back out of, is that I accidentally messed up the modules for the old kernel, so now not only do I get the message I was getting before, but another unrelated one over and over.  Before, I could actually sort of work as the messages were scrolling by, as they only came in spurts.  Now, I can&#8217;t even see anything, nor do I even know if it&#8217;s working in the first place.  (Thing to try tonight #2: Buy a new decently-sized but cheap hard drive at Fry&#8217;s, physically disconnect the first hard drive, and reinstall a new Linux install onto the new hard drive.  Then reconnect drive, see if it works, and copy config files and any other necessary stuff off.)<\/p>\n<p>(Thing to try tonight #3: <b>Get to sleep before 3 a.m.<\/b>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, here&#8217;s where we are: Linux machine is having conniptions, see below. PC is still awaiting a new motherboard, will be getting it from Fry&#8217;s after work today. Mac Cube is still refusing to turn on, just to feel included. PowerBook is still working just fine. It won&#8217;t ever leave me. 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