Dual boot?

[Norberto Bensa]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
> Interestingly, while I am booted to the drive connected to sata1, which
> is "root (hd0,0)", the 400GB Hitachi, plugged into sata2, is "root (hd2,0)"
> Common sense would have said it would be (hd1,0), but what I see when I tell
> it root (hd1,0) is identical to (hd0,0). (insert sound of scratching a slowly
> balding 74 yo head here)

Really weird.

Is it possible that you have RAID configured in your BIOS and your
sata ports are mislabeled (sata2 is actually sata3)? Then the free
(sata2) port is a ghost of sata1. I don't know. It is just a wild
guess (in Argentina we'd say "estoy tirando fruta")

What motherboard is it (vendor/model)?


> OTOH, I am booted (f8) to /dev/sdb1 (/boot) and /dev/sdb3 (/), so maybe it
> makes some sort of perverse sense.  I believe some would say IFM :)

Nope. It doesn't make any sense to me and my head is starting to hurt :-(


> Thanks you for the hints, they were quite valuable.

:-)


> I wasn't able to make adept show me an available listing, has that been
> removed?

I don't know. I've used Gentoo for almost seven years and recently
moved to Kubuntu on my laptop, so I have no idea how adept worked or
looked like. And besides, I'm a CLI man :-)

I'm waiting for Jaunty to be released to move two more boxes to Ubuntu/Kubuntu.


> Next unsilly Q:  I use fetchmail/procmail(with SA) here to pop 3 accounts,
> placing all the incoming that has gotten past the filters
> into /var/mail/xxxx, running all the above as that unpriviledged user.
> I am assuming I can just transplant all the rc files to do that to me (gene)
> on the Juanty install, possibly with a chown cuz your users start at ID=1000
> & up, once fetchmail, procmail, and spamassassin are installed of course.

Yeah. Maybe you'll need to tweak them because of added/removed
features, but I almost 100% sure those config files will work
"out-of-the.box".


> FWIW, the currently F8 installed version of fetchmail has a very occasional
> race in MSG_PEEK according to my logs, but if its actually effecting the mail
> suckage from those 3 pop servers I cannot detect it

I don't know. I'm sorry. I may recall a similar message in dmesg on my
Gentoo server, but I'm not sure.


> But, if I am to copy my whole 10GB email corpus across, which is all owned by
> root:root, I'd assume a chown -R gene:mail on that ~/gene/Mail/* would be
> required there, Correct?

Are you referring to /var/mail/xxxx ? If so, then it should go to
~/Mail (or /home/gene/Mail to be clear) and owned by gene:mail with
"chmod -R ug+rw".

Maybe gene:gene would also work but I run a Cyrus imap server so I
don't really know. Perhaps someone else can help you better than me.


> Any other gotcha's?

Just don't move your messages (copy them) and run fetchmail with '-k'.
Once you know it works. Remove the original /var/mail/xxx. Then you
can run fetchmail with '-a' and hopefully your email client has an
option to remove duplicated messages.


Best regards,
Norberto