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Skriven 2009-12-21 22:34:00 av WAYNE CHIRNSIDE (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av JEFF BINKLEY
Ärende: Re: Nvidia
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-=> JEFF BINKLEY wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-


 WC>Not only was my installation onto hda3 completely flawless
 WC>but the BIOS now reflects Nvidia *only* thus my work around
 WC>worked in tailoring the xorg.conf's for Nvidia alone
 WC>whereas left to it's own devices Linux recognised both cards
 WC>leading to the conflict and severe file damage.

 JB> So the Nvidia BIOS didn't corrupt your hard drive all by itself and
 JB> screw up the MBR.  Otherwise placing a new copy of the OS on any of
 JB> your hda partitions would have had the same result, right ?

Completely and uttrerly WRONG but expected.

hda1 picked up BOTH video cards upon loading.

Due to my work around with the three pared down xorg.conf*
files and putting them in prior to booting the *second time*
I noted the same problem following Mr. Cassell's exact instructions
to reboot to the original AGP ATI Pro Rage Mach 64 video card.

Kicker is you have to boot it twice which WAS required due to the
fact Ross's advice was terrible and *that* unterly corrupted
the ext3 FS on hda1.

Following my protcol of subbing the xorg files I'd created 
onto hda3's /etc/X11/xorg.* before tjhe second reboot caused 
the installation to only recognise the Nvidia card alone while
it is in fact impossible to remove the Mach 64, it's  on the motherboard.
and a second boot before I had done this would have scrambled
the file system completely again.

This in fact was what I expected from Ross's advice but I
was wondering just how long it might take me to recover
from such advice, so the heck with it I gave it a shot.

Completely off the net for 16 hours, thereafter unstable
until I followed my original ridiculed protocols I posted here which 
worked perfectly.

Oh yes and Maurice Kinal in private email told me my protocols
were fine in that he and I both knew no harm could come from them
and indeeed they worked just fine on the reinstallation on
partition 3

My mistake if you want to call it that was following Ross's advice
which produced exactly what I had expected, a corrupt file system.
Somewhat entertaining and educational.

The ONLY way I can safely boot to hda1 now is to mount it /mnt
then cp -a /etc/X11/xorg.* /mnt/etc/x11/ 
Then I could go back to that partition safely.

Clear?

I can however mount it and recover anything of value once I copy
all my saved source software there to hda3 
*after* I resize partiton 3 non-destructively because currently
I'd not anticipated this large an install on hda3 which currently
has a spare 1/3 gig of free space.

Plenty room to store stuff on hda1 until I resize 3 to the current top of 4
and add all the goodies like Mplayer with new capabilities under the 
Nvidia AGP.
 
Just can't boot to it twice, or back and forth between hda1 and hda3
until and unless I copy in the xorg files as above whiich I
am disinclinded to do.

However since hda4 is going bye bye I intend to non-destructively 
repartition hda1 without losing any data on 3 which must be removed first.

Question for you Jeff: How does one repartition hda1 without losing
any data in hda3 after you are required to remove it prior to
splitting hda1 into two primary partitions?

I've done that as recently as recently as two weeks ago
and it's dead simple.

Question is do YOU know how to do this?


  

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