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07/30/2004: "running linux, again"

The desktop is back with the living, or rather re-animated with some organs transplanted. The Radeon APG card, SATA and CD-RW drives survived, and i got to re-uses 2/3rds of the SDRAM, but the rest of the patient was dead before I got it on the table. The new 'zaphod' is a Shuttle SB75S with a 3.0GHz P4 "Prescot" (so 1MB of L2 Cache and a 200MHz FSB).

To my delight and astonishment, the 2.6.1 linux kernel that I was running on the old (AMD Athlon) machine booted on the P4, but then linux couldn't mount the SATA-based root. A quick review of Rick Moen's page on SATA drives showed that I should be useing sdX instead of hdX. A bit of fiddling with GRUB, and I was up.

I did have to re-build the kernel to enable the Broadcom Gb Enet and SMP so the Hyperthreading would work.

Dancing days are here again as the summer evening grows
You are my flower, you are my power
You are my woman who knows

"mahalo nui loa," to the folks at Personal Touch Computers. They seem to have a good amount of clue, nearly all the latest parts, and the guy I spoke with was friendly. The fact that they survive located across the road from compusa speaks volumes.

It will be so good to get back to my Model M keyboard. The Apple keyboards suck.

Sippin' booze is precedent as the evening starts to glow.