On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pocallaghan@gmail.com">pocallaghan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
On 11/1/10 10:34 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:<br>
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This just in: the problem fixed itself magically, Must be because yesterday was Halloween since I have no other explanation, rational or otherwise. What happened was this:<br>
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Despite no net, I wanted to recover some files from my backup NAS, so I booted with the F13 (note, not F14) rescue disk, which did have net access, chrooted to the new installation, net-mounted the NAS and restored my home directory. I also restored /etc/fstab and fixed up the UUIDs of the LVM volumes which of course had changed (this being a new install). I swear I didn't touch anything else, but when I rebooted from the new install, the net just came up as if nothing was wrong. I rebooted a couple of times to make sure but it seems solid.<br>
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Sigh. After doing the above I decided to use my now-working net to install KDE. This duly occurred without incident. I then rebooted and ... no net.<br>
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Current thinking (offlist correspondents etc.) is to try booting F13 and then F14. Perhaps F13 initializes the adaptor in some way that F14 doesn't. Another suggestion: boot w/o ACPI and see what happens. Also, make sure PXE is turned off in the BIOS. And check that the BIOS is up to date.</blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>Well, turning off ACPI in the boot line (acpi=off) fixed it. I tried several reboots turning it on and off and it seems solid. Reported to BZ at <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=649570">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=649570</a></div>
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