On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 23:19 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
The initial, commented /dev/sdb is correct, /dev/sda is the master drive on this mobo's only PATA interface, and is not normally mounted. /dev/sdb is the first SATA drive, and is selected as the first bootable hard disk in the bios. So I assume then that my command line to install grub again would then be: grub-install /dev/sdb ?
---- it seems odd that you would have it set to /dev/sdb and grub as (hd0,0). It shouldn't hurt I would think if you did grub-install to both /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. Most modern BIOS allows you to pick the boot order of the various drive types. ----
- Yum wants to update 435 packages, but many dependencies stop it. What
is the f10 procedure to bring that up to speed now?
you probably have some packages that have to be manually removed that are blocking the update.
I will probably hit a package that does this eventually, I have it processing the updates displayed about 1 yumex screen full at a time, and so far that hasn't triggered a dependency storm. That knocking sound, yeah, you know what it is.
---- package-cleanup --orphans will give you a lot of guidance on packages that it can't update. ----
I have tons of self compiled stuff here, and will again shortly. The radeonhd driver supplied with the dvd is so slow I can repaint the screen with a 2" wide paint brush faster.
---- in theory, that shouldn't have any impact on upgrades IF you put the compiled stuff in /usr/local ----
[root@coyote ~]# glxgears 1628 frames in 5.0 seconds = 325.495 FPS 1636 frames in 5.0 seconds = 327.036 FPS 1635 frames in 5.0 seconds = 326.821 FPS 1573 frames in 5.0 seconds = 314.521 FPS 1455 frames in 5.0 seconds = 290.819 FPS 1521 frames in 5.0 seconds = 304.192 FPS
Which surprises me, it feels a heck of a lot slower. Moving firefox an inch to the left takes about 10 seconds as it redraws the whole screen about 50 times doing it.
It was doing about 900 before I broke it. And I could move a screen as fast as the mouse moved. Sigh.
---- get the updates installed first. You might find that the rpmfusion fglrx package is more to your liking though I wouldn't think that there would much of a performance difference between F9 and F10 w/r/t radeonhd but then again, I'm not using it.
Craig