Some days I just have the opposite of the Midas touch, I refer to it as “touch of shit”. This morning started as one of those days. First off I had to work on a Sunday, since I’m not paid hourly I wasn’t very excited to be waking up anyhow. I attempted to check [...]
Archive for October, 2007
I ran into this on a HP dc7700 that I was install CentOS 5 on.
Symptom: CentOS 5, Fedora Core 5, and possibly RHEL5 the install hangs with the message ACPI: Assume root bridge [\_SB_PCI0] bus is 0
Solution: Start the install process with: linux all-generic-ide pci=nommconf
* WPG2 Plugin Not Validated *
Thanks to a good buy on some old computers we’re getting rid of at work I just acquired a computer to use in the kitchen so I can watch TV while I’m cooking. So a $30 Gateway Profile computer, Ubuntu, and an install of the SageTV Placeshifter Client for linux [...]
I’m posting this in the hopes that it will save someone the trouble I just went through. I found quite a few posts of people experiencing the same issues with the Realtek 8139 Family network cards but no one had a solution.
The Problem: Linux (Ubuntu Feisty in this case) detects and loads the kernel modules [...]