Re: Multiple booting

On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Paul J Gans wrote:-

David Bolt <blacklist-me@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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In my case, it was a simple case of copying the 11.1 kernel/initrd lines
and replacing the paths and kernel/initrd names with the 10.3 names.

All I have to do now is ensure that if I perform a kernel update in
10.3, I change the grub entries in 11.1's menu.lst before rebooting.

I thought it would go something like that. Right now I'm
waiting for a hard drive from NewEgg. One of the pair they
sent me was bad.

That's one of the good things about a brick-and-mortar store. If it's
bad, they tend to take it back and give you a replacement straight away.
Or the ones I use do.

When that comes I'll do the "final"
install and then play with stuff.

Any reason for doing another install, or is it just that the
partitioning is wrong and you want to redo it next time?

Meanwhile the machine is up and running. That's the problem
with a production machine. It has to run. I've not got too
much time to play with it.

That's what I've noticed as well. I don't know what's keeps doing it but
it seems that something keeps pinching my free time. Hopefully, it's
just putting it aside for me for later. Unfortunately, I don't think it
is :(

[0] The last of my three-monthly dust-bunny and fan cleaning times.
Shouldn't need to do them more frequently than yearly, once I get the
liquid cooling system installed.

I've thought of going liquid. Right now the new machine is in
a box with four (4) fans...

I had a box similar to that. Two separate CPUs, both with what sounded
like a jet engine attached, along with three 80mm case fans. Added to
that was a 120mm fan, ripped from a dead PSU, that I had to cut a hole
in the side of the case to fit. That combination only just managed to
keep the temperatures of the CPUs from exceeding 70C[0].

The replacement for that has two case fans, a single CPU fan and keeps
the temperature below 65C unless I have it under full load for hours on
end. Since it's supposed to be running like that, I need to up the
cooling somewhat and, with the experience of liquid cooling fitted to
another of my systems showing it drops the temperature by around 20C,
that's the path I'm taking. I just have to get another round tuit and
actually fit the cooling kit.


[0] Luckily, the processor specs did allowed for a die temperature of
95C[1] so, while they did get quite hot, they didn't get quite hot
enough to cook themselves.

[1] AMD1800MP+ running at 1533MHz. Core was a Palomino, IIRC.

Regards,
David Bolt

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