Invisible wrote:
>>> I discovered that many if not most live CDs can be coaxed into seeing 
>>> the drives by manually executing a modprobe command. (No, I have no 
>>> idea which one... and it wouldn't help you anyway.)
>>>
>>
>> That's what I ran across - I just didn't have the energy to dig into 
>> which one.
>>
>> I guess I should learn it sometime as this PC is going to have this 
>> issue for a while and I plan on doing some fun Linux things with it.
> 
> IIRC, most live CDs failed to find either my harddrives or my NIC. To 
> fix it, you have to say something like
> 
>   modprobe nv_forcedeth
>   modprobe nv_sata
> 
> and then they both work again. I figured this out by searching several 
> billion manpages, discovering where kernal modules (such as device 
> drivers) are stored, and then listing the contents of the folder and 
> looking for anything that sounded like it might work.
> 
> Hard to fix? No. User-friendly? No!
> 
> I still have no idea what "force deth" actually means...
> 

I find that I can get into Linux fairly easily and remember quite a bit, 
but when i step back from the guts for a while I have to figure things 
out again.  Granted it all seems familiar and doesn't take as long, but 
it's hard to remember exactly what everything does when you mess with it 
once in a while.

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