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From: Archimedes' Lever on 2 Feb 2010 08:00 On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:02:21 -0600, Vladimir Vassilevsky <nospam(a)nowhere.com> wrote: > >http://www.abvolt.com/misc/A330-200_Linux.JPG > >This is the TV console of A330 en route from Amsterdam to US. No movies >for the whole plane. However, watching their attempts of rebooting it >for an hour and a half was kind of entertaining :-) BTW, the TV remote >control had some bugs as well. > > >Vladimir Vassilevsky >DSP and Mixed Signal Design Consultant >http://www.abvolt.com Airbus should have chose a better maker of connection equipment.
From: Archimedes' Lever on 2 Feb 2010 08:02 On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:53:25 +0100, Falk Willberg <Faweglassenlk(a)falk-willberg.de> wrote: >Am 02.02.2010 05:02, schrieb Vladimir Vassilevsky: >> >> http://www.abvolt.com/misc/A330-200_Linux.JPG > >That only shows that Linux (the kernel) is working well. It is even >telling, what is going wrong. (Missing files) > >Falk More like missing volume(s).
From: Capt. Cave Man on 2 Feb 2010 08:09 On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:16:54 +1100, Sylvia Else <sylvia(a)not.at.this.address> wrote: >On 2/02/2010 3:10 PM, Martin Riddle wrote: >> "Vladimir Vassilevsky"<nospam(a)nowhere.com> wrote in message >> news:X_WdnYGo4ddZPvrWnZ2dnUVZ_q2dnZ2d(a)giganews.com... >>> >>> http://www.abvolt.com/misc/A330-200_Linux.JPG >>> >>> This is the TV console of A330 en route from Amsterdam to US. No >>> movies for the whole plane. However, watching their attempts of >>> rebooting it for an hour and a half was kind of entertaining :-) BTW, >>> the TV remote control had some bugs as well. >>> >> It's great when it works, if you get that far. but, its very easy for >> the average Joe to break. > >In this application, booting the system off a DVD drive, and having two >drives (or two computers), and spare boot DVDs would seem the way to go. Bullshit. Solid state drives or regular old hard drives. >Nothing like unwritable media for guaranteeing that things don't get >stuffed up after they're working (provided the BIOS settings are left >alone). That's what boot volumes and the like are for. Connection OS is not from an optical disc. > >The failure to find an ext2 filesystem on a loopback device doesn't >really sound to me like an application problem. It was still booting, but the volume could not be found, so it sounds like a failed external storage server has failed. >But I'm not sympathetic to the subject line premise, having spent three >days recovering from the mess that occurred after letting Windows XP do >one of its overly frequent security updates You come in the group and act overly uneducated in the computing realm, so what is different? > - it would no longer boot - >and my reinstall attempts failed as well due to Windows XP in its pre >SP1 form being incapable of driving my present hardware (that took a >while to realise, because it kept looking like a HDD problem or >motherboard problem). You and your IT dept has never heard of slipstreaming? Jeez, you can even DL slipstreamed discs with the most recent SP built in. Your specialized drivers as well (if needed). You one of those "re-install everything, hopelessly fail and blame it on Redmond" twits, aren't ya?
From: Archimedes' Lever on 2 Feb 2010 08:13 On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:25:43 +0000, baron <baron.nospam(a)linuxmaniac.nospam.net> wrote: >Vladimir Vassilevsky Inscribed thus: > >> >> http://www.abvolt.com/misc/A330-200_Linux.JPG >> >> This is the TV console of A330 en route from Amsterdam to US. No >> movies >> for the whole plane. However, watching their attempts of rebooting it >> for an hour and a half was kind of entertaining :-) BTW, the TV remote >> control had some bugs as well. >> >> >> Vladimir Vassilevsky >> DSP and Mixed Signal Design Consultant >> http://www.abvolt.com > >Hard drive failure ! NAS server failure more likely.
From: baron on 2 Feb 2010 10:02
Archimedes' Lever Inscribed thus: > On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:25:43 +0000, baron > <baron.nospam(a)linuxmaniac.nospam.net> wrote: > >>Vladimir Vassilevsky Inscribed thus: >> >>> >>> http://www.abvolt.com/misc/A330-200_Linux.JPG >>> >>> This is the TV console of A330 en route from Amsterdam to US. No >>> movies >>> for the whole plane. However, watching their attempts of rebooting >>> it for an hour and a half was kind of entertaining :-) BTW, the TV >>> remote control had some bugs as well. >>> >>> >>> Vladimir Vassilevsky >>> DSP and Mixed Signal Design Consultant >>> http://www.abvolt.com >> >>Hard drive failure ! > > NAS server failure more likely. Either way it can't find what its looking for. -- Best Regards: Baron. |