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Found this quote the other day, that I felt really summed up the whole East-meets-West phenomenon.

I am not asian, but this is a thought:

One thing that was particularly interesting in this node was the fact that you say that you prefer the company of American youth, and you criticize your fellow Asian youth for their floppy attempts at westernizing. The thing is, many of the young (North) Americans that I know are sucking down anime and sushi faster than you can say GAINAX!

I am willing to bet that, as objectively as possible, hip chyx walking down Queen Street W. wearing some Chinese printed t-shirt, (that for all they know says: I AM CHEAP AMERICAN WHORE), look every bit as ridiculous as your Korean boy bands. The West is craving Zen and Kanji at the same time as the East is going crazy for Rock and Roll and McDonald’s.

deb http://orinoco-usb.alioth.debian.org/debian/ unstable/
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://linux.csua.berkeley.edu/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://linux.csua.berkeley.edu/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main
deb http://wine.sourceforge.net/apt/ binary/
#opera web browser
deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ unstable non-free
deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free
          

If you’re upgrading from a 2.4 series kernel to a 2.6 series kernel and you have SATA drives, beware!
The two kernels are not alike in accessing these devices. In the 2.6 kernel, they moved from using /dev/hd[a-z] to /dev/sd[a-z] for Serial ATA (SATA) drives. After you apt-get install you kernel, make sure you edit 2 files or you will be in trouble.

First, edit /etc/fstab

Change all of your SATA drives from hd[a-z] to sd[a-z]. Make sure you only do this to your Hard Drives, and not to you CDRom Drives. The only thing that has changed is the first letter ‘h’ to ’s’. Don’t worry about the rest, it has remained the same.

After solving problem with VSF and root partition, you must edit Grub’s boot loader config or you will get this error….

pivot_root: No such file or directory
/sbin/init: 426:cannot open /dev/console: No such file
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

So, edit /boot/grub/menu.lst
Change all the hd[a-z] to sd[a-z]

That’s it! you’re all done. Reboot and select the new kernel.

Here is my grub menu.lst
…

title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.11-1-686
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1-686 root=/dev/sda2 ro
initrd /initrd.img-2.6.11-1-686
savedefault
boot
...

Notice the change from hda2 to sda2