If you are using onboard SATA to boot the drive and went from 2.4 to 2.6, the drive lettering change completely. Its highly likely your root partition is now /dev/sda1, instead of /dev/hde1. This is a ...

I recently installed Linux for the first time in over a year (at least I think it's been that long) since I got another machine to work with (my last died and couldn't afford to fix it). I started ...

It used to be that building the Linux kernel was not easy. Testing and debugging were even worse. Nowadays, it is reasonably easy to build a custom kernel and test or debug it using virtualization.

No more disk checks. Hopefully.