OT: AMD vs Intel

[Rick Sivernell]

On Wed, 30 May 2007 09:30:45 -0500 (EST)
Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 30 May 2007, Vu Pham wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 16:07 -0700, Ken Moffat wrote:
> >> Net Llama! wrote:
> >>> On Tue, 29 May 2007, Ken Moffat wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> You sure can't beat the price of the AMD 64x2 chips. Can anyone
> >>>> recommend a cheap motherboard that might work with those AM2 socket
> >>>> chips and linux?
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Cheap, good, fast.  Pick 2.
> >>>
> >>>
> >> good (just decent, for home user desktop/server) and cheap (<$80). Could
> >> stand built in  nv6150 with  pci-e slot for later upgrade, a couple or
> >> more pci slots, sata 2. for AMD socket am2 processor. Newegg has too
> >> many to choose from, and good combo deals, so general guidelines (what
> >> to avoid?) would be great. I'm thinking amd64x2 3800 or so, nothing too
> >> fancy.
> >
> > I often look at Tomshardware for their reviews.
> >
> > http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/09/19/toms_socket_am2_motherboard_summer_slam/
> 
> While that's not a bad place to go for a good idea of what does or does 
> not suck, its usually not too useful for Linux specific usage scenarios.
> 
> 


Yes, I just bought a new mobo and 4600+x2 for $316.00 + tax. 
Asus M2n SLI/Delux, I nstalled 4 gig memory($63 / 1gig) and a new PCIExpress card for $99.
Only 1 draw back, it only has 1 ide connector. Has 6 sata 2 lans built in and sound  and HD.
Added a new 600w PS NVidia ready and a new DVD Burner, total of $850.

I then took two and half hours rebuilt my system with new parts, when I pluged everything in and turned it on, up pops Fedora 6 and xgce4 ready to log in. Sweet.

Now I have a question, probably Lonnie has the answer, lost power yesterday. When I rebooted all went right back to my Fedora login. Trying to login to user, I get an error:

System points to $HOME as /home/rick,  partition does not seem to exist.

If I go to a Virtual terminal /home/rick is mounted and useable, and df -kh reads the partition space and usage. Root logs in properly, not user.

Is there a file or something I have forgotten, most likely, any help here?


Rick