[Wylug-help] Problems recognising CDRW

[Anne Wilson]

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On Sunday 22 Aug 2004 12:25, C.Mackins at Bradford.ac.uk wrote:
>
> The mobo is an Intel SE440BX-2 and as I've foudn out, is no loger supported
> by Intel.  I think I'll probably have to opt for an independent BIOS flash
> upgrade.
>
There's nothing on the TWiki about that board.  Would you like me to ask on
the Expert list if anyone has any experience with it?
>
> One more issue I am having immediate problems with.  After installing MDK
> 9.2, I have tried to update on 2 boxes and I am having exactly the same
> issue.
>
> My priority was to install security updates.  However, there was lots of
> updates and so I decided to download all of them.  On reboot, all my desk
> top icons had been lost and replaced with a blue folder; this was also true
> of all my programmes from the menu - whats more, most of the programmes had
> also disappeared too. Any ideas?

Yes, it was a bug in 9.2.  Try update-menus -v in a root console.  I think
you'll find that it fixes it and it shouldn't happen again if you have got
the updates.

Many people feel that 9.2 was not a highlight of Mandrake distros.  For me 9.1
was rock solid.  10.0 defaults to the 2.6 kernels, and I'm not altogether
convinced that the problems are over, there, but you can install a 2.4 kernel
as an additional one.  See how you get on with 9.2.

Anne
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