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by jacquesm 6072 days ago
Apropos upsides, always do an fdisk /dev/sdX for the drives that are not installed in your machine, sometimes you get more than you paid for.

This happened to me several times at EV1, same with memory and CPU.

It really pays off to check if you can boot a machine with an SMP kernel and another CPU shows up too (don't bother doing that on a celeron box though).