Hello everybody,
You may recall my tussle with an Sempron/Asus K8N-e
box: first it wouldn't boot but I fixed that and then
the entire unit died.
The tech at Asus suggested I *reverse* the CMOS
battery for a few seconds. I was skeptical but it
seems to have done the trick.
However LBA remains
--- Martins Steinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
had same problem, solved rebuilding mbr
check fdisk, if same problem (16 heads instead of
255 heads) this will help
http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-user%40lists.gentoo.org/msg07969.html
hmm, yes it *is* 16 heads. But before I try this
there were no succesful winxp boot, because bios
didnt enable LBA seting. i
dont think (win95)fdisk wil work with linux
partitions.
Right, but booting a win95/98 CD and running fdisk
/mbr from the DOS prompt will usually restore a WinXP
boot sector. What's so bizarre in this case is that
Please tell me it isn't the same system that gave
you so much trouble
with grub!! :-
-Richard
It is. Glad I have this spare(K6)
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So if you do ls -l .bash* in your home
directory, what's the output?
I haven't been following this thread, but have you
tried doing set -o
history ?
all academic now -- the pc just died :( Not a beep, no
screen o/p. The green light on front of the box comes
on for about 1/10 sec, fan
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/DOS-Windows.html#DOS%2fWindows
title Window NT / Windows 95 boot menu
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
makeactive
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
chainloader +1
Zac
Doesn't work. The WinXP boot console opens alright but
that's all. As I've said
Try to adjust those variables:
HISTFILE=/home/your_account/.bash_history
HISTFILESIZE=500
HISTSIZE=500
HTH, noro
Thanks noro.
I had to run the above from root and sure enough, they
were written into my home dir .bash_history, along
with the exit command to get back to user-space. So I
Hello everyone,
Following the Quickstart Guide to Mutt have
encountered the following problems:
$fetchmail -av -m /usr/bin/procmail -d %T
fetchmail: 6.2.5 querying yahoo.com (protocol POP3) at
Wed Jul 6 13:51:41 2005: poll started
fetchmail: timeout after 300 seconds waiting to
connect to
Hello everyone,
Following the Quickstart Guide to Mutt have
encountered the following problems:
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Why did you have to create a user file as root (not
saying you didn't
have to, just asking why)?
Holly
When I tried running HIST* etc as user I was told I
had to be root.
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Then set the same environment variables in your
current shell and they
should stick.
Nope, .bash_history completely empty after a bunch of
ls's. At least it didn't tell me to become root :o
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On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, maxim wexler wrote:
So there must be a problem w/
the Asus K8N-E(Sempron box) BIOS. I updated it
using
the tool that came w/ the support CD but it only
made
matters worse:
Did you download the latest BIOS from Asus's
that before jumping on people trying to help.
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Any advice would be really appreciated.
Here's what always works for me on a dual boot
linux/xp box w/ xp on hda and linux on hdb and lilo
doing boot duties:
Prepare lilo.conf as if it knows nothing about xp,
comment all the windows stuff out and install lilo to
hdb1. Next, mount a floppy and
By diverse means, we arrive at the same end.
Holly
Thanks, Holly. I remember thinking your suggestion too
drastic to contemplate. Starting to look more
reasonable now :o
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Hello everyone,
Good news Richard Fish, I followed the advice offered
in the current Dell, Optiplex thread and made a grub
boot floppy(Why didn't we try that before?).
Now I'm looking at a beautiful grub_ prompt and
wondering what my next step should be.
It's weird, now the boot process gets
Went through the saved pile and found this:
Try 1 (should bring up the boot menu):
grub configfile (hd0,3)/grub/grub.conf
grub configfile (hd0,1)/grub/grub.conf # /dev/hda2
Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported
by BIOS
has this anything to do with LBA being off in POST
-- it
grub root (hd
and hit tab to allow it to do auto-completion? If it
says
Possible disks are: hd0 hd1
grub root (hd0,
then you hit tab again and see what partitions it
sees, if any.
Possible partitions are:
Partition num: 0, Filesystem type unknown,
partition type 0x7
Partition
Yep. Can you force LBA on?
Used grub-install --force-lba /dev/hda. After a bunch
of fd0 I/O errors(?) it said everything was fine, no
errors found. Then I rebooted, got:
GRUB Loading stage1.5
GRUB loading, please wait...
Error 17
Installing to /dev/hda2, the gentoo boot part, gave
same
-- it *is* set to [auto] in the BIOS? BTW, HD is
Maybe if you turn on LBA it will help. It says here
that grub can access the full disk with LBA:
see above. In the BIOS there are two choices, auto and
disabled. If there's another way to turn LBA on, I'm
all ears!
You might need to
Error 17
Installing to /dev/hda2, the gentoo boot part, gave
same result
Well, at least now it gives me an error num.
...answering himself
17 : Cannot mount selected partition
This error is returned if the partition requested
exists, but the filesystem type cannot be recognized
by GRUB.
So it look like we have to go back to trying to get
the CD booting to
work. Copy the /lib/grub/i386-pc/stage2_eltorito to
the boot/grub
directory on the ISO image, re-run the mkisofs
command we used before,
and burn the resulting ISO to a CD.
Before that. I used emerge --buildpkgonly from
I've been trying to come up with a reasonable
explanation for this
behavior. Assuming that you can enter the BIOS
somewhere in the code there must be a line that says
print the letters G-R-U-B to a console then stop.
setup screens with this
keyboard, I have no answer to why this wouldn't
OK, it may not be a reasonable explanation, but it
does make 'sense'--
is it possible that the text color is the same as
the background color,
so that letters are being typed, but you simply
don't *see* them? I
LOL Yeah, it's invisible ascii! You have to heat the
screen with a blow-dryer to
/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0
exists,
you can change the symlink to point to that, run
emerge --sync, and that
should get your portage tree up to date on the k6.
Done. Now it's
!!! ARCH is not set ... are you missing the
/etc/make.profile symlink?
!!! Is the symlink
Thanks for hanging in there with me, Richard
Anyway, back to grub. 2 things.
upgrade to 0.96, repeat
If I could setup ppp on the sempron box it would be
much simpler. But pppconfig is not on the 2005.0 pkg
CD. I managed to set it up on the k6(2004.3)box
alright and it sure came in handy. IIRC I
emerge --buildpkgonly --oneshot grub should do for
well, it built the .94 version, the one I already
have. All the while interspersing yellow-flagged
warnings about upgrading to a version that uses
tool-chain functions. Is that the one I need? How do I
tell it to build the .96? I've run merge
If you have a FAT partition for sharing files
between Linux and XP, you
Done. Same result. Perhaps the call to mkisofs was at fault.
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Hello everyone,
When I set up pppconfig on my K6-II box w/2004.3
distro, there was no problem. I downloaded the proper
tarballs from the gentoo mirror and they emerged OK.
Now I'm trying to do the same on my other(Sempron3100)
box w/2005.0 distro. The one w/ the broken grub.
When I mount the
What happens if you try to mount it under Linux or
view it under
Windows? Do you see the files?
You can double check the ISO by doing:
# mount -o loop cdboot.iso /mnt/cdrom
And then compare the files to those on your /boot
partition.
hmmm,
livecd / # mount -o loop cdboot.iso
--- Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The correction was to replace dev=/dev/cdrom with
dev=/dev/hdc.
COASTER!
Tried booting with the reader drive(Creative 24x DVD)
-- it went clunk, clunk, clunk...nothing appeared on
the screen but a blinking cursor.
Tried booting with the writer
possible level, and may be more reliably. But maybe
your burner is
broken (?)
No, it's fine. Still under warranty. Works fine under
WinXP. The reason I mentioned broadband is because big
files(like install isos and pkg cds) can be downloaded
in minutes instead of days. I can certainly
You typod something. Looks like you put a space
between the '-' and the
first character of one of the options.
Success!
these files included. You then use cdrecord to
write the ISO image to
the CD.
Now, before burning it, I'm aware there have been
changes made in the burning process
But, something just occurred to medoes this
system have 2 CD
burners, or a burner and a reader? If not, you will
a burner and a reader
You may want to copy the .iso file over the network
only dial-up available here. Networking different
computers is a project in the long queue of
Richard, please resend your follow up to this post
where you complain about the late hour. I deleted it
by mistake! It apparently had an important correction.
BTW, how long before these posts find there way into
an archive.
-maxim
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'cdboot/boot/grub/stage2_eltorito' !
That should be -b boot/grub/stage2_eltorito...so
take the 'cdboot' off
the front of that.
Nope. Now I get:
mkisofs: No such file or directory. Invalid node - -
But I have another question: At what point does
vmlinuz(under /tmp/cdboot/boot)make it
mkisofs -o /tmp/cdboot.iso -R \
-b boot/grub/stage2_eltorito \
-no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table
\
Not it's:
mkisofs: Missing pathspec.
Usage: mkisofs [options] file...
You didn't say return to / so I'm assuming you want
me to issue the command from livecd tmp #.
There be a '.' (or './', if you like) at the end of
that, and yes, you
should still be inside the cdboot directory.
cd cdboot
mkisofs -o /tmp/cdboot.iso -R \
-b boot/grub/stage2_eltorito \
-no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 \
-boot-info-table ./
Here's 5 different
I can also give you the instructions for making a
bootable CD if you
want to try that. It isn't terribly hard, actually
it is a bit easier
than getting grub to work from a hard disk! But a
CD-RW drive/disk
would be the most useful...
cd /tmp
mkdir -p cdboot/boot/grub
cd cdboot
cp
There are 2 distinct problems here:
1. Booting from floppyMaxim and I are very close
to solving this
one...only fixing up the grub.conf file remains.
Rebuilding grub is not
going to help a bit for this problem.
In grub.conf commented out root(hd0,1) line; modified
kernel line to
to copy your kernel
to the floppy also, and load it from there. Your
kernel is going to
have to be fairly petite to fit...probably less than
1.2M or so.
the kernel is already 1.57M. Are you saying I should
reconfig the kernel? I recall modularizing most of the
stuff I wouldn't need until
Remove the root (hd0,1) line. That should (I
hope) let you boot
gentoo from the floppy.
Arrrgh! Now when I choose Gentoo from the menu:
Booting 'Gentoo'
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda4
Error 15: File not found
Press any key to continue...
Oops,
What I was trying to say before I hit the wrong key, I
paused the boot screen on the non-booting gentoo box
and took a look at the HD line. It says the LBA mode
is off. 32 bit mode is off. DMA mode is UDMA6, PIO
mode is 4
FWIW
-mw
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Ah, some progress at last! Seems like there is a
problem in the
grub.conf file, but nothing too serious. Could you
re-post that file?
default 0
timeout 30
title=Gentoo
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda4
title=WinXP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
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HTH,
Michael
Thanks for the tip. But before I try this(and this
goes for Richard F's suggestion) how do I safely get
rid of the grub I have? Or do I need to? The emerge -C
flag comes w/ dire warnings, The manual entry for -c
mentions
But isn't
emerge --sync
a different command from the more traditional
emerge sync
?
In An Intro to Portage it's emerge --sync and if that
fails, emerge-websync but that failed too.
1) What is the speed of your Internet connection?
Slightly faster than I can type ;(
2) What is
maybe you can try this,
root (hd0,1)
setup (hd0)
That's better. But it still doesn't work. Staring at a
console right now telling me to please wait.
grub root (hd0,1)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
grub setup (hd0)
Checking if /boot/grub/stage1 exists... no
Checking if
How long did your sync today take, and does an
I aborted after about 2hrs
emerge -up world or
emerge -ua world seem to indicate that it was
successful (that packages
haven't done that one yet but a list of the portage
tree(if that's what /usr/portage is supposed to be)
indicated that most
choosing menu, then you'll need splashimage set in
Whoa! IIRC splashimage is optional. Can somebody weigh
in here?
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Ok, quick comparison to my results...
grub root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
grub setup (hd0)
Checking if /boot/grub/stage1 exists... no
Checking if /grub/stage1 exists... yes
Checking if /grub/stage2 exists... yes
Checking if /grub/e2fs_stage1_5
Hello everyone,
on my former main box, K6-II, 500MHz I've managed to
get to startx and, since grokking dialup, am
web-surfing. Here's the issue: when Firefox opened up
the first time it invited me to upgrade which I did by
clicking the link provided. But now when I navigate to
Firefox Extensions
Any chance you can post the full output of the setup
command? Maybe
there is a clue in there...
Yikes! Now I get
Error 12: Invalid device requested
so much different from
grub setup (hd0)
Checking if /boot/grub/stage1 exists... yes
Checking if /boot/grub/stage2 exists... yes
So it's probably one of those two things. But if I
was you, I would
emerge sync and install Firefox through Portage
before going any further
anyway.
Hope this helps.
Holly
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Yes, thanks, emerge --sync is awesome! But must it run
so long? I started more than an hour ago and it's
Hello everyone,
Don't you just hate it when you repair the mistakes
and it STILL don't work.
I rebooted the 2005.0 install CD in full expectation
of fixing the problem at last. I made the corrections
suggested by the list(R.Price R.Fish)and rebooted.
I was convinced the biggest mistake was
--- Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
maxim wexler wrote:
I rebooted the 2005.0 install CD in full
expectation
of fixing the problem at last.
mount /dev/hda4 /mnt/gentoo
chroot /mnt/gentoo
mount /dev/hda2 /boot
grub...
Chroot before mounting /boot, otherwise /etc/mtab
Welcome to the list. You are correct...the problem
is that hda2 should
be mounted at /mnt/gentoo/boot before chroot'ing
into it.
Sorry guys, this is what becomes of copying out
commands with pen paper then copying out the copies
onto another piece of paper ;(
If your hda2 is /boot, then the path to the kernel
should be just
vmlinuz, without the /boot/.
Done. Didn't work. Same error.
I suspect you have a boot symlink in /boot to .
Negative.
#ls -l /boot
total 1578
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 May 24 13:15 boot.0300
-rw-r--r-- 1 root
Hello everybody,
On a fresh install using 2005.0 universal-install CD.
Boot hangs with
Grub loading Stage1.5
Grub loading please wait.
There's lots of advice on the web but nothing works so
far.
So far changed the boot order in the BIOS.
grub-installed to every available partition. Toggled
Hello everybody,
particularly the poster enquiring after the above
video card,
I must have mis-spoke, X wasn't even up and running
before the card was configured to work w/ gentoo. But
I despaired of ever getting it to work, considering
the trouble I was already having with my system.
Now there
I had a similar problem w/ dialup. The errors were
[ppp] remote message: Authentication failure
[ppp] PAP Authentication failed
[ppp] Connection terminated
Don't know if this will work for you. I found that for
the few moments that I connected a couple of ip
addresses were put into one of my
Hello everybody,
Don't even know how to google for this one.
Having giving up for now getting a Radeon9250 to work
with gentoo. I replaced it with an ATI Rage128 AGP
card and referenced the appropriate module, aty128fb,
in modules.autoload. Now, even before configuring X
something bizarre
Hello everbody,
for an Asus K8N-E, skt 754, nForce3 w/ Sempron3100,
512DDR400 RAM, 120G ATA(IDE)drive, Radeon9250 video
card.
Anybody have any pointers, gotchas re setting up
gentoo on such a system. USE flags? Proper kernel
config? etc, etc...
I have the 2004.3 and 2005.0 universal-install and
Hi,
Lately my posts have been getting zero response.
Maybe no one else has seen them but they appear in my
mail box.
If someone reads this please reply -- that'll clear up
part of the mystery.
-mw
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Hi,
Thanks for the encouragement.
Now I've hit another roadblock on the path to gentoo
enlightenment -- I hope it's not too obvious! I
googled it to no avail.
I just emerged ati-drivers for a Radeon 9250 vid-card
then ran fglrxconfig. On the very first section
Mouse the program asks for the
Hello everyone,
Tigerdirect.ca offers an Abit KV8-Pro board Skt 754
w/Sempron3100 cpu, item #MBM-KV8-SEM3100. But also on
another page the same(?) board w/AMD64 cpu, item
#MBM-KV8-3000.
According to Tigerdirect the board only works with the
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