RE: [expert] Re: [MandrakeForum] Infamous Friday Quickies (9)

[Milnes Terry SSgt 52LSS/LGLOE]

The answer to the autotuning question is linux ide0=noautotune
ide1=noautotune idebus=100 However I have found that if it uses a MVP3
chipset, some work some don't YMMV.


 -----Original Message-----
From:   Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Friday, January 26, 2001 12:53 AM
To:     [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:        [expert] Re: [MandrakeForum] Infamous Friday Quickies (9)



[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Infamous Friday Quickies (9)
> (http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/article.php3?sid=20010125124621)
> 
> I hope you still remember the rules of my infamous Quickies:
> 
>  It's not Friday
>  This is NOT television, so be active. It's Your turn to do the hard work.
;-
>  
> Here are the questions:
> 
> 
> 
> Q1: 
>  writes "John Webster wrote "I am running Mandrake 7.2.
> Only have one problem
> I have now eleven peiople looging on. So I have the graphical login panel
come up.
> 
> Only before that at the console screen. I get a error that USER= is not
complete.
> in file etc/syslogin/autologin
> What do I put in after user=.
> When I place in a real user name it goes to the Window Manager for that
user.
> Not what I want.
> When I put in nothing I get the error but it goes into the graphical login
for all users. What I want but without the error message.
> Someone please look at their autologin file and tell me what I should
have.
> ". 
> 
> Hint: He should not be running autologin. 
> 
I would just unistall autologin(or in my case not install it in the 
first place)

rpm -e autologin

at a terminal should do it.


> Q3: 
> fetter wrote "Hello!
> I have an asus a7v with ata100 controller. I want to install LM 7.2. I
have boot the installation with I/O adress form the promise ata 100
controller:
> linux ide3=0x8800, 0x8402
> My IMB dtla-307045 hard disk was found at hdg.
> The installation fail with partition check.
> I have an other linux installation (SuSe) and Windows 98 on the same disk
but i have free place.
> 
> What can i do?? Please help me". 
> 
> Hint: Ah, this is tricky, so I'll try to give better hint. According to
civileme, problem is in "autotuning". Let's see who knows how to turn it off
,- 
> 

I can't remember this one exacly, I just know that an option has to be 
passed to the kernel before the main install happens.


Mark Hillary
Registered Linux User 200755
ICQ 105727330