Linux-Hardware Digest #465, Volume #14 Sat, 10 Mar 01 22:13:06 EST
Contents:
optical mice? (Jim Weill)
two video card question ("Johannes")
laptop recommendation (Ramin Sina)
Re: Voodoo 5500 ("Didier Lasne")
Freesco and Pandora ("rETi")
Re: optical mice? (Stephen Anthony)
Re: two video card question (Bob Martin)
Intel CA810E mb ("Kurt")
HP Colorado 20GB HELP ("Bango Rivers")
HOWTO fdformat USB floppy? (Dick Repasky)
Re: modem question... (Bob Martin)
Re: HP Colorado 20GB HELP (Joshua Baker-LePain)
Re: via82cxxx rate setting problem (Matthias Burghardt)
Bizarre Network Card Problems (James K. Wiggs)
gigabyte lan adapter supported ? ("sancelot")
What devpath for an USB graphire tablet ? ("pages.Xavier")
Re: Hardware compartibility (Witold Wilk)
Re: Bizarre Network Card Problems (Tom Gafford)
dev path for a graphire tablet ("pages.Xavier")
Re: Bizarre Network Card Problems (enkidu)
CMI 8330
Re: laptop recommendation (Dances With Crows)
Random crashes: hardware problems? (Howard Cheng)
Re: Random crashes: hardware problems? (Howard Cheng)
Re: LILO + software RAID (John in SD)
Re: Thinkpad 755C/CS doesn't boot ... solution! (Ekkard Gerlach)
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Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 11:12:51 -0600
From: Jim Weill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: optical mice?
does anyone know if i can use an optical mouse like a logitech mouseman
wheel mouse? i'm getting a new mouse today and i wanted to get one of
these optical style mice so i don't have to constantly clean it. any
insight would be appreciated.
--
Jim Weill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Technical Support -- CoreComm formerly Voyager.Net
"Excuses are the refuge of the weak!" -- S. Morganstern
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From: "Johannes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: two video card question
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 11:20:24 -0800
I have a motherboard with a built in video card, and which I am sure will be
unsupported for Linux and X. The board comes from a computer that CompUSA
(yuck!) sold to me for $100.00 for a Win98 promotion, in case you care.
Anyway, I have an ATI Xpert 98 card that I know will work with X/Linux. If
I take this card and put it in the pci slot of the CompUSA compuer, I will
have two video cards. Will the insertion of the ATI somehow automatically
disable the onboard one? What can I do to make sure only the ATI is the
system respects? What should I do?
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From: Ramin Sina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: laptop recommendation
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 13:49:38 -0500
I am looking to buy cheap, 300 MHZ to 400 MHZ, used laptop perhaps in
an online auction, and I am hoping to buy one on which I can install RH
6.2 or 7.0 quickly and with minimal effort or complications. Possible
choices I have are IBM Think Pad 600, 770 or 1420 and DELL inspiration
3500.
Any recommendation on these or any other laptops? I guess ideally I am
hoping I can get one that I can install RH cleanly right out of the box,
but I may be asking too much.
Thanks very much,
Ramin Sina
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From: "Didier Lasne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Voodoo 5500
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 20:12:15 +0100
No problem for me...
Redhat 7.0, Kernel 2.4.1, XFree 4 I run gnome in 1280x1024 16Bits...
Direct rendering for GL & Mesa lib 3.3 with tdfx module
Didier
"Alex Ayala" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Is anyone using a Voodoo 5500? I was wondering if they worked well with
> linux.
>
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From: "rETi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Freesco and Pandora
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 19:18:38 GMT
Ok eindelijk werkt het, nu is mijn vraag , heeft iemand die dyndns client
aan het bollen, zou graag een php test server opzetten op een van mijn eigen
workstations, dan hoef ik mijn scripts niet continu te uploaden...
De ip die wordt geupdated blijkt de ip van de proxy van pandora te zijn...
--
http://www.zoekertjes.nu/
Gratis Veiling Site
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From: Stephen Anthony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: optical mice?
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 15:50:12 -0330
Jim Weill wrote:
> does anyone know if i can use an optical mouse like a logitech mouseman
> wheel mouse? i'm getting a new mouse today and i wanted to get one of
> these optical style mice so i don't have to constantly clean it. any
> insight would be appreciated.
Just got a Logitech Mouseman wheel optical a few days ago and it works
perfect in Mandrake 7.2 with X4.02. But I still haven't figured out how
to get the side button to register as button 6. I comes up the same as
the middle mouse button. Then again, it does the same thing in Windows.
Steve
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From: Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: two video card question
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 13:23:01 -0600
Johannes wrote:
>
> I have a motherboard with a built in video card, and which I am sure will be
> unsupported for Linux and X. The board comes from a computer that CompUSA
> (yuck!) sold to me for $100.00 for a Win98 promotion, in case you care.
>
> Anyway, I have an ATI Xpert 98 card that I know will work with X/Linux. If
> I take this card and put it in the pci slot of the CompUSA compuer, I will
> have two video cards. Will the insertion of the ATI somehow automatically
> disable the onboard one? What can I do to make sure only the ATI is the
> system respects? What should I do?
check your BIOS , most onboard components can be disabled by settings in
the BIOS.
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From: "Kurt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Intel CA810E mb
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 19:55:54 GMT
I would appreciate any advice -- When the system is using large amounts of
memory (256MB installed) and swapping data to the swap partition (1024MB
configured), I get kernel panics. Whatever application panics (including
swapper, cron, and probably mine too) dies after the panic. Requires
reboot/fsck ... Using RH6.2 and 7.0, neither with any possible i810 video
upgrade (but I'm not running X, and the video is working). Runs fine
if it's not busy. Info - P3/866, 256MB corsair PC100 nonparity, IBM IDE
disk, IDE
cdrom, no cards, no floppy. (Strange that only 3 of 4 identical pc's have
this problem.)
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From: "Bango Rivers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP Colorado 20GB HELP
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 20:30:20 GMT
Hello all,
I have RedHat 6.2 and can't configure my internal HP Colorado 20GB tape
drive. The hardware is recognized at boot but I can't find/mount the tape.
Please help! You can e-mail directly to me if you'd like at: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dick Repasky)
Subject: HOWTO fdformat USB floppy?
Date: 10 Mar 2001 20:30:34 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does anyone know how to run fdformat on a USB floppy? Running it
outright using the appropriate device file (/dev/sda) doesn't work.
I thought that maybe setfdprm would work and ran
setfdprm /dev/sda 720/1440
only to receive the error "ioctl: Invalid argument". (I assume
that 720/1440 is the correct setting for an average 1.4M floppy
drive.)
So, how does one use fdformat on a USB floppy? I've been to Google's
newsgroups, the LDP and several linux USB home pages.
Thanks,
Dick
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From: Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: modem question...
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 15:14:02 -0600
moca wrote:
>
> Is this modem compatible with Linux?
> 3COM/U.S. Robotics 56K Voice INT PnP ISA> >>
>
> chipset : motorola
>
> I can't find dirve for it
> anybody can tell me ???
> please.........
If it is a real modem, it doesn't need a driver. Check the database
here...
http://www.kcdata.com/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP Colorado 20GB HELP
Date: 10 Mar 2001 21:15:40 GMT
Bango Rivers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have RedHat 6.2 and can't configure my internal HP Colorado 20GB tape
> drive. The hardware is recognized at boot but I can't find/mount the tape.
RTFM. You don't mount tape drives. You can access it via /dev/ht0
(rewinding tape device) or /dev/nht0 (non-rewinding).
> Please help! You can e-mail directly to me if you'd like at: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I don't like.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: Matthias Burghardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: via82cxxx rate setting problem
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 23:05:35 +0100
Young4ert wrote:
>
> Matthias Burghardt wrote:
>
> > I'm running Linux (kernel version 2.4.) on an Elitegroup K7VZA board with
> > VIA82C686 south bridge on it. After upgrading to 2.4.1. playback rate was
> > permanently locked at 48 kHz. Before it worked w/ ALSA 0.5.9 and under
> > win95. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
>
> Ihave an Asus K7M mobo and it worked just find with ALSA-driver-0.5.10b;
> howver, when I upgraded to the latest alsa-driver releases, it fails to
> function and have installed the alsa-driver-0.5.10b version since.
OK, ALSA might be a better choice, but it says it doesn't work with 2.4.
kernels. Has anyone tried to compile under 2.4.[1 2].?
Matthias
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James K. Wiggs)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Bizarre Network Card Problems
Date: 10 Mar 2001 22:35:49 GMT
Folks,
I lived through the big Seattle quake, but it looks like one
of my servers didn't.
I have dual PPro-200 with a Tyan motherboard that has been
doing a great job for me as a compute/file server for about 5
years. When we had the big quake here a week ago, I lost power
long enough to kill this box. I noticed when it rebooted that
it was no longer talking to the network.
The story gets stranger. At first, I thought some cabling
or cards had just gotten rattled loose. I checked all the
connections and rebooted things. No go. I swapped the cable
out. No go. I changed ports on the hub, in case that was
the problem. No go.
OK, so I figured the card somehow fried itself. When the
machine comes up, the card initializes and everything looks
normal in the boot logs, and I can ping the card's address;
however, when I attempt to send something out over the wire,
it fails. Neither can I ping it from the network. All of
the routes are fine. But the card won't send anything out
over the wire. Fine. The card must be fried. I go out and
buy a DFE-530TX+ to replace it with. I get *the exact same
behavior* with the new card. I swap in an old SMC-Ultra
card instead. *THE EXACT SAME BEHAVIOR*. What the hell is
up with this? What can get fried on a motherboard that is
so bad that *no* ethernet card will transmit data over the
wire, but the machine will still boot?
I eventually decided that there must have been some
filesystem corruption despite what the logs said. I did a
full backup of the entire disk, and I'm now trying to install
Debian 2.2r2 with the ReiserFS extensions (man fool me once,
etc.) and it's clear that the problem is *still* *there*. I
have tried all three cards, but when I attempt to load and
configure the drivers for any of the three, the drivers all
fail to load with an error message that the resource is
busy. The SMC Ultra card is an older one with the jumper
to set the IRQ/IO settings by hand. I've tried IRQs 3 & 10
and IO Ports 0x280 and 0x300. They all give the same error
message.
I'm completely out of ideas, here. Can anybody make any
suggestions about what's going on, here?
many thanks,
Jim Wiggs
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "sancelot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: gigabyte lan adapter supported ?
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 11:51:22 +0100
hi,
Which gigabyte adapter are supported in linux ?
bye
steph
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From: "pages.Xavier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: What devpath for an USB graphire tablet ?
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 18:59:41 +0100
in XF86config-4, what path should you assign to an USB device ?
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From: Witold Wilk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hardware compartibility
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 20:05:09 +0100
Niejaki(a) Pat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w artykule
<T0tq6.46088$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w grupie
comp.os.linux.hardware twierdzi, ze...
> I am looking into building a PC with AMD 1GHz (T-Bird) processor and ASUS
> A7V133 Socket A motherboard. Does anyone know if the current version of
> linux (Red Hat or Mandrake) will run in such platform?
Soem time ago I've installed Mandrake 7.0.2 AIR on an AMD Duron 600MHz,
with a Soltek KT75+, with the cpu 600@1000MHz, and a 30GB IBM HD. Works
propably to this day (haven't visited that place for a while :)).
There shouldn't be any problems... 'cept, when there would be some
hardware problems. Should work correctly. especially, that it was 7.0.2,
and now the current is 7.2 AFAIR :)
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From: Tom Gafford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Bizarre Network Card Problems
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 15:13:58 -0800
didja check the hub port to see if it is fried? or plug the Tyan's wire into
a known good machine to limit the size of the reality failure?
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From: "pages.Xavier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: dev path for a graphire tablet
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 21:10:02 +0100
I've got a Wacom Graphire usb tablet and I'm trying to declare it under
XFree 4.0. Xconfig needs a device path. What should it be ?
I tried /dev/usb/ttyUSB0 and others, but nothing seems to work.
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From: enkidu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Bizarre Network Card Problems
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 13:12:22 +1300
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"James K. Wiggs" wrote:
>
> What can get fried on a motherboard that is
> so bad that *no* ethernet card will transmit data over
> the wire, but the machine will still boot?
>
Have you tried a different slot? I didn't see you say that
you did, though I suspect that you probably did.
Cheers,
Cliff
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CMI 8330
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 01:30:05 -0000
I recently installed Corel Linux (2nd ed.). Everything sems to work OK
except for my sound. For some reason, I have no sound unless I manually
turn it on using OSS and then logout and re-login. The sound is built
onboard and uses the CMI 8330 processor. Any suggestions?
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: laptop recommendation
Date: 11 Mar 2001 01:42:44 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 10 Mar 2001 13:49:38 -0500, Ramin Sina staggered into the Black
Sun and said:
>I am looking to buy cheap, 300 MHZ to 400 MHZ, used laptop perhaps in
>an online auction, and I am hoping to buy one on which I can install RH
>6.2 or 7.0 quickly and with minimal effort or complications. Possible
>choices I have are IBM Think Pad 600, 770 or 1420 and DELL inspiration
>3500.
>Any recommendation on these or any other laptops? I guess ideally I am
>hoping I can get one that I can install RH cleanly right out of the box,
>but I may be asking too much.
Don't know about RedHat (don't use it myself; 7.0 especially has a
number of nasty design flaws), but SuSE 7.0 installed very well on my
Thinkpad 600X, autodetected everything, and works great. The only
problem I had there was that Xfree86 4.0 didn't like the Neomagic256
video card, which I solved by using Xfree86 3.3.6. I've had good luck
with Thinkpads in general. Check
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/
for info on any particular model of laptop that strikes your fancy--most
of the links there have detailed instructions on how to get things
working right!
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
=============================/ I hit a seg fault....
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From: Howard Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Random crashes: hardware problems?
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 20:12:13 -0500
Reply-To: Howard Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I while ago I posted a question about general protection faults. To
recall, I am getting things like:
CPU 0: Machine Check Exception: 0000000400000000<0>Bank 1: f200000000000115gener
al protection fault: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<c010d7ff>]
EFLAGS: 00210246
eax: 00000115 ebx: 72000000 ecx: 00000405 edx: 72000000
esi: 00000004 edi: 00000003 ebp: 00000001 esp: c13dff98
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process realplay (pid: 12056, process nr: 38, stackpage=c13df000)
Stack: 0829c068 bffff108 00000005 c13de000 00000405 00000000 00000004 00000115
c0108f89 c13dffc4 00000000 40315880 402b3784 0829c06a bffff1a4 0829c068
bffff108 0829c07b c010002b 0000002b ffffffff 402b1ff0 00000023 00210293
Call Trace: [<c0108f89>] [<c010002b>]
Code: 0f 30 a1 64 71 1c c0 89 44 24 10 45 3b 6c 24 10 0f 8c 3b ff
when I run realplay, and sometimes it spontaneously reboots.
Several people suggested that it may be a dust and heat problem. I
opened up the case, clean everything and check that all the fans are
working (I actually had 2 extra big fans in there to move air around,
in addition to the power supply fan and the CPU fan).
Memory seems to be okay, as I have tried running memtest86 for a
whole day and I can't find any problems. Repeatedly compiling the
kernel also didn't give any problems: I have tried that for a whole
day.
So is it still likely to be hardware problems? My computer is 3
years old anyway, but I need to know what to replace. CPU?
Motherboard (which probably means a new CPU for me)? Memory? Power
supply? I want to buy as little as possible.
Is there anyway to tell which is the bad component? Any suggestions
would be appreciated.
Howard
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Howard Cheng e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
University of Waterloo URL : http://www.scg.uwaterloo.ca/~hchcheng/
Computer Science Graduate Student (PhD)
Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
- Galilei Galileo
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From: Howard Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Random crashes: hardware problems?
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 20:30:24 -0500
On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Howard Cheng wrote:
> I while ago I posted a question about general protection faults. To
> recall, I am getting things like:
>
> CPU 0: Machine Check Exception: 0000000400000000<0>Bank 1: f200000000000115gener
> al protection fault: 0000
I just read the release notes of 2.2.17 (which I upgraded to recently).
It says:
"Machine Check Exception handler added"
So it can be that I have been having these problems all along and it
just surfaces recently because of the new kernel. What are these
exceptions, and how bad are they?
Howard
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Howard Cheng e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
University of Waterloo URL : http://www.scg.uwaterloo.ca/~hchcheng/
Computer Science Graduate Student (PhD)
To divide a cube into two other cubes, a fourth power or in general any
power whatever into two powers of the same denomination above the second
is impossible, and I have assuredly found an admirable proof of this, but
the margin is too narrow to contain it.
- Pierre de Fermat
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From: John in SD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: LILO + software RAID
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 02:41:43 GMT
Suggest you upgrade to a newer version of LILO -- one that can boot above the
1024 cylinder limit.
--John
On Sat, 10 Mar 2001 12:46:10 GMT, Emilio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi everybody I'm facing the following problem: my PC has two HDs that
>work in software-RAID under linux (patched 2.2.16 kernel), on the other
>partition (actually there are two other partitions because in order to
>use RAID under linux I had two make two partitions for each HD) I've
>installed Windows 98 but I'd like to upgrade to Windows 2000 as soon as
>possible; but I'm prevented from doing this because the boot manager I'm
>currently using (LOADLIN) can't work with Win2k.
>LILO could be the solution but I wasn't able to install it because it
>keeps complaining that the HDs have too many cyliners; this is the
>'fdisk' output for the two HD (My system language is Italian I hope you
>understand it anyways):
>
>Disco /dev/hda: 16 testine, 63 settori, 19906 cilindri
>Unit� = cilindri di 1008 * 512 byte
>
>Dispositivo Avvio Inizio Fine Blocchi Id Sistema
>/dev/hda1 1 9953 5016280+ fd Autorilevamento raid
>di Linux
>/dev/hda2 9954 10214 131544 83 Linux
>/dev/hda3 * 10215 19906 4884768 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
>
>Disco /dev/hdc: 16 testine, 63 settori, 19906 cilindri
>Unit� = cilindri di 1008 * 512 byte
>
>Dispositivo Avvio Inizio Fine Blocchi Id Sistema
>/dev/hdc1 1 9953 5016280+ fd Autorilevamento raid
>di Linux
>/dev/hdc2 9954 19906 5016312 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
>Thanks in advance for your help!
>--
>Emilio Federici
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>ICQ:27013758
LILO version 21.7 (24-Feb-2001) source at
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/boot/lilo
patches at ftp://brun.dyndns.org/pub/linux/lilo
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From: Ekkard Gerlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Thinkpad 755C/CS doesn't boot ... solution!
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 00:43:47 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ekkard Gerlach wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> did I destroy hardware with linux fdisk ? My thinkpad
> doesn't want to boot any longer after repartitioning
> with linux fdisk. I bootet Suse linux rescue system
[...]
Thinkpad 755C/CS requires an aktive DOS-Partition to
boot. With linux fdisk I have forgotten to aktivate.
755C/CS doesn't boot from Linux-bootdisk either !
I had to take the Harddisk off the notebook an
stick it to my very old Samsung laptop 486/25 .
There I could repartition the harddisk an generate
a true aktive DOS partition.
...ohhhh I hate IBM ..
.. hast somebody a bomb for me .. I will leve
it in Stuttgart /Germany to explode ...
Ekkard
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