Linux-Misc Digest #911, Volume #23 Tue, 21 Mar 00 00:13:05 EST
Contents:
Re: Netgear Nic for ADSL + Failure ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Kernel re-compile: Do I have the sequence right? (Just checking...) (Unclebob)
Re: Pacbell DSL setup problems (Rluby)
Re: Kernel re-compile: Do I have the sequence right? (Just checking...) ("David ..")
Re: Gnome Resolution ("Root")
Re: Hummingbird Exceed (Rusty Lingenfelter)
Re: cron problem with username ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Primary Partition Frustration ("David ..")
SOLUTION - Corrupt file system (Idar Tollefsen)
Re: LinuxPPC / RedHat: setting default language to English (Zemo)
Re: best way to copy a hd? (Scott Alfter)
virgin sources and linux (Conway Yee)
Re: best way to copy a hd? (Bob Tennent)
Re: virgin sources and linux (Christopher Browne)
Re: Which one to pick (Albert Ulmer)
Senile Netscape... (Jon McLin)
Re: best way to copy a hd? (Gerald Willmann)
Used to boot; now doesn't. Says "LI" ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Do you hate vi?
Linux ISP (rhat)
Re: Used to boot; now doesn't. Says "LI"
Re: virgin sources and linux ("David ..")
Re: User password required to reboot (Herb Stein)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Netgear Nic for ADSL + Failure
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 00:59:01 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Mar 2000 15:26:04 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >In article <8b47ha$isa$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> >I have the same problem with the same mobo and D-link via chip NIC.
If
> >you read dmesg, the IRQ the driver can find is 0. I tried eveyyting,
> >including assign an IRQ to the very PCI slot that my NIC is on
without
> >success. The same NIC has no problem with any other board. Does your
> >Windows have the same problem? Anyway, I'm returing the board.
>
> Have you tried turning off PnP in BIOS? That IRQ 0 thing, sounds like
> PnP mischief.
>
> --
> Hal B
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> --
YUP... Thanx for the info tho', anything else you can think of?
dzuy... No windows loves it, it is really fast and I get approx. 151K a
second down. Lovin' it!!!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Unclebob)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Kernel re-compile: Do I have the sequence right? (Just checking...)
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 01:04:35 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On or about 20 Mar 2000 17:39:13 -0600
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[....Posted....]
>On a recently installed Red Hat system, I do the following (from text mode
>console login as root):
>
> cd /usr/src/linux
> make menuconfig
> make dep
> make install
> make modules
> make modules_install
>
>Is that the right sequence? Any better/worse ways?
>
>Note, BTW, that the "make install" makes a bzimage kernel and lilo's it.
Never having used 'make install' I would be concerned was that was doing to
my current kernel, is it being overwritten, what are my choices if it doesn't
work.
My opinion;
make mrproper
make menuconfig
make dep
make zImage or bzImage (cp to a floppy)
make modules
make modules_install
make clean (to clean up the source directories for another attempt)
I keep .config for my second attempt.
After I have used that kernel for a while, do I make it permanent.
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"Sure, Bill Gates may have sixty-four billion dollars,
"but is he happy? He IS?? AH, SHIT!!" {Dennis Miller}.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rluby)
Subject: Re: Pacbell DSL setup problems
Date: 21 Mar 2000 01:16:12 GMT
FWIW I have Snet DSL in Ct. ( Another SBC Co.) I found a different PPPoE
client which works OK at roaringpenguin.com. I've got RH6.1 .
Give it a try!
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Kernel re-compile: Do I have the sequence right? (Just checking...)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 19:26:23 -0600
make mrproper
make menuconfig
make dep
make clean
make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install
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From: "Root" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Gnome Resolution
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 17:39:03 -0800
what dis. are you running?
Philip Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I can't figure out how to change the resolution in gnome. It's WAY to
small
> and I want to get it to about 800x600. I clicked ' run configuration tool
> for enlightenment ' and changed the screen to ' 1x1 ' but that didn't
change
> anything. The smartest computer guy I know installed the same stuff as I
and
> even he can't figure it out. HELP!!!
>
>
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From: Rusty Lingenfelter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hummingbird Exceed
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 01:44:04 GMT
I played with mix for awhile. I was trying to access HP OpenView=20
running on a Solaris box. I added all of the missing fonts, but I got=20
a Doc Watson everytime. Finally gave up. We are now trying a shareware=20
product that seems to work very well call x-win. We are running=20
x-win32. Works pretty well.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
On 3/20/00, 2:16:30 PM, "Andreas Meile" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote=20
regarding Re: Hummingbird Exceed:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb in Nachricht=20
<8b5g3i$f2g$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >Anyone know where I can download a copy of Hummingbird Exceed from?
> Exceed is unfortunately :-( a *commercial* product. We use it in my=20
company.
> If you are looking for a freeware X Server, go to
> http://www.microimages.com/freestuf/mix/
> You will find there a *freeware* X Server for Macintosh, for Windows, =
it's
> Shareware. But I have the old version of it which was also *freeware* =
so
> let's me know if you want it as e-mail attachement (about 2.6 megabyte=
=20
.ZIP
> file).
> Andreas
> >
> >Thanx!
> >
> >--
> >Steven Coutts
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: cron problem with username
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 16:39:38 -0600
In article <8asrhv$43k$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bernhard Damian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi out there,
> my system has been working fine for about six months. Yesterday I
> changed the crontab (not for the first time) and now cron doesn't work
> properly anymore.
> Suddenly it takes the username of an entry as a command and tries to
> execute it. Root gets tons of error mails such as
> /bin/sh: root: command not found
> Does anyone know what's happened ?
If you have the entries in the system for a user, you shouldn't. If you are using a
user's
crontab, you shouldn't use the username in the file. It will be misinterpreted as a
command.
Without knowing what the crontab looks like and whether it's system or individual,
you'll not
get too awful much help with it. My own crystal ball and mindreading gizmos are packed
away
right now, and I'm at a total loss without them.
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Primary Partition Frustration
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 19:43:07 -0600
I have never used win98 but with win95 (rarely used) I just made one
primary windoz partition of 2GB and left the rest of the disk blank. No
partitions at all. During the linux installation I made the linux
partitions, which on my system I have 9 linux partitions setup.
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From: Idar Tollefsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SOLUTION - Corrupt file system
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 02:29:37 GMT
Hello,
Some very observant fellow spotted that I ran e2fsck 1.17, while the
latest version is 1.18.
After downloading (http://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/linux/e2fsprogs.html),
compiling and installing 1.18, things startet to clear up.
>From the release notes of 1.18:
======================================================================
Fix a core dumping bug in e2fsck if an imagic inode is present or
(more rarely) if the filesystem is badly corrupted enough that e2fsck
has to restart pass 1 processing. E2fsck now closes the filesystem
before freeing a large number of its data structures, so in the case
of future memory faults, at least the fixed filesystem will be fully
written out.
======================================================================
In my case, I had imagic inodes all over the place. I also suspect
that the part about "closes the filesystem before freeing..."
had something to do with it. 1.18 also spotted, reported and
fixed a whole new range of errors on the file system that
1.17 never said anything about.
The rule of thumb is of course always to have the latest version.
I had upgradet my e2fsprogs with the latest RPM I could find for
it, but as it turned out, that wasn't new _enough_.
- Idar Tollefsen
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From: Zemo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.powerpc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: LinuxPPC / RedHat: setting default language to English
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 21:37:01 -0500
[[ This message was both posted and mailed: see
the "To," "Cc," and "Newsgroups" headers for details. ]]
I don't have the instructions handy, but the www.linuxppc.com website
has a remedy in their known problems section.
tony
In article <iSuB4.2518$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, william henry hsu
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> One of my students recently installed LinuxPPC 2000 on our lab's
> PowerMac G4 (in a MacOS 9 dual-boot setup), and I decided to apply his
> procedure to my iMac G3.
>
> I got the drives partitioned using MacOS Drive Setup, reinstalled MacOS
> 8.6, and installed LinuxPPC 2000 (with "everything"), but I seem to have made
> some language config error, because the default language is Japanese. This is
> not just a config problem in GNOME/KDE, as all my man pages are in Japanese as
> well. I tried just selecting "English" in the initlevel 5 (GNOME/Helix) login
> screen, and it helpfully offers to make English the default, but when I log
> in... everything's still in Japanese. I would like to add English language
> support (and docs, including man pages and HOWTOs) without reinstalling the
> entire OS (which took over 6 hours). Any instructions or pointers to docs
> would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
> Bill
>
> =======================================================
> William H. Hsu, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor of CIS, Kansas State University
> Research Scientist, Automated Learning Group, NCSA
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.cis.ksu.edu/~bhsu ICQ: 28651394
> =======================================================
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Alfter)
Subject: Re: best way to copy a hd?
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 02:30:45 GMT
In article <8b20nq$3eo$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've got a linux system on a 5GB partition on /dev/hda1 and I want to
>move it to a brand new 20GB disk /dev/hdb1.. i've got a empty, formatted
>fs on it, but I am not sure the best way to move my system over intact..
>searching the web and dejanews, I have found some suggestions:
>tar -cvpf - / | (cd /mnt/newdisk; tar -xvpf - )
>Will this work? how will it handle special files (/dev, /proc)? and what
>will it do when it hits /mnt/newdisk??
I recently swapped hard drives between two machines, and used tar to copy
from one drive (which was set up with separate partitions for /, /usr, /var,
etc.) to the other drive (which I decided to give just / and swap to allow
more flexible allocation of space). First, make sure you boot from a
floppy/CD-ROM/whatever so that you don't run into open-file problems. Also,
make sure you include the -l option to keep tar from digging into other
filesystems (this will (1) keep tar away from /proc and (2) keep it from
trying to get the destination to hold a copy of itself). This means that if
you split your system across several partitions like I did, you'll need to
issue separate commands to dump each partition separately, something like:
[mount the source filesystem on /src and the destination on /dest]
tar clf - /src | (cd /dest; tar xf -)
mkdir /dest/usr
tar clf - /src/usr | (cd /dest/usr; tar xf -)
[repeat above two lines for other mounted filesystems except /proc]
mkdir /dest/proc
[don't copy /proc...it's just a mount point for kernel info]
/dev will be copied OK this way. It might also be a good idea to copy
/etc/password, /etc/shadow, and /etc/group to the appropriate place on your
root floppy, to make sure file ownerships aren't corrupted (or is there a
tar option to keep this from happening?).
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From: Conway Yee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: virgin sources and linux
Date: 20 Mar 2000 21:43:16 -0500
I have known for quite awhile that RedHat has the bad habit of using
modified kernel sources in their distribution. Personally, I found
this quite annoying as I wanted to upgrade the kernel but found that I
was STUCK with that provided by RedHat since certain patches in the
kernel source (i.e. RAID) were not found in the virgin sources.
While modified kernel sources were annoying, I could live with it.
Now I find out that they use modified sources for many of their
packages. This is getting sufficiently annoying that I may want to
switch all of my computers to alternative sources. Top on the list is
Debian. Can anyone tell me if they use virgin source code in
compiling?
Conway Yee
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Tennent)
Subject: Re: best way to copy a hd?
Date: 21 Mar 2000 03:00:14 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000 02:30:45 GMT, Scott Alfter wrote:
>It might also be a good idea to copy
>/etc/password, /etc/shadow, and /etc/group to the appropriate place on your
>root floppy, to make sure file ownerships aren't corrupted (or is there a
>tar option to keep this from happening?).
>
Use the p option to preserve permissions.
Bob T.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: virgin sources and linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 03:27:46 GMT
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when Conway Yee would say:
>I have known for quite awhile that RedHat has the bad habit of using
>modified kernel sources in their distribution. Personally, I found
>this quite annoying as I wanted to upgrade the kernel but found that I
>was STUCK with that provided by RedHat since certain patches in the
>kernel source (i.e. RAID) were not found in the virgin sources.
>
>While modified kernel sources were annoying, I could live with it.
>Now I find out that they use modified sources for many of their
>packages. This is getting sufficiently annoying that I may want to
>switch all of my computers to alternative sources. Top on the list is
>Debian. Can anyone tell me if they use virgin source code in
>compiling?
Probably not.
But it's not a critical point from two crucial perspectives:
a) The sources are available;
b) You are encouraged to compile your own kernel yourself.
You'll find that *nobody* uses "virgin" sources, whether RHAT,
Slackware, SuSE, Debian, or, for that matter, BSD Ports. *All* of
them provide the capability of packages having patches that diverge
from the "pristine" sources.
The real problem here is that RHAT is apparently not doing enough to
contribute patches back to the "official source tree." Or perhaps in
not documenting it clearly enough. They're not the only ones; other
vendors have been known to do similar. [VA comes to mind...]
As a "straight" answer to your question, Debian is probably more
careful in this regard; that being said, I *always* wind up replacing
the installed kernel with one compiled from the official source tree.
(Perhaps with some patches that *I* choose...)
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From: Albert Ulmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which one to pick
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 04:38:15 +0100
Andreas Kahari wrote:
> > I know this will cause some debate - however I am a relatively
> > compentent pc
> > engineer and I want to have a look at linux
Great!
> I use the Debian GNU/Linux distribution of GNU/Linux, and I'm happy with
> it.
Yes, so am I. I used to use SuSE before I switched to Debian. IMHO
Debian really is the best distribution for people who have profound
computer knowledge.
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Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 03:55:31 +0000
From: Jon McLin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Senile Netscape...
Periodically (random intervals) Netscape 4.61 loses all references to news
servers (and newsgroups) other than than my default news server. Platform is
Mandrake 6.0
Until Opera arrives for Linux (and I'm willing to pay Big Bucks for a Reliable
Product...), any ideas on how to avoid this?
Thanks,
Jon
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From: Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: best way to copy a hd?
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 20:02:54 -0800
-> harddrive upgrade howto
Gerald
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Used to boot; now doesn't. Says "LI"
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 04:07:11 GMT
I'm having trouble getting my Redhat 6.1 system to boot. It's now hanging
at "LI" from lilo. I've seen this before with disk geometry problems, etc.,
but that hasn't changed on my system. Here is what happened.
My system to start out had a K6-2/266 CPU (underclocked to 250 to get a 100MHz
bus speed) on a DFI P5BV3+ Rev B motherboard with one 64 MB PC 100 DIMM,
an ATI Rage IIC video card, an Adaptec 2940 SCSI controller with three disks
attached and one IDE disk. One of the SCSI disks was the boot disk.
Today I received some small upgrades: a 128MB PC100 DIMM, a K6-2/500 CPU
and SoundBlaster PCI 128 sound card. I installed all of these. The machine
saw all the memory, but didn't have an appropriate setting for the 500MHz
CPU. I settled for 400MHz until I get get the BIOS upgrade installed.
Up until this point, I had only been letting it get far enough into the power
on process to see what memory and CPU it was seeing. When I tried to boot it
all the way up, I hung at "LI". Obviously, I figured this must have something
to do with the hardware upgrades. I first thought of the CPU. I changed around
dip switch settings trying several speeds. No go. Then I removed the new
memory. Still no go. So I removed the sound card. Same thing. Finally, I
removed the new CPU and put the old one back in. Same thing! I triple-checked
all my connections, cards and memory modules. The dip switch settings are
just how they are before I started. All the hardware is like it was before I
started. Yet, I still can't get it to boot. I played with BIOS settings. I
changed them to "failsafe" (other than boot sequence). Still no good.
I tried making a tomsrtbt disk, but that does "L 04 04 04 04 04" over and over
again (could be a bad floppy; I was able to get the RedHat install to boot
but I couldn't figure out how to get a shell from there). I, unfortunately,
only have access to a LinuxPPC machine with a floppy right now. My laptop's
floppy drive is sitting at work, and the broken machine is the only other
Linux x86 box I have at home. So I had to just use dd to install the tomsrtbt
stuff instead of using his script (it uses fdformat and fdflush binaries that
are compiled for x86).
It's certainly possible that I did something stupid before I even started with
the upgrades, like running lilo with a new kernel and forgetting to reboot.
But the system had only been up for a week or so and it seems like I would
remember having done something like that in the last week...
So, my question is twofold. First of all, what might have caused this problem,
and how do I correct it? Secondly, is there some bootable Linux disk that
will give me a shell and SCSI support that is available as a disk image (i.e.
something I can dd from LinuxPPC)?
TIA
sean
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.editors,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Do you hate vi?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 21 Mar 2000 00:24:58 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Ketcham wrote:
>> Oh hey, what the heck to Mac users use? It must feel mightly strange
>> going from a one-button mouse to vi. heh ;) Mac users?
>
>Well, since we don't have large config files, it isn't much of an issue.
>;)
>
>I'm probably not a typical Mac user, because I used Unix for 10 years
>before I saw a Mac, but I use BBEdit for most of the text work I do on
>my G4. Simpletext (=Notepad) is pretty useless. I've tried Stevie, but
>I wasn't excited about it -- I think most of my problem was that vi has
>about the most anti-Mac interface imaginable.
>
>S
>
Despite starting on a Mac and falling in love with BBEdit, (the *one*
thing I miss about Macs,) I now use vi (not vim) exclusively, and when
I sit down at a Mac, moving the cursor by mouse is almost unbelievably
uncomfortable. I'm torn: ultra-slick GUI or ultra-powerfull keystrokes.
Ah well, can't have everything.
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From: rhat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux ISP
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 04:30:16 GMT
How do I get a list of ISP's that cater to Linux OS?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Used to boot; now doesn't. Says "LI"
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 21 Mar 2000 00:46:38 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
>So, my question is twofold. First of all, what might have caused this problem,
>and how do I correct it? Secondly, is there some bootable Linux disk that
>will give me a shell and SCSI support that is available as a disk image (i.e.
>something I can dd from LinuxPPC)?
>
>TIA
>
>sean
>From the LILO Manual in the LILO distribution:
LILO start message
- - - - - - - - -
When LILO loads itself, it displays the word "LILO". Each letter is printed
before or after performing some specific action. If LILO fails at some
point, the letters printed so far can be used to identify the problem. This
is described in more detail in the technical overview.
Note that some hex digits may be inserted after the first "L" if a
transient disk problem occurs. Unless LILO stops at that point, generating
an endless stream of error codes, such hex digits do not indicate a severe
problem.
(<nothing>) No part of LILO has been loaded. LILO either isn't installed
or the partition on which its boot sector is located isn't active.
L <error> ... The first stage boot loader has been loaded and started,
but it can't load the second stage boot loader. The two-digit error
codes indicate the type of problem. (See also section "Disk error
codes".) This condition usually indicates a media failure or a geometry
mismatch (e.g. bad disk parameters, see section "Disk geometry").
LI The first stage boot loader was able to load the second stage boot
loader, but has failed to execute it. This can either be caused by a
geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map
installer.
LIL The second stage boot loader has been started, but it can't load
the descriptor table from the map file. This is typically caused by a
media failure or by a geometry mismatch.
LIL? The second stage boot loader has been loaded at an incorrect
address. This is typically caused by a subtle geometry mismatch or by
moving /boot/boot.b without running the map installer.
LIL- The descriptor table is corrupt. This can either be caused by a
geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/map without running the map
installer.
LILO All parts of LILO have been successfully loaded.
I had this problem, and I fixed it by booting from my Debian 2.1 CDROM,
mount the root disk partition under /target (created in RAM by the boot-
disk) and running the boot-disk LILO, (automatically chroot'd to /target.)
You could probably d/l the Debian boot disks and fanagle something.
HTH,
final
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: virgin sources and linux
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 22:48:20 -0600
If you want the patches that redhat provides in there kernel just get
the
"kernel.src.rpm" # and do a
"rpm -i" # on it then
"cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS" # and do a
"rpm -bp kernel.spec"
which applies all patches and puts the untared "linux" directory into
the
"/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/" # directory just
"mv /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/linux /usr/src/"
for the build of your new kernel. You don't have to use RPM to build it.
I also used one of the config files which you can find in the
/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES directory for the base to start your build from
and make the needed changes from that.
Just another way to do it maybe.
Worked for me.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Herb Stein)
Subject: Re: User password required to reboot
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 04:57:44 GMT
Normal users are not supposed to do that.
In article <8aj9un$4gc$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>When a normal user is logged in and wants to reboot the machine, Linux
>prompts for the user's password. How do I turn this off? It's very
>annoying.
>
>Thank you.
>
>John Spencer
>Systems Administrator
>Model Technology, Inc.
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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