Linux-Misc Digest #240, Volume #24 Sun, 23 Apr 00 13:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: Can't boot Linux from hard disk (Duane)
Re: Linux & Sun IPC (Neil Cherry)
Re: forced umount not supported yet?? ("Calvin")
Setting CMOS time/date? (Stewart Honsberger)
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From: Duane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't boot Linux from hard disk
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 16:02:21 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Corbin) wrote:
> Still trying to get this old 486 to run Redhat 6.0. Got the LILO
problems
> all straitened out. But whenever it tries to run the standard linux
kernal
> image it gets an error while trying to uncompress it. Error varies
from
> "crc error" to "invalid compressed format". The odd thing is that it
will
> boot just fine from a rescue disk with what presumably is a copy of
the
> same kernal image. Tried copying the vmlinuz-2.2.5-15 to the hard
disk and
> setting up lilo to boot from the new copy. Changes the error I get,
but
> still fails while trying to uncompress the kernel.
>
> I stumped. For now the system is usable as long as I keep the rescue
disk
> in the floppy drive. But it is annoying and I would sure like to
figure out
> what is going wrong with the hard drive boot. Anything else I can
try???
>
I got those errors if I did "make boot" and then tried to boot off
the resulting zImage. But if I did "make bzImage" and then booted
off the resulting bzImage instead (as per the kernel HOW-TO), then
everything worked fine.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Neil Cherry)
Subject: Re: Linux & Sun IPC
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 16:10:39 GMT
On Sat, 22 Apr 2000 22:32:14 GMT, Grant Edwards wrote:
>On Sat, 22 Apr 2000 19:52:12 GMT, Neil Cherry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>
>>I have acces to a Sun IPC which has a pretty bad case of corrupted
>>unix on it. I'd like to load a version of Linux on it. My first
>>question is how? Anyone know of any howto's for the Sun IPC? I have
>>access to SCSI cdrom drives so hooking one up isn't a problem.
>
>Put a RH 6.2 SPARC CD in the cdrom, and do "boot cdrom" from
>the ROM monitor prompt (assuming it's got the new-style monitor
>commands). Otherwise do the "b (whatever)" command to boot
>from the CD.
>
>Then just answer the questions that the installer asks you.
>
>It's a piece-o-cake -- easier than installing Linux on a PC.
>IMO, it's easier than installing Solaris on a Sun (but I
>haven't done Solaris for a couple years, maybe it's gotten
>better).
Very cool, Thanks!
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Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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http://linuxha.sourceforge.net/ (SourceForge)
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From: "Calvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: forced umount not supported yet??
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 00:25:02 +0800
I found none of them being umounted ......
Robie Basak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Sat, 22 Apr 2000 14:52:49 +0800, Calvin said:
> >Yes, i have mounted a ext2 partition to /boot and a vfat partition to
> >/win98.
> >Is there any way that i can check which process isn't terminated??
>
> Place the command:
> /sbin/sulogin
> in the shutdown script; in Redhat 5.2 it is /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt IIRC.
> This should appear just after all filesystems are unmounted (except for
> /, which is remounted read-only).
>
> Then do:
> cat /proc/mounts
> to see which are remaining.
>
> Press Ctrl-D to continue shutdown.
>
> Robie.
>
> >
> >Best regards
> >Calvin
> >
> >Reid Sutherland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> >news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >> Redhat 5.2 isn't all that great. You will have alot less problems by
> >> upgrading to 6.2
> >>
> >> It seems you have programs that are not getting terminated and that are
> >> still keeping your drives mounted. umount still as of today does not
> >support
> >> force unmounting. It's best if you manually attempt to unmount your
drives
> >> before rebooting. I'm guessing you're mounted drives other then your
root
> >> / ) drive.
> >>
> >>
> >> Calvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> >> news:8dq3ek$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >> > Hi,
> >> > I am using redhat 5.2. After i updated a few rpm packages, the
> >> following
> >> > error messages is shown everytime i shutdown my linux box.
> >> >
> >> > Turning off swap [ok]
> >> > Turning off quotas [ok]
> >> > Unmounting file system umount: forced umount not supported yet [fail]
> >> > Unmounting file system umount: forced umount not supported yet [fail]
> >> > Unmounting file system umount: forced umount not supported yet [fail]
> >> >
> >> > The rpm packages i updated are as following:
> >> > initscripts-5.09-1
> >> > e2fsprogs-1.18-5
> >> > console-tools-19990829-10
> >> > procps-2.0.6-5
> >> > modutils-2.3.9-6
> >> > sysklogd-1.3.31-16
> >> > setup-2.1.8-1
> >> > timeconfig-3.0.3-2
> >> > vixie-cron-3.0.1-40
> >> >
> >> > I think the problem comes from the initscripts package. Do anyone
> >know
> >> > how to solve it?? My kernel is 2.2.9
> >> >
> >> > Best regards
> >> > Calvin
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
> --
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Subject: Setting CMOS time/date?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 16:37:02 GMT
{sigh} I've seen this before, but passed it off as trivial information.
I'm using netdate to grab the date/time from an NTP server, but it only
sets the date/time under Linux, not the CMOS clock. How does one go about
setting the CMOS clock with the values present under Linux?
Any help is appreciated! TIA!
--
Stewart Honsberger (AKA Blackdeath) @ http://sprk.com/blackdeath/
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Humming along under SuSE 6.4, Linux 2.2.14
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