Linux-Misc Digest #424, Volume #24 Wed, 10 May 00 09:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: invalid superblock: e2fsck -f- b 8193 failed (Paul Black)
Re: Programs for Linux (Hoosain Madhi)
Re: size of xterms (Koos Pol)
Re: How to fix staircase effect on printer (Arlene Baumann)
Re: German Govt says Microsoft a security risk (Charlie Ebert)
Re: file splitting for cdr backup ("Mikkel Kruse Johnsen")
Re: Linux is cool! (was: Wierd SuSE6.4 problem) (Barry O'Neill)
Re: How to fix staircase effect on printer ("Peet Grobler")
Re: Tgif and .obj files?? (William C. Cheng)
Re: Print Jobs are not deleted (Kousik Nandy)
Re: size of xterms (Kousik Nandy)
Re: Remove CD without umount ("Peet Grobler")
Re: Newbie need help on configuring eth0 - IRQ settings ("TPNET NEWS")
GNOME/Enlightenment strangeness with certain applications... (William C. Cheng)
Re: Remove CD without umount (Bob Tennent)
Can a-term/xterm/rxvt use .ttf fonts? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
firewall or dhcp locking linux (Thomas Boggs)
Re: invalid superblock: e2fsck -f- b 8193 failed (Martin Kroeker)
Re: invalid superblock: e2fsck -f- b 8193 failed (Uwe Brauer)
Re: Need solid facts: Why Linux over NT ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: From Linux BACK to Win 98SE (me)
Re: SCSI devices and SMP kernels (Eric)
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From: Paul Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: invalid superblock: e2fsck -f- b 8193 failed
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 12:09:50 +0100
Uwe Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> Does anybody know about a tool which allows to repair damaged
> superblocks
> for me
> e2fsck -f- b 8193 /dev/hda3 did not work.
How did it not work? Is it because you have "-f- b" instead of "-f -b"?
Paul
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Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 13:11:35 +0200
From: Hoosain Madhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,linux.dev.newbie
Subject: Re: Programs for Linux
for the database if you looking for a free DB System try out postgresql.
We are using it in a very large telecoms business.
As for the assembler I can't help there
Carsten Pitz wrote:
> (1) GNU assembler (gas)
> (2) Oracle maybe is a good choice
>
> BTW, I am quite intersted in why you need an assembler.
>
> Carsten
>
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> Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Koos Pol)
Subject: Re: size of xterms
Date: 10 May 2000 10:50:58 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 10 May 2000 11:07:46 +0200, Christian Wenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| i like to know how to force the size of the xterm at the comand-line.
| i mean not the geometry of the window, the size of the fonts.
man X
Koos Pol
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From: Arlene Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: How to fix staircase effect on printer
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 11:30:09 GMT
Peter T. Breuer wrote:
>
>
> In comp.os.linux.misc Peet Grobler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : How do I fix the staircase effect on a printer?
>
> Read the Printing-HOWTO and find out.
>
> : I've got a 132-coloumn Fujitsu printer installed.
>
> Now a 1320 column one :')
>
> Peter
If this is under SCO and it's a serial printer, you probably need to set
XON/XOFF - either via the printer dip switches or insert an stty line in
the printer interface script.
Arlene
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From: Charlie Ebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: German Govt says Microsoft a security risk
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 11:34:09 GMT
HEY! WAY TO GO GERMANY!
They are a security risk and they should be delt with!
I know.
Charlie
Christopher Browne wrote:
>
> Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when Keith would say:
> >>That was found out yesterday. Otto Schily's experts are
> >>already busy looking into recommendations for the use of
> >>so-called "Open Source" software like the free Linux operating
> >>system. The new "Windows 2000" is also off-limits for
> >>agencies because it comes with a built-in defragmentation
> >>program called "Diskeeper" from a Scientology WISE
> >>company, and there are fears that the militant sect could
> >>secretly pass on network data by means of a Trojan Horse.
>
> It is unfortunate that the only visible claims in this regard appear to
> come from c't, or in terms of quotes from c't.
>
> That's not to say that c't is an utterly non-credible source, only that
> it's rather nice to have multiple sources for claims about such things.
>
> The assurances that the articles indicate that Microsoft provided
> "assurances" that are really not so reassuring...
>
> <http://wired.lycos.com/news/print/0,1294,33154,00.html> indicates:
>
> In a letter to c't, the Church of Scientology accused the magazine of
> inaccurate statements about Scientology and insisted that Executive
> Software has no affiliation with the church.
>
> And Microsoft spokesperson Mark Thomas said the technological concerns
> raised by c't are unfounded.
>
> "We've looked a this issue very carefully and there's really no issue for
> people to be concerned about," Thomas said. The software is put through
> rigorous review and it poses no data security threat to companies,
> he said.
>
> As to whether Microsoft could run afoul of Bavarian regulations on
> Scientology, Thomas said he didn't see the connection. "[Windows 2000]
> is not Executive Software's product. It's ours."
>
> Claims by Microsoft that their products "pose no data security threat
> to companies" are disproved on a daily basis every time another ILOVEYOU
> variation passes through corporate networks.
> --
> I would rather be in the back of a car then a cdr.
> -- Blackboard in 6.011 area
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - <http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/lsf.html>
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From: "Mikkel Kruse Johnsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,linux.samba
Subject: Re: file splitting for cdr backup
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 13:34:12 +0200
Have a look at the "split" command. Then use "cat" to join them again.
-- Bye
Mikkel
"ChemSoft GmbH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8fb2pq$d98$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> hi all,
>
> i try to backup an 10GB harddisk to cdr. now i�m looking for a way to make
> first a backup with tar to get a big tar-file. then i want to split this
big
> file into several 650MB parts to make isos and burn it onto cdrs.
> is this possible? i think i only need an file-splitter?
> or is there a better way to make backup on cdr.
> i want to use this way cause of letting do all except the burn process
> automatically.
>
> thanks for all help
>
> Tobias
>
>
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From: Barry O'Neill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux is cool! (was: Wierd SuSE6.4 problem)
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 12:46:19 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> I have since rebooted and everything is working now. I don't know what
> caused ther problem; it may be due to overheating -- I sometimes put a
> pen in the processor fan to stop it making an infernal noise as it runs.
I sometimes buy a new processor fan. This has the same effect.
B
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From: "Peet Grobler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: How to fix staircase effect on printer
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 13:48:11 +0200
Nope, Linux. Parallel printer.
Dist is Caldera Openlinux 1.3
Arlene Baumann wrote in message ...
>
>Peter T. Breuer wrote:
>>
>>
>> In comp.os.linux.misc Peet Grobler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> : How do I fix the staircase effect on a printer?
>>
>> Read the Printing-HOWTO and find out.
>>
>> : I've got a 132-coloumn Fujitsu printer installed.
>>
>> Now a 1320 column one :')
>>
>> Peter
>
>If this is under SCO and it's a serial printer, you probably need to set
>XON/XOFF - either via the printer dip switches or insert an stty line in
>the printer interface script.
>
>Arlene
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William C. Cheng)
Subject: Re: Tgif and .obj files??
Date: 10 May 2000 07:49:46 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Rainer Krienke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Matthew B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Hello, ,,,, using RedHat 6.1 on an i686.
>>
>> Does anyone know about the program Tgif?
>> I need to be able to convert the saved .obj file into either .JPG or .bmp.
>>
>> I have managed to do it ;accidently.
>> I cannot remember exactly what I did, tried to repeat it , 200 times.but >zilch.
>>
>
>Load the .obj file by tgif and then print it (CTRL P). Before printing you can
>adjust the
>printing format to use. This can be a real printer or a local file in different
>formats (default is usually eps).
Using the above mentioned method, tgif stil cannot export directly
into JPEG or BMP formats. However, you can export into GIF and then
use cjpeg from the JPEG distribution to convert GIF to JPEG or use
giftoppm and ppmtobmp from the netpbm package to convert GIF to BMP
files.
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kousik Nandy)
Subject: Re: Print Jobs are not deleted
Date: 10 May 2000 11:35:54 GMT
The problem is with StarOffice. Set the environment variable STAR_SPOOL_DIR
as /tmp
-Kousik.
PS: Read the README of StarOffice.
On Wed, 10 May 2000 12:01:26 +0000, Philipp Maier wrote:
> Then, however, he decided to install StarOffice and since then lpr shows
> a strange behavior: Print jobs are not deleted, the printer queue gets
> longer and longer and only the first document is printed.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kousik Nandy)
Subject: Re: size of xterms
Date: 10 May 2000 11:46:34 GMT
What about
$ xterm -fn 7x13
$ xterm -fn 7x14bold
$ xterm -fn vga
etc. etc?
HTH,
Kousik.
On Wed, 10 May 2000 11:07:46 +0200, Christian Wenz wrote:
> i like to know how to force the size of the xterm at the comand-line. i
> mean not the geometry of the window, the size of the fonts.
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From: "Peet Grobler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Remove CD without umount
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 13:52:35 +0200
One way is eject /cdrom.
That unmounts and opens the cd for you.
P.G. Willemsen wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi all,
>
>To access my cd-rom I seem to have to call 'mount /cdrom', but as soon
>as I've done that, I cannot open my cd-rom drive anymore, I first have
>to call 'umount /cdrom'. Can these procedures be skipped? Pretty
>annoying when looking for a file on different cds...
>
>Thanks,
>
>Peter Willemsen
>
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From: "TPNET NEWS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Newbie need help on configuring eth0 - IRQ settings
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 12:05:35 GMT
Damon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi, sorry to post this but i would appreciate if anyone got any idea how
> to resolve this.
>
> I found out that my PC ( Abit BP6 with Gentus Linux (similar to RH6.1) )
> uses irq 11 for both mass storage controllers and the Network
> Controller. I believe that there might be a conflict. My network card is
> using the RTL8139A chipset and i believe this is supported.
>
> Does anyone know how to resolve conflicting irq? The funniest thing is
> that previously when i install RH6.1 on my Abit BP6 using the "linux
> ide2=0x????,0x????" as the boot parameters, it worked! Using the
> RTL8139A drivers, if i recall correctly. I switch to Gentus because i
> got sick of lack of ATA66 support in RH6.1 and having to go through hell
> to get RH6.1 installed.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Regards
> Damon
>
The problem you notice is likely to be connected with your BIOS settings.
Try
disabling the option of PNP OS and IRQ autoconfiguration and make some irq's
Lagacy ISA (like the one that is being shared? by those two devices) and
enable
reconfiguration. While the machine starts look at the PCI configuration
messages.
When you will see that the devices you mentioned are still at the same IRQ
you can
still disable PCI'ness of another IRQ and so on... but remember to left some
IRQ
available for PCI bridge! And in case you use some ISA PnP device try using
isapnptools package. If you still have problems with'em just mail me youre
configuration (all devices you have with related bios configuration and boot
messages). I'll try to find some time to find out what is going on.
Good luck.
Mariusz "Pharaoh" Brylant
Sekom S.A., Poland
IT/Management/Security Specialist
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William C. Cheng)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: GNOME/Enlightenment strangeness with certain applications...
Date: 10 May 2000 07:52:39 -0400
Hi,
A user of tgif told me that he found 2 apps (tgif and xcoral) that
work strangely under GNOME/Enlightenment. But the same problem
doesn't occur under WindowMaker.
If he runs tgif or xcoral from an xterm, either app will start with
a large window near the bottom of the desktop. After he kills the
app and start tgif or xcoral from the same xterm for the 2nd time,
he will get a small square window near the left top corner of the
desktop. After he kills the app and start tgif or xcoral from the
same xterm for the 3rd time, he gets a normal size window.
He only found tgif and xcoral to have this problem. Is there a
call GNOME/Enlightenment expects an application to call so that
this problem wouldn't occur?
Thanks in advance!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Tennent)
Subject: Re: Remove CD without umount
Date: 10 May 2000 11:51:52 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 10 May 2000 12:57:50 +0200, P.G. Willemsen wrote:
>
>To access my cd-rom I seem to have to call 'mount /cdrom', but as soon
>as I've done that, I cannot open my cd-rom drive anymore, I first have
>to call 'umount /cdrom'. Can these procedures be skipped? Pretty
>annoying when looking for a file on different cds...
>
Install either am-utils or autofs:
Am-utils includes an updated version of Amd, the popular BSD
automounter. An automounter is a program which maintains a cache
of mounted filesystems. Filesystems are mounted when they are
first referenced by the user and unmounted after a certain period of
inactivity. Amd supports a variety of filesystems, including NFS, UFS,
CD-ROMS and local drives.
You should install am-utils if you need a program for automatically
mounting and unmounting filesystems.
Autofs controls the operation of the automount daemons. The automount
daemons automatically mount filesystems when you use them and
unmount them after a period of inactivity. Filesystems can include
network filesystems, CD-ROMs, floppies and others.
Install this package if you want a program for automatically mounting
and unmounting filesystems.
Bob T.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Can a-term/xterm/rxvt use .ttf fonts?
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 12:03:51 GMT
The question says it all, which one can use .ttf fonts with ease,
i just d/loaded webfonts.exe and I want to play with the fonts there
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From: Thomas Boggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: firewall or dhcp locking linux
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 08:10:08 -0400
I have a machine acting as a firewall to my home network (currently only
one machine behind it). It's using ipchains with ipmasquerading. It
also uses dhclient to get an ip address from my cablemodem.
Ocassionaly, the machine completely locks (can't ping it, no numlock,
nothing). It _seems_ to happen more often when I'm making a lot of http
requests from inside the network. Also, I was told that the cablemodem
service went out briefly one evening at approximately the same time that
the machine locked once. When I repower the machine, there is nothing
in /var/log/messages or /var/log/firewall that looks relevant. I am
running SuSE 6.3.
Has anyone else had this problem or have an idea as to how I could find
out the cause?
Thanks,
Thomas
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From: Martin Kroeker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: invalid superblock: e2fsck -f- b 8193 failed
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 11:36:57 GMT
Uwe Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> e2fsck -f- b 8193 /dev/hda3 did not work.
There are more copies of the superblock at regular intervals. Are you sure
that hda3 is really an ext2 filesystem - you will get the same message when
you try to e2fsck a swap or foreign (fat,ntfs,..) partition. Also make sure
that your partition table is still correct.
HTH,
Martin
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From: Uwe Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: invalid superblock: e2fsck -f- b 8193 failed
Date: 10 May 2000 14:08:53 +0000
Paul Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Uwe Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Hello
> >
> > Does anybody know about a tool which allows to repair damaged
> > superblocks
> > for me
> > e2fsck -f- b 8193 /dev/hda3 did not work.
>
> How did it not work? Is it because you have "-f- b" instead of "-f -b"?
>
> Paul
I tried to mount the device and got to many mounted file systems or
invalid superblock so I used e2fsck
e2fsck -f -b 8193 /dev/hda3
and still could not mount the device. So the point is something is
wrong with this device, but may be it can be repaired, something like
in WIN Norton Disk doctor or so. Of course there are companies which
will recover the data for you, but this is at least around 300 Dollars
just to start.
Uwe
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Need solid facts: Why Linux over NT
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 12:11:40 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jim Morrissey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I need to put together a presentation to convince management to use
> Linux rather than NT. To do this properly and succeed, I need solid
> facts and figures on why Linux is the better OS. Any help or pointers to
> URL's that cover this topic would be well appreciated!
>
Jim I hope you've posted this question in an NT newsgroup as well
for balance, etc.
(but post it in Klingon so nobody'd understand the question ;-)
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From: me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: From Linux BACK to Win 98SE
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 00:28:40 +1200
"Jeff W." wrote:
>
> I currently have Corel Linux OS on my laptop and I just don't like the way
> it works, I've had monitor problems, and a whole mess of things. I want to
> take it off completely and reinstall Win 98SE. Now, I have Win 2000 on my
> terminal and I don't know what kind of startup disk I'll need. Are there
> any suggestions on how to go back to 98 on the laptop?? Thanks in advance.
>
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Use the emergency boot disk you made when you installed W98 in the first
place (you did make one, didn't you?)
Failing that, any DOS boot disk which can load drivers for your CD-Rom
and hence find the setup programme on the W98 CD-Rom should do.
You will have to use Linux fdisk first to remove your Linux partitions,
as Dos fdisk is too brain-dead to recognise anything to do with Linux.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI devices and SMP kernels
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 11:38:18 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The bootmap may be correct, but since the bios cannot see any discspace
beyond cylinder 1024,(or lilo since it uses the bios info) you may have
bad luck. All depends on the actual physical location of your kernel
image, so a previous image may have booted (out of pure luck being
allocated below cylinder 1024) but your new kernel isn't located on such
a place.
BTW. You can get the new lilo from the web which doesn't suffer from
this limit.
Eric
Pierre Vigneras wrote:
>
> You're right :
>
> [root@moucheron /boot]# sfdisk -l /dev/sda
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 8715 cylinders, 64 heads, 32 sectors/track
> Units = cylinders of 1048576 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from
> 0
>
> Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
> /dev/sda1 0+ 512 513- 525296 82 Linux swap
> /dev/sda2 513 4513 4001 4097024 83 Linux
> /dev/sda3 4514 8714 4201 4301824 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
> /dev/sda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
> [root@moucheron /boot]#
>
> But, why can i boot with a ramdisk and not with my new kernel ?
>
> Can anyone answer to questions about the /boot/* files (see below...) ?
>
> Eric wrote:
> >
> > Just to make sure: you didn't make the partition where the kernel
> > resides (possibly in /boot) too large so it crosses the 1024th cylinder?
> >
> > Eric
> >
> > Pierre Vigneras wrote:
> > >
> > > Johan Kullstam wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > >
> > > > > Henrique Seganfredo wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Anybody here knows about the behaviour of SMP kernels with SCSI drivers?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I am trying to set up a right out of the box RPM package with a SMP
> > > > > > kernel (the same version non SMP is already running)...when I boot, I
> > > > > > get "kernel panic" cause the root fs (on sda1) could not be mounted due
> > > > > > a problem loading the aic7xxx.o module....no, its not a version issue or
> > > > > > something like that....
> > > > > >
> > > > > > ...some dudes told me that I can't use some SCSI drivers with SMP
> > > > > > kernels...is that a fact?
> > > > > >
> > > > > you can't have scsi support as a module if you want to boot from a scsi
> > > > > disc
> > > > > it must be compiled into your kernel
> > > >
> > > > this is not quite true. you can put the scsi module on an initial
> > > > ramdisk (initrd). this is what most distributions do because
> > > > compiling every possible scsi driver into their kernel would be a bit
> > > > much.
> > > >
> > > > however, i agree that it is a damned good recommendation. if you can
> > > > compile yourself a kernel, by all means build the scsi driver into it.
> > >
> > > That's what i did, but i got a
> > > "kernel panic" too : "unable to mount on /dev/sda2".
> > >
> > > I did compile the scsi drive into the kernel.
> > > And moreover, i have :
> > >
> > > [root@moucheron /boot]# rdev vmlinuz-2.2.14smp
> > > Root device /dev/sda2
> > > [root@moucheron /boot]#
> > >
> > > which is the current root device :
> > >
> > > [root@moucheron /boot]# rdev
> > > /dev/sda2 /
> > > [root@moucheron /boot]#
> > >
> > > Running lilo show :
> > >
> > > [root@moucheron /boot]# lilo -v
> > > LILO version 21, Copyright 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
> > >
> > > Reading boot sector from /dev/sda
> > > Merging with /boot/boot.b
> > > Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20smp
> > > Mapping RAM disk /boot/initrd-2.2.12-20smp.img
> > > Added linux *
> > > Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20
> > > Mapping RAM disk /boot/initrd-2.2.12-20.img
> > > Added linux-up
> > > Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14smp
> > > Added new
> > > /boot/boot.0800 exists - no backup copy made.
> > > Writing boot sector.
> > > [root@moucheron /boot]#
> > >
> > > But booting my new kernel is always a kernel panic !
> > > i don't understand why !
> > > I suppose the redhat ramdisk as set a strange /boot/map:
> > >
> > > [root@moucheron /boot]# ls -al
> > > total 10781
> > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 May 10 09:33 .
> > > drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 1024 Mar 2 15:19 ..
> > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Feb 11 18:19 System.map ->
> > > System.map 2.2.12-20
> > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 191102 Sep 27 1999
> > > System.map-2.2.12-20
> > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 182834 Sep 27 1999
> > > System.map-2.2.12-20BOOT
> > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 202226 Sep 27 1999
> > > System.map-2.2.12-20smp
> > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Jul 9 1999 boot.0800
> > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4568 May 5 11:47 boot.b
> > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 612 Sep 22 1999 chain.b
> > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 313673 Feb 11 18:26
> > > initrd-2.2.12-20.img
> > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 314036 Feb 11 18:26
> > > initrd-2.2.12-20smp.img
> > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 308009 Jul 9 1999
> > > initrd-2.2.5-15.img
> > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 308488 Jul 9 1999
> > > initrd-2.2.5-15smp.img
> > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Jul 31 1999
> > > initrd-2.2.5-22smp.img - initrd-2.2.5-15smp.img
> > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 695162 Jul 31 1999
> > > kernel-2.2.5-22smp.my
> > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 237 May 5 12:18 kernel.h
> > > -rw------- 1 root root 30720 May 10 09:33 map
> > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Feb 11 18:19 module-info ->
> > > module-in o-2.2.12-20
> > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11773 Sep 27 1999
> > > module-info-2.2.12-20
> > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11773 Sep 27 1999
> > > module-info-2.2.12-20smp
> > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 620 Sep 22 1999 os2_d.b
> > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1544394 Sep 27 1999 vmlinux-2.2.12-20
> > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1469971 Sep 27 1999
> > > vmlinux-2.2.12-20BOOT
> > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1647660 Sep 27 1999
> > > vmlinux-2.2.12-20smp
> > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Feb 11 18:19 vmlinuz ->
> > > vmlinuz-2.2.1 -20
> > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 622784 Sep 27 1999 vmlinuz-2.2.12-20
> > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 592397 Sep 27 1999
> > > vmlinuz-2.2.12-20BOOT
> > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 647807 Sep 27 1999
> > > vmlinuz-2.2.12-20smp
> > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 453234 May 5 09:29 vmlinuz-2.2.14smp
> > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 709302 Jul 23 1999
> > > vmlinuz-2.2.5-15smp.new
> > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 695161 Aug 6 1999
> > > vmlinuz-2.2.5-22smp.new
> > > [root@moucheron /boot]#
> > >
> > > Can i remove some of this files (System.map*) ?? What are their use (i
> > > know ps use it, for its WCHAN field, but is there another use ??) ? What
> > > are module-info* files ? Can i remove some of this files ?
> > >
> > > Here my /etc/lilo.conf :
> > >
> > > [root@moucheron /boot]# cat /etc/lilo.conf
> > > boot=/dev/sda
> > > map=/boot/map
> > > install=/boot/boot.b
> > > prompt
> > > timeout=50
> > > default=linux
> > >
> > > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20smp
> > > label=linux
> > > initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.12-20smp.img
> > > read-only
> > > root=/dev/sda2
> > >
> > > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20
> > > label=linux-up
> > > initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.12-20.img
> > > read-only
> > > root=/dev/sda2
> > >
> > > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14smp
> > > label=new
> > > read-only
> > > root=/dev/sda2
> > > vga=ask
> > >
> > > [root@moucheron /boot]#
> > >
> > > My new kernel is /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14smp (which i can't boot like
> > > describe above).
> > >
> > > --
> > > Pierre Vign�ras
> > > http://dept-info.labri.u-bordeaux.fr/~vigneras/
> > >
> > > Equipe syst�mes et objets distribu�s
> > > http://jccf.labri.u-bordeaux.fr/jodo/
> > >
> > > LaBRI
> > > http://dept-info.labri.u-bordeaux.fr/
> > >
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > Name: vigneras.vcf
> > > vigneras.vcf Type: VCard (text/x-vcard)
> > > Encoding: 7bit
> > > Description: Card for Pierre Vigneras
>
> --
> Pierre Vign�ras
> http://dept-info.labri.u-bordeaux.fr/~vigneras/
>
> Equipe syst�mes et objets distribu�s
> http://jccf.labri.u-bordeaux.fr/jodo/
>
> LaBRI
> http://dept-info.labri.u-bordeaux.fr/
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Name: vigneras.vcf
> vigneras.vcf Type: VCard (text/x-vcard)
> Encoding: 7bit
> Description: Card for Pierre Vigneras
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