Linux-Misc Digest #182, Volume #25 Wed, 19 Jul 00 21:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: newbie question - Linux kernel (Tom Williams)
Re: Apache-Turning off local proxy to reach server (Yamar)
Re: Lilo broken??? (Dances With Crows)
Re: email logs ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: RedHat and /etc/issue.net ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: HTTP PUT (Dances With Crows)
Re: ext2 filesystems, i/o cacheing? (James Ferguson)
Name Resolution Problem ("Kenneth Lafond")
Re: squid configuration (Richard P. Scott)
Re: RedHat and /etc/issue.net (Hal Burgiss)
Re: DeCSS program css-auth will not make? (mircea)
TEST (Douglas McCool)
testing (Brian Bennett)
Re: TEST (Homer Jay)
Re: Please sign the "Grand Prix Legends" petition! (Richard Watson)
Reporting software and Relational Database
Re: Network is unreachable (Tom Hoffmann)
Re: SMP problems with 2.2.x kernels. (blowfish)
Re: mpeg capture from video capture card (David Konerding)
Re: wanted: convertor .ps -> .eps ("Jason A. Smith")
Howto run 2.4* kernel? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Lilo broken??? (Robert Heller)
FREE Thru 7/21 - Huge LINUXWORLD EXPO Aug. 14-17 In San Jose, Calif. (Mark S. Bilk)
split (viv)
Re: Lilo broken??? ("Brian Davis")
Re: Lilo broken??? ("Bob Barker")
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From: Tom Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: newbie question - Linux kernel
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 21:11:57 GMT
In article <_Nnd5.2577$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Jan Schaumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <8l4tag$42h$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tom Williams
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > In article <Vgld5.21$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > "dams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> Is Lniux kernel based on BSD or SVR4?
> >> Thanks,
> >> D
> >>
> >>
> >
> > I believe the kernel was developed from scratch with POSIX
compliance in
> > mind.
>
> Wasn't it based on Minix or something rathern tha implemented from
scratch?
> I don't know...
>
> -Jan
>
> --
> Jan Schaumann <http://www.netmeister.org>
>
> Statistics means never having to say you're certain.
>
I heard that Linus wanted to modify Minix and couldn't (due to licensing
issues or something like that) and Linux was born. I'm not sure if
Minix tries to be POSIX compliant at all.
Peace.....
Tom
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Yamar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Apache-Turning off local proxy to reach server
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 21:14:55 GMT
Sorry to have bothered everyone with this. would you belive it was
something as simple as my netmask being incorrect. After seeing
255.255.255.0 everyday for years, it was easily mistaked for 255.255.0.0
and that was the problem. Hope someone can benifit from this message.
Thanks again.
In article <8l4tvi$4p2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Tom Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <8l4b9r$ksb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Yamar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello, I am just installing an Apache web server on a RedHat 6.1
> > machine. Once it was installed I configured the web server to work.
I
> > can reach it if I have my local proxy server settings turned off.
With
> > the proxys set for my browser I CANNOT reach my web server. Has
anyone
> > ever delt with this before, and know a solution ? Any help would be
> app.
> > Thanks, Yamar
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Before you buy.
> >
>
> We had a similar problem where browser proxy settings for accessing
the
> Internet prevent us from accessing local web servers. Our solution
was
> to configure the borwser to NOT use the proxy for internal addresses
> and we listed the hostnames of our internal web servers and all is
well.
>
> If you have a LOT of browsers to configure, you might want to consider
> some kind of Automatic Proxy Configuration mechanism.
>
> Peace.....
>
> Tom
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Lilo broken???
Date: 19 Jul 2000 21:22:36 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 19 Jul 2000 16:51:54 -0400, Brian Davis
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I just installed Mandrake 7.1 on an old computer of mine. When I boot up,
>Lilo is all messed up. It prints the following:
>L 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40......
>The 40s go on forever.
>The system properly boots up with boot disk that was created during
>installation.
0x40 = "Seek Failure" according to the LILO documentation. The BIOS is
reporting that it can't seek to the location that LILO wants it to seek
to. The documentation says "This could be due to a media failure; try
booting again." I have seen several older systems have problems booting
from the hard disk which boot fine from a floppy--could be a BIOS
problem, could be that the hard disk is marginal. Try rerunning LILO,
and definitely make sure that the kernel image and map file are under
the 1024 cylinder limit--old machines do not have the BIOS extensions
that allow the latest LILO to disregard that limit. HTH,
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
...In Hong Kong action movies, they don't have Hollywood Guns with
infinite bullet supplies. Instead, they have Hong Kong Pants(tm) which
hold an infinite supply of loaded pistols. --M. Sphar, the Monastery
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: email logs
Date: 19 Jul 2000 21:01:36 GMT
Peter Alliett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I am trying to figure out ho to get my LINUX box to email its log
: files to me daily.
: I just can't figure out how to write the script to actually generate
: the mail.
Is there some reason for your present inability, or are you just going
to leave us guessing? Dyslexia? Memory failure? Learning disability?
Innumeracy?
man cron. What's wrong with mail me < /var/log/foo; rm -f /var/log/foo;
killall -1 syslogd ??? (well, lots, but it's a fine start ...).
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RedHat and /etc/issue.net
Date: 19 Jul 2000 21:04:45 GMT
Conway Yee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: It would appear that RedHat scripts are doing something
: rather annoying.
: I would like to CHANGE the greeting on the login prompt in telnet.
: This occurs in /etc/issue.net. I noticed, however, that my changes
: were NOT permanent. I think I have tracked the problem to the
: system changing it BACK to the RedHat default during bootup.
: Where is my RedHat 6.2 system committing this atrocity?
You can find out by grepping for issue.net in /etc/init.d/*.
Or wherever redhat keeps its sysv scripts. I would bet they
use a variable instead of the file name ... and/or use
linuxconf to do it. OK, so grep every script on your machine.
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: HTTP PUT
Date: 19 Jul 2000 21:37:02 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 19 Jul 2000 18:30:04 GMT, Pickle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I REALLY do appreciate the response to my question. The problem is that
>this is so new to me. I do have PHP3 documentation. However, I do not know
>where to begin to implement/configure PHP3. Is there a put.php3 file
>available for download? Also, does Apache understand CGI scripts natively?
If you installed Apache from a distro CD, chances are that it already
has PHP integrated. Look in your httpd.conf file for the following
line:
AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php3
If that isn't there, add it. Also add the following line:
Script PUT /put.php3
Then you will probably have to restart Apache. Test PHP out by putting
the following line in a file called "test.php3" and trying to view
http://localhost/test.php3 :
<?php echo "PHP is working." ?>
If there is no PHP there, you'll have to get it. Go to http://php.net/
for the source files, unpack them, and follow the directions. There's a
guide at
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/99/21/index2a_page3.html?tw=programming
as well. (It's fairly easy to follow.)
The script put.php3 can be as simple as a file containing the following
line, although you will probably want to do some user authentication
and/or validation!
<?php copy($PHP_UPLOADED_FILE_NAME,$DOCUMENT_ROOT.$REQUEST_URI); ?>
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
...In Hong Kong action movies, they don't have Hollywood Guns with
infinite bullet supplies. Instead, they have Hong Kong Pants(tm) which
hold an infinite supply of loaded pistols. --M. Sphar, the Monastery
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From: James Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ext2 filesystems, i/o cacheing?
Date: 19 Jul 2000 22:02:00 GMT
thompson(AT)athenet.net (Paul Thompson) writes:
> If you wish to reduce the IO to a file you can use the 'A' attribute in
> chattr so that the access time of the file is not updated each time your
> mail-checking tool runs. Other than that I think the reads will
> typically be cached, but the writes (for the atime) will eventually go
> out to the disk.
Thanks a lot, this makes a lot of sense - I've set the 'A' attribute
on my mail file.
So perhaps I'm making my disk's life that fraction easier (and
longer).
J.
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From: "Kenneth Lafond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Name Resolution Problem
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 14:56:16 -0700
I've got 2 Red Hat workstation installations that seem to be having name
resolution problems. When I try to ftp to these workstations, the client
says it is connected, then it takes about 2-5 minutes for the prompt to
appear asking for a user name. I can ping out, but it takes about a minute
to return the first successful ping and a good minute or two between each
successive successful ping. It's not just that the DNS isn't configured
correctly, because dnsquery works just fine (quickly and accurately) using
the command 'dnsquery <hostname>' so I know the default DNS server is being
used - although nslookup doesn't work (server times out after 2 mins).
My nsswitch.conf file has files then DNS in the hosts search path, and my
resolv.conf has search <domain> and nameserver <nameserver IP> as it's two
lines. I think this is correct.
I think it has to do with name resolution because if I enter the host I am
trying to access into the hosts file manually it pings, ftps, etc just fine.
If the host I am trying to access is NOT in the hosts table then I get the
following results:
ping hostname (VERY slow and drops 99% of packets)
but if I
ping -n hostname (works just great).
The -n option tells it not to look up symbolic names for host addresses.
I'm trying to get this computer up as an ftp server so simply using the -n
option to ping isn't a solution. Sorry about the long-winded message but I
wanted to include all the details. Any ideas on why it is behaving this
way?
Thanks,
Ken
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From: Richard P. Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,alt.os.linux,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: squid configuration
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 23:04:48 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hello all
>
>I have been using Microsoft Proxy server to connect my existing Lan to
>Internet.
>
>Now i want to switch to Linux. I tried squid to connect to internet,
>but it is not working. I am using RH6.2
>
>Where can i get a stuff on topics like " How to connect Network to
>internet by using Linux proxies (Squid or apache etc.).I come across
>various topics but all i found complex and confussing.
>Can anyone suggest step-by-step methos availble on web.Thanks in advance
If you just want to proxy basic services (http/ftp) then the instructions
in the squid.conf file should be sufficient - unless you require to share
cached data with another cache, then you can ignore the references to
'parent' 'sibling' 'icp' etc.
If you are using squid on a firewall machine (two+ network cards, one
internal, one external) or outside a firewall, then please give us a bit
more information so we can point you to resources.
Richard.
=====
Richard P. Scott, Lincoln, England.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: RedHat and /etc/issue.net
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 22:05:51 GMT
On 19 Jul 2000 21:04:45 GMT, Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Conway Yee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>: It would appear that RedHat scripts are doing something
>: rather annoying.
>
>: I would like to CHANGE the greeting on the login prompt in telnet.
>
>: This occurs in /etc/issue.net. I noticed, however, that my changes
>: were NOT permanent. I think I have tracked the problem to the
>: system changing it BACK to the RedHat default during bootup.
>
>: Where is my RedHat 6.2 system committing this atrocity?
>
>You can find out by grepping for issue.net in /etc/init.d/*.
>
>Or wherever redhat keeps its sysv scripts. I would bet they use a
>variable instead of the file name ... and/or use linuxconf to do it.
>OK, so grep every script on your machine.
It's /etc/rc.d/rc.local:
# This will overwrite /etc/issue at every boot. So, make any changes you
# want to make to /etc/issue here or you will lose them when you reboot.
echo "" > /etc/issue
echo "Red Hat Linux" >> /etc/issue
cp -f /etc/issue /etc/issue.net
This is documented (somewhere). Install guide?
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DeCSS program css-auth will not make?
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 18:33:32 -0400
Allen Ashley wrote:
>
> With all the legal flap about DVD piracy I thought I would download the
> source of the trouble. For linux users it is the file css-auth.tar.gz
> available from a number of mirror sites (no longer available from 2600).
>
> The program does not make and seems to have links into the kernel
> source. Any ideas about which kernel version is required?
It's not a standalone program; it works together with the Linux dvd
player (http://linuxvideo.org/).
MST
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From: Douglas McCool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: TEST
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 22:33:08 GMT
THIS IS A TEST
--
Douglas McCool
Pilot Network Services, Inc.
Customer Production Services
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(510) 864-6576
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From: Brian Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: testing
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 22:33:51 +0000
Sorry, this is just a test..
Brian B.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Homer Jay)
Subject: Re: TEST
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 17:18:47 -0600
this is a flame
Do NOT post test messages to *any* newsgroup except ``alt.test''. If you
had bothered to read the usenet FAQ before posting you would have known.
On Wed, 19 Jul 2000 22:33:08 GMT, Douglas McCool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>THIS IS A TEST
>--
>Douglas McCool
>Pilot Network Services, Inc.
>Customer Production Services
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>(510) 864-6576
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From: Richard Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,rec.autos.simulators
Subject: Re: Please sign the "Grand Prix Legends" petition!
Date: 20 Jul 2000 00:04:11 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Uwe Schuerkamp) writes:
> Because of this a Linux port of "Grand Prix Legends" would add
> greatly to the ever growing portfolio of Linux games;
Does it run using wine? I've played a few windows games successfully
with it now.
--
Richard Watson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Pentagon Web Design Ltd Fax: +44(0)870 706 5282
Reading UK Reg. Linux User 183315
ICQ: 65274884
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Reporting software and Relational Database
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 23:30:10 GMT
I would like to know what two things are. A Reporting Software and a
Relational Database. Can someone briefly explain them to me and how they
are usually used in a business office with a network. Thanks Rose
--
Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Hoffmann)
Subject: Re: Network is unreachable
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 23:39:19 GMT
On Wed, 19 Jul 2000 17:30:02 GMT, Tanner Slayton wrote:
>Hello,
> I am trying to get Caldera Open Linux 2.3 to work with my Windows NT
>Domain using Samba 2. I am getting an error "Network is Unreachable" when
>trying to join the domain.
"Network unreachable" errors are usually indicative of a routing
problem. What does "netstat -rn" show?
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From: blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: ..
Subject: Re: SMP problems with 2.2.x kernels.
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 16:55:03 -0700
"Jason A. Smith" wrote:
>
> Has anyone been able to run a stable 2.2.x kernel with SMP and get it to
> actually be stable? I can't get one to last more than a few hours before
> it crashes or my memory gets corrupted and I am forced to reboot because
> random processes are crashing, usually the X-server. Early 2.2.x kernels
> were more stable for me, but I now have a large disk and can't use the
> early versions. Anyone have any suggestions about how I can get a stable
> SMP kernel?
>
> ~Jason
Are you OCing?
Don't. And you need at least a true 300Watts power supply for SMP. More
if you
have lots of stuff. I'm running a 400Watts PS.
I got the Asus SCSI SMP running with SuSE 2.2.14 SMP for months now.
(also with freiserfs(?spelling?) (LILO needs ext2fs) and LVM spanning
over 4 HDDS. Stable as a rock.
-Alex / blowfish.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Konerding)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: mpeg capture from video capture card
Date: 19 Jul 2000 23:11:59 GMT
On Sun, 16 Jul 2000 19:31:30 -0700, blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Thierry wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Do you know an existing program (with sources) wich capture video from a
>> video capture card (bt chips) and save it in mpeg or quicktime format.
>> Without using Xwindows.
>>
>> Thanks a lot.
>>
>> thierry
>
>broadcast2000.
>
bttvgrab. It's excellent. Logs to screen via curses or dumb terminal.
Contains everything you need to save MPEG format files with audio!!
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From: "Jason A. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: wanted: convertor .ps -> .eps
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 17:28:29 -0500
>Martijn Brouwer wrote:
> Does anybody know a good and simple program that can convert postscript
> files to encapsulated postscript?
ghostscript comes with a shell script called ps2epsi which uses gs to
convert ps files to eps files, with an embedded bitmapped version of the
file at the beginning (used by some word processors and office suites).
~Jason
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Howto run 2.4* kernel?
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 00:14:50 GMT
Hi,
Please excuse me if this is obvious...
But how would you go about upgrading to one of the 2.4 beta kernels?
I'm running RedHat 6.1 with an smp 2.2.16 kernel patched for NFSv3 and
ReiserFS. So I know a bit about patching, compiling & installing
kernels. But is there more involved then that when making the jump to
2.4? I'm guessing that some of the libraries (libc, etc.) would have to
be replaced as well.
The problem is that we need > 2GB file support NOW and are willing to
risk a few hours and an non-production box to see if 2.4 will work for
us. But as I said, I'm not sure what all is involved in making that
leap. Anything additional I would need to do to get > 2GB file size as
well? Reformat the partition, and etc.?
Help or references greatly appreciated!
Thanks
Eric
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lilo broken???
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 00:23:11 GMT
"Brian Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
In a message on Wed, 19 Jul 2000 16:51:54 -0400, wrote :
"D> Hi,
"D>
"D> I just installed Mandrake 7.1 on an old computer of mine. When I boot up,
"D> Lilo is all messed up. It prints the following:
"D>
"D> L 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40......
"D>
"D> The 40s go on forever.
"D>
"D> The system properly boots up with boot disk that was created during
"D> installation.
"D>
"D> Does anyone know what this is?
>From /usr/doc/lilo-x.xx/doc/User_Guide.ps:
0x40 "Seek failure". This might be a media problem. Try booting again.
"D>
"D> Thanks,
"D> Brian
"D>
"D>
"D>
--
\/
Robert Heller ||InterNet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/~heller || [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.deepsoft.com /\FidoNet: 1:321/153
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark S. Bilk)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: FREE Thru 7/21 - Huge LINUXWORLD EXPO Aug. 14-17 In San Jose, Calif.
Date: 20 Jul 2000 00:35:27 GMT
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From: viv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.powerpc,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: split
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 21:42:29 -0400
Does anyone have the source code for the split utility which splits a
file into chunks which can be concatenated later.
Thanks,
Viv
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From: "Brian Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Lilo broken???
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 20:52:59 -0400
Hey Matt,
This is an old BIOS, so I think your on to something. I haven't played with
Linux/Lilo for a while, and I have a question:
How does one "make sure that the kernel image and map file are under the
1024 cylinder limit"?
Thanks,
Brian
"Dances With Crows" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Wed, 19 Jul 2000 16:51:54 -0400, Brian Davis
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I just installed Mandrake 7.1 on an old computer of mine. When I boot
up,
> >Lilo is all messed up. It prints the following:
> >L 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40......
> >The 40s go on forever.
> >The system properly boots up with boot disk that was created during
> >installation.
>
> 0x40 = "Seek Failure" according to the LILO documentation. The BIOS is
> reporting that it can't seek to the location that LILO wants it to seek
> to. The documentation says "This could be due to a media failure; try
> booting again." I have seen several older systems have problems booting
> from the hard disk which boot fine from a floppy--could be a BIOS
> problem, could be that the hard disk is marginal. Try rerunning LILO,
> and definitely make sure that the kernel image and map file are under
> the 1024 cylinder limit--old machines do not have the BIOS extensions
> that allow the latest LILO to disregard that limit. HTH,
>
> --
> Matt G|There is no Darkness in eternity/But only Light too dim for us to
see
> ...In Hong Kong action movies, they don't have Hollywood Guns with
> infinite bullet supplies. Instead, they have Hong Kong Pants(tm) which
> hold an infinite supply of loaded pistols. --M. Sphar, the Monastery
>
>
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From: "Bob Barker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Lilo broken???
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 01:06:07 GMT
well, if the drive is less than 8 GB, you know it's under 1024 (in general
that is)
Brian Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:964054315.464563@sj-nntpcache-5...
> Hey Matt,
>
> This is an old BIOS, so I think your on to something. I haven't played
with
> Linux/Lilo for a while, and I have a question:
>
> How does one "make sure that the kernel image and map file are under the
> 1024 cylinder limit"?
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
> "Dances With Crows" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > On Wed, 19 Jul 2000 16:51:54 -0400, Brian Davis
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >I just installed Mandrake 7.1 on an old computer of mine. When I boot
> up,
> > >Lilo is all messed up. It prints the following:
> > >L 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40......
> > >The 40s go on forever.
> > >The system properly boots up with boot disk that was created during
> > >installation.
> >
> > 0x40 = "Seek Failure" according to the LILO documentation. The BIOS is
> > reporting that it can't seek to the location that LILO wants it to seek
> > to. The documentation says "This could be due to a media failure; try
> > booting again." I have seen several older systems have problems booting
> > from the hard disk which boot fine from a floppy--could be a BIOS
> > problem, could be that the hard disk is marginal. Try rerunning LILO,
> > and definitely make sure that the kernel image and map file are under
> > the 1024 cylinder limit--old machines do not have the BIOS extensions
> > that allow the latest LILO to disregard that limit. HTH,
> >
> > --
> > Matt G|There is no Darkness in eternity/But only Light too dim for us to
> see
> > ...In Hong Kong action movies, they don't have Hollywood Guns with
> > infinite bullet supplies. Instead, they have Hong Kong Pants(tm) which
> > hold an infinite supply of loaded pistols. --M. Sphar, the Monastery
> >
> >
>
>
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