Linux-Setup Digest #86, Volume #19 Wed, 5 Jul 00 16:13:12 EDT
Contents:
STB2 - TV Sound Workaround ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Crontab (C.J.)
Re: How to reset root password (slackware) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Problems partitioning 40Gb drive w/ SuSE 6.4 (C.J.)
Some simple questions from an old timer. ("Keith G. Robertson-Turner")
Re: RedHat 6.2 won't install... (C.J.)
Re: Wrong major or minor number --but it's wrong (greg)
AAAHHH!!!! ("Sir Adam of Rudny")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: STB2 - TV Sound Workaround
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 19:30:56 GMT
I have been fighting with getting sound from my STB card, for ages. It
still isn't working "right," but it is working via the following kludge:
1. Boot Windows98 and start the TV application
2. Loadlin to Linux
Note: TV and TV sound work here, but interestingly, the reported IRQ and
memory are different -- i.e. on a reboot (next step) the IRQ agrees with the
IRQ (9) reported by the PCI bus init from the BIOS. Note the memory address
is also different. The function of the TV and sound is no different between
the boots -- but it is an interesting effect. The reported gpio information
(insmod bttv verbose=2) is the same, for all boots.
bttv0: Brooktree Bt878 (rev 2) bus: 0, devfn: 160, irq: 11, memory:
0x10002000. bttv0: gpio: out_enable=0x0, data=0xffffff, in=0x0
I could stop here, and run with TV, sound and all. But I prefer to be able
to boot directly into Linux from LILO - and I want to understand how to make
the TV sound work via changes to bttv.c, tda985x.c, or wherever changes need
to be made. I am no C programmer, and the information in Sound-FAQ, while
interesting, does not guide me in bit-fiddling. If somebody could give me a
"cookie-cutter" set of instructions it would be very much appreciated.
3. ctl-alt-del (shutdown -r now)
Sound stops during the reboot process, because the alsasound driver
(ES18xx) is disabled. Sound resumes when the alsasound modules are loaded
from rc.local. I am able to view the TV, and the sound changes following the
channel changes, all correct. The facilities that are not working are the
mute from xawtv menu, and muting while changing TV channels.
The complete report from dmesg, and the relevant portions of rc.local are
reproduced below. I am using the bttv.c from the 2.4.0-test2 kernel, not
from bttv-0.7.21. The kernel version of bttv.c has more cards represented,
and picks up the STB2 card.
FWIW, I also tried the Windows utility, bt848are.exe, but this utility will
not deal with the BT878 hardware. Even if it did, and reported the
registers, I would not know how to convert that information into the relevant
sections of bttv.c.
I notice that the TDA7432 chip is also located by the bttv probe, but if I
'insmod tda7432,' the muted TV sound is never unmuted. This makes sense,
because while I can get TV sound, and can manipulate its level via a separate
mixer utility, audio muting by xawtv (v2.46 or v3.09) does not work. I take
it that this indicates that xawtv is not communicating with bttv (or,
probably, bttv is not communicating with the sound chip - be it tda9850 or
tda7432).
The PCI init routine (via BIOS) indicates this information for the
multimedia devices, both reported on IRQ 9, and both from the same device. I
don't know if this information is relevant, but I am including it in case it
is . . .
Function 0 Device ID 036E (not sure what this is, radio maybe?)
Function 1 Device ID 0878 (I assume this is the BT878 TV)
The TV tuner card itself is marked with the following particulars
STB 210-0337-00X
1X0-0660-301
18 47/1998 P2-T1
Various chips and their markings:
Bt878KHF
25878-12
C40289.7
9830
KOREA
TDA7432D
1990F9841
MALAYSIA
TEA6420
ZP92Q9722
KOREA
TDA9850T
445160
DSD98101 Y
Boot messages (dmesg) ===================== Linux version 2.4.0-test2
(root@involute) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2
release)) #13 Tue Jul 4 18:35:24 EDT 2000 BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
e820: 000000000009fc00 @ 0000000000000000 (usable) e820: 0000000000000400 @
000000000009fc00 (usable) e820: 0000000000010000 @ 00000000000f0000
(reserved) e820: 0000000000010000 @ 00000000ffff0000 (reserved) e820:
000000000bf00000 @ 0000000000100000 (usable) On node 0 totalpages: 49152
zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 45056 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command
line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=303 parport=0x378,7 Initializing CPU#0
Detected 233865870 Hz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 100x30 Calibrating
delay loop... 466.94 BogoMIPS Memory: 190676k/196608k available (1570k kernel
code, 5544k reserved, 111k data, 184k init, 0k highmem) Dentry-cache hash
table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table
entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 65536
(order: 6, 262144 bytes) kmem_create: Poisoning requested, but con given -
bdev_cache Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
kmem_create: Poisoning requested, but con given - inode_cache CPU: L1 I
Cache: 32K L1 D Cache: 32K (32 bytes/line) CPU: AMD-K6tm w/ multimedia
extensions stepping 02 Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception
16 error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance
testing by UNIFIX PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/7000] at 00:07.0 Limiting direct PCI/PCI
transfers. Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.3 Based upon Swansea University Computer
Society NET3.039 kmem_create: Poisoning requested, but con given -
skbuff_head_cache NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. NET4:
Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP IP: routing cache
hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established
16384 bind 16384) Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd v1.6
parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP] pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven). loop: registered device at major 7
loop: enabling 8 loop devices Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision:
6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 PIIX4: chipset revision
1 PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at
0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at
0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio hda: WDC AC28400R, ATA DISK
drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 hda: 16514064 sectors (8455 MB)
w/512KiB Cache, CHS=1027/255/63, (U)DMA Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
hda4 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 > Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M, fd1 is 1.2M FDC 0
is a post-1991 82077 (scsi0) <Adaptec AHA-294X SCSI host adapter> found at
PCI 0/14/0 (scsi0) Narrow Channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs (scsi0) Cables
present (Int-50 YES, Ext-50 NO) (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 415
instructions downloaded scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast
SCSI) 5.2.1/5.2.0 <Adaptec AHA-294X SCSI host adapter> scsi : 1 host.
Vendor: MICROTEK Model: ScanMakerIIsp Rev: 2.50 Type: Scanner ANSI SCSI
revision: 05 Detected scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0, type
6 (scsi0:0:4:0) Synchronous at 5.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8. Vendor: SONY Model:
SDT-5000 Rev: 3.02 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0 (scsi0:0:6:0)
Synchronous at 8.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15. Vendor: YAMAHA Model: CRW4416S
Rev: 1.0h Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at
scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 scsi : detected 1 SCSI tape 1 SCSI cdrom total.
st: bufsize 32768, wrt 30720, max init. buffers 4, s/g segs 16. sr0:
scsi3-mmc drive: 16x/16x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Uniform CD-ROM
driver Revision: 3.11 Serial driver version 5.01 (2000-05-29) with MANY_PORTS
SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at
0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A PPP generic driver version 2.4.1 PPP Deflate
Compression module registered 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.7 loaded eth0:
RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet board found at 0xe1000000, IRQ 10 eth0: Chip
is 'RTL-8139B' eth0: MAC address 00:b0:4c:39:1a:78. ip_conntrack (1536
buckets, 12288 max) VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing
unused kernel memory: 184k freed Adding Swap: 65484k swap-space (priority -1)
Linux video capture interface: v1.00 i2c-core.o: i2c core module
i2c-algo-bit.o: i2c bit algorithm module i2c-core.o: driver i2c TV tuner
driver registered. bttv: driver version 0.7.31 loaded bttv: using 2 buffers
with 2080k (4160k total) for capture bttv: Bt8xx card found (0). bttv0:
Brooktree Bt878 (rev 2) bus: 0, devfn: 160, irq: 9, memory: 0xe1002000.
bttv0: gpio: out_enable=0x0, data=0xffffff, in=0x0 tuner: chip found @ 0x63
bttv0: i2c attach [Philips PAL] i2c-core.o: client [Philips PAL] registered
to adapter [bt848 #0](pos. 0). i2c-core.o: adapter bt848 #0 registered as
adapter 0. bttv0: i2c: checking for eeprom @ 0xa0... found bttv0: dump eeprom
@ 0xa0 00: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 10: ff ff ff ff
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 20: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ff ff ff ff 30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 40: ff ff
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 50: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ff ff ff ff ff ff 60: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 70:
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 26 36 10 b4 80: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 90: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
a0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff b0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff c0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ff d0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff e0: ff ff ff ff ff
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff f0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 26
36 10 b4 bttv0: id: STB TV PCI FM, P/N 6000704 (0x263610b4) bttv0: =>
card=40 (STB2) bttv0: model: BT878(STB2) bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA8425 @
0x82... not found bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9840 @ 0x84... not found bttv0:
i2c: checking for TDA985x @ 0xb6... found bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @
0xb0... not found bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... found
i2c-core.o: driver i2c tda985x driver registered. tda985x: Using tda9850
options tda985x: init bttv0: i2c attach [TDA985x] i2c-core.o: client
[TDA985x] registered to adapter [bt848 #0](pos. 1). isapnp: Scanning for Pnp
cards... isapnp: Card 'ESS ES1869 Plug and Play AudioDrive' isapnp: 1 Plug &
Play card detected total
======================
#!/bin/sh
# /etc/rc.d/rc.local
################################################
# The below are television tuner related modules for kernel 2.2.10
# /sbin/insmod videodev
# /sbin/insmod i2c verbose=1 scan=1 i2c_debug=0
# /sbin/insmod tuner debug=0 type=5
# /sbin/insmod bttv
################################################
# The below are television tuner related modules for kernel 2.4.0
/sbin/insmod videodev
/sbin/insmod i2c-core
/sbin/insmod i2c-algo-bit
/sbin/insmod tuner debug=0 type=5
/sbin/insmod bttv radio=1 verbose=2
/sbin/insmod tda985x chip=9850
# /sbin/insmod tda7432 #causes 'permanent' mute
################################################
# alsasound startup
# /sbin/insmod soundcore
/sbin/insmod isa-pnp
/sbin/insmod snd
/sbin/insmod snd-mixer
/sbin/insmod snd-timer
/sbin/insmod snd-pcm
/sbin/insmod snd-seq-device
/sbin/insmod snd-rawmidi
/sbin/insmod snd-hwdep
/sbin/insmod snd-opl3
/sbin/insmod snd-mpu401-uart
/sbin/insmod snd-es18xx
/sbin/insmod snd-card-es18xx
/usr/bin/amixer set CD 4 #this is where the TV card is plugged in
/usr/bin/amixer set FM 8 /usr/bin/amixer set Line 8 /usr/bin/amixer set PCM
10 /usr/bin/amixer set MIC capture 15 /usr/bin/amixer set 'Input Gain' 15
/usr/bin/amixer set Master unmute 40
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (C.J.)
Subject: Re: Crontab
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 18:38:07 GMT
Dump the output. Adding
> /dev/null
at the end of the commands run will redirect normal output to /dev/null (Which
means it is thrown out.)
Errors should still output and be mailed to you though. If you are getting
errors mailed to you, then you should fix the problem causing the errors.
In article <8k02lq$cdp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Ed Bras" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>How can I onvercome that crontab send me a mail with the output of the cron
>job??
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How to reset root password (slackware)
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 19:38:37 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in <8jvf8a$87o$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > I figured out how to attempt to reset my root password from other
> > messages in this forum, but to no avail. I'm joing to reinstall
slack
> > and and choose to NOT change my root password during install, and
see
> > what happens. The unfortunate part is that the machine I'm
installing
> > it on has no CDROM drive, and the install won't recognize the
network
> > card.
> >
> > Can you say "24 floppy disks"? I knew you could.
>
> Er... If you can't find a bootimage kernel that works with your
network
> card, can you borrow a CD ROM drive from another machine?
>
> --
> Ned ++++++ Democracy means "the people rule".
> To reply, cut out my nose and make the met a net.
>
That's an excellent point (not the CD ROM point -- I would rather flip
24 floppies than yank the box out of my network tangle to throw a CD
ROM drive in). My boot disk was the base.i disk. I should retry with
one that actually attempts to support a network, eh?
Thanks
Tim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (C.J.)
Subject: Re: Problems partitioning 40Gb drive w/ SuSE 6.4
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 18:48:04 GMT
Hmm.. I looked at ABIT's site, and that is a pretty new mobo. They have a
few BIOS updates, but none seem to relate to this in any way. Since you don't
have anything you are worried about losing on the drive (if I remmember right)
you could try changing the settings in BIOS.
You could also try creating a partition from DOS/Win9x (if you plan to have
any of that type.) Fdisk will read the partition table written out and try to
figure out what disk geometry to use. How many cyliders does your BIOS say
the disk has again?
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(skeeter) wrote:
>I tried what you suggested but the fdisk still indicated that the disk
>had 1027 cylinders. I'm not really sure where to proceed at this
>point. Should I change the modes of the disk from within the BIOS? I
>don't really want to try that for fear of screwing something up. The
>current setting in the BIOS is AUTO so it can decide on the mode to
>use. My mobo is an ABIT KA7.
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From: "Keith G. Robertson-Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Some simple questions from an old timer.
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 20:50:07 +0100
Hi,
Actually I'm 33 ( does that make me old ? )
Oh well, anyway ...
I used Berkley Unix at uni, but only on a standard
account, so I'm new to root privelages and stuff like
Gnome etc. The most customizing I did was stuff
like .plan and .Xdaliclock.mine etc.
Now I've no setup questions - I've got that sussed
( Hmm - wrong newsgroup maybe ? )
It's more "post-setup" I'm dealing with.
I've got a BootMagic(mrb)/LILO(root ext2) config
which works, even with a Promise Ultra 66 IDE
controller.
( I pass the parameter linux ide2=0xefe0,0xefae to
lilo - from lilo.conf )
Oh and Wind"oh"no's 2000 and 98 sexy edition on
two other primaries.
I've got RedHat 6.2 setup ( "install everything" type
package ) and I've realised that I shouldn't really be
installing *both* KDE *and* Gnome - or should I ?
I've got a nice big 1600x1200x32 desktop and all my
hardware is config'd - even the SBlive and HP CD-R.
So, the questions :
1) ... I've been rumaging around looking for support for
OnStream DI30 ( ide ) tape drives. I know they're
supported but I'm hoping I won't need to recompile the
kernel to achive this. Please tell me RH6.2 already
supports this drive, whats the mount point ?
Oh and some decent backup software ?
Yes I've been to onstream.com.
2) ... I'd love the new XFree86 v4 package so I can use
OpenGL with my Nvidia TNT2 card. I d/loaded the bin's
and "sh" the setup and everthing seemed fine.
Big problem - it wiped out Gnome, KDE and the whole
desktop. I thought it would. Is there any way I can upgrade
XFree86 but retain my current Desktop settings
( more or less ) without having to go through a laborious
Gnome etc reinstall ?
Bear in mind, I'm talking about a system state which is
unconfigured imediately post-install from the RH6.2
setup - then upgrading to XF86,4 - reboot - everything
back to normal type setup ???
I tried a link at freshmeat.com for the RH6.2 package
installer, but the site is totally unresonsive/dead.
Is this what I need ?
Believe it or not, that's it.
I thought I'd have an absolute nightmare setting RH up
but Christ this thing *rocks*.
Keith ( Homer ) Robertson-Turner
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (C.J.)
Subject: Re: RedHat 6.2 won't install...
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 18:50:30 GMT
Disk Druid (at least the versions I've seen) does an awful job with large
(>8Gb) hard drives. I was not able to partition my 20Gb drive with it and had
to use plain old Linux fdisk to partition. (But man do I love having a 14Gb
Linux partition!)
In article <8k00ba$lb4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
>boot to dos and fdisk /mbr if your SURE you dont want anything but
>linux on the hardrive
>
>
>In article <8j8th1$947$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Quad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Im having the same problem man, i deleted all partitions on one of my
>> HDs and try to create linux part in the setup and it says there is no
>> free space, even though disk druid says there is 100% free. Not to
>> mention I can create as many, or any size swap partition on the drive
>> though?
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> Please send me an email at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you figure anything
>> out.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Trent
>>
>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> > Damn, still won't install. If I delete the partition where linux
>will
>> > reside (the 3gb partition) and try to create mount points under
>linux
>> > env. I keep getting this message:
>> > "There are currently unallocated partition(s) present in the list of
>> > requested partitions. The unallocated partition(s) are shown below,
>> > along with the reason they were not allocated
>> >
>> > / Boot partition too big "
>> >
>> > No matter how small I try to set it, even 1Mb, I keep getting this
>> > message...
>> >
>> > >the problem you encountered is the linux partition must be create
>> under
>> > >linux env. otherwise the linux will be assume that the all space is
>> > >occupied by other OS. simply just delete the partition where linux
>> will
>> > >be reside. and create linux ext2 under your linux.
>> > >
>> > >-=JgS=- wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> Hi!
>> > >> I have 3 partitions on my 30Gb hdd. One 22Gb (Win98, primary
>> > >> partition), a 8Gb extended partition which is splitted into 5Gb
>and
>> > >> 3Gb. The 3Gb (a logical partition in the extended partition) is
>> where
>> > >> I would like to install RedHat Linux 6.2. Is this possible? Linux
>> > >> finds all 3 partitions but it won't install. Can't I install it
>on
>> a
>> > >> logical partition in the extended partition? Or can you only
>> install
>> > >> on a primary or extended partition?
>> > >> God damn that was hard to explain....hope someone understood ;-)
>> > >>
>> > >> -----------------------------------------------------
>> > >> Joakim Storrank
>> > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> > >> -----------------------------------------------------
>> > >> If you want to email me, please remove the
>> > >> command i.hate.spam after my email address.
>> > >> -----------------------------------------------------
>> >
>> > -----------------------------------------------------
>> > Joakim Storrank
>> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> > -----------------------------------------------------
>> > If you want to email me, please remove the
>> > command i.hate.spam after my email address.
>> > -----------------------------------------------------
>> >
>>
>> --
>> Quad
>> MCSE, MCP+I, CNA, A+
>> and I am still bewildered :)
>>
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>>
>
>
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From: greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Wrong major or minor number --but it's wrong
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 12:55:57 -0700
[Eric wrote]
> I just had to try this, and at my system it makes no difference, but
> then again I didn't have a mounting problem to start with.
Thanks, Eric, but right now that's a small comfort. ;^)
> Rob Harvey wrote:
> >
> > "I didn't change the permission yet, but I don't think it sould
> > make a difference in mounting it."
> >
> > Not the permissions, I think, but the owners of the nodes. You
> > created a new node but if it doesn't have the correct group
> > (disk), you may not be able to mount.
> >
> > I'm not sure on this, so tell me if it makes a difference.
I don't think that's it. All the problem disk nodes have a "d" at the
beginning of the permissions and are owned by root.root. The only thing
that I changed was the kernel. The node owners and numbers were the
same before and after the change --just the kernel reports that nodes to
vfat, fat, dos partions have the wrong numbers.
So far today:
* I did a clean install of 6.2 kernel-2.2.14 and everything worked
* I upgraded and configured kernel-2.2.16 using the OpenWall-2.2.16
patch. This broke the nodes connecting to partitions with msdos, fat or
vfat file systems.
* On that broken install I tried reconfiguring the 2.2.16-kernel without
the patch. I deleted the linux directory in /usr/src, all the modules
and completely reinstalled. It was still broken.
* I downloaded redhats 2.2.16-3.rpm and did a force install on top of
the broken system. It stayed broken.
So evidently, once it's broken, recompiling or installing an rpm over it
won't fix the problem.
So now I'm doing a clean reinstall again. I'll try to upgrade with the
kernel-2.2.16-3.rpm. (instead of a tar.gz) If that works I'll try to
configure the source.rpm.
But I'd really, really like to figure out what is causing this problem.
I appreciate your time and energy on this. Thanks Guys
--
greg ::
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From: "Sir Adam of Rudny" <arudny*remove*@europe.com>
Subject: AAAHHH!!!!
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 20:03:15 GMT
I have a Compaq Prolinea 486/100. I just booted off the Red Hat 6.2 network
bd and here's what happens:
1. The nice happy red hat menu appears. Being somewhat of a newbie, I hit
enter for regular install.
2. It loads linux, and vmlinuz, then boots the kernel.
3. The devices start to show up just like they do on my other linux boxes,
hard drives etc.
4. EXCEPT, at a certain point, the screen scrolls rapidly (LOTS of text) and
finally stops at what looks to me like the end of an error message:
Code: <1> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address
4000000F6
Current->tss.cr3 = 00101000, %cr3 = 00101000
*pde = 00000000
ops = 0000
cpu = 0
and a whole smack of hex memory addresses.
At this point, the system is completely stalled, num lock & caps lock don't
work, or any software re-start codes (CTRL+ALT+DEL etc...) It looks like a
total lockdown as it won't perform any system commands. I'm trying to
isolate where it happens and it seems to occurr right after trying to load
the ramdisk. Afterwards, I tried all the different startup options (expert,
text etc...) and none of it worked.
Ideas?
Dazed and confused,
Adam
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