Linux-Setup Digest #112, Volume #19 Sat, 8 Jul 00 13:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Re: Help me to dual-boot my system!! (BO)
Re: Help me to dual-boot my system!! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: automount does nothing (Uwe Malzahn)
Re: Help me to dual-boot my system!! ("Andrew E. Schulman")
corel uninstall boot failure ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Large HD <=> FDISK ("Andrew E. Schulman")
Re: How to setup more than one dial-up setting in Caldera? (BO)
Boot stops when trying to mount partitions. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Startup files for modules ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: what is .config of a default RH kernel ? (Hal Burgiss)
Warning! -- SONY SUBSTANDARD SERVICE ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Large HD <=> FDISK (E J)
Re: Corel Linux (E J)
Re: automount does nothing ("Andrew E. Schulman")
Re: Boot stops when trying to mount partitions. ("Andrew E. Schulman")
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From: BO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help me to dual-boot my system!!
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 14:30:06 GMT
Hi Andrew,
Thanks for your help. It works. But before all i need was to highlight the
OS which i want to boot and press Enter. Now i dont see a list but i have
to type either 'windows' or 'Linux'. Why is that? Where did it disappear?
this is ok but iam curious what happened to that? is there a way to restore
to the way it was before? how do i view what is in the /boot/message file?
Thanks..
Andrew E. Schulman wrote:
>
> > Hi linux Gurus,
> >
> > Iam new to linux. I have windoze and Caldera 2.4 in my system.
everything
> > was working properly till i did something. By mistake i executed
> > /sbin/lilo.
> > Now my computer does not give me options to boot windoze. I get caldera
> > initial screen but the option for windows is gone . I did not do
anything
> > else. Please help!!
> > The following is the listing of my /etc/lilo.conf file
> >
> > # target
> > boot = /dev/hda
> > install = /boot/boot.b
> >
> > #options
> > prompt
> > delay = 50
> > timeout = 50
> > message = /boot/message
> >
> > default = Linux
> >
> > other = /dev/hda1
> > label = Windows
> >
> > image = /boot/vmlinuz-pc97-2.2.14-modular
> > label = linux
> > root = /dev/hda5
> > vga = 274
> > read-only
> > append = "debug=2 noapic nosmp"
>
> Hm, well, I don't know what your /boot/message says, but from this setup
> it looks to me as though you should be able to type "windows" at the
> "boot:" prompt, and start Windows. Have you tried it?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Help me to dual-boot my system!!
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 14:34:48 GMT
when LILO starts you will see
boot:
as soon as you see that prompt, hit your TAB key (you have to be
fast!)
a selection of options will appear:
linux rescue dos
or something like that.
the screen will look something like this:
boot: (hit TAB)
linux new image rescue dos
boot:
just type in the boot image you wish to run.
(my system says DOS, and when i use it my win nt boots)
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On Sat, 08 Jul 2000 08:30:12 GMT, BO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi linux Gurus,
>
>Iam new to linux. I have windoze and Caldera 2.4 in my system. everything
>was working properly till i did something. By mistake i executed
>/sbin/lilo.
>Now my computer does not give me options to boot windoze. I get caldera
>initial screen but the option for windows is gone . I did not do anything
>else. Please help!!
>The following is the listing of my /etc/lilo.conf file
>
>
># target
>boot = /dev/hda
>install = /boot/boot.b
>
>#options
>prompt
>delay = 50
>timeout = 50
>message = /boot/message
>
>default = Linux
>
>other = /dev/hda1
> label = Windows
>
>image = /boot/vmlinuz-pc97-2.2.14-modular
> label = linux
> root = /dev/hda5
> vga = 274
> read-only
> append = "debug=2 noapic nosmp"
>
>
>--
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>http://www.help.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Uwe Malzahn)
Subject: Re: automount does nothing
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 16:23:49 +0200
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Andrew E. Schulman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've installed the latest version of autofs (can't remember the version
Did you enable the kernel automounter support?
> number) in Debian. When I boot, autofs appears to start the automount
> daemons, but then no automounting takes place. When I try the automount
How did you ckeck?
> command directly, also nothing happens, and "ps aux" shows no automount
Then the automounter is not running. A
ps ax|grep auto
should give something like
191 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/automount --timeout 5 /amnt file /etc/auto.amnt
> daemons running. In fact no matter how I call automount, even with bad
> parameters, it just returns without error, e.g.
>
> $ automount bogus bogus bogus || echo error
What would that be good for calling automount? No use far that.
> $
>
> automount just appears to be doing nothing. Does anyone know why? Any
> help appreciated.
>
> For reference here are my auto.master and auto.misc files, although I
> don't think these are the problem:
>
> $ cat /etc/auto.master
> /cdrom /etc/auto.misc
> /zip /etc/auto.misc
> /floppy /etc/auto.misc
Should better read something like
/amnt /etc/auto.misc -t5
only.
> $ cat /etc/auto.misc
> cdrom -fstype=iso9660,defaults,users,ro :/dev/hdc
> zip -fstype=vfat,defaults,users :/dev/hdd4
> floppy -fstype=vfat,defaults,users :/dev/fd0
Seems okay. So a simple ls /amnt/cdrom should mount the CD and show it's
content.
Cheers
Uwe
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From: "Andrew E. Schulman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help me to dual-boot my system!!
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 11:05:25 -0400
> Thanks for your help. It works. But before all i need was to highlight the
> OS which i want to boot and press Enter. Now i dont see a list but i have
> to type either 'windows' or 'Linux'. Why is that? Where did it disappear?
> this is ok but iam curious what happened to that? is there a way to restore
> to the way it was before? how do i view what is in the /boot/message file?
To see /boot/message,
cat /boot/message
It seems that before you had a different boot loader, with a text/mouse
interface. Not sure which one that was-- something that came with
Caldera I guess. Take a look in your Caldera documentation and search
for "boot" or "boot loader" or "lilo".
There is a similar facility in lilo. You can skip the initial "boot:"
prompt, print your boot message, and then have the user press a single
key to choose their OS. Check the lilo documentation. Here's how I do
it:
$ cat /etc/lilo.conf
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
compact
message=/etc/lilo.message
prompt
single-key
timeout=100
default=w
image=/boot/bzImage-2.2.16
label=l
root=/dev/hda7
read-only
append="mem=128m"
other=/dev/hda1
label=w
table=/dev/hda
$ cat /etc/lilo.message
Press l for Linux
w for Windows
or do nothing and Windows will start after a few seconds.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: corel uninstall boot failure
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 14:57:15 GMT
Problem Corel Linux uninstall nothing start also win
2 days ago I uninstalled Linux (Corel distribution) from my PC with the
solution lilo -u.
My 13 Gb hard disk is partitioned in this manner:
hda1 2 Gb windows98 fat 32
hda2 10 Gb logical
hda3 5 Gb fat 32
hda5 ?, ? generated in the free space from Corel Linux installation
hda6 ?, ? generated in the free space from Corel Linux installation
hda7 dimension unknown, ext2 formatted Corel Linux Installed
hda5 ?, ? generated in the free space from Corel Linux installation
Now I'm not able to restart windows or Linux; this are the solution I
tried:
>From windows cd boot fdisk /mbr no result
>From windows cd boot sys c: command unknown
>From windows cd boot cd c:\windows\command sys c: something like
command not possible on disk predefined
Then I tried on the Linux side of the problem reconstructing the mbr
generated from lilo.
Using one of the many Linux on one disk I mounted the main partition of
the Corel Linux and tried to run lilo also forcing the lilo.conf
present on my HD.
The answer was that boot.b was unavailable, so looked for any boot.*
file both by running find and looking directly in the boot directory,
nothing at all and big surprise the /boot directory was completely
empty nothing else than . and ..
Last solution I tried to install debian last version, the still
unstable but I supposed functional potato, no manner to use lilo in the
install procedure because of the position of the ext2 partition after
1024.
Any suggestion?
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From: "Andrew E. Schulman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Large HD <=> FDISK
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 11:18:08 -0400
> Hi!
>
> I have got a rather big IDE-HD (WD 20.5GB), which I want to partition
> with fdisk on Linux. But this doesn't work at all. Neither in BIOS
> mode LBA, nor LARGE, nor NORMAL.
> I am getting nonsense partition data (HD-size only 8GB or partitions
> which are overlapping).
>
> Any hints? Please send mail!
I had a similar problem with fdisk before with my 13.6GB HD. It
complained about a bad partition table and wouldn't start. The solution
was to determine how many cylinders my disk has (1662) and call fdisk as
fdisk -c 1662
Can't remember now exactly how I got 1662... if linux mounts your disk
at boot you'll get a C/H/S message and can take the C number. Another
way is to figure that you probably have 512 bytes/sector * 63
sectors/head * 255 heads/cylinder = 8225280 bytes/cylinder. So if you
know the exact size of your HD in bytes, divide by 8225280 to get the
number of cylinders, and try that.
Good luck,
Andrew.
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From: BO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to setup more than one dial-up setting in Caldera?
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 15:30:07 GMT
Hi E J
Thanks! It works!!
E J wrote:
>
> Maybe you should use kppp or redhat ppp dialer. They could handle
multiple
> ISP (numbers, password, gateway,DNS address, etc)
>
> BO wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Iam new to linux. I use Caldera. I would like use multiple ISP's from
my
> > machine. Since iam not residing in USA, my ISP does not appear in the
List
> > and i have to use the "Others" option. But i can connect to only one
ISP
> > using that option. if i have to switch to other ISP, i have to change
all
> > the values(number, DNS address etc) everytime. That is painful. Can you
> > suggest any solution to that?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Bo
> >
> > --
> > Posted via CNET Help.com
> > http://www.help.com/
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Boot stops when trying to mount partitions.
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 15:50:38 GMT
Hi all,
I cannot boot linux anymore because I did something I should not have.
I changed fstab to get access to a windows partition. Then I changed
mtab as well. I tried to shutdown and reboot. It would not shutdown
because it could not unmount partitions. (I probably should not have
changed mtab). So I rebooted violently pressing the reboot button. Now
it starts to boot up and stops after mounting root system. Then it does
nothing. I cannot boot with a boot floppy disc because it has been
damaged.
I was running Linux Mandrake 6.0.
Can anybody help me?
Thanks.
B.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Startup files for modules
Date: 8 Jul 2000 16:08:56 GMT
Also, by using pre-install lines in your conf.modules you should be able to
have the kernel load everything automatically whenever you access (mount)
/dev/pda1. Again, read the man-pages, post back if you have problems (or if
it works!)
Good luck!
Chris
In alt.os.linux Michael Schoels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Hi,
: i know of 2 possebilitys for you
: 1. put the commands in your rc.local -File, normally locate at /etc/rc.d/
: 2. Modules are loaded at boottime from /etc/conf.modules or
: /etc/modules.conf (only one should exist!)
: add apropriate entries there like "alias foobar paride" and so on. Replace
: foobar with an corresponding name. Try 'man conf.modules' for more help on
: the syntax of that file.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: what is .config of a default RH kernel ?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 16:09:12 GMT
On 8 Jul 2000 8:32:1 -0500, Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>That may be true, in which case whats the poor guy who downloads only
>the iso of the first disk (on a 56k line yet) supposed to do? Frankly,
>I've found that deleting or renaming the existing .configs, and running
>make oldconfig isn't that reliable. As its typically 11- 12k, I see no
>reason to make life difficult for the newbie by not including it in the
>kernel sources when they have been installed.
If somebody's got the bandwidth to download an ISO, surely downloading a
src.rpm is no big deal. These _may_ be elsewhere in the distro, dunno. I
do know that they are in the src.rpm for a fact.
--
Hal B
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Warning! -- SONY SUBSTANDARD SERVICE
Date: 8 Jul 2000 16:20:57 GMT
Anyone considering the purchase of a Sony peripheral for their computer
might want to give it some further thought. There clearly is not a
reciprocal relationship between what they sell and what they service.
-
I purchased a CD-RW drive back in April that just recently went bad
(won't read). When I called Sony service, I was told that I could not
get a replacement and that I had to ship it across the country to be
"repaired" (and we all know what that means...) - with a three (3) week
turnaround. Assuming that they keep their 3-week commitment, with
shipping both ways, I'd be without the use of the unit for at least
five weeks!!!
-
I hardly think that's reasonable or fair.
-
Compare this to HP, who under the same circumstances would simply ship
you out a replacement unit and issue a call-tag for the old one.
-
Sony is a behemoth in the marketplace and as such, they have an
obligation to scale their service facilities to meet demand. To not do
so is an indication of their lack of commitment to customer satisfaction
and an unwillingness to stand behind their products.
-
Buyer be ware!
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Large HD <=> FDISK
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 09:47:48 -0700
Best solution: Go to your motherbooard's website. See if you can get
an updated BIOS to handle more than 8 GB.
Next best solution: If you running only Linux, you will have to tell
linux fdisk in the expert section your CHS configuration.
OK solution: If the motherboard manufacturer is too lazy (like mine,
Compaq) to give you updated BIOS. You might have to get a disk
overlay program if you want to run Windoze and Linux together. Go to to
Western Digital and download their disk overlay program. In my
experience I have a Maxtor 11.5 G hard drive, I downloaded MaxBlast.
I could not use Disk Druid. I had to preconfigure the fat32 disk
partitions using Partition Magic 3 at the time, and use linux fdisk to
convert the fat32 disk partition into linux and linux swap partition. I
have disk geometry problems with the disk overylay.
Jan Fischer wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have got a rather big IDE-HD (WD 20.5GB), which I want to partition
> with fdisk on Linux. But this doesn't work at all. Neither in BIOS
> mode LBA, nor LARGE, nor NORMAL.
> I am getting nonsense partition data (HD-size only 8GB or partitions
> which are overlapping).
>
> Any hints? Please send mail!
>
> Jan
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Corel Linux
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 09:55:09 -0700
You probably has the linux partition above the 1024 cylinder mark.
Download the latest LILO from www.freshmeat.org. It solves the 1024
cylinder problem.
Translation from bablefish:
Vous a probablement la cloison de linux
au-dessus de la marque de 1024 cylindres.
T�l�chargez le dernier LILO de
www.freshmeat.org. Il r�sout le probl�me de 1024
cylindres.
FIFIH wrote:
> J'ai un celeron 466 avec un disque dur de 14 giga que j'ai partitionn�:
> -une partition primaire de 10 giga pour Win98se (d�j� install�)
> -le restant pour linux
> Apr�s l'installation, l'ordinateur reboot et m'indique syst�me
> d'exploitation manquant.
> Que dois-je faire (il ne me lance pas LILO)
> KromX
Translation from bablefish:
I have a celeron 466 with a hard disk of
14 giga that I partitionn�: - a primary partition of
10 giga for Win98se (already installed) -
the remainder for linux After the installation, the
computer reboot and indicates syst�me to
me exploitation missing. What must I make (it
does not launch me LILO) KromX
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From: "Andrew E. Schulman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: automount does nothing
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 12:58:24 -0400
> Did you enable the kernel automounter support?
By golly, that was it. Oops! Thought I had, but I was wrong.
Thanks for the reminder.
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From: "Andrew E. Schulman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Boot stops when trying to mount partitions.
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 13:06:15 -0400
> I cannot boot linux anymore because I did something I should not have.
>
> I changed fstab to get access to a windows partition. Then I changed
> mtab as well. I tried to shutdown and reboot. It would not shutdown
> because it could not unmount partitions. (I probably should not have
> changed mtab). So I rebooted violently pressing the reboot button. Now
> it starts to boot up and stops after mounting root system. Then it does
> nothing. I cannot boot with a boot floppy disc because it has been
> damaged.
Get a rescue disk or old boot disk somewhere, so you can boot into
Linux. Not sure about Mandrake, but in Debian when you boot the
installation floppies and get to the initial installation menu, you can
press Alt-F2 to get a minimal shell with a RAMDISK file system with
essential commands. This is good enough for rescue operations.
Once you have a shell, edit /etc/fstab to comment out the lines with the
offending partitions. (You might have to use a simple editor like ae or
vi. A few minutes with vi will serve as ample punishment for your
negligence in not keeping a working boot disk on hand.)
Also run fsck on the suspect partitions, to make sure they're still in
good order. Actually I don't know if this works with VFAT partitions--
you might have to use Windows ScanDisk to do this instead.
Good luck,
Andrew.
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