Linux-Setup Digest #265, Volume #19 Fri, 28 Jul 00 14:13:09 EDT
Contents:
how to install linux-SuSE 6.4 & RedHat 6.5 ("AzZam")
Re: [Help] LILO doesn't boot from SCSI disk (Andrey Vlasov)
Re: Good Free VCD/DVD Player & Questions about the "mount /cdrom" (Nathaniel Jay Lee)
Booting only when it pleases (Ram0n)
Re: How to set hardware time correctly from shell? (Charlie Zender)
Re: Gnome or KDE (tolan)
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Reply-To: "AzZam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "AzZam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how to install linux-SuSE 6.4 & RedHat 6.5
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 00:15:07 +0700
Dear everybody,
i want all of you help me to install linux-SuSE 6.4 or RedHat 6.5
and how to configurate my computer.
Pentium 133 Mhz
RAM 32 MB
HD 1,2 GB and 10,6 GB
OS Win95b
sound card sundblaster 16
modem MWave dolphin IBM-internal
you answer my question in this group, but i hope you can send at my email,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
thank's for everthing
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From: Andrey Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: [Help] LILO doesn't boot from SCSI disk
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 10:16:17 -0700
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Hi Jose,
I got this kind problem when I switch IDE disks and normaly it related to names of
devices.
I suggest you boot from floppy and try mount /boot partition. Just check that name
of device
is correct. If not edit lilo.conf to reflect new device name and run lilo itself
to make update
boot loader. Problem normaly consist in fact that device changed name and in
bootloader it
point to another disk where you do not have any kernel - if you have disk there at
all.
But I little confused by fact that you have only one SCSI disk and disconnection
of IDE disk
should not affect SCSI drive name. But anyway I recommend to try load from floppy
and check
what is there. By the way did you SCSI controller configured to boot from this
disk? Some
basic controllers do not support boot from SCSI disks but yours I believe should
do that - I never
had this controller and can not help with details how configure the controller.
Andrey
Jose Manuel Benitez Sanchez wrote:
> Hi all,
> I cannot get LILO booting from an SCSI disk. Can you give me some
> hints?
>
> This is the situation. I've just installed Linux Red Hat 6.2 on a Dual
> Pentium III machine equipped with:
> Mainboard: SUPERMICRO, SUPER P6DBE
> SCSI controller: Adaptec SCSI Card 29160
> SCSI disk: Seagate ST318436LW (17.5G)
> IDE disk: Seagate STS320430A (20GB)
>
> The IDE disk is only temporally installed, and it is going to be used
> only to hold data, no system files. All the system is installed on the
> SCSI disk. This is the partition table (generated with disk druid):
> --------------------
> Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2233 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
> /dev/sda2 14 2233 17832150 5 Extended
> /dev/sda5 14 906 7172991 83 Linux
> /dev/sda6 907 1548 5156833+ 83 Linux
> /dev/sda7 1549 1880 2666758+ 83 Linux
> /dev/sda8 1881 2174 2361523+ 83 Linux
> /dev/sda9 2175 2213 313236 82 Linux swap
> /dev/sda10 2214 2233 160618+ 83
> Linux --------------------
>
> and this an excerpt from /etc/fstab:
> --------------------
> /dev/sda10 / ext2 defaults
> 1 1
> /dev/sda1 /boot ext2 defaults
> 1 2
> /dev/sda5 /home ext2 defaults
> 1 2
> /dev/sda6 /usr ext2 defaults
> 1 2
> /dev/sda7 /usr/local ext2 defaults
> 1 2
> /dev/sda8 /var ext2 defaults
> 1 2
> /dev/sda9 swap swap defaults
> 0 0
> --------------------
> So the /boot partition is (/dev/sda1) located at very beginning of the
> disk.
>
> The overall installation was straightforward. Only the LILO
> installation issued a warning:
> "Warning: /dev/sda1 is not on the first disk"
>
> But then, before booting again I changed the BIOS booting sequence
> setting SCSI on the first place and IDE on the second. After saving
> this, the booting is restarted. The BIOS displays:
> "Searching for Boot Record from SCSI..OK"
> And then only appears:
> "LI"
> and it gets frozen.
> According to LILO's User's Guide (pag. 44):
> "LI The first stage boot loader was able to load the second stage boot
> loader, but has failed to execute it. This can either be caused by a
> geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map
> installer."
> Of course, I haven't moved /boob/boot.b. Since the disk is a large one,
> I used the "linear" global option in lilo.conf, but no luck. I've also
> tried without it, with the same lack of success.
>
> If I install LILO on the IDE disk, it works all right, but I don't like
> this solution because of the temporal condition of the disk.
>
> LILO's version is 21.
>
> I would greatly appreciate any help to get the SCSI disk booting
> properly.
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Cheers!
>
> Jos� Manuel
>
>
> --
> Jose Manuel Benitez Sanchez e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Dpto. de Ciencias de la Computacion e Inteligencia Artificial
> E.T.S. Ingenieria Informatica
> Universidad de Granada Tel. +34 - 958 - 24 61 43
> 18071 - GRANADA (Spain) Fax: +34 - 958 - 24 33 17
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Hi Jose,
<p>I got this kind problem when I switch IDE disks and normaly it
related to names of devices.
<br>I suggest you boot from floppy and try mount /boot partition.
Just check that name of device
<br>is correct. If not edit lilo.conf to reflect new device name and run
lilo itself to make update
<br>boot loader. Problem normaly consist in fact that device changed name
and in bootloader it
<br>point to another disk where you do not have any kernel - if you have
disk there at all.
<br>But I little confused by fact that you have only one SCSI disk
and disconnection of IDE disk
<br>should not affect SCSI drive name. But anyway I recommend to try
load from floppy and check
<br>what is there. By the way did you SCSI controller configured
to boot from this disk? Some
<br>basic controllers do not support boot from SCSI disks but yours I believe
should do that - I never
<br>had this controller and can not help with details how configure the
controller.
<p>Andrey
<p>Jose Manuel Benitez Sanchez wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Hi all,
<br> I cannot get LILO booting
from an SCSI disk. Can you give me some
<br>hints?
<p> This is the situation. I've
just installed Linux Red Hat 6.2 on a Dual
<br>Pentium III machine equipped with:
<br> Mainboard: SUPERMICRO, SUPER
P6DBE
<br> SCSI controller: Adaptec
SCSI Card 29160
<br> SCSI disk: Seagate ST318436LW
(17.5G)
<br> IDE disk: Seagate STS320430A
(20GB)
<p> The IDE disk is only temporally
installed, and it is going to be used
<br>only to hold data, no system files. All the system is installed on
the
<br>SCSI disk. This is the partition table (generated with disk druid):
<br>--------------------
<br>Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2233 cylinders
<br>Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
<p> Device Boot Start
End Blocks Id System
<br>/dev/sda1 *
1 13 104391
83 Linux
<br>/dev/sda2
14 2233 17832150
5 Extended
<br>/dev/sda5
14 906 7172991
83 Linux
<br>/dev/sda6
907 1548 5156833+ 83
Linux
<br>/dev/sda7
1549
1880 2666758+ 83 Linux
<br>/dev/sda8
1881
2174 2361523+ 83 Linux
<br>/dev/sda9
2175
2213 313236 82 Linux swap
<br>/dev/sda10
2214
2233 160618+ 83
<br>Linux
====================
<p>and this an excerpt from /etc/fstab:
<br>--------------------
<br>/dev/sda10
/
ext2 defaults
<br>1 1
<br>/dev/sda1
/boot
ext2 defaults
<br>1 2
<br>/dev/sda5
/home
ext2 defaults
<br>1 2
<br>/dev/sda6
/usr
ext2 defaults
<br>1 2
<br>/dev/sda7
/usr/local
ext2 defaults
<br>1 2
<br>/dev/sda8
/var
ext2 defaults
<br>1 2
<br>/dev/sda9
swap
swap defaults
<br>0 0
<br>--------------------
<br>So the /boot partition is (/dev/sda1) located at very beginning of
the
<br>disk.
<p> The overall installation
was straightforward. Only the LILO
<br>installation issued a warning:
<br>"Warning: /dev/sda1 is not on the first disk"
<p> But then, before booting
again I changed the BIOS booting sequence
<br>setting SCSI on the first place and IDE on the second. After saving
<br>this, the booting is restarted. The BIOS displays:
<br>"Searching for Boot Record from SCSI..OK"
<br>And then only appears:
<br>"LI"
<br>and it gets frozen.
<br> According to LILO's User's
Guide (pag. 44):
<br>"LI The first stage boot loader was able to load the second
stage boot
<br> loader, but has failed to execute it. This can either
be caused by a
<br> geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without
running the map
<br> installer."
<br>Of course, I haven't moved /boob/boot.b. Since the disk is a large
one,
<br>I used the "linear" global option in lilo.conf, but no luck. I've also
<br>tried without it, with the same lack of success.
<p> If I install LILO on the
IDE disk, it works all right, but I don't like
<br>this solution because of the temporal condition of the disk.
<p> LILO's version is 21.
<p> I would greatly appreciate
any help to get the SCSI disk booting
<br>properly.
<p> Thanks in advance!
<br> Cheers!
<p> Jos� Manuel
<br>
<p>--
<br>Jose Manuel Benitez
Sanchez
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<br>Dpto. de Ciencias de la Computacion e Inteligencia Artificial
<br>E.T.S. Ingenieria Informatica
<br>Universidad de
Granada
Tel. +34 - 958 - 24 61 43
<br>18071 - GRANADA
(Spain)
Fax: +34 - 958 - 24 33 17</blockquote>
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From: Nathaniel Jay Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Good Free VCD/DVD Player & Questions about the "mount /cdrom"
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 12:30:19 -0500
"Colin R. Day" wrote:
>
> Pig wrote:
>
> > Could anyone suggest me a good and free vcd/dvd player?
> >
> > I am now using the "mpegtv" to play a vcd.
> > Once I mount the cdrom, the "/cdrom" must be belongs to the "root"
>
> You have to mount video CD's? That's odd, you don't have
> to mount audio CD's.
>
> What file system does a Video CD have?
I'm not 100% certain on this, but I thought when VCDs were released they
were just regular CDs (ISO format) with a big MPEG file on them for the
movie. At least, that is what I remember of it.
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nathaniel Jay Lee
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From: Ram0n <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Booting only when it pleases
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 17:26:23 GMT
I'm building many stations over the network with Mandrake 7.1. I have
build them with all the options, automated, custom and expert. The
installation seems to run fine without any errors, but the only problem
is that the machines won't boot all the time. They boot when the want.
When they do not boot a Kernel Panic occurs telling me that it can not
mount the root system, like it can not read the partion tables. It also
gives me a hda:hda: time out waiting for DMA
ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only: 12. So, I
thought that it was the DMA speed so in the boot I included idebus=50,
now it boots 60% of the time which is better than before but not quite.
I printed a copy of dmesseg one of the times it work, that still gives
the
hda: irq time out: status=0x58
The only difference between the time it works and the time it does not
is that I get an
VFS: Cannot open root device 03:01.
when it does not work
Here is the messages.
===============================start here==============================
Linux version 2.2.15-4mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version
2.95.3 19991030 (prerelease)) #1 Wed May 10 15:31:30 CEST 2000
Detected 233863285 Hz processor.
ide_setup: idebus=50
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 466.94 BogoMIPS
Memory: 127776k/131072k available (1208k kernel code, 416k reserved,
1600k data, 72k init, 0k bigmem)
Dentry hash table entries: 16384 (order 5, 128k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 131072 (order 7, 512k)
Page cache hash table entries: 32768 (order 5, 128k)
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
CPU: Intel Pentium MMX stepping 03
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb3b0
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 131072 bhash 65536)
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd v 1.5
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
ttyS02 at 0x03e8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS03 at 0x02e8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.12)
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30
ide: Assuming 50MHz system bus speed for PIO modes
SIS5513: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 09
SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
SiS5597
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x4000-0x4007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x4008-0x400f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hda: ST38410A, ATA DISK drive
ide2: ports already in use, skipping probe
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: ST38410A, 8223MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=1048/255/63, UDMA(33)
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines
pII_mmx : 351.282 MB/sec
p5_mmx : 418.338 MB/sec
8regs : 253.365 MB/sec
32regs : 198.501 MB/sec
using fastest function: p5_mmx (418.338 MB/sec)
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096
Partition check:
hda:hda: timeout waiting for DMA
ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only: 12
hda: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
hda: timeout waiting for DMA
ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only: 12
hda: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
hda: timeout waiting for DMA
ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only: 12
hda: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
hda: timeout waiting for DMA
ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only: 12
hda: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
hda: DMA disabled
ide0: reset: success
hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 >
autodetecting RAID arrays
autorun ...
... autorun DONE.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 72k freed
Adding Swap: 248968k swap-space (priority -1)
ne2k-pci.c:vpre-1.00e 5/27/99 D. Becker/P. Gortmaker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/ne2k-pci.html
ne2k-pci.c: PCI NE2000 clone 'RealTek RTL-8029' at I/O 0xe000, IRQ 11.
eth0: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0xe000, IRQ 11, 00:C0:6C:73:89:81.
==========================THE ABOVE is the dmesseg when it works=======
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From: Charlie Zender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: How to set hardware time correctly from shell?
Date: 28 Jul 2000 10:31:00 -0700
Thanks, rdate works as advertised and is much simpler to use than
hwclock for my purposes.
--
Charlie Zender [EMAIL PROTECTED] (949) 824-2987/FAX-3256, Department of
Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine CA 92697-3100
Visiting NCAR CGD CMS July 24--September 22: (303) 497-1616/FAX-1234
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From: tolan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Gnome or KDE
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 02:26:46 +0100
> A pox on all of them for this; the value of them is _not_ in trying
> to manage X sessions, but in providing _USEFUL APPLICATIONS_.
Or perhaps useful cross application functionality?
ie common clipboard, drag and drop, modular software (ie koffice im
told)
The point is not that these things cannot be achieved in other ways, but
that itergration has its uses, and that for a newbie the other solutions
are non-obvious.
for the record im a newbie, im using window maker & kde together, and
why has noone answerd my enquiry about this hey?? (jest)
paeches & cream
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