Linux-Setup Digest #561, Volume #19 Wed, 6 Sep 00 03:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: RAID1 Boot fails with LILO Error L40 (moonie;))
Re: Serial port problems on 486 (myself)
Re: mail server behind a NAT box ("Larry clark")
Re: help: connecting to ISP, can someone help (Mostyn BRAMLEY-MOORE)
Re: lilo THINKS kernel TOO BIG?! ("Dan")
Re: ethernet card ("Chris")
Re: Adding second hard drive on Redhat 6.2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux installation "how-to" Web sites?, and a coupla questions ("Chris")
Re: Ethernet Problem ("Chris")
Re: Blank Screen after Choosing OS from LILO (jeff)
installation problem
Re: set path (Eric)
Re: Expanding the partition size (Eric)
Re: cannot get the post install to complete properly (Eric)
Re: HELP! -- Grub tutorial? (Colin Watson)
Re: Kernel source compilation failed (Colin Watson)
Re: lilo THINKS kernel TOO BIG?! (Colin Watson)
Re: how to use tar to restore backup file (Colin Watson)
Re: HELP! -- Grub tutorial? (Colin Watson)
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From: moonie;) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RAID1 Boot fails with LILO Error L40
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 00:16:39 -0400
On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am trying to get a Redhat 6.2 system booting with 2 disks in
>RAID 1 configuration.
>As you would probably expect, it does not work ;-)
>
>Here are some system details:
>
>- HP Netserver LPr
>- 2 original HP disks of 9.1G - SCSI
>- Redhat 6.2 "out of the box install"
>
>The first problem I encountered was the stock Redhat 6.2 LILO
>(sorry, do not know version anymore) said :
>"can't handle device 0x0901".
>
>I figured it was a more recent LILO that I needed.
>So, I installed the latest from MetaLab, version 21.5-1.
>
>Now I get a LILO error when booting:
>L40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40...
>
>This error code indicates a "seek error" according to the
>LILO readme.
>
>I also tried to specify disk geometry as reported by the
>power-on selftest screen as C/H/S=1024/64/32,
>without positive result.
>
>This is my current lilo.conf file:
>Note: /dev/md1 is my root, /dev/md0 is swap.
>
>-------------------------------------------------------
>boot=/dev/md1
>root=/dev/md1
>map=/boot/map
>install=/boot/boot.b
>prompt
>timeout=50
>linear
>default=linux
>
>image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0smp
> label=linux
> initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.14-5.0smp.img
> read-only
> root=/dev/md1
>
>image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
> label=linux-up
> initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.14-5.0.img
> read-only
> root=/dev/md1
>-------------------------------------------------------
>
>when running LILO the reply is:
>-------------------------------------------------------
>boot = /dev/sda6, map = /boot/map.0806
>Added linux *
>Added linux-up
>boot = /dev/sdb6, map = /boot/map.0816
>Added linux *
>Added linux-up
>-------------------------------------------------------
>
>Strangely enough, I did almost the same thing with 2 IDE disks on a
>homebuilt system and it works flawlessly with LILO 21.5 (also had
>to upgrade the standard Redhat 6.2 LILO version).
>
>Should I escalate this problem to the LILO maintainer(s) ?
>
>What is screwing me here BIOS, LILO, something else ?
>Please advise on this issue.
>
>Many thanks in advance.
>
>Best Regards,
>
>--
> Johan Severeyns
> R&D Engineer, Network Administrator
> IDCS N.V.
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Before you buy.
I would say that your problem may be the fact that your /boot is in the RAID
array. The problem is that the system doesn't know how to use the array before
the kernel is loaded. I use a /boot partition to get around this problem. I
do believe there is a way to do what you want, and there is (I believe) a
how-to at www.linuxdoc.org, but I have found that using a /boot partition
alieviates many problems, including this one.
--
moonie ;)
Registered Linux User #175104
http://counter.li.org
KDE2
Kernel 2.4.0-test5
XFree86 4.0 Nvidia .94 drivers
RAID 0 Striped
Test-Pilots-R-Us ;)
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From: myself <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.ppp
Subject: Re: Serial port problems on 486
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 23:20:12 -0500
"mail.dlcwest.com" wrote:
>
> I did a minimal installation of redhat 6.2 on a 486. There is nothing
> special about this installation or box. However, the modem/serial port
> works erraticly.
Sometimes when the modem works erratically you need to specify a
different
IRQ for it. Mine did this. Read man setserial
and do a cat /proc/interrupts to start with. You want to give
the modem an IRQ that nothing else is using.
I found the following information about IRQ assignments
someplace and copied it down, now I'll pass it
on to you from my notes. Maybe since you have older hardware it
will actually
be applicable. It helped me quite a bit.
ttyS0 and ttyS1 -- often IRQ 4, not always
ttyS2 and ttyS3 -- often IRQ 3, not always
IRQ 5 -- often but not always your sound card
IRQ 9 and 2 refer to the same interrupt and you can use either
number,
but do not assign different things to 9 and to 2
IRQ 6 -- often the floppy
IRQ 7 -- often par port 1
IRQ 8 -- usually your clock.
IRQ 0 -- has some special use, don't assign things here
IRQs 1, 6, 8, 13, 14 belong to motherboard usually
IRQs 10, 11, and 12 are often not assigned
I ended up just trying a few different interrupts that didn't
seem to
be in use in /proc/interrupts (which only displays what you are
actually
*using*, so put each device in use so it generates interrupts
for you to see). For
whatever reason /dev/ttyS1 (my modem) worked fine on IRQ 7. Go
figure.
I never found a really
decent howto anyplace, so if somebody knowledgeable wants to
work on one... :-) <--- (she smiles sweetly)
MP
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From: "Larry clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.mail.sendmail,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: mail server behind a NAT box
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 21:47:42 -0700
usiing mail services requires anMX record to point to the box the services
are on, I assume you know that right? ok well if you have the mail server
behind the router, I believe you now need to have the IP that the MX record
points being on the external side of the router. this way it thinks the
router is the mail server.this way all mail will hit that router and
hopefully go thru. hope that helps....larry
"D & S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:kzet5.10185$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I have recently reconfigured our network to use Network Address
Translation
> via a Netgear RT314 router. Since that time, we have not received
external
> mail on our mail server. Can someone explain to me the guidelines for
> moving an internet mail server behind a NAT box?
>
> I have reconfigured the server with an internal IP address (192.168.0.26)
> and have setup the router to pass traffic through port 25 (SMTP) and the
POP
> and IMAP ports to the internal server address. Everything else (http,
etc.)
> appears to be working.
>
> By the way, the mail server is a PC running Red Hat Linux 6.2 and using
> sendmail. We had no problems until I tried the NAT reconfiguration. Any
> help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
>
> - Doug -
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mostyn BRAMLEY-MOORE)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: help: connecting to ISP, can someone help
Date: 6 Sep 2000 04:38:47 GMT
>>you can add other names, but localhost needs to point at 127.0.0.1
>>ie
>>127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.domain gtech
>>would be fine.
>>
>Hi m;
>
>Does it matter what is pointing to 127.0.0.1?
some things use "localhost" expecting that it points to 127.0.0.1
>The way I have hosts and the http.conf set works offline just find ie;
>
>127.0.0.1 gtech gtech.localdomain
you can point more than one name at 127.0.0.1 and "localhost" should be one
of them. so i'm saying, put
127.0.0.1 localhost gtech gtech.localdomain
as your line in /etc/hosts
m.
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From: "Dan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lilo THINKS kernel TOO BIG?!
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 00:26:08 -0400
You should do a "make bzImage" instead of "make zImage" That will use bz
compression instead of just z compression. A must for the new kernels.
"Bayo Lau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi all!
>
> I'm running RedHat6.2 with kernel 2.2.14-5.0 and lilo version 21.
>
> i've downloaded and compiled kernel 2.2.16.
>
> I copy System.map to /boot/System.map-2.2.16, and zImage to
> /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16... then link them to System.map and vmlinuz,
> respectively.
>
> when I run lilo to write the MBR, it prompted that the kernel is too
> big..... what's wrong?
>
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From: "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ethernet card
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 05:08:05 GMT
Same card...different distro. I have the name 3com card and I'm trying to
get it to work with Mandrake 7.1. I was able to find a linux driver on the
3com site however I'm having a helluva time getting it installed. Let me
know if you have any luck.
"David Schrittesser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have SuSE 6.3 installed and I would like to use my 3com etherlink xl
> PCI card to connect to the internet ( 3c900B tpo is the exact product
> name). Now SuSE says there�s "no information" about that product, while
> the vendor claims that there�s a driver for linux (it says so in the
> 'product details'), but on the ftp site, there are only drivers for win,
> UnixWare and OpenServer(the latter two-what are they, by the way?).
>
> If there is a driver, where could I getr it? Where do you usually look
> for Information of this kind? Can anyone help me?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Adding second hard drive on Redhat 6.2
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 05:01:15 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Sep 2000 23:31:26 GMT,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I'm having a problem getting my 60 GIG hard drive to work on Redhat
6.2.
> >I have a promise ATA-66 controller card that is connected to the hard
> >drive. I think Redhat sees the controller card and the hard drives.
> >Redhat is running on a seperate SCSI hard drive. This is the main
drive.
> >Can someone help me configure this to work? Here is a copy of my
dmesg:
> >
> >PIIX4: IDE controllPIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 91
> >PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> > ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1050-0x1057, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
> > ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1058-0x105f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
> >er on PCI bus 00 dev 91
>
> ide0 and ide1 are usually the on-board IDE controllers of your Mobo.
> What kernel are you using? 2.2.XX? If so, you will need to patch
> your kernel and recompile it so that it will recognize the promise
> card.
>
I update my kernel from 2.2.14 to 2.2.16 from the redhat website.
Though, that did not fix the problem. I did figure out that the
controller card was being detected in the /proc/pci file. I found the
memory address for the card and used that at the LILO boot prompt:
linux ide2=0x10f0,0x10e6. I cfdisk the two hard drives hde and hdf.
Now, I need to figure out how to append the LILO command to lilo.conf
and mount the drives to fstabs. Thanks.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux installation "how-to" Web sites?, and a coupla questions
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 05:24:19 GMT
Jon,
Here's what I would do...don't know if it's best or not, but it's what I
would do. Assuming that both hard drives are about the same size I would set
2 primary partitions on each so that dr1 is C and D and that dr2 is E and F.
In order to work correctly (at least from what I've read and my own personal
experience) Win98 MUST be on C. DOS 6 would probably be next (hopefully
someone with more DOS experience can jump in here). Next would be your Linux
drive, then finally Win 2K. Win 2k MUST be last. If you install 2k before
Linux your will probably not ba able to recognise your Linux partition when
you go to install it. As for boot managers...I've heard that it's a toss up
between LILO and the Win 2k boot manager. I'm not sure how Boot Magic will
work (included with Partition Magic), mostly because I've never used it, but
the 2k program seems to work best. Part of this information is second-hand
so anyone more knowledgeable should feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
"Jon Noring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8p3rbo$dgg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello,
>
> My wife is interested in installing Linux on one of our pc's (we will
> continue to run Windows on it), and came home yesterday with Mandrake 7.1.
>
> Since I am a newbie to installing Linux on pc boxes, I'd like to be
directed
> to Web sites that go over all the basic things I need to know in order to
be
> successful at this (it must cover running multiple OS as well).
>
> Of course, topics of interest to me include:
>
> 1) Booting harddisk. Our pc has two hard disks. Can we put all of Linux
> on the "D" drive and boot from that, or do I have to partition our
master
> "C" drive and install Linux there? Maybe a more general question is
one
> of multiple-harddisk management with multiple OS. Note that I do have
> Partition Magic.
>
> 2) Multiple OS Management. I'm interested in running up to three or four
> OS on our pc, including Windows 98, Linux, DOS 6, and Windows 2000.
> It would be nice to be able to manage all of these at start up, say
using
> some sort of menu. Any pointers here? It'd be nice when the computer
> is turned on, a menu appears early on, I pick the one I want, and there
> I go.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jon Noring
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> --
> _________________________________________________________________
> Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana *** Perfumed Garden of Sheik Nefzaoui
> http://www.aros.net/~noring/omnimedia/index.html
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
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From: "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ethernet Problem
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 05:34:38 GMT
Marc,
I think I found the problem, it appears that I do not have a driver for my
ethernet card (3c900b). I finally found one but have been unable to
sucessfully install it. I will keep you updated *S*
"windows was foriegn once too...windows was foriegn once too...windows was
foriegn once too...windows was foriegn once too.............."
"Marc Andre Selig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I am receiving errors similar to the one that Javi originally wrote
about.
> > However I am using Mandrake 7.1, and I believe that I have entered the
IP of
> > my ISP's name server's correctly. Is there something else that I should
be
> > looking for? Please forgive my ignorance, I am completely new to Linux.
>
> Where exactly does your problem lie?
>
> Can you ping yourself (ping 127.0.0.1)?
> Can you ping a remote IP address (ping 216.92.94.3)?
> Can you ping a remote symbolic address (ping www.sedacon.com)?
>
> (Ideally, replace 216.92.94.3 and www.sedacon.com by addresses on your
> local internet provider's network. Also, if you have a firewall in
> place, different tests are probably required.)
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From: jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Blank Screen after Choosing OS from LILO
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 06:29:28 GMT
Thanks guys! You helped me a lot! Thought I was going to have to reformat.
Only thing is, now I'm going to have to figure out how to get my Xserver
running. Thanks again for your help! Much appreciated!!! : )
Eric wrote:
>
> jeff wrote:
> >
> > I'm extremely new to Linux; therefore, I'm not quite sure how to
resolve
> > the problem I have created. My problem goes like this...
> >
> > I have a Dell Latitude CPi R400GT with a Neomagic video card. Anyways,
I
> > was unable to load the Xserver properly (it was stuck in a baaaaad
> > resolution, something like 320x200).
> >
> > Anyhow, after doing a lot of research, I found out about XFree86. Ran
> > that... got more confused and was still stuck in the same resolution.
> >
> > I then found a site where a person said to change a line in the LILO
file.
> > This line was the vga line. I changed it from:
> >
> > vga=normal to vga=791 <-----------------
> >
> > The site indicated that this was a key factor in getting the
resolution to
> > work. After I rebooted, I got my LILO prompt, only once linux began to
> > load, the screen turned black. I have reinstalled the Linux OS
(Mandrake
> > 7.0) and the same problem occurs. I am not interested in formatting (I
have
> > some text files I created on the drive), so if anyone could help me,
I'd
> > appriciate it very much!
> >
> > I now have the correct settings (video) for my XF86Config file;
however, I
> > am unable to get into the command line (the screen is blank!!). Please
help
> > me! Thanks!!!
> >
> > - Jeff
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > --
> > Posted via CNET Help.com
> > http://www.help.com/
>
> You can bypass settings in lilo.conf at the lilo bootprompt
> At the lilo prompt you'd normally enter "linux"
> now enter "linux vga=normal"
>
> HTH,
>
> Eric
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: installation problem
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 06:29:29 GMT
I have a Gateway 633c with a 15 gig hard drive. I partition my hard drive
into one 10 gig drive for windows and a empty 4 gig drive for linux.
i tried to install Red Hat Linux 6.1 but when i tried to assign a root
partition, it gave me an error message "Boot Partition too big." Is there
any way to get around this, other than buying a new hard drive?
Please help, thanx.
--
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http://www.help.com/
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: set path
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 08:40:56 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Brian wrote:
>
> I have been unable to edit my $PATH or find any info on how to do it.
> One article said my path was in the '.profile' file, but neither /root or
> /home/<user> directories contain this file.
> I magazine article described such utilities as : addpath, delpath, edpath,
> listpath, uniqpath, but none of these appear to be in the man or info pages.
> Where is the path variable kept and how do I edit it?
>
> Thanks
> Brian
It's kept in your shell ;-)
But that should lead you directly to where to set it:
The place where you set your shell variables.
system wide : /etc/profile
single user : ~/.profile (for ksh)
~/.bash_profile (for bash)
for other shells?? I don't know, but it'll be obvious
enough.
ofcourse you can change it directly (you'll need to login again if you
need the profile changes to take effect) by export
PATH=$PATH:/your/path/goes/here
Eric
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Expanding the partition size
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 08:55:56 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
David Lee Lambert wrote:
>
> On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Eric wrote:
>
> > choon tat wrote:
> > > hi, my linux partition is running out of space in the initial created
> > > partition of 1800MB,
> > > my harddrive still have 2300MB free unpartition free space, how can i
>
> > Easiest would be to make a new separate partition for /usr (or /home ,
> > wherever you expect to use most space).
> > procedure:
> >
> > use fdisk to make a new partition (I'll assume it to be hda4)
> > mke2fs /dev/hda4
> . . .
> > mv /usr /usr_old
> > mount /usr
> >
> > That's it
> > After you've confirmed that all works well, you can rm /usr_old
>
> This is exactly the sort of system I have:
> (hda1=WIn95, hda2=/, hda3=swap, hda4=/biggy)
> However, it isn't a perfect setup. I probably would have been better off
> making /dev/hda2 my swap and /dev/hda3 into one big ext2fs partition.
> It's much harder to keep from running out of free space on two partitions
> than on one, and it's also harder to take care of things like remounting
> root read-only during shutdown.
Yep , can't do much but agree. There are good reasons to partition your
disk, but it does supply you with some extra space managing problems. (i
don't care for fsck's taking forever, nor do I have important data
stored, so I have one big partition) But if you didn't decide this to
start with, it might be difficult to change it. BTW you might try
parted: kick out the swap space, resize / and recreate a swap partition.
(Have to admit that I never tried parted though)
> In fact, that's a problem for which I'm seeking advice. I have a
> Debian/Slackware mix that I've hacked into (mostly) working order, but,
> among other things, it has this problem: the 'shutdown' procedure
> doesn't unmount my biggest partition, so fsck checks it every time I
> boot. That takes about three minutes. Between that and timeouts by
> programs looking for DNS, rebooting is something that I have to walk away
> from. I traced the problem to this: umount always says that that
> partition is busy, even during the shutdown script. I've tried 'umount
> -o remount,ro /biggy', but that doesn't seem to help either.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> ---
> DLL
Never ran in to anything like this myself, but you can use lsof to see
what files are in use on the partition. That way you may track down the
responsible program that's not shutting down properly.
Eric
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cannot get the post install to complete properly
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 08:58:57 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Glasco Taylor wrote:
>
> It simply hangs...no error messages...
>
> I reboot the box and everything is on the drive...except to see that I had
> to use a Linux boot floppy.
>
> It simply hangs...
>
> thanx for any helpp in advance
>
> "Larry Ebbitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Glasco Taylor wrote:
> > >
> > > I have been attempting to install RedHat 6.2 for days and have not been
> able
> > > to get the post install to complete. Does any one have a clue as to why
> > > this is?
> >
> > Please share your symptoms with us. Error messages, events, whatever
> tells
> > you that it isn't working.
> >
> > --
> > Larry Ebbitt - Linux + OS/2 - Atlanta
copied hint from someone else (search deja.com next time):
try the non-graphical install
eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera
Subject: Re: HELP! -- Grub tutorial?
Date: 6 Sep 2000 07:03:26 GMT
Edward A. Falk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi all; yesterday I tried to remove Caldera technology preview from
>my system and install redhat. The redhat install aborted (my
>mistake) and now when I reboot I get this "grub" prompt and can't
>get any further.
>
>Can anybody point me to a quickie tutorial on Grub?
Try:
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-faq.en.html
http://www.uruk.org/orig-grub/
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
If I had mayonnaise I'd be dangerous.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Subject: Re: Kernel source compilation failed
Date: 6 Sep 2000 06:55:53 GMT
Silviu-Alin Bacanu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>When I reboot I get:
>scsi: 0 hosts
>scsi: detected total.
>Partition check:
>VFS:Cannot open root device 08:01
>Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:01
>
>Does this mean it cannot see the SCSI sda and cannot mount the root?
Yes. You did compile SCSI support fully into the kernel, didn't you,
*not* as modules?
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"F(x) = d(y)/d(x)" "This isn't the equation we're looking
for. Move along." - [EMAIL PROTECTED], rec.arts.sf.written
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Subject: Re: lilo THINKS kernel TOO BIG?!
Date: 6 Sep 2000 06:54:20 GMT
Bayo Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>i've downloaded and compiled kernel 2.2.16.
>
>I copy System.map to /boot/System.map-2.2.16, and zImage to
>/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16... then link them to System.map and vmlinuz,
>respectively.
>
>when I run lilo to write the MBR, it prompted that the kernel is too
>big..... what's wrong?
Have you tried using 'make bzImage' instead of 'make zImage'? It uses
better compression.
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"And after the fire there came a still small voice ..."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Subject: Re: how to use tar to restore backup file
Date: 6 Sep 2000 06:58:05 GMT
@ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm use tar command to restore xx.tar.gz file(root:tar xvfZ xxx.tar.gz), but
>the cursor move one line down and nothing happen. So is the parameters i use
>correct or...?
No, they aren't. Firstly, it should be z rather than Z for gzipped
files, and secondly the filename must come immediately after the f
option (or else it tries to read from standard input, causing the
symptoms you're seeing). Try 'tar xzvf xxx.tar.gz'.
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"How can you tell an extroverted software engineer?"
"He looks at *your* shoes when he talks to you."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera
Subject: Re: HELP! -- Grub tutorial?
Date: 6 Sep 2000 07:04:32 GMT
Black Eagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, Edward A. Falk wrote:
>>My computer won't boot from CD and I lost the floppy drive [...]
>
>Download Tom's Root Boot and get yourself a bootable single floppy
>version of linux and see if you cannot get something salvagable that
>way.
*sigh*
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Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"When Irish eyes are smiling, watch your step."
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