Linux-Setup Digest #631, Volume #19 Sat, 16 Sep 00 05:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: loadlin problem (boot fails when / mounted ro) (Valentin Guillen)
Anyone installed 7.1 on NEC Versa 4050H laptop? ("Chris Friedl")
Re: newbie LILO dual-boot question (Valentin Guillen)
"Boot failed" error REDHAT 6.2 (MK0572)
Re: Trouble setting up lynx with Debian 2.2 (Colin Watson)
Re: Any idea for a newbie Linuxier?? (David Efflandt)
Re: Printer Help ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Problems with some modules ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: HELP: My partition table got roached. (David Efflandt)
Re: too many objects after rebuilding kernel!! (Gernot Fink)
Re: Setting up cable modem and DHCP internet access (ray)
Mylex DCE376 - Any chance? (marcel)
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From: Valentin Guillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: loadlin problem (boot fails when / mounted ro)
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 06:08:30 GMT
Elliott,
There are a couple of (several, actually) ways to use loadlin. You can
invoke it during the config.sys read at DOS boot time. You can
alternately run it from a DOS command prompt once your box has done an
otherwise normal DOS boot. You can run it from a script while within
windoz. You can launch it from the win9x desktop by clicking an icon
linked to a small batch file. You can put the loadlin and image file on
any DOS boot diskette you have lying about, and invoke a loadlin boot
immediately after having booted DOS with the disk.
I've tried and regularly use each of these methods EXCEPT the config.sys
method. It always seemed to be a method which required far too much
effort to use. Why would I edit/alter my config.sys just to boot
Linux? Not me!
For the last five years I have booted innumerable boxes with the method
described here by Micky Stein. It works, and works every time, and is
easy. Plus it doesn't involve mucking up my DOS configurations. And
you do want to mount it in the batch file as ro or read only. During
the bootup, linux remounts the drives normally part way into the linux
boot up sequence.
Here's a batch file example straight from the loadlin README file:
rem Sample DOS batch file to boot Linux.
rem First, ensure any unwritten disk buffers are flushed:
smartdrv /C
rem Start the LOADLIN process:
c:\loadlin\loadlin c:\loadlin\zimage root=/dev/hdb2 ro vga=3
^C
This example assumes a person's computer has the nasty windoz/dos
caching program called smartdrv installed. No big deal.
Regards,
Valentin Guillen
Martin wrote:
>
> I am having trouble getting loadlin.exe to work properly and I have
> looked all over the place trying to fix this one. Here's the problem,
> if I use the command
> shell=c:\boot\loadlin.exe c:\boot\2217 root=/dev/sdb1 ro vga=771
> in the config.sys loadlin will load the kernel, but when it gets to the
> point of re-mounting the root device rw it comes up with a whole bunch
> of messages similar to
> /etc/rc.d/rc.S:/bin/uname: Permission denied
> for each of the commands in in rc.S and as a result will not boot
> linux. So, I tried booting linux with the command
> shell=c:\boot\loadlin.exe c:\boot\2217 root=/dev/sdb1 rw vga=771
> and now it boots, but cannot check the root device on boot plus it does
> not shutdown properly because when it umounts the root dev. it then
> re-mounts it ro and tries to run /sbin/sync and reboot but gets the
> whole Permission denied thing again. Anyway, any help here would rule.
> BTW, I have linux on sdb1, dos/win on sda1, swap on sda5 and then two
> sr's, no IDE stuff, and an Adaptec 2930 controller...
> -Elliott
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From: "Chris Friedl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Anyone installed 7.1 on NEC Versa 4050H laptop?
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 06:39:58 GMT
I got a spare drive for my old NEC Versa 4050H laptop, so I thought I'd try
an install Mandrake 7.1.
I'm having trouble with the graphics card and monitor selection. When I do
get something to work, I only get about 3/4 of the screen visible at 800x600
(256 colors). It should be able to do ths easily. If anyone's got this to
work, can they tell me what X-server settings they used.
Also, I have a Xircom PCMCIA ethernet card. Can anyone tell me what network
driver to choose. I've tried a dozen or so fromthe long list but they all
fail.
Be Well and Happy Always
Chris
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From: Valentin Guillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: newbie LILO dual-boot question
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 06:50:53 GMT
Kris,
First things first. Lilo has an executable and a configuration file. =
Works something like this. =
You run an executable called lilo, and tell it to take the info in
lilo.conf, and to do the necessary things with the configuration info
and make things works right. Syntax is similar to this:
/usr/sbin/lilo /boot/lilo.conf =
By editing the lilo.conf file, you tell the system where the booting
info is at (MBR or root partition of Linux), what drive, what partition,
name of booting image, etc. =
So, in your case, by editing the lilo.conf file, and then reruning the
lilo executable, you can tell it to put the boot info anywhere you want
it. When editing the lilo.conf file, you can edit the info into the
file to create a delay in booting so that you can see the boot options,
to also see any bootup messages you wish, or to not default into
anything, but rather to wait for some input from the operator before
doing anything. This is where you would put in any of your other
operating systems, like BeOS/OS-2/BSD/NT/ETC. =
Alternately, if you put the lilo onto the boot partition, it won't
interfere with any other boot managers you might have and use. Some
people chose to not use Lilo at all, but use other linux loaders like
bootlin, loadlin, or others. People often choose this option as it
doesn't provide a way for the linux installation to touch or muck-up
your current booting manager or programs.
My lilo configurations provide for a message to flash onto the screen
with instructions for how the user should select their OS for this
session. It's here:
=C9=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=
=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=
=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=BB
=BA =BA=
=BA Welcome to LiLo on Valentin's laptop computer... =BA=
=BA LiLo allows us to offer multiple operating systems =BA=
=BA (GNU/Linux, DOS, and OS/2) on this single computer. =BA=
=BA =BA=
=CC=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=
=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=
=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=B9
=BA =BA=
=BA Press the TAB key for a list of boot options =BA=
=BA Pressing ENTER without entering any options will =BA=
=BA invoke a default boot into SuSE 6.3 =BA=
=BA =BA=
=C7=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=
=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=
=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=B6
=BA=B2=B2=B1=B1=B0=B0~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~=
~~~=B0=B0=B1=B1=B2=B2=BA
=BA=B2=B2=B1=B1=B0=B0 ENJOY YOUR FLIGHT! =
=B0=B0=B1=B1=B2=B2=BA
=BA=B2=B2=B1=B1=B0=B0..........................................=
=2E..=B0=B0=B1=B1=B2=B2=BA
=C8=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=
=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=
=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=BC
Of course, some of these characters only display correctly at the
console. The lilo.conf file which controls my lilo is set to NOT boot
into anything without some input from the user. =
You REALLY need to read the lilo man pages or some lilo advice at one of
th popular support sites, like http://www.mandrakeuser.org =
http://www.suse.com or any others. Lilo is very easy (not rocket
science) to understand, if you just take ten minutes to read a how-to or
a couple of paragraphs of explanation.
Regards,
Valentin Guillen =
=
wrote:
> =
> First fysical disk: 2 partitions: 1 with NT and 1 with Win98 (using NT =
boot
> manager)
> Now :
> a second fysical disk with RedHat 6.2.
> =
> I've installed using KDE Workstation (not CUSTOM install) and I believe=
> that's the reason I didn't get the chance to choose where to install LI=
LO
> (on the MBR or not).
> =
> Anyway, when booting I go directly to Linux and I have to type "DOS" re=
al
> quick(!) at the LILO prompt to get to my old and trusty NT boot manager=
=2E
> :-)
> =
> Question: can I get a nice and friendly menu at booting letting me choo=
se
> what O/S I want ?
> =
> Thanks,
> Kris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (MK0572)
Subject: "Boot failed" error REDHAT 6.2
Date: 16 Sep 2000 07:14:49 GMT
Made floppy boot with rawrite (RH6.2). Receive error message: "BOOT FAILED".
Hardware: VIP 486 Motherboard (AM8887)
AMD 5X86
32MB RAM
3 IDE HDD ( 2 are WIN95 FAT16 )
Machine accepted install of STORMLINUX 2000 without difficulty.
Any feedback?
MK0572
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Subject: Re: Trouble setting up lynx with Debian 2.2
Date: 16 Sep 2000 07:26:22 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>dpkg -p menu gives: version 2.1.5-3
>
>ldd /usr/bin/update-menus gives:
> libstdc++-libc6.0-1.so.2 => not found
> libm.so.6 => /lib/libm/so.6 (0x40017000)
> libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40034000)
> /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x400000000)
Having thought about this for a while, I still have absolutely no idea
how this happened. :) Try downloading the menu package straight off
ftp.debian.org or one of its mirrors (you'll find it in
/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/admin), and installing it with
'dpkg -i menu_2.1.5-3.deb'.
>Yes, you're right, lynx seems to run fine, except that it spends a lot
>of time on startup looking for "Not-Yet-Configured" and its varients.
That would make sense. You could edit /etc/lynx.cfg yourself and do what
the post-installation script for lynx does, which is to replace
"Not-Configured-Yet" on the STARTFILE line with the home page of your
choice and "news.server.dom" on the NNTPSERVER line with the hostname of
your news server.
>When I try to configure it in dselect, I can't, and I don't know another
>way to configure it.
Well, if you wanted to configure it more or less properly but just
without the broken menus, you could try 'chmod -x
/usr/bin/update-menus'. That way, scripts won't try to update your menus
but will carry on with the rest of their configuration, and you should
be able to get a dselect run to complete normally. (In this case you
don't need to edit /etc/lynx.cfg yourself. :))
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"On Usenet, pedantry is not in the service of beauty. It's not even
in the service of truth. It's in the service of EVEN MORE PEDANTRY."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Any idea for a newbie Linuxier??
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 07:39:07 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 16 Sep 2000 01:31:21 +0300, li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am looking forward for infos about printer set up.
> I tried the on line manuals but the result is always negative .
Which Linux distro? For example RedHat has printtool for setting it up,
but printing was broken in RH 6.1 unless you added following to
/etc/conf.modules:
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
For other distros you could use magicfilter or apsfilter to automatically
print various file types besides just plain text.
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/ http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Printer Help
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 21:55:17 -0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, james montoya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can some direct me or give some info on setting up a windows only
> printer, HP Deskjet 932c. I'm running redhat 6.1. Any suggestions?
> All help is greatly appreciated.
Put the 'Doze CD in the CD drive and turn the computer on if your
CD drive is bootable. If not, get to a DO$ prompt, change to the CD
drive and run setup.exe.
That's the ONLY way you can get most 'Doze-only printers to
work: by installing them in 'Doze.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Problems with some modules
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 22:04:46 -0600
In article <8pr0qf$sl1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Nisi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a module that a harware vendor supplied to me. I can't get the source
> for the module and so can't compile it for my kernel version.
>
> The vendor said to turn off 'Require kernel module version' in the kernel.
> So to do this I have to recompile the kernel, but since there is a newer
> kernel out (2.2.17) I decided to use that.
>
> I included everything I needed into the new kernel, did all the proper
> makes, set up lilo, and rebooted.......the vendor supplied module works
> fine, but some of my other modules fail during boot. I seem to get module
> dependency errors......
>
> the modules that fail are:
>
> network card
> usb (not really needed)
> and some IPChains modules....
>
> (this is on a Mandrake system).......
>
> I can't seem to find out why this occurs or find any info on how to fix
> it......
The only thing I can say is, recompile and read ALL of the help files
you can. There are numerous help files that say to turn some options
on and some off for specific things. In particular, there are some of
those related to network boards, firewalling, parallel port usage,
loopback devices, etc.
This applies to all releases of linux, not particular to the Mandrake
distro. I've failed on the firewall options numerous time, for
instance, and I've compiled kernels lots of times.
One rule I usually follow to avoid too many headaches: modules
that aren't necessary are better than missing modules when one
is needed. I have nothing M$-related on the premises. But, I
always compile the capability into modules just in case. This
doesn't always work. Some modules always error out for me. I
just make sure to turn those options off next time.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: HELP: My partition table got roached.
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 07:57:35 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Reneltje Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Don't know how it happened, but my partition table got slammed.
>
>I'm running a RH 6.0 system with 2.2.12 kernel.
>
>I had a number of partitions setup roughly like this:
>
>/dev/sda1 / 1GB
>/dev/sda2 swap
>/dev/sda3 /home 8GB
>/dev/sda4 /usr 8GB
>
>I have an 18G drive, and my root partition was 1 gig,
>with the rest of the drive carved up evenly between home
>and usr. Now, my home and user partitions are gone
>and I'm left with an intact root partition and another
>"Extended" partition which has the rest of the disk.
>
>I can boot the system because my root partition is happy,
>but now all my files that lived under /home are stranded.
>
>So now it looks like:
>
>/dev/sda1 / 1GB
>/dev/sda2 16GB
>
>
>So... is there any way to get back my partitions?
>I used that RH disk druid tool to set up my partitions.
>
>Does anyone know if that tool makes a backup of my partition settings
>anywhere?
>
>Is there a backup partition table stored anywhere on disk?
>
>Any ideas I can try before I go and reinstall thus losing
>my data.
I don't know if it works with scsi, but there was a recent discussion
about restoring a corrupted partition table in the redhat.config
newsgroup about finding what partitions might be on the drive with:
http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/
and run gpart:
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/ http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gernot Fink)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: too many objects after rebuilding kernel!!
Date: 16 Sep 2000 08:04:54 GMT
In article <8pucef$qh9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"A derelict Engineer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've installed RedHat Linux 6.1, and it installed and loaded without problem
> However, I needed to make a couple of minor changes to the kernel (exporting
> a couple of functions, in preparation for installing a special driver). I
> ran 'make menuconfig', but didn't change anything (was just making sure
> loadable modules were enabled) and then ran 'make bzImage', then copied the
> new bzImage to /boot, and ran lilo.
Compile and install the modules like: make modules modules_install
>
> Now, when I reboot, when it gets to looking for loadable modules, I get
> HUNDREDS of "unable to load module: blahblah.o" messages. Everything seems
> to run fine once it boots, but why is it doing this?? Did I actually have
> to go thru every selection in menuconfig and turn off every item that I
> don't actually use??
>
> This never happened to me with kernel 2.0... I'm very confused!! Can anyone
> shed some light on this??
>
> Dan Miller
>
>
--
MFG Gernot
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From: ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Setting up cable modem and DHCP internet access
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 08:06:07 GMT
Luc Van Bogaert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to Linux and I've just installed Linux Mandrake 7.1. I want to
> setup internet access via DHCP and cable modem. Networking, tcp/ip etc.
> is not installed yet. My NIC is recognized correctly by the system.
>
> Could anyone please outline which steps I will have to take to get this
> working. What packages to install? What configurations to make?, etc.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Luc Van Bogaert
Actually, all that is installed. As root, from a command line try
"pump -i eth0".
Then type "ifconfig" and you are likely to have an IP and DNS and all
other details
attended to. For lots of detailed information on your lease, try "pump
-s". Note that
the computer will renew your lease unattended, when it is time. Good Luck!
Ray
--
Ray R. Jones
Errors have been made. Others will be blamed.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
HTTP://gordo.penguinpowered.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (marcel)
Subject: Mylex DCE376 - Any chance?
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 08:38:17 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi
any chance to get my old Mylex DCE376
caching SCSI controller to work with Linux?
It's in the Linux Hardware Compatibility HOWTO
as "in WD emulation mode only". So what does that
mean? Any jumpers to set to make it behave like
a WD controller?
Thanks in advance,
Marcel
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