Linux-Setup Digest #171, Volume #20 Wed, 6 Dec 00 09:13:06 EST
Contents:
Re: windows VFAT partitions too fat?! (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
Re: RH7 - can't get video configuration to work for X (Eric)
Re: Repartioning: invalid character 48 in exportstr for 0x00 (Eric)
Re: fuzzy cirrus logic (C. L. Lewis)
Re: Christmas Virus Warning (Eric)
Where to get all keyboard keysyms names connected to visual character? ("psaf")
etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S14nfslock restart is taking longer than expected to complete.
("Jerry �P")
Egcs or cpp ("Davide")
changing link ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Howto mirror a drive ("Woody")
Capslock key????? ("Mickey")
Re: Init.d stops after a given number of started services (Pierre-Philippe Ravier)
Re: I'm looking for info on bootscripts (Noble Pepper)
Re: apache security and ipchains (Adam Weeks)
Re: environment variables problem ("ne...")
Does anyone know!?!?! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: unstalling - unistalling packages ("Peter Tselios")
openSSH configuration problem ("Peter Tselios")
Re: I am confident you will help me with "LI" from LILO ("Peter Tselios")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
Subject: Re: windows VFAT partitions too fat?!
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 09:15:50 GMT
Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> >disk /dev/hda: 255 heads 63 sectors 2498 cylinders
>> >> >units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>> >> >
>> >> >device boot start end blocks id system
>> >> >
>> >> >/dev/hda1 * 1 255 2048224+ b win95 fat32
>> >> >partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary:
>> >> >phys=(1023,15,63) should be (1023,254,63)
>> >> >
>>
>> The above tables are made using a 16 heads translation (end head is
>> 15), while the usual BIOS setting for a disk this size would be LBA
>> mode with a 255 heads setting.
>
>I figured that this was what you meant
>
>> The partition table CHS values however may be correct, if the BIOS is
>> set to NORMAL mode. This can be the case, since the fdisk information
>> may not be correct.
>>
>> Another way to verify that the tables are made using a 16 heads
>> translation is to look at the number 2048224+ for hda1. This is
>> 2*2048224+1 sectors = 4096449 sectors. In front of hda1 we usually
>> have 63 sectors. Then (4096449+63)/16/63 = 4064 is a full number of
>> cylinders.
>
>I don't get this part, using 256 instead of 16 also gives an integer
No BIOS uses a 256 heads translation.
>> If the partition tables match a BIOS setting, but the BIOS setting
>> currently is wrong, the solution is to redetect the disk in BIOS, and
>> then manually set the correct mode if the mode still is wrong.
>
>In the BIOS you mean?
Yes.
>Or with fdisk -> expert -> set CHS values?
>
>> For programs that use the BIOS for reading and writing the disk, such
>> as DOS and Lilo, the result of having wrong partition tables, or
>> primary partitions that do not end at a cylinder boundary, is
>> unpredictable. The reason for this is some subtle BIOS features.
>
>Again I don't really understand this.
>I would understand that starting boundaries must be cylinder aligned,
>But ending cylinders I don't understand. Even if DOS fdisk would make
>the mistake and
>make a FS that extends beyond the partition boundary ( IIRC DOS always
>assumes that partition boundaries are cylinder aligned), no severe error
>would be made. As long as the next partition still starts at the cyl.
>boundary, the FS on that partition would not be touched. Maybe DOS would
>be unable to access the last few data sectors though?
>
>Thanks for your time,
>
>Eric
The explanation is the subtle BIOS features. If the primary partitions
does not end at a cylinder boundary, the BIOS might read and write the
disk wrong.
--
Svend Olaf
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH7 - can't get video configuration to work for X
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 10:44:50 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
TSHACK wrote:
>
> I've got Linux 7.0.
>
> I've got an older 200mhz pentium computer.
>
> My video card (on the motherboard) is SiS5597/5598 (as per autoprobe and
> Windows boot screen), with 2mb video memory.
>
> My monitor is an Impression 3 Plus 3428NG.
>
> Both of these show up in the hardware database when trying to install, but I
> can't find them on the Hardware Compatibility List on www.redhat.com.
>
> Though I got this configuration working once, I did a reinstall and I can't
> get it working again.
>
> I keep getting "There is a problem with your configuration" and have to go
> back.
>
Skip the X configuration during install,
continue with the rest of the install,
boot linux and run Xconfigurator
Eric
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat.list
Subject: Re: Repartioning: invalid character 48 in exportstr for 0x00
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 10:48:05 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
David V Bowen wrote:
>
> I have a Gateway Solo laptop 9300XL running Windows 98 and Linux
> RedHat 7.0 as a dual boot (using Bootmagic). I recently used
> PartionMagic 6.0 to resize the partions slightly (by 500MB), and
> everything seems to have gone fine except except when I boot into
> Linux I get a whole slew of messages related to the start-up files all
> of the form
>
> /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit ... invalid character 48 in exportstr for 0x00
>
> This last part is always identical. The boot continues fine, however,
> and once completed, there don't seem to be any problems. I get
> identical errors on shutting down the machine too. So, three
> questions:
>
> - does anyone have any idea what this means?
>
> - Is it serious?
>
> - Should I/How do I cure the problem?
>
I don't know how serious this is, but I'd run a fsck on the partitions
you resized.
Did you make the partitions larger, or smaller (check their filling with
df)
Eric
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From: C. L. Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fuzzy cirrus logic
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 09:26:13 GMT
;-) Got sneaking suspicions the "J" might have something to do with it.
Where are you in Japan? I lived up on Hokkaido for almost five years.
Close to Sapporo. Learned to ski on Moya Yama(sp?) Watshi no Nihongo
scoshi rusty. ;-) Been about thirty five years.
Most of the IBM clones can take a video card in one of the slots. Some
of them have a jumper on the MB someplace to disable the onboard video,
some will do it auto. One early IBM PS-1 I had was auto, one 486 had to
have the jumper removed.
Ah hell, I remember back in 95 blowing a hundred bucks to get my grubby
hands on a copy of Win95 to put on a 386/25 with 8 meg of ram when I
should have spent it on at least an Evergreen CPU upgrade. ;-)
Best wishes and good talking with you.
Charles
In article <90kh79$2dv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Nigel Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> a new OS but it was only ten bucks and I got the magazine as well.
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> Nigel
>
>
--
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an ideal spoon to dose it.
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Christmas Virus Warning
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 10:50:41 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nigel wrote:
>
> Our IT dept. have received a Virus warning this morning.The virus
> appears as a file attachment called Navidad which is part of an
> e-christmas card.
> If you receive such an e-mail please do not
> open it!
>
:-)
Tell me more,
What does it do,
Wipe my entire windows partition?
Merry christmas, and "feliz navidad"
(Excuse my spelling, I'm not spanish)
Eric
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From: "psaf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Where to get all keyboard keysyms names connected to visual character?
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 11:10:20 +0100
Hello,
I am trying to set up my Czech keyboard, I use a special layout I am used to
from Windblows.
Non of the keyboards available in my SuSE distribution describe the layout I
use.
I already fixed most of the keys in my special keymap.
What I miss is the names of all keysyms conected to a character they
describe. ( to see it visually )
Something like I can get from "dumpkeys -l" but instead of the numbers to
see the actual character they describe.
@ at
# numbersign
~ asciitilde
but for all characters!
I miss things like - SAK, cedilla, grave, diaeresis, circumflex etc. - what
character do they describe??
Is there some command to print the character if I pass in the hex number??
I just can�t set up the rest of the keyboard without having this.
Also in which file can I set up KDE to use proper font for my keyboard
layout? Something similar I set in
/etc/rc.config - console font, unicode map, screenmap, keymap ?? It works
for console but not for KDE.
Any hints very welcome
Pav
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From: "Jerry �P" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.rpm,tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S14nfslock restart is taking longer than expected to complete.
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 18:26:19 +0800
Hello,
my machine is Redhat 6.2, and When i exit Linuxconf, it states that:
The command
/etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S14nfslock restart
is taking longer than expected to complete
Please take action
Skip (o) this command
Abort ( ) this session
Kill [ ] this command
i usually choose kill the command, and when i view the log, it states that:
Checking base configuration xx
x x Checking kernel's modules
xx
x x Mounting local volumes
xx
x x Checking files permissions
xx
x x Checking LILO
xx
x x Executing some Sysv init scripts
xx
x x Executing: /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S10network reload
xx
x x Executing: /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S11portmap start
xx
x x > Starting portmapper: execvp: Permission denied
xx
x x > [FAILED]
xx
x x * return 255
xx
x x Executing: /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S14nfslock restart
xx
x x * The command takes more than 15 seconds to
execute, odd xx
x x * killed by operator
xx
x x Grabbing some late messages from command
/etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S14nfslock resxx
x x > lockdsvc: Connection refused
xx
done.
How does it occur and how can i fix it ? thank you for your help , i am a
junior only.
Jerry
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From: "Davide" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Egcs or cpp
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 10:30:15 GMT
I downloaded Mandrake 7.2 and on the installation disk there are both the
egcs packages and the cpp packages.
Which are the main differences between them?
Which one is better?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: changing link
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 10:54:17 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am trying to get my modem working and so far the most success I've
had has been in getting modemtool to assign it to /dev/tts2. Setserial
just gives me an input/output error with every set of options I've read
to try. I notice there is a link from /dev/ttys2 to modem or vice
versa. I've read the man page for link, but I'm lost. How do I change
the link to get my modem to be ttys4? Tia
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From: "Woody" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Howto mirror a drive
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 12:04:00 +0100
Hi,
I have two scisi drives A and B. A has the Linux os and B is empty.
Can I use B as a mirror of A? If so, how?
Or can I transfer all the cgf files to B as an auto backup? if so how?
TIA
Mike
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From: "Mickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Capslock key?????
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 12:07:28 +0100
Help!!
I am a long time Descent 3 fanatic (Its a game! See www.lokigames.com) and
since last year I did some private "massive research" to find out which
control setup was "perfect" (at least for me).
So now my setup allows me to sit very relaxed even in insane dogfights since
I have every control need with millimeters of my finger. 99% of the time I
don't need to move fingers and I can slide, fire missiles and fire primary -
all at the same time since my controls have been split up between both
hands.
Now a problem has shown up which (I hope no) could mean the end of my gaming
under Linux (since I *only* play D3).
I recently purchase D3 for Linux from www.lokigames.com!
But:
I can't use the CAPSLOCK key for the afterburner function - under Win32 is
works OK. Under Linux it "sticks"!
That is: It keeps being activated when hit until you hit it again - a true
caps LOCK function ;)
HOW do I:
a) Make this key behave as under Win32...
b) Reassign the CAPSLOCK key?
Do you need to change some kernel stuff and recompile the kernel? Or can it
be done by simply changing something in a config file?
Help! Or my venture with Linux dies as soon as it begun ;)
/Mickey - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Pierre-Philippe Ravier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Init.d stops after a given number of started services
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 11:42:18 GMT
Well, things are going relatively better. I eliminated some services
from my system and now I can even reach KDE 2 !
Here are the services I removed :
amd
atd
cfd
gpm
nfslock
postfix
rwhod
sybase
anacron
autofs
fetchmail
nfs
numlock
rawdevices
smb
However this is far from perfect. In fact, when I try to start a KDE
application it fails with a SIGSEV signal.
After some investigations I found that my localhost loop doesn't work !!
Here the result of a ifconfig -a command :
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:04:28:F4:02
inet addr:192.9.101.187 Bcast:192.9.101.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:249 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:2
TX packets:116 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x200
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
LOOPBACK MTU:3924 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
Here is the result of ping localhost :
PING localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): 56 octets data
--- localhost.localdomain ping statistics ---
90 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
(I stopped it with CTRL/C).
If I try to ping myself, but using the real host's name (which is
barmy), I obtain :
PING Barmy.popo.com (192.9.101.187): 56 octets data
sendto: No buffer space available
ping: sent 64 octets to Barmy.popo.com, ret=-1
sendto: No buffer space available
ping: sent 64 octets to Barmy.popo.com, ret=-1
sendto: No buffer space available
ping: sent 64 octets to Barmy.popo.com, ret=-1
sendto: No buffer space available
ping: sent 64 octets to Barmy.popo.com, ret=-1
sendto: No buffer space available
ping: sent 64 octets to Barmy.popo.com, ret=-1
--- Barmy.popo.com ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
If I ping my machine from another box, it works perfectly. From my
linux machine I can also accessother hosts, surf the net, ftp, etc etc.
I can also login to my linux box from outside.
Therefore I think that the local loop is severely screwed.
Could you please help me ?
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From: Noble Pepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I'm looking for info on bootscripts
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 06:08:37 -0600
Anastasios Marmaras wrote:
> I am looking for information about init and boot scripts. I have read the
> init and inittab manpages, the power2bash and Linux From Scratch manuals
> and O'Reilly's Running Linux but couldn't find enough information to be
> able to actually tamper with these files. (without disastrous effects that
> is...:))
>
> If there is anyone here who can point me to more online reading material
> on the subject or suggest a good book I would really appreciate the help.
>
> Anastasios Marmaras ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )
>
>
>
The December 2000 issue of Linux Magazine has an article about startup
scripts. It has a link to
http://www.njnet.edu.cn/info/ebook/os/linux/lsg15.htm
among others.
If you are wanting to modify the scripts themselves find some info on bash
scripting.
Before messing with this find an alternative way to boot, maybe a
boot/rescue floppy. Learn to use vi or whatever editor is in your
alternative and you will be able to fix your screw ups.
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From: Adam Weeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: apache security and ipchains
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 13:35:31 GMT
Darren Welson wrote:
> I have a very tight firewall equipped with IPCHAINS, SQUID (web proxy), and
> SOCKSv5. I also have an intranet Apache web server set up that I would like
> to allow SELECT individuals to access via the internet. I am not sure how
> best to handle this as to minimize my security risk, but allow these select
> users to access the site as long as they have a password.
> What is the best way to do this?
>
> The firewall and the web server are on the same machine.
The most basic way to add some web security with apache, of course, is to just
add some authentication to your whole site. If you know any incoming info
about your "viewers" you could also just allow their IP, or domain also.
<Directory /document_root>
AuthName "Only my friends"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /conf/psswd
Require valid-user
</Directory>
Does that help??
You can always allow them through at the firewall (by IP or something) and just
redirect the port, but keep track of which security is where.
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From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: environment variables problem
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 13:37:22 GMT
On Dec 5, 2000 at 20:42, Robert Stia eloquently wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>I am evidently missing something here. I really hope that
>somebody can set me straight. I also hope that I am in the
>right newsgroup for this question.
>
>Attempting to intall qt-x11-2.2.1 over an older version
>of qt installed with RH 6. Untarred and put it in /usr/local
>which created a /qt folder in /usr/local. qt install then says
>to check environment variables in the file .profile in the home
>directory, and if there was none, to create it, and that
>it should have the following lines:
>
> QTDIR=/usr/local/qt
> PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$PATH
> MANPATH=$QTDIR/man:$MANPATH
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$QTDIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
> export QTDIR PATH MANPATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
>Then went looking for.profile and found only the following;
>/root/autosave/#\!home\!.profile This is what was in that file
>for the environment variables:
>
> QTDIR=/usr/local/qt
> PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$/usr/local/qt
> MANPATH=$QTDIR/man:$MANPATH
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$QTDIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
> export QTDIR PATH MANPATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
>I made a copy of that and placed it in /home and rebooted.
>Now, when I try to do a ./configure, I get the following complaint:
>
> The environment variable $QTDIR is not set correctly. It is
> currently set to "", but it should be set to this directory,
> which is "/usr/local/qt".
>
>I then went back and edited .profile to exactly the same as the qt
>example. Got the same complaint.
>
>Can somebody please help me out here?
These changes should be made in /home/<user>/.profile and
/root/.profile or /etc/profile. After making them, log out
and log back in and they should take effect.
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Tip of the Day:
Never fry bacon in the nude.
[Correction: always fry bacon in the nude; you'll learn not to burn it]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Does anyone know!?!?!
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 13:32:17 GMT
Hello,
I am trying to run the talk command but I get the message that
the connection is refused. I changed the disable = yes to no for the
talk file in the /etc/xinet.d/talk but still get the error. Am I
missing some other config file? I could not find any usefull
documention on the configuration of this. Any help would be much
appreciated. Thanks in advance.
John
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From: "Peter Tselios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: unstalling - unistalling packages
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 15:48:39 +0200
No I do not mean tgz. For those packages I have the pkgtool
But I mean the tar.gz. Something I do not understand is the links with the
libraries. If I simply delete the files, and th .so files, how I will be
able to update the libraries (ldconfig??)
Thank you,
Peter
Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Peter Tselios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > a) How can I unistall a tar.gz package? For example, I have istalled
> > apach 1.3.9 + mod_ssl and I want to upgrade it. The obvious solution is
to
> > install the new package in the same directory as the old one. But, I
want to
> > make a "clean" installation.
>
> Well, remove the files you installed. Get the list from the tar.gz (I
> don't know of anyoe that distributes binaries that way. DOn't you mean
> .tgz?).
>
> Peter
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From: "Peter Tselios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: openSSH configuration problem
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 15:56:22 +0200
Hallo,
I really need to have a secure connection (with root privileges) to a
Slackware 7 linux box from various terminals (W9x) and seems that only
"secure" selution is ssh. OK. no problem, I installed the package, but I
have the gollowing message:
error: Could not load host key: /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_key: No such file or
direc
tory
Disabling protocol version 1
error: Could not load DSA host key: /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_dsa_key
Disabling protocol version 2
sshd: no hostkeys available -- exiting.
sshd: no hostkeys available -- exiting.
I understand that I have to generate a private and a public key that must be
installed in /usr/..
Reading the man pages was very helpful about the connections etc but nothing
about the creation of the HOST'S key. Should I add the command "ssh-keygen"
in the init script or what?
Thank you,
Peter Tselios
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From: "Peter Tselios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I am confident you will help me with "LI" from LILO
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 15:57:35 +0200
Have you tried to add the "linear" option in your lolo conf?
It worked for me in ALL dual boot machines I have installed linux.
Peter
Ross Jendrejcik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:90gaqc$bse$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Boot from boot disk and type "lilo"
>
> "Dan Jacobson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:9036u2$mal$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I am confident you will help me with "LI" from LILO. This is
> > as far as my Mandrake 7.2 boot gets. The boot from floppy works though.
> > I replaced grub as you said lilo has better documentation, this fact is
> > mentioned
> > on the lilo and lilo.conf man pages also, though they say not where that
> > documentation
> > is to be had. Grub had stopped after "stage1".
> > Anyways, below I present some BIOS info,
> > my lilo.conf, fdisk -l, and lilo -t -v -v -v output.
> > I have only tinkered with the lba/linear choice in
> > the default lilo.conf, which I restored back anyway.
> > Yes one doesn't use -t to install, I know.
> > No, I don't think it's a bios thing, as I remember previous
> > sucesses with past versions of Mandrake.
> > I do note that while I'm looking at the stalled "LI",
> > above it there is Bios info:
> > Primary Slave Disk: CHS, UDMA
> > whereas the Primary Master is LBA, UMDA.
> > Therefore my boot disk (hdb) isn't LBA? Now what?
> > I am confident that if I present all required information,
> > you experts will solve my problem. Tell me if there is
> > more information needed.
> >
> > BIOS Date: 01/22/98
> > BIOS Type: Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG
> > BIOS ID: 01/22/98-SiS-5598-<SP97_V>C-00
> > BIOS Eval: #401A0-0106v
> > Chipset: SiS 5597 rev 2
> > Superio: Winbond 877F (use 87h) rev 0 found at port 3F0h
> >
> > # cat /etc/lilo.conf
> >
> > boot=/dev/hdb
> > map=/boot/map
> > install=/boot/boot.b
> > vga=normal
> > default=linux
> > keytable=/boot/us.klt
> > lba32
> > #linear #tried them both
> > prompt
> > timeout=150
> > message=/boot/message
> > menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
> > image=/boot/vmlinuz
> > label=linux
> > root=/dev/hdb1
> > initrd=/boot/initrd.img
> > append=" hdc=ide-scsi"
> > read-only
> > image=/boot/vmlinuz
> > label=failsafe
> > root=/dev/hdb1
> > initrd=/boot/initrd.img
> > append=" hdc=ide-scsi failsafe"
> > read-only
> > other=/dev/hda1
> > label=windows
> > table=/dev/hda
> > map-drive=0x80
> > to=0x81
> > map-drive=0x81
> > to=0x80
> > other=/dev/fd0
> > label=floppy
> > unsafe
> >
> >
> > # fdisk -l
> >
> > Unable to read /dev/hdc
> >
> > Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1867 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
> >
> > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> > /dev/hda1 * 1 1020 8193118+ b Win95 FAT32
> > /dev/hda2 1021 1867 6803527+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
> > /dev/hda5 1021 1867 6803496 b Win95 FAT32
> >
> > Disk /dev/hdb: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 58168 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
> >
> > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> > /dev/hdb1 * 1 1015 511528+ 83 Linux
> > /dev/hdb2 1016 58168 28805112 5 Extended
> > /dev/hdb5 1016 1522 255496+ 82 Linux swap
> > /dev/hdb6 1523 7617 3071848+ 83 Linux
> > /dev/hdb7 7618 17863 5163952+ 83 Linux
> >
> >
> > # lilo -t -v -v -v
> >
> > Warning: /dev/hdb is not on the first disk
> > The boot sector and the map file have *NOT* been altered.
> > LILO version 21.5 (test mode), Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner
Almesberger
> > Extensions beyond version 21 Copyright (C) 1999-2000 John Coffman
> > Released 18-Jul-2000 and compiled at 11:17:43 on Oct 3 2000.
> >
> > Reading boot sector from /dev/hdb
> > Merging with /boot/boot.b
> > Device 0x0341: BIOS drive 0x81, 16 heads, 58168 cylinders,
> > 63 sectors. Partition offset: 63 sectors.
> > Secondary loader: 11 sectors.
> > Device 0x0341: BIOS drive 0x81, 16 heads, 58168 cylinders,
> > 63 sectors. Partition offset: 63 sectors.
> > Mapping message file /boot/message
> > Device 0x0341: BIOS drive 0x81, 16 heads, 58168 cylinders,
> > 63 sectors. Partition offset: 63 sectors.
> > Message: 0 sectors.
> > Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz
> > Device 0x0341: BIOS drive 0x81, 16 heads, 58168 cylinders,
> > 63 sectors. Partition offset: 63 sectors.
> > Setup length is 7 sectors.
> > Mapped 0 sectors.
> > Mapping RAM disk /boot/initrd.img
> > Device 0x0341: BIOS drive 0x81, 16 heads, 58168 cylinders,
> > 63 sectors. Partition offset: 63 sectors.
> > RAM disk: 0 sectors.
> > Added linux *
> > <dev=0xb1,hd=7,cyl=140,sct=153>
> > "ro root=341 hdc=ide-scsi"
> > Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz
> > Device 0x0341: BIOS drive 0x81, 16 heads, 58168 cylinders,
> > 63 sectors. Partition offset: 63 sectors.
> > Setup length is 7 sectors.
> > Mapped 0 sectors.
> > Mapping RAM disk /boot/initrd.img
> > Device 0x0341: BIOS drive 0x81, 16 heads, 58168 cylinders,
> > 63 sectors. Partition offset: 63 sectors.
> > RAM disk: 0 sectors.
> > Added failsafe
> > <dev=0xb1,hd=7,cyl=140,sct=178>
> > "ro root=341 hdc=ide-scsi failsafe"
> > Boot other: /dev/hda1, on /dev/hda, loader /boot/chain.b
> > Device 0x0301: BIOS drive 0x80, 255 heads, 1867 cylinders,
> > 63 sectors. Partition offset: 63 sectors.
> > Mapped 6 (4+1+1) sectors.
> > Added windows
> > <dev=0xb1,hd=7,cyl=140,sct=204>
> > Boot other: /dev/fd0, loader /boot/chain.b
> > Device 0x0200: BIOS drive 0x00, no geometry.
> > Pseudo partition start: 0
> > Mapped 6 (4+1+1) sectors.
> > Added floppy
> > <dev=0xb1,hd=7,cyl=140,sct=210>
> > Map file size: 32768 bytes.
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