Linux-Setup Digest #529, Volume #20 Mon, 29 Jan 01 12:13:10 EST
Contents:
Re: Some newbie linux questions... ("Marvin (Georg Ortmanns)")
Re: SuSE 7.0 ("Marvin (Georg Ortmanns)")
Re: glibc and shlibs conflicts ("Nicolas DUTEIL")
Problem with modules after recompiling (Bill Delphenich)
ftpd ("Zayin Krige")
Re: rpm 4 under Caldera? ("L. Friedman")
Re: boot hangs on ide interrogation (Tom Purvis)
Re: Konqueror says it doesn't support HTML!!! And some other KDE2 problems... (Huw
Lynes)
Flash disk / initrd problems *HELP PLEASE!* (Jem)
Re: pppd (Jeff Moore)
Re: Boot linux from 2nd hard drive (Bill Stockwell)
Re: Problem with modules after recompiling ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: RPM and mandrake (aflinsch)
Re: Help!!! I wrote the boot record onto the wrong partition ("Jens F Vega")
Re: pppd ("Peter T. Breuer")
Errors In Partition Table ("Werner Fangmeier")
VFS messages (Johnny Choque)
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From: "Marvin (Georg Ortmanns)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Some newbie linux questions...
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 14:54:15 +0100
fail006 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to setup a DNS server using linux for a local intranet, can
> anyone please tell me if this is really hard to do....or if you can point me
> in the right direction...I am running redhat 7.
Read the DNS-HOWTO which is found at http://linuxdoc.org. It include a good
example how to setup the bind8 nameserver.
To configure the server use the web based webmin tool. You can find it at
http://www.webmin.com.
> I would also like to setup a ftp server in redhat 7, does it come with a ftp
> server, and what do i need to do to create profiles for different users to
> access the ftp?
Read man ftpd and INTRANET-SERVER-HOWTO. Also you should think about a
firewall.
> How can i dial or bring up the ppp interface in redhat 7 from command
> line...?
type pppd on command line, should do so...
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From: "Marvin (Georg Ortmanns)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SuSE 7.0
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 15:06:46 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 29 Jan 2001 13:36:54 +0200, Esa Tiiliharju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >I already have their iso-image on cd, but then I began to have
> >doubts after windoosh explorer refused to show its contents...so if
> >anyone could help I would appreaciate it!
>
> If I understand right, you have a SuSE CD but cannot boot from it. The disk
> images cannot be displayed by the explorer, that's ok. Just follow the
> instructions (there are README's) to create a boot floppy disk. Worked for me.
There is a directory /dosutils on the 1st CD. You can find a tool called rawwrite
to create the boot disks. Follow the instructions found in README.DOS.
The disk images are located at /disks. There is also a README.DOS
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From: "Nicolas DUTEIL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: glibc and shlibs conflicts
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 15:30:53 +0100
Thanks, I'll try that
I used KPackage, specifying "upgrade" . Why do you say "it's not an upgrade"
?
Nico
>Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit dans le message news:
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> Nicolas DUTEIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > When trying to upgrade glibc rpm, I got the following error :
>
> > "file /lib/ld-linux.so.2 from install of glibc-32bit-2.2-0 conflicts
with
> > the file from package shlibs-2.1.3-143"
>
> > What's the way of handling that kind of error ?
>
> It's not an error, it's a fact.
>
> Obviously you want to move (it's not an upgrade) shlibs to a 2.2
> version as well, at the same time.
>
> Myself, I'd probably check that the ldlinux in glibc-new works fine
> with the old shlibs (it probably will) by unpacking it separately and
trying
> it, and then merrily override the advisory, while making sure that I
> kept an old copy of ld-linux.so arround.
>
> Peter
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From: Bill Delphenich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem with modules after recompiling
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 09:25:06 -0500
I recompiled my RH7 server yesterday with crispy new source code and
everything is peachy except for one thing. I didn't chose to use any
modules, but when I boot up the machine I get:
"Modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.2.18/modules.dep
(No such file or directory)"
This is true, of course, because I didn't call for any modules, but how
do I get it to stop looking for them? My previous kernel had been
2.2.16.
I did the whole "make modules" and "make modules install" thing after
compiling, just to be rigorous about things. Was that my error?
Any advice is appreciated.
Bill
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From: "Zayin Krige" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ftpd
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 16:50:34 +0200
i have 4 linux box in my office, and i can telnet to them ping them,
smbmount them, etc,etc, I just cant ftp them
I get a "connected to 192.168.0.60" and then it just sits there doing
nothing"
what am I missing??
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From: "L. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera
Subject: Re: rpm 4 under Caldera?
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 10:00:59 -0500
"ne..." wrote:
>
> On Jan 28, 2001 at 18:33, Black Eagle eloquently wrote:
> [...]
> >It was my understanding that Caldera was a major developer of rpm in
> >conjunction with Red Hat. Am I wrong?
> I think it was SuSE.
Caldera & SuSE did the majority of the development, RedHat took all the
credit. Hmmm...what other company does that sound like?
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The alt.os.linux.caldera FAQ:
http://netllama.ipfox.com/COL_FAQ.html
Step-by-step help for COL problems:
http://netllama.ipfox.com/stepbystep.htm
10:00am up 13 min, 1 user, load average: 0.22, 0.26, 0.19
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From: Tom Purvis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: boot hangs on ide interrogation
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 14:51:45 GMT
"Robert Morelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I've got an HP Vectra XU 6/200 (~3 year old) Pentium Pro
> > machine. It has two processors...
> The truth, which a lot of Linux users are loathe to admit, is that
> Linux is still a fairly barbaric OS. It's unreliable under the best
> of conditions, and if you throw something as complicated as
> two drives on different buses at it, it's going to do a dizzy dance.
Robert, I'm not sure what you mean by unreliable. In my (limited)
experience, once Linux is up and running, it's quite reliable.
It is what it is though, and that is largely a work in progress.
The biggest deterrent to a happy life with Linux seems to me to
be the burden of knowledge. It takes so much time and energy to
learn what you need to know to get started, and it's so easy to
get burned before you gain competence...
I also lost some data during this latest forray into learning about
Linux by doing. This is my third tour. I think I've lost some data
each time I've put Linux on a machine. By now I should have learned
that every scrap of data I care about should be backed up before I
bungle my way through another install.
In case you're interested, I discovered that the source of my
greatest problem is the SMP kernel. My machine has dual processors,
and the SuSE install automatically sets me up with a SMP kernel.
There seems to be a (not widely) known problem with the BIOS on
my Vectra XU 6/200 when it comes to 2.2.16/SMP kernels. I installed
a non-SMP kernel, and every indication is that it's going to allow
me to boot.
Of course I'm going to want both of my processors to be in play,
so I'm now going to try to find out what version of kernel I'll need
to use to get SMP AND be able to boot.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Huw Lynes)
Subject: Re: Konqueror says it doesn't support HTML!!! And some other KDE2 problems...
Date: 29 Jan 2001 15:37:17 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>"Sorry Konqueror
>Could not create view for text/html
>Check you installation"
>What can I do about this? File browsing goes correctly. Netscape works
>correctly too.
Sounds like khtml is not installed. Should be under ./kde/lib somewhere
if you can't find it then that's probably why konqueror will not work.
Can't think why it wouldn't have been installed though.
Huw Lynes
To reply you know what "dot" should really be.
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From: Jem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.embedded
Subject: Flash disk / initrd problems *HELP PLEASE!*
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 15:48:21 -0000
Hi Guys,
I am just finishing off development of an embedded system but I'm having
a bit of a problem with an ATA Flash disk that I'm trying to use.
Everything is fine with it, except I want to mount it in Read Only mode
to prevent killing the flash media. I have read a few articles on this
and they seem to imply the following sequence of events:
(1) Use initrd to load a small kernel image
(2) Write a linuxrc script to zcat a root file system onto a ram disk
with links to the permanent files on the flash disk
(3) mount the flash disk as read only, say in the /mnt directory
(4) unmount the ram disk and exit the linuxrc script so initrd can
remount it and continue the boot sequence.
All sounds relatively easy and, to this end, I did the following:
(1) Made up a small kernel image (mkinitrd) and used zcat to unpack it
onto a ram disk
(2) Edited the /etc/fstab to mount /dev/ram as root file system
(3) Edited linuxrc to the following:
#!/bin/sash
aliasall
# This mounts the flash card into /mnt
mount -t minix /dev/hdc1 /mnt
# This is unnecessary but I'm doing it just to make sure
mkfs.minix /dev/ram 2000
# Extract the new root file system to the ram disk
zcat /mnt/boot/rootfs.img.gz >/dev/ram
# Now unmount the flash disk
umount /dev/hdc1
# Just for testing purposes mount the ram disk and do
# a directory listing
mount -t minix /dev/ram /mnt
ls /mnt
# unmount the ram disk (as initrd will re-mount it)
umount /dev/ram
(4) Copied extra executables / libraries into /bin and /lib as
determined using ldd
I have traced this every step of the way and cannot work out what is
going wrong. The final "ls /mnt" command shows me that the ram disk is
empty... despite having unpacked a file into it.
I am 99.9% sure that the zcat line is not doing anything although I
can't determine why it doesn't report any errors (yes, tried 2>
error.file).
Things I have checked:
(1) "zcat -h" in linuxrc DOES produce help text on screen so its not
simply that it can't find the executable.
(2) rootfs.img.gz IS a valid zcat file system, i.e. from a command
line I CAN type "zcat rootfs.img.gz >/dev/ram" and it WILL create
the file system.
(3) I've tried simply copying the file "rootfs.img.gz" from the flash
to the ram disk just to check I have made a valid ram disk and the
mount is valid and that works just fine.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE! If anyone's done this I need an answer asap...I've
spent 3 days already trying to work out what's gone wrong!
Jeremy
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From: Jeff Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,redhat.general
Subject: Re: pppd
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 10:06:45 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I use RH7 and it does not have ppp in the control panel like RH6. So I put
the pppd in my inittab file with a respawn like it is suggested in the ppp
howto. It is supposed to connect and receive the first frame and then
execute the ip-up script. It does not. In my ip-up script I have the
firewall ruleset, squid startup, dynamic ip assignment for my domain, port
forwarding, and news group fetch programs. All of this is recommended in
the ppp howto. My ppp scripts are all executable as per howto, but the
ip-up script never executes. I am at a loss to debug this, as there is
nothing I can detect in my syslog to tell me what the problem is. The only
error I can detect is when I run the ip-up script by hand I get this error,
I attribute to pppd not setting the proper environment variables:
LOGDEVICE REALDEVICE does not exist, cannot execute ifcfg
Please make any suggestions you wish on my English, I am new to this
English stuff, I have only been speaking English for 35 years and I also
hold a degree in Vietnamese and speak German and Urdu.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Jeff Moore
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.hardware Jeff Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I am running pppd in my inittab and it does not exit and run the ip-up
>
> Err .. how can you run pppd from inittab? It has to connect to
> something! There's nothing to connect to, most of the time, surely!
>
> > script, so my firewall and squid and dynamic dns do not work.
>
> If it does not exit, then that is good, isn't it? People usually
> complain when it does exit.
>
> Why should your firewall depend on ip-up? Well, OK, I can imagine why,
> and how, but it's up to you to tell me, not for me to imagine.
>
> > What have I missed?
>
> A class in english composition at secondary school, by the looks of it!
> Please make yourself clear. What is your problem with what?
>
> Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Stockwell)
Subject: Re: Boot linux from 2nd hard drive
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 16:13:50 GMT
Marvin (Georg Ortmanns) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Bill Stockwell wrote:
: > I have a new system with Win 2K pre-installed.
: >
: > On my earlier system I was running RH 6.0 on a 2nd hard drive.
: >
: > I removed that and installed the drive in my new system. How do
: >
: > I setup LILO on my master boot record to boot linux on /hdb ?
: Edit /etc/lilo.conf to look like this
: # Start LILO global Section
: boot=/dev/hda # boot from MBR disk 1 (drive C)
: #compact # faster, but won't work on all systems.
: vga=normal
: read-only
: prompt
: timeout=100
: # End LILO global Section
: #
: image = /boot/bvmlinux
: root = /dev/hdb1
: label = linux
: # boot linux from 1st partion drive 2 (D)
: #
: other = /dev/hda1
: label = Win
: table = /dev/hda
: # load Windows (NT) from 1st partion drive 1 (C)
: Run lilo to install the new lilo.conf. This works fine for WinNT and Win9x. To
: start linux you can try to boot from a floppy and enter at LILO-prompt
: LILO: linux root=/dev/hdb1
: to start your installed linux on /dev/hdb1
Thanks, but my problem was I could not even BOOT linux to edit my lilo
config. I managed to fix it by booting my RH 6.1 CD and doing a custom
install -- selecting NOT to format the partition. That way it actually
upgraded to 6.1 and fixed the boot problem, and kept all my old stuff.
Nice!
: --
: Regards
: Georg Ortmanns (Marvin) eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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who is armed."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Problem with modules after recompiling
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 16:19:28 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Bill Delphenich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I recompiled my RH7 server yesterday with crispy new source code and
> everything is peachy except for one thing. I didn't chose to use any
> modules, but when I boot up the machine I get:
>
> "Modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.2.18/modules.dep
> (No such file or directory)"
>
> This is true, of course, because I didn't call for any modules, but how
> do I get it to stop looking for them? My previous kernel had been
> 2.2.16.
>
> I did the whole "make modules" and "make modules install" thing after
> compiling, just to be rigorous about things. Was that my error?
>
> Any advice is appreciated.
>
> Bill
>
>
You might try this. Run 'depmod -aq' I understand that you complied
everything into the kernel instead of using modules, but it sounds like
loadable module support is still a part of the kernel. By running this
it should create the modules.dep file, perhaps satisfying the kernel
module loader. Either try this or recompile the kernel removing
loadable modular kernel support.
Hope this helps.
Scott
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From: aflinsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RPM and mandrake
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 11:17:10 -0600
Jon Church wrote:
>
> I am having all kinds of trouble with mandrake 7.1 and installing newer
> packages. I keep getting messages that I need version 4 of rpm but when I
> try to install that I get the same error. I don't want to force it
> because I might lose all sorts of things -- what gives?
>
It is sort of a catch22.
What you need to do is install rpm version 3.05 first. 3.05 will allow
you to install version 4 rpm's. After 3.05 is installed, then you can
install rpm version 4.
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From: "Jens F Vega" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help!!! I wrote the boot record onto the wrong partition
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 16:24:10 -0000
Thanks to everybody... finally it worked.
Jens
">
> lilo has the -u option
> (Yes it's in the manpages....)
>
> It will restore what you destroyed.
>
> Eric
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,redhat.general
Subject: Re: pppd
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 17:26:52 +0100
In comp.os.linux.hardware Jeff Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I use RH7 and it does not have ppp in the control panel like RH6. So I put
> the pppd in my inittab file with a respawn like it is suggested in the ppp
This is nonsense. You only want to do that if you are serving. It
raises more spectres than I care to imagine ..
> howto. It is supposed to connect and receive the first frame and then
> execute the ip-up script. It does not. In my ip-up script I have the
It'll execute that if that's what your version of ppd does.
tables. In most cases the defaultroute and/or proxyarp
options are sufficient for this, but in some cases further
intervention is required. The /etc/ppp/ip-up script
can be used for this.
So check! Recompile to taste if necessary, or check where it looks.
Also check that the script is executable, of course!
> firewall ruleset, squid startup, dynamic ip assignment for my domain, port
That is as I imagined.
> forwarding, and news group fetch programs. All of this is recommended in
> the ppp howto. My ppp scripts are all executable as per howto, but the
> ip-up script never executes. I am at a loss to debug this, as there is
Why? Turn on debugging in pppd and strace it for good measure too!
Runing it from the command line would be a good start.
> nothing I can detect in my syslog to tell me what the problem is. The only
Then turn on debugging, and remember to divert the messages (which
won't be logged by default) to the file of your choice with
syslog.conf.
> error I can detect is when I run the ip-up script by hand I get this error,
> I attribute to pppd not setting the proper environment variables:
> LOGDEVICE REALDEVICE does not exist, cannot execute ifcfg
Well, it's up to you to run it by hand adequately.
> Please make any suggestions you wish on my English, I am new to this
> English stuff, I have only been speaking English for 35 years and I also
> hold a degree in Vietnamese and speak German and Urdu.
OK. You seem to be making more sense now. (however long you have been
speaking english, you may not yet have had time to get proficient at
writing it, let alone writing it on a technical subject and doing so
comprehensibly).
How come you have a degree in vietnamese? That's amazing .. and
strange. How does one get one! Mind you, speaking both german and urdu
is also strange. I would guess at a degree in oriental languages, plus
school german?
Peter
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From: "Werner Fangmeier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Subject: Errors In Partition Table
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 17:51:52 +0100
Hi folks,
Not quite sure where to post this ... anyway, here it goes:
I have a Samsung SV306 harddrive (30 GB) in my PIIIE box (667 Mhz), running
Win 98 SE and Linux 2.2.1x.
I'm having a hard time partitioning the disk; I first used Partition Magic 5
on the blank hard drive
to create a 10 GB FAT-32-Partition (C:), and a 17 GB Extended Partition,
containing one logical FAT-32 10 GB
partition, whcih is my D: drive in Win 98.
Later, I installed a Linux distro (EasyLinux 2.2), and had it create 3
partitions within the extended one,
namely two Linux Ext2 (FSID 83) and one Linux Swap (FSID 82). Both Win 98 SE
and Linux are working OK.
Now, when trying to commit any changes from PM, it freaks out with "Error
#717", which seems to be related
to the "overlapping partitions" warning #113 within my PARTINFO.TXT.
Moreover, I did a "fdisk -l /dev/hda" from Linux, and used the FINDPART-tool
to list the partition table
contents. My problem is undestanding, where the partition table contains
errors, as far as the "overlaps"
are concerned, as well as the "head boundary" and the "not one head" away
messages.
So, here's PARTINFO.TXT
============================================================================
================
Disk Geometry Information for Disk 1: 3722 Cylinders, 255 Heads, 63
Sectors/Track
System PartSect # Boot BCyl Head Sect FS ECyl Head Sect
StartSect NumSects
============================================================================
================
FESTPLATTE 0 0 80 0 1 1 0C 1023 254 63 63 20,980,827
Info: Begin/End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders. Actual values
are:
0 0 80 0 1 1 0C 1305 254 63 63 20980827
0 1 00 1023 0 1 0F 1023 254 63 20,980,890 34,925,310
Info: Begin/End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders. Actual values
are:
0 1 00 1306 0 1 0F 3479 254 63 20980890 34925310
SICHERUNG 20,980,890 0 00 1023 1 1 0B 1023 254 63 20,980,953 20,980,827
Info: Begin/End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders. Actual values
are:
20980890 0 00 1306 1 1 0B 2611 254 63 20980953 20980827
20,980,890 1 00 1023 0 1 05 1023 254 63 41,961,780 12,546,765
Info: Begin/End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders. Actual values
are:
20980890 1 00 2612 0 1 05 3392 254 63 41961780 12546765
41,961,780 0 00 1023 254 63 83 1023 254 63 41,961,843 4,658,787
Info: Begin/End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders. Actual values
are:
41961780 0 00 2612 1 1 83 2901 254 63 41961843 4658787
41,961,780 1 00 1023 0 1 05 1023 254 63 46,620,630 7,887,915
Info: Begin/End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders. Actual values
are:
41961780 1 00 2902 0 1 05 3392 254 63 46620630 7887915
46,620,630 0 00 1023 254 63 83 1023 254 63 46,620,631 6,249,284
Info: Begin/End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders. Actual values
are:
46620630 0 00 2902 0 2 83 3290 254 63 46620631 6249284
Info: Partition didn't begin on head boundary.
ucBeginSector expected to be 1, not 2.
46,620,630 1 00 1023 0 1 05 1023 254 63 52,869,915 1,638,630
Info: Begin/End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders. Actual values
are:
46620630 1 00 3291 0 1 05 3392 254 63 52869915 1638630
52,869,915 0 00 1023 254 63 82 1023 254 63 52,869,916 610,469
Info: Begin/End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders. Actual values
are:
52869915 0 00 3291 0 2 82 3328 254 63 52869916 610469
Info: Partition didn't begin on head boundary.
ucBeginSector expected to be 1, not 2.
============================================================================
================
Partition Information for Disk 1: 29196.3 Megabytes
Volume PartitionType Status Size MB PartSect #
StartSect TotalSects
============================================================================
================
C:FESTPLATTE FAT32X Pri,Boot 10244.5 0 0 63
20,980,827
ExtendedX Pri 17053.4 0 1
20,980,890 34,925,310
EPBR Log 10244.6 None --
20,980,890 20,980,890
D:SICHERUNG FAT32 Log 10244.5 20980890 0 20,980,953 20,980,827
EPBR Log 6126.4 20980890 1
41,961,780 12,546,765
Linux Ext2 Log 2274.8 41961780 0
41,961,843 4,658,787
EPBR Log 3851.5 41961780 1
46,620,630 7,887,915
Warning #113: EPBR partition starting at 46620630 overlaps previous EPBR
partition.
Linux Ext2 Log 3051.4 46620630 0
46,620,631 6,249,284
Info: Logical starting at 46620631 is not one head away from EPBR.
EPBR Log 800.1 46620630 1
52,869,915 1,638,630
Warning #113: EPBR partition starting at 52869915 overlaps previous EPBR
partition.
Linux Swap Log 298.1 52869915 0
52,869,916 610,469
Info: Logical starting at 52869916 is not one head away from EPBR.
Free Space Log 1184.5 None --
53,480,385 2,425,815
Free Space Pri 1898.3 None --
55,906,200 3,887,730
What can I do about it ? There are several suspicious parts in the infos
above: normally, there seems
to be a difference of 63 between the EPBR start sector and the partition
start, e.g. the EPBR for
the first Ext2 is 41,961,780 and the Ext2 starts at 41,961,843, which is
41,961,780+63. Also, the
EPBR for the logical FAT-32 within the extended p. start 63 sectors before
the p. itself:
EPBR at 20,980,890, p. at 20,980,953. BUT with the 2nd Ext2, this changes
dramatically:
The EPBR is at 46,620,630, while partition starts at 46,620,631, only 1
sector and not 63 sectors away!
This seems to be the reason for the "not one head away" messages, for the
Linux Swap p. has it's EPBR at
52,869,915, while the Swap p. starts already at 52,869,916, again only 1
more.
Anyway, here's the output of fdisk -l /dev/hda under Linux:
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3722 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1306 10490413+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2 1307 3480 17462655 f Win95 Extended (LBA)
/dev/hda5 1307 2612 10490413+ b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda6 2613 2902 2329393+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hda7 2903 3291 3124642 83 Linux native
/dev/hda8 3292 3329 305234+ 82 Linux swap
And finally, what FINDPART had to say about it:
Findpart, version 3.95.
Copyright Svend Olaf Mikkelsen, 2001.
OS: DOS 7.10 WINDOWS 4.10 Partition tables:
Disk: 1 Cylinders: 3722 Heads: 255 Sectors: 63 MB: 29196
-PCyl N ID -----Rel -----Num ---MB -Start CHS- --End CHS-- BS CHS
0 1*0C 63 20980827 10244 0 1 1 1305*254 63 OK OK
0 2 0F 20980890 34925310 17053 1306* 0 1 3479*254 63 OK
1306 1 0B 63 20980827 10244 1306* 1 1 2611*254 63 OK OK
1306 2 05 20980890 12546765 6126 2612* 0 1 3392*254 63 OK
2612 1 83 63 4658787 2274 2612# 1 1 2901*254 63 OK OK
2612 2 05 25639740 7887915 3851 2902* 0 1 3392*254 63 OK
2902 1 83 1 6249284 3051 2902# 0 2 3290*254 63 NB OK
2902 2 05 31889025 1638630 800 3291* 0 1 3392*254 63 OK
3291 1 82 1 610469 298 3291# 0 2 3328*254 63 OK
Moreover, I heard of "russian doll" models for extended partitions, as
opposed to "chaining" models. Could these
different paradigms be the reason for the "overlapped" messages ?
I know, I can make Partition Magic ignore partition table errors with
PQMAGIC /IPE. But what actions
should I perform to clarify the partitioning situation? Of course, I do not
want to loose the Linux partitions,
if it's possible in any way.
Is there anyone able to interpret the above partition informations, and
point out the sources of the
information and warnings ? If I would use a partition editing tool like
PTEDIT, what parts do I have to
correct ? Is it those two "difference 1 instead of 63" situations, where the
EPBR is only 1 sector before it's partition,
or are there false sector numbers somewhere ?
Desperate, TIA. Werner
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From: Johnny Choque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: VFS messages
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 17:49:53 +0100
Hi all!
In /var/log/messsages (or debug) several messages like the following one
appear:
Kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device ide0(3,64)
What I should make so that those messages don't appear?
Thanks in advance.
Johnny
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