Linux-Setup Digest #553, Volume #20 Fri, 2 Feb 01 03:13:04 EST
Contents:
Following up my own post - Re: two partitions & one mount point (Terence Hoosen)
WP8 time (Kevin Paul)
compile 2.4.0 kernel on Redhat 6.2.. help?!? (Kevin Truong)
Mandrake 7.1 doesn't know about Epsons (Dick Wisan)
Clock problem (Roman Kaluzniacki)
Squid denying local users from passing through ("Jeff Borders")
Re: Clock problem (Cristian)
Re: Bizarre problem on Samba (Dan Smith)
Re: Following up my own post - Re: two partitions & one mount point ("Anthony")
Re: How to set window resolution in GNOME? (Guy Parry)
failed to load nls 'iso8859-1' (Tsoi Kuen Hung)
Re: First insatll-Newbie ("wilcock")
Installed RH7, Win98 no longer boots (Brian)
Lilo: cylinder no. too big (> 1023) ("ON")
Re: reiserfs, fsck, and mount read-only at boot (jmsalvo)
Re: LILO only says "LI" at boot (Thomas Huebner)
Re: Force mount filesystem search order ? (Eric)
Re: Install PCI modem in Redhat? (Eric)
Re: Lilo: cylinder no. too big (> 1023) (E J)
How should I deal with a drivers.img? (Redhat7) ("Nicky")
Re: LILO Doesn't Appear During Boot (Eric)
Re: Lilo: cylinder no. too big (> 1023) (Eric)
Help needed : Cannot Boot to DOS ("Ricky Lem")
Re: Moving boot (Eric)
Re: no boot at all: DVD? (Eric)
Re: Moving boot ("Tauno Voipio")
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From: Terence Hoosen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Following up my own post - Re: two partitions & one mount point
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 01:19:43 +0000
Terence Hoosen wrote:
> Anthony wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to have the same mount point for two separate
>> partitions on different drives?
>
>
> I'm not an expert in this area or anything, but I just noticed your post
> and remember briefly thinking about this problem as well. It occurs to
> me this might be possible using software RAID. But then again, maybe not.
>
> I think there are also some filing system extensions that allow multiple
> storage devices to be considered as one amalgamated storage device, but
> again, the details escape me.
>
> I hope this somewhat limited reply might point you in the right
> direction - please post any intersting results!!
Right, done some quick searching, and all kinds of useful information
can be found in the latest Software-RAID-HOWTO at www.linuxdoc.org.
It's tells you everything: Linear mode, striping, redundancy setups,
root filesystems on RAID, booting the system on RAID. The works.
I guess you would be interested in linear mode (appending partitions to
look like a single storage device) and possibly booting the system on
software RAID.
HTH
-Tez
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From: Kevin Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: WP8 time
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 03:50:39 GMT
Using Wordperfect 8 "insert date" uses GMT instead of system time (MST
+7) and I can't figure out how to change it. Ideas? TIA
--
Kevin Paul
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From: Kevin Truong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: compile 2.4.0 kernel on Redhat 6.2.. help?!?
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 19:51:59 -0800
Has anyone successfully upgrade the 2.4.0 kernel on a Redhat 6.2? Redhat
released the RPM for the 2.4.0 kernel upgrade. I booted up with the new
kernel.. and bam! Now my Linux box is used to serve my lunch instead of
my network. I try booting with my old kernel, but still give me the same
problem. During the boot up process, it says something about missing
files in /etc/rc.d3 and some other directories too. Anyone know why this
is happening? Is it recoverable? If so, how? I basically need to get
some files off the drive.. and it's in the Linux partition? Can I put
this harddrive onto another Linux system and mount it? If so, how?
Kevin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dick Wisan)
Subject: Mandrake 7.1 doesn't know about Epsons
Date: 2 Feb 2001 03:42:07 GMT
I had Redhat 6.2 on my laptop, and I set Mandrake 7.1 to "upgrade"
over it. Two oddities:
It took forever to load the packages (8 or 9 hours), and
when it came to install the printer, it offered me
Text-only printer
HP (forget which model)
Postscript printer
Now I have a middle-aged Epson Stylus Pro Color, and there was never
any trouble finding a driver for it or for an Epson tolerably close
to the same. This thing seems never to have heard of Epsons. There
was also some difficulty about installing XFree86, but it went in
sorta, startx worked, and KDE's Drake config program put it right.
But, it, too, knew only the same three printer types. At the moment,
even as a "text-only" printer, I'm not getting anything at all from
it.
The other oddity seems more outre. I'm using a switchbox to shift
my main keyboard and monitor between the laptop and the main floortop.
Both Windows and RH 6.2 showed up fine on both screens, but with
Mandrake, startx, which comes up with KDE, blanks my big monitor. It
comes back when I logout back to the command line. ???
I meant to try Mandrake 7.2, but now I wonder.
All suggestions will be appreciated. Ones that work will be _greatly_
appreciated.
--
R. N. (Dick) Wisan Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Snail: 37 Clinton St., Oneonta, NY 13820, USA
Just your opinion, please, Ma'am. No fax.
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From: Roman Kaluzniacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Clock problem
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 04:44:33 GMT
Hi,
I run RH 7.0 on a typical PC (non-portable) and have observed
the following buggy behavior:
# date
Thu Feb 1 23:32:43 EST 2001
[Yep, it's the correct local time]
# apm -S
[Goes into suspend mode for a second or so]
# date
Thu Feb 1 18:32:54 EST 2001
[Oh dear, system clock thought hardware clock was on GMT]
# /sbin/hwclock -s
[Reload hardware clock]
# date
Thu Feb 1 23:33:08 EST 2001
[HW clock really was local time?]
#
# pwd
/etc/sysconfig
# cat clock
ZONE="US/Eastern"
UTC=false
ARC=false
#
[Configuration parameters seem OK]
On suspending the system momentarily, apm seems to set
the system time to GMT values for some strange reason.
Yet I have specified that the hardware clock contain
local time.
Are there other hidden settings which cause this behavior.
It occurs every time the system goes into sleep mode or
activates the "window saver".
Thanks,
Roman
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From: "Jeff Borders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Squid denying local users from passing through
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 23:42:04 +0500
Squid is blocking local users from reaching the internet on my system.
I've got hosts.allow set to ALL: 192.168.1. and hosts.deny ALL: ALL
Any ideas?
-Jeff Borders
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From: Cristian <c{ristian}h{umberto}[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Clock problem
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 05:10:00 GMT
Roman Kaluzniacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
> Are there other hidden settings which cause this behavior.
> It occurs every time the system goes into sleep mode or
> activates the "window saver".
[...]
There is a kernel option for apm that asks if system uses UTC time. So
you might need to recompile disabling that option or change to UTC, which
is a good idea anyway (automatic daylight savings,...).
C.
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From: Dan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat.install,comp.protocols.smb
Subject: Re: Bizarre problem on Samba
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 00:08:20 -0500
Have you tried creating a new link on each system? Do you know what
smart/stupid links are? It's a stupid Microsoft convention that causes
the link to maintain the name of the machine it is created on. If you
copy a link to C:\ from CPU1 to CPU2, the path becomes \\CPU1\C. It
thinks it's helping out. There is a microsoft util that takes a link
and makes it 'stupid'. You can find it on their site. First try and
create a new link on their desktop.
Don't know if this is your problem, but it sounds related...
--DAN
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> Hi,
>
>
> I am running a RedHat 6.2 server, with samba 2.0.7. I have the NT 4.0
> server doing the authentication. It seemed like it
> was working really great -- until I ran into this strange problem.
>
>
> I wanted to make a shared directory for one of our departments, that is
> not browseable to others. I have a non-browseable share of the /home
> directory. I made them a directory underneath this: /home/group1. I
> planned to give them a shortcut on their desktop, to take them straight
> to the shared directory (/home/group1) on the server.
>
>
> Here is the problem -- whenever certain Windows NT users try to click on
>
> the icon of the folder, or a short-cut to the folder, it says that the
> directory was not found! -- BUT -- if I put in the UNC in the address
> bar (i.e. //server/home/group1) it is accessable! It seems that it
> only has problems if people CLICK to the directory.
>
>
> (Beleive me on this -- our users need to click! They would be way to
> confused if you actually tried to teach them to type in addresses.)
>
>
> However, the same user logged into a Win2k machine does NOT have the
> same problems! Only in NT! All NT boxes are on Service Pack 5.
>
>
> Can someone please tell me how to fix this?
>
>
> Thank you!
>
>
> Here is the snippet of code in smb.conf:
>
>
> [home]
> path=/home
> browseable =no
> admin users = person1, person2
> valid users = person1, person2,+homeshare
> write list = person1,person2,+homeshare
> read list = person1,person2,+homeshare
>
>
> (I know that some of this may be redundant, but I have been trying
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From: "Anthony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Following up my own post - Re: two partitions & one mount point
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 05:34:33 GMT
Thanks Terence - that sounds like the perfect solution :)
"Terence Hoosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Terence Hoosen wrote:
>
> > Anthony wrote:
> >
> >> Is it possible to have the same mount point for two separate
> >> partitions on different drives?
> >
> >
> > I'm not an expert in this area or anything, but I just noticed
your post
> > and remember briefly thinking about this problem as well. It
occurs to
> > me this might be possible using software RAID. But then again,
maybe not.
> >
> > I think there are also some filing system extensions that allow
multiple
> > storage devices to be considered as one amalgamated storage
device, but
> > again, the details escape me.
> >
> > I hope this somewhat limited reply might point you in the right
> > direction - please post any intersting results!!
>
> Right, done some quick searching, and all kinds of useful
information
> can be found in the latest Software-RAID-HOWTO at www.linuxdoc.org.
> It's tells you everything: Linear mode, striping, redundancy setups,
> root filesystems on RAID, booting the system on RAID. The works.
>
> I guess you would be interested in linear mode (appending partitions
to
> look like a single storage device) and possibly booting the system
on
> software RAID.
>
> HTH
>
> -Tez
>
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From: Guy Parry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to set window resolution in GNOME?
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 16:37:40 +1100
There's also an app - can't recall the damn name - that puts an icon
on the panel and lets you do it on the fly...
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 15:22:14 -0500, "Russell Lankenau"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>I believe you can just use ctrl-alt-+ to cycle through different
>window modes.
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
>"Jason L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am a newbie in GNOME. I am using Redhat Linux 7.0, and installed
>> GNOME in it.
>> Just wonder how to change the GNOME window resolution.
>> I did try to find, but take me lots of time and still can't find
>> it. Please Help.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
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From: Tsoi Kuen Hung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: failed to load nls 'iso8859-1'
Date: 2 Feb 2001 06:08:19 GMT
Hi,
when I try to mount a smbfs, it report the
following error messges:
smbfs: failed to load nls 'iso8559-1'
what's wrong with it? thanks in advance!
---- Brittle
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From: "wilcock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: First insatll-Newbie
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 14:30:56 +0800
> This comparison of DOS and Linux commands should help. See:
> http://yolinux.com/unix_for_dos_users.html
>
> To look at files try "more file-name"
> Greg
Thanks for the link Greg :)
Foo ( now i have the tools to really screwup my install..heh )
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From: Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installed RH7, Win98 no longer boots
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 06:30:03 -0000
Hey all,
This sucks. I have/had a dual-boot system with Windows 98 and Red Hat
6.1, using LILO to boot. I performed a workstation-class install of Red
Hat 7, which went flawlessly. It even detected that I wanted to dual-boot
with a DOS partition. However, when I opt to boot into DOS the screen
says:
Verifying DMI pool data
...and then the cursor stops and blinks on the next line. It does not
boot. I have tried the following:
1. lilo -u (this causes my system to stop at "LI")
2. booting with a Windows boot disk (get to the "verifying..." line and
stops, and I made sure BIOS boots from A drive first)
I think that if I could just get back into Windows I could "fdisk /mbr",
and restore the MBR, but I can't even get in with a boot floppy! Any
ideas on how I can get back into Windows?
thanks,
brian
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From: "ON" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Lilo: cylinder no. too big (> 1023)
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 16:42:49 +1000
It is strange, but I just recompiled my 2.2.14 kernel with one extra option
ticked and when running LILO I get
Cylinder number too big >1023
although the Linux partition IS inside the 1023 limit ! It starts at
9hundred something.
I have tried to compile a smaller kernel but whatever I do, I get that
message unless I use the old 2.2.14 or an even older 2.2.10 I have saved.
What is wrong ?? The kernel is about 584K. Is that too big ?
Thank you.
O.
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From: jmsalvo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: reiserfs, fsck, and mount read-only at boot
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 06:44:18 GMT
I should have been more precise:
At boot, I got:
Checking ReiserFS transaction log (device 03:06) ...
Warning, log recovery starting on readonly filesystem
... which is my root fs. I know this is because of the "read-only" in
/etc/lilo.conf.
Will reiserfs repeat the log recovery when the fs is remounted in
read-write mode? .... so that I can ignore the above warning?
Thanks,
John
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Glenn Trigg) wrote:
> jmsalvo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I have been using reiserfs ( 3.5.29 ) with kernel 2.2.18 and am pleased
> > with it. ( Actually I've been using it with kernel 2.2.16 , anyway .. )
> >
> > My question is that, at boot, my RH installation ( 6.0 with lots of
> > things upgraded: kernel, glibc, X, KDE, .... ) will mount the root
> > partition ( which is a reiser fs ) in read-only mode .... and during
> > boot, reiserfs gives the warning "warning, mounting in read-only mode".
> >
> > Do I need to modify /etc/lilo.conf so that instead of read-only then
> > later on remounting as read-write, it goes straight to read-write?
>
> Not sure about the answer to this one, but I'm currently ignoring the
> warning and continuing to do the initial mount as read-only.
>
> > Second, I did not have reiserfsprogs/utils installed before, and I
> > thought of installing it now. At boot, the startup complains of not
> > being able to find the fsck for reiserfs.
> >
> > The README that comes with reiserfsprogs comes with a "note" that says
> > you normally need not need to fsck a reiser fs, and continues on making
> > me fear of using fsck on a reiser fs.
> >
> > So should I install reiserfsprogs? What should I change so that fsck
> > will not be run against a reiser fs at boot?
>
> Change your /etc/fstab / entry to something like this:
>
> /dev/hda1 / reiserfs defaults 0 0
>
> The last 0 should prevent fsck from running on that partition.
>
> Reiserfs is good!
>
> Regards,
>
> Glenn Trigg
>
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From: Thomas Huebner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO only says "LI" at boot
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 06:43:32 GMT
thanks for your replys.
i solved the problem. the reason was a BIOS Setting of my new
motherboard called "HDD S.M.A.R.T cabability". This Setting was enabled
when i installed my new board. Some times i look around in my bios and
wondering about this setting. I disabled it and everything works fine.
But thank you for you'r replys. Now i understand LILO i little more
Thx Thomas
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Force mount filesystem search order ?
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 08:20:45 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ON wrote:
>
> Hi there
>
> I reformulate my question
>
> Is there a way to force mount to search for a custom filesystem BEFORE the
> ISO9660 ?
>
> I have CDRWs that have both the CDR fs and the UDF and mount always mounts
> them as CDRs. But I would not like to have two different mount commands idf
> possible. The -t auto always tried the ISO9660 fs first.
>
edit /etc/filesystems
Eric
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Install PCI modem in Redhat?
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 08:22:15 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Eric Chow wrote:
> > >
> > > Would you please to teach me the steps of installing a PCI modem in
> > > Redhat ?
> > >
> >
> > Most likely:
> >
> > disconnect the hood from your PC.
> > pull out that PCI modem.
> > bring it back to the store.
> > Tell them that it's NOT a modem.
> > Buy a real modem.
> >
> > But, if you're "lucky" you can find something on www.linmodems.org
> >
> > Eric
> >
>
> It's winmodems that are a problem, a regular pci modem is a 'real'
> modem. Is this Redhat 7 or 6.2. in RH7( I believe RH6.2 has it too), run
> rp3-config at the command line as root. This will find and configure
> your modem automatically.
>
Correct, that's another reason why I said most likely.
Lots of PCI modems are winmodems though.
Eric
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lilo: cylinder no. too big (> 1023)
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 07:33:34 GMT
The /boot partition must not span beyond 1024 also.
Or else get the latest lilo.
ON wrote:
> It is strange, but I just recompiled my 2.2.14 kernel with one extra option
> ticked and when running LILO I get
>
> Cylinder number too big >1023
>
> although the Linux partition IS inside the 1023 limit ! It starts at
> 9hundred something.
>
> I have tried to compile a smaller kernel but whatever I do, I get that
> message unless I use the old 2.2.14 or an even older 2.2.10 I have saved.
>
> What is wrong ?? The kernel is about 584K. Is that too big ?
>
> Thank you.
>
> O.
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From: "Nicky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How should I deal with a drivers.img? (Redhat7)
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 16:43:04 +0900
Reply-To: "Nicky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hello, please help me.
I tried to transfer a drivers.img to a floppy disk
to get drivers for a RedHat7 installation,
but, the rawrite program writes nothing,
Of course, I formatted the floppy disk in advance.
A drivers.img simply copied to a floppy
without the rawrite didn't work.
How should I do?
Thank you.
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO Doesn't Appear During Boot
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 08:33:46 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
newbie wrote:
>
> >
> > I can' tell. Just look at the file and report back.
> >
> > I'd put it in the MBR (boot=/dev/hda), but as the other reply
> mentioned
> > you have linux partitioned that are beyond cyl. 1024. Without a lilo
> > version above 21.4.3 it will not be able to boot linux.
> > (The version RH6.2 installs is to old, so you must upgrade it.)
>
> boot is set to /dev/hda1. I'll give the /dev/hda2 a try.
Then I suppose windows doesn't boot anymore.
in hda1 the windows bootcode used to be.
> Failing this,
> would you recommend that I wipe the disk and start again -- this time
> setting the partitions up properly? I don't have anything on the disk
> that I'm worried about losing, so aside from the hassle of reinstalling,
> I have nothing to lose.
>
If the option of compiling a new LILO doesn't sound appealing to you,
and since you're a newbie, I don't think it does, I indeed suggest to
reinstall.
partition as follows:
Device Boot Start End Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 2 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 3 250 6 FAT16
/dev/hda3 251 3739 f Win95 extended (LBA)
/dev/hda5 251 1024 b Win 95 FAT32
/dev/hda6 1025 3700 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 3701 3739 82 Linux Swap
(I took the numbers from your previous table)
hda1 : /boot
hda2 : C:
hda3 : (Just a container for the next partitions)
hda4 : (Not used)
hda5 : D:
hda6 : /
hda7 : swap
Eric
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lilo: cylinder no. too big (> 1023)
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 08:55:37 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ON wrote:
>
> It is strange, but I just recompiled my 2.2.14 kernel with one extra option
> ticked and when running LILO I get
>
> Cylinder number too big >1023
>
> although the Linux partition IS inside the 1023 limit ! It starts at
> 9hundred something.
Where does it end?
Eric
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From: "Ricky Lem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help needed : Cannot Boot to DOS
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 15:58:14 +0800
Hi,
I have down an automatic installation of RH 7.0 on a server and I have a
problem to Boot back to DOS. Can anyone tell me how can I boot to DOS
instead of LILO boot into Linux automatically.
Thanks in advance.
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Moving boot
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 09:07:40 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Disk /dev/hdc: 15 heads, 63 sectors, 13328 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 945 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hdc1 * 1 1300 614218+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hdc2 2439 13328 5145525 5 Extended
> /dev/hdc5 2439 6877 2097396 83 Linux
> /dev/hdc6 6878 11316 2097396 83 Linux
>
>
> image=/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15
> label=linux
> root=/dev/hdc5
> initrd=/initrd.img
> lilo -v
> Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
> Warning: device 0x1605 exceeds 1024 cylinder limit
> LILO version 21, Copyright 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
>
> Reading boot sector from /dev/hda
> Merging with /boot/boot.b
> geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (2679 > 1023)
>
The complaint is about hdc5
Update LILO to a version 21.4.3 or higher and add the lba32 keyword to
lilo.conf.
You discs are all detected very weird. The maximum number of heads is
255, where your
disc all use approx. 15 heads. This means you'll get a high number of
cylinders.
This is due to poor BIOS settings. If you ever plan to reinstall, fix
that.
(If you would do it now, nothing would be bootable)
AND DON'T CROSSPOST TO SO MANY GROUPS.
(I trimmed the list)
Eric
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: no boot at all: DVD?
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 09:08:57 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Shaun Troedson wrote:
>
> I'm trying to install Linux (Mandrake v7.2, Kernel v2.2.17). The initial
> screen comes up OK and upon hitting return it loads the image and starts the
> boot process, but this process freezes after printing out the following:
> hda: ST320423A, ATA DISK drive
> hdb: BDV 108A DVDROM, ATAPI CDROM drive
>
> As you can see I have a DVD drive. Does anyone know that this will cause a
> problem? Is there a boot disk I can get hold of that handles DVD drives? I
> know Linux can handle DVD drives, but maybe the boot disk can't.
>
> Can anyone tell me at least what Linux is trying to do at this stage of the
> boot process?
>
I suspect that the IDE master/slave jumpers are setup wrong.
Eric
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From: "Tauno Voipio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Moving boot
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 08:09:48 GMT
"Chris Woodhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have redhat 6.0 installed on a pentium 90 with 4 hard drives. When I
> installed it I had to use a floppy to boot because of the locations of
> the partitions I was using for linux but now I have cleared some
> partitions. In fact except for the first partition on the first hard
> drive I could use any other partition to put /boot on so I tried to move
>
> /boot and change my lilo conf to boot to the new drive but when I run
> lilo -v it tells me that the hard drive has more than 1024 cylinders but
>
> cat /etc/lilo.conf
> boot=/dev/hda
> timeout=100
> message=/boot/message
> prompt
> image=/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15
> label=linux
> root=/dev/hdc5
> initrd=/initrd.img
> image=/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15
> label=rescue
> append="load_ramdisk=2 prompt_ramdisk=1"
> root=/dev/fd0
> initrd=/initrd.img
> other=/dev/hda1
> label=dos
> table=/dev/hda
>
> lilo -v
> Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
> Warning: device 0x1605 exceeds 1024 cylinder limit
> LILO version 21, Copyright 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
>
> Reading boot sector from /dev/hda
> Merging with /boot/boot.b
> geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (2679 > 1023)
>
The cylinder count is not the real problem.
LILO (like other loaders) needs to have the /boot on such disk that the BIOS
is able to access it. Usually, BIOS knows only of two first disks (/dev/hda
= 0x80 and /dev/hdb = 0x81). You are trying to force it to read from the
third disk.
It is *not* enough to have the boot sector on /dev/hda: it is not smart
enough to access the other disks.
The bootstrap procedure is:
1. BIOS reads the boot sector into 0x7c00 and jumps in
2. the boot sector reads /boot/boot.b and jumps in
3. boot.b presents the LILO prompt and reads the kernel in
4. the kernel uncompresses and initialises
5. the kernel starts up in 32 bit mode and own drivers
All data needed till step 4 must be accessible to the BIOS disk driver, as
the Linux drivers come in with the kernel.
If I were you, I'd try to clean up a small partition (8 - 16 MB) at the
start of /dev/hda and put /boot there.
Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio @ iki fi
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