Linux-Setup Digest #730, Volume #20 Thu, 1 Mar 01 14:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: RH 5.2 Kernel Compile Problems ("ne...")
Re: Help with LILO and ATA 100 on dual (Bj�rn Tore Sund)
Re: suidperl - where the hell is it? (Art Haas)
Connecting Mandrake 7.2 up to local network (Brian O'Halloran)
Re: Problem mounting ZIP 250 USB drive (Dave Barnett)
Re: Can't change permissions on vfat partitions ! (Dave Barnett)
Re: Linux And AMD (Dave Barnett)
[Fwd: ASUS A7V133] (optimator)
Help! hde lilo bios=0x80 and hang at "LI" (Luigi Cavallo)
Re: rewriting the MRB (Francis Litterio)
Unbootable system needs e2fsck'ed ... ("Philippe Bertin")
boot problem: LIL- (Brian Horton)
linux video problem (AI Nut)
Re: Unbootable system needs e2fsck'ed ... ("Eric en Jolanda")
Re: crc errors at boot ("Robert Jenkins")
RH 6.2 XWindows display size ("W. Stannus")
Re: Unbootable system needs e2fsck'ed ... (Wouter Verhelst)
dual boot using PartionMagic ("Javier")
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From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH 5.2 Kernel Compile Problems
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 15:10:04 GMT
On Feb 28, 2001 at 23:44, Frank Siler eloquently wrote:
>I can't seem to get the kernel on RH�5.2 to compile.� 2.0.36 failed with
>error 2 in the same directory every time, so thinking it was a bug in the
>makefiles I downloaded 2.0.39 off kernel.org.� This also failed to
>compile with the same messages.� I have had builds fail on other source
>packages and some of them also fail with error 2, which leads me to
>believe that it is a problem with the compiler and associated software.
>Unfortunately, I cannot locate my RH install disc to verify the
>development packages.� I am not a programmer and know very little about
>these automake things, so please help.
You will to post the errors you get before we can help you.
Make sue you post the lines from just before the failure
starts.
--
Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org)
"Don't drop acid, take it pass-fail!"
-- Bryan Michael Wendt
10:06am up 24 days, 12:40, 7 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bj�rn Tore Sund)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Help with LILO and ATA 100 on dual
Date: 1 Mar 2001 15:16:09 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 11:41:25 +0100, Luigi Cavallo wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I just installed RH 7.0 on a Dual PIII with ATA 100 HDs on the ATA100
> ide2.
> However, when I try to reboot from the HD the box hangs before arriving
> at the lilo prompt. Actually, it hangs with the first two uppercase
> charcaters of lilo, as
>
> LI
>
> If I boot from the floppy made during installation, and by feeding linux
> ide2=...
> it boots properly.
>
> I tried to install lilo both in the MBR as well as on /dev/hde, but the
> box behaves the same.
Sounds like a kernel without ATA 100 support. This is typically
not compiled into the packaged SMP kernel - it wasn't on my SuSE
7.0. I had exactly the same problem as you until I swapped to
an EIDE kernel (which I had to download from the SuSE ftp site) -
after which I had disk support, but no SMP support.
Compiling a new kernel was the solution to get both.
Bj�rn
--
Bj�rn Tore Sund "When in fear, and when in doubt;
Run in circles, scream and shout!"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Robert Heinlein
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From: Art Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: suidperl - where the hell is it?
Date: 01 Mar 2001 09:36:09 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Williams) writes:
> I've looked eveywhere, I do not have suidperl on my system, freshmeat, osdn,
> etc all do not have anything. Where can I get this?
It's built when you build perl, if you choose so.
http://www.perl.com
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###############################
# Art Haas
# (713) 689-2417
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From: Brian O'Halloran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Connecting Mandrake 7.2 up to local network
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 16:09:58 +0000
Hi.
I've been installing Mandrake 7.2 on a P III for the last day or so, and
the only problem is trying to hook the machine up to the local network.
When prompted if I want to connect to the local network, I'm asked for
the IP address for the machine, the netmask, the name of the host, the
(IP address of the) DNS server and the (IP address of the) gateway,
which I input. The machine boots, no problem or errors, and when I try
to telnet into the server machine (or anywhere), all I get is 'no route
to host'. It has a 3Com Ethernet 10/100 PCI (3C905C-TX) card, and it
seems to detect it. This is probably a very simple problem, but I'm
tearing my hair out..... any help would be appreciated!!!
All the best,
Brian
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From: Dave Barnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem mounting ZIP 250 USB drive
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 10:18:01 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cedric:
Just a thought here, but on my Internal IDE Zip 100, the partition is 4,
so I must mount it as:
mount /dev/hdb4 /mnt/zip
when the disk is new.
You should be able to use "fdisk -l /dev/sda" to see what partitions are
on the disk.....
Perhaps the above mount command will help, and/or use the "-t <fstype>"
option like:
mount -t msdos /dev/hdb4 /mnt/zip
"msdos" might not be right. man mount should give the valid fs types, I
think.
HTH.
Cheers,
Dave
--
Dave Barnett System Software Engineer x2784
The Buddhist Hamburger Joint: they'll make you one with everything.
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From: Dave Barnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't change permissions on vfat partitions !
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 10:30:13 -0600
"H.Bruijn" wrote:
> The "umask" works like this. By default files are created with
> permissions set as " 666 - umask" and directories will have permissions
> " 777 - umask" so an umask value of 023 will set the permissions of all
> files you create by default to 643 = "-rw-r--r--" and directories to
Setting permissions to umaks to "023" results in files created with
"643" permissions. This will create your file with "-rw-r--wx", which
is not what you want.
You would want a umask of "022" which would mean perms of "644", or
"-rw-r--r--".
"-" not a special file (i.e. not a directory, block device, etc)
"rw-" -> User has read and write access to this file.
"r--" -> Group members of the group user is in have read access to this
file.
"r--" -> Others (everyone else) has read access to this file.
> 754 = "drwxr-xr--"
For your umask of "023", this should read:
753 = "drwxr-x-wx"
which is not what you want. You should use "022" for the umask, and you
would get:
754 = "drwxr-xr-x"
which is what you want.
> The octal number for permissions are as follows:
<snip>
> The number is an increment for the possible perms,
> 1 make the the file execuatble
> 2 write permissions
> 3 = 1 + 2 = executable + writeable
> 4 read permissions.
> 5 = 1 + 4 = executable + read
> 6 = 2 + 4 = read + write
6 = 2 + 4 = write + read
[write = 2, read = 4]
> 7 = 1 + 2 + 4 = executable + read + write
7 = 1 + 2 + 4 = executable + write + read
HTH.
Cheers,
Dave
--
Dave Barnett System Software Engineer x2784
If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?
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From: Dave Barnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux And AMD
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 10:36:53 -0600
RH7 is quite happy to run on my 1GHz AMD Athlon.
--
Dave Barnett System Software Engineer x2784
"After eating, do amphibians need to wait an hour before getting OUT of
the water?"
- George Carlin
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From: optimator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: [Fwd: ASUS A7V133]
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 17:21:31 GMT
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OK, Here is the deal....
System Configuration:
Motherboard - ASUS A7V133 (Bios 1002a.1)
RAM - 512MB PC133
HardDrive - Maxtor 30G ATA100
Problem:
I have tried installing both Redhat 7.0 and SuSe 7.1(Professional). They
both
seem to stall out during the install.
I have downloaded the "eide" boot image from SuSe but it doesn't seem
to help.
Any info would be appreciated.
Thanks,
optimator
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From: Luigi Cavallo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Help! hde lilo bios=0x80 and hang at "LI"
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 18:24:34 +0100
Hi,
I have a MS 694D MB with 2 ATA100 HDs on ide2 and ide3.
I have been able to install RH 7.0 typing linx ide2=0xac00,oxb002 at
lilo pompt, but I am not able to boot from the HD.
As suggested, I tried to include the magic key bios=0x80 into lilo.conf,
but it doesn't work. It still hangs at "LI".
Below is my lilo.conf, and following is the out of lilo -v
At the moment, I boot from the booting floppy I saved at install
I don't think I can switch off ide0 and ide1 with jumpers, because it
seems that there are not such jumpers on the MB. I tried to switch off
ide0 and ide1 channels from
the SETUP utilities, and in fact the CDROM is not detected anymore.
However, it doesn't boot from HD, and if I boot from the floppy, the HD
is still detected as ide2 and /dev/hde.
Would be a good solution to put in a cheap and old IDE HD on ide0, just
to boot the box ? In case, should I just put /boot on this HD ?
Any suggestions ?
TIA
luigi
My lilo.conf:
disk=/dev/hde
bios=0x80
boot=/dev/hde1
vga=0
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-22
label=linux
read-only
root=/dev/hde1
append="ide2=0xac00, 0xb002"
Output of lilo -v
LILO version 21.4-4, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
'lba32' extensions Copyright (C) 1999,2000 John Coffman
Reading boot sector from /dev/hde1
Merging with /boot/boot.b
Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-22
Added linux *
/boot/boot.2101 exists - no backup copy made.
Writing boot sector.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,linux.redhat.install
From: Francis Litterio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rewriting the MRB
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 17:43:40 GMT
"Scot Mc Pherson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> go into DOS, type "fdisk /mbr"
>
> That will wipe out the MBR and windows will rewrite it.
More precisely, that will replace everything in the MBR (other than the
partition table) with the standard DOS/Windows boot loader. The
partition table remains unchanged, including which partition is marked
active.
--
Francis Litterio
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Philippe Bertin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.kernel,be.comp.os.linux,nl.comp.os.linux.installatie
Subject: Unbootable system needs e2fsck'ed ...
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 19:23:23 +0100
Hello All,
I have the following problem :
After problems with a partition whose type is vfat (where I store my data as
well as from within Linux as from within Windows), I've tried to make a
e2fsck on that partition. But it was mounted at the time I did the check.
The e2fsck- command warned me that I could do a lot of damage when
continuing (as it was mounted), so I didn't continue. I tried to unmount it,
which didn't succeed. So I had to power off my Linux system. Now, I can't
restart my Linux system anymore, most probably because of another partition
that's failing now (as in Windows in the meantime, I've repaired the
originally failing partition). The last things that it says before hanging
in the Linux boot sequence are the following :
.
.
.
Unable to open an initial console
EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
Swansea University ... (blabla)
IPX Portions Copyright ... (blabla)
Appletalk 0.17 for LinuxNET 3.035
ne2k-pci.c: v0.99L 2/7/98 D. ... (blabla)
ne2k-pci.c: PCI NE2000 clone "RealTek RTL-8029" at I/O 0x6100, IRQ 11
eth0: PCI NE2000 found at 0x6100, IRQ11, ... (hardware number)
So I have to e2fsck a partition from within Linux ... which I can't start
anymore. Could anyone say what I could do to cure this deadlock situation ?
Are there some boot startup options ? I do have a Linux startup rescue disk,
but it hangs about at the same place. Probably because it tries to mount the
same deficient partition. I suspect this partition to be the root partition
('/'), as my system already doesn't find an 'initial console' - see error
messages.
If recovery isn't possible, what could I do to overwrite the least of the
existing partitions ? A lot of questions, for which I hope some of you will
have an answer.
Thanks in advance.
Philippe.
(For the Belgian and Dutch friends : In mijn taalkeuze nam ik de GGD; ik
hoop niemand tegen de borst te stuiten ...? Indien wel, al op voorhand sorry
...)
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From: Brian Horton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: boot problem: LIL-
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 09:41:15 -0600
Hope someone can help me.. this machine was working fine, and then
'something happened' and now lilo freezes with: LIL- on boot. Found the
error description for that and tried everything listed, but nothing
seems to point to what the problem is. (Error description says: 'The
descriptor table is corrupt. This can either be caused by a geometry
mismatch or by moving /boot/map without running the map installer. ')
My setup is that I have one /boot partition, and 3 partitions that I can
use as /root. The last thing that I did before things stopped working,
was to boot w/ hda8 as the root (which I had done before OK) and then
tried to go back to the default hda6. Like I said, this worked before...
The geometry info in 'fdisk -l' matches what I see when I boot with
PartitionMagic disks;
Comments? Suggestions of anything else to try? I've tried w/ and w/out
'linear' in the lilo.conf - same result. I tried w/ and w/out the
'disk=' stanza - same result.
thx for any and all help!
.bri.
=================================================
RH6.2; 2.2.14 kernel from that install. 2.2.16 kernel downloaded
from RedHat ftp site. NO kernel's rebuilt - all from rpm's.
[root@onelesscar /root]# rpm -qa|grep lilo
lilo-0.21-15
[root@onelesscar /root]# cat /etc/lilo.conf
boot=/dev/hda1
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
default=6_2214
#linear
#disk=/dev/hda
# bios=0x80
#
# note - there is a limit of 16 different images!!
#
# hda6: RedHat 6.2 with various RedHat kernel levels:
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
label=6_2214
read-only
root=/dev/hda6
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0smp
label=6_2214smp
read-only
root=/dev/hda6
# hda8: RedHat 6.2 with various RedHat kernel levels
# and with Mandrake g++ upgrades for other build env
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-3
label=8_2216
read-only
root=/dev/hda8
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-3smp
label=8_2216smp
read-only
root=/dev/hda8
# hda9: RedHat 7.0 with various RedHat kernel levels:
##### RH7.0 not installed yet!!
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
label=9_2214
read-only
root=/dev/hda9
#
[root@onelesscar /root]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2482 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 5 40131 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 6 2482 19896502+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 6 395 3132643+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 396 785 3132643+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 786 1047 2104483+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 1048 1437 3132643+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda9 1438 1827 3132643+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda10 2450 2482 265041 82 Linux swap
[root@onelesscar /root]# lilo -v -v -v
[root@onelesscar /root]# lilo -v -v -v
LILO version 21, Copyright 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
Caching device /dev/hda (0x0300)
Caching device /dev/hda1 (0x0301)
Caching device /dev/hda2 (0x0302)
Caching device /dev/hda3 (0x0303)
Caching device /dev/hda4 (0x0304)
Caching device /dev/hda5 (0x0305)
Caching device /dev/hda6 (0x0306)
Caching device /dev/hda7 (0x0307)
Caching device /dev/hda8 (0x0308)
Caching device /dev/hdb (0x0340)
Caching device /dev/hdb1 (0x0341)
Caching device /dev/hdb2 (0x0342)
Caching device /dev/hdb3 (0x0343)
Caching device /dev/hdb4 (0x0344)
Caching device /dev/hdb5 (0x0345)
Caching device /dev/hdb6 (0x0346)
Caching device /dev/hdb7 (0x0347)
Caching device /dev/hdb8 (0x0348)
Caching device /dev/sda (0x0800)
Caching device /dev/sda1 (0x0801)
Caching device /dev/sda2 (0x0802)
Caching device /dev/sda3 (0x0803)
Caching device /dev/sda4 (0x0804)
Caching device /dev/sda5 (0x0805)
Caching device /dev/sda6 (0x0806)
Caching device /dev/sda7 (0x0807)
Caching device /dev/sda8 (0x0808)
Caching device /dev/sdb (0x0810)
Caching device /dev/sdb1 (0x0811)
Caching device /dev/sdb2 (0x0812)
Caching device /dev/sdb3 (0x0813)
Caching device /dev/sdb4 (0x0814)
Caching device /dev/sdb5 (0x0815)
Caching device /dev/sdb6 (0x0816)
Caching device /dev/sdb7 (0x0817)
Caching device /dev/sdb8 (0x0818)
Caching device /dev/loop0 (0x0700)
Caching device /dev/loop1 (0x0701)
Caching device /dev/loop2 (0x0702)
Caching device /dev/loop3 (0x0703)
Caching device /dev/loop4 (0x0704)
Caching device /dev/loop5 (0x0705)
Caching device /dev/loop6 (0x0706)
Caching device /dev/loop7 (0x0707)
Reading boot sector from /dev/hda1
Device 0x0300: BIOS drive 0x80, 255 heads, 2482 cylinders,
63 sectors. Partition offset: 0 sectors.
Merging with /boot/boot.b
Device 0x0301: BIOS drive 0x80, 255 heads, 2482 cylinders,
63 sectors. Partition offset: 63 sectors.
Secondary loader: 8 sectors.
Device 0x0301: BIOS drive 0x80, 255 heads, 2482 cylinders,
63 sectors. Partition offset: 63 sectors.
Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
Device 0x0301: BIOS drive 0x80, 255 heads, 2482 cylinders,
63 sectors. Partition offset: 63 sectors.
Setup length is 7 sectors.
Mapped 1218 sectors.
Added 6_2214 *
<dev=0x80,hd=157,cyl=0,sct=40>
"ro root=306"
Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0smp
Device 0x0301: BIOS drive 0x80, 255 heads, 2482 cylinders,
63 sectors. Partition offset: 63 sectors.
Setup length is 7 sectors.
Mapped 1304 sectors.
Added 6_2214smp
<dev=0x80,hd=157,cyl=0,sct=55>
"ro root=306"
Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-3
Device 0x0301: BIOS drive 0x80, 255 heads, 2482 cylinders,
63 sectors. Partition offset: 63 sectors.
Setup length is 7 sectors.
Mapped 1271 sectors.
Added 8_2216
<dev=0x80,hd=158,cyl=0,sct=49>
"ro root=308"
Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-3smp
Device 0x0301: BIOS drive 0x80, 255 heads, 2482 cylinders,
63 sectors. Partition offset: 63 sectors.
Setup length is 7 sectors.
Mapped 1321 sectors.
Added 8_2216smp
<dev=0x80,hd=160,cyl=1,sct=39>
"ro root=308"
Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
Device 0x0301: BIOS drive 0x80, 255 heads, 2482 cylinders,
63 sectors. Partition offset: 63 sectors.
Setup length is 7 sectors.
Mapped 1218 sectors.
Added 9_2214
<dev=0x80,hd=160,cyl=1,sct=55>
"ro root=309"
/boot/boot.0301 exists - no backup copy made.
Map file size: 41472 bytes.
Writing boot sector.
[root@onelesscar /root]# ls -l /boot
total 12582
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Mar 1 09:23 System.map ->
System.map-2.2.14-5.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 203645 Mar 7 2000
System.map-2.2.14-5.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 184824 Mar 7 2000
System.map-2.2.14-5.0BOOT
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 215143 Mar 7 2000
System.map-2.2.14-5.0smp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 205618 Jun 19 2000
System.map-2.2.16-3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 218389 Jun 19 2000
System.map-2.2.16-3smp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Feb 6 01:54 boot.0300
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Feb 27 16:34 boot.0301
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4568 Feb 2 2000 boot.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 612 Feb 2 2000 chain.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 237 Feb 27 14:24 kernel.h
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Feb 6 01:20 lost+found/
-rw------- 1 root root 41472 Mar 1 09:32 map
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Feb 12 15:51 module-info ->
module-info-2.2.14-5.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11773 Mar 7 2000
module-info-2.2.14-5.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11773 Mar 7 2000
module-info-2.2.14-5.0smp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11773 Jun 19 2000
module-info-2.2.16-3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11773 Jun 19 2000
module-info-2.2.16-3smp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 620 Feb 2 2000 os2_d.b
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Feb 12 15:51 vmlinux ->
vmlinux-2.2.14-5.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1615706 Mar 7 2000
vmlinux-2.2.14-5.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1509577 Mar 7 2000
vmlinux-2.2.14-5.0BOOT*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1764141 Mar 7 2000
vmlinux-2.2.14-5.0smp*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1683004 Jun 19 2000
vmlinux-2.2.16-3*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1800628 Jun 19 2000
vmlinux-2.2.16-3smp*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Feb 12 15:51 vmlinuz ->
vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 622249 Mar 7 2000
vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 587970 Mar 7 2000
vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0BOOT
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 666133 Mar 7 2000
vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0smp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 649291 Jun 19 2000 vmlinuz-2.2.16-3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 675253 Jun 19 2000
vmlinuz-2.2.16-3smp
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From: AI Nut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux video problem
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 12:27:14 -0600
This one is really strange. I loaded Suse 6.2 on top of an old
Slackware installation. Worked fine, lasted long time. Loaded Suse
6.3, everything ok. Loaded 6.4 and now, boot proceeds correctly, even
down to "MachineName login:". Then, within about a second, the screen
goes from legible text to completely illegible with dots and dashes in
stairstep effect at the top and bottom 1/4's of the screen and nothing I
do shows up correctly. So then I load Suse 7.0 on top of that, hoping
it will fix everything, but noooooo, the same procedure occurs. Boot
proceeds ok, down to login, then that same strange video quirk.
1st mobo: asus k7m w/ tnt2 ultra video card
2nd mobo: (for suse 7.0) asus a7v w/geforce 2 mx video card.
How do I get my system back?
Is there some magic incantation that I can pass during linux boot params
that will get the system sane again? I have only tried "linux vga" so
far.
Thanks,
AI Nut
Please email replies, too, as my newsreader crashes the system often
(separate problem.)
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From: "Eric en Jolanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: be.comp.os.linux,nl.comp.os.linux.installatie
Subject: Re: Unbootable system needs e2fsck'ed ...
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 19:35:50 +0100
> After problems with a partition whose type is vfat (where I store my data
as
> well as from within Linux as from within Windows), I've tried to make a
> e2fsck on that partition.
an e2fsck on a vfat partition?
what were you thinking?
> But it was mounted at the time I did the check.
> The e2fsck- command warned me that I could do a lot of damage when
> continuing (as it was mounted), so I didn't continue. I tried to unmount
it,
> which didn't succeed.
Why not?
> So I had to power off my Linux system.
without shutting down properly?
> Now, I can't
> restart my Linux system anymore, most probably because of another
partition
> that's failing now (as in Windows in the meantime, I've repaired the
> originally failing partition).
Oh oh...
Let me take a look at your partitiontable.
(/sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hd[a-d])
> The last things that it says before hanging
> in the Linux boot sequence are the following :
> .
> .
> .
> Unable to open an initial console
boot from a rescue system (floppy, cdrom)
and find out why this occurs. Is /dev/console missing?
> EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
> Swansea University ... (blabla)
> IPX Portions Copyright ... (blabla)
> Appletalk 0.17 for LinuxNET 3.035
> ne2k-pci.c: v0.99L 2/7/98 D. ... (blabla)
> ne2k-pci.c: PCI NE2000 clone "RealTek RTL-8029" at I/O 0x6100, IRQ 11
> eth0: PCI NE2000 found at 0x6100, IRQ11, ... (hardware number)
>
> So I have to e2fsck a partition from within Linux ... which I can't start
> anymore. Could anyone say what I could do to cure this deadlock situation
?
boot from a rescue system.
> Are there some boot startup options ? I do have a Linux startup rescue
disk,
> but it hangs about at the same place.
so you have a bootfloppy, not a root(rescue) disk
Get one from the web, or use the CD-ROM you used during the install.
I know with redhat, you can enter "linux rescue" at the lilo prompt and use
it as a resue system. I suppose other distro's supply the same
functionality.
> Probably because it tries to mount the
> same deficient partition. I suspect this partition to be the root
partition
> ('/'), as my system already doesn't find an 'initial console' - see error
> messages.
>
> If recovery isn't possible,
no need to worry about that yet.
> what could I do to overwrite the least of the
> existing partitions ?
> A lot of questions, for which I hope some of you will
> have an answer.
> (For the Belgian and Dutch friends : In mijn taalkeuze nam ik de GGD; ik
> hoop niemand tegen de borst te stuiten ...? Indien wel, al op voorhand
sorry
> ...)
>
No offence taken.
(ik heb die dev.kernel groep wel verwijderd)
Eric
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From: "Robert Jenkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: crc errors at boot
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 18:31:42 -0000
Hi,
I seem to remember having a similar problem to this with an older version of
RedHat on one particular machine.
As far as I remember, I reset the CMOS Setup to it's 'safe' option and
everything worked fine, so I tweaked one setting at a time to get the
essentials back (cacheing etc).
Hope this is some help,
Regards,
Robert Jenkins.
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From: "W. Stannus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH 6.2 XWindows display size
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 13:52:30 -0500
I've been trying to install RH 6.2 on my W98 machine. Instalation went
no problem, but as soon as X starts, the desktop overlaps the edges of
the screen, and I cannot scroll around on it. The monitor is a an old
Tatung 460x600, but manually chosing even the lowest settings during the
installation does not affect the problem. Can any one tell me if I can
solve this one and how (besides just buying a new display)? I'm totally
new to linux but am interested in at least getting familiar with it if
it would only work. Thanks, William Stannus [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wouter Verhelst)
Subject: Re: Unbootable system needs e2fsck'ed ...
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.kernel,be.comp.os.linux,nl.comp.os.linux.installatie
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 19:01:07 GMT
In article <3a9e93a0$0$9722$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Philippe Bertin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello All,
>
> I have the following problem :
>
> After problems with a partition whose type is vfat (where I store my data as
> well as from within Linux as from within Windows), I've tried to make a
> e2fsck on that partition. But it was mounted at the time I did the check.
> The e2fsck- command warned me that I could do a lot of damage when
> continuing (as it was mounted), so I didn't continue. I tried to unmount it,
> which didn't succeed. So I had to power off my Linux system. Now, I can't
> restart my Linux system anymore, most probably because of another partition
> that's failing now (as in Windows in the meantime, I've repaired the
> originally failing partition). The last things that it says before hanging
> in the Linux boot sequence are the following :
> .
> .
> .
> Unable to open an initial console
> EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
> Swansea University ... (blabla)
> IPX Portions Copyright ... (blabla)
> Appletalk 0.17 for LinuxNET 3.035
> ne2k-pci.c: v0.99L 2/7/98 D. ... (blabla)
> ne2k-pci.c: PCI NE2000 clone "RealTek RTL-8029" at I/O 0x6100, IRQ 11
> eth0: PCI NE2000 found at 0x6100, IRQ11, ... (hardware number)
>
> So I have to e2fsck a partition from within Linux ... which I can't start
> anymore. Could anyone say what I could do to cure this deadlock situation ?
as root, run
mount -o remount,ro /
This will remount your root-filesystem (the one mounted as "/")
read-only, so that you can safely fsck it. Don't forget to remount it
read-write afterwards:
mount -o remount,rw /
<snip>
--
wouter dot verhelst at advalvas in belgium
Real men don't take backups.
They put their source on a public FTP-server and let the world mirror it.
-- Linus Torvalds
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From: "Javier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: dual boot using PartionMagic
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 14:02:49 -0500
Has anybody ever used PartionMagic? If so, is it any good? Would it be
better to use BootMagic or Linux's LILO for a dual boot into WIN98 or Redhat
7?
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