Linux-Setup Digest #840, Volume #20 Fri, 16 Mar 01 08:13:09 EST
Contents:
Linux on Deskpro XL ("Fireblade")
partition question (PkingTom)
Re: partition question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Lilo with RH 7.0 Won't Enter Linux Automatically Anymore (Sebastian Wild)
Re: CD freezes during install (Marcus Mueller)
Re: dual boot-startup disk-linux+win98 (Aranwen)
Re: dual boot-startup disk-linux+win98 (Aranwen)
Re: dual boot-startup disk-linux+win98 ("Eric")
FYI: util-linux-2.10s-2mdk.i586.rpm is broken ("jon")
Re: Can't get to hard drive-even with a boot disc. ("Eric")
Re: Newbie - Keyboard, BackSpace key behaves like the Delete key in (Nick Williams)
Setting the time zone (Alec Harkness)
K2.4.2 usb-storage problems: mount: /dev/sda1 has wrong major or minor number (Geir
Harris Hedemark)
Install Linux on SCSI HD with Solaris OS (songjie)
Re: K2.4.2 usb-storage problems: mount: /dev/sda1 has wrong major or minor number
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
2.4.X not booting on Promise RAID0 / ASUS AV7 ("Larry Snyder")
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From: "Fireblade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux on Deskpro XL
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 09:21:56 +0100
Hello,
For quite some time I've been trying to install Linux (pref. Debian) on my
Compaq Deskpro XL466, but without any succes. In order to do it, I need the
"Linux Compaq Deskpro XL HOWTO". Unfortunately, the only site hosting this
HOWTO has removed it.
Can anyone send me the "Linux Compaq Deskpro XL HOWTO" on
[EMAIL PROTECTED]? Thanks a lot!!!
Robert
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PkingTom)
Date: 16 Mar 2001 08:43:41 GMT
Subject: partition question
I have some more questions about partitioning. I have been messing around
with PartitionMagic and through that you can set up a Linux Ext2 partition
along with a Linux swap space. Now when I went through the installation for
Linux I got to the Automatic partitioning screen and i'm pretty sure I clicked
on automatically partition and remove data. The following screen was the
Network card configuration. At this point I wasnt sure what I was doing and
stopped. I guess my question basically is would this installation have been ok
if I had gone through with it after setting up the Linux Ext2 and swap space
partition through the partitionmagic? Where would the / and /boot directories
have gone? In the Ext2 partition? I'm not sure if I should go this route.
Which is the better way? I currently have 3 partitions, one primary that
holds windows98 and another extended which hold 2 logical partitions. All 3
partitions are 11GB each. I've tried going into the installation for Linux with
all space on the hard drive allocated by the 3 partitions. But i'm worried that
once I get through the setup it will erase my C partition that holds windows98.
Is it better to cut one of the logical drives in half, making it about 6GB and
go into the Linux installation with say 5GB of unallocated space? Will the
automatic partitioning use the unallocated space to make the partition AND will
it install Linux in that particular partition? I just want to find out the best
way to have both windows98 and linux on my machine.
Thanks for any advice, Tom
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: partition question
Date: 16 Mar 2001 09:07:57 GMT
PkingTom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have some more questions about partitioning. I have been messing around
> with PartitionMagic and through that you can set up a Linux Ext2 partition
> along with a Linux swap space. Now when I went through the installation for
> Linux I got to the Automatic partitioning screen <ZAP>
I guess that your distribution toke the 'automatic' concept a bit too far:
probabily he had destroyed your partition scheme and installed a
standard-defined partition scheme.
> worried that
> once I get through the setup it will erase my C partition that holds
> windows98.
I guess that you have to choose a "manual" way to install and decide yourself
how/where to put your various partitions.
Davide
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From: Sebastian Wild <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.redhat,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Lilo with RH 7.0 Won't Enter Linux Automatically Anymore
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:00:29 +0100
Kenneth Lafond schrieb:
>
> Look in your /etc/lilo.conf file. make sure the values timeout=XX and
> default=label are correct and present, where XX is the number of secs to
> timeout to the default, and label is the label for the image you want to be
> default.
Set timeout to zero or quote it out to make Lilo boot linux without
waiting!
Wastl
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From: Marcus Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD freezes during install
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:15:28 GMT
Hi Laurent,
could you send your system configuration (mainboard, processor, IDE-interfaces).
In case you are using an A7V(133), the problem is related to the ATA100 Promise
controller.
br
Marcus
Laurent Duperval wrote:
> Hi,
>
> To get background on this, see the thread "Can install *any* distro".
>
> Okay, here's where I'm at now. I got my hands on a SuSE 7.0 distro and I tried
> to use it. What happens is that it loads the OS then it hits a state where
> there is a message saying "Reading infofile", right after a "Sanning for
> hardware" message. When I reeach that stage, my CD start to make a lot of
> nois, like the OS is asking it to do something it wasn't designed to. At that
> point, I have to reboot 'cuz I'm not sure if my CD's gonna break or not.
>
> I have a Creative Lab 8X CD. I've never had problems with it until I tried to
> install a recent distro. One thing I've noticed is a message during the SuSE
> 7.0 boot sequence that says, "I'm assuming the IDE bus is at 33Mhz. If it
> isn't, use the idebus= option". Could this be tied to my problem? Remember
> that SuSE 6.1 installed (and still installs) correctly. I've the impression
> that something changed in the IDE portion of the default kernel which is
> causing me these problems.
>
> I'm going to try to burn a recent version of the Slackware images tonight but
> I don't have much hope of it working, at this point.
>
> Any help is still plenty welcomed!
>
> L
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From: Aranwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dual boot-startup disk-linux+win98
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:30:02 -0000
Thank you both. I did install windows first because of the known problem.
I'll follow your advice Eric.
Thanks again.
-Lady Aranwen
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From: Aranwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dual boot-startup disk-linux+win98
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:30:04 -0000
Ok so i did the lilo -v thing and here's what i got :
Reading boot sector from /dev/hda
Merging with /boot/boot.b
Warning: device 0x0302 exceeds 1024 cylinder limit.
Fatal:geo_comp_addr:Cylinder number is too big (2444>1023)
Could someone please tell me what this cylinder limit is and what i can do
about it?
Thanks.
-Lady Aranwen
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dual boot-startup disk-linux+win98
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 11:44:47 +0100
> Ok so i did the lilo -v thing and here's what i got :
I know that's not all you got.
You also got a versionnumber.
You should post everything next time, if you want adequate help.
> Reading boot sector from /dev/hda
> Merging with /boot/boot.b
> Warning: device 0x0302 exceeds 1024 cylinder limit.
> Fatal:geo_comp_addr:Cylinder number is too big (2444>1023)
>
> Could someone please tell me what this cylinder limit is and what i can do
> about it?
It's a BIOS limitation, older BIOS's were unable to boot from beyond
cylinder 1024.
At the top of your lilo.conf, a line stating "linear" may be found
change it to "lba32" and try to run "/sbin/lilo -v" again
Eric
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From: "jon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FYI: util-linux-2.10s-2mdk.i586.rpm is broken
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 04:47:25 -0600
Just a note that so it causes noone else pain.
The symptom is a core dump(silent) when trying to login. All I knew for
hours was I couldn't login using mingetty, but all other methods of logging
in worked fine.
I was going nuts till I just tried a lower version(o).
-Jon
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't get to hard drive-even with a boot disc.
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 12:03:15 +0100
> Here's the story in a nutshell. I loaded Mandrake Linux onto a 13gig hard
> drive on my computer. I want to use LILO. Boot up and get to LI (in LILO)
> and then I get a bunch of 40s going across the screen like....
> 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40
> 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40
> 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40
> 40 40 40 40 40
> OK, so I use the boot disk I made during the installation and get grub to
> be the OS loader. Boot up and get GEOM Error. Do a little research and
> find that there's something weird with the BIOS and the hard drive. BIOS
> sees only the first 8gigs. No big deal. I can still see the Windows98
> portion of the hard drive when I boot up fine with the Linux boot disk. I
> figure just re-install Windows98
oops.
This might turn out to be the worst idea.
show me `/sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hda`
> and use the boot disk for Linux access. I
> test out a boot disk and it gives me a C: prompt and a D: prompt(the CD- I
> left Windows98 at work because I did not think I needed it.) Come home
> next day and go to boot off the same Windows98 boot disk and all that
> happens now is I see the 3.5" light come on and then it stays on, normal,
> the hard drive light comes on when the 3.5" goes out and stays on and
> stays on...all I have on the screen is a blinking line.
Sorry I don't know windows well enough.
> THe Linux boot
> disk still loads up Linux fine also so I know that 3.5" is working fine.
> Now I have a computer that 1) If I boot up with no boot disk gives me a
> Geom Error
can be solved.
run `/sbin/lilo -v -v`
Got any warnings?
> 2) Boot up with a Windows98 (I have tried several other ones)
> and I get just a blinking cursor and a steady on hard drive
?
> 3) Boot up
> with my Mandrake Linux and get a working Linux compuet. What is
> happening?????
a bad partitiontable?
Eric
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From: Nick Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie - Keyboard, BackSpace key behaves like the Delete key in
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 00:13:12 +0000
Newbie from Win98 wrote:
> Hi People,
>
> Please can you help me? I am a newbie whose keyboard's Backspace key
> behaves like the Delete key. Also both the Backspace and Delete key write a
> '~' when pressed in the command line.
>
> When used in a text editor they behave as the delete key. No text is
> deleted before the cursor, only text that appears after the cursor gets
> deleted.
>
> System details:
> RedHat 7.0 workstation install with lots of extras included so I can learn
> how they work.
> Dual boot with Win98.
>
> Hardware:
> PII 333 MHz, 128MB RAM, 4.3GB, 16bit ESS soundcard, Linksys LNE100TX NIC,
> Voodoo2 3D card Creative Blaster, ISA Modem, DVD-ROM with Dxr3.
>
> I have just installed RedHat 7.0 for the second time. The first time around
> the keyboard behaved perfectly. I am fairly sure that for the second
> install I chose the same setup for the keyboard - standard keyboard. I have
> no idea why the Backspace and Del key write a '~' in the command line
> interface. Also the Backspace behaves as the Del key when used in a text
> editor.
>
> Thanks for any help you can give me.
>
> Newbie.
Take a look at the configure-HOWTO. It's got lots of handy tips.
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From: Alec Harkness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Setting the time zone
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 12:13:55 +0000
Easy one:
How do I set the time zone for the system clock from EST to (for
example) GMT? I could just change the time by 4 or 5 hours, but that's
cheating.
The man file is no help.
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From: Geir Harris Hedemark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K2.4.2 usb-storage problems: mount: /dev/sda1 has wrong major or minor number
Date: 16 Mar 2001 13:15:53 +0100
I have a Sandisk Imagemate SDDR09 photo card reader I am trying to get
working under Linux 2.4.2.
The device is detected properly:
>cat /proc/bus/usb/devices
T: Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2
B: Alloc= 0/900 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #Iso= 0
D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 0.00
S: Product=USB UHCI-alt Root Hub
S: SerialNumber=9000
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr= 0mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=255ms
T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 2 Spd=12 MxCh= 0
D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=0781 ProdID=0200 Rev= 1.00
S: Manufacturer=SanDisk
S: Product=USB SSFDC
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=80 MxPwr=100mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=(none)
E: Ad=01(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl= 0ms
E: Ad=82(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl= 0ms
E: Ad=83(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 64 Ivl=255ms
I am trying to follow
http://www.germane-software.com/~ser/R_n_R/ImageMate.html:
>lsmod
Module Size Used by
>modprobe usb-storage
>lsmod
Module Size Used by
usb-storage 22560 0 (unused)
scsi_mod 87616 0 [usb-storage]
>mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt
mount: /dev/sda1 has wrong major or minor number
>lsmod
Module Size Used by
sd_mod 10624 0 (autoclean) (unused)
usb-storage 22560 0 (unused)
scsi_mod 87616 1 [sd_mod usb-storage]
The sd_mod module is loaded by the mount command, probably in search
of some scsi disk.
I am at a loss to figure out how to do this. Help, please?
Geir
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From: songjie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Install Linux on SCSI HD with Solaris OS
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 20:20:18 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I have a PC with only one SCSI controller, one SCSI CDROM and two SCSI
hard disks. The first SCSI HD (ID : 0) has been installed with NT 4.0
and Solaris OS. The second SCSI HD(ID: 2) is installed with Redhat Linux
6.2. The CDROM has an SCSI ID of 4. The ID of the controller is 7.
When I install the Linux, I removed the First SCSI HD of NT & SOLARIS.
So the lilo is trying to boot fom /dev/sda and root is /dev/sda5. Then
I connected the first HD together. With the SCSI controller, I config it
is boot from the SCSI ID of 2. But the lilo cannot boot corectly. It
prompted like "VFS cannot mount root from /dev/sda 08:02 ....". So I
reboot and using the command of " LILO: linux root=/dev/sdb5". This
time, linux is booting successfully with some erros of "cannot mount
/home ... " . Then I modify the /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo as follows:
=============/etc/fstab.old =======================
/dev/sda5 / ext2
defaults 1 1
/dev/sda1 /boot ext2
defaults 1 2
/dev/sda7 /home ext2
defaults 1 2
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0
0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto
noauto,owner 0 0
none /proc proc
defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts
gid=5,mode=620 0 0
/dev/sda6 swap swap
defaults 0 0
===================/etc/fstab =============
/dev/sdb5 / ext2
defaults 1 1
/dev/sdb1 /boot ext2
defaults 1 2
/dev/sdb7 /home ext2
defaults 1 2
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner
0 0
none /proc proc
defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts
gid=5,mode=620 0 0
/dev/sdb6 swap swap
defaults 0 0
==================/etc/lilo.conf.old===================
boot=/dev/sda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
linear
default=linux
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
label=linux
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.14-5.0.img
read-only
root=/dev/sda5
=================/etc/lilo.conf==============
boot=/dev/sdb
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
linear
default=linux
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
label=linux
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.14-5.0.img
read-only
root=/dev/sdb5
But linux cannot boot correctly. It still prompt " VFS cannot mount root
on /dev/sda 08:02...". It seems no changes take the effect.
I booted the solaris in order to check whether or not I damaged it after
installing linux. After that, I reboot the linux, then the screen is
full of "07 07 07...". It seems the MBR of the second HD has been
destroied.
So My question is :
1) Can I install Linux at the second SCSI HD without damage the solaris
partition on the fist SCSI HD?
2) Now I can boot from a floppy , but can I boot from /dev/sdb directly?
3) How to install the linux to ensure it can be boot from the second
SCSI HD?
Any information is apprieciated.
Song Jie
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: K2.4.2 usb-storage problems: mount: /dev/sda1 has wrong major or minor
number
Date: 16 Mar 2001 12:34:43 GMT
Geir Harris Hedemark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt
> mount: /dev/sda1 has wrong major or minor number
Have you tried using /dev/sda4 instead of /dev/sda1 ?
Davide
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From: "Larry Snyder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,alt.comp.linux
Subject: 2.4.X not booting on Promise RAID0 / ASUS AV7
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 04:44:03 -0500
I'm having one heck of a time getting my RAID 0 configured system to boot
2.4.2.
I'm able to boot stock RedHat 7 just fine - but I would love to run the
latest release
(wolverine) or at least the 2.4.0 kernel but can't get my machine to boot.
I have a ASUS A7V133 with Athlon 1200/266, 512 of RAM and 2 of the IBM
Deskstar drives - both on the promise controller. I have windows 2k on the
first 10
gigs and have linux on the rest. I have no problems booting RH 7 off the
RAID drives.
I've tried just about everything I can think of - if someone could sent me
their .config
file it would be appreciated..
Larry Snyder
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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