Linux-Setup Digest #158, Volume #21 Thu, 3 May 01 10:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: SoundFusion sound card?? (Julian T. J. Midgley)
Re: Red Hat disk recognition? setup problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Red Hat disk recognition? setup problem (Rob Knell)
Aztech Sound Galaxy Washington 16 ("Darren")
Re: Red Hat disk recognition? setup problem ("Eric")
Re: SoundFusion sound card?? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Red Hat disk recognition? setup problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
NIC changed but module still loaded at booting. How to disable? ("Roberto Inzerillo")
Re: NIC changed but module still loaded at booting. How to disable? (Dean Thompson)
Re: Red Hat disk recognition? setup problem ("Eric")
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Subject: Re: SoundFusion sound card??
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Julian T. J. Midgley)
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 11:16:43 GMT
In article <9cr5qr$dvk6f$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi all, I'm setting up a HP Vectra VL. The idea is to
>wipe out the WinNT installation and put Linux on it.
>Win NT tell me that the sound card is a "Sound Fusion".
>Anybody have an idea of what the heck is it? I've never
>heard about it. Checked also the ALSA web site and there is
>no trace of it... neither between the 'unsupported' cards...
>
>Usually I will simply forget about this, but the machine is
>not for my personal use, and I want to show off the other
>Windroids that even Linux can run on this thing.
The IBM Thinkpads also use the Crystal Soundfusion cards - I'm
running 2.4.4, and am using the cs46xx kernel module without any
problems at all. I believe the Soundfusion cards are also supported
in the 2.2.18 kernel and later, if you don't want to run 2.4.
Julian Midgley
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Red Hat disk recognition? setup problem
Date: 3 May 2001 11:25:03 GMT
Rob Knell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> that says 'dev/hdf is not on the first disk'. If I try and reboot the
> machine I get an 'L' and it hangs, if I try and boot from a floppy it
> gives me a 'kernel panic: unable to mount fs' and hangs.
The standard kernel is designed to be installed on the first
hard disk (C for Windows, /dev/hda on Unix/Linux), so it expect
to found the 'root' partition on the first hard disk. If you have
installed the system on a different disk (/dev/hdf), you must
'wake up' the kernel. If you can access a linux machine, use
rdev to setup a special kernel to boot your machine, then
update your LILO configuration. If you can, move the disk on
the first disk, then you can change the configuration using rdev.
I suppose that you can use the RedHat CD to boot your machine
in 'rescue' mode and the use rdev, but I'm not sure how to do
this.
Davide
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Knell)
Subject: Re: Red Hat disk recognition? setup problem
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 11:35:24 GMT
On 3 May 2001 11:25:03 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Rob Knell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> that says 'dev/hdf is not on the first disk'. If I try and reboot the
>> machine I get an 'L' and it hangs, if I try and boot from a floppy it
>> gives me a 'kernel panic: unable to mount fs' and hangs.
>
>The standard kernel is designed to be installed on the first
>hard disk (C for Windows, /dev/hda on Unix/Linux), so it expect
>to found the 'root' partition on the first hard disk. If you have
>installed the system on a different disk (/dev/hdf), you must
>'wake up' the kernel. If you can access a linux machine, use
>rdev to setup a special kernel to boot your machine, then
>update your LILO configuration. If you can, move the disk on
>the first disk, then you can change the configuration using rdev.
>
>I suppose that you can use the RedHat CD to boot your machine
>in 'rescue' mode and the use rdev, but I'm not sure how to do
>this.
>
Hi David
Thanks for the reply. The problem here, I think, is that the drive
I've installed on is the first (and only) hard disk in the system...
Rob
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From: "Darren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Aztech Sound Galaxy Washington 16
Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 12:42:12 +0100
Hi all. I have redhat linux 5.2 and an Aztech Sound Galaxy Washington 16
sound card. My distribution won't see my card. I tried compiling the latest
kernel but the bugger wouldn't compile. is there a module or driver or
something I can download?
thanks all
Darren
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Red Hat disk recognition? setup problem
Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 14:04:47 +0200
> > that says 'dev/hdf is not on the first disk'. If I try and reboot the
Possible problem, as the BIOS may not support booting from this disk
> > machine I get an 'L' and it hangs, if I try and boot from a floppy it
> > gives me a 'kernel panic: unable to mount fs' and hangs.
Now that's a different problem. It has nothing to do with the BIOS.
What's in your lilo.conf?
Besides this , it says "unable to mount root fs"
^^^^
If you include error messages, make sure they are correct.
> The standard kernel is designed to be installed on the first
> hard disk (C for Windows, /dev/hda on Unix/Linux), so it expect
> to found the 'root' partition on the first hard disk. If you have
> installed the system on a different disk (/dev/hdf), you must
> 'wake up' the kernel. If you can access a linux machine, use
> rdev to setup a special kernel to boot your machine, then
> update your LILO configuration. If you can, move the disk on
> the first disk, then you can change the configuration using rdev.
The "root=" option overrides the root partition set in the ramdisk-word
> I suppose that you can use the RedHat CD to boot your machine
> in 'rescue' mode and the use rdev, but I'm not sure how to do
> this.
You don't need rdev.
You do need the CD to boot though.
Put the CD in, and at the lilo prompt, enter "linux rescue root=/dev/hdfXXX"
(Without the quotes!) hdfXXX should be replaced with the location of your
root partition.
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SoundFusion sound card??
Date: 3 May 2001 12:44:50 GMT
Julian T. J. Midgley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The IBM Thinkpads also use the Crystal Soundfusion cards - I'm
> running 2.4.4, and am using the cs46xx kernel module without any
> problems at all. I believe the Soundfusion cards are also supported
> in the 2.2.18 kernel and later, if you don't want to run 2.4.
2.4 is fine for me. I want also to use the on-board USB port so
I'm going to install 2.4 anyway.
Thanks for the information.
Davide
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Red Hat disk recognition? setup problem
Date: 3 May 2001 12:46:40 GMT
Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The "root=" option overrides the root partition set in the ramdisk-word
Didn't worked for me when I moved my installation from /dev/hda to
/dev/sda (from IDE to SCSI), I had to use rdev to make the system
boot from the SCSI disk.
Davide
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From: "Roberto Inzerillo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install
Subject: NIC changed but module still loaded at booting. How to disable?
Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 15:09:31 +0200
Hi all,
I installed RedHat7.0 on a AMD K6-2 with a NE2000 compatible (Realtek
RTL8029) pci NIC. Then I removed the pci and plugged in an old isa ne2000
compatible NIC. After having let the kernel recognize the old isa NIC
(specifying dma and irq) and changed network parameters in order to make use
of the isa nic as eth0 everything is ok but ... during the kernel bootstrap
phase I get messages telling me that the kernel is still trying to use the
ne2k (obviously without succeeding).
I would like to remove this prob but I really don't know what to "touch",
how to disable this check.
Maybe I made some mistake with Kutzu (the new hardware checker)? I really
don't remember if I forced it to ignore the absence of the removed pci nic.
I'm used to change some hardware in this pc in order to learn how to use
various features of Linux and I'm used to let Kutzu remove from the system
the hardware I physically remove.
Please help,
Roberto
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From: Dean Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: NIC changed but module still loaded at booting. How to disable?
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 23:32:22 +1000
Hi Roberto,
> I installed RedHat7.0 on a AMD K6-2 with a NE2000 compatible (Realtek
> RTL8029) pci NIC. Then I removed the pci and plugged in an old isa ne2000
> compatible NIC. After having let the kernel recognize the old isa NIC
> (specifying dma and irq) and changed network parameters in order to make
> use of the isa nic as eth0 everything is ok but ... during the kernel
> bootstrap phase I get messages telling me that the kernel is still trying
> to use the ne2k (obviously without succeeding).
>
> I would like to remove this prob but I really don't know what to "touch",
> how to disable this check.
Take a look in your /etc/modules.conf file. This is where the system records
such information as what network driver module is allocated to each of the
internet cards. Perhaps, when KUDZU was saving it didn't update the contents
in the /etc/modules.conf file.
See ya
Dean Thompson
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Red Hat disk recognition? setup problem
Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 15:42:59 +0200
> > The "root=" option overrides the root partition set in the ramdisk-word
>
> Didn't worked for me when I moved my installation from /dev/hda to
> /dev/sda (from IDE to SCSI), I had to use rdev to make the system
> boot from the SCSI disk.
>
I cannot believe that:
from man rdev:
If LILO is used, rdev is no longer needed for setting the
root device and the VGA mode, since these parameters that
rdev modifies can be set from the LILO prompt during a
boot. However, rdev is still needed at this time for set-
ting the RAM disk size. Users are encouraged to find the
LILO documentation for more information, and to use LILO
when booting their systems.
Eric
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