Linux-Setup Digest #228, Volume #21 Tue, 15 May 01 06:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: Problem mounting vfat partition ("Eric")
Re: Mouse / ttyS0 does not work after installation ("none")
Re: Problem compiling Ed-0.2 ("Peet Grobler")
Re: Lilo problem ("Peet Grobler")
Re: Lilo problem ("Eric")
Sound Card not found (Xavi Fustero)
Re: lilo boot proplem ("Eric")
gvim is not giving to create new(fresh) file. ("v.naga srinivas")
Re: Catch-22 on Red Hat 7.0+update rpms install (Tim Haynes)
Re: Goofball Sound Problem in Mandrake 7.2 ("S h i s h i r")
Re: crontab? ("Wayne Osborn")
boot from floppy on Toshiba Satalite Pro and Suse (Corne Beerse)
SAMBA in NT network ("Patrick Jeanson")
Re: Cisco emulator for practice? ("Glitch")
Re: Problem mounting vfat partition ("Glitch")
My kernel won't boot properly...help? <>?{} (Andrew Gray)
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem mounting vfat partition
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 09:14:53 +0200
> I have an IDE and a SCSI disk. I installed win98 on the IDE drive and
> it booted and ran fine. Then I installed RedHat 7.0 on the SCSI drive
> and, after lots of trial and error, was able to get Linux to boot, but
Maybe you corrupted the windows partition by the use of a bad lilo.conf?
Does the file /boot/boot.0301 exist?
If so you can more easily restore the damage.
(ls -l /boot/boot.*)
> can no longer boot to win98. When booting win98, I get through LI of
> LILO before it hangs.
??
You get LILO, and then you choose win98.
Then you again get LI ?
If so, boot.0301 will exist.
> I can boot from a win98 floppy and see the
> win98 contents of the IDE drive, though.
>
> I'd like to try reinstalling win98 on the IDE drive (and then run lilo
Just wait with this, restoring may be easier.
> again), but first I want to copy some data from the win98 drive to my
> LInux SCSI drive. But, I cannot mount it. When I do
> mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/win
>
> I get the message about bad type, bad options, bad superblock, or too
> many fs mounted.
This may also mean that you installed LILO on the wrong place during
your attempts to boot linux.
Eric
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From: "none" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mouse / ttyS0 does not work after installation
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 00:30:07 +0700
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Joerg Velten"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have a problem concerning my serial mouse. After Installation of RH
> 7.1, it doesn't work any more, neitehr under X nor with gpm.
Have you tried mouseconfig?
If you have a ps/2 mouse the device you need is /dev/psaux
If you have a usb mouse then it is /dev/usbmouse and special setup
routines which I don't know (I don't use usb). Search google for relevant
info.
If you have a serial mouse the device you need is /dev/ttyS* (where * is
the port number, typically 0).
As for X the file to edit if mouseconfig fails is /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
Look for a /dev/mouse or such since /dev/ttyS* is linked to /dev/mouse
for easy reference in most dists.
If mouseconfig doesn't work post with more info.
>
>>setserial /dev/ttyS0
> leads to the following output:
> LSR safety check engaged!
> /dev/ttyS0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4
>
> and
>
>>cat /dev/ttyS0
> results in
> LSR safety check engaged! cat: /dev/ttyS0: Input-/Outputerror
>
> During the installation via ftp in text mode, the mouse worked during X
> configuration test.
>
> Who can help me?
>
>
> Thanks
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From: "Peet Grobler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Problem compiling Ed-0.2
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 09:16:43 +0200
Mine didn't even compile outside of the chrooted environment.
How would you create that symlink? ln -s ed vi -e?
Michael Pye wrote in message ...
>Apparently vi -e works the same as ed. I might just forget it and create a
>simlink to vi emulating ed.
>
>Annoying thing is, I get a different error each time. Once it even compiled
>correctly, but I wasn't in the chrooted environment so it was build against
>the wrong libraries. Never got it to work again though...
>
>MP
>
>"Peet Grobler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:3aff7f80$0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> Strange enough... I build a Linux from Scratch this weekend as well. Got
>the
>> same problem, though I cannot remember the exact messages. I continued to
>> install the other software, and the machine is now completely installed,
>> except for ed. I've tried installing it now, once the machine is fully
>> installed, but no luck, same problem.
>>
>> Maybe, if you have the exact make error messages, you should post them to
>a
>> forum on www.linuxfromscratch.org, or open a bug report for it, or
>> something.
>>
>> Please let me know what you do, since I need to get this resolved as
well.
>>
>> Michael Pye wrote in message ...
>> >I'm building a Linux from Scratch system and I am receiving an error
>about
>> a
>> >function being defined twice while making Ed-0.2
>> >
>> >I have tried the copy from both the LFS site and the GNU site, but
>neither
>> >will compile. I am using the latest versions of both gcc and the glibc
>> >(2.95.3 and 2.2.2). I can't find any patches like the one used to solve
a
>> >similar problem in the findutils-4.1 package.
>> >
>> >Has anyone else come across this or a way around it?
>> >
>> >Thanks
>> >
>> >MP
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>
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From: "Peet Grobler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lilo problem
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 09:20:35 +0200
Remember that /etc/fstab contains an entry like this:
/dev/hdb1 / ext2 defaults 0 0
If you move the drive to master, it becomes /dev/hda instead of /dev/hdb.
The correct procedure (I had to do this) is, after moving the disk to
primary master, edit the following files: (after mounting your root
somewhere, of course)
/etc/fstab
/etc/lilo.conf (Change the root=/dev/xxx) to the new root partition
chroot to your root partition ^^^^^^
/sbin/lilo
reboot.
This should fix your problem. Note if you don't have a boot disk, the
distro's installation disk should be able to boot you to a tty. Press
<Alt><F2/F3/etc> until you get a tty, then run the above.
Angry Bob wrote in message <9dpo7u$4en$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>What would you like to read? [[EMAIL PROTECTED] or ?*]
>this is a T.VANI PRASANNA KUMAR scroll! it says:
>
>> would like to know more about the linux partitioning towards 1024
cylinders
>> limit.
>
>your kernel image wants to be in the first chunk of hard drive space
>(somewhere in cylynders 0-1024). When a computer boots up this is the
>only place that it can see before it loads the software necessary to
>look past that limit. I think that they may have gotten around this
>problem, but I've never changed my install procedure enoyugh to find
>out.... <smile>
>
>> 2.While installing the linux My HDD was secondary master and it is
working
>> fine. But the moment I had changed it to Primary Master ( No additional
>> devices added ) The system was unable to boot saying kernel critical
error
>> . But working as usual when reverted back to secondary master.
>> Please help what shold be done if I want to change the hdd ( primary to
>> secondary vice versa) after the linux was installed.
>
>I usually don't shift around my drives after I've installed them (too
>slack to crack open a box that works), however, if I did, I would
>probably make some sort of boot disk to get me into the linux install,
>and then re-run lilo after adjusting /etc/lilo.conf to meet my new
>setup.
>
>--
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http://www.trellisinc.com
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> sober would be like.
> --sdpcat (from rec.games.roguelike.nethack)
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lilo problem
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 09:34:01 +0200
> 1.I had installed redhat linux 7.0 in 10 gb hdd using workstation and
> automatic partion. The entire setup was smooth . The system is already
> having two fat32 partitions and a 2gb unpartitioned space was available,
> which the setup has utilised. At the time of restarting after setup
> finished while rebooting it had issued a warning saying 1024 cylinders
> limit exceeded. I ignored that .
well, that's always dangerous.
Warnings have a reason.
> Later My machine was unable boot.My
> question is if linux knows it can't boot over 1024 how the same was not
It doesn't know. (besides, it was lilo warning you) it guesses.
Some PC's can boot, others cannot. It depends on your system.
If it's new enough, it will support booting from beyond cylinder 1024 most
likely
> warned before installation as I had went through all automatic settings.I
> would like to know more about the linux partitioning towards 1024
cylinders
> limit.
If you use a bootfloppy it can always be booted, anywhere.
If you replace the linear keyword in lilo.conf with lba32, and run
`/sbin/lilo -v`
again, it will probably boot just fine.
> 2.While installing the linux My HDD was secondary master and it is working
> fine. But the moment I had changed it to Primary Master ( No additional
> devices added ) The system was unable to boot saying kernel critical error
> . But working as usual when reverted back to secondary master.
> Please help what shold be done if I want to change the hdd ( primary to
> secondary vice versa) after the linux was installed.
try at the lilo prompt:
linux root=/dev/hdaXX
where hdaXX is your root partition.
Some parts may still fail, and you need to alter fstab and lilo.conf, but
you will get a (partly) working system from which you can restore the rest.
Eric
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From: Xavi Fustero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound Card not found
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 09:40:43 +0200
I am working with a hp-kayak-XAs. I upgrated my kernel version from
2.2.14 to the new 2.4.4.
Now, the system does not recognize my sound card but it did from last
image (2.2.14). I keep my /etc/conf.modules but it doesn't work !! My
sound card is integrated to the motherboard, so I connected to the hp
web page to find which one is it. I think I have a 02xx serie which work
with AD1816 audio controller but honestly I am not sure. I try identify
the chipset of my sound card in the motherboard but I coudn't find it !!
Then, in the kernel options, in the sound section, I selected my sound
card as a loadable module and other options which were selected in the
old kernel image (2.2.14) but it does not work !!!!
I try sndconfig script but it does not work ! That's the message:
You don't
seem to be running a kernel with modular sound x
x enabled.
(soundcore.o was not found in the module search path). x
x To use
sndconfig, you must be running a kernel with modular x
x sound,
such as the kernel shipped with Red Hat Linux or a 2.2 x
x kernel,
and sound must be compiled as a module. Patches for the x
x 2.0.3x
series of kernels are available at:
* Here, my /etc/conf.modules
alias sound sb
pre-install sound /sbin/insmod sound dmabuf=1
alias midi opl3
options opl3 io=0x388
options sb io=0x220 irq=3 dma=1
* I try this configuration too, which I found on the internet for my
configuration
alias sound sb
pre-install sound /sbin/insmod sound dmabuf=1
alias midi opl3
options opl3 io=0x388
options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=0
I read many documentation, but I do not understand exactly all the term
like: isapnp, pnpdumb,.....
Any help will be very appreciated !!!
Thanks in advance !!!!
Xavi.
--
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Genome Informatics Dep.(IMIM) Tel.:+34932211009 Ext: 2016
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lilo boot proplem
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 09:41:37 +0200
> I'm using lilo 20 in that config.:
> hda1: os/2 (fat) (on 1.5 gb hd)
> hda2: lilo
> hdb1: win98 (on 40 gb hd)
> For windows, lilo swaps the 2 hard disks.
> I tried to use the partition - set commands in lilo to hide the os/2
> partition from win98, but as soon as a I boot win98 from lilo, it says
> nothing and hangs up. lilo says "Loading 1" before. If I comment out the
> partition-set commands in lilo.conf, win98 boots without any problems. It
> even doesn't care wether hda1 has a fat abel or not.
show me:
`/sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hd[ab]`
`cat /etc/lilo.conf`
With that information I may be able to help you.
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("v.naga srinivas")
Subject: gvim is not giving to create new(fresh) file.
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 09:19:48 +0000 (UTC)
HI,
The vim is having new file creation..
Means when just type vim, without any filename,
it opens and can edit........finally i have to
save with option :w filename.
I have loaded gvim the graphical front end
support (gvim-5.7-78), but its not giving any option to open(or create)
new file when several files already opened. ( My vim version is
vim-5.4-15).
Can any help me out........
thanks in advance..
regards,
Srinivas.
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From: Tim Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: Catch-22 on Red Hat 7.0+update rpms install
Date: 15 May 2001 10:13:09 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Anthony DeRobertis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Tim Haynes"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Why is this flamebait?
>
> Because it won't run on the OP's system?
Why wouldn't it run on the OP's system?
~Tim
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From: "S h i s h i r" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Goofball Sound Problem in Mandrake 7.2
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 15:17:12 +0530
Hi Mark,
You can download sndconfig. But before that can you ensure that ALSA drivers
/ utils are installed?
This should be enough to solve your problem.
Shishir
"Mark_Harju" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
Hi all,
I'm having a strange problem in Mandrake 7.2...
I have a SB AWE 64 card, but I'm not getting any sound; nothing about sound
is loading in the bootup.
artsd is disabled, says "cannot find /dev/(sound card device name)"
"sndconfig" apparently does not exist, and there is no loadable package (as
far as I can tell) that will address the situation.
The sound card works fine in Windows98...
Thanks in advance.
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From: "Wayne Osborn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: crontab?
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 17:41:31 +0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Andy Thompson"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have added entries to my crontab file, but they will not run. It
> appears that entries in the etc/cron.d/kmod files are being run...
> should cron commands be added there?
>
First, don't just edit the crontabs! do a crontab -e.
Second, you must specify the FULL path to your commands/scripts.
--
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Registered Linux User #212818. [2.2.16-22-Win4Lin-686] [i686]
5:40pm up 5:36, 2 users, load average: 2.06, 2.15, 2.11
...Nothing happens.
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From: Corne Beerse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: boot from floppy on Toshiba Satalite Pro and Suse
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 11:36:46 +0200
Hardware: Toshiba Satalite Pro 440 CDT.
While it had W'95 running, it booted from floppy if a bootable one was
in the drive.
Now Suse 6.1 is installed, it boots straight from HD, no booting from
floppy anymore: Not after shutdown, not after reboot and, most strange,
not after hardware reset.
Question one: How do I boot from floppy? I have /dev/fd0 added to lilo
to force a floppy boot but I'd like to boot straight from floppy.
Question two: How is this arranged? How can I controll this behavoure?
Is something twiggeling with the bios settings? I'm sure I did not
change the boot order. It would be nice to access the bios settings from
linux since there is no boot option to enter the bios at boottime.
CB
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Corne' Beerse | Alcatel Telecom Nederland
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From: "Patrick Jeanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SAMBA in NT network
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 17:02:48 -0400
Hi !
I have managed to configure my linux box to share FS with a NT machines in a
nt network.
Unfortunately the net admin came to me and told me that our Linux
machines(~10) are taking the master browser role in the network.
Is there a way to configure SAMBA in order to
avoid this problem?
Thanks!
============smb.conf========================================================
--
# Global parameters
[global]
workgroup = CORP
security = DOMAIN
encrypt passwords = Yes
null passwords = Yes
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 50
load printers = No
os level = 65
local master = No
wins support = Yes
strict locking = Yes
[jeansop]
comment = Patrick_Jeanson
path = /home/jeansop
writeable = Yes
create mask = 0777
[tftp]
comment = tftp jeansop
path = /home/tftp/pub
guest account = guest
writeable = Yes
create mask = 0777
guest ok = Yes
strict locking = No
============smb.conf========================================================
--
Patrick Jeanson
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From: "Glitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cisco emulator for practice?
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 03:41:32 -0400
In article <ZPUL6.1407$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Harison
Phinizy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My question was; Is there any software available that can emulate a
> cisco router. I realize that Linux can route and I know they are two
> distinct operating systems. But are there any utilities out there that
> can emulate a cisco router so one could mess around on a virtual cisco
> router... I know there is something that exists on windows, that problem
> is... it's windows.
>
To my knowledge an emulator does not exist however searches on various
websites could prove me wrong. But I haven't heard any emulator that is
available.
>
> "Glitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> In article <b50L6.2920$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Harison
>> Phinizy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> > Is it possible to emulate a Cisco router on a Linux box to practice
>> > router config?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> Cisco routers have their own operating system and their own commands.
>> Although the purpose would be similar between a linux box and a cisco
>> router a cisco router would have much more functionality since it is
> a
>> specific device used for routing. With a linux box you can't configure
>> routing protocols, only routed protocols. A cisco router is a complex
>> device much more attuned to routing than a linux box could be (complex
>> enough to have its own OS and subset of commands).
>>
>> A more user-level problem with what u are asking is the fact that
>> commands that are on a router don't exist on a linux box.
>
>
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From: "Glitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem mounting vfat partition
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 03:47:52 -0400
In article <9dqev6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "charles anderson"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have an IDE and a SCSI disk. I installed win98 on the IDE drive and it
> booted and ran fine. Then I installed RedHat 7.0 on the SCSI drive and,
> after lots of trial and error, was able to get Linux to boot, but can no
> longer boot to win98. When booting win98, I get through LI of LILO
> before it hangs. I can boot from a win98 floppy and see the win98
> contents of the IDE drive, though.
>
> I'd like to try reinstalling win98 on the IDE drive (and then run lilo
> again), but first I want to copy some data from the win98 drive to my
> LInux SCSI drive. But, I cannot mount it. When I do
>
> mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/win
>
> I get the message about bad type, bad options, bad superblock, or too
> many fs mounted.
are u sure that the windows partition isn't already mounted?
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From: Andrew Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: My kernel won't boot properly...help? <>?{}
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 19:47:53 +1000
Okay, here's the deal...
I've just installed RedHat 7.0 with kernel 2.2.16-22 I think it is.
I've downloaded the source for 2.4.4 and managed to compile it, doing
the following:
make xconfig
make dep
make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install
and all that went okay.
I copied the kernel from arch/i386/boot/bzImage to /boot
I edited my lilo.conf file and inserted it into the existing file as
follows:
image=/boot/bzImage
label=test
read-only
root=/dev/hdc1 (linux is on my second disk which is also on my
secondary IDE controller...hence hdc1...I don't have a seperate /boot
partition, it's whole disk with swap at the end of the disk)
...and then I ran lilo.....everything okay so far.
I booted, and as expected the test option came up as one of the os's I
could boot. I ran "test" and the kernel started to boot. Heaps of text
came on my screen as you would expect from the kernel. However, not
long after this, I got this message which kept looping and looping
rather rapidly on my screen:
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt-464c, errno=8
Any idea what this means? How can I fix it? Is there some sort of
package I need to update?
If it helps, I can tell you that I installed the standard redhat 7.0
workstations installation...I didn't de-select or install any packages
in the package configuration.
Anyway, any help in this area would be much appreciated as I'm a little
new to the linux kernel and how to use GNU/Linux.
Thanks!!!!!!
Andy Gray
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