Linux-Setup Digest #258, Volume #21 Fri, 18 May 01 16:13:17 EDT
Contents:
Re: PCMCIA / PS2 IRQ12 Conflict (2.4 kernel) ("David Hawkins")
Re: upgrade to RH 7.1 sendmail ("Peter T. Breuer")
boot loaders (Ted Shoemaker)
help...... about the boot up problem ("eric")
Re: How to make llinux shares accessible to MAC users. (Kwan Lowe)
Re: Why oh why (disk partitioning) (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: Kernel panic MDK 8 ("Kevin Doyle")
Win 98 and RH 7.0 on same drive - boot problems ("JC Kelly")
What is wrong with LILO??? (Aaron)
Re: upgrade to RH 7.1 sendmail (Tr��tm�n)
Re: upgrade to RH 7.1 sendmail (Tr��tm�n)
Re: Boot up problem (David Efflandt)
Re: RH 7.1 + XFS and SCSI LUN's ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: RH 7.1 + XFS and SCSI LUN's ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: RH 7.1 + XFS and SCSI LUN's (Timothy Murphy)
Mandrake 7 & USB modem (Don Hinds)
linux install laptop (william)
multiple virtual email domains on a single IP - possible? (Ian Douglas)
Re: What is wrong with LILO??? ("John C. Griggs")
Mandrake 7, I gave up trying - Windows actually WORKS (Don Hinds)
Re: Installing Linux (Angry Bob)
Re: Newbie ? on Install from CD (Angry Bob)
Partitions partitions (JackFrozt)
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From: "David Hawkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: PCMCIA / PS2 IRQ12 Conflict (2.4 kernel)
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 10:12:43 -0700
Thanks Len!
This works great. I really needed to have access to my serial
port, so this helps me a lot.
Where did you get info on the lilo boot parameter? I
had looked at 'man bootparam' and 'man lilo' and couldn't see how
to mask off the interrupts - I had assumed that this
should be possible, but couldn't work out how.
I had a look at the bug report in Bugzilla - interesting
discussion. Is the problem still there in 2.4.4?
Since you appear to have a similar machine, perhaps
you could tell me how you got the sound to work. Its
not really a high priority for me, so I gave up
when it didn't work initially. I suspect the OSS
sound drivers might work, and I did read some
info in the Documentation directory, but haven't
had a chance to play with it again. Perhaps you can
save me some time.
Again, this is great.
Thanks so much!
Dave Hawkins
Caltech.
"Leonard Evens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> David Hawkins wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Clark,
> >
> > I'm not quite sure the problem is 100% related to the Yenta
> > driver though. Any idea why the mouse won't work if I uninstall
> > the PCMCIA drivers? If you stop the PCMCIA services, then
> > the interrupt is released. .... of course I haven't tried removing
> > the service on boot though.
> >
> > Thanks for the comments.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > "clark tompsett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > I have posted a bug report with Redhat. I have a Winbook XL also.
The
> > > problem appears to be bios related. The 2.4.2 kernel used Yenta for
the
> > > socket driver and it looks at the bios and claims irq12. The only
> > > solution I have at present is to install RH7.1 and replace the kernel
and
> > > pcmcia back to 2.2.19. I don't know if this will be solved.
> > >
> > > Clark
> > >
> > > In article <9dffj7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "David Hawkins"
> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I'd like some suggestions as to the cause and fix of a problem I am
> > > > having with Linux 2.4 freezing up on me. My system is
> > > >
> > > > - Winbook XL
> > > > - Red Hat 7.1 (2.4.2-2 kernel)
> > > >
> > > > The mouse is a PS/2 device (the Winbook has a keyboard 'nipple' and
> > > > touchpad), and this is what Win95 sees it as. When installing RH, it
> > > > didn't recognize the mouse, so I used the text install. On first
boot,
> > > > the mouse was recognized by the hardware detection and assigned as a
> > > > generic ps/2 mouse. The first time I booted into X, the system
froze.
> > > >
> > > > Booting next time and staying in text mode, I tried gpm and mev, the
> > > > laptop froze both times. (/dev/mouse -> /dev/psaux so thats ok)
> > > >
> > > > Looking under /proc/interrupts I see that the PS/2 interrupt is
being
> > > > shared with the TI PCI1131 PCMCIA cardbus controller. Several
documents
> > > > indicate the the PS/2 must use IRQ12, so the 1131 IRQ may need to be
> > > > changed. However, looking at /etc/pcmcia/config.opts lists IRQ12 as
> > > > being excluded - so how come the controller claimed it? (perhaps the
> > > > exclude only applies to devices in the PCMCIA slots...?). Under
Win95
> > > > the 1131 uses IRQ15.
> > > >
> > > > Thinking that maybe the interrupts from the TI1131 were the cause of
the
> > > > problem I performed:
> > > >
> > > > /etc/init.d/pcmcia stop
> > > >
> > > > This removed PCMCIA services and /proc/interrupts shows only the
PS/2
> > > > mouse on IRQ12. However, booting into X still freezes and so does
mev.
> > > > Actually, I just ran mev (with PCMCIA services off), and could type
> > > > text, however, as soon as I touched the mouse, the system freezes.
> > > >
> > > > This system has had RH 6.2 working fine in the past, and booting
into
> > > > Win95 shows all is well there.
> > > >
> > > > dmesg and /var/log/messages don't contain any interesting info on
why
> > > > the system may be crashing. Although there is the comment that the
> > > > serial driver is 5.02 and that SHARE_IRQ is enabled.
> > > >
> > > > I deleted /etc/sysconfig/mouse and ran mouseconfig ... and receved a
> > > > segmentation fault while probing for the mouse, and then the system
was
> > > > frozen. Hmmm, is there a bug here? (or perhaps the missing file is
the
> > > > cause of that) I had to run 'mouseconfig --noprobe' to regenerate
the
> > > > /etc/sysconfig/mouse file. I selected the Generic PS/2 mouse, as
that
> > > > looked to be the only correct one. I did try the Microsoft
Intellimouse
> > > > (PS/2), however when the system was booted, I no longer had use of
the
> > > > keyboard and had to use the boot CD to rescue the system.
> > > >
> > > > Anyway, some suggestions would be helpful. If no one can think of a
> > > > cause for this problem, then I'll have a look at compiling a newer
> > > > version of the kernel.
> > > >
> > > > Please HELP!
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Dave Hawkins
> > > > Caltech
> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
>
> I also encountered this problem. Go to the RedHat web site and
> see Bugzilla bug report number 37812. The problem definitely
> is from the kernel module yenta_socket. The point you raise
> about stopping pcmcia turns out to be confusing. If you
> never start pcmcia, the Texas Instruments pcmcia controller
> will not be using irq 12. But once you start it, even if
> you stop it afterwards, it keeps the interrupt at the hardware
> level. To see that, try lspci -vv both before and after running
> pcmcia.
>
> We managed to come up with two workarounds. The one I prefer
> is to pass the following to the kernel
> pci=irqmask=0xafff
> You can do this at the lilo prompt with
> linux pci=irqmask=0xafff
> or you can add to the linux image section in /etc/lilo.conf
> append="pci=irqmask=0xafff"
> and then rerun lilo.
>
> What this does is exclude irqs 12 and 14 from the list of irqs
> that pci devices can use. Then when you run pcmcia, it will
> take irq 15.
>
> In the bugzilla discussion there is also another method which
> requires changing the penalties for different irqs in
> a certain file in the kernel source and then making a new
> kernel or perhaps just new modules, I'm not sure which.
>
> This problem, by the way, does not arise in Windows 98,
> nor did it in RH 5.1 through 7.0. The difference for the
> RH7.1 is that the code was rewritten to incorporate the support
> in the kernel whereas previous it was standalone.
>
> --
>
> Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
> Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: upgrade to RH 7.1 sendmail
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 19:14:55 +0200
In comp.os.linux.setup Scott Beckman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Has anyone had similar experiences with the upgrade from RH7.0 to 7.1?
Everyone. That's the way it is supposed to be. Read the release notes.
Peter
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From: Ted Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: boot loaders
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 17:35:40 GMT
Hello,
Can someone please compare the some of different boot-loaders?
Or point me to a site that compares them?
I have lilo and BeOs bootman; and have heard the names GRUB, xosl, etc.
Unfortunately, I haven't heard any *objective* comparisons of them.
I'm not proficient enough to just experiment on my own. I'll let somebody
else's computer be the guinea pig. :)
Any help you can give will be appreciated.
Thank you!
Ted Shoemaker
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help...... about the boot up problem
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 01:47:58 +0800
After I typed "reboot -n", I want to login again, but after I type the user
name, the server doesn't prompt for password. And when I press
"Ctrl+Alt+Del", the following message is displayed :
"You don't exist...Go away"
Can anyone help me to solve this problem??
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From: Kwan Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to make llinux shares accessible to MAC users.
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 18:00:20 GMT
Mark Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there a way that I can create linux shares that are available to MAC
> users just like I can using SAMBA for the Windows users?
Yes... It's a package called Netatalk. Once it's installed, you can use Network
Browser to mount the Linux shares on the Macs. It will also work fine with older
Appletalk/Chooser.
> If there is, are there any issues with doing backup of those shares or is
> it straight-forward like the samba stuff?
Straightforward. It creates a few extra directories but that's all. You can
treat a Netatalk share as just another Appletalk volume.
> At my office we have 50% windows and 50% MAC (OS9) and we are using
> PCMACLAN for file sharing using a MAC file server. But we want to move the
> file server to linux but I'm not sure if it will be possible because of the
> MAC users....
You'll get a excellent performance increase by using Netatalk. Plus you'll be
able to free up that Mac server for something else. What's really cool is that
you can then share the same directory via Samba so the Windows clients can
access the fileserver natively. It may save on some of the licensing for PC
Maclan.
> Forcing the MAC users to use FTP for transfering files is out of the
> question, it's a bit beyond their comprehension. I'm not saying anything
> bad, it's just I fought that battle and lost miserably.
> thanks for your help!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Why oh why (disk partitioning)
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 11:04:31 GMT
"Peet Grobler" <peetgr at absa.co.za> writes:
>Hi there.
>Why would one want to split your Linux over more than one filesystem? E.g.
>something like the following:
>/dev/sda1 /root
>/dev/sda2 /usr
>/dev/sda3 /home
>/dev/sda4 /var
Seems reasonable to me.
>etc. What is the benefits of doing it like this?
[...]
The benefit is that in case one of these partitions fails with
a filesystem error, you'll still be able to recover most of
your precious data from all the other ones. If you put all
in just one huge partition, everything's gone. Duh.
Michael
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Reply-To: "Kevin Doyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Kevin Doyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel panic MDK 8
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 19:26:04 +0100
do a server class install
"weeble" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Up until yesterday I had :
> partition 1 - NTFS
> 2 - Ext2 /
> 3 - swap
> 4 - Ext2 /home
> 5 - Fat32
> booting Mandrake from floppy.
> I decided to reinstall Mandrake after having problems starting X. I am
> installing from the fat partition, using Hd.img as before, but am
> getting a panic, similar to:
>
> Partition check:
> hda: hda1 < hda5 hda6 hda7 > hda2
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> Invalid compressed format (err=1) <6>
> autodetecting RAID arrays
> autorun...
> ...autorun DONE
> VFS: Cannot open root device 08:06
> kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:06
>
> I say similar to, because that was before I removed the only linux
> partition visible in fdisk(dos) - hda3.
>
> Windows 2000 boots ok. Partition magic won't load, giving the error
> "Partition's drive letter cannot be identified". Fdisk tells me I only
> have 1 NTFS and 1 FAT32 partition on the drive.
>
> I would be grateful for any any advice on a way forward
>
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From: "JC Kelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Win 98 and RH 7.0 on same drive - boot problems
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 14:23:07 -0400
I have Win 98 on the first partition and RH 7.0 on the fourth partition.
Either one boots well enough, but when I boot RH, then do a reboot and then
boot Win 98, the Win 98 hangs at the first window (the light blue "Win 98"
window.)
To restore Win 98, I have to do a power off, let Win 98 come up in SAFE
mode, shutdown and boot Win 98 again. Then it works OK.
I have no problem boot RH 7.0 after Win 98 has been up, only the other way
around.
Any hints? Win 98 doesn't even get far enough to crete a bootlog.txt file,
so I can't use that to troubleshoot.
The hang comes before the first of the two 'beeps' that Win 98 emits when it
is booting up (at the light blue window stage of booting.)
Thanks,
JC Kelly
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From: Aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: What is wrong with LILO???
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 18:30:13 -0000
This is kind of odd. When I first installed Linux, I had to use a boot
disk b/c I did not have the lilo.conf file . Alas, because of some
corrupted files, I had to wipe everything and start over. This time, I
did not put my root on at FAT32 partition; instead, I created a partition
just for root, and one for swap. I did not create a boot partition b/c I
kept getting a "No free primary" error message. However, I am still
forced to boot LILO from a floppy, otherwise, Windows will boot
automatically. This time however, I have the lilo.conf file. Yet,
whenever I try to run LILO to install it ("/sbin/lilo") I recieve the
following error.
"Warning: device 0x0303 exceeds 1024 cylinder limit
Fatal: sector 52769422 too large for linear mode (try 'lba32' instead)"
And that all means what? I have the idea to just start over and try
creating my root, boot, and swap partitions using fdisk, but I'm not sure
if that would help any. Please help me out. Thanks.
~Aaron
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From: mik�@tr��tm�n.org (Tr��tm�n)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: upgrade to RH 7.1 sendmail
Date: 18 May 2001 14:52:37 -0400
Scott Beckman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> graced us with the following:
>After the upgrade I was no longer able to receive mail.
Install the sendmail-cf rpm, then edit sendmail.m4 in /etc/mail/ and look
for DAEMON in the file. Comment it out, then follow the m4 instructions at
the top of the file. This will regenerate sendmail.cf. Restart sendmail.
This is in the sendmail FAQ.
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http://www.troutman.org
http://www.zen-data.com
You are what you pretend to be. - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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From: mik�@tr��tm�n.org (Tr��tm�n)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: upgrade to RH 7.1 sendmail
Date: 18 May 2001 14:54:20 -0400
"Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> graced us with the following:
>Everyone. That's the way it is supposed to be. Read the release notes.
IMHO it was a stupid thing to do to the guys upgrading servers. I suppose
it was their attempt at cutting down on open relays on workstations,
although out of the box 7.0 (and 6.2) sendmail versions didn't relay unless
you forced it to.
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http://www.zen-data.com
You are what you pretend to be. - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Boot up problem
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 19:08:34 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 19 May 2001 00:34:27 +0800, eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> After I typed "reboot -n", I want to login again, but after I type the user
> name, the server doesn't prompt for password. And when I press
> "Ctrl+Alt+Del", the following message is displayed :
>
> "You don't exist...Go away"
>
> Can anyone help me to solve this problem??
You might try using the proper command. You should not normally use
reboot or halt directly, and the -n switch tells it to not sync before
rebooting, so I imagine something gets corrupted. Instead try:
shutdown -r now
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: git.unix.linux
Subject: Re: RH 7.1 + XFS and SCSI LUN's
Date: 18 May 2001 19:22:31 GMT
In git.unix.linux Vukk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: In git.unix.linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: : His problem may
: : also be a firmware bug on the 29160. I know Adaptec has made a couple
: : releases of the firmware for the 29160, so that might also be an option to
: : investigate.
: Is there an easy way to update the firmware on a 29xx(x) under linux? The
: last time I checked it required a dos boot disk.
Nope, you have to use a DOS disk.
--
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http://www.burdell.org/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: git.unix.linux
Subject: Re: RH 7.1 + XFS and SCSI LUN's
Date: 18 May 2001 19:22:50 GMT
In git.unix.linux Angry Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: What would you like to read? [git.unix.linux or *?]
: This is a [EMAIL PROTECTED] scroll! it says:
:> : Redhat 7.1 pretty much implies 2.4.X kernel.
:> I just looked at ftp.redhat.com and see 7.1 ships with 2.4.2.
: 2.4.2 is a buggy buggy kernel.
True, I won't use it on any of my machines.
--
David Cantrell, KG6CII
http://www.burdell.org/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Murphy)
Crossposted-To: git.unix.linux
Subject: Re: RH 7.1 + XFS and SCSI LUN's
Date: 18 May 2001 20:24:38 +0100
Angry Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> : Redhat 7.1 pretty much implies 2.4.X kernel.
>> I just looked at ftp.redhat.com and see 7.1 ships with 2.4.2.
>2.4.2 is a buggy buggy kernel.
Not strictly relevant perhaps,
but since all you gurus are reading this ...
I have a SCSI-only PC (Asus)
and when I upgraded to RedHat-7.1
the supplied kernel 2.4.2-2 did not work.
This didn't actually worry me,
as I had other kernels in my lilo.conf,
and just used one of those.
But I was wondering why it didn't work;
and more to the point, if I had been installing rather than upgrading
would I have been sunk?
I assumed -- but didn't check -- that SCSI came as a module,
and since there didn't seem to be an initrd,
I take it that couldn't work.
On the other hand, surely RedHat would have thought of that ...
Any enlightenment gratefully received.
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tel: 086-233 6090
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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Crossposted-To: alr.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Mandrake 7 & USB modem
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Don Hinds)
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 19:27:40 GMT
Doesn't anyone know how to get one to work? Md7 sees the two USB ports.
My modem is SUPPORTED & LISTED by Linux-USB. But I can't get Md7 to
look on the USB ports for the modem. It gives modem options for serial, DSL
and so forth but NO USB.
Don
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From: william <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux install laptop
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 19:30:06 -0000
I have corel linux 2nd edition cd. I can make a boot disk but when I
boot, the word lilo comes up,then my screen fills up with a window and it
says "loading corel linux" then under that it says "starting corel linux"
and then it freezes, nothing,zilch,nada.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ian Douglas)
Subject: multiple virtual email domains on a single IP - possible?
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 19:33:15 GMT
Running RedHat v7.0, and trying to share a single IP for multiple
virtual Email domains, but having difficulty with it. Setting up
Apache is a breeze, no problem at all.
So, for an example, I have 1.2.3.4 dedicated to my system, and want
domain1.com and domain2.com hosted on that IP address.
So I create user "john" on domain1.com and domain2.com, and send a
simple test message to each account.
If I set my Email program to conenct to domain2.com, I download the
message from domain1.com.
So I change the passwords, and send another test message. Now I get an
error saying my password is wrong - even though I'm telling it to
connect to domain2.com, it's still connecting to domain1.com, I
*think* because of the shared IP address.
I need a workaround. Any suggestions are welcomed.
-id
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Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 14:33:52 +0000
From: "John C. Griggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What is wrong with LILO???
Aaron wrote:
>
> I did not create a boot partition b/c I
> kept getting a "No free primary" error message.
AFAIK, this is a PC thing - all boot partitions must be "primary" (as
opposed to "extended") partitions and there is a limit to how many a
system can have (4, I think).
>However, I am still
> forced to boot LILO from a floppy, otherwise, Windows will boot
> automatically.
Because the Windoze loader is still in your Master Boot Record (MBR) on
the boot disk.
>This time however, I have the lilo.conf file. Yet,
> whenever I try to run LILO to install it ("/sbin/lilo") I recieve the
> following error.
>
> "Warning: device 0x0303 exceeds 1024 cylinder limit
> Fatal: sector 52769422 too large for linear mode (try 'lba32' instead)"
>
> And that all means what?
LILO has to use services provided by your system BIOS to load the Linux
kernel. These services date back to the early PC and were not designed
to deal with large disks (i.e. ones with more than 1024 cylinders). LBA
(Logical Block Addressing) is a way of fooling the BIOS into seeing
larger disks by lying about the number of heads and cylinders a disk
has. Usually the mode for the disk (linear, LBA, etc.) is controlled in
the BIOS on the system, along with the other parameters for your hard
disk(s) - messing with this can be a bad idea if you don't know what you
are doing. IIRC, changing the disk mode will force you to repartition
and reformat the disk you changed (and thus destroy any data on the
disk)...
>I have the idea to just start over and try
> creating my root, boot, and swap partitions using fdisk, but I'm not sure
> if that would help any. Please help me out. Thanks.
This probably won't help unless you can arrange to put the partition
with the kernel (/boot) on it below the 1024 cylinder limit or change
the disk mode.
Hope this helps,
John
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux
Subject: Mandrake 7, I gave up trying - Windows actually WORKS
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Don Hinds)
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 19:40:47 GMT
I basically quit even trying to get Mandrake 7 to work properly.
1) I can boot GUI, but in non-gui, even in FAILSAFE it locks up with a Kernel
Panic.
2) There is no option to use a modem (Linux USB supported modem) on USB
port, or perhaps I should say there is no option to use USB for the modem.
There are 4 (as I recall) port options for modem including serial, but USB is
not on the list.
3) Corel WP will not install. Not the one on the Mandrake 6.5 CD, nor the one
on Corel website. I get a load of directories or path not found errors.
4) Corel PhotoPaint installs but gives a FontTastic (missing) error when I try
to run it. I tried the Corel website and UK Linux User CD versions.
I've posted all these problems in more detail in the past, but no one has any
workable answers. ;-(
If I can't acutally USE Linux, it doesn't matter a whole lot if it doesn't
crash. Windows 95/98/ME may crash a lot, but between times IT WORKS!
Don
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From: Angry Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing Linux
Date: 18 May 2001 19:58:55 GMT
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this is a Ammon scroll! it says:
> I have a two part question.
> 1) How do you install Linux without completely reformatting (and losing
> all old data) your computer?
http://www.dragonlinux.net/
> 2) How do you create a dual-boot system so that you can choose which OS
> you want your PC to boot up?
If you ever do a full distribution install (assuming that you like the
minute sample that is dragonlinux) of something like Mandrake, it should
notice a windows installation and set up the dual boot thingie
automatically.
Dragonlinux should give you something to play with though.... <smile>
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From: Angry Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie ? on Install from CD
Date: 18 May 2001 20:02:12 GMT
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this is a KW scroll! it says:
> It sounds like you've burned the ISO as a data file. The ISO is an image
> of the CD. Tell your cd burning software to burn from an image and
> select the ISO file.
If you did burn both images, then you should put the boot.img image on a
floppy using rawwrite2.exe and boot off that.
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AngryBob Systems Consultant - http://www.trellisinc.com
I want to know God's thoughts.... the rest are details.
-Albert Einstein
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JackFrozt)
Subject: Partitions partitions
Date: 18 May 2001 13:08:00 -0700
I wanted to know if anyone knows if there is a standard in
partitioning. I want to create my own partitions instead of the
express install before I do I would like a ball park figure on how
much space I should use for each and which ones/how many I should
create. Is there a standard/minimum on each partition and what would
be best to optimize perfomance? Is there some kind of formula? I saw
one person said take your RAM x2 for the swap file. Is there something
like that for the others. I could use all and any help I can get. I am
pretty new to Linux. I've played with it but didn't do too well.
Please send me any information, websites or anything that can help me
learn as much as I can about Linux.
Thanx,
JackFrozt
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