Re: boot logs ??/

2008-01-18 Thread Wang Yu
On Jan 18, 2008 2:03 PM, Onkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 2 kernel say X and Y on my machine.. Kernel X works well. but kernel Y is basically experimental kernel which I use for experiments. Say I boot with kernel Y .. and I want to see the logs of what went wrong .. where should I see

Re: boot logs ??/

2008-01-18 Thread Mulyadi Santosa
Hi.. Maybe /var/log/boot.log* are useful for you! Depending on the level of experiments, you might crash that couldn't hit the log. So consider kdump/kexec. Or IMHO...run it inside virtual machine...Xen, Qemu, KVM, etc... regards, Mulyadi. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email

Partitions ?? Boot flag ??

2008-01-18 Thread Onkar
i have two disks sda(160GB) and sdb (80GB) I want my root fs on sdb ?? What is the significance of Boot flag ??? and the there are K for RAID and LVM partitions what are those ? Thanks regards, Onkar

Re: finding device driver associated with device

2008-01-18 Thread Erik Mouw
A: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post Q: Were do I find info about this thing called top-posting? A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? A: No. Q: Should I leave

Re: Partitions ?? Boot flag ??

2008-01-18 Thread Mulyadi Santosa
Hi.. On Jan 18, 2008 5:05 PM, Onkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am currently installing Debian on my other system with RAIDs, LVMs etc ... but before LVMs and RAIDs I saw K but not before reiserfs,ext3,ext2,jfs partitions . Sorry, I really don't what K is in this context. regards, Mulyadi.

Re: Partitions ?? Boot flag ??

2008-01-18 Thread Mulyadi Santosa
Hi... On Jan 18, 2008 4:52 PM, Onkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have two disks sda(160GB) and sdb (80GB) I want my root fs on sdb ?? What is the significance of Boot flag ??? AFAIK, it doesn't matter for Linux root filesystem. maybe it matters for Windows or other OSes. and the there are K

Re: finding device driver associated with device

2008-01-18 Thread Erik Mouw
Please don't top-post. Please keep the list CC'ed at all times. On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 12:13:08AM +0530, Onkar wrote: what about getcfg ? What's getcfg supposed to do? I don't have that command on my Debian system. Erik -- They're all fools. Don't worry. Darwin may be slow, but he'll

usbmon

2008-01-18 Thread Davidlohr Bueso
Hi all, Does anyone know (and have any examples) of how I can obtain the data captured by the usbmon module without having to look at the /sys/kernel/debug/ files. Is there a userland API for usbmon? I've been reading and googling, but everything I find indicates that I have to use usbmon in

memory usage XEN ??

2008-01-18 Thread Onkar
Hi all, I managed to boot up my system with Xen patched kernel. I start the Xen console. But the Xen indicates that there is no free memory available. Which is the most trustworthy way to get the current memory usage of the system ?? any command ?? Onkar

Re: Partitions ?? Boot flag ??

2008-01-18 Thread Rene Herman
On 18-01-08 10:52, Onkar wrote: i have two disks sda(160GB) and sdb (80GB) I want my root fs on sdb ?? What is the significance of Boot flag ??? Nothing really, for non MS operating systems at least. The BIOS loads the first sector (MBR, Master Boot Record) from disk and executes the code

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Re: working files from Interupt routine

2008-01-18 Thread Matthias Kaehlcke
El Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 05:49:32PM +0530 Kathiresan, Lekshmanan ha dit: I have written code to create ordinary file from Linux kernel module. This code is working fine in normal execution, but its hangs when this function called from hook function or ISR. Please advice