Re: Random numbers in Linux servers

2006-06-26 Thread Ancient1
ציטוט Michael Vasiliev: On Sunday June 25 2006 13:25, Amos Shapira wrote: [skipped] In theory, by the by, disk access can ALSO be controlled to a degree (less than network, but still)... So - whence entropy? Shall we now start adding external devices via RS232 (some kind of multi-cascade

Booting a USB key

2006-06-26 Thread Ira Abramov
I wrote a standard MBR, I have set the /dev/sdx1 active and ran syslinux -s /dev/sdx1, and of course did not forget to leave it a syslinux.cfg on the root of the sdx1. what am I missing? when I boot I just get a blank screen with no prompt (and I have set it to show a page of text). if I press any

Re: Booting a USB key

2006-06-26 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 12:27:23AM +0300, Ira Abramov wrote: I wrote a standard MBR, I have set the /dev/sdx1 active and ran syslinux -s /dev/sdx1, and of course did not forget to leave it a syslinux.cfg on the root of the sdx1. what am I missing? when I boot I just get a blank screen with no

Re: Booting a USB key

2006-06-26 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Geoffrey S. Mendelson, from the post of Tue, 27 Jun: syslinux is the latest 3.11, the FS is fat32 (a 4 gig Sandisk Cruzer). I was never able to get it to boot with syslinux. I had to use grub. humm. first of all it's nice to know Grub supports fat32. Second, I thought grub's boot

Re: Booting a USB key

2006-06-26 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 01:17:22AM +0300, Ira Abramov wrote: humm. first of all it's nice to know Grub supports fat32. Second, I thought grub's boot sequence assumes that the enumeration never changes, but when you boot a USB device, you could be sda on one machine, and sd[bcd] on others. how