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I can't boot from CDROM : old BIOS ...

Posted: 08 Apr 2004 07:59 AM PDT

On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 15:59:06 +0100, Pedro Duarte <com> wrote: 

I did an Evergreen Spectra400 cpu upgrade (K6-2/400) that included its own
BIOS upgrade, for an old P100 box. The new BIOS supported larger hard
drives and booting any hard drive (could directly boot Win95 on hdb).
But, it still could not boot directly from cdrom, even after changing to a
newer cd-rw/dvd drive that is capable of booting on a newer machine
(Celeron 333).

So it may be possible that old machines did not have the necessary wiring
or hardware hooks to boot directly from cdrom. In fact some BIOS did not
even show cdrom drives, in which case it was best to put them after any
hard drives in the drive sequence.

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Debian jigdo question

Posted: 07 Apr 2004 07:22 PM PDT

I have two harddisks, and I am trying to install Linux on the second one.
The first one contains WinXP and W2K Server, and the boot sector is in first
harddisk.
When I create a new partition on my second harddisk (by using cfdisk), there
is an option bootable flag for this partition. It cannot be set to true.
(because the MBR is in the first disk, is there a workaround?)
And in the Install Kernel and Driver Modules, I receives "/instmnt mount
fail " message.
When I select the CD drive as data source for installing kernel and drivers,
the installation process seems cannot read from the CD drive, although it
can detect the CD drive exists.
Thanx


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Fedora and XP on 1 Disk

Posted: 07 Apr 2004 11:04 AM PDT

In article <com>,
imotgm <com> writes: 

It happened because the CHS geometry of the disk changed, probably as a
result of running a Microsoft disk partitioning tool that detected the
geometry differently than Linux did, and the Microsoft tool decided to
impose its will on the partition table. The x86 partition table actually
stores partition boundaries using both absolute sector numbers
(essentially "LBA mode") and CHS triplets. Linux only uses the LBA
numbers, but some other OSs use the CHS triplets, and any tool that
modifies partition tables must use both. The OP's partition table is
probably not defining partitions that overlap, despite having that
appearance based on the overlapping start and end cylinder numbers,
because the changed CHS geometry has created partitions that begin and
end mid-cylinder.

Still, this situation is a potential problem waiting to happen. If an OS
or tool uses the CHS geometry and ignores the LBA geometry, it could end
up corrupting some of the data. Some tools will also refuse to work on a
disk with this sort of mismatched geometry. Overall, it's usually best to
correct this sort of situation, if possible. Unfortunately, it's not
always possible, at least not without doing a full backup and restore. The
OP, fortunately, has room on the disk to copy the data and wipe out the
original partitions, as I outlined in an earlier post.

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Internet using Dialup connection using redhat linux.

Posted: 07 Apr 2004 10:33 AM PDT

Ronel wrote:
 

TRY clicking on the RedHat icon go to System Tools then Internet
configuration wizard. click and do what the wizard says.

RH 7.3 to RHEL 3

Posted: 07 Apr 2004 08:59 AM PDT

Donnie Vazquez wrote: 
I am pretty sure there is none.

THe best I have every found is to make three backup tapes of everything
on the machine and then restore /home entire and everything else
piecemeal. Even that is not automatic, as applications disappear, and
other incompatable ones appear. It took three weeks of off-and-on work
to get gnucash to work, for example: I needed pieces from RHEL 3, RHL 9,
Fedora 1, and a bit of other stuff from rpmfind. I doubt there is a book
that explains how to do even that.

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Debian Boot into X / desktop setup

Posted: 07 Apr 2004 08:41 AM PDT

Hello

Fred Marshall (<acm.org>) wrote:
 

Use dpkg-reconfigure to configure XFree. Select "no" when debconf asks
you if you want to use the kernel framebuffer device. Select the nv
driver. If you use Woody, the nv driver will only work with GeForce 2
and older cards. With newer cards, you have to use either

- the VESA driver
- an upgraded version of XFree (http://www.apt-get.org)
- the closed-source driver from Nvidia (will also give you hardware 3D
acceleration)

best regards
Andreas Janssen

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