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Install GRUB4DOS into image file

Posted: 13 Jan 2005 04:03 AM PST

I want to boot from a floppy into the GRUB shell.
Sorry for the confusion,

Thufir Hawat

Linux 10.0 and 10.0 will only install in text mode

Posted: 12 Jan 2005 02:33 PM PST

com wrote:
 
check the other consoles for error messages
Crtl + Alt + ( F1 to F6 )


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Problem Uninstalling Fedore Core

Posted: 12 Jan 2005 01:14 PM PST

Hello Conny

You were right. GRUB was indeed GRaBbing my computer, but FDISK /MBR
just did its job well. Thanks a lot buddy.

Kappa

Current thoughts on system partitioning

Posted: 12 Jan 2005 09:45 AM PST

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Captain Dondo <com> writes:
 

Nowadays, /srv is a standard place for your /data.
 

I have. I also use a custom bootable ZIP disk with a minimal root and
all the recovery tools I need. I just copied selected parts of /boot,
/bin, /etc, /sbin, /lib and /var over, and then set up GRUB on it.
 

True. However, with today's stupidly big disks, fixed partitions are
making less sense. LVM is a logical choice, since it gives you
flexibility with your paritioning (logical volumes).


Regards,
Roger

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change root controler

Posted: 12 Jan 2005 08:57 AM PST

HTML version:

http://www.storm.ca/~yan/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.html

SUSE question

Posted: 12 Jan 2005 04:13 AM PST

>You might need the upgrade CD set though (they've always 
Yes, the only real way to upgrade to the next version over the
internet is via the install boot disk. This is available for download
(about 50-60 Mb).

It is also supposedly possible to do this via apt, but I've only heard
rumors. ;-)

There is also some sort of DVD package download, but I think it's for
network updates, not directly usable by one computer.

The ftp upgrade works -- provided your system isn't too customized. I
recently tried to upgrade a system that had been updated via apt with
packages newer than the 9.2 release. It wasn't pretty. In the past, on
less heavily updated systems, I've done ftp upgrades with success.

You can also to a new install from ftp (with the same disk). This is
much safer and it will probably work. Not to mention, you can always
buy the disks.

It's true that YaST online updates only offer bug and security fixes,
but there are other ways to update your system (like apt). If you do
that though, you will run into the above mentioned problems in a system
upgrade.

Pick your poison.
Tom F.

Kernel boot failing

Posted: 11 Jan 2005 06:54 PM PST

Robin Kauffman <org> wrote: 

Assuming that your kernel is /boot/vmlinuz, what does the following
command yield:

rdev /boot/vmlinuz

How do you pass the root=/dev/hda3 parameter to the kernel?
On the boot prompt? Via a boot loader? Which boot loader?
How did you configure the boot loader?

Have you tried building the kernel image so that the correct root device
is compiled into it? Or changing it with 'rootflags'?
Then try to boot WITHOUT passing the root= parameter to the kernel
and see if it works.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

ADSL through Linux

Posted: 11 Jan 2005 04:19 PM PST

 

Ok noted.

Cheers

Dave

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Fedora Core 3 not running on new PC

Posted: 11 Jan 2005 05:26 AM PST

ezjab wrote:
 

i'm not suggesting knoppix - i just used knoppix
as an example because it SIMPLY WORKED.
 

it's as customizable as any other Linux distro. you
can install it to the hard drive, as with most other
distros.

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Recover partition info from memory

Posted: 11 Jan 2005 04:26 AM PST

This is the output I get from gpart:

# gpart /dev/hda

Begin scan...
Possible partition(SGI XFS filesystem), size(1896mb), offset(0mb)
Possible partition(SGI XFS filesystem), size(19067mb), offset(1906mb)
Possible partition(SGI XFS filesystem), size(19067mb), offset(20983mb)
Possible partition(SGI XFS filesystem), size(1896mb), offset(40060mb)
Possible partition(SGI XFS filesystem), size(28593mb), offset(41966mb)
Possible partition(Linux ext2), size(94mb), offset(70574mb)
Possible partition(Linux ext2), size(1906mb), offset(70668mb)
Possible partition(SGI XFS filesystem), size(9528mb), offset(103959mb)
Possible partition(Linux swap), size(972mb), offset(113498mb)

* Warning: short read near sector(234441459), 64512 bytes instead of
66048. Skipping...
End scan.

Checking partitions...

* Warning: more than 4 primary partitions: 9.
Partition(Linux ext2 filesystem): primary
Partition(Linux ext2 filesystem): primary
Partition(Linux ext2 filesystem): primary
Partition(Linux ext2 filesystem): primary
Partition(Linux ext2 filesystem): invalid primary
Partition(Linux ext2 filesystem): invalid primary
Partition(Linux ext2 filesystem): invalid primary
Partition(Linux ext2 filesystem): invalid primary
Partition(Linux swap or Solaris/x86): invalid primary
Ok.

Guessed primary partition table:
Primary partition(1)
type: 131(0x83)(Linux ext2 filesystem)
size: 1896mb #s(3883200) s(63-3883262)
chs: (0/1/1)-(1023/15/63)d (0/1/1)-(3852/7/6)r

Primary partition(2)
type: 131(0x83)(Linux ext2 filesystem)
size: 19067mb #s(39049600) s(3903795-42953394)
chs: (1023/15/63)-(1023/15/63)d (3872/13/1)-(42612/7/58)r

Primary partition(3)
type: 131(0x83)(Linux ext2 filesystem)
size: 19067mb #s(39049472) s(42973938-82023409)
chs: (1023/15/63)-(1023/15/63)d (42632/14/1)-(81372/6/56)r

Primary partition(4)
type: 131(0x83)(Linux ext2 filesystem)
size: 1896mb #s(3883200) s(82044018-85927217)
chs: (1023/15/63)-(1023/15/63)d (81392/14/1)-(85245/4/6)r

SSH "Unable to find an authentication method"

Posted: 11 Jan 2005 04:06 AM PST

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
.... 

I don't know exactly, i will investigate a little.
The thing happened after a reinstall of the pc that runs the sshd server, all
the clients was to be cleaned the .ssh/known_hosts file and everything went
fine, only that one host could not authenticate.
If i discover something i'll post it.

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RRB

FC3 - no wlan0 (wireless on TP42)

Posted: 10 Jan 2005 07:07 PM PST

Hello,

Lenard wrote: 
ONBOOT=yes 

Here is what I have now:

# Intel Corp. PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter
DEVICE=eth1
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
GATEWAY=192.168.0.1
NETMASK=
DHCP_HOSTNAME=
IPADDR=
DOMAIN=
HWADDR=
TYPE=Wireless
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=yes
IPV6INIT=no
ESSID=
CHANNEL=1
MODE=Auto
RATE=Auto

So the GW is set correctly now, but I still can't get WiFi interface
up:

# ifup eth1
Error for wireless request "Set Frequency" (8B04) :
SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported.

Determining IP information for eth1... failed.


One person pointed out that iwconfig shows that Tx-Power is OFF, so I
tried setting it as follows:

# /sbin/iwconfig eth1 txpower auto
Error for wireless request "Set Tx Power" (8B26) :
SET failed on device eth1 ; Invalid argument.


So I got the error there, too. :(


I feel like I'm just missing one simple, but magic switch somewhere,
just don't know where yet. Any other ideas and help would be very much
appreciated.
Thanks!
 

OK, no problem.

Knoppix Problems

Posted: 10 Jan 2005 04:06 PM PST


"Dirk Pfeiffer" <de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:dbx501.de... 

OK. Then download a Kanotix CD and see what Kano has changed to get it
running, then apply this patch to your Knoppix...