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my mbr is a mess, how do i set up grub - Forums Linux

my mbr is a mess, how do i set up grub

Posted: 14 Jan 2007 02:06 PM PST

doug,

thanks for the information about partitions. I had read most of that
before but its nice to hear things again (untill its so familiar it
bores you i guess). Also i appreciate the cautious "just know what
your doing first" reply rather than giving me information i might
misuse.

however, I think i missed how your post applied to my question. I have
all the partition numbers straight, it was the exact name of the kernel
that i was missing. Also, I had a chain of three boot loader screens.
I was wondering how did this happen, or more importantly, How do i get
rid of them from windows? or, how do i make a linux boot floppy from
windows?

Since posting this question, I've decided that the first boot loader
screen finds menu.lst and the second implements it. So, those were both
from a single installation of wingrub. The third boot loader screen
still comes up because i call grldr in my windows boot.ini. Haven't
gotten around to taking that out yet.

Reinstalling linux solved this problem. I guess it writes to the mbr
at the end of installation which i failed to get to the first time.

Another possible solution: i think just typing kernel hd(0,2)/boot/
gives a list of possible files, and one could gleen the spelling of the
actual kernel or initrd from this list. i think i read something like
that but i had already seen the /boot/ from windows as described above
so i didn't pay to much attention to this second solution.

Network card speed

Posted: 13 Jan 2007 10:11 AM PST

Thx Chris
but I think the driver doesn't support the option. it seems to be a bug
known by Compaq and I need first to upgrade the bios to be compliant.
Will try.

thx again
Stef

Chris Cox wrote:
 

Can I remove root password in runlevel 3 ?

Posted: 12 Jan 2007 03:42 PM PST

On 2007-01-15, kerneloops <com> wrote: 

You only need to input it when you need it. But anyway, it is
the *standard* thing to input your password; it's a bad habit
to get into, so I don't recommend it. I also don't recommend
doing what you asked in c.o.l.misc, and I also don't recommend
multiposting similar questions to different newsgroups.

--keith

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redhat 3 with redhat 5 kernel

Posted: 12 Jan 2007 03:03 PM PST

gavino wrote: 

Yes, RH5 is a bad idea.

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The war on terror can last for thirty years. Israel claims to have been
fighting terrorism for 58 years and there is no end in sight.
-- The Iron Webmaster, 3729
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book review http://www.giwersworld.org/israel/willing-executioners.phtml a7

wacky default..

Posted: 12 Jan 2007 11:57 AM PST


Dave wrote: 

Gee, I guess I'm ahead of the curve. I'm only 40, and I've already
attained that status!
Really went overboard on wasting my life, however... wound up in the
same job that I started in almost 20 years ago!

(...goes off into a corner to cry...)

ksh delete multiple lines

Posted: 11 Jan 2007 07:24 PM PST

hi. i have a redhat desktop, and the problem i see is in a terminal
window when running ksh

with bash it looks like this

#
#whatever the command i want, and when this command gets to long
it goes to the next line.
#

When i delete the 2nd line, it goes back up to the first line with no
problem.

when going to ksh it does a > at the end of the line. I wanted it to
go to a 2nd line, but when i set COLUMNS, it looks right, but when i
try to backspace or delete to go back to top line, it won't go back to
the first line.

i have the set -o vi, and tried set +o vi (again, works in bash,
but not ksh)

any help is appreciated.

neil

rpm development question: %prep section

Posted: 11 Jan 2007 09:17 AM PST


Binand Sethumadhavan wrote: 

Me, too, and that's how RedHat does it. SuSE tends to bundle them up in
tarballs for no conceivable reason.....

Automatic login as root on FC6

Posted: 11 Jan 2007 07:25 AM PST


FabX wrote: 

You only have a mouse? Why?

IDE Cable

Posted: 11 Jan 2007 07:07 AM PST

AZ Nomad wrote: 

Depends on what you are doing. I have a DVD and a hot-swap ide drive on
the same cable. The HD is a backup drive and doesn't tend to get used
when the CD is being used. So I wasn't aware of how inconvenienced I was
until I saw this thread after 3 years of operation. (Sort of like the
Coyote doesn't fall until he looks and sees he's run over the edge of
the cliff.) :-)

--
Ron House edu.au
http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/staff/house
Ethics website: http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/staff/house/goodness

Riddle me this

Posted: 11 Jan 2007 03:56 AM PST

On Mon, 08 Jan 2007 01:07:50 -0500, Matt Giwer wrote:
 

I had the same issue with FC6 yesterday or the day before, can't really
remember. Using a NVIDIA graphics when after a reboot due to issues with
the nic and the resolution reset to 8X6.
Reconfigured and rebooted a couple of times and no luck
Even changed the monitor to a different one and the same issue. It did
eventually work itself out but it was after changing the monitor, the
settings and a couple of reboots.

My downloaded Fedora DVD iso file couldn't boot

Posted: 11 Jan 2007 03:00 AM PST

On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 03:00:32 -0800, indyszeto wrote:
 

You need to burn it as an ISO, you probably burned it as a data file. Here
is the command to do it

growisofs -Z /dev/dvdwriter=$1.iso

mount -t vfat /dev/ram0 /mnt/test0

Posted: 10 Jan 2007 09:56 PM PST

Seongsu Lee <com> wrote: 

[snip: creating ext3 filesystem on /dev/ram0 and mounting it]
 

Ramdisks have 1024-byte sectors:

mkfs.vfat -S 1024 /dev/ram0

HDD NOT RECOGNIZED after LINUX freespire installation, Advice please!

Posted: 10 Jan 2007 02:32 PM PST

nj wrote:
 

I have linux running on WD and Maxtor drives. Several machines multiboot
DOS, win2k and linux ... all from the same 8gb drive. My linux partitions
are 3-4gb.

Linux didn't break your HD and it isn't a support problem.

New Server What OS?

Posted: 10 Jan 2007 09:25 AM PST

Ben Olive wrote: 

Go for Ubuntu Server Editon.
Ubuntu has a huge community on http://ubuntuforums.org

Ubuntu Desktop guide and download links: http://www.futuredesktop.org

// moma