Linux-Misc Digest #329, Volume #19 Sat, 6 Mar 99 07:13:12 EST
Contents:
Re: Digital Cameras (Vacuo)
Re: Directory colours in RedHat 5.2 (hexdump)
IBM Global Network on Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Cannot Remove LILO from MBR (Cooper)
Re: MPEG and linux (Gary Momarison)
Re: Dual Pentium II 300MMX Processor swap? (Collin Bennett)
16 Colors Only ("Paul Davies")
Re: Linuxconf and /etc permissions (Bill Unruh)
Re: passwd file locked (Jayasuthan [VorHacker])
Q: sync, update, bdflush stalling - please help! ("Ian Vince McLoughlin (Dr)")
Re: Netscape 4.5 setup and run under x-windows/Gnome on RH 5.2 (William Park)
Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing? (Johan Kullstam)
Re: Oh..me so dumb..me need help big time! (M. Buchenrieder)
Samba newbie with linux laptop on a win95 dhcp network, HELP! ("John Wong")
Re: diald vs. pppd (Conway Yee)
LILO.CONF options ("Randy (Alf)")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vacuo)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Digital Cameras
Date: 5 Mar 1999 04:20:25 GMT
I would recommend putting money into those megapixel cameras that use
Flash memory cards. The Nikon 900S stores about 55 'normal' 260k jpegs
on a 15mb Flash card. These cards are produced by several
manufacturers
so there is competition and the cards are cheap. New cards are
available
with hundreds ( !) of mb capacity today. They last virtually forever:
hundreds of
thousands of cycles. They can be read very quickly using a parallel
port Flash
card reader- 55 pics in about a minute or less. This is at least an
order of magnitude
faster than serial cable. I use a Sandisk reader which cost under
60-US$. You
slip the Flash card out of the camera and into the mouse-like reader.
The files
(exposures) appear as a 'removable drive' in your computer and are
almost
instantly available for use. No camera battery usage of course during
this transfer.
There is simply no comparison between this system and the prior
methods
such as floppy (ughh) with its moving parts inside the camera and the
old
Olympus proprietary non-removable memory chips. You can hold thousands
of pictures in the palm of your hand using Flash cards.
Flash readers are available in SCSI form as well as EPP Parallel Port,
but
are expensive (200-US$ or more). On a trip one could just carry the
reader
and the software on a floppy, and use just about any computer at all
to
email or ftp the photos back home. Or leave the floppy home and dl the
latest program from www.sandisk.com or whatever.
Vacuo
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999 14:38:55, Jim Howes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> David Fox wrote:
> > "The Infernal One" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Does anyone either know or have good source information on
> > > which digital cameras support linux? TIA.
> >
> > Olympus DL-600 works fine using the photopc package. Many other
> > models use the exact same chipsets and software. (Sure does eat
> > batteries though.)
>
> I have an Olympus D900Z; Works extremely well with photopc
> over a serial line. I prefer working from the command line
> anyhow. The same code should work with any camera that uses
> the Fujitsu chipset, which includes many cameras made by
> sanyo, epson, fujitsu and olympus, and probably others.
>
> Most digital cameras eat batteries. I have aquired a single
> set of 4xNiMH AA batteries, which last quite well, as well as
> a bucketload of NiCd cells.
>
> Regards,
> Jim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (hexdump)
Subject: Re: Directory colours in RedHat 5.2
Date: 5 Mar 1999 04:54:59 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 3 Mar 1999 04:52:08 -0800, regoltd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have recently installed RedHat 5.2 and am new to Linux. I have previously
>tried Slackware and liked the way the directories and other files were in
>colours and the normal text type files were white. I prefer the RedHat to
>the Slackware because it is easier for me to use until I get use to Linux.
>Can I do this with RedHat 5.2 and how do I do this.
>M. Rego
>
>
Try adding the following aliases to your .bashrc file:
alias dir='dir --color=auto'
alias ls='ls --color=auto'
Hexdump
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-- Monty Python
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: IBM Global Network on Linux
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 10:06:54 GMT
Has anyone used IBM Global Network on Linux? and if so, how? Can you read the
phone database they provide with the NT product?
I have it on my laptops NT partition, but I need the space, and NT has to go.
But I still need access to the IBM Global Network.
Any help would be gratefully received.
Ian Collins.
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From: Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Cannot Remove LILO from MBR
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 11:41:44 -0100
Cevher Dogan wrote:
>
> > Insert a DOS boot floppy with fdisk on it. bootup And type.
>
> The problem is that I am getting this error in either cases
> when I boot with the system floppy already in the drive or
> after LILO prompts me the choice and after I insert and try it.
> It says: BOOT Couldn't find NTLDR, so I cannot boot to DOS
> to do fdisk /mbr ... :(
This means that your problem is that you can't remove NT's boot program!
Now first of all make sure that in your BIOS the boot sequence is "A,C" so that
it first checks the floppy. My guess is it isn't because when you boot from
floppy, NT shouldn't be anywhere to be seen.
Do as that other guy said. "fdisk /mbr" and reboot. It *MIGHT* be gone, but then
again, it might not. I really hate NT's boot loader. I know of 2 ways to remove
it.
1. BIOS-level format of the fist chunk of your harddisk. This is ill-advised by
harddisk manufacturors but all the disks I've used so far can cope just fine.
After that repartition and install whatever it is you want on your disk.
2. Install Windows95. It might sound like a joke, but believe me it's not.
Windows95 is very intolerant of other operating systems and the mere sight of a
WindowsNT boot chunk makes it seek and destroy. Works like a dream!
Better try fdisk /mbr first. Who knows, you might get lucky...
Cooper
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From: Gary Momarison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.compression,linux.misc,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: MPEG and linux
Date: 06 Mar 1999 00:45:21 -0800
David Garcia Dolla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi.
> I am interested in finding a MPEG coder card or a parallel port plug-in
> MPEG video capture unit with support for linux. Does any of you know
> about any product?
Follow MPEG links from
http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/video.html
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Gary's Encyclopedia at http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/index.html
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From: Collin Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Dual Pentium II 300MMX Processor swap?
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 21:31:45 GMT
I have PII/300 model 3 step 4. Please let us know if you have solved your
problem.
Thaddeus L. Olczyk wrote:
> Sorry I don't have PII/300's but a model 3 step 4
> should work with a model 3 step 3
> ( at least it does with NT).
>
> On Fri, 26 Feb 1999 02:35:17 +0000, Patrick Lanphier
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >The way to check for what type of CPU you have just run this command:
> >cat cpuinfo
> >
> >One of you should be able to help.
> >Sorry mine's a model 3 step 4.
> >
> >Patrick Lanphier
> >Advanced Information Technologies
> >The Pennsylvania State University
> >
> >
> >Richard Rognlie wrote:
> >>
> >> I ordered and installed a pair of Pentium II 300MMX processors back in
> >> September. However, at the time I ordered them, I apparently did not
> >> *specify* that I wanted a matched pair. As such, I got a
> >>
> >> CPU 1: Pentium II 300Mhz MMX Model 3 Step 3
> >> CPU 2: Pentium II 300Mhz MMX Model 5 Step 2
> >>
> >> My system (Linux 2.2.1) works fine unless I go in SMP mode. In that
> >> case, it works for a while (18 hours or so) and then locks up tight. At
> >> first, I thought it was something in the Linux kernel, but recently I've
> >> been informed that it is probably an incompatibility between the CPUs
> >> themselves.
> >>
> >> I've attempted to contact my vendor, but they are unable to assist since
> >> they no longer stock any Pentium II 300 MMX CPUs.
> >>
> >> Does Intel offer any form of a CPU swap service?
> >>
> >> Does anyone out there have a Pentium II 300 MMX Model 5 Step 2 they'd
> >> be willing to swap for a Pentium II 300 MMX Model 3 Step 3? Or vice
> >> verse?
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Richard Rognlie
> >> Gamerz.NET Enterprises
> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: "Paul Davies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 16 Colors Only
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 10:53:14 -0000
I'm running Red Hat 5.2 with an STB Virge VX graphics card. I cannot get
the screen to display more 16 colours and I've tried all the different modes
in xfConfig but to no avail.
Does anyone know of a solution?
Thanks
Paul
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: Linuxconf and /etc permissions
Date: 5 Mar 1999 05:44:55 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mark Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I just realized that /etc/passwd in world readable. Solving this wasn't
>too hard, but everytime I use linuxconf it changes the permissions to
>world-readable. Is there a way to stop this?
It is SUPPOSED to be world readable. /etc/passwd is where all of the
information about users and the link between users and userid is stored.
Many many programs must read passwd.
You are worried about your passwords being read. The passwords are not
stored in /etc/passwd, a hashed version is. You cannot derive teh
password from its hash (except by exhaustive search-- ie try every
possible password and see which one works.
However some still do not like anyone being able to read the passwords.
They use the shadow password file to store passwords in (Redhat supports that)
man 5 shadow
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From: Jayasuthan [VorHacker] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: passwd file locked
Date: 6 Mar 99 11:05:37 GMT
Seems like you use chattr ... do this "lsattr /etc/passwd"
is email me the result. And try do this "touch /etc/deny.disk"
Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I've just recently developed this nasty problem where I can't write to
: my passwd file, even as root. The permissions are 644, owner root,
: group root yet when I try to access it as root, it gives me the same
: permission denied response as if I was logged in as another user. All
: other root write-only files work fine.
: The only thing I could think of that I did to cause this was install
: shadow_utils. I've tried to change my root password or add new users
: using useradd, adduser, linuxconf and editing the passwd file directly.
: All tell me no.
: I've tried completely deleting the shadow_utils, no luck. I have also
: tried removing and reinstalling the setup rpm which contains the passwd
: file but I just get the same permission denied message when rpm gets to
: passwd.
: I have also tried changing permissions, owner and group on the file.
: All give me permission denied. Does anyone have any idea what could be
: locking this file and how I can fix the problem? Any help would be much
: appreciated.
: Thanks
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From: "Ian Vince McLoughlin (Dr)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Q: sync, update, bdflush stalling - please help!
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 13:14:17 +0800
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Hi,
On my redHat Mandrake 5.2 installation,
sync,
update,
bdflush
*sometimes* stall (ie. you execute them in an xterm and
they don't return). even kill -9 doesn't remove them
(the only way to remove them is to attach the process
to GDB and quit it from inside).
But sometimes I log on and everything is OK.
I don't know if this is the main problem, or just a
symptom but the worst thing is when I shutdown -
the shutdown process *sometimes* can't umount /usr
(/dev/hdc5) because it is 'busy'.
This means a 15 minute wait during bootup to fsck
the 2 or 3 gig or so on that partition.
I've built different kernels (with all known motherboard
bug fixes - my own motherboard is an unkown Taiwanese
brand) - I've tried everything in software, BIOS settings,
hda, hdb and hdc position etc... Even, in desparation,
I recompiled for a 386 (with my AMD k2-3d).
As far as I know only this big HD has problems, I had a
210meg disc before which worked fine. But I get no
problems with other partitions, or with Windows95!
Any ideas will be appreciated. Due to dodgy newsgroup
connections, please cc any replies to me directly at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks in advance for any help,
Ian McLoughlin
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Hi,</FONT>
</P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>On my redHat Mandrake 5.2 installation,</FONT>
</P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>sync,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>update,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>bdflush</FONT>
</P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>*sometimes* stall (ie. you execute them in an xterm and</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>they don't return). even kill -9 doesn't remove them</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>(the only way to remove them is to attach the process</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>to GDB and quit it from inside).</FONT>
</P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>But sometimes I log on and everything is OK.</FONT>
</P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>I don't know if this is the main problem, or just a</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>symptom but the worst thing is when I shutdown -</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>the shutdown process *sometimes* can't umount /usr</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>(/dev/hdc5) because it is 'busy'.</FONT>
</P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>This means a 15 minute wait during bootup to fsck</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>the 2 or 3 gig or so on that partition.</FONT>
</P>
<BR>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>I've built different kernels (with all known motherboard</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>bug fixes - my own motherboard is an unkown Taiwanese</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>brand) - I've tried everything in software, BIOS settings,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>hda, hdb and hdc position etc... Even, in desparation,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>I recompiled for a 386 (with my AMD k2-3d).</FONT>
</P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>As far as I know only this big HD has problems, I had a</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>210meg disc before which worked fine. But I get no</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>problems with other partitions, or with Windows95!</FONT>
</P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Any ideas will be appreciated. Due to dodgy newsgroup</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>connections, please cc any replies to me directly at</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</FONT>
</P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Thanks in advance for any help,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Ian McLoughlin</FONT>
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.digest
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Park)
Subject: Re: Netscape 4.5 setup and run under x-windows/Gnome on RH 5.2
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 05:49:40 GMT
Sean ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Could someone please email me and explain how do i set-up and run
: Netscape 4.5 under x-windows/Gnome. I have it currently installed at
: /usr/local/netscape and i am also using the AfterStep decoration mode
: for x-windows. Your help would be greatly appreciated.
: BTW- Is there a RPM for the lastest 2.2x kernel and which site is it
: located at?
I don't know about GNOME, but under X-windows, Navigator-4.5 runs
straight out of tarball. This is how I did it under Slackware 3.3:
1. tar -xzf netscape-...tar.gz
2. cd netscape-...
3. ./ns-install
4. ln -s /usr/local/netscape/netscape /usr/local/bin/netscape
5. export MOZILLA_HOME=/usr/local/netscape
Now, 'netscape -geometry =741x741+0+0 &' will bring up Netscape, and
it will create ~/.netscape for you. My only complain is that there
is memory leak in Netscape 4.08 and 4.5. It continually eats up memory
in monotonic fashion, until all my RAM and SWAP are exhausted.
Yours truly,
William
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing?
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 06 Mar 1999 06:15:44 -0500
"David A. Frantz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi Johan;
>
>
> Johan Kullstam wrote in message ...
> >if you want *identical* results, most of the problem is the
> >bletcherous 80 bit float mode of the x86. are you using gcc/g77? you
> >are aware that they spill the 80 bit registers into 64 temporaries.
> >thus small changes in the code or fiddling with optimization switches
> >can cause spillage in different places and hence small changes in the
> >results.
>
> 80 bit floats are not a bad thing, it is bad for a compiler not to use them
> correctly.
well, one of the problems is the intel memory model will punish you
hard for using 10 byte variables. they do not fit cleanly on 8 byte
boundaries.
> >intel should simply be avoided for any serious numerical work.
>
> Hmm thats down right mean. Intel should be avioded when it does fit the
> application domain. What you might want to say is that Intel is not a
> cost effective way to do serious FP work. Even a farm of Intel machines
> are questionable for some applications.
maybe. it's just that the intel x86 suffers from a number of
problems. the register starvation of the integer side is another
hindrance.
i've used many intel chips over a number of years. i am not impressed
with the architechture. they are innexpensive and ubiquitous. the
performance is reasonably good, since intel has a lot of money they
can throw at improving it.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Oh..me so dumb..me need help big time!
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 08:40:36 GMT
K Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Ok, Ok...I know you're gonna tsk, tsk and shake your head...but this is
>what I did- 'rpm -e glibc'!! (obviously, a RH distro I'm using) I know, I
>know...it was dumb, what the hell was I thinking? Actually, at 4am
>withonly having had 3 hours of sleep the night before, I wasn't.
[...]
Well, you're not the first one to do such a thing, and you'll certainly
not be the last, either. Use a boot floppy and then either reinstall
the needed glibc package directly using the RH setup tools, or try running
rpm explicitely from the prompt.
Michael
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From: "John Wong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,hk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Samba newbie with linux laptop on a win95 dhcp network, HELP!
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 14:25:35 +0800
I'm on a win95 microsoft network which use dhcp for WINS resolution.
The current users are set to a common workgroup name in the network
configuration in their windows box, and they can look up in the network on
the shares of their neighbouring computers.
1) If I want to lookup all the networked hosts (windows 95 neighbouring PC
under dhcp) and their shares at a glance, what should I do? To know the IP
on a local network.... Netbios names of all the neighbouring PC.
2) the network uses DHCP for WINS resolution.
3) I have to find out all the parameters e.g. IP, name under network, name
of shared file/folder, etc. in WIN95 environment (!!! :< ) before I can use
them on Linux. Besides.... I'm a novice... smbclient parameter uses
\\server\service according to the help... but not enough '\' alway appears
and I have to type \\\\PCname\\sharename instead.
4) My network is supposed to run in 100Mbps but the indicator on the network
card (pcmica Xircom 10/100 creditcard) appears to be running 10Mbps. Which
file I can modify to set it to 100Mbps? and which parameter?
5) When I use network configuration on fvwm. It said "unmanaged device"...
what does it mean? anyway I can use telnet, ftp, rlogin, browser and so
on...
6) the start up of my network pcmcia card is abnormal I think...
1, booting up, starting pcmcia service -> the card's indicating light turned
on (10Mbps indication) (warming up?)-> cardmgr do card stuff (unclear
idea.... :p) then "auto negiotation failed: eth0" echoed...;
2, /sbin/dhcpcd eth0.... in /etc/rc.d/init.d/network... still failed i.e.
ifconfig with eth0 session with 0.0.0.0 IP address;
3, after starting all the rc files in multiuser level.... e.g. amd, portmap,
httpd, yppasswd, etc. etc... (what are these???!!! 8p don't have much
idea)... and I logged in ifconfig's still eth0 ip=0.0.0.0 with a loopback..
4, soon after a while, the card's light turned off.... ifconfig just to give
lo session.... without eth0 session.... then I typed /sbin/dhcpcd eth0
again...and the network started....
Can somebody help me about this messy startup of dhcpcd network? Are the
network card not sufficiently warmed up before starting dhcpcd?.... I
dunno...
Cheers Linux World
Regards
John
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From: Conway Yee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: diald vs. pppd
Date: 05 Mar 1999 01:17:46 -0500
I write:
>I was reading the documentation for pppd. It appears as if it is
>capable of bringing up a ppp connection on demand. Then the question
>becomes. What are the essential differences between diald and pppd?
Bill Unruh replies;
>Until very recently the kernels did not have support for demand
>dialing.
Thanks for the info. Does pppd have support for the "rulesets" of
diald?
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From: "Randy (Alf)" <randyr@prairie.{bogus}.lakes.com>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: LILO.CONF options
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 23:39:30 -0600
Reply-To: "Randy (Alf)" <randyr@prairie.{bogus}.lakes.com>
I am trying to add another partition/drive to my LILO menu. The partiton
resides on hdc, is hdc4, and is bootable. The partiton type is 42,
according to fdisk, and belongs to an OS called Thoroughbred. I am unable
to install Thoroughbred on a large driv (>2gig), and it will only boot if it
is on hda or hdb. I get around that problem by removing the first 2 drives
from CMOS, and booting off of the 2nd IDE controller. I want to be able to
use LILO to boot hdc4. LILO does work if Thoroughbred is installed on hda
or hdb, but I'm using bigger drives now. I am booting from hdb now as per
the following LILO.CONF:
boot = /dev/hdb1
timeout = 50
prompt
vga = extended
read-only
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.1
label = linux
root = /dev/hdb1
image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36-3
label = linux.old
root = /dev/hdb1
other = /dev/hda1
label = win98
table=/dev/hda
other = /dev/hdc1
label = dos
table=dev/hdc
other = /dev/hdc4
label = tbred
table=dev/hdc
Anyone with any ideas? My primary boot is PowerQuest Partiton Manager, but
it isn't able to boot Thoroughbred on hdc either. I ttried adding
map-drive=0x82 to=0x80, map-drive=0x80 to=0x82, but that didn't work either.
I used kernel 2.0.36, upgraded to 2.2.1, no change, do like 2.2.1 kernel
better for other stuff. TIA Randy
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