LILO disaster: L 01 01 01 ...
Hi! I have two HD's. Although hdb (40GB) is not recognised by the BIOS, booting Debian 2.2 on hdb worked fine with LILO on the MBR of hda. But yesterday I installed RedHat 7.2 on a spare partition of hdb and now LILO stopps with L 01 01 01 ...! However, I can reach my Debian system with a boot floppy - everything is still there. But it's impossible to boot from the HD! My lilo.conf looks like: (/boot is inside the 1024 cylinder limit!) boot=/dev/hda install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal prompt timeout=50 image=/vmlinuz label=debian root=/dev/hdb3 read-only image=/vmlinuz.old label=debian.old root=/dev/hdb3 read-only Rerunning lilo doesn't help. (BTW: I get no errors when I run lilo - it just refuses to boot later.) The linear option doesn't help. Setting the disk geometry with disk=... doesn't help. Making a DOS MBR with FDISK /MBR and copying it to hdb doesn't help. I have no idea what really happend but I think RatHat must have done something to hdb that makes it impossible for LILO to access it's second-stage boot loader on it. Although my system still works with a boot floppy I would appreciate any suggestions. Thanx, Andy G. 8-) PS: Please CC me your mails - I'm not on the list.
Cross-Platform Development?
Hi Everybody! I plan to develop a little GUI application (GPLed of course ;-) using Debian/GNU-Linux as primary development environment. Unfortunately the app also has to run on Windoze... :-(( Does anybody have experience developing such cross-platform apps? Can you recommend a language or a toolkit? (I have some practice in C C++ but would also like it to learn something new... ;-) Thanx, Andy 8-)
broken woddy Packages file on mirror
Hi! I wanted to install the woody package bluefish_0.6 (which I found on an australian mirror _only_) on my potato system, but apt-get mysteriously didn't see the package. It took me quite a while to find out that the file Packages from this mirror still contains a description of bluefish_0.3, so apt-get thought I had already the newest version. This was the only mirror I found bluefish_0.6 on, so simply changing to another mirror won't help (I guess). What can I do now? Do I have to download all of the Packages on which bluefish_0.6 depends and resolve the dependencies by installing them in the right order with dpkg -i? Any other suggestions? Thanx, Andy 8-)
Re: Burning CDs in Linux
Rob Rati wrote: I just got the new Yamaha 6x4x16x CD-RW and can't seem to burn a CD. It always error out with what looks like a buffer problem. My machine is all SCSI, and it doesn't seem to matter whether I do a CD to CD burn or make an image and burn that from the HD. It always errors out. Recently I also bought a Yamaha CDRW6416S (now connected to a PCI NCR53c810a SCSI controller) which turned out to work just fine. No problems at all! (In fact I had a problem with bad/corroded contacts of the controller to the PCI bus, but that's another story...) I have used X-CD-Roast 0.96e and cdrdao 1.09 (I didn't use the stand-alone cdrecord) on my Debian 2.1 (slink) system to burn CD-R(W)s with 6x speed (4x for CD-RWs) and had not a single failure! So it's for sure that your writer _is_ supported, but unfortunately I have no idea how to solve your (SCSI ?) problems... BTW: Can you use the writer to mount and read a CD? Andy G. 8-)
Re: RIVA128 (nVidia) card works, but loses cursor in emacs ...
Jingsong Zhao wrote: I mail-ordered a XFree86-supported video card, yet I received a Jaton Video-68AGP card that uses RIVA128ZX chip. To my chagrin, I spent several hours figuring out that I have to download from nVidia a special XF86_SVGA and do some setups. I have an ELSA VICTORY ERAZOR LT with RIVA128ZX and unfortunately didn't know that I can download a special XF86_SVGA from nVidia. Instead I just used the XFree 3.3.2.3a coming with Debian 2.1. It worked fine (no problems with emacs cursor), but just in 8bit color mode... When I tried to use 16bit or higher and something changed on the screen (e.g. a moving window) often pixel errors / horizontal streaks occured which was somewhat annoying. I was _not_ able to find a solution to this problem! Changing the BIOS/AGP settings, trying different options in XF86Config, nothing worked. At last I wrote a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but got no answer. Finally I decided to give up and bought a new, better supported graphics card... :-( First thing I want to try is to remove the hardware cursor feature, but I could not find a way to do that. Anyone with similar experience? Shouldn't something like options sw_cursor in the Device-Section of XF86Config do the trick? Andy G. 8-)
