Re: How to get to console?

2003-10-29 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Keith Grider: > Ok, I did it now. I edited the aboot.conf and now it will not boot. How > do I get to the aboot console? If you boot with the 'i' flag: boot -fl i diskdevice It will drop you into interactive mode, where you can manually type in a boot line. -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL

Re: How to get to console?

2003-10-29 Thread Richard Fillion
boot dkc0 -fl i where dkc0 is the device that aboot is on. Richard Fillion [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 21:35, Keith Grider wrote: > Ok, I did it now. I edited the aboot.conf and now it will not boot. How > do I get to the aboot console? > > KeithG > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

How to get to console?

2003-10-29 Thread Keith Grider
Ok, I did it now. I edited the aboot.conf and now it will not boot. How do I get to the aboot console? KeithG

Re: return to testing - or stable?

2003-10-29 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Hello, On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 14:39, Peter Watkinson wrote: > Hi there, > > I've sort of screwed up one my installs on unstable so now neither KDE or > Gnome desktops work is there a fairly straightforward way I can return the > system to either Testing or stable using apt-get without having to do

2.4.22 boots perfect on DEC PWS Miata 433a

2003-10-29 Thread Juraj Holtak
Reporting success booting kernel 2.4.22 on DEC PWS Miata 433a. I have sound, reiserfs, tulip AND ide-cdrom working. Netfilter code still causes many many kernel unalligned acc`s. I compiled 2.4.22 fresh from kernel.org using the toolschain that comes with debian-woody because the debian kernel-

Relevant Config Files

2003-10-29 Thread twhitehe
I'll send you a copy of all my relevant config files seperately (so as to not bog down the list here). Get a stock copy of 2.4.21 by downloading it from kernel.org. Untar it into a directory. Copy the config-2.4.21 file to .config in the resulting directory. My config file doesn't have ext3

return to testing - or stable?

2003-10-29 Thread Peter Watkinson
Hi there, I've sort of screwed up one my installs on unstable so now neither KDE or Gnome desktops work is there a fairly straightforward way I can return the system to either Testing or stable using apt-get without having to do a full re-install? cheers, Peter Watkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: boot a newer kernel than a 2.2.x

2003-10-29 Thread Yann Klis
OK, I tried now with the .config described here : http://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2003/debian-alpha-200308/msg00083.html I compiled a 2.4.21 and a 2.4.22 kernel and now, both of them boots correctly, but just after INIT loaded, I have thousands of error messages coming from eth0. Has anyone

Re: DS20, DAC960 and raid hd

2003-10-29 Thread Ghe Rivero
El mié, 29-10-2003 a las 14:53, Nathan Poznick escribió: > Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I could not install onto my DAC960 controller, because I needed the > patch to the DAC960 kernel driver to recognize the DEC custom firmware. I have this problem solved, but when i boot, i cannot part

Re: DS20, DAC960 and raid hd

2003-10-29 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Hello people! > > I'm back again. After some study and investigation, I discover that > any Linux will boot on my machine cause the DAC960 firmware was so > old. Now, it's updated to 2.73, and the Disk configured with the RCU > from HP. > The problem now it'

DS20, DAC960 and raid hd

2003-10-29 Thread ghe_rivero
Hello people! I'm back again. After some study and investigation, I discover that any Linux will boot on my machine cause the DAC960 firmware was so old. Now, it's updated to 2.73, and the Disk configured with the RCU from HP. The problem now it's that anyone detect the hard disk so i can'

Re: Debian alpha install with reiserfs support

2003-10-29 Thread Carlos L.M.
Ok. Thank you Tyson. I try to implement your method. Thank you for all. --- Tyson Whitehead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > I'm running ReiserFS on my PWS500au. > > I had quite a time installing, however, as there was > some sort of ReiserFS > bug in the Debian version of kernel 2.4.18 [or >