Booting Linux using UEFI can brick Samsung laptops

2013-01-31 Thread William Ivanski
Hi everyone, I just have read this: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Booting-Linux-using-UEFI-can-brick-Samsung-laptops-1793958.html And I also found this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1040557 It seems that kernel's drive samsung-laptop can brick Samsung laptops

Re: Booting Linux using UEFI can brick Samsung laptops

2013-01-31 Thread Greg Madden
On Thursday 31 January 2013 9:48:45 am you wrote: Hi everyone, I just have read this: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Booting-Linux-using-UEFI-can-b rick-Samsung-laptops-1793958.html And I also found this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1040557 It seems

Re: Booting Linux using UEFI can brick Samsung laptops

2013-01-31 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 1:48 PM, William Ivanski william.ivan...@gmail.com wrote: I just have read this: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Booting-Linux-using-UEFI-can-brick-Samsung-laptops-1793958.html And I also found this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1040557

Re: Debian Wheezy is not booting after install

2013-01-25 Thread Steve Dierker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello List, I found and fixed the problem. Apparently the SiliconImage Sil 3114 has problems with grub if it is not running the latest BIOS, which is version 5.5. So, after using FreeDos to update the BIOS on the controller to the latest version

Re: Multiple CD ISO-image USB Booting?

2013-01-23 Thread Brian
On Tue 22 Jan 2013 at 21:28:03 -0800, GoOSSBears wrote: Another question I have is whether multiple images of Testing can be effectively used to boot a 4GB+ USB drive?? A common-use scenario for this is to have the capability to boot up separate instances (in their less-technical sense) of a

Multiple CD ISO-image USB Booting?

2013-01-22 Thread GoOSSBears
Thanks for previous responses concerning [1] and [2] on direct image-copying of Debian-Testing for USb booting. Single CD ISO-images of Testing boot fine on small USB drives using dd/cat/cp for copying the image to /dev/sdX. Another question I have is whether multiple images of Testing can

Re: Multiple CD ISO-image USB Booting?

2013-01-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 22 ian 13, 21:28:03, GoOSSBears wrote: Thanks for previous responses concerning [1] and [2] on direct image-copying of Debian-Testing for USb booting. Single CD ISO-images of Testing boot fine on small USB drives using dd/cat/cp for copying the image to /dev/sdX. You're welcome

Re: Full CD ISO image of Testing for USB Booting?

2013-01-17 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 16 ian 13, 00:27:48, Brian wrote: Different authors; different recommendations. I'd see cp, dd and cat as equivalent in what they do. cp in the Guide was altered from cat because some systems require you to be root to use 'cat ISO /dev/sdX'. $ ls -l /dev/sdb brw-rw---T 1 root floppy

Re: Full CD ISO image of Testing for USB Booting?

2013-01-17 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 15 ian 13, 15:12:25, GoOSSBears wrote: My preferences at this point would be to (a) use the 'dd' command to image-copy the full CD ISO onto a Linux type 82 partitioned /dev/sdX1 for USB-booting and then AFTERWARDS partition+format a separately accessible /dev/sdX2 for various stored

Re: Full CD ISO image of Testing for USB Booting?

2013-01-17 Thread Brian
On Thu 17 Jan 2013 at 11:17:50 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 16 ian 13, 00:27:48, Brian wrote: Different authors; different recommendations. I'd see cp, dd and cat as equivalent in what they do. cp in the Guide was altered from cat because some systems require you to be root to

Re: Full CD ISO image of Testing for USB Booting?

2013-01-17 Thread Brian
On Thu 17 Jan 2013 at 11:26:33 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: 3. Inspect the stick with a partitioning tool (fdisk/parted/gparted). Not sure about the full CD images, but I know for sure the smaller images create two partitions: one for the installer (and packages, if any) and one for your

Re: Full CD ISO image of Testing for USB Booting?

2013-01-17 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 17 ian 13, 10:45:43, Brian wrote: Please see #660776. The changelog has: * Use dd of= instead of cat , to save users who use sudo. Advise to make sure the stick is unmounted. Closes: #660776. Did you read the full bug log? The issue is that redirecting with sudo is not as

Re: Full CD ISO image of Testing for USB Booting?

2013-01-17 Thread Brian
On Thu 17 Jan 2013 at 18:12:15 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 17 ian 13, 10:45:43, Brian wrote: Please see #660776. The changelog has: * Use dd of= instead of cat , to save users who use sudo. Advise to make sure the stick is unmounted. Closes: #660776. Did you

Re: Full CD ISO image of Testing for USB Booting?

2013-01-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
just created for USB booting via UEFI. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs. -- Mike Andrews -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Full CD ISO image of Testing for USB Booting?

2013-01-15 Thread GoOSSBears
of the Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide, 'Preparing Files for USB Memory Stick Booting'[2] 1. How may I use the instructions in this Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide while still retaining the capacity to put extra files on the same drive?? E.g., storing downloaded documents in various

Re: Full CD ISO image of Testing for USB Booting?

2013-01-15 Thread Brian
. Several related questions really, all related to Section 4.3 of the Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide, 'Preparing Files for USB Memory Stick Booting'[2] 1. How may I use the instructions in this Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide while still retaining the capacity to put extra files

Re: Debian Wheezy is not booting after install

2013-01-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Steve Dierker wrote: I decided to check the SiliconImage SATA controller first, so I unplugged it from the mainboard including both hard drives connected to it. Good. Then I booted the system and voilà GRUB was appearing normaly and I could but the system with some failures because two hard

Re: Debian Wheezy is not booting after install

2013-01-09 Thread Steve Dierker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/08/2013 09:46 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Steve Dierker wrote: I have a little file server running on an Intel Atom with 2GB Ram. Sounds good. It has 4 1TB hard drives, two of them connected to the internal SATA controller Should be

Debian Wheezy is not booting after install

2013-01-08 Thread Steve Dierker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello List, I have a little file server running on an Intel Atom with 2GB Ram. It has 4 1TB hard drives, two of them connected to the internal SATA controller and two of them connected to an SiliconImage 3114 controller in the PCI-Slot. My problem

Re: Debian Wheezy is not booting after install

2013-01-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Steve Dierker wrote: I have a little file server running on an Intel Atom with 2GB Ram. Sounds good. It has 4 1TB hard drives, two of them connected to the internal SATA controller Should be okay. and two of them connected to an SiliconImage 3114 controller in the PCI-Slot. Probably

Error booting after power outage

2012-12-26 Thread Parker Sikand
I had a server set up with Debian Squeeze using the encrypted LVM. It was running great and up for about 40 days. We had a power flicker and now the server fails to boot... it tells me that /run/udev is not writeable, and that it can't find any LVM groups... How do I recover from this? -- To

booting/installing debian

2012-11-28 Thread Loic J. Duros
I have a laptop that someone gave to me because the video card is dead and it is now useless to the person. I would like to run my email server on it from home. Currently in the hard drive I believe there is Windows 7 only. I'd like to be able to boot/install debian along with ssh so I can

Re: booting/installing debian

2012-11-28 Thread Morel Bérenger
Do you have any recommendation on how to do this without requiring any keyboard input or a screen? I'd like to be able to scp a few files from the windows partition, and then wipe out the partition and install debian on the harddrive from SSH, and of course at the next reboot using the

Re: booting/installing debian

2012-11-28 Thread Loic J. Duros
Thanks for your answer, On 11/28/2012 11:19 AM, Morel Bérenger wrote: _ an installer with a preseed which make the ssh install the default How do I get to make an installer that will install ssh by default without any key input required? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Wheezy; No Speech when booting with Speakup on Older Dell Systems.

2012-11-28 Thread Martin McCormick
I tried the netinstall version of the Debian wheezy CD around November 23 or so and certain Dell systems such as a Del Dimension and a Dell Optiplex from around that same time period will not talk. What do I need to do to help solve this problem? The boot procedure is to insert

Re: booting/installing debian

2012-11-28 Thread berenger . morel
Le 28.11.2012 20:35, Loic J. Duros a écrit : Thanks for your answer, On 11/28/2012 11:19 AM, Morel Bérenger wrote: _ an installer with a preseed which make the ssh install the default How do I get to make an installer that will install ssh by default without any key input required?

Found Workaround! Re: Failing to find LVM on RAID in while booting wheezy.

2012-11-22 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 22:02:47 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: How can I get it so scan again for logical volumes from the busybox? And after I've done that, how can I get it to try to look for the root partition again and proceed with booting. And I should mention that the wheezy I'm trying

Failing to find LVM on RAID in while booting wheezy.

2012-11-20 Thread Hendrik Boom
My wheezy root partition is an LVM2 partition on one of Linux's esteemed software RAID1 partitions, which itself is based on two partitions, one on each of two hard SATA drives. Booting (through squeeze'e grub2 -- I still have a working squeeze system, and it supports current production ise

PengPod, crowdfunded dual-booting Linux/Android tablet

2012-11-13 Thread Touko Korpela
/11/android-and-linux-on-a-dual-booting-tablet-for-100/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121113131416.GA27371@lisko

Re: Error after booting default kernel version

2012-10-21 Thread Gábor Hársfalvi
2012/10/20 Johan Grönqvist johan.gronqv...@gmail.com: 2012-10-20 10:44, Gábor Hársfalvi skrev: I've used this tutorial - http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16t=60019 - yesterday, and after reboot the playmouth animation worked but before it arrived login screen it showed me a black

Re: Error after booting default kernel version

2012-10-21 Thread Johan Grönqvist
2012-10-21 18:34, Gábor Hársfalvi skrev: 2012/10/20 Johan Grönqvistjohan.gronqv...@gmail.com: 2012-10-20 10:44, Gábor Hársfalvi skrev: Good! Now you know exactly what edits to what config files that you need to undo. Now you know exactly what edits to what config files that you need to undo.

Error after booting default kernel version

2012-10-20 Thread Gábor Hársfalvi
Hi, I've used this tutorial - http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16t=60019 - yesterday, and after reboot the playmouth animation worked but before it arrived login screen it showed me a black blank screen with a flashing cursor - not mouse - and after more waiting it stayed there too. I

Re: Error after booting default kernel version

2012-10-20 Thread Johan Grönqvist
2012-10-20 10:44, Gábor Hársfalvi skrev: I've used this tutorial - http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16t=60019 - yesterday, and after reboot the playmouth animation worked but before it arrived login screen it showed me a black blank screen with a flashing cursor - not mouse - and after

SATA 6 Gb/s WD HDD not booting on Squeeze

2012-06-26 Thread Mark Panen
Hi, I have four HDD, the forth one is a WD 2TB SATA 6B/s and i connected it to the SATA 6 port on the mobo with a SATA 6 cable. I disconnected the other three SATA HDD when installing. The installation went fine and i did a lot of work to set up my drive. I then connected the other three

Re: SATA 6 Gb/s WD HDD not booting on Squeeze

2012-06-26 Thread Nick Boyce
please tell me how the f*** to edit fstab? I think my first move would be to physically disconnect the 3 smaller drives, and try booting then - just the data cables, you can leave the power cables connected if that helps. Bet you've tried that by now :) Cheers Nick -- Never FDISK after midnight

Re: SATA 6 Gb/s WD HDD not booting on Squeeze [SOLVED]

2012-06-26 Thread Mark Panen
. What's the motherboard in this machine ? Could someone please tell me how the f*** to edit fstab? I think my first move would be to physically disconnect the 3 smaller drives, and try booting then - just the data cables, you can leave the power cables connected if that helps. Bet you've

Wheezy iso cd image not booting?

2012-05-14 Thread Josef Wetzel
Hi all I am trying to install Debian wheezy in VMWare Fusion 4.1.2 on Mac OS X 10.7.4. I downloaded debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso (on 13. may 12) and configured Fusion to use this iso image as a cd drive. When I power up the virtual machine, a blinking cursor in the upper left corner of

Re: Wheezy iso cd image not booting?

2012-05-14 Thread Marvin Alonso
Hello Josef, I' just translate this from official debian page. ...which one to use? I don't know. There are two different netinst CD images which can be used to install squeeze with the debian-installer. These images are intended to boot from CD and install additional packages over a network,

Re: Wheezy iso cd image not booting?

2012-05-14 Thread Joey Hess
Josef Wetzel wrote: Hi all I am trying to install Debian wheezy in VMWare Fusion 4.1.2 on Mac OS X 10.7.4. I downloaded debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso (on 13. may 12) and configured Fusion to use this iso image as a cd drive. When I power up the virtual machine, a blinking cursor in the

Re: Wheezy iso cd image not booting?

2012-05-14 Thread Josef Wetzel
Hi Joey thanks a lot! I'll do it asap. Josef On 14.05.12 19:21, Joey Hess wrote: Josef Wetzel wrote: Hi all I am trying to install Debian wheezy in VMWare Fusion 4.1.2 on Mac OS X 10.7.4. I downloaded debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso (on 13. may 12) and configured Fusion to use this iso

Re: Problem with booting - Debian testing

2012-05-12 Thread Zbigniew Komarnicki
On Friday 11 of May 2012 14:04:59 you wrote: Have you tried to boot into Single Mode? Try to remove quiet option from your boot string and add there acpi=off or noapic. After using the option acpi=off the system boot successful. Thank you very much. Zbigniew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Problem with booting - Debian testing

2012-05-12 Thread Roman V.Leon.
On 12.05.2012 23:02, Zbigniew Komarnicki wrote: On Friday 11 of May 2012 14:04:59 you wrote: Have you tried to boot into Single Mode? Try to remove quiet option from your boot string and add there acpi=off or noapic. After using the option acpi=off the system boot successful. Thank you very

Re: Problem with booting - Debian testing

2012-05-11 Thread Zbigniew Komarnicki
, please wait... [ 1.817773] xhci_hcd :02:00.0: Failed to enable MSI-X [ 1.840319] xhci_hcd :06:00.0: Failed to enable MSI-X modprobe: module unix not found in modules.dep INIT: version 2.88 booting Using makefile-style concurrent boot in runlevel S. Starting the hotplug events

Re: Problem with booting - Debian testing

2012-05-11 Thread Roman V.Leon.
, please wait... [ 1.817773] xhci_hcd :02:00.0: Failed to enable MSI-X [ 1.840319] xhci_hcd :06:00.0: Failed to enable MSI-X modprobe: module unix not found in modules.dep INIT: version 2.88 booting Using makefile-style concurrent boot in runlevel S. Starting the hotplug events

Problem with booting - Debian testing

2012-05-10 Thread Zbigniew Komarnicki
to enable MSI-X [ 1.840319] xhci_hcd :06:00.0: Failed to enable MSI-X modprobe: module unix not found in modules.dep INIT: version 2.88 booting Using makefile-style concurrent boot in runlevel S. Starting the hotplug events dispatcher: udevd. Synthesizing the initial hotplug events..done

Re: Problem with booting - Debian testing

2012-05-10 Thread Roman V.Leon.
: Failed to enable MSI-X [ 1.840319] xhci_hcd :06:00.0: Failed to enable MSI-X modprobe: module unix not found in modules.dep INIT: version 2.88 booting Using makefile-style concurrent boot in runlevel S. Starting the hotplug events dispatcher: udevd. Synthesizing the initial hotplug events

Re: *URGENT* plz need help system not booting after lvresize command

2012-05-03 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
ok finally, recovering the data from old drive :(.. recovering data is not a big deal however creating the same directory infrastructure . rights assigning and stuff is pain .. Thanks for the support. On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 1:24 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: *URGENT* plz need help system not booting after lvresize command

2012-05-03 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 2 May 2012 23:56:06 +0500, Muhammad wrote in message CAGWVfMmXUZHb-wD=drr0as-pmyig8qqsofxy+ucnsmbsed-...@mail.gmail.com: On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 11:07 PM, Arnt Karlsen a...@c2i.net wrote: On Wed, 2 May 2012 22:07:14 +0500, Muhammad wrote in message

Re: *URGENT* plz need help system not booting after lvresize command

2012-05-03 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Arnt Karlsen a...@c2i.net wrote: On Wed, 2 May 2012 23:56:06 +0500, Muhammad wrote in message CAGWVfMmXUZHb-wD=drr0as-pmyig8qqsofxy+ucnsmbsed-...@mail.gmail.com: On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 11:07 PM, Arnt Karlsen a...@c2i.net wrote: On Wed, 2 May 2012 22:07:14

Re: *URGENT* plz need help system not booting after lvresize command

2012-05-03 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 3 May 2012 17:29:06 +0500, Muhammad wrote in message CAGWVfM=FA6TRQeHjGSQJTkkddt9s8QnNbARrb=rmzwhssiq...@mail.gmail.com: On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Arnt Karlsen a...@c2i.net wrote: On Wed, 2 May 2012 23:56:06 +0500, Muhammad wrote in message

*URGENT* plz need help system not booting after lvresize command

2012-05-02 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
action 0x0 ata3.01 : BMDMA stat 0x64 ata3.01 : failed command : read DMA my system is not booting up.giving me lots and lots of above erros. no matter what i do it doesnt give me the prompt. it is continuesly giving me this error. i tried recovery mod NO LUCK. it worked when i unplug the 800GB

Re: *URGENT* plz need help system not booting after lvresize command

2012-05-02 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 08:45:25PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: i resize the LV from 300 GB to 400 GB Exactly what command did you type, and what feedback did you get? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: *URGENT* plz need help system not booting after lvresize command

2012-05-02 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Muhammad, Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.com wrote: ata3.01 : status: { DRDY ERR } ata3.01 : error : { UNC } ata3.01 : exception emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata3.01 : BMDMA stat 0x64 ata3.01 : failed command : read DMA This looks as if either the hard drive or the

Re: *URGENT* plz need help system not booting after lvresize command

2012-05-02 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
sorry, if i am miss leading with the error . actually i belive that this must have happen. by the lvresize command. actually every thing was working nice and smooth. here is the quick story. first i ran the command. 1. i resize the old partition lvresize -L 400GB VG-NAME with PATH 2 then i

Re: *URGENT* plz need help system not booting after lvresize command

2012-05-02 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
i tried every single possibility regarding cables i have 3 HD i tried the smaller HDs cable it gives me the same error. actually i also installed quota module by modeprobe qutoa_v2 and echo qutoa_V2 /etc/moudels in fstab i added the UUID and ursquota keyword to for quota support. and the

Re: *URGENT* plz need help system not booting after lvresize command

2012-05-02 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
at least there should be a way to reach the command prompt. is there any way to ignore this error and reach the command prompt so i can just copy the necessary data. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: *URGENT* plz need help system not booting after lvresize command

2012-05-02 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 2 May 2012 22:07:14 +0500, Muhammad wrote in message CAGWVfM=mZy29_s0cUyv3GDZA=czvmxg4h_q6dbukrnbxvvz...@mail.gmail.com: i tried every single possibility regarding cables i have 3 HD i tried the smaller HDs cable it gives me the same error. ..good, means hardware failure. Try another

Re: *URGENT* plz need help system not booting after lvresize command

2012-05-02 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 11:07 PM, Arnt Karlsen a...@c2i.net wrote: On Wed, 2 May 2012 22:07:14 +0500, Muhammad wrote in message CAGWVfM=mZy29_s0cUyv3GDZA=czvmxg4h_q6dbukrnbxvvz...@mail.gmail.com: i tried every single possibility regarding cables i have 3 HD i tried the smaller HDs cable it

Re: *URGENT* plz need help system not booting after lvresize command

2012-05-02 Thread Shane Johnson
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:49 PM, Shane Johnson s...@rasmussenequipment.com wrote: Muhammad, I think we are going to need some mere information please. You mentioned that this is on a raid, correct. Is your lvm

Re: *URGENT* plz need help system not booting after lvresize command

2012-05-02 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Muhammad, Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.com wrote: at least there should be a way to reach the command prompt. is there any way to ignore this error and reach the command prompt so i can just copy the necessary data. Probably not, because this error means that accessing whatever is

Re: *URGENT* plz need help system not booting after lvresize command

2012-05-02 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 12:31 AM, Claudius Hubig debian_1...@chubig.net wrote: Hello Muhammad, Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.com wrote: at least there should be a way to reach the command prompt. is there any way to ignore this error and reach the command prompt so i can just copy the

about dual booting freebsd 9 and debian 6.04

2012-04-12 Thread Dibesh Shrestha
dear all, ear All I am trying dual boot on my pc.I have installed freeBSD 9.0 and Debian 6.0.4. I did not install boot loader while installing freebsd but i installed grub in debian. My partition looks as follow : ada074GBGPT ada0p1 2.1 GB linux-swap ada0p2 30GB

Re: about dual booting freebsd 9 and debian 6.04

2012-04-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 12 apr 12, 14:53:49, Dibesh Shrestha wrote: dear all, ear All I am trying dual boot on my pc.I have installed freeBSD 9.0 and Debian 6.0.4. I did not install boot loader while installing freebsd but i installed grub in debian. My partition looks as follow : ada074GBGPT

Re: about dual booting freebsd 9 and debian 6.04

2012-04-12 Thread Rares Aioanei
On 04/12/2012 01:54 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 12 apr 12, 14:53:49, Dibesh Shrestha wrote: dear all, ear All I am trying dual boot on my pc.I have installed freeBSD 9.0 and Debian 6.0.4. I did not install boot loader while installing freebsd but i installed grub in debian. My partition

Booting Debian from Windows

2012-04-04 Thread Patrick Kongawi
To whom this may concern I have been having great difficulty creating a CD ISO for Debain. I went to getting debian and Downloading large Image and Download CD/DVD with Jiggo and select one of the official image. Is this the proper way to select and Image and write it to a CD? Will the BIOS

Re: Booting Debian from Windows

2012-04-04 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:10:37 -0600, Patrick Kongawi wrote: I have been having great difficulty creating a CD ISO for Debain. I went to getting debian and Downloading large Image and Download CD/DVD with Jiggo and select one of the official image. Is this the proper way to select and Image

Re: Booting Debian from Windows

2012-04-04 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 08:10:37AM -0600, Patrick Kongawi wrote: To whom this may concern I have been having great difficulty creating a CD ISO for Debain. I went to getting debian and Downloading large Image and Download CD/DVD with Jiggo and select one of the official image. Is this the

Re: Booting Debian from Windows

2012-04-04 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 04/04/12 16:10, Patrick Kongawi wrote: To whom this may concern I have been having great difficulty creating a CD ISO for Debain. I went to getting debian and Downloading large Image and Download CD/DVD with Jiggo and select one of the official image. Is this the proper way to select and

Re: Booting Debian from Windows

2012-04-04 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 04/04/12 16:44, Alberto Fuentes wrote: But for livecd i usually use ubuntu ones, latest packages conveniently packaged for live image oh, i just saw that unetbootin allows you download debian testing as well... has anybody tested how stable are those for a live? I heard about debian CUT,

Re: Booting Debian from Windows

2012-04-04 Thread ntrfug
On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:05:15 +0200 Alberto Fuentes alberto.fuen...@qindel.com wrote: oh, i just saw that unetbootin allows you download debian testing as well... has anybody tested how stable are those for a live? I heard about debian CUT, but im not sure is ready yet. greets! aL I've

Re: howto log screen output while booting

2012-03-08 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 07 mar 12, 14:52:19, Wayne Topa wrote: UPDATE Fount the problem. Even though dpkg -l bootlogd said it was installed. some how back in January the bootlogd executable had been removed. Aptitude was able to purge/install the package and the log is now working in wheezy The Sid is

Re: howto log screen output while booting

2012-03-08 Thread Wayne Topa
On 03/08/2012 05:29 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 07 mar 12, 14:52:19, Wayne Topa wrote: UPDATE Fount the problem. Even though dpkg -l bootlogd said it was installed. some how back in January the bootlogd executable had been removed. Aptitude was able to purge/install the package and the

howto log screen output while booting

2012-03-07 Thread Johan Scheepers
Good day, On wheezy testing how can the screen output be logged. There seem to to be a bit problem with some missing modules. Too fast can not read it. The OS is running fine. I am actually impressed. My samsung scx-4624f was installed in seconds after switch on and connected to PC. On other

Re: howto log screen output while booting

2012-03-07 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:38:24 +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote: On wheezy testing how can the screen output be logged. There seem to to be a bit problem with some missing modules. Too fast can not read it. (...) Boot logs go under /var/log/messages and /var/log/boot (should bootlodg has been

Re: howto log screen output while booting

2012-03-07 Thread Johan Scheepers
On 07/03/2012 14:51, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:38:24 +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote: On wheezy testing how can the screen output be logged. There seem to to be a bit problem with some missing modules. Too fast can not read it. (...) Boot logs go under /var/log/messages and

Re: howto log screen output while booting

2012-03-07 Thread hvw59601
Johan Scheepers wrote: On 07/03/2012 14:51, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:38:24 +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote: On wheezy testing how can the screen output be logged. There seem to to be a bit problem with some missing modules. Too fast can not read it. (...) Boot logs go under

Re: howto log screen output while booting

2012-03-07 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 08:13:50 -0600, hvw59601 wrote: Johan Scheepers wrote: On 07/03/2012 14:51, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:38:24 +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote: On wheezy testing how can the screen output be logged. There seem to to be a bit problem with some missing modules.

Re: howto log screen output while booting

2012-03-07 Thread Wayne Topa
On 03/07/2012 09:13 AM, hvw59601 wrote: Johan Scheepers wrote: On 07/03/2012 14:51, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:38:24 +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote: On wheezy testing how can the screen output be logged. There seem to to be a bit problem with some missing modules. Too fast can not

Re: howto log screen output while booting

2012-03-07 Thread Johan Scheepers
On 07/03/2012 16:34, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 08:13:50 -0600, hvw59601 wrote: Johan Scheepers wrote: On 07/03/2012 14:51, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:38:24 +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote: On wheezy testing how can the screen output be logged. There seem to to be a

Re: howto log screen output while booting

2012-03-07 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 20:31:02 +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote: On 07/03/2012 16:34, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 08:13:50 -0600, hvw59601 wrote: Johan Scheepers wrote: On 07/03/2012 14:51, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:38:24 +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote: On wheezy testing

Re: howto log screen output while booting

2012-03-07 Thread Wayne Topa
On 03/07/2012 11:34 AM, Wayne Topa wrote: On 03/07/2012 09:13 AM, hvw59601 wrote: Johan Scheepers wrote: On 07/03/2012 14:51, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:38:24 +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote: On wheezy testing how can the screen output be logged. There seem to to be a bit problem

Re: howto log screen output while booting

2012-03-07 Thread Johan Scheepers
On 07/03/2012 21:52, Wayne Topa wrote: On 03/07/2012 11:34 AM, Wayne Topa wrote: On 03/07/2012 09:13 AM, hvw59601 wrote: Johan Scheepers wrote: On 07/03/2012 14:51, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:38:24 +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote: On wheezy testing how can the screen output be

USB keyboard is not detected when debian-DVD booting starts

2012-03-02 Thread ramasamy t
Hi I have a problem with usb-keyboard while installing the debian squeeze. I mean the key board is not detected after DVD booting starts, so the screen keeps waiting for input from user to press 'install' in the first GUI that appears from DVD I am trying to install debian squeeze using debian

Re: USB keyboard is not detected when debian-DVD booting starts

2012-03-02 Thread Bob Proulx
ramasamy t wrote: I have a problem with usb-keyboard while installing the debian squeeze. I mean the key board is not detected after DVD booting starts, so the screen keeps waiting for input from user to press 'install' in the first GUI that appears from DVD I am trying to install debian

Re: USB keyboard is not detected when debian-DVD booting starts

2012-03-02 Thread ramasamy t
this message useful. thanks Bob. -- Ram. On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 1:40 AM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: ramasamy t wrote: I have a problem with usb-keyboard while installing the debian squeeze. I mean the key board is not detected after DVD booting starts, so the screen keeps waiting for input

booting in squeeze not automatic

2012-02-28 Thread Filipe Freire
Dear All I recently installed debian squeeze on a new 64-bit pc. All seemed fine except that booting was not processing automatically. Always had to manually select the device from the BIOS - probably a bug. I have a single partition. After checking the partition with fdisk verified

Re: booting in squeeze not automatic

2012-02-28 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:29:11 +0100, Filipe Freire wrote: Dear All Hi. Please, no html formatted messages :-) I recently installed debian squeeze on a new 64-bit pc. All seemed fine except that booting was not processing automatically. Can you expand this? When you turn on the PC, what

Re: Re: backtrack iso booting from grub2

2012-02-19 Thread donatom
I got backtrack 5 iso to boot on multiboot grub2 usb drive. I got the info from a backtrack help forum. This trick is to extract the casper directory, placing it in the root of the usb drive (not in any other directory). My menuentry is as follows: menuentry BackTrack 5 32 bit { linux

Re: backtrack iso booting from grub2

2012-02-14 Thread Don deJuan
On 02/13/2012 08:40 PM, J. Bakshi wrote: Dear list, I have live usb system where I already have debian, puppy, ubuntu etc. I like to boot backtrack iso from this usb drive. Here is the entry for BT5 I have added at grub.cfg ``` menuentry BT-5 { loopback loop

backtrack iso booting from grub2

2012-02-13 Thread J. Bakshi
Dear list, I have live usb system where I already have debian, puppy, ubuntu etc. I like to boot backtrack iso from this usb drive. Here is the entry for BT5 I have added at grub.cfg ``` menuentry BT-5 { loopback loop /BT5-KDE-64.iso linux (loop)/casper/vmlinuz

Re: [solved] Re: Unable to boot into CompactFlash card - card not found by initrd (BIOS does not support CF booting)

2012-01-23 Thread Scott Ferguson
modules, add them to GRUB, then insmod them as part of the CF card menu entry. Only worth it if you had a few different CF cards and didn't want to modify the initrd for them (if you also used them on other machines which BIOS supported CF booting) snipped Michael Thanks for posting the method you

Re: booting Debian-6 in run level 3

2012-01-14 Thread Curt
On 2012-01-13, Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: Just comparing the contents of /etc/rc1.d/ and /etc/rc2.d/ should give=20 you a few hints. Well, quite a few things are dead in runlevel one that are alive in runlevel two, including the network (I said one was a subset of two).

booting Debian-6 in run level 3

2012-01-13 Thread Bijoy Lobo
Hi Everyone, I have read online that Debian Squeeze has no differentiation in runlevels from 2-5, although I would like to boot my debian box in CLI mode. Any way I can achieve this? -- Thanks and Regards Bijoy Lobo

Re: booting Debian-6 in run level 3

2012-01-13 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 5:51 AM, Bijoy Lobo bijoy.l...@paladion.net wrote: I have read online that Debian Squeeze has no differentiation in runlevels from 2-5, although I would like to boot my debian box in CLI mode. You can add text to the linux grub line. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: booting Debian-6 in run level 3

2012-01-13 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 04:21:11PM +0530, Bijoy Lobo wrote: Hi Everyone, I have read online that Debian Squeeze has no differentiation in runlevels from 2-5, although I would like to boot my debian box in CLI mode. Any way I can achieve this? Out of the box, this is true, but it

Re: booting Debian-6 in run level 3

2012-01-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 13 ian 12, 07:06:12, Tom H wrote: On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 5:51 AM, Bijoy Lobo bijoy.l...@paladion.net wrote: I have read online that Debian Squeeze has no differentiation in runlevels from 2-5, although I would like to boot my debian box in CLI mode. You can add text to the linux

Re: booting Debian-6 in run level 3

2012-01-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 13 ian 12, 12:13:52, Darac Marjal wrote: On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 04:21:11PM +0530, Bijoy Lobo wrote: Hi Everyone, I have read online that Debian Squeeze has no differentiation in runlevels from 2-5, although I would like to boot my debian box in CLI mode. Any way

Re: booting Debian-6 in run level 3

2012-01-13 Thread Brian
On Fri 13 Jan 2012 at 16:21:11 +0530, Bijoy Lobo wrote: I have read online that Debian Squeeze has no differentiation in runlevels from 2-5, although I would like to boot my debian box in CLI mode. Any way I can achieve this? Your box already boots in CLI mode, it's just that you don't

Re: booting Debian-6 in run level 3

2012-01-13 Thread Brian
On Fri 13 Jan 2012 at 15:23:33 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Vi, 13 ian 12, 07:06:12, Tom H wrote: You can add text to the linux grub line. Do you have a reference on this? It is the first time I hear about it in 5+ years of Debian. /etc/init.d/gdm3 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: booting Debian-6 in run level 3

2012-01-13 Thread Don Juan
On 01/13/2012 05:27 AM, Brian wrote: On Fri 13 Jan 2012 at 15:23:33 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Vi, 13 ian 12, 07:06:12, Tom H wrote: You can add text to the linux grub line. Do you have a reference on this? It is the first time I hear about it in 5+ years of Debian. /etc/init.d/gdm3

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