Re: Installing lilo in Squeeze after booting from the Lenny installer CD.

2010-02-02 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-02-02 22:13:01, Stephen Powell wrote: On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 20:48:46 -0500 (EST), PETER EASTHOPE wrote: How does this sound? * Boot from the Lenny installer CD and go into rescue mode. * In the page entitled Rescue operations do Execute a shell in /dev/hda1. (The system on /dev/hda1

Re: eeepc booting troubles

2010-01-29 Thread Mark
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 3:24 AM, Daniel Dalton d.dal...@iinet.net.auwrote: Hello everyone, I've got myself into quite a bit of trouble. Problem: My system no longer can boot windows and if I try booting debian it gives errors regarding the root file system. Here is what I did: I

eeepc booting troubles

2010-01-28 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hello everyone, I've got myself into quite a bit of trouble. Problem: My system no longer can boot windows and if I try booting debian it gives errors regarding the root file system. Here is what I did: I booted windows for the first time with no problems, so then booted a livecd off my usb

dependency-based booting

2009-12-20 Thread Rick Pasotto
I tried updating sysv-rc today and have cleaned up most of the problems that were preventing the update. The following packages still lack LSB-Init information: libdevmapper1.02 webmin dhcp None of these is listed on http://lintian.debian.org/reports/Tinit.d-script-missing-lsb-section.html How

Re: Slow booting

2009-11-11 Thread Kamil Kułaga
I still do not know what is happening between module init and swap activation. But i think debconf tries to give me a clue info: Checking if it is safe to convert to dependency based boot. error: Unable to migrate to dependency based boot sequencing. error: Problems detected: insserv:

Re: Slow booting

2009-11-11 Thread Kamil Kułaga
Switching to dependency based didn't help [ 28.776007] input: HDA Digital PCBeep as /devices/pci:00/:00:1b.0/input/input9 [ 119.416005] Adding 6000268k swap on /dev/sda3. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:6000268k On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Kamil Kułaga teodoz...@gmail.com

Re: Slow booting

2009-11-11 Thread Kamil Kułaga
Sorry for multiple emails. It looks like udev i blocking boot sequence. 22K svg image attached. I have no idea how to speedup this. -- Pozdrawiam attachment: bootchart.svgz

Re: Slow booting

2009-11-11 Thread ludovico van
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Kamil Kułaga teodoz...@gmail.com wrote: It looks like udev i blocking boot sequence. 22K svg image attached. I have no idea how to speedup this. Do you get something like udev: missing sysfs features; please update the kernel or disable the kernel's

Re: Slow booting

2009-11-11 Thread Kamil Kułaga
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 2:22 PM, ludovico van ludovicova...@gmail.com wrote: Do you get something like udev: missing sysfs features; please update the kernel or disable the kernel's CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED option; udev may fail to work correctly in your boot messages or logs? No. I use

Re: Slow booting

2009-11-07 Thread Kamil Kułaga
2009/11/6 Kevin Buhr buhr+deb...@asaurus.net: Since this is at odds with what Kamil reported in his dmesg.txt (where he was swapping on /dev/sda3), either (1) I'm wrong about the kernel code, and it's something else that's sucking up all the time for both swap partitions and files, (2) Kamil's

Problem booting Debian after installing Ubuntu 9.10

2009-11-06 Thread Dimple Patel
help solve this problem?  Or do i need to do a fresh install of Debian again?  And if I do, will there be any problem booting into Ubuntu 9.10 after that? Regards, Dimple. Regards, Dimple Patel, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Library Information Science, Osmania University, Hyderabad. (http

Re: Problem booting Debian after installing Ubuntu 9.10

2009-11-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
error: You need to load the kernel first. Can anyone help solve this problem?  Or do i need to do a fresh install of Debian again?  And if I do, will there be any problem booting into Ubuntu 9.10 after that? There is no need to reinstall. First you need to choose which OS should manage your

Re: Slow booting

2009-11-06 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Kevin Buhr wrote: Kamil Kułaga teodoz...@gmail.com writes: After init of soundcard and before swap activation i have 90 seconds hole. Is it normal? Can I configure kernel to somewhat avoid this? Unfortunately, I think adding a large swap partition (yours is 6GB) can be a slow

Re: Problem booting Debian after installing Ubuntu 9.10

2009-11-06 Thread Chris Jones
sensible (hd0,5). Assuming you know which partition is your debian's root, you could verify this outlandish speculation of mine by booting to the grub menu, moving the cursor to the debian entry, hitting 'e', and checking the partition specified by the 'set root=' statement. If it's pointing

Re: Slow booting

2009-11-05 Thread Kevin Buhr
Kamil Kułaga teodoz...@gmail.com writes: After init of soundcard and before swap activation i have 90 seconds hole. Is it normal? Can I configure kernel to somewhat avoid this? Unfortunately, I think adding a large swap partition (yours is 6GB) can be a slow operation under Linux. Google for

SOLVED! was Re: Further to fast booting for a debian system - changing getty to rungetty

2009-10-09 Thread Lisi
For the archive this is how I did it: install rungetty edit inittab: change getty to rungetty and remove baud rate to the tty1 line, add 1 and --autologin like so: 1:12345:respawn:/sbin/rungetty tty1 --autologin user edit ~/.bash_profile (if it doesn't exist, create it) add startx

Re: SOLVED! was Re: Further to fast booting for a debian system - changing getty to rungetty

2009-10-09 Thread Michael Wagner
* Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com 09.10.2009 For the archive this is how I did it: install rungetty edit inittab: change getty to rungetty and remove baud rate to the tty1 line, add 1 and --autologin like so: 1:12345:respawn:/sbin/rungetty tty1 --autologin user edit ~/.bash_profile (if

Re: SOLVED! was Re: Further to fast booting for a debian system - changing getty to rungetty

2009-10-09 Thread Lisi
On Friday 09 October 2009 17:45:28 Michael Wagner wrote: * Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com 09.10.2009 For the archive this is how I did it: [snip] Hello Lisi, Hello Michael, much work for such an easy task. 'rungetty' is in my opinion good for autologin in the console. For the autostart of a

Further to fast booting for a debian system - changing getty to rungetty

2009-10-08 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 29 September 2009 22:47:39 Kevin Ross wrote: change your getty to rungetty I have been trying to do this ever since. I have Googled, tried various things but am completely stuck. I set up a trial Lenny and IceWM system on my laptop. I then installed rungetty. I next edited

Re: Further to fast booting for a debian system - changing getty to rungetty

2009-10-08 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 16:21:55 +0100 Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 29 September 2009 22:47:39 Kevin Ross wrote: change your getty to rungetty I have been trying to do this ever since. I have Googled, tried various things but am completely stuck. I set up a trial Lenny and

Re: Further to fast booting for a debian system - changing getty to rungetty

2009-10-08 Thread Lisi
Thanks, Celejar On Thursday 08 October 2009 17:44:15 Celejar wrote: On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 16:21:55 +0100 Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 29 September 2009 22:47:39 Kevin Ross wrote: change your getty to rungetty I have been trying to do this ever since. I have Googled, tried

Re: Further to fast booting for a debian system - changing getty to rungetty

2009-10-08 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 18:51:21 +0100 Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Celejar On Thursday 08 October 2009 17:44:15 Celejar wrote: On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 16:21:55 +0100 Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 29 September 2009 22:47:39 Kevin Ross wrote: change your getty to

Re: Further to fast booting for a debian system - changing getty to rungetty

2009-10-08 Thread Mike Castle
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: *So - how do I change my getty to rungetty?* rungetty takes a different set of command line options than getty. From reading the man page, it looks like you only need one argument: the tty. This doesn't seem too surprising since

Re: Further to fast booting for a debian system - changing getty to rungetty

2009-10-08 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 08 October 2009 19:16:17 Celejar wrote: On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 18:51:21 +0100 Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 08 October 2009 17:44:15 Celejar wrote: On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 16:21:55 +0100 Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 29 September 2009 22:47:39 Kevin

Re: Suggestions for desktop manager: [was Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system]

2009-09-30 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 05:20:06PM -0500, Preston Boyington wrote: Kevin Ross wrote: snipped If you want auto-login, and fast startup with minimal dependencies, then skip the display manager, change your getty to rungetty and configure it to autologin, and add startx to your

Suggestions for desktop manager: [was Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system]

2009-09-29 Thread Lisi
On Monday 31 August 2009 23:43:56 Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 31 August 2009 15:59:08 Lisi Reisz wrote: ***I would be very grateful for help in speeding up the boot process, and suggestions for a suitable DE or WM.*** Thanks very much for the advice and suggestions so far. Much

RE: Suggestions for desktop manager: [was Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system]

2009-09-29 Thread Kevin Ross
From: Lisi [mailto:lisi.re...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 2:32 PM On Monday 31 August 2009 23:43:56 Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 31 August 2009 15:59:08 Lisi Reisz wrote: ***I would be very grateful for help in speeding up the boot process, and suggestions for a

Re: Suggestions for desktop manager: [was Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system]

2009-09-29 Thread Preston Boyington
Kevin Ross wrote: snipped If you want auto-login, and fast startup with minimal dependencies, then skip the display manager, change your getty to rungetty and configure it to autologin, and add startx to your ~/.bash_profile. Then of course you put whatever window manager you want into

Re: Suggestions for desktop manager: [was Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system]

2009-09-29 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 29 September 2009 23:20:06 Preston Boyington wrote: Kevin Ross wrote: snipped If you want auto-login, and fast startup with minimal dependencies, then skip the display manager, change your getty to rungetty and configure it to autologin, and add startx to your ~/.bash_profile.

Re: Suggestions for desktop manager: [was Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system]

2009-09-29 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 05:20:06PM -0500, Preston Boyington wrote: Kevin Ross wrote: snipped If you want auto-login, and fast startup with minimal dependencies, then skip the display manager, change your getty to rungetty and configure it to autologin, and add startx to your

Re: Suggestions for desktop manager: [was Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system]

2009-09-29 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 29 September 2009 23:20:06 Preston Boyington wrote: Kevin Ross wrote: snipped If you want auto-login, and fast startup with minimal dependencies, then skip the display manager, change your getty to rungetty and

pxe booting problem

2009-09-14 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi, I tried to install debian via PXE. following the doc, I install netboot.tar.gz which contains pxe file. I configured the dhcpd.conf here is relevant part : host 00016CB3066E{ # MAC hardware ethernet 00:01:6C:B3:06:6E; fixed-address172.19.6.224; server-name

Re: pxe booting problem

2009-09-14 Thread Axel Freyn
Hi, I tried to install debian via PXE. following the doc, I install netboot.tar.gz which contains pxe file. I configured the dhcpd.conf here is relevant part : host 00016CB3066E{ # MAC hardware ethernet 00:01:6C:B3:06:6E; fixed-address172.19.6.224; server-name

Re: pxe booting problem

2009-09-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 12:53:31PM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: Hi, I tried to install debian via PXE. following the doc, I install netboot.tar.gz which contains pxe file. I configured the dhcpd.conf here is relevant part : host 00016CB3066E{ # MAC hardware ethernet

Re: pxe booting problem

2009-09-14 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 12:53:31PM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: Hi, I tried to install debian via PXE. following the doc, I install netboot.tar.gz which contains pxe file. I configured the dhcpd.conf here is relevant part : host 00016CB3066E{ # MAC hardware ethernet

Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system

2009-09-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,05.Sep.09, 13:44:01, John Fry wrote: Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com writes: As for speeding up the bootprocess: # aptitude install dash # dpkg-reconfigure dash # let it take over the /bin/sh link That saved me 1s. # aptitude install insserv # dpkg-reconfigure

Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system

2009-09-06 Thread Cousin Stanley
As for speeding up the bootprocess: # aptitude install dash # dpkg-reconfigure dash # let it take over the /bin/sh link # aptitude install insserv # dpkg-reconfigure insserv # echo CONCURRENCY=shell /etc/default/rcS Andrei After applying the method you outlined above along

Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system

2009-09-05 Thread John Fry
Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com writes: As for speeding up the bootprocess: # aptitude install dash # dpkg-reconfigure dash # let it take over the /bin/sh link That saved me 1s. # aptitude install insserv # dpkg-reconfigure insserv That *cost* me 2s (i.e., 2s longer to boot). #

Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system

2009-09-04 Thread Charles Kroeger
I used to run IceWm...but recently I have become a convert to Fluxbox. It's even lighter than Icewm...and I think more versatile but I might as well weigh in here in the spirit of Debian and just say that I've never used Ice but I have used Fluxbox for a time after using Blackbox and thought

Re: Poisoning the SPAMFILTER [WAS: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system]

2009-09-03 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
09/01/2009 06:51 PM, Michelle Konzack:: Hey Chris, can you stop poisoning the spamfilters please? By the way, He is using one of our domain name: malagasy.com. http://whois.domaintools.com/malagasy.com Blueline is owned by Gulfsat. -- Architecte Informatique chez Blueline/Gulfsat:

Re: Poisoning the SPAMFILTER [WAS: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system]

2009-09-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 11:18:46AM +0300, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: 09/01/2009 06:51 PM, Michelle Konzack:: Hey Chris, can you stop poisoning the spamfilters please? By the way, He is using one of our domain name: malagasy.com. http://whois.domaintools.com/malagasy.com Blueline is

Re: Poisoning the SPAMFILTER [WAS: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system]

2009-09-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 05:51:25PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: Hey Chris, can you stop poisoning the spamfilters please? You are using an invalid E-Mail address and now the whole thread is going into the spamassassin folder oops, sorry. /etc/postfix/generic fault, or /etc/hosts not

Re: Poisoning the SPAMFILTER [WAS: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system]

2009-09-02 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hi Ron, Am 2009-09-01 20:31:30, schrieb Ron Johnson: Your SA rules are too strict. No, I get per day several 100 such messages on my mailservers... 99.99% spam, except the ones from Chris. And of course, all 4-8 days I get a loveletter from list.debian.org that my Server is bouncing, but if

Re: Poisoning the SPAMFILTER [WAS: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system]

2009-09-02 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Chris, Am 2009-09-02 21:10:44, schrieb Chris Bannister: oops, sorry. /etc/postfix/generic fault, or /etc/hosts not sure. Hopefully, fixed. ;-) Shit happen... Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Poisoning the SPAMFILTER [WAS: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system]

2009-09-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,02.Sep.09, 11:19:59, Michelle Konzack wrote: And of course, all 4-8 days I get a loveletter from list.debian.org that my Server is bouncing, but if I look into the bouncemessage, it is ALWAYS 100% spam... If you would whitelist liszt.debian.org and *then* pass the mails through

Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system

2009-09-02 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 09:28:36 +0300 Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon,31.Aug.09, 18:56:48, Celejar wrote: a) I've seen some references to doing it in /etc/default/rcS as you have it, and some in /etc/init.d/rc. On my Sid install, the standard /etc/default/rcS has no

Re: Poisoning the SPAMFILTER [WAS: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system]

2009-09-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 11:21:04AM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: Hello Chris, Am 2009-09-02 21:10:44, schrieb Chris Bannister: oops, sorry. /etc/postfix/generic fault, or /etc/hosts not sure. Hopefully, fixed. ;-) Shit happen... Couldn't you trim your sig for this mailing list? 15

Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system

2009-09-02 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 09:28:36 +0300 Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: ... /etc/init.d/rc is not a conffile so it will get overwritten on upgrades without any prompt. As /etc/default/rcS is sourced later on Are you sure that this is right? From section 10.7 of the Debian Policy

Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system

2009-09-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,31.Aug.09, 18:56:48, Celejar wrote: a) I've seen some references to doing it in /etc/default/rcS as you have it, and some in /etc/init.d/rc. On my Sid install, the standard /etc/default/rcS has no concurrency variable in it, while the one under init.d has it set to none. Which is

Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system

2009-09-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 06:46:36PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: As for speeding up the bootprocess: # aptitude install dash # dpkg-reconfigure dash # let it take over the /bin/sh link # aptitude install insserv apt-cache show insserv [..] This package should be used with care, as incorrect

Poisoning the SPAMFILTER [WAS: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system]

2009-09-01 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hey Chris, can you stop poisoning the spamfilters please? You are using an invalid E-Mail address and now the whole thread is going into the spamassassin folder Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system

2009-09-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,02.Sep.09, 03:44:50, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 06:46:36PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: As for speeding up the bootprocess: # aptitude install dash # dpkg-reconfigure dash # let it take over the /bin/sh link # aptitude install insserv apt-cache show

Re: Poisoning the SPAMFILTER [WAS: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system]

2009-09-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-09-01 10:51, Michelle Konzack wrote: Hey Chris, can you stop poisoning the spamfilters please? You are using an invalid E-Mail address and now the whole thread is going into the spamassassin folder Your SA rules are too strict. -- Brawndo's got what plants crave. It's got

Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system

2009-08-31 Thread Lisi Reisz
My husband's box is currently running PCLinuxOS 2009. A dying HDD necessitates a fresh istallation. ***I would be very grateful for help in speeding up the boot process, and suggestions for a suitable DE or WM.*** He finds the PCLOS very slow to boot up after the Libranet that he had

Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system

2009-08-31 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:59:08 +0100 Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: ***I would be very grateful for help in speeding up the boot process, and suggestions for a suitable DE or WM.*** TIA Lisi I can't help with the boot process but, if he is used to Libranet Linux (!!! really? How

Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system

2009-08-31 Thread randall
Lisi Reisz wrote: My husband's box is currently running PCLinuxOS 2009. A dying HDD necessitates a fresh istallation. ***I would be very grateful for help in speeding up the boot process, and suggestions for a suitable DE or WM.*** i hate to say this on a debian list ;) but i was

Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system

2009-08-31 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,31.Aug.09, 15:59:08, Lisi Reisz wrote: My husband's box is currently running PCLinuxOS 2009. A dying HDD necessitates a fresh istallation. ***I would be very grateful for help in speeding up the boot process, and suggestions for a suitable DE or WM.*** I'm running Xfce 4.6 from

Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system

2009-08-31 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 03:59:08PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: ***I would be very grateful for help in speeding up the boot process, and suggestions for a suitable DE or WM.*** Depending on the hardware / driver bugs and your specific needs, suspend-to-disk might be an option as well. The

Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system

2009-08-31 Thread Preston Boyington
Lisi Reisz wrote: snipped XFCE is currently looking like the front runner, but I fear that it may be en route to getting bloated. Opinions, please. well, it's going to be a little bit of a trade off since I'm seeing more GNOME libs and such. still it will be faster and less bloated than

Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system

2009-08-31 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 31 August 2009 16:18:16 Cybe R. Wizard wrote: On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:59:08 +0100 Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: ***I would be very grateful for help in speeding up the boot process, and suggestions for a suitable DE or WM.*** TIA Lisi I can't help with the boot

Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system

2009-08-31 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 31 August 2009 15:59:08 Lisi Reisz wrote: ***I would be very grateful for help in speeding up the boot process, and suggestions for a suitable DE or WM.*** Thanks very much for the advice and suggestions so far. Much appreciated. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system

2009-08-31 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:46:36 +0300 Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: ... As for speeding up the bootprocess: ... # echo CONCURRENCY=shell /etc/default/rcS I've seen this stuff floating around the web, but it doesn't seem to be documented very well: a) I've seen some

Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system

2009-08-31 Thread Charles
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:42:27 +0100 Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 31 August 2009 16:18:16 Cybe R. Wizard wrote: On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:59:08 +0100 Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: ***I would be very grateful for help

Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system

2009-08-31 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
08/31/2009 05:59 PM, Lisi Reisz: The details of the desktop are unimportant, [...] XFCE is currently looking like the front runner, but I fear that it may be en route to getting bloated. Opinions, please. [...] I am trying to speed things up. I have no old machine, but yes XFCE is more and

Re: Problems booting installation CDs

2009-08-23 Thread Felix Zielcke
is a few lines from the bottom of the screen. Other Linux distros (Ubuntu, Knoppix) have problems booting too. The strange thing is, Windows boots just fine, and I get the same error booting Debian's CD in Virtualbox. I am running: Mobo: Biostar TA770 A2+ SE Add nopat to the boot options

Problems booting installation CDs

2009-08-22 Thread Isaac Freeman
) have problems booting too. The strange thing is, Windows boots just fine, and I get the same error booting Debian's CD in Virtualbox. I am running: Mobo: Biostar TA770 A2+ SE -- Isaac Freeman memotype (at) gmail.com The diversity of mankind is a basic postulate of our knowledge of human

Re: Booting 5 OSes? Is this possible?

2009-06-30 Thread Dirk Neumann
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:33:29 -0400 Zachary Uram net...@gmail.com wrote: I wish to setup on the same hard disk (500GB): Ubuntu 9.04 (64 bit) Debian 5.01 (64 bit) MS Windows Vista Home Premium (64 bit) MS Windows 98 (32 bit) MS Windows XP (32 bit) I want to allocate 50GB for each. 5)

Re: Booting 5 OSes? Is this possible?

2009-06-30 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Zachary Uram wrote: I wish to setup on the same hard disk (500GB): Ubuntu 9.04 (64 bit) Debian 5.01 (64 bit) MS Windows Vista Home Premium (64 bit) MS Windows 98 (32 bit) MS Windows XP (32 bit) Make sure you install Win98 first, then XP, then Vista, then install the first Linux grub to the

Booting 5 OSes? Is this possible?

2009-06-29 Thread Zachary Uram
I wish to setup on the same hard disk (500GB): Ubuntu 9.04 (64 bit) Debian 5.01 (64 bit) MS Windows Vista Home Premium (64 bit) MS Windows 98 (32 bit) MS Windows XP (32 bit) I want to allocate 50GB for each. 1) Is this possible? 2) How do I setup grub (or lilo) to do this? 3) What order do I

Re: Booting 5 OSes? Is this possible?

2009-06-29 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Tuesday 30 June 2009 05:33:29 Zachary Uram wrote: I wish to setup on the same hard disk (500GB): Ubuntu 9.04 (64 bit) Debian 5.01 (64 bit) MS Windows Vista Home Premium (64 bit) MS Windows 98 (32 bit) MS Windows XP (32 bit) I want to allocate 50GB for each. 1) Is this possible? 2)

Re: Booting into Lenny from Etch (was: Problems installing Lenny's Grub boot loader to a partition)

2009-06-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,01.Jun.09, 22:19:55, Rodolfo Medina wrote: To say it more simply, the problem is that I can't boot into my Lenny partition from my Etch partition, whose Grub boot loader is installed to the mbr. Did you add an entry for Lenny in the menu.lst of Etch? If you have grub installed on

Re: Booting into Lenny from Etch

2009-06-02 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On Mon,01.Jun.09, 22:19:55, Rodolfo Medina wrote: [...] I can't boot into my Lenny partition from my Etch partition, whose Grub boot loader is installed to the mbr. Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com writes: Did you add an entry for Lenny in the menu.lst of Etch? If you have grub

Re: Booting into Lenny from Etch

2009-06-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,02.Jun.09, 15:11:03, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Of course I did. I copied the Lenny entry from Lenny's menu.lst: Ok, next I'd try booting by hand. That is, instead of letting grub (try to) do it's magic get a grub command line (I think you need to press 'c') and run those commands by hand

Re: Booting into Lenny from Etch (was: Problems installing Lenny's Grub boot loader to a partition)

2009-06-01 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina rodolfo.med...@gmail.com writes: On my PC I have many different partitions. With Etch, I've never had problems installing the Grub boot loader to a partition at my pleasure and not to the master boot record. Today I installed Lenny for the first time, from a DVD set bought

BUG: Problem while booting Debian with LVDS connector instead of VGA

2009-05-29 Thread User Debian
Hello, I have a problem that I meet each time I boot Linux on an embedded computer. Configuration: Embedded PC : ECM-LX800 Screen: LVDS (and not VGA) Linux: Debian ETCH version 2.6.18-6-686 The problem comes after GRUB gives the instruction on which partition to boot, BUT before that Linux

System suspend to ram when booting or trying to resume

2009-05-28 Thread Guillaume de Rorthais
Hi, I've got a problem with the suspend to ram under SID, kernel 2.6.29 under a macbook 2,1. When booting, the system suspend directly. Then, when trying to resume it, it go back to sleep instantly. This suspend happen a second after init start launching the rc scripts. I removed the acpi

Re: μηνύματα kernel στο booting

2009-05-26 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Με έχει σκάσει αυτό το πράγμα με τα kernel logs στην κονσόλα κατά το boot... Θα κάνω μια τελευταία προσπάθεια μπας και κανένας βρεί τι συμβαίνει: Αυτό που βλέπω κατά το boot είναι: http://imagebin.ca/view/vo6Bs4F.html Μετά, δίνοντας dmesg βλέπω το εξής: ... ... [4.340984] input:

Re: μηνύματα kernel στο booting

2009-05-25 Thread Sotirio Kontogianni
- Μήνυμα από gp...@ccf.auth.gr - Ημερομηνία: Sat, 23 May 2009 00:18:53 +0300 Από: Γιώργος Πάλλας gp...@ccf.auth.gr Θέμα: Re: μηνύματα kernel στο booting Προς: Famelis George fame...@gmail.com Κοινοποίηση: debian-user-greek@lists.debian.org

Re: μηνύματα kernel στο booting

2009-05-22 Thread Christos Ricudis
Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: , στη δική μου κονσόλα υπάρχουν διάσπαρτα μηνύματα του kernel όπως αυτά: May 21 21:23:07 mordor kernel: [ 21.542394] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds May 21 21:23:07 mordor kernel: [ 21.566753] EXT3 FS on hda2, internal journal Αντίθετα, σε άλλα

Re: μηνύματα kernel στο booting

2009-05-22 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Famelis George wrote: Το ποια μηνύματα πηγαίνουν που, και επομένως και το τι εμφανίζονται στην κονσολα είναι θέμα του syslogd και καθορίζεται στο /etc/syslog.conf του κάθε συστήματος. Τα μηνύματα που παίρνεις φαίνονται να είναι από τον kernel, κοίτα λοιπόν τις γραμμές του /etc/syslog.conf που

μηνύματα kernel στο booting

2009-05-21 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Καλησπέρα! Εχω το εξής πρόβλημα: Παρόλο που έχω το option quiet στο grub, ο kernel βγάζει τα μηνύματά του την ώρα που bootάρει, όμως όχι όλα. Λεπτομέρειες: title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-686 root(hd0,1) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686

Re: Stuck at Setting system clock when booting

2009-05-16 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hi, On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 09:07 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: Using: Lenny i386 The only way I can bypass this is to go single user mode and pressing Ctrl+d, any other way to get rid of this problem? I suspect it's a problem specific to your RTC clock. What's your hardware (or

Stuck at Setting system clock when booting

2009-05-15 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
Using: Lenny i386 The only way I can bypass this is to go single user mode and pressing Ctrl+d, any other way to get rid of this problem? -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://gameornot.net

Problem while booting Debian with LVDS connector instead of VGA

2009-05-12 Thread User Debian
Hello, I have a problem that I meet each time I boot Linux on an embedded computer. Configuration: Embedded PC : ECM-LX800 Screen: LVDS (and not VGA) Linux: Debian ETCH version 2.6.18-6-686 The problem comes after GRUB gives the instruction on which partition to boot, BUT before that Linux

BUG: Problem while booting Debian with LVDS connector instead of VGA

2009-05-05 Thread User Debian
Hello, I have a problem that I meet each time I boot Linux on an embedded computer. Configuration: Embedded PC : ECM-LX800 Screen: LVDS (and not VGA) Linux: Debian ETCH version 2.6.18-6-686 The problem comes after GRUB gives the instruction on which partition to boot, BUT before that Linux

Re: BUG: Problem while booting Debian with LVDS connector instead of VGA

2009-05-05 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, I do not if it is related but just in case. With some MacMini, at least old ones, this issue exists as well: this is not a linux issue but a bootcamp issue. hth, Jerome User Debian wrote: Hello, I have a problem that I meet each time I boot Linux on an embedded computer.

BUG: Problem while booting Debian with LDVS connector instead of VGA

2009-05-04 Thread User Debian
Hello, I have a problem that I meet each time I boot Linux on an embedded computer. Configuration: Embedded PC : ECM-LX800 Screen: LVDS (and not VGA) Linux: Debian ETCH version 2.6.18-6-686 The problem comes after GRUB gives the instruction on which partition to boot, BUT before that Linux

Re: GRUB Error 18 booting lenny

2009-04-17 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Troubleshooting.html#Troubleshooting says: 18 : Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS This error is returned when a read is attempted at a linear block address beyond the end of the BIOS translated

help with seg fault in aptitude and booting xen

2009-04-17 Thread whollygoat
This is a recently installed firewalling router/gateway running Lenny. For two or three days it has been running for long periods with no interruptions in connectivity or with booting. p3 500Mhz slot 1 seanix columbia sx mobo i440bx chipset Today it suddenly died in the middle of my web

GRUB Error 18 booting lenny

2009-04-16 Thread Vwaju
I have a Dell Dimension 4100 and brand spanking new 250 GB 1 ATA/100 8MB 16MB 7200RP HDD. The 4100 is from 2001, and the BIOS version listed in setup is A06. I installed lenny. At Software Selection I chose Mail Server. When the installation was completed, and I rebooted. Then I decided to

Re: GRUB Error 18 booting lenny

2009-04-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Vwaju wrote: I have a Dell Dimension 4100 and brand spanking new 250 GB 1 ATA/100 8MB 16MB 7200RP HDD. The 4100 is from 2001, and the BIOS version listed in setup is A06. I installed lenny. At Software Selection I chose Mail Server. When the installation was completed, and I rebooted. Then I

Re: GRUB Error 18 booting lenny

2009-04-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Vwaju wrote: I have a Dell Dimension 4100 and brand spanking new 250 GB 1 ATA/100 8MB 16MB 7200RP HDD. The 4100 is from 2001, and the BIOS version listed in setup is A06. I installed lenny. At Software Selection I chose Mail Server. When the installation was completed, and I rebooted. Then I

I can not run KDE - it simply hangs on booting when splash screen shows blinking HDD.

2009-04-12 Thread Sthu Deus
Good day. I can not run KDE - it simply hangs on booting when splash screen shows blinking HDD. I use therefore WM for now, but when I run KDE apps. I see long hanging before I actually see the apps. itself: kate (this one complains on mime/types), korhanizer, k3b, terminal-emu... If You have

Re: I can not run KDE - it simply hangs on booting when splash screen shows blinking HDD.

2009-04-12 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/4/13 Sthu Deus sthu.d...@gmail.com: Good day. I can not run KDE - it simply hangs on booting when splash screen shows blinking HDD. I use therefore WM for now, but when I run KDE apps. I see long hanging before I actually see the apps. itself: kate (this one complains on mime/types

Realtek 8101E net device unstable after cool booting Lenny

2009-04-10 Thread theOne
I am using le...@i686 with an onboard PCI Realtek 8101E network controller. Lenny modprobe r8169 for this device. After cool bootup (computer powered off and then power on), from time to time the network controller will give no response. However, in case of warm boot (OS reboot), it always

Re: Kernel issues: booting from USB storage (Repost)

2009-03-25 Thread green
Matthew Smith wrote at 2009-03-24 23:31 -0600: I am indeed using iwl3945 as I'm using kernel 2.6.26 for day-to-day operations. The main annoyance is that it makes the wireless light blink (before it was either on or off) which is going to require either tracking down how it does it and

Re: Kernel issues: booting from USB storage (Repost)

2009-03-25 Thread Matthew Smith
Quoth green at 2009-03-26 06:55... Try: echo none /sys/class/leds/iwl-phy0:RX/trigger echo none /sys/class/leds/iwl-phy0:TX/trigger Give at a minute or so... and if it works, then make it permanent with 2 lines in /etc/sysfs.conf: class/leds/iwl-phy0:RX/trigger = none

Re: Kernel issues: booting from USB storage (Repost)

2009-03-24 Thread green
Matthew Smith wrote at 2009-03-16 23:18 -0600: It even found my horrible Intel 3945ABG card which is usually a real pig to get to work. It didn't work - complaining about something which I intepreted as a missing firmware package; but it found it, which is quite amazing! This is

Re: Kernel issues: booting from USB storage (Repost)

2009-03-24 Thread Matthew Smith
Quoth green at 2009-03-25 14:26... This is off-topic for the thread, but I am happy with my 3945ABG: it works good with 2.6.26 (though I don't know about before that). I suppose you are using iwl3945 now; if you are not (are using ipw3945 and ipw3945d) be sure to try out iwl3945. Of course

Re: Kernel issues: booting from USB storage (Repost)

2009-03-16 Thread Matthew Smith
Quoth green at 2009-03-14 03:28... Also, you may want to try using the Debian linux-image-2.6.24 package¹. I think it corresponds to 2.6.24.7, so if it works you should be able to install linux-source-2.6.24², patch that source with the realtime patches, and then use make-kpkg in the

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