Re: HOW TO: Boot with the new kernel

2003-10-23 Thread Saqib Ali
Dali Check you /etc/lilo.conf, look for directive called "default" it should reference the linux kernel you want to boot from. (assuming you are using lilo and not grub). if you used up2date, then you dont need to change anythin. Saqib Ali - http://validate.sourceforge.net

Re: HOW TO: Boot with the new kernel

2003-10-23 Thread Jason Dixon
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 12:06, Dali Islam wrote: > I have loaded a new kernel. Now what do I need to > change so that when the system boots, it boot with the > new kernel? > > Can I run a script to do that. If so what can that be. It's even easier than a script (IMHO). You did

HOW TO: Boot with the new kernel

2003-10-23 Thread Dali Islam
I have loaded a new kernel. Now what do I need to change so that when the system boots, it boot with the new kernel? Can I run a script to do that. If so what can that be. __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http

Re: Re : Re:Severe problem (cannot boot) after upgrading glibc and glibc-common

2003-10-21 Thread Chris Purcell
- read > only file system > > > > I really hasn't a clue from where does this "read only file system" > error stems. > > So Still i cannot boot my RH 9 ; > what shall I do ? > > regards, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try using the --root option. rpm -Uv

Re : Re:Severe problem (cannot boot) after upgrading glibc and glibc-common

2003-10-20 Thread sting sting
only file system" error stems. So Still i cannot boot my RH 9 ; what shall I do ? regards, [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail -- redhat-l

Re: Severe problem (cannot boot) after upgrading glibc and glibc-common

2003-10-20 Thread Justin Banks
Chris Purcell wrote > I had this same problem a few weeks ago. I was able to fix it and wrote > an FAQ on it at tek-tips.com. > > http://www.tek-tips.com/gfaqs.cfm/lev2/3/lev3/20/pid/54/fid/4094 It's worth noting that the reason you had this problem is that you "upgraded" from the i686 glibc rpm

Re: Severe problem (cannot boot) after upgrading glibc and glibc-common

2003-10-20 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 08:33:05PM +0200, sting sting wrote: > I get the follwoing errors at start: > (befor reaching Login) > NIT:Id"1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes > INIT:Id"2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes > INIT:Id"3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes > IN

Re: Severe problem (cannot boot) after upgrading glibc and glibc-common

2003-10-20 Thread Chris Purcell
> Hello , > Help ! > I have severe problem (cannot boot) after upgrading glibc and > glibc-common on RedHat 9 ; > I had glibc-2.3.2-11.9.i686.rpm > I wanted to update to glibc-2.3.2-27.9.i386.rpm. > rpm -Uvh glibc-2.3.2-27.9.i386.rpm said it needs updated glibc-commo

Severe problem (cannot boot) after upgrading glibc and glibc-common

2003-10-20 Thread sting sting
Hello , Help ! I have severe problem (cannot boot) after upgrading glibc and glibc-common on RedHat 9 ; I had glibc-2.3.2-11.9.i686.rpm I wanted to update to glibc-2.3.2-27.9.i386.rpm. rpm -Uvh glibc-2.3.2-27.9.i386.rpm said it needs updated glibc-common. I had glibc-common-2.3.2-11.9.i386.rpm

Re: partition check error at boot time

2003-10-13 Thread Daniel Tan
if u use -Uvh, then if your new kernel installation is having problems, you will not be able to boot back to your previous kernel. using -U typically removes your old kernel files and install the new kernel files.will be installed even if the package is not install in the system using -F is

Re: partition check error at boot time

2003-10-13 Thread Earl C. Potter
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 01:44:40PM +0800, Daniel Tan wrote: > try installing kernels using -ivh instead of -Fvh next time > For us newbies, why wouldn't you use -Uvh? up2date seems to handle this stuff pretty gracefully, so I've not messed w/ just changing the kernel. Thanx, Earl -- redhat-

Re: partition check error at boot time

2003-10-12 Thread Daniel Tan
try installing kernels using -ivh instead of -Fvh next time - Original Message - From: "Allen Wayne Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Red Hat Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 7:47 AM Subject: partition check error at boot t

partition check error at boot time

2003-10-10 Thread Allen Wayne Best
6.rpm), i rebooted. now, a most mysterious thing is happening. during boot, i get the following message attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi 0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 sda Read Capacity Failed sda status = 1, message = 0, host 0, driver 08 current sd 00:00, sense key not ready Additional

Re: Symantec GHOST cloning dual-boot WinXP+RH9

2003-10-10 Thread bkrusic
Hi, I used GHost 7.5 with the sector copy enabled to clone a Win2K/RH9-SGI_XFS partitions via ethernet. The boot disk was easy to create so I would try v7.5. The copy took 1 hour for a 40GB drive via 100baseT. Bri- __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping

Re: Symantec GHOST cloning dual-boot WinXP+RH9

2003-10-09 Thread vijaya
Hi all, A question related to Symantec Ghost 7.0 , Could someone tell me how to create a boot disk i mean which option i chose to create an image of a OS with service packs and other softwares and store it on one location and then copy it over to a target machine.. How to go abt ? Thanks and

Re: Can boot from floppy but not from Hard Disk

2003-10-08 Thread Michael Mansour
--- Srini Amble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have loaded RH7.2 on dual Xeon server with Promise > RAID. I followed > the directions as given in the "Linux ATA RAID > HOWTO" for RH 7.2. > > When I try to boot off the Hard DIsk the kernel > hangs. T

Can boot from floppy but not from Hard Disk

2003-10-08 Thread Srini Amble
I have loaded RH7.2 on dual Xeon server with Promise RAID. I followed the directions as given in the "Linux ATA RAID HOWTO" for RH 7.2. When I try to boot off the Hard DIsk the kernel hangs. The meesage I see on the console is: "request_module [block-major-8]: Root fs not moun

Segmentation fault during boot

2003-10-08 Thread Ray D. Stambaugh
= Other errors were reported, but they based on the fact that the proc filesystem was not mounted. The boot continued to line 182 of rc.sysint and stopped. I ran a memory test and a file system check. No error were found. How can get the machine to reboot with out having to loose all of the

Symantec GHOST cloning dual-boot WinXP+RH9

2003-10-08 Thread Pieter Donche
RedHat9 linux /boot, /, and swap partition. The dual-boot system was set up in this way. The WinXP partition is the active one. I use the Windows XP Boot manager to offer Windows XP and Linux. (I used the BOOTPART tool from www.image.com/bootpart.htm to add a Linux option) Choosing Linux

boot diskette for usb disk drive

2003-10-06 Thread Thierry ITTY
How do I build a boot diskette that'll allow me to boot from an usb disk drive ? I could install rh9 on it (using expert mode to load usb-storage module) and built the boot diskette at end of install but when I boot with it I get a kernel panic, error 6 when mounting ext2... tia -- r

Setting delay on WLAN-interface in RH9 during boot

2003-10-04 Thread christian jacobsen
is a WLAN card, loaded by orinoco_pci. During boot, the laptop tries to initiate eth0, but after a few seconds it gives an error, asking me please as to check if the network cable is present (unless, of course, a network cable *is* present, then it proceeds and gives eth0 an IP-address). But:

httpd at boot

2003-10-03 Thread mr
Hi, I got excellent answers concerning mysql og httpd start as services, and have a question in relation to this subject. I have looked into what happens at boot, but I don't have a deeper understanding of it yet. Therefore, I don't know if it is possible/advisable to change the se

Re: raid1 + lilo + boot

2003-10-01 Thread Roger
. Below is my grub.conf file and raid1 is working perfectly. Yanking drives w/ the help of raidsetfaulty and raidhotremove works. Adding them works as well as booting w/ only one drive Something that lilo only allowed if it was hda. default=0 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub

raid1 + lilo + boot

2003-10-01 Thread Roger
I have several systems with identical hardware that all have software raid1 running on RH9 on hot-swappable serial ata drives. One of our machines has developed a problem recently. Running 'lilo -v' used to write out boot sectors info for both drivers - now it only does one drive

Re: I can't boot Windows XP with Grub loader.

2003-09-30 Thread Reuben D. Budiardja
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 01:03 pm, Otto Haliburton wrote: > This is news to me. I didn't know that windows would even boot from a > slave drive. Good info if it is true. Yes it would. I've done what is basically the describe by Ed using LILO. If you need it, I can p

RE: I can't boot Windows XP with Grub loader.

2003-09-30 Thread Rene Enriquez
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward Croft Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 10:48 AM To: Red Hat List Subject: RE: I can't boot Windows XP with Grub loader. On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 13:37, Otto Haliburton wrote: > You are saying h

RE: I can't boot Windows XP with Grub loader.

2003-09-30 Thread Otto Haliburton
Good info! > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Edward Croft > Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 12:48 PM > To: Red Hat List > Subject: RE: I can't boot Windows XP with Grub loader. > > On Tue, 2003-09

RE: I can't boot Windows XP with Grub loader.

2003-09-30 Thread Edward Croft
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 13:37, Otto Haliburton wrote: > You are saying here that if it was the C:\ drive(confusing). I think that > win98, winME etc. aren't able to configure with any drive letter other than > c, but winNT and win2k can. I don't know that winXP can so I hope that what > you are say

RE: I can't boot Windows XP with Grub loader.

2003-09-30 Thread Otto Haliburton
gt; From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Edward Croft > Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 12:21 PM > To: Red Hat List > Subject: RE: I can't boot Windows XP with Grub loader. > > I have had this setup working for over a year now. > > On Tu

RE: I can't boot Windows XP with Grub loader.

2003-09-30 Thread Tony Pagliocco
/2003 10:21 AM To: Red Hat List Cc: Subject:RE: I can't boot Windows XP with Grub loader. I have had this setup working for over a year now. On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 13:03, Otto Haliburton wrote: > This is news to me. I didn't know that windows would even boot from a

RE: I can't boot Windows XP with Grub loader.

2003-09-30 Thread Edward Croft
I have had this setup working for over a year now. On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 13:03, Otto Haliburton wrote: > This is news to me. I didn't know that windows would even boot from a slave > drive. Good info if it is true. > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL

Re: I can't boot Windows XP with Grub loader.

2003-09-30 Thread R.E.
look belowJoan Carles Jimenez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi!I'm currently running RHL 9 on one hard disk (master). My boot loader is Grub. Now, I installed Windows XP (NTFS) in other hard disk (slave). The Grub detects the two operating systems but, when I select Windows XP, this do

RE: I can't boot Windows XP with Grub loader.

2003-09-30 Thread Otto Haliburton
This is news to me. I didn't know that windows would even boot from a slave drive. Good info if it is true. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Edward Croft > Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 11:55 AM > To: Red Ha

RE: I can't boot Windows XP with Grub loader.

2003-09-30 Thread Otto Haliburton
I don't think windows will boot from a slave drive. The order you should install windows on your primary drive then install RH. The reason that you should install RH second is that windows will overwrite any OS boot loader in the MBR. It has no respect. I don't see how you could have

Re: I can't boot Windows XP with Grub loader.

2003-09-30 Thread Edward Croft
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 12:16, Joan Carles Jimenez wrote: > Hi! > > I'm currently running RHL 9 on one hard disk (master). My boot loader is Grub. Now, > I installed Windows XP (NTFS) in other hard disk (slave). The Grub detects the two > operating systems but, when I sel

RE: I can't boot Windows XP with Grub loader.

2003-09-30 Thread Tony Pagliocco
>From most dual boot machines using Grub, Windows usually has to go first. Since RH is much more relaxed then XP, I've usually seen RH second either on the 2nd partition or slave drive. Since the MBR is real fussy it likes to have windows going first then find RH. It maybe able to be

I can't boot Windows XP with Grub loader.

2003-09-30 Thread Joan Carles Jimenez
Hi! I'm currently running RHL 9 on one hard disk (master). My boot loader is Grub. Now, I installed Windows XP (NTFS) in other hard disk (slave). The Grub detects the two operating systems but, when I select Windows XP, this does not boot. What's the problem? Thanks. Joan Carl

how to set lilo.conf to display boot messages with redhat 7.3

2003-09-25 Thread munhyo Jung
hello, I'm munhyo. Let me ask you questions about LILO parameter. I am used to use serial output to display boot messages with 2.4.18 kernel as follows, append="console=/dev/ttyS0,115200" in lilo.conf file. But redhat 7.3 with 2.4.18-3 does not work as serial output to display

RE: grub boot order question

2003-09-17 Thread Ian L
/2003, you wrote: Ian, Someone correct me if I am wrong...but you can just comment out the image you don't want it to boot to, and you should be fine.. jeff -Original Message- From: Ian L [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 5:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Su

RE: grub boot order question

2003-09-17 Thread Go, Jeffrey
Ian, Someone correct me if I am wrong...but you can just comment out the image you don't want it to boot to, and you should be fine.. jeff -Original Message- From: Ian L [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 5:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: grub boot

Re: grub boot order question

2003-09-16 Thread Ian L
At 05:40 PM 9/16/2003, you wrote: > this is in my grub.conf file: > if i change default=0 that should boot with the 2.4.20-20.8 kernel yes? Yes but that's not the approved way to do it. It's safer to do: grubby --set-default=/boot/vmlinuz-$version (replace $version but th

RE: grub boot order question

2003-09-16 Thread Otto Haliburton
After a 10 second delay. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:redhat-list- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian L > Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 7:34 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: grub boot order question > > this is in my grub.c

Re: grub boot order question

2003-09-16 Thread Ian Mortimer
> this is in my grub.conf file: > if i change default=0 that should boot with the 2.4.20-20.8 kernel yes? Yes but that's not the approved way to do it. It's safer to do: grubby --set-default=/boot/vmlinuz-$version (replace $version but the version number 2.4.20-2

grub boot order question

2003-09-16 Thread Ian L
this is in my grub.conf file: #boot=/dev/hda default=1 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-20.8) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-20.8 ro root=LABEL=/ initrd /initrd-2.4.20-20.8.img title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-14

Re: 2.6.0-test5 won't boot

2003-09-15 Thread Sean Estabrooks
/ partition. > > "root=LABEL=/" is a RH thing...doesn't work with vanilla kernels. Hi Callan, It actually works without a problem with vanilla kernels. The LABEL feature is contained in the initrd code so as long as you supply a properly built initrd you'll be able t

Re: 2.6.0-test5 won't boot

2003-09-14 Thread Callan K L Tham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 13 September 2003 06:24, Kevin Breit wrote: > Below is grub.conf: > > default=1 > timeout=10 > splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > title Red Hat Linux (2.6.0-test5) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.0-test5 ro root=L

Re: 2.6.0-test5 won't boot

2003-09-13 Thread Jesse Millan
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 12:36, Kevin Breit wrote: > Hey, > I compiled 2.6.0-test5 (latest) today and am having a hard time > booting it. During boot, I get: > > Kernel panic. No kernel found. Trey passing init= to kernel. > > My .img file is specified in grub.conf

Re: 2.6.0-test5 won't boot

2003-09-12 Thread Kevin Breit
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 17:57, Sean Estabrooks wrote: > On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 15:36:20 -0400 > Kevin Breit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Kevin, > > > I compiled 2.6.0-test5 (latest) today and am having a hard time > > booting it. During boot, I get: > &

Re: 2.6.0-test5 won't boot

2003-09-12 Thread Kevin Breit
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 17:57, Sean Estabrooks wrote: > On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 15:36:20 -0400 > Kevin Breit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Kevin, > > > I compiled 2.6.0-test5 (latest) today and am having a hard time > > booting it. During boot, I get: > &

Re: 2.6.0-test5 won't boot

2003-09-12 Thread Sean Estabrooks
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 15:36:20 -0400 Kevin Breit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Kevin, > I compiled 2.6.0-test5 (latest) today and am having a hard time > booting it. During boot, I get: > > Kernel panic. No kernel found. Trey passing init= to kernel. > The mes

Re: 2.6.0-test5 won't boot

2003-09-12 Thread Jack Bowling
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 03:36:20PM -0400, Kevin Breit wrote: > Hey, >I compiled 2.6.0-test5 (latest) today and am having a hard time > booting it. During boot, I get: > > Kernel panic. No kernel found. Trey passing init= to kernel. > > My .img file is specified

2.6.0-test5 won't boot

2003-09-12 Thread Kevin Breit
Hey, I compiled 2.6.0-test5 (latest) today and am having a hard time booting it. During boot, I get: Kernel panic. No kernel found. Trey passing init= to kernel. My .img file is specified in grub.conf and does exist in the proper directory. As does the kernel. Any help would be

Re: Help - Can't boot RH Linux 9 to Single user mode!

2003-09-12 Thread Reuben D. Budiardja
On Thursday 11 September 2003 08:02 pm, TOM DOLCE wrote: > I'm trying to boot to single-user mode to reset the root password. I > entered "e" on boot up to edit the kernel line in Grub and added "single' > to the end of it, then "b" to boot into sing

Re: Help - Can't boot RH Linux 9 to Single user mode!

2003-09-11 Thread Sean Estabrooks
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 17:02:53 -0700 "TOM DOLCE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to boot to single-user mode to reset the root password. I entered "e" on > boot up to edit the kernel line in Grub and added "single' to the end of it, the

Re: Help - Can't boot RH Linux 9 to Single user mode!

2003-09-11 Thread Rick Warner
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 17:02, TOM DOLCE wrote: > I'm trying to boot to single-user mode to reset the root password. I entered "e" on > boot up to edit the kernel line in Grub and added "single' to the end of it, then > "b" to boot into single user mo

Help - Can't boot RH Linux 9 to Single user mode!

2003-09-11 Thread TOM DOLCE
I'm trying to boot to single-user mode to reset the root password.  I entered "e" on boot up to edit the kernel line in Grub and added "single' to the end of it, then "b" to boot into single user mode. However, instead of going to single user mode the syste

Re: Fatal: First sector of /dev/hda1 doesn't have a valid boot signature

2003-09-09 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Anthony, > Actually, I did try booting up using the XP install > disc, but it attempts to install XP. What should I do > please? Find a means to fix your XP boot loader. After that rerun lilo. If you do have an XP rescue floppy you could build an El Torito CD from it (man mki

Re: Fatal: First sector of /dev/hda1 doesn't have a valid boot signature

2003-09-08 Thread Anthony Liu
Actually, I did try booting up using the XP install disc, but it attempts to install XP. What should I do please? Thanks again. --- Leonard den Ottolander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thank you, but unfortunately, I don't have a > floppy > > drive with my laptop. > > And of course you have t

Re: Fatal: First sector of /dev/hda1 doesn't have a valid boot signature

2003-09-08 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
> Thank you, but unfortunately, I don't have a floppy > drive with my laptop. And of course you have tried booting from your XP installation CD instead before sending back this reply :-/ . Leonard. -- How clean is a war when you shoot around nukelar waste? Stop the use of depleted uranium ammo

Re: Fatal: First sector of /dev/hda1 doesn't have a valid boot signature

2003-09-08 Thread Anthony Liu
Thank you, but unfortunately, I don't have a floppy drive with my laptop. --- Leonard den Ottolander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Anthony, > > > I ran /sbin/lilo and got this fatal message: > > > > Added Linux * > > Fatal: First sector of

Re: Fatal: First sector of /dev/hda1 doesn't have a valid boot signature

2003-09-08 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Anthony, > I ran /sbin/lilo and got this fatal message: > > Added Linux * > Fatal: First sector of /dev/hda1 doesn't have a valid > boot signature > > Then when I attempted to reboot the system to Win XP. > What I saw on the top left corner of the black s

Fatal: First sector of /dev/hda1 doesn't have a valid boot signature

2003-09-08 Thread Anthony Liu
ave a valid boot signature Then when I attempted to reboot the system to Win XP. What I saw on the top left corner of the black screen is this: Loading Windows XP L? And that's all, and it hangs there. I searched the Web, and found limited info about this. One newsgroup post seems to sa

Re: /boot won't mount after upgrade to hardware RAID

2003-09-05 Thread Samuel Flory
Thomas Fortner wrote: Hi folks: I added an IDE RAID controller and a second hard drive to my Red Hat 9 system, which moved the hard drive from hda to hdg. I found a couple of places where I needed to change the (HD0,0) definition, such as /boot/grub/device.map and /etc/sysconfig/grub. However

/boot won't mount after upgrade to hardware RAID

2003-09-05 Thread Thomas Fortner
Hi folks: I added an IDE RAID controller and a second hard drive to my Red Hat 9 system, which moved the hard drive from hda to hdg. I found a couple of places where I needed to change the (HD0,0) definition, such as /boot/grub/device.map and /etc/sysconfig/grub. However, I must have missed

RE: How to chage boot up partitions

2003-09-05 Thread Wade Chandler
Update your Lilo or Grub config to point to your partition and then make it write it's values back to the boot recordOr use a gui tool to set it up...it will handle the rest. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cosmo Lee Sent: Thu

Re: How to chage boot up partitions

2003-09-05 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Cosmo, > I've moved my hard drives from the built-in IDE controller to a PCI IDE > card. What do I change to indicate to the OS to boot from the new > partitions? I assume you updated /etc/fstab, and installed your boot loader on the new partitions. The rest is a matter o

Re: Create a boot disk

2003-09-04 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 04 September 2003 09:57 pm, Gunawan wrote: > Hi, > How to create a boot disk for RH9? http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/install-guide/s1-steps-install-cdrom.html#S2-STEPS-MAKE-DISKS - -- - -Michael pgp key:

Re: Create a boot disk

2003-09-04 Thread MKlinke
On Thursday 04 September 2003 20:57, Gunawan wrote: > Hi, > How to create a boot disk for RH9? > Regards, > Gunawan Stick a floppy in and use the utility "mkbootdisk." See "man mkbootdisk" for the particulars. Regards, Mike Klinke -- redhat-list mailin

Create a boot disk

2003-09-04 Thread Gunawan
Hi, How to create a boot disk for RH9? Regards, Gunawan

How to chage boot up partitions

2003-09-04 Thread Cosmo Lee
RH 9 Intel I've moved my hard drives from the built-in IDE controller to a PCI IDE card. What do I change to indicate to the OS to boot from the new partitions? Previously, the OS booted from /dev/hda and there were partitions on /dev/hdb also. When it boots now, I see it trying to find d

RE: Two OS - boot?

2003-09-04 Thread Wade Chandler
It doesn't sound like you have choosen to use LILO or GRUB. I've used both and do exactly what you are wanting to doI think you are over complicating the situation. Install LILO or GRUB to your MBR for your linux disk if you wantthe linux vmlinuz boot up will not be in the MB

Re: Two OS - boot?

2003-09-04 Thread Sasa Stupar
Otto Haliburton pravi: It sounds to me if you want to do what you want to do. Then use a removable disk that is bootable. If you want to boot win2k install the removable win2k disk. If you want linux install the removable linux disk. With hard drives I don't think it is possible to have

RE: Two OS - boot?

2003-09-04 Thread Otto Haliburton
It sounds to me if you want to do what you want to do. Then use a removable disk that is bootable. If you want to boot win2k install the removable win2k disk. If you want linux install the removable linux disk. With hard drives I don't think it is possible to have each independent wi

Re: Two OS - boot?

2003-09-04 Thread Sasa Stupar
Cowles, Steve pravi: Sasa Stupar wrote: The thing is that I still want to be able to boot any of the systems independently. This means I want to leave intact the MBR of each disk. I use a slightly different approach to dual booting. Maybe it will work for you. I have linux installed on one hard

RE: Two OS - boot?

2003-09-04 Thread Cowles, Steve
Sasa Stupar wrote: > The thing is that I still want to be able to boot any of the systems > independently. This means I want to leave intact the MBR of each disk. I use a slightly different approach to dual booting. Maybe it will work for you. I have linux installed on one hard drive wit

Re: Re: Two OS - boot?

2003-09-04 Thread Steven Wang
t-list- >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of 王仲俊 >>>Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 3:00 AM >>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>Subject: Re: Two OS - boot? >>> >>>You can use XOSL Operating System Loader to do that. >>> >>> >>>>

Re: Two OS - boot?

2003-09-04 Thread Sasa Stupar
, September 04, 2003 3:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Two OS - boot? You can use XOSL Operating System Loader to do that. Hi folks, I have two OS, winxp and RH8, both on separated drives and also both with their own MBR installed. What I want to do is to create a boot script to ask me what OS

RE: Two OS - boot?

2003-09-04 Thread Otto Haliburton
r 04, 2003 3:00 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Two OS - boot? > > You can use XOSL Operating System Loader to do that. > > >Hi folks, > > > >I have two OS, winxp and RH8, both on separated drives and also both > >with their own MBR installed. What I

RE: Two OS - boot?

2003-09-04 Thread Wade Chandler
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ÍõÖÙ¿¡ Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 4:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Two OS - boot? You can use XOSL Operating System Loader to do that. >Hi folks, > >I have two OS, winxp and RH8, both on separated drives and also both >with t

Re: Two OS - boot?

2003-09-04 Thread 王仲俊
You can use XOSL Operating System Loader to do that. >Hi folks, > >I have two OS, winxp and RH8, both on separated drives and also both >with their own MBR installed. What I want to do is to create a boot >script to ask me what OS do I want to boot. Now I am using by default in

Two OS - boot?

2003-09-03 Thread Sasa Stupar
Hi folks, I have two OS, winxp and RH8, both on separated drives and also both with their own MBR installed. What I want to do is to create a boot script to ask me what OS do I want to boot. Now I am using by default in bios to search for floppy boot(linux) and if there is nothing then boot

How to chage boot up partitions

2003-09-03 Thread Cosmo Lee
RH 9 Intel I've moved my hard drives from the built-in IDE controller to a PCI IDE card. What do I change to indicate to the OS to boot from the new partitions? Previously, the OS booted from /dev/hda and there were partitions on /dev/hdb also. When it boots now, I see it trying to find d

/boot won't automaount

2003-09-03 Thread Thomas Fortner
Hi folks: I switched from a single hard drive to a hardware RAID configuration on ministry1.prodigal.local, listed on "My Systems" on RHN. When I made this change, it changed my boot drive from /dev/hda3 to /dev/hdg3. I went through the configuration files to change the references for

RE: Dual-boot RH9/Windows XP using GRUB

2003-09-02 Thread Otto Haliburton
Windows never honors other boot loaders in the mbr and will overwrite them on a install. so you need to reinstall GRUB and that should fix you up. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:redhat-list- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Haney > Sent: Tuesday,

Re: Dual-boot RH9/Windows XP using GRUB

2003-09-02 Thread Mark Haney
ing a boot floppy to boot into Redhat. I tried to install GRUB on the MBR by running /sbin/grub-install /dev/hda but when I rebooted the system, I am dumped at the grub> prompt. I tried using GRUBConf to set up my boot menu, where it set up the menu in /boot/grub/menu.lst The contents of t

RE: Dual-boot RH9/Windows XP using GRUB

2003-08-30 Thread Otto Haliburton
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:redhat-list- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of The Devil's Advocate > Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2003 7:20 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Dual-boot RH9/Windows XP using GRUB > > Hi all, >

Dual-boot RH9/Windows XP using GRUB

2003-08-30 Thread The Devil's Advocate
Hi all, I have Redhat 9 and Windows XP installed on the same system, and at the moment I am using a boot floppy to boot into Redhat. I tried to install GRUB on the MBR by running /sbin/grub-install /dev/hda but when I rebooted the system, I am dumped at the grub> prompt. I tried us

Re: removing a windoze partition (but it's boot)

2003-08-29 Thread James Pifer
ev/hda: 0.000-38166.679 megabytes > > Disk label type: msdos > > MinorStart End Type Filesystem Flags > > 1 0.031 20002.807 primary ntfsboot > > 2 20002.808 20104.782 primary ext3 > > 3 20104.783 22018.776

Re: removing a windoze partition (but it's boot)

2003-08-28 Thread Sean Estabrooks
gs > 1 0.031 20002.807 primary ntfsboot > 2 20002.808 20104.782 primary ext3 > 3 20104.783 22018.776 primary linux-swap > 4 22018.777 38162.219 extended lba > 5 22018.808 38162.219 logical ext3 > (parted) > &

removing a windoze partition (but it's boot)

2003-08-28 Thread James Pifer
Hi. I have a system (RH8) that has the following: (parted) print Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-38166.679 megabytes Disk label type: msdos MinorStart End Type Filesystem Flags 1 0.031 20002.807 primary ntfsboot 2 20002.808 20104.782 primary ext3

Re: help - boot problems

2003-08-27 Thread Michael Schwendt
tem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 > > kernel=/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=/dev/hda6 Make it: root=/dev/hda7 (hd0,5) = /dev/hda6 is your /boot partition (hd0,6) = /dev/hda7 is your / partition - -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/TL880iMVcrivHFQRAiGI

help - boot problems

2003-08-27 Thread richard yuwono
x1ffbb000, 0x24c6e bytes] > boot EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot, /sysroot/initrd) failed: 2 umount /initd/proc failed:2 freeing unused kernel memory: 132k freed kernel panic: no init found. try passing init=option to kernel here is the contents of t

Re: help - boot problems possibly from partition magic

2003-08-26 Thread richard yuwono
- Original Message - From: Marcos de Souza Trazzini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 25 Aug 2003 08:14:24 -0300 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: help - boot problems possibly from partition magic > On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 05:24, richard yuwono wrote: > > hi, > > >

Re: help - boot problems possibly from partition magic

2003-08-25 Thread Marcos de Souza Trazzini
On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 05:24, richard yuwono wrote: > hi, > > i had rh 9.0 and win2k running nicely on my box at home and recently i installed > partition magic 8.0. after rebooting the grub splash screen no longer came up, but > instead i got a grub prompt. i tried a boot disk

help - boot problems possibly from partition magic

2003-08-25 Thread richard yuwono
hi, i had rh 9.0 and win2k running nicely on my box at home and recently i installed partition magic 8.0. after rebooting the grub splash screen no longer came up, but instead i got a grub prompt. i tried a boot disk which got a bit further but gave me "kernel panic: no init found"

Re: /Boot is full - advice please

2003-08-23 Thread Michael Viron
Unless you are using a laptop system, you do not need kernel-pcmcia-cs installed. Michael -- Michael Viron Core Systems Group Simple End User Linux >Use "rpm -qa | grep kernel" to see what kernels are installed. On my >system this shows: > > kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.31-13 > kernel-source-

RE: /Boot is full - advice please

2003-08-22 Thread Otto Haliburton
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Schwendt > Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 5:17 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: /Boot is full - advice please > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 14:56:11 -0500, Otto Haliburton wrote: > > &

Re: /Boot is full - advice please

2003-08-22 Thread Michael Schwendt
o completely separate packages. Never would erasing a kernel package remove the source package. > The person who started the thread > did expressly say that he used RHN and /boot was full. It should never > be recommended that he uses rpm Wrong. RHN => up2date installs packages via RPM

RE: /Boot is full - advice please

2003-08-22 Thread Otto Haliburton
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:redhat-list- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Schwendt > Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 1:37 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: /Boot is full - advice please > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE--

Re: /Boot is full - advice please

2003-08-22 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 13:00:19 -0400, Kent Borg wrote: > What Redhat recommends when undating your kernel is to use "-F" which > will remove the old kernel, and /boot will not grow with each new > kernel release. Red Hat does _

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