From gnichols at tpg.com.au Sun Jul 2 03:01:16 2006 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 13:01:16 +1000 Subject: 'Weather Report' applet fails to show the radar map Message-ID: <44A736FC.7040806@tpg.com.au> Hello, I have had the 'Weather Report' applet on my task bar for years now but I have never been able to get it to display the radar map. The 'Help' details how to get a radar map from other than http://weather.com but I want the radar map for Sydney, Australia. The url for that radar map is http://mirror.bom.gov.au/products/IDR033.shtml. Entering that url in a browser correctly brings up the radar map but it doesn't work in the 'Weather Report' applet. Has anyone got the radar map to work on their system. BTW, before you ask, the radar map I want is freely available :-) and the url I want is actually shown in the applet help so I am a bit non-plussed. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Kind regards, Graeme. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Download my GnuPG public key from:- http://www.users.tpg.com.au/gnichols/graemenichols.pub ---------------------------------------------------------------------- If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat. -- Simone de Beauvoir From inode0 at gmail.com Sun Jul 2 03:12:35 2006 From: inode0 at gmail.com (inode0) Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 22:12:35 -0500 Subject: 'Weather Report' applet fails to show the radar map In-Reply-To: <44A736FC.7040806@tpg.com.au> References: <44A736FC.7040806@tpg.com.au> Message-ID: On 7/1/06, Graeme Nichols wrote: > Hello, > > I have had the 'Weather Report' applet on my task bar for years now but > I have never been able to get it to display the radar map. The 'Help' > details how to get a radar map from other than http://weather.com but I > want the radar map for Sydney, Australia. The url for that radar map is > http://mirror.bom.gov.au/products/IDR033.shtml. Entering that url in a > browser correctly brings up the radar map but it doesn't work in the > 'Weather Report' applet. > > Has anyone got the radar map to work on their system. BTW, before you > ask, the radar map I want is freely available :-) and the url I want is > actually shown in the applet help so I am a bit non-plussed. Try using this url instead ... http://mirror.bom.gov.au/radar/IDR033.gif I'm not sure that is exactly what you need but I suspect you just need to drill down closer to the actual radar image. John From gnichols at tpg.com.au Sun Jul 2 06:07:29 2006 From: gnichols at tpg.com.au (Graeme Nichols) Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 16:07:29 +1000 Subject: 'Weather Report' applet fails to show the radar map In-Reply-To: References: <44A736FC.7040806@tpg.com.au> Message-ID: <44A762A1.8080606@tpg.com.au> inode0 wrote: > On 7/1/06, Graeme Nichols wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I have had the 'Weather Report' applet on my task bar for years now but >> I have never been able to get it to display the radar map. The 'Help' >> details how to get a radar map from other than http://weather.com but I >> want the radar map for Sydney, Australia. The url for that radar map is >> http://mirror.bom.gov.au/products/IDR033.shtml. Entering that url in a >> browser correctly brings up the radar map but it doesn't work in the >> 'Weather Report' applet. >> >> Has anyone got the radar map to work on their system. BTW, before you >> ask, the radar map I want is freely available :-) and the url I want is >> actually shown in the applet help so I am a bit non-plussed. > > > Try using this url instead ... > > http://mirror.bom.gov.au/radar/IDR033.gif > > I'm not sure that is exactly what you need but I suspect you just need > to drill down closer to the actual radar image. > > John John, you're a genius! That is exactly what I should have been doing. Thank you very much. All works just fine now. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Kind regards, Graeme. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Download my GnuPG public key from:- http://www.users.tpg.com.au/gnichols/graemenichols.pub ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From micros50 at computer.net Sun Jul 2 12:21:19 2006 From: micros50 at computer.net (mylar) Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 08:21:19 -0400 Subject: wireless card In-Reply-To: <20060630034128.28410.qmail@webmail57.rediffmail.com> References: <20060630034128.28410.qmail@webmail57.rediffmail.com> Message-ID: <1151842879.7555.15.camel@manhattan.ruffe.edu> If you can't find a native driver check out "ndiswrapper". http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ mylar On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 23:41, raghavendra s wrote: > > HI > > this is raghavendra from mysore now i started do some r & d wireless > network pls out how to install a wireless network card for RHEL 4 > and also i am unable to download driver for D-Link wireless network > (DWL-G520+ & DWL-520 ) pls me send the for same driver > > > Raghavendra > cell No :9886975796 > > > THANKS > RAGHAVENDRA.S > MYSORE > MOBILE No:9886975796 > > FEEL FREE & CALL ME > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe From rodrigofariatavares at bol.com.br Mon Jul 3 12:35:10 2006 From: rodrigofariatavares at bol.com.br (Rodrigo Faria Tavares) Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 09:35:10 -0300 Subject: Custom CD Message-ID: <000c01c69e9d$2129f610$0100a8c0@faria> Hello, I?m installed kernel kernel-2.6.16-1.2133_FC5.src.rpm and i follow this tutorial : https://www.redhat.com/archives/anaconda-devel-list/2003-March/msg00033.html [root at desktop ~]# rpmbuild -bb /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/kernel-2.6.spec error: architeture : i386 is not included I add i386 in spec file, but after he search kernel-2.6.16-i386.config, i try to put a config file in a new file called kernel-2.6.16-i386.config. In compile give errors. How I can to resolve it ? Att. Rodrigo Faria Tavares e-mail : rodrigofariat at yahoo.com.br Analista de Suporte Linux -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From onomejiro at yahoo.com Mon Jul 3 13:23:20 2006 From: onomejiro at yahoo.com (Omabele Onome) Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 06:23:20 -0700 (PDT) Subject: driver problem while installing RH enterprise 3 & 4 Message-ID: <20060703132320.32042.qmail@web55202.mail.re4.yahoo.com> Dear friends, I have sent thisproblem to you for help but till now I get no response or even reply. I can not even see it among the achives. Or am I getting the email address wrong. I do not think so. Anyway, I'm sending it again. Please,please help!!! Machine type / model:- Compaq Professional Workstation SP 750 It?s an empty system in that it has no OS on it so it is a fresh installation. Device on the PC :- Adaptec AIC 7899 SCSI BIOS v2.55 Related product and version information:- 1) Red Hat Enterprise Linux (ES) Version 4 2) Red Hat Enterprise Linux (ES) Version 3 Severity of problem:- 2 Problem When I get to the Partition page and select Automatic Partition, an error message comes up stating ?No drivers found: An error has occurred ? no valid devices were found on which to create new files. Please check hardware for the cause of this problem.? But it started off loading "loading aic 7xxxx drivers........" So I really don't understand why this problem. Steps taken after problem. Then we downloaded the driver from Adaptec aic7xxx-6.3.9-i586-rhel3.img.gz aic7xxx-6.3.9-i686-rhel3qu2.img.gz We tried to manually add it to the PC with a fd0 as well as hdd but to no avail. So we change the SCSI to Adaptec SCSI card 39160, AHA 3960D Power Domain 39160 Still having same problem. Tried using "linux no probe" but no avail. Can you kindly advice what we should do especially since we have two (2) products and neither is working. I have been at this for a week, someone please help. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Jul 3 18:31:20 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 11:31:20 -0700 Subject: Custom CD In-Reply-To: <000c01c69e9d$2129f610$0100a8c0@faria> References: <000c01c69e9d$2129f610$0100a8c0@faria> Message-ID: <1151951480.6282.2.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 09:35 -0300, Rodrigo Faria Tavares wrote: > Hello, > > I?m installed kernel kernel-2.6.16-1.2133_FC5.src.rpm and i follow > this tutorial : > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/anaconda-devel-list/2003-March/msg00033.html > > [root at desktop ~]# rpmbuild -bb /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/kernel-2.6.spec > error: architeture : i386 is not included > > I add i386 in spec file, but after he search > kernel-2.6.16-i386.config, i try to put a config file in a new file > called > kernel-2.6.16-i386.config. In compile give errors. > > How I can to resolve it ? There is no "i386" support in 2.6 kernels. The 386 hasn't been sold in a LONG, LONG time. The supported architectures are "i586", "i686", "x86_64", "ppc", "ppc64", "ppc64iseries", "s390", "s390x", "sparc", "sparc64" and "ia64". This is controlled by the "*.config" files you find in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES after installing the kernel source RPM. Try rpmbuild -bb target=i686 /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/kernel-2.6.spec to build it for 99% of all 32-bit Intel chips you'll find out there. The trick is to specify "target=" followed by one of the choices above. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Perseverance: When you're too damned stubborn to say "I quit!" - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Jul 3 18:37:31 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 11:37:31 -0700 Subject: Login Screen corrupted after Login Change on FC5 In-Reply-To: <000b01c69c79$72391fc0$1501a8c0@bluelantern> References: <000b01c69c79$72391fc0$1501a8c0@bluelantern> Message-ID: <1151951852.6282.6.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 12:14 -0700, interp01 wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > I just installed FC5 on a Compaq Presario X1000 laptop, everything was > working fine until I changed the Login Screen. When I reboot I see > the INIT startup but then everything goes fuzzy. Im seeing some sort > of cursor but again its just a giant fuzzy square. If I boot into > single user mode, what files can I change to undo this broken Login > Screen? Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Which login screen, the GUI one? That's controlled by the xdm system. The relevant stuff is in /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "I'd explain it to you, but your brain might explode." - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Jul 3 18:41:08 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 11:41:08 -0700 Subject: driver problem while installing RH enterprise 3 & 4 In-Reply-To: <20060703132320.32042.qmail@web55202.mail.re4.yahoo.com> References: <20060703132320.32042.qmail@web55202.mail.re4.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1151952069.6282.11.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 06:23 -0700, Omabele Onome wrote: > Dear friends, > I have sent thisproblem to you for help but till now I get no response > or even reply. I can not even see it among the achives. Or am I > getting the email address wrong. I do not think so. Anyway, I'm > sending it again. Please,please help!!! > > Machine type / model:- Compaq Professional Workstation SP 750 > It?s an empty system in that it has no OS on it so it is a fresh > installation. Device on the PC :- > Adaptec AIC 7899 SCSI BIOS v2.55 > > Related product and version information:- > 1) Red Hat Enterprise Linux (ES) Version 4 > 2) Red Hat Enterprise Linux (ES) Version 3 > Severity of problem:- 2 > > Problem > When I get to the Partition page and select Automatic Partition, an > error message comes up stating > ?No drivers found: An error has occurred ? no valid devices were found > on which to create new files. Please check hardware for the cause of > this problem.? > > But it started off loading "loading aic 7xxxx drivers........" So I > really don't understand why this problem. Are you sure the drives are visible to the controller? I mean, does the Adaptec BIOS enumerate (list) the drives when the system starts? If so, is there any free space on the drives? That error can indicate that the drives have no free space to create partitions on. The installer requires either free space or Linux partitions it can overwrite. If the drive(s) are full of Windows partitions, the installer will quit with that error...misleading as it is. > > Steps taken after problem. > Then we downloaded the driver from Adaptec > aic7xxx-6.3.9-i586-rhel3.img.gz > aic7xxx-6.3.9-i686-rhel3qu2.img.gz > > We tried to manually add it to the PC with a fd0 as well as hdd but to > no avail. > So we change the SCSI to > Adaptec SCSI card 39160, AHA 3960D Power Domain 39160 > Still having same problem. > Tried using "linux no probe" but no avail. > > Can you kindly advice what we should do especially since we have two > (2) products and neither is working. I have been at this for a week, > someone please help. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Heisenberg _may_ have slept here - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From sam.peng at foxconn.com Tue Jul 4 06:01:29 2006 From: sam.peng at foxconn.com (sam.peng at foxconn.com) Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 01:01:29 -0500 Subject: Sam Peng/USA/FOXCONN is out of the office. Message-ID: I will be out of the office starting 07/03/2006 and will not return until 07/04/2006. I will be out of office on 7/3/2006. I may not access my mail. For SD support, Jackey Tsao will be my back up. For Foxtrot project, Calvin Chen is my manager and Foxtrot project manager. Jackeyhh at foxconn.com CalvinChen at emea.foxconn.com Thanks! Sam Peng From gsminsk at rochester.rr.com Tue Jul 4 23:47:00 2006 From: gsminsk at rochester.rr.com (Gregory) Date: 04 Jul 2006 19:47:00 -0400 Subject: driver problem while installing RH enterprise 3 & 4 In-Reply-To: <20060703132320.32042.qmail@web55202.mail.re4.yahoo.com> References: <20060703132320.32042.qmail@web55202.mail.re4.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1152056819.3276.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> Wild guess, is your hard drive in workable conditions? On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 09:23, Omabele Onome wrote: > Dear friends, > I have sent thisproblem to you for help but till now I get no response > or even reply. I can not even see it among the achives. Or am I > getting the email > addreshttp://www.kraftfoods.com/main.aspx?s=health&m=recipe/RatingTopRatedNutritions wrong. I do not think so. Anyway, I'm sending it again. Please,please help!!! > > Machine type / model:- Compaq Professional Workstation SP 750 > Its an empty system in that it has no OS on it so it is a fresh > installation. Device on the PC :- > Adaptec AIC 7899 SCSI BIOS v2.55 > > Related product and version information:- > 1) Red Hat Enterprise Linux (ES) Version 4 > 2) Red Hat Enterprise Linux (ES) Version 3 > Severity of problem:- 2 > > Problem > When I get to the Partition page and select Automatic Partition, an > error message comes up stating > No drivers found: An error has occurred no valid devices were found on > which to create new files. Please check hardware for the cause of this > problem. > > But it started off loading "loading aic 7xxxx drivers........" So I > really don't understand why this problem. > > Steps taken after problem. > Then we downloaded the driver from Adaptec > aic7xxx-6.3.9-i586-rhel3.img.gz > aic7xxx-6.3.9-i686-rhel3qu2.img.gz > > We tried to manually add it to the PC with a fd0 as well as hdd but to > no avail. > So we change the SCSI to > Adaptec SCSI card 39160, AHA 3960D Power Domain 39160 > Still having same problem. > Tried using "linux no probe" but no avail. > > Can you kindly advice what we should do especially since we have two > (2) products and neither is working. I have been at this for a week, > someone please help. > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta. > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe From Christopher.Kunz at dowjones.com Wed Jul 5 18:09:14 2006 From: Christopher.Kunz at dowjones.com (Kunz, Christopher) Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 14:09:14 -0400 Subject: MacBook Pro Running Linux using Parallels Message-ID: <231BA960143BC946BF3A0AA00D8A29F20389F918@SBKE2KMB02.win.dowjones.net> Hello Red Hat, I'd like to begin my adventure in Linux. I have a MacBook Pro and bought Parallels. I already have XP running as a virtual machine and would like to complete the "trifecta" of operating systems with Linux. Would you recommend starting out with this version... Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (Basic for x86, AMD64 & Intel EM64T, and Intel Itanium) ...and would the media kit be a good ideal? RHEL WS (v.4 for 32-bit x86 and 64-bit AMD64 & Intel EM64T) Media Kit $25 Best regards, Chris From Paul.Mallasch at Tectura.com Wed Jul 5 19:50:58 2006 From: Paul.Mallasch at Tectura.com (Mallasch, Paul) Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 12:50:58 -0700 Subject: Installing FC5 with hard disk mode crashes with repomd.xml error 256 Message-ID: <5303BDF3F253554E889BE362FA0C604E011917ED@MAIL1.TecturaCorp.net> Greetings - This problem persists for me as well, although the ISO's checksum and installation are perfectly happy on a virtual machine in VMware, but not on a headless blade P3 machine I'm using. A CD installation works fine, but I must have a hard drive installation for our solution. Things I've done so far: - checkisomd5 of ISO okay - all files including repodata directory and file permissions okay - repodata directory tree is a peer to Fedora okay - sha1sums of files in repodata okay - even changed ISO name to FC-5-i386-disc1.iso (small distro so only one disc, but not required on my VM test) Stuff I've noticed that gives me pause: - Seeing some "unable to load nls charset utf8" messages in both CD and HD installs, but CD installs happily as is. Any other ideas are appreciated! On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 10:10 +0300, Rizwan Mohamed Dawrey wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to install fedora with alternate install method (hard drive installation) as > described in the install guide with the iso images. Am able to boot > into a text mode installation and it correctly takes the path of the 5 > iso's and all the screens for network and grub etc. are fine until I think when > it tries to read package info and it crashes with the follo error - > -------------------- > > Unable to read package metadata > Cannot open/read rcpomd.xml file for repository. > Failure : repodata/repomd.xml from anaconda: [Errno 256] > ------ > > The ISO images must be named EXACTLY as they are on the download site > (including capitalization) and you must make certain they are readable > by everyone. > > If you're installing FC5 for a 32-bit Intel machine, the ISOs MUST be> > named: > > FC-5-i386-disc1.iso > FC-5-i386-disc2.iso > FC-5-i386-disc3.iso > FC-5-i386-disc4.iso > FC-5-i386-disc5.iso > > Or, using the DVD ISO image: > > FC-5-i386-DVD.iso > From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Jul 5 20:07:23 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 13:07:23 -0700 Subject: MacBook Pro Running Linux using Parallels In-Reply-To: <231BA960143BC946BF3A0AA00D8A29F20389F918@SBKE2KMB02.win.dowjones.net> References: <231BA960143BC946BF3A0AA00D8A29F20389F918@SBKE2KMB02.win.dowjones.net> Message-ID: <1152130043.6282.44.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 14:09 -0400, Kunz, Christopher wrote: > Hello Red Hat, > I'd like to begin my adventure in Linux. I have a MacBook Pro and bought Parallels. I already have XP running as a virtual machine and would like to complete the "trifecta" of operating systems with Linux. Would you recommend starting out with this version... > Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (Basic for x86, AMD64 & Intel EM64T, and Intel Itanium) > ...and would the media kit be a good ideal? > RHEL WS (v.4 for 32-bit x86 and 64-bit AMD64 & Intel EM64T) Media Kit $25 Workstation (WS) is fine. However, why not try the free Fedora Core 5? You just download it and burn it to CDs or DVDs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Where there's a will, I want to be in it. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From Christopher.Kunz at dowjones.com Wed Jul 5 20:14:03 2006 From: Christopher.Kunz at dowjones.com (Kunz, Christopher) Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 16:14:03 -0400 Subject: MacBook Pro Running Linux using Parallels Message-ID: <231BA960143BC946BF3A0AA00D8A29F20389F91E@SBKE2KMB02.win.dowjones.net> Rick, Thanks so much for your reply and suggestion. I will download Fedora Core 5 and burn on CD for installation. Best, Chris -----Original Message----- From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Rick Stevens Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 4:07 PM To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: Re: MacBook Pro Running Linux using Parallels On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 14:09 -0400, Kunz, Christopher wrote: > Hello Red Hat, > I'd like to begin my adventure in Linux. I have a MacBook Pro and bought Parallels. I already have XP running as a virtual machine and would like to complete the "trifecta" of operating systems with Linux. Would you recommend starting out with this version... > Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (Basic for x86, AMD64 & Intel EM64T, and Intel Itanium) > ...and would the media kit be a good ideal? > RHEL WS (v.4 for 32-bit x86 and 64-bit AMD64 & Intel EM64T) Media Kit $25 Workstation (WS) is fine. However, why not try the free Fedora Core 5? You just download it and burn it to CDs or DVDs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Where there's a will, I want to be in it. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Redhat-install-list mailing list Redhat-install-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com Subject: unsubscribe From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Jul 5 22:19:22 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 15:19:22 -0700 Subject: MacBook Pro Running Linux using Parallels In-Reply-To: <231BA960143BC946BF3A0AA00D8A29F20389F91E@SBKE2KMB02.win.dowjones.net> References: <231BA960143BC946BF3A0AA00D8A29F20389F91E@SBKE2KMB02.win.dowjones.net> Message-ID: <1152137963.6282.53.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 16:14 -0400, Kunz, Christopher wrote: > Rick, > > Thanks so much for your reply and suggestion. > > I will download Fedora Core 5 and burn on CD for installation. Glad to help. Remember that FC5 is on the cutting edge. It will probably end up as Red Hat Enterprise 5 eventually, but as of now, it is not commercial software. Make sure you subscribe to the "fedora-list" if you need support. I'll be here as well as there. > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com > [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Rick Stevens > Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 4:07 PM > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: Re: MacBook Pro Running Linux using Parallels > > > On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 14:09 -0400, Kunz, Christopher wrote: > > Hello Red Hat, > > I'd like to begin my adventure in Linux. I have a MacBook Pro and bought Parallels. I already have XP running as a virtual machine and would like to complete the "trifecta" of operating systems with Linux. Would you recommend starting out with this version... > > Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (Basic for x86, AMD64 & Intel EM64T, and Intel Itanium) > > ...and would the media kit be a good ideal? > > RHEL WS (v.4 for 32-bit x86 and 64-bit AMD64 & Intel EM64T) Media Kit $25 > > Workstation (WS) is fine. However, why not try the free Fedora Core 5? > You just download it and burn it to CDs or DVDs. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - Where there's a will, I want to be in it. - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Microsoft Windows: Proof that P.T. Barnum was right - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From Christopher.Kunz at dowjones.com Wed Jul 5 22:38:15 2006 From: Christopher.Kunz at dowjones.com (Kunz, Christopher) Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 18:38:15 -0400 Subject: MacBook Pro Running Linux using Parallels Message-ID: <231BA960143BC946BF3A0AA00D8A29F20389F923@SBKE2KMB02.win.dowjones.net> Thanks again. May I make a comment? I have been working on a project which required purchasing and using new versions of several different types of software. I've had some issues along the way and getting help, or even responses from vendors, has been difficult. I have been quite pleased with your customer support, something that is sadly lacking in certain parts of the software industry. I'm looking forward to using FC5 and Red Hat products in the future. -----Original Message----- From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Rick Stevens Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 6:19 PM To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: RE: MacBook Pro Running Linux using Parallels On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 16:14 -0400, Kunz, Christopher wrote: > Rick, > > Thanks so much for your reply and suggestion. > > I will download Fedora Core 5 and burn on CD for installation. Glad to help. Remember that FC5 is on the cutting edge. It will probably end up as Red Hat Enterprise 5 eventually, but as of now, it is not commercial software. Make sure you subscribe to the "fedora-list" if you need support. I'll be here as well as there. > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com > [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Rick Stevens > Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 4:07 PM > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: Re: MacBook Pro Running Linux using Parallels > > > On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 14:09 -0400, Kunz, Christopher wrote: > > Hello Red Hat, > > I'd like to begin my adventure in Linux. I have a MacBook Pro and bought Parallels. I already have XP running as a virtual machine and would like to complete the "trifecta" of operating systems with Linux. Would you recommend starting out with this version... > > Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (Basic for x86, AMD64 & Intel EM64T, and Intel Itanium) > > ...and would the media kit be a good ideal? > > RHEL WS (v.4 for 32-bit x86 and 64-bit AMD64 & Intel EM64T) Media Kit $25 > > Workstation (WS) is fine. However, why not try the free Fedora Core 5? > You just download it and burn it to CDs or DVDs. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - Where there's a will, I want to be in it. - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Microsoft Windows: Proof that P.T. Barnum was right - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Redhat-install-list mailing list Redhat-install-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com Subject: unsubscribe From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Jul 5 23:09:31 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 16:09:31 -0700 Subject: MacBook Pro Running Linux using Parallels In-Reply-To: <231BA960143BC946BF3A0AA00D8A29F20389F923@SBKE2KMB02.win.dowjones.net> References: <231BA960143BC946BF3A0AA00D8A29F20389F923@SBKE2KMB02.win.dowjones.net> Message-ID: <1152140972.6282.74.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 18:38 -0400, Kunz, Christopher wrote: > Thanks again. May I make a comment? Certainly! > I have been working on a project which required purchasing and using new versions of several different types of software. I've had some issues along the way and getting help, or even responses from vendors, has been difficult. I have been quite pleased with your customer support, something that is sadly lacking in certain parts of the software industry. > > I'm looking forward to using FC5 and Red Hat products in the future. Ah, but remember that those of us who contribute to the fedora-list and redhat-install-list are _not_ Red Hat employees. We're users, same as you--although we probably have a bit more experience than you may have. Just keep in mind that what we say and what you read on the lists is not official Red Hat support policy. While Red Hat provides the mailing list servers and software that make the lists go, the content is virtually all user-created--although the occasional Red Hatter does chime in. There's lots of us however, and we'll help you out as best we can...we've all been right where you are now. "Pay it forward" is the motto, and the only stupid questions are the ones you don't ask! Welcome to the Linux family, Christopher! Don't be shy! > > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com > [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Rick Stevens > Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 6:19 PM > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: RE: MacBook Pro Running Linux using Parallels > > > On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 16:14 -0400, Kunz, Christopher wrote: > > Rick, > > > > Thanks so much for your reply and suggestion. > > > > I will download Fedora Core 5 and burn on CD for installation. > > Glad to help. Remember that FC5 is on the cutting edge. It will > probably end up as Red Hat Enterprise 5 eventually, but as of now, it is > not commercial software. Make sure you subscribe to the "fedora-list" > if you need support. I'll be here as well as there. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com > > [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Rick Stevens > > Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 4:07 PM > > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > > Subject: Re: MacBook Pro Running Linux using Parallels > > > > > > On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 14:09 -0400, Kunz, Christopher wrote: > > > Hello Red Hat, > > > I'd like to begin my adventure in Linux. I have a MacBook Pro and bought Parallels. I already have XP running as a virtual machine and would like to complete the "trifecta" of operating systems with Linux. Would you recommend starting out with this version... > > > Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (Basic for x86, AMD64 & Intel EM64T, and Intel Itanium) > > > ...and would the media kit be a good ideal? > > > RHEL WS (v.4 for 32-bit x86 and 64-bit AMD64 & Intel EM64T) Media Kit $25 > > > > Workstation (WS) is fine. However, why not try the free Fedora Core 5? > > You just download it and burn it to CDs or DVDs. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > > - - > > - Where there's a will, I want to be in it. - > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Redhat-install-list mailing list > > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > > Subject: unsubscribe > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Redhat-install-list mailing list > > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > > Subject: unsubscribe > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - Microsoft Windows: Proof that P.T. Barnum was right - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Treat each day as if it's your last...a lot of crying and whining - - usually gets you what you want! -- Sam Sledge - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From Christopher.Kunz at dowjones.com Wed Jul 5 23:23:21 2006 From: Christopher.Kunz at dowjones.com (Kunz, Christopher) Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 19:23:21 -0400 Subject: MacBook Pro Running Linux using Parallels Message-ID: <231BA960143BC946BF3A0AA00D8A29F20389F926@SBKE2KMB02.win.dowjones.net> Rick, Oh, now I get it. I really feel silly, thinking you were a Red Hat employee. Thanks for the explanation about the user community. I'll make sure to sign up with fedora-list. I am happy to finally be part of the Linux family and certainly glad to be on the redhat-install-list! Chris -----Original Message----- From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Rick Stevens Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 7:10 PM To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: RE: MacBook Pro Running Linux using Parallels On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 18:38 -0400, Kunz, Christopher wrote: > Thanks again. May I make a comment? Certainly! > I have been working on a project which required purchasing and using new versions of several different types of software. I've had some issues along the way and getting help, or even responses from vendors, has been difficult. I have been quite pleased with your customer support, something that is sadly lacking in certain parts of the software industry. > > I'm looking forward to using FC5 and Red Hat products in the future. Ah, but remember that those of us who contribute to the fedora-list and redhat-install-list are _not_ Red Hat employees. We're users, same as you--although we probably have a bit more experience than you may have. Just keep in mind that what we say and what you read on the lists is not official Red Hat support policy. While Red Hat provides the mailing list servers and software that make the lists go, the content is virtually all user-created--although the occasional Red Hatter does chime in. There's lots of us however, and we'll help you out as best we can...we've all been right where you are now. "Pay it forward" is the motto, and the only stupid questions are the ones you don't ask! Welcome to the Linux family, Christopher! Don't be shy! > > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com > [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Rick Stevens > Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 6:19 PM > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: RE: MacBook Pro Running Linux using Parallels > > > On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 16:14 -0400, Kunz, Christopher wrote: > > Rick, > > > > Thanks so much for your reply and suggestion. > > > > I will download Fedora Core 5 and burn on CD for installation. > > Glad to help. Remember that FC5 is on the cutting edge. It will > probably end up as Red Hat Enterprise 5 eventually, but as of now, it is > not commercial software. Make sure you subscribe to the "fedora-list" > if you need support. I'll be here as well as there. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com > > [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Rick Stevens > > Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 4:07 PM > > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > > Subject: Re: MacBook Pro Running Linux using Parallels > > > > > > On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 14:09 -0400, Kunz, Christopher wrote: > > > Hello Red Hat, > > > I'd like to begin my adventure in Linux. I have a MacBook Pro and bought Parallels. I already have XP running as a virtual machine and would like to complete the "trifecta" of operating systems with Linux. Would you recommend starting out with this version... > > > Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (Basic for x86, AMD64 & Intel EM64T, and Intel Itanium) > > > ...and would the media kit be a good ideal? > > > RHEL WS (v.4 for 32-bit x86 and 64-bit AMD64 & Intel EM64T) Media Kit $25 > > > > Workstation (WS) is fine. However, why not try the free Fedora Core 5? > > You just download it and burn it to CDs or DVDs. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > > - - > > - Where there's a will, I want to be in it. - > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Redhat-install-list mailing list > > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > > Subject: unsubscribe > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Redhat-install-list mailing list > > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > > Subject: unsubscribe > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - Microsoft Windows: Proof that P.T. Barnum was right - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Treat each day as if it's your last...a lot of crying and whining - - usually gets you what you want! -- Sam Sledge - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Redhat-install-list mailing list Redhat-install-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com Subject: unsubscribe From radhakrishnan.mohan at gmail.com Thu Jul 6 09:25:53 2006 From: radhakrishnan.mohan at gmail.com (Mohan Radhakrishnan) Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 14:55:53 +0530 Subject: /tmp/hdimage not found. Message-ID: Hi, I am trying to instal RHEL 3 from the hard disk. I have copied the iso images and all the RPM's to the same directory on the hard disk. When I choose this directory it fails to find it. It is looking for /tmp/hdimage/my directory. ALT+Fn shows that a valid FAT partition is not found. How do I solve this ? This is stopping the server installation. Thanks, Mohan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From radhakrishnan.mohan at gmail.com Thu Jul 6 09:57:44 2006 From: radhakrishnan.mohan at gmail.com (Mohan Radhakrishnan) Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 15:27:44 +0530 Subject: /tmp/hdimage not found. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I'd like to add that my images/RPM's are in a directory in my Windows XP drive. I was thinking that I can resize my NTFS partition and free up space for linux once this problem is solved. What am I doing wrong ? Thanks, Mohan On 7/6/06, Mohan Radhakrishnan wrote: > > Hi, > I am trying to instal RHEL 3 from the hard disk. I have copied the > iso images and all the RPM's to the > same directory on the hard disk. > > When I choose this directory it fails to find it. It is looking for > /tmp/hdimage/my directory. > > ALT+Fn shows that a valid FAT partition is not found. > > How do I solve this ? This is stopping the server installation. > > Thanks, > Mohan > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nmw at ion.le.ac.uk Thu Jul 6 10:21:37 2006 From: nmw at ion.le.ac.uk (Nigel Wade) Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 11:21:37 +0100 Subject: Perl cpan problems in RHEL4 Message-ID: <44ACE431.3020907@ion.le.ac.uk> Hi, Is anyone managing to use the cpan command to install perl modules? I've tried to do this on 3 different RHEL4 systems, and they all fail in the same way. All the systems are up to date. To install a CPAN module it is necessary to first install the Module::Build module. However, this fails to install with many, many errors: /usr/bin/make -- OK Running make test /usr/bin/perl Build --makefile_env_macros 1 test t/basic...........ok t/compat..........ok 2/60Couldn't run Build.PL: Argument list too long at /root/.cpan/build/Module-Build-0.2801/blib/lib/Module/Build/Compat.pm line 200. t/compat..........NOK 3# Failed test (t/compat.t at line 180) t/compat..........NOK 4# Failed test (t/compat.t at line 181) make[1]: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. t/compat..........NOK 5# Failed test (t/compat.t at line 56) and this failure causes a cascade of errors. Has anyone else seen this problem, and knows of a solution? I can't find anything in Bugzilla relating to this. Without this module I can't install anything using cpan, and that makes it very difficult to install any perl modules. -- Nigel Wade, System Administrator, Space Plasma Physics Group, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK E-mail : nmw at ion.le.ac.uk Phone : +44 (0)116 2523548, Fax : +44 (0)116 2523555 From nmw at ion.le.ac.uk Thu Jul 6 11:05:54 2006 From: nmw at ion.le.ac.uk (Nigel Wade) Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 12:05:54 +0100 Subject: Perl cpan problems in RHEL4 In-Reply-To: <44ACE431.3020907@ion.le.ac.uk> References: <44ACE431.3020907@ion.le.ac.uk> Message-ID: <44ACEE92.8060707@ion.le.ac.uk> I should have done more extensive searching before requesting help. Apparently it's an ongoing problem, and the solution for RHEL4 is to install an older version of the Module::Build module. There is a link to a pre-built RPM here: http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/perl-modules/ -- Nigel Wade, System Administrator, Space Plasma Physics Group, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK E-mail : nmw at ion.le.ac.uk Phone : +44 (0)116 2523548, Fax : +44 (0)116 2523555 From radhakrishnan.mohan at gmail.com Thu Jul 6 12:45:02 2006 From: radhakrishnan.mohan at gmail.com (Mohan Radhakrishnan) Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 18:15:02 +0530 Subject: /tmp/hdimage not found. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Replying to my own question. Basically I am not sure if what I have on the CD-ROM is an ISO image or not. That could be the problem. What files should I be looking at ? Thanks, Mohan On 7/6/06, Mohan Radhakrishnan wrote: > > I'd like to add that my images/RPM's are in a directory in my Windows XP > drive. I was thinking that I can resize my NTFS partition and free up space > for linux once this problem is solved. > > What am I doing wrong ? > > > Thanks, > Mohan > > > On 7/6/06, Mohan Radhakrishnan wrote: > > > > Hi, > > I am trying to instal RHEL 3 from the hard disk. I have copied > > the iso images and all the RPM's to the > > same directory on the hard disk. > > > > When I choose this directory it fails to find it. It is looking for > > /tmp/hdimage/my directory. > > > > ALT+Fn shows that a valid FAT partition is not found. > > > > How do I solve this ? This is stopping the server installation. > > > > Thanks, > > Mohan > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jul 6 18:30:17 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 11:30:17 -0700 Subject: /tmp/hdimage not found. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1152210617.6282.89.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 18:15 +0530, Mohan Radhakrishnan wrote: > Replying to my own question. > > > Basically I am not sure if what I have on the CD-ROM is an ISO image > or not. That could be the problem. What files should I be looking at ? You only need the .iso files. However, they MUST be on a FAT or VFAT partition. The installer does not understand NTFS filesystems. > > > Thanks, > Mohan > > > On 7/6/06, Mohan Radhakrishnan wrote: > I'd like to add that my images/RPM's are in a directory in my > Windows XP drive. I was thinking that I can resize my NTFS > partition and free up space for linux once this problem is > solved. > > What am I doing wrong ? > > > Thanks, > Mohan > > > On 7/6/06, Mohan Radhakrishnan > wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to instal RHEL 3 from the hard disk. > I have copied the iso images and all the RPM's to the > same directory on the hard disk. > > When I choose this directory it fails to find it. It > is looking for /tmp/hdimage/my directory. > > ALT+Fn shows that a valid FAT partition is not found. > > How do I solve this ? This is stopping the server > installation. > > Thanks, > Mohan > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Duct Tape + Magic Marker = Label Maker! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From radhakrishnan.mohan at gmail.com Fri Jul 7 05:23:41 2006 From: radhakrishnan.mohan at gmail.com (Mohan Radhakrishnan) Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 10:53:41 +0530 Subject: Installer searching for USB driver Message-ID: Hi, I am trying to boot linux from iomega USB drive. Why is the installer popping up a dialog box showing me a list of drivers to choose from ? Even my SATA drive was not initially recognized when I choose to install from the hard drive. I have to choose 'combination' from the PC boot options to make the drive controller work with older software. The the installer could recognize this. Is there any way to help the installer recognize the USB drive. Thanks, Mohan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jul 7 17:18:53 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 10:18:53 -0700 Subject: Installer searching for USB driver In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1152292734.6282.96.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 10:53 +0530, Mohan Radhakrishnan wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to boot linux from iomega USB drive. Why is the > installer popping up a dialog box showing me a list of drivers to > choose from ? > > Even my SATA drive was not initially recognized when I choose to > install from the hard drive. I have to choose 'combination' from the > PC boot options to make the drive controller work with older software. > The the installer could recognize this. > > Is there any way to help the installer recognize the USB drive. What version of Red Hat are you trying to install? Keep in mind that up until RHEL4, SATA support was extremely limited to non-existent. RHEL4, Fedora Core 4 and 5 have reasonable SATA support, but anything on a 2.4 kernel was virtually absent. When you say USB drive, are you referring to a USB-based hard drive or a FLASH drive (pen drive)? If it's a hard drive, the system SHOULD recognize it as a SCSI drive, e.g. /dev/sda. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - NEWS FLASH! Intelligence of mankind decreasing! Details at... - - uh, when, uh, the little hand is, uh, on the... Aw, NUTS! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From radhakrishnan.mohan at gmail.com Sat Jul 8 11:41:59 2006 From: radhakrishnan.mohan at gmail.com (Mohan Radhakrishnan) Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 17:11:59 +0530 Subject: Installer searching for USB driver In-Reply-To: <1152292734.6282.96.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <1152292734.6282.96.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: I am using RHEL 3 and when I choose an option in the boot menu the installer is able to recognize the SATA drive. It is a USB CD-ROM drive. The RedHat documentation mentions that a driver diskette has to be created ( linux dd, I think ) from the RedHat CD and later the installer will prompt for this diskette. I have to try this. When you say that SATA support is not good you mean that after installation there will be problems ?? As I said the installer is able to recognize it. RHEL 3 with upgrade 6 for dual-core support is our recommended OS. The purpose is to install WebSphere portal 5.1 Thanks, Mohan On 7/7/06, Rick Stevens wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 10:53 +0530, Mohan Radhakrishnan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to boot linux from iomega USB drive. Why is the > > installer popping up a dialog box showing me a list of drivers to > > choose from ? > > > > Even my SATA drive was not initially recognized when I choose to > > install from the hard drive. I have to choose 'combination' from the > > PC boot options to make the drive controller work with older software. > > The the installer could recognize this. > > > > Is there any way to help the installer recognize the USB drive. > > What version of Red Hat are you trying to install? Keep in mind that up > until RHEL4, SATA support was extremely limited to non-existent. RHEL4, > Fedora Core 4 and 5 have reasonable SATA support, but anything on a 2.4 > kernel was virtually absent. > > When you say USB drive, are you referring to a USB-based hard drive or > a FLASH drive (pen drive)? If it's a hard drive, the system SHOULD > recognize it as a SCSI drive, e.g. /dev/sda. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - NEWS FLASH! Intelligence of mankind decreasing! 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URL: From salmansiddiqui1234 at rediffmail.com Sun Jul 9 10:15:28 2006 From: salmansiddiqui1234 at rediffmail.com (Salman Siddiqui) Date: 9 Jul 2006 10:15:28 -0000 Subject: Access linux drives over windows and vice versa Message-ID: <20060709101528.2618.qmail@webmail29.rediffmail.com> I hope I am sending this to the correct list(or do I need to mail this to the Red Hat RPM list?) I recently installes FC4. I already have windows xp installed. My drive configuration on widows is as follows: C: has xp installed D: CD drive E: another xp partition F: (recently I came to know it is the boot partition, as when I installed ext2fs-0.3 software to access linux partition it showed its size to be 110MB. ) this ext2fs-0.3 software dosent seem to retrive the other linux partitions installed? now what should I do? how to access the linux partitions over my windows xp (no SP2 Installed)platform and ofcourse vice versa? Thank You!!! destiny drives the world... try driving destiny!!! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tpotter at techmarin.com Sun Jul 9 11:07:48 2006 From: tpotter at techmarin.com (Ted Potter) Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 04:07:48 -0700 Subject: Access linux drives over windows and vice versa In-Reply-To: <20060709101528.2618.qmail@webmail29.rediffmail.com> References: <20060709101528.2618.qmail@webmail29.rediffmail.com> Message-ID: <5ce05200607090407s5b8b2256u247e5176de793fc4@mail.gmail.com> On 9 Jul 2006 10:15:28 -0000, Salman Siddiqui wrote: > > > > I hope I am sending this to the correct list(or do I need to mail this to the Red Hat RPM list?) > > > I recently installes FC4. I already have windows xp installed. > My drive configuration on widows is as follows: > > C: has xp installed > D: CD drive > E: another xp partition > F: (recently I came to know it is the boot partition, as when I installed ext2fs-0.3 software to access linux partition it showed its size to be 110MB. ) > > this ext2fs-0.3 software dosent seem to retrive the other linux partitions installed? > > now what should I do? > how to access the linux partitions over my windows xp (no SP2 Installed)platform and ofcourse vice versa? you might look at this, he seems to do what you wish. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-July/msg02391.html hth -- Ted Potter tpotter at techmarin.com From chuck at ckollars.org Sun Jul 9 16:47:54 2006 From: chuck at ckollars.org (Chuck Kollars) Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2006 12:47:54 -0400 Subject: misleading error message Message-ID: <44B1333A.AD39886E@ckollars.org> The error message "There was an error installing [package]. This can indicate media failure ..." can apparently mean more than one thing. It can mean what it says: typically a problem with the CD drive or the CD. It can _also_ mean some other subtle problem with the hardware was encountered during installation. You can even encounter both problems on the same system, which is quite confusing (just one error message provoked by two totally separate problems). Many people never see the message, but a few people see it so often they can't get past it, especially when they're trying to "repurpose" very old hardware. I wish RedHat's install provided just a little more information to help disambiguate this error message. First, when testing CD & media, please provide some measure of the quality of the CD drive & media (perhaps a scale of 0-10) rather than just a PASS/FAIL indication. And second, when the error message occurs tell us just a little more, such as which devices had interrupts outstanding or which devices had IO operations that weren't completed. I first encountered this message because I had _two_ flaky CD drives and some too-cheap CD blanks. Swapping out a suspect CD drive but still seeing the same error was quite misleading. I eventually fetched a _third_ CD drive and nailed that problem. Don't skip the media check; CD and CD drive problems are the most common (but not the only) cause of this error. But even though my media problem was fixed, the error message wouldn't go away. In the absence of information, superstition took over: move the ribbon cables, put hard drives on different IDE channels to avoid any possible interference, swap masters and slaves, put the cabinet cover on to reduce possible interference from outside, temporarily power off all the fans (except the CPU) to eliminate any possible electrical noise, replace the ribbon cables, switch to "cable select" or explicit jumpers, turn off Plug'n'Play, check every one of the BIOS settings, remove possible antenna wires such as a CAT5 jumper cable, turn off the electrostatic air filter that was in the room, switch to auto partition or disk druid, switch to text or GUI, remove unnecessary cards to reduce chances of power brownout, reseat all connectors, reseat the RAM, blow a brand new BIOS, force all disk partitions to be reformatted, replace the CMOS battery, etc. I doubt any of that hurt ...but none of it solved the problem and none of it was necessary (in fact it risked introducing yet another problem). Something about changing a ribbon cable did have a noticeable effect (delaying the problem a couple more minutes further into the install), but in hindsight I think that was just a fluke not related to the real problem. After more fiddling it seemed the problem was somehow related to a mouse interrupt and a CD drive interrupt happening at the same time, but even knowing that didn't suggest to me what to do about it. What finally worked was to remove a 256MB DIMM. The BIOS recognized the DIMM, and `memtest` said it worked fine on that motherboard. But the manufacturer's documentation for my hardware said only up to 128MB DIMMs were supported. So I took out the 256MB DIMM and tried the install again and voil?. good luck! -- Chuck Kollars - principal Kollars Informatics Ipswich, Massachusetts, USA From celawrence at lbl.gov Mon Jul 10 21:41:41 2006 From: celawrence at lbl.gov (chuck lawrence) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:41:41 -0700 Subject: extra route? Message-ID: <44B2C995.2080204@lbl.gov> greetings, I've got a centos web server. is it ok to ask questions here? this server was working fine in my test area. I moved it to the production network today, changing everything I could find relating to hostname and network stuff. it comes up on the new network, with the new hostname, and appears to work just fine, except... somewhere there is still a reference to either the old hostname, or the old route, or both. I can't get to or from this server from my test area subnet, and the routing table shows, in addition to the correct routes, the old one, too. I modified the following files to effect this change, but I guess I missed something? /etc/hosts /etc/nsswitch.conf /etc/sysconfig/network /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 also, I'm having no success deleting the bogus route. could someone provide an example of a "route del" command? any advice is appreciated... adv(thanks)ance -- * ------------------- * ----------------------------* | charles e. lawrence | lawrence berkeley nat'l lab | | celawrence at lbl.gov | #1 cyclotron rd ms 50a6134 | | (510) 486-4682 | berkeley ca 94720 | * ------------------- * ----------------------------* "If the human body did patch management the way (companies do), we'd all be dead." www-eng.lbl.gov/~lawrence From riegersteve at gmail.com Mon Jul 10 21:49:12 2006 From: riegersteve at gmail.com (Steve Rieger) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:49:12 -0700 Subject: extra route? In-Reply-To: <44B2C995.2080204@lbl.gov> References: <44B2C995.2080204@lbl.gov> Message-ID: <44B2CB58.5060601@gmail.com> chuck lawrence wrote: > greetings, > > I've got a centos web server. is it ok to ask questions here? > > this server was working fine in my test area. I moved it to the > production network today, changing everything I could find relating to > hostname and network stuff. > > it comes up on the new network, with the new hostname, and appears to > work just fine, except... > > somewhere there is still a reference to either the old hostname, or > the old route, or both. I can't get to or from this server from my > test area subnet, and the routing table shows, in addition to the > correct routes, the old one, too. > > I modified the following files to effect this change, but I guess I > missed something? > > /etc/hosts > /etc/nsswitch.conf > /etc/sysconfig/network > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 > > also, I'm having no success deleting the bogus route. could someone > provide an example of a "route del" command? > manually add the new route, then remove the old one, -- -- eats the blues for breakfast, does unix for rent, plays harp for food, will play the flute for kicks rides for the freedom scrapes for thechallenge From bob at bobcatos.com Mon Jul 10 21:57:06 2006 From: bob at bobcatos.com (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:57:06 -0500 Subject: extra route? In-Reply-To: <44B2C995.2080204@lbl.gov> References: <44B2C995.2080204@lbl.gov> Message-ID: <20060710215706.GB21511@bobcat.bobcatos.com> On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 02:41:41PM -0700, chuck lawrence wrote: > greetings, > > I've got a centos web server. is it ok to ask questions here? Nope. Sorry. Next. ;-) > this server was working fine in my test area. I moved it to the > production network today, changing everything I could find relating to > hostname and network stuff. > > it comes up on the new network, with the new hostname, and appears to > work just fine, except... > > somewhere there is still a reference to either the old hostname, or the > old route, or both. I can't get to or from this server from my test > area subnet, and the routing table shows, in addition to the correct > routes, the old one, too. > > I modified the following files to effect this change, but I guess I > missed something? > > /etc/hosts > /etc/nsswitch.conf > /etc/sysconfig/network > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 Check for /etc/sysconfig/static-routes. That file is not normally necessary. > also, I'm having no success deleting the bogus route. could someone > provide an example of a "route del" command? man route has syntax and examples. > any advice is appreciated... > > adv(thanks)ance > > -- > > * ------------------- * ----------------------------* > | charles e. lawrence | lawrence berkeley nat'l lab | > | celawrence at lbl.gov | #1 cyclotron rd ms 50a6134 | > | (510) 486-4682 | berkeley ca 94720 | > * ------------------- * ----------------------------* Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. bob at bobcatos.com http://www.bobcatos.com Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD. - Psalm 33:12 Righteousness exalts a nation. - Proverbs 14:34 From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Jul 11 02:10:11 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 19:10:11 -0700 Subject: misleading error message In-Reply-To: <44B1333A.AD39886E@ckollars.org> References: <44B1333A.AD39886E@ckollars.org> Message-ID: <1152583811.6282.122.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Sun, 2006-07-09 at 12:47 -0400, Chuck Kollars wrote: > The error message "There was an error installing [package]. This can > indicate media failure ..." can apparently mean more than one thing. It > can mean what it says: typically a problem with the CD drive or the CD. > It can _also_ mean some other subtle problem with the hardware was > encountered during installation. You can even encounter both problems > on the same system, which is quite confusing (just one error message > provoked by two totally separate problems). Many people never see the > message, but a few people see it so often they can't get past it, > especially when they're trying to "repurpose" very old hardware. > > I wish RedHat's install provided just a little more information to help > disambiguate this error message. First, when testing CD & media, please > provide some measure of the quality of the CD drive & media (perhaps a > scale of 0-10) rather than just a PASS/FAIL indication. There is no way to "rate" the media on a scale. It either works or it doesn't. It isn't an analog media like a tape or LP where you can create something like a signal-to-noise ratio. > And second, > when the error message occurs tell us just a little more, such as which > devices had interrupts outstanding or which devices had IO operations > that weren't completed. That's all available from the console window and the "dmesg" command. > I first encountered this message because I had _two_ flaky CD drives and > some too-cheap CD blanks. Swapping out a suspect CD drive but still > seeing the same error was quite misleading. I eventually fetched a > _third_ CD drive and nailed that problem. Don't skip the media check; > CD and CD drive problems are the most common (but not the only) cause > of this error. As is bad DMA hardware. > > But even though my media problem was fixed, the error message wouldn't > go away. In the absence of information, superstition took over: move the > ribbon cables, put hard drives on different IDE channels to avoid any > possible interference, swap masters and slaves, put the cabinet cover on > to reduce possible interference from outside, temporarily power off all > the fans (except the CPU) to eliminate any possible electrical noise, > replace the ribbon cables, switch to "cable select" or explicit jumpers, > turn off Plug'n'Play, check every one of the BIOS settings, remove > possible antenna wires such as a CAT5 jumper cable, turn off the > electrostatic air filter that was in the room, switch to auto partition > or disk druid, switch to text or GUI, remove unnecessary cards to reduce > chances of power brownout, reseat all connectors, reseat the RAM, blow a > brand new BIOS, force all disk partitions to be reformatted, replace the > CMOS battery, etc. I doubt any of that hurt ...but none of it solved > the problem and none of it was necessary (in fact it risked introducing > yet another problem). The FIRST thing you do on questionable hardware is make sure your machine has the latest BIOS installed. Badly handled DMA code in the BIOS is a HUGE problem. If you still have issues, try using "linux ide=nodma" on the boot line. Turning off DMA on the CD drive can cure a raft of woes. Don't blame Linux or anaconda...blame the BIOS writers. > Something about changing a ribbon cable did have a noticeable effect > (delaying the problem a couple more minutes further into the install), > but in hindsight I think that was just a fluke not related to the real > problem. After more fiddling it seemed the problem was somehow related > to a mouse interrupt and a CD drive interrupt happening at the same time, > but even knowing that didn't suggest to me what to do about it. Lovely. Yet another BIOS issue. Interrupt mapping is also an issue with some BIOSs. Why in the hell a programmer can make the mistake that mouse interrupts should have a higher priority than disk interrupts is something that still astounds me. > What finally worked was to remove a 256MB DIMM. The BIOS recognized the > DIMM, and `memtest` said it worked fine on that motherboard. But the > manufacturer's documentation for my hardware said only up to 128MB DIMMs > were supported. So I took out the 256MB DIMM and tried the install > again and voil?. Memtest is good, but not perfect, and when you REALLY pound on that RAM, you'll find that the BIOS wasn't refreshing it often enough. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - If you can't beat your computer at chess...try kickboxing! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Tue Jul 11 02:12:22 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 19:12:22 -0700 Subject: extra route? In-Reply-To: <20060710215706.GB21511@bobcat.bobcatos.com> References: <44B2C995.2080204@lbl.gov> <20060710215706.GB21511@bobcat.bobcatos.com> Message-ID: <1152583943.6282.125.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 16:57 -0500, Bob McClure Jr wrote: > On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 02:41:41PM -0700, chuck lawrence wrote: > > greetings, > > > > I've got a centos web server. is it ok to ask questions here? > > Nope. Sorry. Next. ;-) > > > this server was working fine in my test area. I moved it to the > > production network today, changing everything I could find relating to > > hostname and network stuff. > > > > it comes up on the new network, with the new hostname, and appears to > > work just fine, except... > > > > somewhere there is still a reference to either the old hostname, or the > > old route, or both. I can't get to or from this server from my test > > area subnet, and the routing table shows, in addition to the correct > > routes, the old one, too. > > > > I modified the following files to effect this change, but I guess I > > missed something? > > > > /etc/hosts > > /etc/nsswitch.conf > > /etc/sysconfig/network > > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 > > Check for /etc/sysconfig/static-routes. That file is not normally > necessary. Also look for /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-ethx files. > > > also, I'm having no success deleting the bogus route. could someone > > provide an example of a "route del" command? "route delete -net www.xxx.yyy.zzz netmask aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From radhakrishnan.mohan at gmail.com Tue Jul 11 06:34:37 2006 From: radhakrishnan.mohan at gmail.com (Mohan Radhakrishnan) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 12:04:37 +0530 Subject: Installation from harddisk from installation tree Message-ID: Hi, I have RHEL 3 CD-ROM's. Can I copy the files from the CD to the harddisk and create a structure to install linux ? I will have to copy the structure to the XP partition and boot the CD using a USB drive. If there is blank space on the hardisk then this installation should succeed ?? Can anyone confirm this ? I am referring to http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/LinuxGuide/redhat-hd-install.html C:\REDHAT\ |----> RedHat - a subdirectory of C:\RedHat\, so it'll be C:\RedHat\RedHat |----> RPMS -- binary packages - important |----> base -- small filesystem setup archives - important |----> instimage -- image used for graphical installs |----> images -- boot and ramdisk images - download to follow this guide |----> dosutils -- installation utilities for DOS - download to follow this guide |----> doc -- various FAQs and HOWTOs |----> misc -- source files, install trees |----> COPYING -- copyright information |----> RPM-PGP-KEY -- PGP signature for packages from Red Hat |----> SRPMS -- Source RPMS for Red Hat distribution (not really needed unless you want to build RPMs) Thanks, Mohan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From celawrence at lbl.gov Tue Jul 11 19:27:40 2006 From: celawrence at lbl.gov (chuck lawrence) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 12:27:40 -0700 Subject: extra route -- now fixed In-Reply-To: <20060711160031.98B9E7362E@hormel.redhat.com> References: <20060711160031.98B9E7362E@hormel.redhat.com> Message-ID: <44B3FBAC.9080100@lbl.gov> rick sez... > Rick Stevens >>Check for /etc/sysconfig/static-routes. That file is not normally >>necessary. nothing there. > Also look for /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-ethx files. nothing there, either. > "route delete -net www.xxx.yyy.zzz netmask aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd" bingo. success. the centos man page said "route del", which didn't work, instead of "route delete". it's happy now, but I still wish I knew why the odd route was left over. I'll reboot over the weekend to see if it returns. still entertaining clever ideas about how it got there. many thanks... -- * ------------------- * ----------------------------* | charles e. lawrence | lawrence berkeley nat'l lab | | celawrence at lbl.gov | #1 cyclotron rd ms 50a6134 | | (510) 486-4682 | berkeley ca 94720 | * ------------------- * ----------------------------* "If the human body did patch management the way (companies do), we'd all be dead." www-eng.lbl.gov/~lawrence From harold at hallikainen.com Wed Jul 12 03:22:13 2006 From: harold at hallikainen.com (Harold Hallikainen) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 20:22:13 -0700 (PDT) Subject: ghost for linux Message-ID: <42095.192.168.1.1.1152674533.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> Thanks to the help from this list, I now have FC5 running on my HP zv6000 AMD64 laptop. Next trick is to make a backup so I don't mess things up. Based on suggestions from the list, I'm trying out g4l. I'm making an image on a USB hard drive. This seems to work, but I suspect the image is larger than it needs to be because I didn't clear out the unused space on the laptop drive. g4l comes with a simple script to write nulls to the drive, then delete the created file. The script is: dd if=/dev/zero of=/0bits bs=20M rm /0bits When I run it as root, I get the following errors: ./CleanDrive.sh ./CleanDrive.sh: line 2: dd if=/dev/zero of=/0bits bs=20M: No such file or directory ./CleanDrive.sh: line 3: rm /0bits: No such file or directory Ideas? THANKS! Harold -- FCC Rules Updated Daily at http://www.hallikainen.com - Advertising opportunities available! From interp01 at sevenbelow.com Wed Jul 12 08:12:21 2006 From: interp01 at sevenbelow.com (interp01 at sevenbelow.com) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 01:12:21 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Intel GB NIC failing to recognize on boot RHEL 4 Message-ID: <32798.192.168.1.155.1152691941.squirrel@www.sevenbelow.com> I am attempting to install RHEL 4 on an IBM T60p laptop and I am getting the following NIC failure error when booting or running ifup: e1000 device eth1 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization. I have found several articles on the net that mention the lack of the e1000 driver not being aliased in my modprobe.conf file. I have already added an entry as follows to modprobe.conf and manually loaded the module using modprobe (neither way made a difference the module seems to load perfectly fine): alias eth1 e1000 An lsmod shows the e1000 module loaded: e1000 96429 0 I have confirmed that the network card does have an entry in the hwconf file. I have tried setting the driver parameter to e1000 but a reboot or run of KUDZU will cause the driver parameter to be reset to unknown. Could this be the cause of my problem???? Here is my hwconf entry for the NIC pre boot or KUDZU run: - class: NETWORK bus: PCI detached: 0 device: eth1 driver: e1000 desc: "Intel Corporation 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller" vendorId: 8086 deviceId: 109a subVendorId: 17aa subDeviceId: 2001 pciType: 1 pcidom: 0 pcibus: 2 pcidev: 0 pcifn: 0 - Also, I am seeing green lights on both the Laptop NIC and the Switch, and the network cable has been tested on other machines and is working :) Im really at an end here so any insight from anyone would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, DK As and FYI here is my ifcfg-eth1 file: IPV6INIT=no ONBOOT=yes USERCTL=no PEERDNS=yes GATEWAY=192.168.1.2 TYPE=Ethernet DEVICE=eth1 BOOTPROTO=none NETMASK=255.255.255.0 IPADDR=192.168.1.10 From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Jul 12 17:47:26 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 10:47:26 -0700 Subject: ghost for linux In-Reply-To: <42095.192.168.1.1.1152674533.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> References: <42095.192.168.1.1.1152674533.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> Message-ID: <1152726447.6282.142.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 20:22 -0700, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > Thanks to the help from this list, I now have FC5 running on my HP zv6000 > AMD64 laptop. Next trick is to make a backup so I don't mess things up. > Based on suggestions from the list, I'm trying out g4l. I'm making an > image on a USB hard drive. This seems to work, but I suspect the image is > larger than it needs to be because I didn't clear out the unused space on > the laptop drive. g4l comes with a simple script to write nulls to the > drive, then delete the created file. The script is: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/0bits bs=20M > rm /0bits > > > When I run it as root, I get the following errors: > > ./CleanDrive.sh > ./CleanDrive.sh: line 2: dd if=/dev/zero of=/0bits bs=20M: No such file or > directory > ./CleanDrive.sh: line 3: rm /0bits: No such file or directory > > > Ideas? When you say "I run it as root", did you "su" or "su -"? You MUST use "su -", as "dd" is in /bin and that's not part of a regular user's PATH. "su" only changes your UID/GID to root. "su -" also gives you root's environment (including root's PATH). Alternately, you could change the script to "/bin/dd if=...." (in other words, specify the full path to dd). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - You possess a mind not merely twisted, but actually sprained. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Jul 12 18:06:06 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 11:06:06 -0700 Subject: Intel GB NIC failing to recognize on boot RHEL 4 In-Reply-To: <32798.192.168.1.155.1152691941.squirrel@www.sevenbelow.com> References: <32798.192.168.1.155.1152691941.squirrel@www.sevenbelow.com> Message-ID: <1152727567.6282.151.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 01:12 -0700, interp01 at sevenbelow.com wrote: > I am attempting to install RHEL 4 on an IBM T60p laptop and I am getting > the following NIC failure error when booting or running ifup: > > e1000 device eth1 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization. Yes, that happens when the driver doesn't load > I have found several articles on the net that mention the lack of the > e1000 driver not being aliased in my modprobe.conf file. I have already > added an entry as follows to modprobe.conf and manually loaded the module > using modprobe (neither way made a difference the module seems to load > perfectly fine): > > alias eth1 e1000 > > An lsmod shows the e1000 module loaded: > > e1000 96429 0 The alias in /etc/modprobe.conf should cause the module to load at boot time. If that doesn't happen, then the "modprobe" command does it. > I have confirmed that the network card does have an entry in the hwconf > file. I have tried setting the driver parameter to e1000 but a reboot or > run of KUDZU will cause the driver parameter to be reset to unknown. > Could this be the cause of my problem???? Yes. It would appear that the version of kudzu you're running doesn't know what driver is associated with the vendor and product IDs for that card. I'd manually load it and make sure you update the system ASAP. A new version of kudzu may know about it. If not, squawk it to Red Hat. You can turn off kudzu if your hardware config doesn't change often (and on a laptop, it doesn't). Just "chkconfig --level 2345 kudzu off". > Here is my hwconf entry for the NIC pre boot or KUDZU run: > > - > class: NETWORK > bus: PCI > detached: 0 > device: eth1 > driver: e1000 > desc: "Intel Corporation 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller" > vendorId: 8086 > deviceId: 109a > subVendorId: 17aa > subDeviceId: 2001 > pciType: 1 > pcidom: 0 > pcibus: 2 > pcidev: 0 > pcifn: 0 > - Looks reasonable. > Also, I am seeing green lights on both the Laptop NIC and the Switch, and > the network cable has been tested on other machines and is working :) Once you've successfully "modprobe"d the e1000 driver, just do an "ifup eth1" as the root user and it should come alive. > Im really at an end here so any insight from anyone would be greatly > appreciated. > > Thanks, > > DK > > > As and FYI here is my ifcfg-eth1 file: > > IPV6INIT=no > ONBOOT=yes > USERCTL=no > PEERDNS=yes > GATEWAY=192.168.1.2 > TYPE=Ethernet > DEVICE=eth1 > BOOTPROTO=none > NETMASK=255.255.255.0 > IPADDR=192.168.1.10 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - First Law of Work: - - If you can't get it done in the first 24 hours, work nights. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From harold at hallikainen.com Thu Jul 13 02:48:57 2006 From: harold at hallikainen.com (Harold Hallikainen) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:48:57 -0700 (PDT) Subject: ghost for linux In-Reply-To: <1152726447.6282.142.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <42095.192.168.1.1.1152674533.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <1152726447.6282.142.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <50659.192.168.1.1.1152758937.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> > On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 20:22 -0700, Harold Hallikainen wrote: >> Thanks to the help from this list, I now have FC5 running on my HP >> zv6000 >> AMD64 laptop. Next trick is to make a backup so I don't mess things up. >> Based on suggestions from the list, I'm trying out g4l. I'm making an >> image on a USB hard drive. This seems to work, but I suspect the image >> is >> larger than it needs to be because I didn't clear out the unused space >> on >> the laptop drive. g4l comes with a simple script to write nulls to the >> drive, then delete the created file. The script is: >> >> dd if=/dev/zero of=/0bits bs=20M >> rm /0bits >> >> >> When I run it as root, I get the following errors: >> >> ./CleanDrive.sh >> ./CleanDrive.sh: line 2: dd if=/dev/zero of=/0bits bs=20M: No such file >> or >> directory >> ./CleanDrive.sh: line 3: rm /0bits: No such file or directory >> >> >> Ideas? > > When you say "I run it as root", did you "su" or "su -"? You MUST use > "su -", as "dd" is in /bin and that's not part of a regular user's PATH. > > "su" only changes your UID/GID to root. "su -" also gives you root's > environment (including root's PATH). Alternately, you could change the > script to "/bin/dd if=...." (in other words, specify the full path to > dd). > Thanks! I always wondered what the - did. I just used su. Anyway, I did su - and fully specified the path to dd and it still seems to have problems... [root at hhlaptop Desktop]# ./CleanDrive.sh ./CleanDrive.sh: line 2: /bin/dd if=/dev/zero of=/0bits bs=20M: No such file or directory ./CleanDrive.sh: line 3: rm /0bits: No such file or directory [root at hhlaptop Desktop]# More ideas? THANKS! Harold -- FCC Rules Updated Daily at http://www.hallikainen.com - Advertising opportunities available! From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jul 13 18:35:04 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:35:04 -0700 Subject: ghost for linux In-Reply-To: <50659.192.168.1.1.1152758937.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> References: <42095.192.168.1.1.1152674533.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <1152726447.6282.142.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <50659.192.168.1.1.1152758937.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> Message-ID: <1152815704.6282.164.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 19:48 -0700, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 20:22 -0700, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > >> Thanks to the help from this list, I now have FC5 running on my HP > >> zv6000 > >> AMD64 laptop. Next trick is to make a backup so I don't mess things up. > >> Based on suggestions from the list, I'm trying out g4l. I'm making an > >> image on a USB hard drive. This seems to work, but I suspect the image > >> is > >> larger than it needs to be because I didn't clear out the unused space > >> on > >> the laptop drive. g4l comes with a simple script to write nulls to the > >> drive, then delete the created file. The script is: > >> > >> dd if=/dev/zero of=/0bits bs=20M > >> rm /0bits > >> > >> > >> When I run it as root, I get the following errors: > >> > >> ./CleanDrive.sh > >> ./CleanDrive.sh: line 2: dd if=/dev/zero of=/0bits bs=20M: No such file > >> or > >> directory > >> ./CleanDrive.sh: line 3: rm /0bits: No such file or directory > >> > >> > >> Ideas? > > > > When you say "I run it as root", did you "su" or "su -"? You MUST use > > "su -", as "dd" is in /bin and that's not part of a regular user's PATH. > > > > "su" only changes your UID/GID to root. "su -" also gives you root's > > environment (including root's PATH). Alternately, you could change the > > script to "/bin/dd if=...." (in other words, specify the full path to > > dd). > > > > > Thanks! I always wondered what the - did. I just used su. Anyway, I did su > - and fully specified the path to dd and it still seems to have > problems... > > [root at hhlaptop Desktop]# ./CleanDrive.sh > ./CleanDrive.sh: line 2: /bin/dd if=/dev/zero of=/0bits bs=20M: No such > file or directory > ./CleanDrive.sh: line 3: rm /0bits: No such file or directory > [root at hhlaptop Desktop]# Hmmm, works for me. You should specify a "count=" parameter as well. Example: [root at prophead work]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/0bits bs=20M count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out [root at prophead work]# ls -lh /0bits -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20M Jul 13 11:31 /0bits So, if your script is EXACTLY what you said it is, try adding the "count=" thing to the end. Also verify that you indeed have the /bin/dd program and that the /dev/zero device exists. It should look something like this: [root at prophead work]# ls -l /bin/dd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 34540 Jul 25 2005 /bin/dd [root at prophead work]# ls -l /dev/zero crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 5 Jun 21 05:12 /dev/zero Note that the /bin/dd program comes as part of the "coreutils" RPM. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - You possess a mind not merely twisted, but actually sprained. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From linuxr at gmail.com Thu Jul 13 18:59:31 2006 From: linuxr at gmail.com (Marc M) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 14:59:31 -0400 Subject: ghost for linux In-Reply-To: <1152815704.6282.164.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <42095.192.168.1.1.1152674533.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <1152726447.6282.142.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <50659.192.168.1.1.1152758937.squirrel@sujan.hallikainen.org> <1152815704.6282.164.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: might also try dcfldd, it has some enhancements over regular dd.... On 7/13/06, Rick Stevens wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 19:48 -0700, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > > > On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 20:22 -0700, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > > >> Thanks to the help from this list, I now have FC5 running on my HP > > >> zv6000 > > >> AMD64 laptop. Next trick is to make a backup so I don't mess things > up. > > >> Based on suggestions from the list, I'm trying out g4l. I'm making an > > >> image on a USB hard drive. This seems to work, but I suspect the > image > > >> is > > >> larger than it needs to be because I didn't clear out the unused > space > > >> on > > >> the laptop drive. g4l comes with a simple script to write nulls to > the > > >> drive, then delete the created file. The script is: > > >> > > >> dd if=/dev/zero of=/0bits bs=20M > > >> rm /0bits > > >> > > >> > > >> When I run it as root, I get the following errors: > > >> > > >> ./CleanDrive.sh > > >> ./CleanDrive.sh: line 2: dd if=/dev/zero of=/0bits bs=20M: No such > file > > >> or > > >> directory > > >> ./CleanDrive.sh: line 3: rm /0bits: No such file or directory > > >> > > >> > > >> Ideas? > > > > > > When you say "I run it as root", did you "su" or "su -"? You MUST use > > > "su -", as "dd" is in /bin and that's not part of a regular user's > PATH. > > > > > > "su" only changes your UID/GID to root. "su -" also gives you root's > > > environment (including root's PATH). Alternately, you could change > the > > > script to "/bin/dd if=...." (in other words, specify the full path to > > > dd). > > > > > > > > > Thanks! I always wondered what the - did. I just used su. Anyway, I did > su > > - and fully specified the path to dd and it still seems to have > > problems... > > > > [root at hhlaptop Desktop]# ./CleanDrive.sh > > ./CleanDrive.sh: line 2: /bin/dd if=/dev/zero of=/0bits bs=20M: No such > > file or directory > > ./CleanDrive.sh: line 3: rm /0bits: No such file or directory > > [root at hhlaptop Desktop]# > > Hmmm, works for me. You should specify a "count=" parameter as well. > Example: > > [root at prophead work]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/0bits bs=20M count=1 > 1+0 records in > 1+0 records out > > [root at prophead work]# ls -lh /0bits > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20M Jul 13 11:31 /0bits > > So, if your script is EXACTLY what you said it is, try adding the > "count=" thing to the end. Also verify that you indeed have the /bin/dd > program and that the /dev/zero device exists. It should look something > like this: > > [root at prophead work]# ls -l /bin/dd > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 34540 Jul 25 2005 /bin/dd > [root at prophead work]# ls -l /dev/zero > crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 5 Jun 21 05:12 /dev/zero > > Note that the /bin/dd program comes as part of the "coreutils" RPM. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - You possess a mind not merely twisted, but actually sprained. - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From redhat at buglecreek.com Thu Jul 13 20:07:27 2006 From: redhat at buglecreek.com (redhat at buglecreek.com) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 14:07:27 -0600 Subject: Software RAID problem Message-ID: <1152821247.20912.265982887@webmail.messagingengine.com> We have a critical system that has Redhat 8.0 installed. The system uses the older raidtools not mdadm. We are in the process of rebuilding a new box, but in the meantime we have a software raid issue. The system had to be rebooted and we ended up with the following raid problem: cat /proc/mdstat shows: Personalities : [raid0] [raid1] read_ahead 1024 sectors md1 : active raid1 hda2[0] 119684160 blocks [2/1] [U_] md2 : active raid0 hda3[0] hdb2[1] 208640 blocks 64k chunks md0 : active raid1 hda1[0] hdb1[1] 264960 blocks [2/2] [UU] Looks like we have a problem with md1 device which is the / partition. lsraid -A -a /dev/md1 shows: [dev 9, 1] /dev/md1 C27DAE7E.7C02AF01.5143DCC8.62FD07C3 online [dev 3, 2] /dev/hda2 C27DAE7E.7C02AF01.5143DCC8.62FD07C3 good [dev ?, ?] (unknown) 00000000.00000000.00000000.00000000 missing The applicable section of /etc/raidtab is: raiddev /dev/md1 raid-level 1 nr-raid-disks 2 chunk-size 64k persistent-superblock 1 nr-spare-disks 0 device /dev/hda2 raid-disk 0 device /dev/hdb3 raid-disk It seems that /dev/hdb3 has issues. Is there a way to get /dev/hdb3 back online. Can you do something with raidhotadd: raidhotadd /dev/md1 /dev/hdb3 This is a very critical system and I want to make sure we don't do anything that would totally bring the system down, at least until we can build a new system. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jul 13 22:06:03 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:06:03 -0700 Subject: Software RAID problem In-Reply-To: <1152821247.20912.265982887@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1152821247.20912.265982887@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: <1152828363.6282.178.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 14:07 -0600, redhat at buglecreek.com wrote: > We have a critical system that has Redhat 8.0 installed. The system > uses the older raidtools not mdadm. We are in the process of rebuilding > a new box, but in the meantime we have a software raid issue. The > system had to be rebooted and we ended up with the following raid > problem: > cat /proc/mdstat shows: > > Personalities : [raid0] [raid1] > read_ahead 1024 sectors > md1 : active raid1 hda2[0] > 119684160 blocks [2/1] [U_] > > md2 : active raid0 hda3[0] hdb2[1] > 208640 blocks 64k chunks > > md0 : active raid1 hda1[0] hdb1[1] > 264960 blocks [2/2] [UU] > > Looks like we have a problem with md1 device which is the / partition. > lsraid -A -a /dev/md1 shows: > > [dev 9, 1] /dev/md1 C27DAE7E.7C02AF01.5143DCC8.62FD07C3 > online > [dev 3, 2] /dev/hda2 C27DAE7E.7C02AF01.5143DCC8.62FD07C3 good > [dev ?, ?] (unknown) 00000000.00000000.00000000.00000000 > missing > > The applicable section of /etc/raidtab is: > > raiddev /dev/md1 > raid-level 1 > nr-raid-disks 2 > chunk-size 64k > persistent-superblock 1 > nr-spare-disks 0 > device /dev/hda2 > raid-disk 0 > device /dev/hdb3 > raid-disk > > It seems that /dev/hdb3 has issues. Is there a way to get /dev/hdb3 > back online. Can you do something with raidhotadd: > raidhotadd /dev/md1 /dev/hdb3 > > This is a very critical system and I want to make sure we don't do > anything that would totally bring the system down, at least until we can > build a new system. Any help would be appreciated. The FIRST thing you do is back up /dev/md1 (or what's left of it) in case the remediation doesn't work or does something evil (it shouldn't). And you can continue to run in the degraded state. You can use raidhotadd to try to bring the drive back into the fold, but it may not join if the drive is indeed defective. Try the raidhotadd, then check /proc/mdstat again. If you see a "(F)" following the "hdb3[1]" bit, the drive failed. That doesn't mean the drive is fried, but SOMETHING is wrong. Try to raidhotremove the drive from the RAID, then run badblocks on the partition in question (/dev/hdb3). When it completes, try the raidhotadd again and see if it joins and starts the resync. Probably none of my business, but why is such a critical machine still running RH8? RH8.0 is farking ancient and, IMHO, the absolute worst release of RH ever...which is why RH9 came out so quickly after it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - A day for firm decisions!!! Well, then again, maybe not! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From celawrence at lbl.gov Thu Jul 13 22:36:22 2006 From: celawrence at lbl.gov (chuck lawrence) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:36:22 -0700 Subject: two nics, one nfs server Message-ID: <44B6CAE6.20006@lbl.gov> hi, I've got a user running linux w/two nics. he's interested in attaching an nfs server to one, but not the other. is possible? adv(thanks)ance -- * ------------------- * ----------------------------* | charles e. lawrence | lawrence berkeley nat'l lab | | celawrence at lbl.gov | #1 cyclotron rd ms 50a6134 | | (510) 486-4682 | berkeley ca 94720 | * ------------------- * ----------------------------* "If the human body did patch management the way (companies do), we'd all be dead." www-eng.lbl.gov/~lawrence From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jul 13 23:20:14 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:20:14 -0700 Subject: two nics, one nfs server In-Reply-To: <44B6CAE6.20006@lbl.gov> References: <44B6CAE6.20006@lbl.gov> Message-ID: <1152832814.6282.185.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 15:36 -0700, chuck lawrence wrote: > hi, > > I've got a user running linux w/two nics. he's interested in attaching > an nfs server to one, but not the other. is possible? You mean you want the machine with two NICs to act as an NFS server, but only have the NFS server daemon listen to one of the NICs? No, you can't do that...NFS listens on all network devices. You CAN, however, restrict access to one of the NICs via iptables or by setting up the exports file to only permit connections from a limited set of IP addresses, and make sure you DON'T have ipforward set. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "I'd explain it to you, but your brain might explode." - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From gsminsk at rochester.rr.com Fri Jul 14 13:47:32 2006 From: gsminsk at rochester.rr.com (Gregory Shadunsky) Date: 14 Jul 2006 09:47:32 -0400 Subject: Printing for Windows Client Message-ID: <1152884850.2816.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> Hi! I am learning Linux and the best way to learn is to use it. So, I installed Red Hat 9.0 on Dell Dimension Desktop. Connected printer to LPT1. Now I have a need to print from Windows XP client on the same network. What package or pacages should be installed? Is it possible to make Windows to see Linux partition on the same network? Gregory. From karlp at ourldsfamily.com Fri Jul 14 15:40:19 2006 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (karlp at ourldsfamily.com) Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 09:40:19 -0600 (MDT) Subject: Printing for Windows Client In-Reply-To: <1152884850.2816.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1152884850.2816.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <38465.207.173.117.242.1152891619.squirrel@webmail.ourldsfamily.com> On Fri, July 14, 2006 7:47 am, Gregory Shadunsky said: > Hi! > > I am learning Linux and the best way to learn is to use it. So, I > installed Red Hat 9.0 on Dell Dimension Desktop. Connected printer to > LPT1. > > Now I have a need to print from Windows XP client on the same network. > What package or pacages should be installed? Is it possible to make > Windows to see Linux partition on the same network? You have essentially 2 options 1. Samba, which enables Linux to look like Windows Network Neighborhood. The configuration file is /etc/samba/smb.conf. 2. LPR/LPD TCP/IP. This configuration necessitates editing the permission file, /etc/lpd.perms where you have to turn on accepting 'remote' access to the printer daemon. You turn on DEFAULT ACCEPT, then disallow whatever you need to for security. You also have to have cups-lpd installed and enabled. For more information, ask. HTH Karl > > Gregory. > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > -- karl _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ ____________ __o _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ ____________ _-\<._ _/_/ _/ _/_/_/ (_)/ (_) _/ _/ _/ _/ ...................... _/ _/ arl _/_/_/ _/ earson KarlP at ourldsfamily.com --- Senior Consulting Sys/DB Analyst http://consulting.ourldsfamily.com --- My Thoughts on Terrorism In America right after 9/11/2001: http://www.ourldsfamily.com/wtc.shtml --- A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you. -Ramsey Clark --- -- karl _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ ____________ __o _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ ____________ _-\<._ _/_/ _/ _/_/_/ (_)/ (_) _/ _/ _/ _/ ...................... _/ _/ arl _/_/_/ _/ earson KarlP at ourldsfamily.com --- Senior Consulting Sys/DB Analyst http://consulting.ourldsfamily.com --- My Thoughts on Terrorism In America right after 9/11/2001: http://www.ourldsfamily.com/wtc.shtml --- A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you. -Ramsey Clark --- From redhat at buglecreek.com Fri Jul 14 18:00:24 2006 From: redhat at buglecreek.com (redhat at buglecreek.com) Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:00:24 -0600 Subject: Software RAID problem In-Reply-To: <1152828363.6282.178.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <1152821247.20912.265982887@webmail.messagingengine.com> <1152828363.6282.178.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <1152900024.32748.266058943@webmail.messagingengine.com> On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:06:03 -0700, "Rick Stevens" said: > On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 14:07 -0600, redhat at buglecreek.com wrote: > > We have a critical system that has Redhat 8.0 installed. The system > > uses the older raidtools not mdadm. We are in the process of rebuilding > > a new box, but in the meantime we have a software raid issue. The > > system had to be rebooted and we ended up with the following raid > > problem: > > cat /proc/mdstat shows: > > > > Personalities : [raid0] [raid1] > > read_ahead 1024 sectors > > md1 : active raid1 hda2[0] > > 119684160 blocks [2/1] [U_] > > > > md2 : active raid0 hda3[0] hdb2[1] > > 208640 blocks 64k chunks > > > > md0 : active raid1 hda1[0] hdb1[1] > > 264960 blocks [2/2] [UU] > > > > Looks like we have a problem with md1 device which is the / partition. > > lsraid -A -a /dev/md1 shows: > > > > [dev 9, 1] /dev/md1 C27DAE7E.7C02AF01.5143DCC8.62FD07C3 > > online > > [dev 3, 2] /dev/hda2 C27DAE7E.7C02AF01.5143DCC8.62FD07C3 good > > [dev ?, ?] (unknown) 00000000.00000000.00000000.00000000 > > missing > > > > The applicable section of /etc/raidtab is: > > > > raiddev /dev/md1 > > raid-level 1 > > nr-raid-disks 2 > > chunk-size 64k > > persistent-superblock 1 > > nr-spare-disks 0 > > device /dev/hda2 > > raid-disk 0 > > device /dev/hdb3 > > raid-disk > > > > It seems that /dev/hdb3 has issues. Is there a way to get /dev/hdb3 > > back online. Can you do something with raidhotadd: > > raidhotadd /dev/md1 /dev/hdb3 > > > > This is a very critical system and I want to make sure we don't do > > anything that would totally bring the system down, at least until we can > > build a new system. Any help would be appreciated. > > The FIRST thing you do is back up /dev/md1 (or what's left of it) in > case the remediation doesn't work or does something evil (it shouldn't). > And you can continue to run in the degraded state. > > You can use raidhotadd to try to bring the drive back into the fold, but > it may not join if the drive is indeed defective. Try the raidhotadd, > then check /proc/mdstat again. If you see a "(F)" following the > "hdb3[1]" bit, the drive failed. That doesn't mean the drive is fried, > but SOMETHING is wrong. > > Try to raidhotremove the drive from the RAID, then run badblocks on the > partition in question (/dev/hdb3). When it completes, try the > raidhotadd again and see if it joins and starts the resync. > > Probably none of my business, but why is such a critical machine still > running RH8? RH8.0 is farking ancient and, IMHO, the absolute worst > release of RH ever...which is why RH9 came out so quickly after it. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - A day for firm decisions!!! Well, then again, maybe not! - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe Thanks Rick, I knew that using RH8.0 would raise a few eyebrows, but due to personnel changes etc it slipped through the cracks. Anyway, when you use the raidhotremove command can you execute it on a partition like this: raidhotremove /dev/md1 /dev/hdb3 ? Just like raidhotadd? For the badblocks command, simply run badblocks /dev/hdb3? Thanks From rmckeever at earthlink.net Fri Jul 14 18:12:47 2006 From: rmckeever at earthlink.net (Ron McKeever) Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:12:47 -0700 (GMT-07:00) Subject: Software RAID problem Message-ID: <26072953.1152900768191.JavaMail.root@elwamui-chisos.atl.sa.earthlink.net> This might help: Basics of Linux Software RAID The status of a running software RAID in Linux can be obtained from /proc/mdstat, here's a sample: md1 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda1[0] 1999936 blocks [2/2] [UU] This is for a software RAID (Meta-Disk) named /dev/md1 which is comprised of /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1 devices in a RAID-1 (mirroring) setup. The Dell 1U server machines will have all their disks in software RAID-1 arrays. When you have a disk installed and recognised by Linux you can then add partitions to degraded RAID arrays at any time with the raidhotadd command. Here is the data you see in /proc/mdstat for a degraded RAID array: md1 : active raid1 sdb1[1](F) sda1[0] 1999936 blocks [2/1] [U_] Device /dev/sdb1 has failed (to generate this error I unplugged the disk /dev/sdb). Now I have just swapped the hard drive (see below) and want to put the new drive back in the array. Firstly I must remove the record for the disk in the failed (F) state with the command raidhotremove /dev/md1 /dev/sdb1, which gives the following state in /proc/mdstat: md1 : active raid1 sda1[0] 1999936 blocks [2/1] [U_] Once this has been done for every partition that was in a RAID array the drive will be regarded as being unsed by Linux which allows it to be repartitioned or unregistered (see below for details of hardware recognition). If you want to instruct the software RAID driver to stop using a partition on a functional disk then you would use the raidsetfaulty command, EG: raidsetfaulty /dev/md1 /dev/sdb1 to set the partition in failed state so that you can then use raidhotremove to remove it. When you have a new partition you want to add to add to a RAID set you can use the command raidhotadd ARRAY DEVICE to add it, EG raidhotadd /dev/md1 /dev/sdb1 which results in the following data in /proc/mdstat: md1 : active raid1 sdb1[2] sda1[0] 1999936 blocks [2/1] [U_] [=======>.............] recovery = 37.8% (755976/1999936) finish=0.4min speed=48732K/sec Note that when a device name is followed by [2] then it's in a reconstruction state. When running raidhotadd commands there is no need to wait for one command to finish before running the next, the kernel maintains a queue of devices to reconstruct. You can schedule several RAID partitions to reconstruct and then go for a coffee break (or a lunch break depending on the speed of the drives). Ron -----Original Message----- >From: redhat at buglecreek.com >Sent: Jul 14, 2006 11:00 AM >To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux >Subject: Re: Software RAID problem > > >On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:06:03 -0700, "Rick Stevens" > said: >> On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 14:07 -0600, redhat at buglecreek.com wrote: >> > We have a critical system that has Redhat 8.0 installed. The system >> > uses the older raidtools not mdadm. We are in the process of rebuilding >> > a new box, but in the meantime we have a software raid issue. The >> > system had to be rebooted and we ended up with the following raid >> > problem: >> > cat /proc/mdstat shows: >> > >> > Personalities : [raid0] [raid1] >> > read_ahead 1024 sectors >> > md1 : active raid1 hda2[0] >> > 119684160 blocks [2/1] [U_] >> > >> > md2 : active raid0 hda3[0] hdb2[1] >> > 208640 blocks 64k chunks >> > >> > md0 : active raid1 hda1[0] hdb1[1] >> > 264960 blocks [2/2] [UU] >> > >> > Looks like we have a problem with md1 device which is the / partition. >> > lsraid -A -a /dev/md1 shows: >> > >> > [dev 9, 1] /dev/md1 C27DAE7E.7C02AF01.5143DCC8.62FD07C3 >> > online >> > [dev 3, 2] /dev/hda2 C27DAE7E.7C02AF01.5143DCC8.62FD07C3 good >> > [dev ?, ?] (unknown) 00000000.00000000.00000000.00000000 >> > missing >> > >> > The applicable section of /etc/raidtab is: >> > >> > raiddev /dev/md1 >> > raid-level 1 >> > nr-raid-disks 2 >> > chunk-size 64k >> > persistent-superblock 1 >> > nr-spare-disks 0 >> > device /dev/hda2 >> > raid-disk 0 >> > device /dev/hdb3 >> > raid-disk >> > >> > It seems that /dev/hdb3 has issues. Is there a way to get /dev/hdb3 >> > back online. Can you do something with raidhotadd: >> > raidhotadd /dev/md1 /dev/hdb3 >> > >> > This is a very critical system and I want to make sure we don't do >> > anything that would totally bring the system down, at least until we can >> > build a new system. Any help would be appreciated. >> >> The FIRST thing you do is back up /dev/md1 (or what's left of it) in >> case the remediation doesn't work or does something evil (it shouldn't). >> And you can continue to run in the degraded state. >> >> You can use raidhotadd to try to bring the drive back into the fold, but >> it may not join if the drive is indeed defective. Try the raidhotadd, >> then check /proc/mdstat again. If you see a "(F)" following the >> "hdb3[1]" bit, the drive failed. That doesn't mean the drive is fried, >> but SOMETHING is wrong. >> >> Try to raidhotremove the drive from the RAID, then run badblocks on the >> partition in question (/dev/hdb3). When it completes, try the >> raidhotadd again and see if it joins and starts the resync. >> >> Probably none of my business, but why is such a critical machine still >> running RH8? RH8.0 is farking ancient and, IMHO, the absolute worst >> release of RH ever...which is why RH9 came out so quickly after it. >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - >> - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - >> - - >> - A day for firm decisions!!! Well, then again, maybe not! - >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Redhat-install-list mailing list >> Redhat-install-list at redhat.com >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list >> To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: >> redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com >> Subject: unsubscribe > >Thanks Rick, > >I knew that using RH8.0 would raise a few eyebrows, but due to personnel >changes etc it slipped through the cracks. Anyway, when you use the >raidhotremove command can you execute it on a partition like this: >raidhotremove /dev/md1 /dev/hdb3 ? Just like raidhotadd? For the >badblocks command, simply run badblocks /dev/hdb3? > >Thanks > >_______________________________________________ >Redhat-install-list mailing list >Redhat-install-list at redhat.com >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list >To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: >redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com >Subject: unsubscribe From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jul 14 18:29:46 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:29:46 -0700 Subject: Software RAID problem In-Reply-To: <1152900024.32748.266058943@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1152821247.20912.265982887@webmail.messagingengine.com> <1152828363.6282.178.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <1152900024.32748.266058943@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: <1152901786.6282.192.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 12:00 -0600, redhat at buglecreek.com wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:06:03 -0700, "Rick Stevens" > said: > > On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 14:07 -0600, redhat at buglecreek.com wrote: > > > We have a critical system that has Redhat 8.0 installed. The system > > > uses the older raidtools not mdadm. We are in the process of rebuilding > > > a new box, but in the meantime we have a software raid issue. The > > > system had to be rebooted and we ended up with the following raid > > > problem: > > > cat /proc/mdstat shows: > > > > > > Personalities : [raid0] [raid1] > > > read_ahead 1024 sectors > > > md1 : active raid1 hda2[0] > > > 119684160 blocks [2/1] [U_] > > > > > > md2 : active raid0 hda3[0] hdb2[1] > > > 208640 blocks 64k chunks > > > > > > md0 : active raid1 hda1[0] hdb1[1] > > > 264960 blocks [2/2] [UU] > > > > > > Looks like we have a problem with md1 device which is the / partition. > > > lsraid -A -a /dev/md1 shows: > > > > > > [dev 9, 1] /dev/md1 C27DAE7E.7C02AF01.5143DCC8.62FD07C3 > > > online > > > [dev 3, 2] /dev/hda2 C27DAE7E.7C02AF01.5143DCC8.62FD07C3 good > > > [dev ?, ?] (unknown) 00000000.00000000.00000000.00000000 > > > missing > > > > > > The applicable section of /etc/raidtab is: > > > > > > raiddev /dev/md1 > > > raid-level 1 > > > nr-raid-disks 2 > > > chunk-size 64k > > > persistent-superblock 1 > > > nr-spare-disks 0 > > > device /dev/hda2 > > > raid-disk 0 > > > device /dev/hdb3 > > > raid-disk > > > > > > It seems that /dev/hdb3 has issues. Is there a way to get /dev/hdb3 > > > back online. Can you do something with raidhotadd: > > > raidhotadd /dev/md1 /dev/hdb3 > > > > > > This is a very critical system and I want to make sure we don't do > > > anything that would totally bring the system down, at least until we can > > > build a new system. Any help would be appreciated. > > > > The FIRST thing you do is back up /dev/md1 (or what's left of it) in > > case the remediation doesn't work or does something evil (it shouldn't). > > And you can continue to run in the degraded state. > > > > You can use raidhotadd to try to bring the drive back into the fold, but > > it may not join if the drive is indeed defective. Try the raidhotadd, > > then check /proc/mdstat again. If you see a "(F)" following the > > "hdb3[1]" bit, the drive failed. That doesn't mean the drive is fried, > > but SOMETHING is wrong. > > > > Try to raidhotremove the drive from the RAID, then run badblocks on the > > partition in question (/dev/hdb3). When it completes, try the > > raidhotadd again and see if it joins and starts the resync. > > > > Probably none of my business, but why is such a critical machine still > > running RH8? RH8.0 is farking ancient and, IMHO, the absolute worst > > release of RH ever...which is why RH9 came out so quickly after it. > > > > Thanks Rick, > > I knew that using RH8.0 would raise a few eyebrows, but due to personnel > changes etc it slipped through the cracks. Ah, been there, done that, have the T-shirt and ball cap. :-) > Anyway, when you use the > raidhotremove command can you execute it on a partition like this: > raidhotremove /dev/md1 /dev/hdb3 ? Just like raidhotadd? Exactly the same syntax, yes. > For the > badblocks command, simply run badblocks /dev/hdb3? Yup, that's it. Note that all of those commands must be run as the root user, of course. ;-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Do you know how to save five drowning lawyers? No? GOOD! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From ldiaz at greendata.es Mon Jul 17 12:33:17 2006 From: ldiaz at greendata.es (ldiaz at greendata.es) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:33:17 +0200 Subject: DAT DLT VS160 Message-ID: <1153139597.44bb838d9601b@webmail.nexica.com> Hi, I can not use my DAT to backup files with tar... here is my information: OS red hat ES3 [root at aleph16 /]# cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00 Vendor: QUANTUM Model: DLT VS160 Rev: 2500 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: DELL Model: GD Rev: V1.0 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi5 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: HL-DT-ST Model: RW/DVD GCC-4481B Rev: E106 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 [root at aleph16 /]# dmesg |grep tape Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 [root at aleph16 /]# lsmod Module Size Used by Not tainted st 31524 0 (autoclean) nls_iso8859-1 3516 1 (autoclean) udf 99680 0 (autoclean) usbserial 23964 0 (autoclean) (unused) parport_pc 18884 1 (autoclean) lp 9156 0 (autoclean) parport 38848 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp] autofs4 16984 0 (autoclean) (unused) audit 90744 3 e1000 77884 1 floppy 57520 0 (autoclean) sg 37388 0 (autoclean) sr_mod 17880 2 (autoclean) microcode 6912 0 (autoclean) ide-scsi 12496 1 ide-cd 34016 0 cdrom 32896 0 [sr_mod ide-cd] keybdev 2944 0 (unused) mousedev 5656 1 hid 22308 0 (unused) input 6176 0 [keybdev mousedev hid] ehci-hcd 20776 0 (unused) usb-uhci 26860 0 (unused) usbcore 81152 1 [usbserial hid ehci-hcd usb-uhci] ext3 89992 5 jbd 55092 5 [ext3] ata_piix 5096 0 (unused) libata 40628 0 [ata_piix] aacraid 49984 7 aic7xxx 163120 0 diskdumplib 5260 0 [aic7xxx] sd_mod 13936 14 scsi_mod 115240 8 [st sg sr_mod ide-scsi ata_piix libata aacraid aic7xxx sd_mod] [root at aleph16 /]# dmesg | grep scsi scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36 scsi1 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36 (scsi0:A:6): 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 96, 16bit) scsi2 : percraid scsi3 : percraid scsi2 : aacraid Attached scsi disk sda at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 scsi4 : ata_piix Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 hda: attached ide-scsi driver. scsi5 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi5, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray scsi0:0:6:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message scsi0: At time of recovery, card was not paused scsi0: Dumping Card State in Command phase, at SEQADDR 0x16b scsi0:0:6:0: Device is active, asserting ATN scsi0:0:6:0: Attempting to queue a TARGET RESET message scsi: device set offline - not ready or command retry failed after bus reset: host 0 channel 0 id 6 lun 0 (scsi0:A:6:0): Unexpected busfree in Command phase Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 [root at aleph16 /]# mt -f /dev/st0 status /dev/st0: No such device so, all seem to be here but when try to execute tar I have this message: [root at aleph16 /]# tar -cvf /dev/st0 /backup/web/ tar: /dev/st0: No se puede open: No existe tal dispositivo tar: El error no es recuperable: salida ahora translated is: can not open: such device not exists tar: The error is not recoverable, exiting now. Some one have any idea? Thanks Luis From tbw at geo.hunter.cuny.edu Mon Jul 17 15:51:59 2006 From: tbw at geo.hunter.cuny.edu (Thomas Walter) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 11:51:59 -0400 (EDT) Subject: RHEL4 install format problem on Dell PowerEdge w/PERC RAID Message-ID: I decided to install RHEL4 update 3 on a Dell PowerEdge 2400 that was running RH9. This machine has hardware RAID 5. The machine can't format the / (root) partition. I've tried RHEL 4 update 2 and 3 and Fedora 5. RHEL4 update 3 hangs in graphic mode but shows multiple error messages in text mode. RHEL 4 update 2 and FC5 come back with the following error message: A error occurred trying to format VolGroup/LogVol00 (which is root). This problem is serious and the install cannot continue. I tried deleting the LVM related info in the next install and just use the hard disk info but received they same error with sda3. I'm not sure where to go from here. Any suggestions? Thanks. Tom ================================================================================== Thomas Walter Geography Department Hunter College of the City University of New York 695 Park Avenue New York, NY 10021 (212)772-5457 Office (212)772-5268 Fax tbwalter at geo.hunter.cuny.edu http://geography.hunter.cuny.edu/~tbw From ldiaz at greendata.es Mon Jul 17 16:02:09 2006 From: ldiaz at greendata.es (ldiaz at greendata.es) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 18:02:09 +0200 Subject: DAT DLT VS160 In-Reply-To: <1153139597.44bb838d9601b@webmail.nexica.com> References: <1153139597.44bb838d9601b@webmail.nexica.com> Message-ID: <1153152129.44bbb4818279c@webmail.nexica.com> Hi, I resolved the problem...The SCSI termination connector was missing. I add it and now all good. Sorry (: Luis Selon ldiaz at greendata.es: > Hi, > I can not use my DAT to backup files with tar... > here is my information: > > OS red hat ES3 > > [root at aleph16 /]# cat /proc/scsi/scsi > Attached devices: > Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00 > Vendor: QUANTUM Model: DLT VS160 Rev: 2500 > Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 > Vendor: DELL Model: GD Rev: V1.0 > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > Host: scsi5 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 > Vendor: HL-DT-ST Model: RW/DVD GCC-4481B Rev: E106 > Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > > > [root at aleph16 /]# dmesg |grep tape > Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 > Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 > > > [root at aleph16 /]# lsmod > Module Size Used by Not tainted > st 31524 0 (autoclean) > nls_iso8859-1 3516 1 (autoclean) > udf 99680 0 (autoclean) > usbserial 23964 0 (autoclean) (unused) > parport_pc 18884 1 (autoclean) > lp 9156 0 (autoclean) > parport 38848 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp] > autofs4 16984 0 (autoclean) (unused) > audit 90744 3 > e1000 77884 1 > floppy 57520 0 (autoclean) > sg 37388 0 (autoclean) > sr_mod 17880 2 (autoclean) > microcode 6912 0 (autoclean) > ide-scsi 12496 1 > ide-cd 34016 0 > cdrom 32896 0 [sr_mod ide-cd] > keybdev 2944 0 (unused) > mousedev 5656 1 > hid 22308 0 (unused) > input 6176 0 [keybdev mousedev hid] > ehci-hcd 20776 0 (unused) > usb-uhci 26860 0 (unused) > usbcore 81152 1 [usbserial hid ehci-hcd usb-uhci] > ext3 89992 5 > jbd 55092 5 [ext3] > ata_piix 5096 0 (unused) > libata 40628 0 [ata_piix] > aacraid 49984 7 > aic7xxx 163120 0 > diskdumplib 5260 0 [aic7xxx] > sd_mod 13936 14 > scsi_mod 115240 8 [st sg sr_mod ide-scsi ata_piix libata > aacraid > aic7xxx sd_mod] > > > [root at aleph16 /]# dmesg | grep scsi > scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36 > scsi1 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36 > (scsi0:A:6): 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 96, 16bit) > scsi2 : percraid > scsi3 : percraid > scsi2 : aacraid > Attached scsi disk sda at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 > scsi4 : ata_piix > Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 > hda: attached ide-scsi driver. > scsi5 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices > Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi5, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 > sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray > scsi0:0:6:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message > scsi0: At time of recovery, card was not paused > scsi0: Dumping Card State in Command phase, at SEQADDR 0x16b > scsi0:0:6:0: Device is active, asserting ATN > scsi0:0:6:0: Attempting to queue a TARGET RESET message > scsi: device set offline - not ready or command retry failed after bus > reset: > host 0 channel 0 id 6 lun 0 > (scsi0:A:6:0): Unexpected busfree in Command phase > Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 > > [root at aleph16 /]# mt -f /dev/st0 status > /dev/st0: No such device > > > so, all seem to be here but when try to execute tar I have this message: > > [root at aleph16 /]# tar -cvf /dev/st0 /backup/web/ > tar: /dev/st0: No se puede open: No existe tal dispositivo > tar: El error no es recuperable: salida ahora > > translated is: can not open: such device not exists > tar: The error is not recoverable, exiting now. > > Some one have any idea? > Thanks > > Luis > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Jul 17 17:02:47 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 10:02:47 -0700 Subject: RHEL4 install format problem on Dell PowerEdge w/PERC RAID In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1153155767.32461.31.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 11:51 -0400, Thomas Walter wrote: > I decided to install RHEL4 update 3 on a Dell PowerEdge 2400 that was > running RH9. This machine has hardware RAID 5. The machine can't format > the / (root) partition. I've tried RHEL 4 update 2 and 3 and Fedora 5. > RHEL4 update 3 hangs in graphic mode but shows multiple error messages in > text mode. RHEL 4 update 2 and FC5 come back with the following error > message: > > A error occurred trying to format VolGroup/LogVol00 (which is root). This > problem is serious and the install cannot continue. I tried deleting the > LVM related info in the next install and just use the hard disk info but > received they same error with sda3. > > I'm not sure where to go from here. Any suggestions? Well, the LVM doesn't surprise me. RH9 and FC1 have a 2.4 kernel and use LVM1. RHEL4 and FC2-5 have a 2.6 kernel and use LVM2. LVM1 and LVM2 are NOT compatible. However, you killed off LVM and you're still having problems. It sounds a bit like the RAID is having issues. You said it's in hardware RAID 5. Are you certain the RAID isn't running in degraded mode? If it's OK, then you may have to do something drastic such as stomp on the partition table in rescue mode and start from scratch. To stomp on the partition table, boot in rescue mode ("linux rescue" at the "boot:" prompt off CD1). Do NOT let the system try to mount the existing system, then: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 That should wipe your partition table completely. Then try to install normally (you can even try LVM2 stuff at that point). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - If it's stupid and it works...it ain't stupid! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From miguelas at br.ibm.com Mon Jul 17 19:03:17 2006 From: miguelas at br.ibm.com (miguelas at br.ibm.com) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:03:17 -0300 Subject: Miguel A Costa/Brazil/IBM is out of the office. Message-ID: I will be out of the office starting 17/07/2006 and will not return until 07/08/2006. I will respond to your message when I return. Please send your work requests to etempo at br.ibm and cidam at br.ibm.com. See ya later. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tbw at geo.hunter.cuny.edu Mon Jul 17 20:09:09 2006 From: tbw at geo.hunter.cuny.edu (Thomas Walter) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:09:09 -0400 (EDT) Subject: RHEL4 install format problem on Dell PowerEdge w/PERC RAID In-Reply-To: <1153155767.32461.31.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: I issued the dd command (below) in rescue mode and tried the RHEL4 update 3 install again and got the same result....... format dies at 99% with a screenfull of error messages scrolling buy. I was unable to determine if RAID was running in degraded mode. All boot messages seemed to indicate everything related to RAID is OK. Tom On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Rick Stevens wrote: > On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 11:51 -0400, Thomas Walter wrote: > > I decided to install RHEL4 update 3 on a Dell PowerEdge 2400 that was > > running RH9. This machine has hardware RAID 5. The machine can't format > > the / (root) partition. I've tried RHEL 4 update 2 and 3 and Fedora 5. > > RHEL4 update 3 hangs in graphic mode but shows multiple error messages in > > text mode. RHEL 4 update 2 and FC5 come back with the following error > > message: > > > > A error occurred trying to format VolGroup/LogVol00 (which is root). This > > problem is serious and the install cannot continue. I tried deleting the > > LVM related info in the next install and just use the hard disk info but > > received they same error with sda3. > > > > I'm not sure where to go from here. Any suggestions? > > Well, the LVM doesn't surprise me. RH9 and FC1 have a 2.4 kernel and > use LVM1. RHEL4 and FC2-5 have a 2.6 kernel and use LVM2. LVM1 and > LVM2 are NOT compatible. > > However, you killed off LVM and you're still having problems. It sounds > a bit like the RAID is having issues. You said it's in hardware RAID > 5. Are you certain the RAID isn't running in degraded mode? If it's > OK, then you may have to do something drastic such as stomp on the > partition table in rescue mode and start from scratch. > > To stomp on the partition table, boot in rescue mode ("linux rescue" > at the "boot:" prompt off CD1). Do NOT let the system try to mount > the existing system, then: > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 > > That should wipe your partition table completely. Then try to install > normally (you can even try LVM2 stuff at that point). > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - If it's stupid and it works...it ain't stupid! - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > -- ================================================================================== Thomas Walter Geography & Computer Science Departments Hunter College of the City University of New York 695 Park Avenue New York, NY 10021 (212)772-5457 Office (212)772-5268 Fax tbwalter at geo.hunter.cuny.edu http://geography.hunter.cuny.edu/~tbw From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Jul 17 20:30:58 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:30:58 -0700 Subject: RHEL4 install format problem on Dell PowerEdge w/PERC RAID In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1153168258.32461.76.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 16:09 -0400, Thomas Walter wrote: > I issued the dd command (below) in rescue mode and tried the RHEL4 update > 3 install again and got the same result....... format dies at 99% with a > screenfull of error messages scrolling buy. Ugh! That's not good. Since it's happening toward the end of the format, it sounds like you have either dissimilar drives in the RAID (all drives in a hardware RAID should be the same make and model) or one or more of the drives in the RAID are dying. By the way, we prefer bottom posting here (post your responses after what you're responding to). It makes following the logic of the messages easier. > I was unable to determine if RAID was running in degraded mode. All boot > messages seemed to indicate everything related to RAID is OK. You need to get into the BIOS of the controller to determine that. A hardware RAID simply presents a "logical" drive to the OS. The OS is not aware of the RAID at all--all it sees is a drive. If your 2400 uses the PercRAID common to Dell machines, hit "CTRL-M" at the appropriate prompt after doing a reset. Then go into "Objects" and select the virtual drive created by the RAID. Verify that it's in an "optimal" state. If not, you really should resolve that first. You should also look at all the drives involved and verify that they're the same make and model. If the RAID controller says it's healthy, then bring up the rescue mode again and try using the badblocks utility on the drive: # badblocks /dev/sda That will check the drive for bad blocks and (hopefully) tag them. You may want to run that in write mode ("badblocks -w /dev/sda") which makes it to do a write/read test. It's much more thorough but MUCH slower. > On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 11:51 -0400, Thomas Walter wrote: > > > I decided to install RHEL4 update 3 on a Dell PowerEdge 2400 that was > > > running RH9. This machine has hardware RAID 5. The machine can't format > > > the / (root) partition. I've tried RHEL 4 update 2 and 3 and Fedora 5. > > > RHEL4 update 3 hangs in graphic mode but shows multiple error messages in > > > text mode. RHEL 4 update 2 and FC5 come back with the following error > > > message: > > > > > > A error occurred trying to format VolGroup/LogVol00 (which is root). This > > > problem is serious and the install cannot continue. I tried deleting the > > > LVM related info in the next install and just use the hard disk info but > > > received they same error with sda3. > > > > > > I'm not sure where to go from here. Any suggestions? > > > > Well, the LVM doesn't surprise me. RH9 and FC1 have a 2.4 kernel and > > use LVM1. RHEL4 and FC2-5 have a 2.6 kernel and use LVM2. LVM1 and > > LVM2 are NOT compatible. > > > > However, you killed off LVM and you're still having problems. It sounds > > a bit like the RAID is having issues. You said it's in hardware RAID > > 5. Are you certain the RAID isn't running in degraded mode? If it's > > OK, then you may have to do something drastic such as stomp on the > > partition table in rescue mode and start from scratch. > > > > To stomp on the partition table, boot in rescue mode ("linux rescue" > > at the "boot:" prompt off CD1). Do NOT let the system try to mount > > the existing system, then: > > > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 > > > > That should wipe your partition table completely. Then try to install > > normally (you can even try LVM2 stuff at that point). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "Hello. My PID is Inigo Montoya. You `kill -9'-ed my parent - - process. Prepare to vi." - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From softnettechno at yahoo.ca Tue Jul 18 15:05:09 2006 From: softnettechno at yahoo.ca (SoftNet Technologies) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 11:05:09 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Mounting Problem with another hardisk Message-ID: <20060718150509.78414.qmail@web54515.mail.yahoo.com> Hi Guys, I hope you will reply as soon as possible. I have attached a new hardisk on my comp. New hardisk was initially formated under linux. I am facing problem in mounting this second harddisk. I run fdisk -l command this is the output: Disk /dev/hda: 4223 MB, 4223729664 bytes 128 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1023 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8064 * 512 = 4128768 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 762 3072352+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 763 889 512064 82 Linux swap /dev/hda3 890 1023 540288 5 Extended /dev/hda5 890 900 44320+ b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda6 901 950 201568+ 83 Linux /dev/hda7 951 1000 201568+ 83 Linux /dev/hda8 1001 1023 92704+ 83 Linux Disk /dev/hdb: 4303 MB, 4303272960 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 523 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 * 1 3 24066 83 Linux /dev/hdb2 4 523 4176900 5 Extended /dev/hdb5 4 93 722893+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb6 94 157 514048+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb7 158 465 2473978+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb8 466 497 257008+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hdb9 498 523 208813+ 8e Linux LVM I tried to run mount /dev/hdb1 /w and then system gave the following message: FAT: bogus logical sector size 0 VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 03:41. mount: you must specify the filesystem type then I tried mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb1 /w and mount -t ext3 /dev/hdb1 /w but all in wain It replied with the following message: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb1, or too many mounted file systems My question is that Is there any provision in linux to lock partition for not to mount with other linux operating systems. If it is there how can I access this partition. Thanks & Regards Balkar Singh --------------------------------- All new Yahoo! Mail - --------------------------------- Get a sneak peak at messages with a handy reading pane. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Paul.Mallasch at Tectura.com Tue Jul 18 22:39:43 2006 From: Paul.Mallasch at Tectura.com (Mallasch, Paul) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:39:43 -0700 Subject: Installing FC5 with hard disk mode crashes with repomd.xml error 256 Message-ID: <5303BDF3F253554E889BE362FA0C604E013A7BAF@MAIL1.TecturaCorp.net> I've seen some other posts that seem to indicate that FC5 Anaconda may have a problem installing from HD, but a search of Bugzilla doesn't indicate any problems with IDE drives, only USB drives. Did I miss a post or bug report somewhere? Has it been fixed or is a work-around available? ThX -----Original Message----- This problem persists for me as well, although the ISO's checksum and installation are perfectly happy on a virtual machine in VMware, but not on a headless blade P3 machine I'm using. A CD installation works fine, but I must have a hard drive installation for our solution. Things I've done so far: - checkisomd5 of ISO okay - all files including repodata directory and file permissions okay - repodata directory tree is a peer to Fedora okay - sha1sums of files in repodata okay - even changed ISO name to FC-5-i386-disc1.iso (small distro so only one disc, but not required on my VM test) Stuff I've noticed that gives me pause: - Seeing some "unable to load nls charset utf8" messages in both CD and HD installs, but CD installs happily as is. Any other ideas are appreciated! On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 10:10 +0300, Rizwan Mohamed Dawrey wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to install fedora with alternate install method (hard > drive installation) as described in the install guide with the iso > images. Am able to boot into a text mode installation and it correctly > takes the path of the 5 iso's and all the screens for network and > grub etc. are fine until I think when it tries to read package info > and it crashes with the follo error - > -------------------- > > Unable to read package metadata > Cannot open/read rcpomd.xml file for repository. > Failure : repodata/repomd.xml from anaconda: [Errno 256] > ------ > > The ISO images must be named EXACTLY as they are on the download site > (including capitalization) and you must make certain they are readable > by everyone. > > If you're installing FC5 for a 32-bit Intel machine, the ISOs MUST be> > named: > > FC-5-i386-disc1.iso > FC-5-i386-disc2.iso > FC-5-i386-disc3.iso > FC-5-i386-disc4.iso > FC-5-i386-disc5.iso > > Or, using the DVD ISO image: > > FC-5-i386-DVD.iso > From celawrence at lbl.gov Wed Jul 19 22:04:50 2006 From: celawrence at lbl.gov (chuck lawrence) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 15:04:50 -0700 Subject: hugemem? smp? Message-ID: <44BEAC82.9070004@lbl.gov> thanks to good-hearted folks here, I've been using the hugemem kernel to address 8gb of ram on my dual opteron rh es 3.0 servers. one user has reported that the cpu load balancing seems different on these, compared to other servers with generic kernels (and less ram). in particular, he says the hugemem systems pile more processes onto the first processor, before moving on to the 2nd. is hugemem multi-processor by default? is there something else I should do? -- * ------------------- * ----------------------------* | charles e. lawrence | lawrence berkeley nat'l lab | | celawrence at lbl.gov | #1 cyclotron rd ms 50a6134 | | (510) 486-4682 | berkeley ca 94720 | * ------------------- * ----------------------------* "If the human body did patch management the way (companies do), we'd all be dead." www-eng.lbl.gov/~lawrence From rstevens at vitalstream.com Wed Jul 19 22:34:59 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 15:34:59 -0700 Subject: hugemem? smp? In-Reply-To: <44BEAC82.9070004@lbl.gov> References: <44BEAC82.9070004@lbl.gov> Message-ID: <1153348499.32461.93.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 15:04 -0700, chuck lawrence wrote: > thanks to good-hearted folks here, I've been using the hugemem kernel to > address 8gb of ram on my dual opteron rh es 3.0 servers. > > one user has reported that the cpu load balancing seems different on > these, compared to other servers with generic kernels (and less ram). > in particular, he says the hugemem systems pile more processes onto the > first processor, before moving on to the 2nd. > > is hugemem multi-processor by default? is there something else I should do? Yes, hugemem is multiprocessor. The easiest way to check is: # cat /proc/cpuinfo You'll see multiple CPUs if you have multiple CPUs, hyperthreading CPUs or multiple hyperthreading CPUs (essentially each hyperthread is treated as a CPU). So, a two-processor SMP machine with two standard Xeons would show 4 CPUs. A two-processor SMP, multicore, hyperthreading machine would show 8 CPUs. As to the load balancing...the memory model shouldn't cause a significant difference. CPU0 generally will be a bit busier since it runs the scheduler. If you don't use the APICs ("noapic" on the boot command line), CPU0 will do almost all the I/O and it'll be busier still. The thing with smaller memory models is that you may end up swapping more or doing more context switches and the differences between the CPU loads can be masked by that. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "Hello. My PID is Inigo Montoya. You `kill -9'-ed my parent - - process. Prepare to vi." - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From fdgrant at powercom.net Wed Jul 19 23:05:04 2006 From: fdgrant at powercom.net (Fred Grant) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 18:05:04 -0500 Subject: digital camera Message-ID: <1153350304.4385.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> Recently acquired an el cheapo digital camera made by dgx. When I go to mass storage mode via usb the hardware browser indicates the presence of /dev/sda1. Do any of you have any pointers for viewing images? I assume I'll have to mount /dev/sda1 but I don't know what type of file system it is or how or where to mount it. Otherwise this should be a piece of cake! -- Fred From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jul 20 00:27:56 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 17:27:56 -0700 Subject: digital camera In-Reply-To: <1153350304.4385.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1153350304.4385.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <1153355276.32461.111.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 18:05 -0500, Fred Grant wrote: > Recently acquired an el cheapo digital camera made by dgx. When I go to > mass storage mode via usb the hardware browser indicates the presence of > /dev/sda1. > > Do any of you have any pointers for viewing images? I assume I'll have > to mount /dev/sda1 but I don't know what type of file system it is or > how or where to mount it. Otherwise this should be a piece of cake! 99% of all cameras use FAT-32 or VFAT filesystems. Have you tried gphoto (Gnome) or kamera (KDE) to see if they "grok" your camera? If not, you probably want to create a mountpoint for your camera's storage (e.g. "/media/camera") once. Then, an appropriate mount command would be mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /media/camera Then you'll see the directory structure under /media/camera. One of the more common would be: /media/camera/dcim/olympus/file.jpg That's from an old Olympus 3050Z camera I have. Usually, there will be a "dcim" directory, and under that some permutation of your camera's maker. The "*.jpg" files are the actual images. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Consciousness: that annoying time between naps. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jul 20 00:30:25 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 17:30:25 -0700 Subject: Installing FC5 with hard disk mode crashes with repomd.xml error 256 In-Reply-To: <5303BDF3F253554E889BE362FA0C604E013A7BAF@MAIL1.TecturaCorp.net> References: <5303BDF3F253554E889BE362FA0C604E013A7BAF@MAIL1.TecturaCorp.net> Message-ID: <1153355425.32461.115.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 15:39 -0700, Mallasch, Paul wrote: > I've seen some other posts that seem to indicate that FC5 Anaconda may > have a problem installing from HD, but a search of Bugzilla doesn't > indicate any problems with IDE drives, only USB drives. > > Did I miss a post or bug report somewhere? Has it been fixed or is a > work-around available? I've still not had a chance to play with this just yet, but a new machine is in the works where I will install using a hard disk image-- on IDE, SCSI, USB and Firewire. I'll let you know what I find, but it'll be a week or so. > > ThX > > -----Original Message----- > This problem persists for me as well, although the ISO's checksum and > installation are perfectly happy on a virtual machine in VMware, but not > on a headless blade P3 machine I'm using. A CD installation works fine, > but I must have a hard drive installation for our solution. > > Things I've done so far: > - checkisomd5 of ISO okay > - all files including repodata directory and file permissions okay > - repodata directory tree is a peer to Fedora okay > - sha1sums of files in repodata okay > - even changed ISO name to FC-5-i386-disc1.iso (small distro so only one > disc, but not required on my VM test) > > Stuff I've noticed that gives me pause: > - Seeing some "unable to load nls charset utf8" messages in both CD and > HD installs, but CD installs happily as is. > > Any other ideas are appreciated! > > > On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 10:10 +0300, Rizwan Mohamed Dawrey wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am trying to install fedora with alternate install method (hard > > drive installation) as described in the install guide with the iso > > images. Am able to boot into a text mode installation and it correctly > > > takes the path of the 5 iso's and all the screens for network and > > grub etc. are fine until I think when it tries to read package info > > and it crashes with the follo error - > > -------------------- > > > > Unable to read package metadata > > Cannot open/read rcpomd.xml file for repository. > > Failure : repodata/repomd.xml from anaconda: [Errno 256] > > ------ > > > > The ISO images must be named EXACTLY as they are on the download site > > (including capitalization) and you must make certain they are readable > > > by everyone. > > > > If you're installing FC5 for a 32-bit Intel machine, the ISOs MUST be> > > named: > > > > FC-5-i386-disc1.iso > > FC-5-i386-disc2.iso > > FC-5-i386-disc3.iso > > FC-5-i386-disc4.iso > > FC-5-i386-disc5.iso > > > > Or, using the DVD ISO image: > > > > FC-5-i386-DVD.iso > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - I'm afraid my karma just ran over your dogma - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jul 20 00:47:50 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 17:47:50 -0700 Subject: Mounting Problem with another hardisk In-Reply-To: <20060718150509.78414.qmail@web54515.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20060718150509.78414.qmail@web54515.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1153356470.32461.131.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 11:05 -0400, SoftNet Technologies wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I hope you will reply as soon as possible. I have attached a new > hardisk on my comp. New hardisk was initially formated under linux. I > am facing problem in mounting this second harddisk. > > I run fdisk -l command this is the output: > > Disk /dev/hda: 4223 MB, 4223729664 bytes > 128 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1023 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 8064 * 512 = 4128768 bytes > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 * 1 762 3072352+ 83 Linux > /dev/hda2 763 889 512064 82 Linux swap > /dev/hda3 890 1023 540288 5 Extended > /dev/hda5 890 900 44320+ b Win95 FAT32 > /dev/hda6 901 950 201568+ 83 Linux > /dev/hda7 951 1000 201568+ 83 Linux > /dev/hda8 1001 1023 92704+ 83 Linux > Disk /dev/hdb: 4303 MB, 4303272960 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 523 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hdb1 * 1 3 24066 83 Linux > /dev/hdb2 4 523 4176900 5 Extended > /dev/hdb5 4 93 722893+ 83 Linux > /dev/hdb6 94 157 514048+ 83 Linux > /dev/hdb7 158 465 2473978+ 83 Linux > /dev/hdb8 466 497 257008+ 82 Linux swap > /dev/hdb9 498 523 208813+ 8e Linux LVM > > I tried to run mount /dev/hdb1 /w and then system gave the following > message: > FAT: bogus logical sector size 0 > VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 03:41. > mount: you must specify the filesystem type Now THAT's strange. It looks like the first block got stomped on, since fdisk sees /dev/hdb1 as a Linux partition, but mount thinks it's a VFAT partition. > > then > I tried mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb1 /w and mount -t ext3 /dev/hdb1 /w but > all in wain > It replied with the following message: > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb1, > or too many mounted file systems Yeah, if block 0 of the partition is screwed, you'll have trouble. You can try to fix the filesystem by first running (as root): # mke2fs -F -n /dev/hdb1 (don't worry, the "-n" does NOT actually create a filesystem...it just shows you what it WOULD have done had "-n" not been specified). Make a note where the superblock backups are. Here's an example off one of my partitions: ---------------------------- CUT HERE ------------------------------- [root at prophead ~]# mke2fs -F -n /dev/hda2 mke2fs 1.38 (30-Jun-2005) /dev/hda2 is mounted; mke2fs forced anyway. Hope /etc/mtab is incorrect. Filesystem label= OS type: Linux Block size=4096 (log=2) Fragment size=4096 (log=2) 5248992 inodes, 10486428 blocks 524321 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user First data block=0 Maximum filesystem blocks=12582912 321 block groups 32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group 16352 inodes per group Superblock backups stored on blocks: 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208, 4096000, 7962624 ---------------------------- CUT HERE ------------------------------- Armed with that info, try: # e2fsck -b one-of-the-super-blocks /dev/hdb1 Using the example above: # e2fsck -b 32768 /dev/hdb1 That should rebuild the primary superblock. When it completes, try mounting the partition again. If it does, congratulations! If not, try the e2fsck command again, but try one of the other superblock backups. If none of those work, you may need to delete and recreate the partition in fdisk. If you're VERY careful, you won't stomp on any data, but you may need to run the e2fsck again. > My question is that Is there any provision in linux to lock partition > for not to mount with other linux operating systems. If it is there > how can I access this partition. Nothing will automount unless told to by specifying "auto" in its /etc/fstab entry or you have enabled automount for removable media. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - God is real...........unless declared integer or long - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From fdgrant at powercom.net Thu Jul 20 13:37:49 2006 From: fdgrant at powercom.net (Fred Grant) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 08:37:49 -0500 Subject: digital camera In-Reply-To: <1153355276.32461.111.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <1153350304.4385.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1153355276.32461.111.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <1153402669.3049.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 19:27, Rick Stevens wrote: > On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 18:05 -0500, Fred Grant wrote: > > Recently acquired an el cheapo digital camera made by dgx. When I go to > > mass storage mode via usb the hardware browser indicates the presence of > > /dev/sda1. > > > > Do any of you have any pointers for viewing images? I assume I'll have > > to mount /dev/sda1 but I don't know what type of file system it is or > > how or where to mount it. Otherwise this should be a piece of cake! > > 99% of all cameras use FAT-32 or VFAT filesystems. Have you tried > gphoto (Gnome) or kamera (KDE) to see if they "grok" your camera? > > If not, you probably want to create a mountpoint for your camera's > storage (e.g. "/media/camera") once. Then, an appropriate mount command > would be > > mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /media/camera > > Then you'll see the directory structure under /media/camera. One of > the more common would be: > > /media/camera/dcim/olympus/file.jpg > > That's from an old Olympus 3050Z camera I have. Usually, there will > be a "dcim" directory, and under that some permutation of your camera's > maker. The "*.jpg" files are the actual images. > Thanks Rick. I got it to work with /mnt/pics. How about a script to automate the mount command? I've never written a script before so I don't know how or where to save it so I can find it again and use it as needed. -- Fred From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jul 20 17:13:41 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 10:13:41 -0700 Subject: digital camera In-Reply-To: <1153402669.3049.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1153350304.4385.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1153355276.32461.111.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <1153402669.3049.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <1153415621.32461.139.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 08:37 -0500, Fred Grant wrote: > On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 19:27, Rick Stevens wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 18:05 -0500, Fred Grant wrote: > > > Recently acquired an el cheapo digital camera made by dgx. When I go to > > > mass storage mode via usb the hardware browser indicates the presence of > > > /dev/sda1. > > > > > > Do any of you have any pointers for viewing images? I assume I'll have > > > to mount /dev/sda1 but I don't know what type of file system it is or > > > how or where to mount it. Otherwise this should be a piece of cake! > > > > 99% of all cameras use FAT-32 or VFAT filesystems. Have you tried > > gphoto (Gnome) or kamera (KDE) to see if they "grok" your camera? > > > > If not, you probably want to create a mountpoint for your camera's > > storage (e.g. "/media/camera") once. Then, an appropriate mount command > > would be > > > > mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /media/camera > > > > Then you'll see the directory structure under /media/camera. One of > > the more common would be: > > > > /media/camera/dcim/olympus/file.jpg > > > > That's from an old Olympus 3050Z camera I have. Usually, there will > > be a "dcim" directory, and under that some permutation of your camera's > > maker. The "*.jpg" files are the actual images. > > > Thanks Rick. I got it to work with /mnt/pics. How about a script to > automate the mount command? I've never written a script before so I > don't know how or where to save it so I can find it again and use it as > needed. Uh, hmmm. Well, as root, create the file "/usr/bin/mntcam". In it, put these lines: #!/bin/bash if [ $0 = "mntcam" ]; then mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/pics echo "Camera mounted at /mnt/pics" else umount /mnt/pics echo "It is now safe to unplug the camera" fi Save it. Then (still as root), enter these two commands: # chmod 755 /usr/bin/mntcam # ln -s /usr/bin/mntcam /usr/bin/umntcam You now have two commands "mntcam" to mount it, and "umntcam" to unmount it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - He who laughs last thinks slowest. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From salmansiddiqui1234 at rediffmail.com Fri Jul 21 13:11:17 2006 From: salmansiddiqui1234 at rediffmail.com (Salman Siddiqui) Date: 21 Jul 2006 13:11:17 -0000 Subject: "/boot may not meet booting constraints" in RH 9 Message-ID: <20060721131117.1069.qmail@webmail17.rediffmail.com> I tried to install Red Hat Linux 9 on my friends machine and tried all type of ways: Automatic partition Manual Partition Under both conditions while it creates the /boot partition it gives following warning: "Boot Partition /boot may not meet booting constraints for your architecture. Creation of boot disk is highly encouraged." what can be the problem? Below is the configuration of its harddisk(40Gb with 256 Mb RAM) as shown by disk druid: /dev/hda /dev/hda1 ntfs 10004 /dev/hda2 ntfs 9996 /dev/hda3 Extended 18154 /dev/hda5 vfat 15002 /dev/hda6 /boot ext3 103 /dev/hda7 / ext3 2540 /dev/hda8 swap 509 Free Free space 7 Below is the boot loader configuration which is shown after the partition is done: DOS /dev/hda1 Red Hat Linux /dev/hda7 after the installation is completed & when the computer is restarted it shows the grub prompt: GRUB> nothing else....we are not able to access his windows even... I work on FC4 dual boot on my computer and have done FC4 installation on my system (dual boot) many times But I didnt see any /boot warnings ever... how to get past GRUB> prompt and bring his computer back to working state... I would like to mention one more thing: When few months back I tried to install FC4 on his computer, it wouldnt install & instead it would restart the window, probably due to non matching hardware configuration. Thank You destiny drives the world... try driving destiny!!! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rmckeever at earthlink.net Fri Jul 21 17:02:30 2006 From: rmckeever at earthlink.net (Ron McKeever) Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 10:02:30 -0700 Subject: hugemem? smp? In-Reply-To: <1153348499.32461.93.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <004001c6ace7$744db3b0$0200a8c0@Hope> My 2 cents... I have seen if I don't use the noapic option, keventd takes up a lot of cpu. (on Redhat ES 3.0) Ron -----Original Message----- From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick Stevens Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 2:35 PM To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: Re: hugemem? smp? On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 15:04 -0700, chuck lawrence wrote: > thanks to good-hearted folks here, I've been using the hugemem kernel to > address 8gb of ram on my dual opteron rh es 3.0 servers. > > one user has reported that the cpu load balancing seems different on > these, compared to other servers with generic kernels (and less ram). > in particular, he says the hugemem systems pile more processes onto the > first processor, before moving on to the 2nd. > > is hugemem multi-processor by default? is there something else I should do? Yes, hugemem is multiprocessor. The easiest way to check is: # cat /proc/cpuinfo You'll see multiple CPUs if you have multiple CPUs, hyperthreading CPUs or multiple hyperthreading CPUs (essentially each hyperthread is treated as a CPU). So, a two-processor SMP machine with two standard Xeons would show 4 CPUs. A two-processor SMP, multicore, hyperthreading machine would show 8 CPUs. As to the load balancing...the memory model shouldn't cause a significant difference. CPU0 generally will be a bit busier since it runs the scheduler. If you don't use the APICs ("noapic" on the boot command line), CPU0 will do almost all the I/O and it'll be busier still. The thing with smaller memory models is that you may end up swapping more or doing more context switches and the differences between the CPU loads can be masked by that. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "Hello. My PID is Inigo Montoya. You `kill -9'-ed my parent - - process. Prepare to vi." - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Redhat-install-list mailing list Redhat-install-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com Subject: unsubscribe From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jul 21 19:13:58 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 12:13:58 -0700 Subject: hugemem? smp? In-Reply-To: <004001c6ace7$744db3b0$0200a8c0@Hope> References: <004001c6ace7$744db3b0$0200a8c0@Hope> Message-ID: <1153509238.32461.170.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 10:02 -0700, Ron McKeever wrote: > My 2 cents... I have seen if I don't use the noapic option, keventd takes up > a lot of cpu. > (on Redhat ES 3.0) Yes, but that's a 2.4 kernel. 2.6 handles APICs better, and it may be that your BIOS programs it wrong in the first place. "noapic" forces Linux to work around such issues. Try updating your BIOS and trying it without "noapic" and see how it works. > > Ron > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com > [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick Stevens > Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 2:35 PM > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: Re: hugemem? smp? > > On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 15:04 -0700, chuck lawrence wrote: > > thanks to good-hearted folks here, I've been using the hugemem kernel to > > address 8gb of ram on my dual opteron rh es 3.0 servers. > > > > one user has reported that the cpu load balancing seems different on > > these, compared to other servers with generic kernels (and less ram). > > in particular, he says the hugemem systems pile more processes onto the > > first processor, before moving on to the 2nd. > > > > is hugemem multi-processor by default? is there something else I should > do? > > Yes, hugemem is multiprocessor. The easiest way to check is: > > # cat /proc/cpuinfo > > You'll see multiple CPUs if you have multiple CPUs, hyperthreading CPUs > or multiple hyperthreading CPUs (essentially each hyperthread is treated > as a CPU). So, a two-processor SMP machine with two standard Xeons > would show 4 CPUs. A two-processor SMP, multicore, hyperthreading > machine would show 8 CPUs. > > As to the load balancing...the memory model shouldn't cause a > significant difference. CPU0 generally will be a bit busier since it > runs the scheduler. If you don't use the APICs ("noapic" on the boot > command line), CPU0 will do almost all the I/O and it'll be busier > still. The thing with smaller memory models is that you may end up > swapping more or doing more context switches and the differences between > the CPU loads can be masked by that. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - "Hello. My PID is Inigo Montoya. You `kill -9'-ed my parent - > - process. 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Barnum was right - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jul 21 19:17:07 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 12:17:07 -0700 Subject: "/boot may not meet booting constraints" in RH 9 In-Reply-To: <20060721131117.1069.qmail@webmail17.rediffmail.com> References: <20060721131117.1069.qmail@webmail17.rediffmail.com> Message-ID: <1153509427.32461.174.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 13:11 +0000, Salman Siddiqui wrote: > I tried to install Red Hat Linux 9 on my friends machine and tried all > type of ways: > Automatic partition > Manual Partition > > Under both conditions while it creates the /boot partition it gives > following warning: > > "Boot Partition /boot may not meet booting constraints for your > architecture. Creation of boot disk is highly encouraged." > > what can be the problem? > > Below is the configuration of its harddisk(40Gb with 256 Mb RAM) as > shown by disk druid: > > /dev/hda > /dev/hda1 ntfs 10004 > /dev/hda2 ntfs 9996 > /dev/hda3 Extended 18154 > /dev/hda5 vfat 15002 > /dev/hda6 /boot ext3 103 > /dev/hda7 / ext3 2540 > /dev/hda8 swap 509 > Free Free space 7 > > > Below is the boot loader configuration which is shown after the > partition is done: > > DOS /dev/hda1 > Red Hat Linux /dev/hda7 > > > after the installation is completed & when the computer is restarted > it shows the grub prompt: > GRUB> > > nothing else....we are not able to access his windows even... > > > I work on FC4 dual boot on my computer and have done FC4 installation > on my system (dual boot) many times > But I didnt see any /boot warnings ever... > > how to get past GRUB> prompt and bring his computer back to working > state... > > > I would like to mention one more thing: > When few months back I tried to install FC4 on his computer, it > wouldnt install & instead it would restart the window, probably due to > non matching hardware configuration. First off, RH9 awful old. Second, depending on the hardware and the disk layout, you can't boot anything that's beyond cylinder 1024. We really need to see the output of "fdisk -l". ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "Do you suffer from long-term memory loss?" "I don't remember" - - -- Chumbawumba, "Amnesia" (TubThumping) - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rmckeever at earthlink.net Fri Jul 21 20:37:39 2006 From: rmckeever at earthlink.net (Ron McKeever) Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 13:37:39 -0700 Subject: hugemem? smp? In-Reply-To: <1153509238.32461.170.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <005601c6ad05$823d1240$0200a8c0@Hope> Oh... The first email said ES 3.0 servers... Sorry... If the bios is out of date or messed up, linux can't get it's IRQs correct without the noapic.. Fyi...I have used noapic with 2.6 kernel also in regards to performance with video cards and then with clock speed (in our vmware GSX severs)... -----Original Message----- From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick Stevens Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 11:14 AM To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux Subject: RE: hugemem? smp? On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 10:02 -0700, Ron McKeever wrote: > My 2 cents... I have seen if I don't use the noapic option, keventd takes up > a lot of cpu. > (on Redhat ES 3.0) Yes, but that's a 2.4 kernel. 2.6 handles APICs better, and it may be that your BIOS programs it wrong in the first place. "noapic" forces Linux to work around such issues. Try updating your BIOS and trying it without "noapic" and see how it works. > > Ron > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com > [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick Stevens > Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 2:35 PM > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: Re: hugemem? smp? > > On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 15:04 -0700, chuck lawrence wrote: > > thanks to good-hearted folks here, I've been using the hugemem kernel to > > address 8gb of ram on my dual opteron rh es 3.0 servers. > > > > one user has reported that the cpu load balancing seems different on > > these, compared to other servers with generic kernels (and less ram). > > in particular, he says the hugemem systems pile more processes onto the > > first processor, before moving on to the 2nd. > > > > is hugemem multi-processor by default? is there something else I should > do? > > Yes, hugemem is multiprocessor. The easiest way to check is: > > # cat /proc/cpuinfo > > You'll see multiple CPUs if you have multiple CPUs, hyperthreading CPUs > or multiple hyperthreading CPUs (essentially each hyperthread is treated > as a CPU). So, a two-processor SMP machine with two standard Xeons > would show 4 CPUs. A two-processor SMP, multicore, hyperthreading > machine would show 8 CPUs. > > As to the load balancing...the memory model shouldn't cause a > significant difference. CPU0 generally will be a bit busier since it > runs the scheduler. If you don't use the APICs ("noapic" on the boot > command line), CPU0 will do almost all the I/O and it'll be busier > still. The thing with smaller memory models is that you may end up > swapping more or doing more context switches and the differences between > the CPU loads can be masked by that. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - "Hello. My PID is Inigo Montoya. You `kill -9'-ed my parent - > - process. Prepare to vi." - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Microsoft Windows: Proof that P.T. Barnum was right - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Redhat-install-list mailing list Redhat-install-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com Subject: unsubscribe From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jul 21 21:44:25 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 14:44:25 -0700 Subject: hugemem? smp? In-Reply-To: <005601c6ad05$823d1240$0200a8c0@Hope> References: <005601c6ad05$823d1240$0200a8c0@Hope> Message-ID: <1153518265.32461.179.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 13:37 -0700, Ron McKeever wrote: > Oh... The first email said ES 3.0 servers... Sorry... > > If the bios is out of date or messed up, linux can't get it's IRQs correct > without the noapic.. Correct. "noapic" tells the kernel to ignore what the BIOS did to the APIC and to use its own code. > Fyi...I have used noapic with 2.6 kernel also in regards to performance with > video cards and then with clock speed (in our vmware GSX severs)... Yup. > > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com > [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick Stevens > Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 11:14 AM > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > Subject: RE: hugemem? smp? > > On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 10:02 -0700, Ron McKeever wrote: > > My 2 cents... I have seen if I don't use the noapic option, keventd takes > up > > a lot of cpu. > > (on Redhat ES 3.0) > > Yes, but that's a 2.4 kernel. 2.6 handles APICs better, and it may be > that your BIOS programs it wrong in the first place. "noapic" forces > Linux to work around such issues. Try updating your BIOS and trying > it without "noapic" and see how it works. > > > > > Ron > > -----Original Message----- > > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com > > [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick Stevens > > Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 2:35 PM > > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > > Subject: Re: hugemem? smp? > > > > On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 15:04 -0700, chuck lawrence wrote: > > > thanks to good-hearted folks here, I've been using the hugemem kernel to > > > > address 8gb of ram on my dual opteron rh es 3.0 servers. > > > > > > one user has reported that the cpu load balancing seems different on > > > these, compared to other servers with generic kernels (and less ram). > > > in particular, he says the hugemem systems pile more processes onto the > > > first processor, before moving on to the 2nd. > > > > > > is hugemem multi-processor by default? is there something else I should > > do? > > > > Yes, hugemem is multiprocessor. The easiest way to check is: > > > > # cat /proc/cpuinfo > > > > You'll see multiple CPUs if you have multiple CPUs, hyperthreading CPUs > > or multiple hyperthreading CPUs (essentially each hyperthread is treated > > as a CPU). So, a two-processor SMP machine with two standard Xeons > > would show 4 CPUs. A two-processor SMP, multicore, hyperthreading > > machine would show 8 CPUs. > > > > As to the load balancing...the memory model shouldn't cause a > > significant difference. CPU0 generally will be a bit busier since it > > runs the scheduler. If you don't use the APICs ("noapic" on the boot > > command line), CPU0 will do almost all the I/O and it'll be busier > > still. The thing with smaller memory models is that you may end up > > swapping more or doing more context switches and the differences between > > the CPU loads can be masked by that. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > > - - > > - "Hello. My PID is Inigo Montoya. You `kill -9'-ed my parent - > > - process. 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Or I shall replace you with a very small shell script! - - - The Wizard of OS - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From fdgrant at powercom.net Fri Jul 21 20:52:20 2006 From: fdgrant at powercom.net (Fred Grant) Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:52:20 -0500 Subject: digital camera In-Reply-To: <1153415621.32461.139.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <1153350304.4385.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1153355276.32461.111.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <1153402669.3049.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1153415621.32461.139.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <1153515140.2766.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 12:13, Rick Stevens wrote: > On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 08:37 -0500, Fred Grant wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 19:27, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 18:05 -0500, Fred Grant wrote: > > > > Recently acquired an el cheapo digital camera made by dgx. When I go to > > > > mass storage mode via usb the hardware browser indicates the presence of > > > > /dev/sda1. > > > > > > > > Do any of you have any pointers for viewing images? I assume I'll have > > > > to mount /dev/sda1 but I don't know what type of file system it is or > > > > how or where to mount it. Otherwise this should be a piece of cake! > > > > > > 99% of all cameras use FAT-32 or VFAT filesystems. Have you tried > > > gphoto (Gnome) or kamera (KDE) to see if they "grok" your camera? > > > > > > If not, you probably want to create a mountpoint for your camera's > > > storage (e.g. "/media/camera") once. Then, an appropriate mount command > > > would be > > > > > > mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /media/camera > > > > > > Then you'll see the directory structure under /media/camera. One of > > > the more common would be: > > > > > > /media/camera/dcim/olympus/file.jpg > > > > > > That's from an old Olympus 3050Z camera I have. Usually, there will > > > be a "dcim" directory, and under that some permutation of your camera's > > > maker. The "*.jpg" files are the actual images. > > > > > Thanks Rick. I got it to work with /mnt/pics. How about a script to > > automate the mount command? I've never written a script before so I > > don't know how or where to save it so I can find it again and use it as > > needed. > > Uh, hmmm. Well, as root, create the file "/usr/bin/mntcam". In it, put > these lines: > > #!/bin/bash > if [ $0 = "mntcam" ]; then > mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/pics > echo "Camera mounted at /mnt/pics" > else > umount /mnt/pics > echo "It is now safe to unplug the camera" > fi > > Save it. Then (still as root), enter these two commands: > > # chmod 755 /usr/bin/mntcam > # ln -s /usr/bin/mntcam /usr/bin/umntcam > > You now have two commands "mntcam" to mount it, and "umntcam" to unmount > it. > Thanks Rick, I'll give it a shot. I thought about putting the device in /etc/fstab assuming this would make mounting relatively easy from the command line. Would this be an alternative? -- Fred From rstevens at vitalstream.com Fri Jul 21 22:02:34 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:02:34 -0700 Subject: digital camera In-Reply-To: <1153515140.2766.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1153350304.4385.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1153355276.32461.111.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <1153402669.3049.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1153415621.32461.139.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <1153515140.2766.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <1153519354.32461.194.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 15:52 -0500, Fred Grant wrote: > On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 12:13, Rick Stevens wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 08:37 -0500, Fred Grant wrote: > > > On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 19:27, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 18:05 -0500, Fred Grant wrote: > > > > > Recently acquired an el cheapo digital camera made by dgx. When I go to > > > > > mass storage mode via usb the hardware browser indicates the presence of > > > > > /dev/sda1. > > > > > > > > > > Do any of you have any pointers for viewing images? I assume I'll have > > > > > to mount /dev/sda1 but I don't know what type of file system it is or > > > > > how or where to mount it. Otherwise this should be a piece of cake! > > > > > > > > 99% of all cameras use FAT-32 or VFAT filesystems. Have you tried > > > > gphoto (Gnome) or kamera (KDE) to see if they "grok" your camera? > > > > > > > > If not, you probably want to create a mountpoint for your camera's > > > > storage (e.g. "/media/camera") once. Then, an appropriate mount command > > > > would be > > > > > > > > mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /media/camera > > > > > > > > Then you'll see the directory structure under /media/camera. One of > > > > the more common would be: > > > > > > > > /media/camera/dcim/olympus/file.jpg > > > > > > > > That's from an old Olympus 3050Z camera I have. Usually, there will > > > > be a "dcim" directory, and under that some permutation of your camera's > > > > maker. The "*.jpg" files are the actual images. > > > > > > > Thanks Rick. I got it to work with /mnt/pics. How about a script to > > > automate the mount command? I've never written a script before so I > > > don't know how or where to save it so I can find it again and use it as > > > needed. > > > > Uh, hmmm. Well, as root, create the file "/usr/bin/mntcam". In it, put > > these lines: > > > > #!/bin/bash > > if [ $0 = "mntcam" ]; then > > mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/pics > > echo "Camera mounted at /mnt/pics" > > else > > umount /mnt/pics > > echo "It is now safe to unplug the camera" > > fi > > > > Save it. Then (still as root), enter these two commands: > > > > # chmod 755 /usr/bin/mntcam > > # ln -s /usr/bin/mntcam /usr/bin/umntcam > > > > You now have two commands "mntcam" to mount it, and "umntcam" to unmount > > it. > > > Thanks Rick, I'll give it a shot. I thought about putting the device in > /etc/fstab assuming this would make mounting relatively easy from the > command line. Would this be an alternative? Certainly. A line such as: /dev/sda1 /mnt/pics vfat pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 would do it. Just make sure you have "noauto" specified or the system will whine at boot time if the camera isn't plugged in. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "Swap memory error: You lose your mind" - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From salmansiddiqui1234 at rediffmail.com Sat Jul 22 08:08:28 2006 From: salmansiddiqui1234 at rediffmail.com (Salman Siddiqui) Date: 22 Jul 2006 08:08:28 -0000 Subject: "/boot may not meet booting constraints" in RH 9 Message-ID: <20060722080828.2657.qmail@webmail66.rediffmail.com> ? On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 13:11 +0000, Salman Siddiqui wrote: > I tried to install Red Hat Linux 9 on my friends machine and tried all > type of ways: > Automatic partition > Manual Partition > > Under both conditions while it creates the /boot partition it gives > following warning: > > "Boot Partition /boot may not meet booting constraints for your > architecture. Creation of boot disk is highly encouraged." > > what can be the problem? > > Below is the configuration of its harddisk(40Gb with 256 Mb RAM) as > shown by disk druid: > > /dev/hda > /dev/hda1 ntfs 10004 > /dev/hda2 ntfs 9996 > /dev/hda3 Extended 18154 > /dev/hda5 vfat 15002 > /dev/hda6 /boot ext3 103 > /dev/hda7 / ext3 2540 > /dev/hda8 swap 509 > Free Free space 7 > > > Below is the boot loader configuration which is shown after the > partition is done: > > DOS /dev/hda1 > Red Hat Linux /dev/hda7 > > > after the installation is completed & when the computer is restarted > it shows the grub prompt: > GRUB> > > nothing else....we are not able to access his windows even... > > > I work on FC4 dual boot on my computer and have done FC4 installation > on my system (dual boot) many times > But I didnt see any /boot warnings ever... > > how to get past GRUB> prompt and bring his computer back to working > state... > > > I would like to mention one more thing: > When few months back I tried to install FC4 on his computer, it > wouldnt install & instead it would restart the window, probably due to > non matching hardware configuration. First off, RH9 awful old. Second, depending on the hardware and the disk layout, you can't boot anything that's beyond cylinder 1024. We really need to see the output of "fdisk -l". ------------------------------------------------------------ now how can u except me to tell u wot fdisk -l shows when I am not able to pass through the GRUB> prompt??? About RH 9.....I know its old but because that computer isnt letting us install FC4 (due to some hardware problems) we have to relly on RH9 I hope u will reply!!! thnx destiny drives the world... try driving destiny!!! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fdgrant at powercom.net Sun Jul 23 23:45:58 2006 From: fdgrant at powercom.net (Fred Grant) Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 18:45:58 -0500 Subject: digital camera In-Reply-To: <1153519354.32461.194.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <1153350304.4385.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1153355276.32461.111.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <1153402669.3049.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1153415621.32461.139.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <1153515140.2766.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1153519354.32461.194.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <1153698358.5409.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 17:02, Rick Stevens wrote: > On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 15:52 -0500, Fred Grant wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 12:13, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 08:37 -0500, Fred Grant wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 19:27, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 18:05 -0500, Fred Grant wrote: > > > > > > Recently acquired an el cheapo digital camera made by dgx. When I go to > > > > > > mass storage mode via usb the hardware browser indicates the presence of > > > > > > /dev/sda1. > > > > > > > > > > > > Do any of you have any pointers for viewing images? I assume I'll have > > > > > > to mount /dev/sda1 but I don't know what type of file system it is or > > > > > > how or where to mount it. Otherwise this should be a piece of cake! > > > > > > > > > > 99% of all cameras use FAT-32 or VFAT filesystems. Have you tried > > > > > gphoto (Gnome) or kamera (KDE) to see if they "grok" your camera? > > > > > > > > > > If not, you probably want to create a mountpoint for your camera's > > > > > storage (e.g. "/media/camera") once. Then, an appropriate mount command > > > > > would be > > > > > > > > > > mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /media/camera > > > > > > > > > > Then you'll see the directory structure under /media/camera. One of > > > > > the more common would be: > > > > > > > > > > /media/camera/dcim/olympus/file.jpg > > > > > > > > > > That's from an old Olympus 3050Z camera I have. Usually, there will > > > > > be a "dcim" directory, and under that some permutation of your camera's > > > > > maker. The "*.jpg" files are the actual images. > > > > > > > > > Thanks Rick. I got it to work with /mnt/pics. How about a script to > > > > automate the mount command? I've never written a script before so I > > > > don't know how or where to save it so I can find it again and use it as > > > > needed. > > > > > > Uh, hmmm. Well, as root, create the file "/usr/bin/mntcam". In it, put > > > these lines: > > > > > > #!/bin/bash > > > if [ $0 = "mntcam" ]; then > > > mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/pics > > > echo "Camera mounted at /mnt/pics" > > > else > > > umount /mnt/pics > > > echo "It is now safe to unplug the camera" > > > fi > > > > > > Save it. Then (still as root), enter these two commands: > > > > > > # chmod 755 /usr/bin/mntcam > > > # ln -s /usr/bin/mntcam /usr/bin/umntcam > > > > > > You now have two commands "mntcam" to mount it, and "umntcam" to unmount > > > it. > > > > > Thanks Rick, I'll give it a shot. I thought about putting the device in > > /etc/fstab assuming this would make mounting relatively easy from the > > command line. Would this be an alternative? > > Certainly. A line such as: > > /dev/sda1 /mnt/pics vfat pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 > > would do it. Just make sure you have "noauto" specified or the system > will whine at boot time if the camera isn't plugged in. I took out some of your more esoteric commands and added "user". Pics now shows up in the "usermounter" under the desktop computer icon (where you can mount your floppy or cd rom). Works great. -- Fred From karlp at ourldsfamily.com Mon Jul 24 04:14:15 2006 From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com (karlp at ourldsfamily.com) Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 22:14:15 -0600 (MDT) Subject: digital camera In-Reply-To: <1153415621.32461.139.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Rick Stevens wrote: >On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 08:37 -0500, Fred Grant wrote: >> On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 19:27, Rick Stevens wrote: >> > On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 18:05 -0500, Fred Grant wrote: >> > > Recently acquired an el cheapo digital camera made by dgx. When I go to >> > > mass storage mode via usb the hardware browser indicates the presence of >> > > /dev/sda1. >> > > >> > > Do any of you have any pointers for viewing images? I assume I'll have >> > > to mount /dev/sda1 but I don't know what type of file system it is or >> > > how or where to mount it. Otherwise this should be a piece of cake! >> > >> > 99% of all cameras use FAT-32 or VFAT filesystems. Have you tried >> > gphoto (Gnome) or kamera (KDE) to see if they "grok" your camera? >> > >> > If not, you probably want to create a mountpoint for your camera's >> > storage (e.g. "/media/camera") once. Then, an appropriate mount command >> > would be >> > >> > mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /media/camera >> > >> > Then you'll see the directory structure under /media/camera. One of >> > the more common would be: >> > >> > /media/camera/dcim/olympus/file.jpg >> > >> > That's from an old Olympus 3050Z camera I have. Usually, there will >> > be a "dcim" directory, and under that some permutation of your camera's >> > maker. The "*.jpg" files are the actual images. >> > >> Thanks Rick. I got it to work with /mnt/pics. How about a script to >> automate the mount command? I've never written a script before so I >> don't know how or where to save it so I can find it again and use it as >> needed. > >Uh, hmmm. Well, as root, create the file "/usr/bin/mntcam". In it, put >these lines: > > #!/bin/bash > if [ $0 = "mntcam" ]; then > mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/pics > echo "Camera mounted at /mnt/pics" > else > umount /mnt/pics > echo "It is now safe to unplug the camera" > fi > >Save it. Then (still as root), enter these two commands: > > # chmod 755 /usr/bin/mntcam > # ln -s /usr/bin/mntcam /usr/bin/umntcam > >You now have two commands "mntcam" to mount it, and "umntcam" to unmount >it. Nice script Rick. One other suggestion I would make is create a bin directory in your home directory, then put scripts you write there. Then the link command would be: ln -s /home/yourname/bin/mntcam /usr/bin & ln -s /home/yourname/bin/mntcam /usr/bin/umntcam This gives you the option of just backing up your home bin dir for moving and modifying your scripts. One nice tool for writing scripts is vim, or you can venture into KDevelop, which also does syntax hilighting. My 2 bits. Karl (from a hotel room in Idaho the night before a funeral on my wife's side of the family). > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - >- VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - >- - >- He who laughs last thinks slowest. - >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >_______________________________________________ >Redhat-install-list mailing list >Redhat-install-list at redhat.com >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list >To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: >redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com >Subject: unsubscribe > -- klp _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ ____________ __o _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ ____________ _-\<._ _/_/ _/ _/_/_/ (_)/ (_) _/ _/ _/ _/ ...................... _/ _/ arl _/_/_/ _/ earson KarlP at ourldsfamily.com -- Senior Consulting Sys/DB Analyst http://consulting.ourldsfamily.com -- My Thoughts on Terrorism In America: http://www.ourldsfamily.com/wtc.shtml -- A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you. -Ramsey Clark -- From rodrigofariatavares at bol.com.br Mon Jul 24 13:27:25 2006 From: rodrigofariatavares at bol.com.br (rodrigofariatavares) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 10:27:25 -0300 Subject: Problem with OpenSwan Message-ID: Hello, I can?t get to create the key in openswan come this error: ipsec showhostkey: no default key in "/etc/ipsec.secrets" How I can to resolve it ? OS : FC5 best regards, Faria From tbw at geo.hunter.cuny.edu Mon Jul 24 16:34:02 2006 From: tbw at geo.hunter.cuny.edu (Thomas Walter) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 12:34:02 -0400 (EDT) Subject: RHEL4 install format problem on Dell PowerEdge w/PERC RAID In-Reply-To: <1153168258.32461.76.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Rick Stevens wrote: > On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 16:09 -0400, Thomas Walter wrote: > > I issued the dd command (below) in rescue mode and tried the RHEL4 update > > 3 install again and got the same result....... format dies at 99% with a > > screenfull of error messages scrolling buy. > > Ugh! That's not good. Since it's happening toward the end of the > format, it sounds like you have either dissimilar drives in the RAID > (all drives in a hardware RAID should be the same make and model) or one > or more of the drives in the RAID are dying. > > By the way, we prefer bottom posting here (post your responses after > what you're responding to). It makes following the logic of the > messages easier. > > > I was unable to determine if RAID was running in degraded mode. All boot > > messages seemed to indicate everything related to RAID is OK. > > You need to get into the BIOS of the controller to determine that. A > hardware RAID simply presents a "logical" drive to the OS. The OS is > not aware of the RAID at all--all it sees is a drive. > > If your 2400 uses the PercRAID common to Dell machines, hit "CTRL-M" > at the appropriate prompt after doing a reset. Then go into "Objects" > and select the virtual drive created by the RAID. Verify that it's in > an "optimal" state. If not, you really should resolve that first. You > should also look at all the drives involved and verify that they're the > same make and model. > > If the RAID controller says it's healthy, then bring up the rescue mode > again and try using the badblocks utility on the drive: > > # badblocks /dev/sda +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I did a badblocks -w /dev/sda and there were no error messages. I was able to find my RH9 install CDs and just tried them. The disk format was successful and RPMS are installing! Could this problem have to do with LVM? But exactly where? ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Thanks. > > That will check the drive for bad blocks and (hopefully) tag them. You > may want to run that in write mode ("badblocks -w /dev/sda") which makes > it to do a write/read test. It's much more thorough but MUCH slower. > > > On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 11:51 -0400, Thomas Walter wrote: > > > > I decided to install RHEL4 update 3 on a Dell PowerEdge 2400 that was > > > > running RH9. This machine has hardware RAID 5. The machine can't format > > > > the / (root) partition. I've tried RHEL 4 update 2 and 3 and Fedora 5. > > > > RHEL4 update 3 hangs in graphic mode but shows multiple error messages in > > > > text mode. RHEL 4 update 2 and FC5 come back with the following error > > > > message: > > > > > > > > A error occurred trying to format VolGroup/LogVol00 (which is root). This > > > > problem is serious and the install cannot continue. I tried deleting the > > > > LVM related info in the next install and just use the hard disk info but > > > > received they same error with sda3. > > > > > > > > I'm not sure where to go from here. Any suggestions? > > > > > > Well, the LVM doesn't surprise me. RH9 and FC1 have a 2.4 kernel and > > > use LVM1. RHEL4 and FC2-5 have a 2.6 kernel and use LVM2. LVM1 and > > > LVM2 are NOT compatible. > > > > > > However, you killed off LVM and you're still having problems. It sounds > > > a bit like the RAID is having issues. You said it's in hardware RAID > > > 5. Are you certain the RAID isn't running in degraded mode? If it's > > > OK, then you may have to do something drastic such as stomp on the > > > partition table in rescue mode and start from scratch. > > > > > > To stomp on the partition table, boot in rescue mode ("linux rescue" > > > at the "boot:" prompt off CD1). Do NOT let the system try to mount > > > the existing system, then: > > > > > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 > > > > > > That should wipe your partition table completely. Then try to install > > > normally (you can even try LVM2 stuff at that point). > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - "Hello. My PID is Inigo Montoya. You `kill -9'-ed my parent - > - process. Prepare to vi." - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > -- ================================================================================== Thomas Walter Geography & Computer Science Departments Hunter College of the City University of New York 695 Park Avenue New York, NY 10021 (212)772-5457 Office (212)772-5268 Fax tbwalter at geo.hunter.cuny.edu http://geography.hunter.cuny.edu/~tbw From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Jul 24 22:01:02 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:01:02 -0700 Subject: digital camera In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1153778462.32461.212.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Sun, 2006-07-23 at 22:14 -0600, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Rick Stevens wrote: > > >On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 08:37 -0500, Fred Grant wrote: > >> On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 19:27, Rick Stevens wrote: > >> > On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 18:05 -0500, Fred Grant wrote: > >> > > Recently acquired an el cheapo digital camera made by dgx. When I go to > >> > > mass storage mode via usb the hardware browser indicates the presence of > >> > > /dev/sda1. > >> > > > >> > > Do any of you have any pointers for viewing images? I assume I'll have > >> > > to mount /dev/sda1 but I don't know what type of file system it is or > >> > > how or where to mount it. Otherwise this should be a piece of cake! > >> > > >> > 99% of all cameras use FAT-32 or VFAT filesystems. Have you tried > >> > gphoto (Gnome) or kamera (KDE) to see if they "grok" your camera? > >> > > >> > If not, you probably want to create a mountpoint for your camera's > >> > storage (e.g. "/media/camera") once. Then, an appropriate mount command > >> > would be > >> > > >> > mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /media/camera > >> > > >> > Then you'll see the directory structure under /media/camera. One of > >> > the more common would be: > >> > > >> > /media/camera/dcim/olympus/file.jpg > >> > > >> > That's from an old Olympus 3050Z camera I have. Usually, there will > >> > be a "dcim" directory, and under that some permutation of your camera's > >> > maker. The "*.jpg" files are the actual images. > >> > > >> Thanks Rick. I got it to work with /mnt/pics. How about a script to > >> automate the mount command? I've never written a script before so I > >> don't know how or where to save it so I can find it again and use it as > >> needed. > > > >Uh, hmmm. Well, as root, create the file "/usr/bin/mntcam". In it, put > >these lines: > > > > #!/bin/bash > > if [ $0 = "mntcam" ]; then > > mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/pics > > echo "Camera mounted at /mnt/pics" > > else > > umount /mnt/pics > > echo "It is now safe to unplug the camera" > > fi > > > >Save it. Then (still as root), enter these two commands: > > > > # chmod 755 /usr/bin/mntcam > > # ln -s /usr/bin/mntcam /usr/bin/umntcam > > > >You now have two commands "mntcam" to mount it, and "umntcam" to unmount > >it. > > > Nice script Rick. One other suggestion I would make is create a bin > directory in your home directory, then put scripts you write there. Then > the link command would be: > > ln -s /home/yourname/bin/mntcam /usr/bin > & > ln -s /home/yourname/bin/mntcam /usr/bin/umntcam > > This gives you the option of just backing up your home bin dir for moving > and modifying your scripts. > > One nice tool for writing scripts is vim, or you can venture into > KDevelop, which also does syntax hilighting. Vim does syntax highlighting. The trick is that you generally have both vi and vim (/bin/vi and /usr/bin/vim). If you put this in your /.bashrc script: if [ -d /usr/bin ]; then alias vi="vim" fi then you will invoke vim instead of vi complete with syntax highlights. > My 2 bits. > > Karl (from a hotel room in Idaho the night before a funeral on my wife's > side of the family). Sorry to hear that, Karl. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Millihelen, adj: The amount of beauty required to launch one ship. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Jul 24 22:04:31 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:04:31 -0700 Subject: "/boot may not meet booting constraints" in RH 9 In-Reply-To: <20060722080828.2657.qmail@webmail66.rediffmail.com> References: <20060722080828.2657.qmail@webmail66.rediffmail.com> Message-ID: <1153778671.32461.217.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Sat, 2006-07-22 at 08:08 +0000, Salman Siddiqui wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 13:11 +0000, Salman Siddiqui wrote: > > I tried to install Red Hat Linux 9 on my friends machine and tried > all > > type of ways: > > Automatic partition > > Manual Partition > > > > Under both conditions while it creates the /boot partition it gives > > following warning: > > > > "Boot Partition /boot may not meet booting constraints for your > > architecture. Creation of boot disk is highly encouraged." > > > > what can be the problem? > > > > Below is the configuration of its harddisk(40Gb with 256 Mb RAM) as > > shown by disk druid: > > > > /dev/hda > > /dev/hda1 ntfs 10004 > > /dev/hda2 ntfs 9996 > > /dev/hda3 Extended 18154 > > /dev/hda5 vfat 15002 > > /dev/hda6 /boot ext3 103 > > /dev/hda7 / ext3 2540 > > /dev/hda8 swap 509 > > Free Free space 7 > > > > > > Below is the boot loader configuration which is shown after the > > partition is done: > > > > DOS /dev/hda1 > > Red Hat Linux /dev/hda7 > > > > > > after the installation is completed & when the computer is restarted > > it shows the grub prompt: > > GRUB> > > > > nothing else....we are not able to access his windows even... > > > > > > I work on FC4 dual boot on my computer and have done FC4 > installation > > on my system (dual boot) many times > > But I didnt see any /boot warnings ever... > > > > how to get past GRUB> prompt and bring his computer back to working > > state... > > > > > > I would like to mention one more thing: > > When few months back I tried to install FC4 on his computer, it > > wouldnt install & instead it would restart the window, probably due > to > > non matching hardware configuration. > > First off, RH9 awful old. Second, depending on the hardware and the > disk layout, you can't boot anything that's beyond cylinder 1024. > We really need to see the output of "fdisk -l". > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > now how can u except me to tell u wot fdisk -l shows when I am not > able to pass through the GRUB> prompt??? Put in your first CD and boot into rescue mode: boot: linux rescue Do NOT let the system mount the existing Linux configuration. At the "#" prompt, enter "fdisk -l" and post the output. > About RH 9.....I know its old but because that computer isnt letting > us install FC4 (due to some hardware problems) we have to relly on RH9 Hardware problems? As in "this system isn't supported anymore"? It's true that 80386 support was deleted in kernel 2.6 and that FC4 needs a lot more RAM, but beyond that, I can't think what isn't supported that's even remotely current (e.g. <5 years old). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - I.R.S.: We've got what it takes to take what you've got! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Mon Jul 24 22:13:23 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:13:23 -0700 Subject: RHEL4 install format problem on Dell PowerEdge w/PERC RAID In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1153779204.32461.227.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 12:34 -0400, Thomas Walter wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 16:09 -0400, Thomas Walter wrote: > > > I issued the dd command (below) in rescue mode and tried the RHEL4 update > > > 3 install again and got the same result....... format dies at 99% with a > > > screenfull of error messages scrolling buy. > > > > Ugh! That's not good. Since it's happening toward the end of the > > format, it sounds like you have either dissimilar drives in the RAID > > (all drives in a hardware RAID should be the same make and model) or one > > or more of the drives in the RAID are dying. > > > > By the way, we prefer bottom posting here (post your responses after > > what you're responding to). It makes following the logic of the > > messages easier. > > > > > I was unable to determine if RAID was running in degraded mode. All boot > > > messages seemed to indicate everything related to RAID is OK. > > > > You need to get into the BIOS of the controller to determine that. A > > hardware RAID simply presents a "logical" drive to the OS. The OS is > > not aware of the RAID at all--all it sees is a drive. > > > > If your 2400 uses the PercRAID common to Dell machines, hit "CTRL-M" > > at the appropriate prompt after doing a reset. Then go into "Objects" > > and select the virtual drive created by the RAID. Verify that it's in > > an "optimal" state. If not, you really should resolve that first. You > > should also look at all the drives involved and verify that they're the > > same make and model. > > > > If the RAID controller says it's healthy, then bring up the rescue mode > > again and try using the badblocks utility on the drive: > > > > # badblocks /dev/sda > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > I did a badblocks -w /dev/sda and there were no error messages. I was > able to find my RH9 install CDs and just tried them. The disk format was > successful and RPMS are installing! Could this problem have to do with > LVM? But exactly where? > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I'm glad to hear things are working. As to if it was LVM, it's possible. The "badblocks -w" does a destructive test on the drive which wipes out all of the formatting (LVM, MBR, partition table, etc.). As to what specifically was causing the issue, that's rather hard to say. It could have been LVM. If you were upgrading from a system that used a 2.4 kernel (e.g. Fedora Core 1, RHEL3 and anything before them) to something that uses kernel 2.6 and up (FC2 and up, RHEL4 and up), then it may actually be likely that LVM was the culprit. The 2.4 kernels used LVM1, 2.6 uses LVM2 and the two (LVM1 and LVM2) are not compatible, but I would have expected the installer to fix that or at least called your attention to it (you can't convert from LVM1 to LVM2 without wiping out the data). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - If Bill Gates got a dime for every time Windows crashes... - - ...oh, wait. He does. THAT explains it! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From interp01 at sevenbelow.com Wed Jul 26 07:14:49 2006 From: interp01 at sevenbelow.com (interp01) Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 00:14:49 -0700 Subject: Confused on Dual Boot OS with RHEL4 and FC5 Message-ID: <000501c6b083$2e7a01f0$1501a8c0@bluelantern> Sorry for the novel here, but Im very close to getting this working and I think I crossed some streams some where :-) Any insight as to what Im doing wrong is greatly appreciated. I did search the H3LL out of google and nothing came back on what Im attempting to do... I really need some insight on this one as Im very confused as to why my Dual boot system is not working. I am attempting a dual boot OS with RHEL 4 and FC5 using Grub Boot loader. I have attempted several configurations trying to sort this out and have ended with the following and don't understand why this wont boot. I have created 3 partitions (I created the sda3 for FC5 via the FC5 installer through an NFS install, not sure if that matters or not): /dev/sda1 as /boot /dev/sda2 as PV 1 aka VolGroup00 /dev/sda3 as PV 2 aka VolGroup01 Under both of the VolGroup's I have created two Logical Volume's: / aka VolGroup00/LogVol00 SWAP VolGroup00/LogVol01 And / aka VolGroup01/LogVol00 SWAP VolGroup01/LogVol01 I installed RHEL 4 first under VolGroup00 (/dev/sda2 - booted fine) and then installed FC5 under VolGroup01. I was expecting Grub to pick up the new install and just create a new Stanza that referred to the newly installed VolGroup01 (FC5). By default FC5 came up and apparently over wrote the grub.conf file with only the FC5 Stanza pointing to VolGroup01. FC5 boots fine but RHEL4 does not. When I altered the grub.conf file to have the older RHEL4 Stanza and attempted a boot the boot process threw a kernel panic attack. I thought it might have something to do with the LABEL and attempted the boot with the partition name (/dev/sda2) and still received the same kernel panic attack. After examining the fstab file on the FC5 instance I noticed that my VolGroup00/LogVol00 entry for my original RHEL 4 / LABEL was removed. I was actually expecting to see two entries here, one for the VolGroup00/LogVol00 for RHEL4 / and one for the VolGroup01/LogVol01 for FC5 /. Instead I only saw the FC5 / entry. I asked a colleague of mine about this and he mentioned that I could not use the RH install Wizard to create multiple LV / partitions under the same VolGroup and that I needed to do it manually using lvcreate, mk32fs and then e2label labeling the newly create LV as /. This approachdid in fact work, but Im still not sure why my original approach didn't. Im very confused as to why neither approach has worked for me. In theory a machine with 3 partitions as described aboved should render two PV's and essentially two bootable OS's, shouldn't it???? Do you really need to have all / partitions for both OS's under the same VG? Wouldn't two separate VGs with the same LV's (/ and SWAP) perform the same task??? Any explanations here is greatly appreciated! Thanks, Interp01 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cinetron at passport.ca Wed Jul 26 21:45:49 2006 From: cinetron at passport.ca (jim ruxton) Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:45:49 -0400 Subject: partition nightmares Message-ID: <1153950349.5990.21.camel@localhost.localdomain> Hi, I recently reinstalled Fedora (went from 3 to 5) . Rather than doing an upgrade I did a complete reinstall. Everything went well till I decided to create a FAT32 partition on my Windows partition . I dual boot this machine. I was using Partition Magic while trying to create the FAT32 partition. Next time I booted using Grub into my Windows partition Windows wouldn't load. My files are still there and I can mount them using ntfsmount in linux but can't start windows. When I load the windows systems CD that came with my laptop I can't start Windows either. I really don't want to wipe my nice new FC5 to reload Windows. Any thoughts what I can do to get Windows back? Here is the output of fdisk -l ? Thanks. jim Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 3951 7296 26876713+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/hda3 14 3950 31623952+ 8e Linux LVM Partition table entries are not in disk order Disk /dev/dm-0: 31.2 GB, 31272730624 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3802 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/dm-1: 1073 MB, 1073741824 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 130 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table From Andy.Q.Wu at seagate.com Wed Jul 26 23:39:13 2006 From: Andy.Q.Wu at seagate.com (Andy.Q.Wu at seagate.com) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 07:39:13 +0800 Subject: partition nightmares In-Reply-To: <1153950349.5990.21.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: You can use FDISK to recover the MBR. The command is "FDISK /MBR". jim ruxton To Sent by: redhat-install-list at redhat.com redhat-install-li cc st-bounces at redhat .com Subject No Phone Info partition nightmares Available 07/27/2006 05:45 AM Please respond to Getting started with Red Hat Linux Hi, I recently reinstalled Fedora (went from 3 to 5) . Rather than doing an upgrade I did a complete reinstall. Everything went well till I decided to create a FAT32 partition on my Windows partition . I dual boot this machine. I was using Partition Magic while trying to create the FAT32 partition. Next time I booted using Grub into my Windows partition Windows wouldn't load. My files are still there and I can mount them using ntfsmount in linux but can't start windows. When I load the windows systems CD that came with my laptop I can't start Windows either. I really don't want to wipe my nice new FC5 to reload Windows. Any thoughts what I can do to get Windows back? Here is the output of fdisk -l ? Thanks. jim Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 3951 7296 26876713+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/hda3 14 3950 31623952+ 8e Linux LVM Partition table entries are not in disk order Disk /dev/dm-0: 31.2 GB, 31272730624 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3802 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/dm-1: 1073 MB, 1073741824 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 130 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table _______________________________________________ Redhat-install-list mailing list Redhat-install-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com Subject: unsubscribe From cinetron at passport.ca Thu Jul 27 00:03:18 2006 From: cinetron at passport.ca (jim ruxton) Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:03:18 -0400 Subject: partition nightmares In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1153958598.6644.28.camel@localhost.localdomain> I assume you are talking about the msdos version of fdisk and not the linux version? jim > You can use FDISK to recover the MBR. The command is "FDISK /MBR". > > > > > jim ruxton > t.ca> To > Sent by: redhat-install-list at redhat.com > redhat-install-li cc > st-bounces at redhat > .com Subject > No Phone Info partition nightmares > Available > > > 07/27/2006 05:45 > AM > > > Please respond to > Getting started > with Red Hat > Linux > ist at redhat.com> > > > > > > > Hi, I recently reinstalled Fedora (went from 3 to 5) . Rather than doing > an upgrade I did a complete reinstall. Everything went well till I > decided to create a FAT32 partition on my Windows partition . I dual > boot this machine. I was using Partition Magic while trying to create > the FAT32 partition. Next time I booted using Grub into my Windows > partition Windows wouldn't load. My files are still there and I can > mount them using ntfsmount in linux but can't start windows. When I load > the windows systems CD that came with my laptop I can't start Windows > either. I really don't want to wipe my nice new FC5 to reload Windows. > Any thoughts what I can do to get Windows back? Here is the output of > fdisk -l ? Thanks. > > jim > > > Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 * 3951 7296 26876713+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/hda2 1 13 104391 83 Linux > /dev/hda3 14 3950 31623952+ 8e Linux LVM > > Partition table entries are not in disk order > > Disk /dev/dm-0: 31.2 GB, 31272730624 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3802 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table > > Disk /dev/dm-1: 1073 MB, 1073741824 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 130 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > From salmansiddiqui1234 at rediffmail.com Thu Jul 27 00:05:30 2006 From: salmansiddiqui1234 at rediffmail.com (Salman Siddiqui) Date: 27 Jul 2006 00:05:30 -0000 Subject: "/boot may not meet booting constraints" in RH 9 Message-ID: <20060727000530.7681.qmail@webmail60.rediffmail.com> ? On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 Rick Stevens wrote : >On Sat, 2006-07-22 at 08:08 +0000, Salman Siddiqui wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 13:11 +0000, Salman Siddiqui wrote: > > > I tried to install Red Hat Linux 9 on my friends machine and tried > > all > > > type of ways: > > > Automatic partition > > > Manual Partition > > > > > > Under both conditions while it creates the /boot partition it gives > > > following warning: > > > > > > "Boot Partition /boot may not meet booting constraints for your > > > architecture. Creation of boot disk is highly encouraged." > > > > > > what can be the problem? > > > > > > Below is the configuration of its harddisk(40Gb with 256 Mb RAM) as > > > shown by disk druid: > > > > > > /dev/hda > > > /dev/hda1 ntfs 10004 > > > /dev/hda2 ntfs 9996 > > > /dev/hda3 Extended 18154 > > > /dev/hda5 vfat 15002 > > > /dev/hda6 /boot ext3 103 > > > /dev/hda7 / ext3 2540 > > > /dev/hda8 swap 509 > > > Free Free space 7 > > > > > > > > > Below is the boot loader configuration which is shown after the > > > partition is done: > > > > > > DOS /dev/hda1 > > > Red Hat Linux /dev/hda7 > > > > > > > > > after the installation is completed & when the computer is restarted > > > it shows the grub prompt: > > > GRUB> > > > > > > nothing else....we are not able to access his windows even... > > > > > > > > > I work on FC4 dual boot on my computer and have done FC4 > > installation > > > on my system (dual boot) many times > > > But I didnt see any /boot warnings ever... > > > > > > how to get past GRUB> prompt and bring his computer back to working > > > state... > > > > > > > > > I would like to mention one more thing: > > > When few months back I tried to install FC4 on his computer, it > > > wouldnt install & instead it would restart the window, probably due > > to > > > non matching hardware configuration. > > > > First off, RH9 awful old. Second, depending on the hardware and the > > disk layout, you can't boot anything that's beyond cylinder 1024. > > We really need to see the output of "fdisk -l". > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > now how can u except me to tell u wot fdisk -l shows when I am not > > able to pass through the GRUB> prompt??? > >Put in your first CD and boot into rescue mode: > > boot: linux rescue > >Do NOT let the system mount the existing Linux configuration. At the >"#" prompt, enter "fdisk -l" and post the output. the output for fdisk -l in rescue mode is as below: DISK /dev/hda 40.0GB,400020664320 bytes 240 heads ,63 sector/tracks,5169 cylinders units =cylinders of 15120*512=7741440 bytes Devices Boot Start End Block ID System /dev/hda1 * 1 1355 10243768+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 1356 2709 10236240 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda3 2710 5168 18590040 f WIN95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 2710 4741 15361888+ b WIN95 FAT32 /dev/hda6 5100 5168 521608+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda7 4742 5099 2706448+ 83 Linux partiiton table entries are not in disk order. actually this time we installed RH9 again without creating a /boot ...u can add that in fdisk also....but it will not b in 1st 1024 cylinders as written in middle of this long mail....the output of disk druid.... that is the problem...why is the /boot partition not coming under 1024 cylinders? > > > About RH 9.....I know its old but because that computer isnt letting > > us install FC4 (due to some hardware problems) we have to relly on RH9 > >Hardware problems? As in "this system isn't supported anymore"? It's >true that 80386 support was deleted in kernel 2.6 and that FC4 needs a >lot more RAM, but beyond that, I can't think what isn't supported that's >even remotely current (e.g. <5 years old). there you go with the complete list of hardware and software of the system...as shown in windows (our linux is not booting...thats why using windows...huh) =========================================================== System Information report written at: 07/26/2006 06:43:10 PM [System Summary] Item Value OS Name Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Version 5.0.2195 Service Pack 4 Build 2195 OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation System Name MUKUL System Manufacturer Compaq Presario 061 System Model PP018AA-ACJ SR1235IL FD440 System Type X86-based PC Processor x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel ~2800 Mhz BIOS Version Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG Windows Directory C:\WINNT System Directory C:\WINNT\system32 Boot Device \Device\Harddisk0\Partition1 Locale United States User Name MUKUL\Administrator Total Physical Memory 253,424 KB Available Physical Memory 26,116 KB Total Virtual Memory 1,580,084 KB Available Virtual Memory 1,139,200 KB Page File Space 1,326,660 KB Page File C:\pagefile.sys Page File D:\pagefile.sys ====================================================== now i also dont get why the system restarts when we try n boot it with FC4 CDs....press enter and it restarts and does not allows us to proceed with the installation...??? I KNOW THIS IS RATHER TOO LONG....BUT I WOULD BE HAPPY IF U SOLE OUR PROBLEM.... thank you > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - >- VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - >- - >- I.R.S.: We've got what it takes to take what you've got! - >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > destiny drives the world... try driving destiny!!! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cinetron at passport.ca Thu Jul 27 00:12:00 2006 From: cinetron at passport.ca (jim ruxton) Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:12:00 -0400 Subject: partition nightmares In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1153959120.6644.30.camel@localhost.localdomain> > You can use FDISK to recover the MBR. The command is "FDISK /MBR". Won't this command overwrite my Grub bootloader as well? jim > > > > > jim ruxton > t.ca> To > Sent by: redhat-install-list at redhat.com > redhat-install-li cc > st-bounces at redhat > .com Subject > No Phone Info partition nightmares > Available > > > 07/27/2006 05:45 > AM > > > Please respond to > Getting started > with Red Hat > Linux > ist at redhat.com> > > > > > > > Hi, I recently reinstalled Fedora (went from 3 to 5) . Rather than doing > an upgrade I did a complete reinstall. Everything went well till I > decided to create a FAT32 partition on my Windows partition . I dual > boot this machine. I was using Partition Magic while trying to create > the FAT32 partition. Next time I booted using Grub into my Windows > partition Windows wouldn't load. My files are still there and I can > mount them using ntfsmount in linux but can't start windows. When I load > the windows systems CD that came with my laptop I can't start Windows > either. I really don't want to wipe my nice new FC5 to reload Windows. > Any thoughts what I can do to get Windows back? Here is the output of > fdisk -l ? Thanks. > > jim > > > Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 * 3951 7296 26876713+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/hda2 1 13 104391 83 Linux > /dev/hda3 14 3950 31623952+ 8e Linux LVM > > Partition table entries are not in disk order > > Disk /dev/dm-0: 31.2 GB, 31272730624 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3802 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table > > Disk /dev/dm-1: 1073 MB, 1073741824 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 130 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > From Andy.Q.Wu at seagate.com Thu Jul 27 00:39:44 2006 From: Andy.Q.Wu at seagate.com (Andy.Q.Wu at seagate.com) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 08:39:44 +0800 Subject: partition nightmares In-Reply-To: <1153959120.6644.30.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: Yes. Before you run DOS FDISK, you need to back up your bootloader. Here is the link you can refer to "http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html". jim ruxton To Sent by: Getting started with Red Hat Linux redhat-install-li st-bounces at redhat cc .com No Phone Info Subject Available Re: partition nightmares 07/27/2006 08:12 AM Please respond to Getting started with Red Hat Linux > You can use FDISK to recover the MBR. The command is "FDISK /MBR". Won't this command overwrite my Grub bootloader as well? jim > > > > > jim ruxton > t.ca> To > Sent by: redhat-install-list at redhat.com > redhat-install-li cc > st-bounces at redhat > .com Subject > No Phone Info partition nightmares > Available > > > 07/27/2006 05:45 > AM > > > Please respond to > Getting started > with Red Hat > Linux > ist at redhat.com> > > > > > > > Hi, I recently reinstalled Fedora (went from 3 to 5) . Rather than doing > an upgrade I did a complete reinstall. Everything went well till I > decided to create a FAT32 partition on my Windows partition . I dual > boot this machine. I was using Partition Magic while trying to create > the FAT32 partition. Next time I booted using Grub into my Windows > partition Windows wouldn't load. My files are still there and I can > mount them using ntfsmount in linux but can't start windows. When I load > the windows systems CD that came with my laptop I can't start Windows > either. I really don't want to wipe my nice new FC5 to reload Windows. > Any thoughts what I can do to get Windows back? Here is the output of > fdisk -l ? Thanks. > > jim > > > Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 * 3951 7296 26876713+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/hda2 1 13 104391 83 Linux > /dev/hda3 14 3950 31623952+ 8e Linux LVM > > Partition table entries are not in disk order > > Disk /dev/dm-0: 31.2 GB, 31272730624 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3802 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table > > Disk /dev/dm-1: 1073 MB, 1073741824 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 130 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > _______________________________________________ Redhat-install-list mailing list Redhat-install-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com Subject: unsubscribe From cinetron at passport.ca Thu Jul 27 00:58:31 2006 From: cinetron at passport.ca (jim ruxton) Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:58:31 -0400 Subject: partition nightmares In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1153961911.8588.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> Thanks Andy, Sorry I've never done this before so am a bit nervous until I am totally clear what to do. How do I back up my bootloader? What you are saying is : 1) backup bootloader (not sure how I do this, just copy /boot?) 2) run fdisk /mbr off a bootable cd 3) reinstall bootloader (how do I do this?) 4) then you are saying I should be able to boot windows or linux again from grub I was wondering if you are someone could help fill in the blanks for me. Thanks again for the help Andy. cheers, jim > Yes. Before you run DOS FDISK, you need to back up your bootloader. Here is > the link you can refer to > "http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html". > > > > jim ruxton > t.ca> To > Sent by: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > redhat-install-li > st-bounces at redhat cc > .com > No Phone Info Subject > Available Re: partition nightmares > > > 07/27/2006 08:12 > AM > > > Please respond to > Getting started > with Red Hat > Linux > ist at redhat.com> > > > > > > > > > You can use FDISK to recover the MBR. The command is "FDISK /MBR". > Won't this command overwrite my Grub bootloader as well? > jim > > > > > > > > > > > jim ruxton > > > > > t.ca> > To > > Sent by: redhat-install-list at redhat.com > > > redhat-install-li > cc > > st-bounces at redhat > > > .com > Subject > > No Phone Info partition nightmares > > > Available > > > > > > > > > 07/27/2006 05:45 > > > AM > > > > > > > > > Please respond to > > > Getting started > > > with Red Hat > > > Linux > > > > > ist at redhat.com> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi, I recently reinstalled Fedora (went from 3 to 5) . Rather than doing > > an upgrade I did a complete reinstall. Everything went well till I > > decided to create a FAT32 partition on my Windows partition . I dual > > boot this machine. I was using Partition Magic while trying to create > > the FAT32 partition. Next time I booted using Grub into my Windows > > partition Windows wouldn't load. My files are still there and I can > > mount them using ntfsmount in linux but can't start windows. When I load > > the windows systems CD that came with my laptop I can't start Windows > > either. I really don't want to wipe my nice new FC5 to reload Windows. > > Any thoughts what I can do to get Windows back? Here is the output of > > fdisk -l ? Thanks. > > > > jim > > > > > > Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > /dev/hda1 * 3951 7296 26876713+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > > /dev/hda2 1 13 104391 83 Linux > > /dev/hda3 14 3950 31623952+ 8e Linux LVM > > > > Partition table entries are not in disk order > > > > Disk /dev/dm-0: 31.2 GB, 31272730624 bytes > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3802 cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > > > Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table > > > > Disk /dev/dm-1: 1073 MB, 1073741824 bytes > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 130 cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > > > Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Redhat-install-list mailing list > > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > > Subject: unsubscribe > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Redhat-install-list mailing list > > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > > Subject: unsubscribe > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > From Andy.Q.Wu at seagate.com Thu Jul 27 06:34:37 2006 From: Andy.Q.Wu at seagate.com (Andy.Q.Wu at seagate.com) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 14:34:37 +0800 Subject: partition nightmares In-Reply-To: <1153961911.8588.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: I copied some instructions from the link sent you this morning. Mount the floppy drive if it's not mounted (assumes /mnt/floppy exists): mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy Run the following command: dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/mnt/floppy/linux.bin bs=512 count=1 Substitute the path for the if= parameter (the input file) with the appropriate partition from the previous step. E.g., set if= to /dev/hda2. Reboot into Windows Copy the linux.bin file to C:\ Run notepad and edit C:\boot.ini. Note that C:\boot.ini is a hidden system file, so it probably won't show up in Windows Explorer. To edit the file, try: Start->Run and enter: notepad C:\boot.ini. Add the following line at the end: c:\linux.bin="Linux" Reboot again. You should be able to pick either Windows or Linux. Selecting Linux will start GRUB jim ruxton To Sent by: Getting started with Red Hat Linux redhat-install-li st-bounces at redhat cc .com No Phone Info Subject Available Re: partition nightmares 07/27/2006 08:58 AM Please respond to Getting started with Red Hat Linux Thanks Andy, Sorry I've never done this before so am a bit nervous until I am totally clear what to do. How do I back up my bootloader? What you are saying is : 1) backup bootloader (not sure how I do this, just copy /boot?) 2) run fdisk /mbr off a bootable cd 3) reinstall bootloader (how do I do this?) 4) then you are saying I should be able to boot windows or linux again from grub I was wondering if you are someone could help fill in the blanks for me. Thanks again for the help Andy. cheers, jim > Yes. Before you run DOS FDISK, you need to back up your bootloader. Here is > the link you can refer to > "http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html". > > > > jim ruxton > t.ca> To > Sent by: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > redhat-install-li > st-bounces at redhat cc > .com > No Phone Info Subject > Available Re: partition nightmares > > > 07/27/2006 08:12 > AM > > > Please respond to > Getting started > with Red Hat > Linux > ist at redhat.com> > > > > > > > > > You can use FDISK to recover the MBR. The command is "FDISK /MBR". > Won't this command overwrite my Grub bootloader as well? > jim > > > > > > > > > > > jim ruxton > > > > > t.ca> > To > > Sent by: redhat-install-list at redhat.com > > > redhat-install-li > cc > > st-bounces at redhat > > > .com > Subject > > No Phone Info partition nightmares > > > Available > > > > > > > > > 07/27/2006 05:45 > > > AM > > > > > > > > > Please respond to > > > Getting started > > > with Red Hat > > > Linux > > > > > ist at redhat.com> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi, I recently reinstalled Fedora (went from 3 to 5) . Rather than doing > > an upgrade I did a complete reinstall. Everything went well till I > > decided to create a FAT32 partition on my Windows partition . I dual > > boot this machine. I was using Partition Magic while trying to create > > the FAT32 partition. Next time I booted using Grub into my Windows > > partition Windows wouldn't load. My files are still there and I can > > mount them using ntfsmount in linux but can't start windows. When I load > > the windows systems CD that came with my laptop I can't start Windows > > either. I really don't want to wipe my nice new FC5 to reload Windows. > > Any thoughts what I can do to get Windows back? Here is the output of > > fdisk -l ? Thanks. > > > > jim > > > > > > Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > /dev/hda1 * 3951 7296 26876713+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > > /dev/hda2 1 13 104391 83 Linux > > /dev/hda3 14 3950 31623952+ 8e Linux LVM > > > > Partition table entries are not in disk order > > > > Disk /dev/dm-0: 31.2 GB, 31272730624 bytes > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3802 cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > > > Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table > > > > Disk /dev/dm-1: 1073 MB, 1073741824 bytes > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 130 cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > > > Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Redhat-install-list mailing list > > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > > Subject: unsubscribe > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Redhat-install-list mailing list > > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > > Subject: unsubscribe > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > _______________________________________________ Redhat-install-list mailing list Redhat-install-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com Subject: unsubscribe From rodrigofariatavares at bol.com.br Thu Jul 27 13:31:47 2006 From: rodrigofariatavares at bol.com.br (Rodrigo Faria Tavares) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 10:31:47 -0300 Subject: Trobles with ipsec newhostkey Message-ID: <004b01c6b181$03fc6d10$0100a8c0@faria> Hello, When I try to create the key, i run this command and it stay in loop ipsec newhostkey --output /etc/ipsec.secrets --bits 2048 How I can to resolve it ? 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It booted ok and appears to be running fine, but now I get this result from "fdisk -l" Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80060424192 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9733 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/hda2 14 26 104422+ 83 Linux /dev/hda3 27 39 104422+ 83 Linux /dev/hda4 40 9733 77867055 8e Linux LVM Disk /dev/dm-0: 8388 MB, 8388608000 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1019 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/dm-1: 8388 MB, 8388608000 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1019 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table . . . . Disk /dev/dm-10: 8589 MB, 8589934592 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1044 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk /dev/dm-10 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/dm-11: 10.7 GB, 10737418240 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1305 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk /dev/dm-11 doesn't contain a valid partition table The /dev/dm-nn correspond to the 12 logical volumes in that VG. I checked dmesg and found this: EXT3-fs: dm-0: orphan cleanup on readonly fs ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 1094899 ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 227777 ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 1078122 ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 1466022 ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 617737 ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 617736 ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 617735 ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 617733 ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 1239631 EXT3-fs: dm-0: 9 orphan inodes deleted EXT3-fs: recovery complete. EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. There's nothing in /lost+found. Several LVM tools I tried, including vgck report nothing amiss. The system is FC4, updated nightly with yum. A Google search didn't turn up anything useful. As I noted, it's running fine apparently. How do I fix this short of setting up a new drive and copying everything over? Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. bob at bobcatos.com http://www.bobcatos.com Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD. - Psalm 33:12 Righteousness exalts a nation. - Proverbs 14:34 From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jul 27 20:01:43 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:01:43 -0700 Subject: Minor LVM bollixment In-Reply-To: <20060727174028.GA6524@bobcat.bobcatos.com> References: <20060727174028.GA6524@bobcat.bobcatos.com> Message-ID: <1154030503.32461.295.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 12:40 -0500, Bob McClure Jr wrote: > Last night, my wife rebooted our web server with the reset button > (don't ask). It booted ok and appears to be running fine, but now I > get this result from "fdisk -l" > > Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80060424192 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9733 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux > /dev/hda2 14 26 104422+ 83 Linux > /dev/hda3 27 39 104422+ 83 Linux > /dev/hda4 40 9733 77867055 8e Linux LVM > > Disk /dev/dm-0: 8388 MB, 8388608000 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1019 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table > > Disk /dev/dm-1: 8388 MB, 8388608000 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1019 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table > > . > . > . > . > > Disk /dev/dm-10: 8589 MB, 8589934592 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1044 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Disk /dev/dm-10 doesn't contain a valid partition table > > Disk /dev/dm-11: 10.7 GB, 10737418240 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1305 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Disk /dev/dm-11 doesn't contain a valid partition table > > The /dev/dm-nn correspond to the 12 logical volumes in that VG. Did you "vgchange -ay" to see if they got turned off? Did you verify that /etc/lvm.conf was OK? > > I checked dmesg and found this: > > EXT3-fs: dm-0: orphan cleanup on readonly fs > ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 1094899 > ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 227777 > ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 1078122 > ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 1466022 > ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 617737 > ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 617736 > ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 617735 > ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 617733 > ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 1239631 > EXT3-fs: dm-0: 9 orphan inodes deleted > EXT3-fs: recovery complete. > EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. > > There's nothing in /lost+found. Several LVM tools I tried, including > vgck report nothing amiss. Did you try "lvm -P dumpconfig", "pvscan", "lvscan", "lvchange -ay" and the like? I'd do the dumpconfig, then the pvscan and lvscan. They may find something odd. Assuming that comes up OK, then the "lvchange -ay" should make them available. > > The system is FC4, updated nightly with yum. A Google search didn't > turn up anything useful. > > As I noted, it's running fine apparently. How do I fix this short of > setting up a new drive and copying everything over? Try the above. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Perseverance: When you're too damned stubborn to say "I quit!" - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jul 27 20:08:47 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:08:47 -0700 Subject: partition nightmares In-Reply-To: <1153950349.5990.21.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1153950349.5990.21.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <1154030927.32461.303.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 17:45 -0400, jim ruxton wrote: > Hi, I recently reinstalled Fedora (went from 3 to 5) . Rather than doing > an upgrade I did a complete reinstall. Everything went well till I > decided to create a FAT32 partition on my Windows partition . I dual > boot this machine. I was using Partition Magic while trying to create > the FAT32 partition. Next time I booted using Grub into my Windows > partition Windows wouldn't load. My files are still there and I can > mount them using ntfsmount in linux but can't start windows. When I load > the windows systems CD that came with my laptop I can't start Windows > either. I really don't want to wipe my nice new FC5 to reload Windows. > Any thoughts what I can do to get Windows back? Here is the output of > fdisk -l ? Thanks. > > jim > > > Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 * 3951 7296 26876713+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/hda2 1 13 104391 83 Linux > /dev/hda3 14 3950 31623952+ 8e Linux LVM > > Partition table entries are not in disk order > > Disk /dev/dm-0: 31.2 GB, 31272730624 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3802 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table > > Disk /dev/dm-1: 1073 MB, 1073741824 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 130 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table Remember that fdisk has no concept of what the internals of LVM are. The "/dev/dm*" stuff is a device mapper creation to allow other tools to have access to a quasi-physical device that happens to be a part of the LVM system. They appear to be real drives to fdisk, but they're a creation of the "pvcreate" mechanism and aren't real drives or partitions. Internal LVM stuff is handled by the "pv*" "vg*" and "lv*" commands. See "man lvm" for details. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - When all else fails, try reading the instructions. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From bob at bobcatos.com Thu Jul 27 20:43:48 2006 From: bob at bobcatos.com (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:43:48 -0500 Subject: Minor LVM bollixment In-Reply-To: <1154030503.32461.295.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <20060727174028.GA6524@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <1154030503.32461.295.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <20060727204348.GA14559@bobcat.bobcatos.com> On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 01:01:43PM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 12:40 -0500, Bob McClure Jr wrote: > > Last night, my wife rebooted our web server with the reset button > > (don't ask). It booted ok and appears to be running fine, but now I > > get this result from "fdisk -l" > > > > Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80060424192 bytes > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9733 cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > /dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux > > /dev/hda2 14 26 104422+ 83 Linux > > /dev/hda3 27 39 104422+ 83 Linux > > /dev/hda4 40 9733 77867055 8e Linux LVM > > > > Disk /dev/dm-0: 8388 MB, 8388608000 bytes > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1019 cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > > > Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table > > > > Disk /dev/dm-1: 8388 MB, 8388608000 bytes > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1019 cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > > > Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table > > > > . > > . > > . > > . > > > > Disk /dev/dm-10: 8589 MB, 8589934592 bytes > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1044 cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > > > Disk /dev/dm-10 doesn't contain a valid partition table > > > > Disk /dev/dm-11: 10.7 GB, 10737418240 bytes > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1305 cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > > > Disk /dev/dm-11 doesn't contain a valid partition table > > > > The /dev/dm-nn correspond to the 12 logical volumes in that VG. > > Did you "vgchange -ay" to see if they got turned off? I have now. > Did you verify that /etc/lvm.conf was OK? Yep. > > I checked dmesg and found this: > > > > EXT3-fs: dm-0: orphan cleanup on readonly fs > > ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 1094899 > > ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 227777 > > ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 1078122 > > ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 1466022 > > ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 617737 > > ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 617736 > > ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 617735 > > ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 617733 > > ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 1239631 > > EXT3-fs: dm-0: 9 orphan inodes deleted > > EXT3-fs: recovery complete. > > EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. > > > > There's nothing in /lost+found. Several LVM tools I tried, including > > vgck report nothing amiss. > > Did you try "lvm -P dumpconfig", The "-P" option was not liked, but "lvm dumpconfig" produced: devices { dir="/dev" scan="/dev" filter="a/.*/" cache="/etc/lvm/.cache" write_cache_state=1 sysfs_scan=1 md_component_detection=1 } activation { missing_stripe_filler="/dev/ioerror" reserved_stack=256 reserved_memory=8192 process_priority=-18 mirror_region_size=512 mirror_log_fault_policy="allocate" mirror_device_fault_policy="remove" } global { umask=63 test=0 activation=1 proc="/proc" locking_type=1 locking_dir="/var/lock/lvm" } shell { history_size=100 } backup { backup=1 backup_dir="/etc/lvm/backup" archive=1 archive_dir="/etc/lvm/archive" retain_min=10 retain_days=30 } log { verbose=0 syslog=1 overwrite=0 level=0 indent=1 command_names=0 prefix=" " } > "pvscan", PV /dev/hda4 VG bubbavg lvm2 [74.25 GB / 23.75 GB free] Total: 1 [74.25 GB] / in use: 1 [74.25 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ] > "lvscan", ACTIVE '/dev/bubbavg/root2' [7.81 GB] inherit ACTIVE '/dev/bubbavg/root1' [7.81 GB] inherit ACTIVE '/dev/bubbavg/hdlist' [5.84 GB] inherit ACTIVE '/dev/bubbavg/home' [992.00 MB] inherit ACTIVE '/dev/bubbavg/usrlocal' [192.00 MB] inherit ACTIVE '/dev/bubbavg/varlog' [480.00 MB] inherit ACTIVE '/dev/bubbavg/varspool' [480.00 MB] inherit ACTIVE '/dev/bubbavg/varwww' [6.00 GB] inherit ACTIVE '/dev/bubbavg/swap' [1.94 GB] inherit ACTIVE '/dev/bubbavg/u' [1.00 GB] inherit ACTIVE '/dev/bubbavg/restore' [8.00 GB] inherit ACTIVE '/dev/bubbavg/backup' [10.00 GB] inherit > "lvchange -ay" ... produced no output, and the results of "fdisk -l" are still as above. > and the like? I'd do the dumpconfig, then the pvscan and lvscan. > They may find something odd. Assuming that comes up OK, then the > "lvchange -ay" should make them available. > > > > > The system is FC4, updated nightly with yum. A Google search didn't > > turn up anything useful. > > > > As I noted, it's running fine apparently. How do I fix this short of > > setting up a new drive and copying everything over? > > Try the above. LVM seems to be functioning just fine. It's just the output of "fdisk -l" that bothers me. It definitely was not that way before last night. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - Perseverance: When you're too damned stubborn to say "I quit!" - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. bob at bobcatos.com http://www.bobcatos.com Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD. - Psalm 33:12 Righteousness exalts a nation. - Proverbs 14:34 From cinetron at passport.ca Thu Jul 27 21:22:59 2006 From: cinetron at passport.ca (jim ruxton) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:22:59 -0400 Subject: partition nightmares In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1154035379.2589.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> Thanks Andy, > I copied some instructions from the link sent you this morning. > > Mount the floppy drive if it's not mounted (assumes /mnt/floppy > exists): mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy > Run the following command: dd if=/dev/hda2 > of=/mnt/floppy/linux.bin bs=512 count=1 > Substitute the path for the if= parameter (the input file) with > the appropriate partition from the previous step. E.g., set if= > to /dev/hda2. > > Reboot into Windows Problem is I can't boot into Windows. Also I don't have a floppy Drive on my laptop : ( jim > > Copy the linux.bin file to C:\ > > Run notepad and edit C:\boot.ini. Note that C:\boot.ini is a hidden > system file, so it probably won't show up in Windows Explorer. To > edit the file, try: Start->Run and enter: notepad C:\boot.ini. Add > the following line at the end: c:\linux.bin="Linux" > > Reboot again. You should be able to pick either Windows or Linux. > Selecting Linux will start GRUB > > > > jim ruxton > t.ca> To > Sent by: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > redhat-install-li > st-bounces at redhat cc > .com > No Phone Info Subject > Available Re: partition nightmares > > > 07/27/2006 08:58 > AM > > > Please respond to > Getting started > with Red Hat > Linux > ist at redhat.com> > > > > > > > Thanks Andy, > Sorry I've never done this before so am a bit nervous until I am totally > clear what to do. How do I back up my bootloader? What you are saying > is : > 1) backup bootloader (not sure how I do this, just copy /boot?) > 2) run fdisk /mbr off a bootable cd > 3) reinstall bootloader (how do I do this?) > 4) then you are saying I should be able to boot windows or linux again > from grub > > I was wondering if you are someone could help fill in the blanks for me. > Thanks again for the help Andy. > cheers, > jim > > Yes. Before you run DOS FDISK, you need to back up your bootloader. Here > is > > the link you can refer to > > "http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html". > > > > > > > > > jim ruxton > > > > > t.ca> > To > > Sent by: Getting started with Red Hat Linux > > > redhat-install-li > > > st-bounces at redhat > cc > > .com > > > No Phone Info > Subject > > Available Re: partition nightmares > > > > > > > > > 07/27/2006 08:12 > > > AM > > > > > > > > > Please respond to > > > Getting started > > > with Red Hat > > > Linux > > > > > ist at redhat.com> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > You can use FDISK to recover the MBR. The command is "FDISK /MBR". > > Won't this command overwrite my Grub bootloader as well? > > jim > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > jim ruxton > > > > > > > > > t.ca> > > To > > > Sent by: redhat-install-list at redhat.com > > > > > redhat-install-li > > cc > > > st-bounces at redhat > > > > > .com > > Subject > > > No Phone Info partition nightmares > > > > > Available > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 07/27/2006 05:45 > > > > > AM > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Please respond to > > > > > Getting started > > > > > with Red Hat > > > > > Linux > > > > > > > > > ist at redhat.com> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi, I recently reinstalled Fedora (went from 3 to 5) . Rather than > doing > > > an upgrade I did a complete reinstall. Everything went well till I > > > decided to create a FAT32 partition on my Windows partition . I dual > > > boot this machine. I was using Partition Magic while trying to create > > > the FAT32 partition. Next time I booted using Grub into my Windows > > > partition Windows wouldn't load. My files are still there and I can > > > mount them using ntfsmount in linux but can't start windows. When I > load > > > the windows systems CD that came with my laptop I can't start Windows > > > either. I really don't want to wipe my nice new FC5 to reload Windows. > > > Any thoughts what I can do to get Windows back? Here is the output of > > > fdisk -l ? Thanks. > > > > > > jim > > > > > > > > > Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes > > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders > > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > > /dev/hda1 * 3951 7296 26876713+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > > > /dev/hda2 1 13 104391 83 Linux > > > /dev/hda3 14 3950 31623952+ 8e Linux LVM > > > > > > Partition table entries are not in disk order > > > > > > Disk /dev/dm-0: 31.2 GB, 31272730624 bytes > > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3802 cylinders > > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > > > > > Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table > > > > > > Disk /dev/dm-1: 1073 MB, 1073741824 bytes > > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 130 cylinders > > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > > > > > Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Redhat-install-list mailing list > > > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > > > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > > > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > > > Subject: unsubscribe > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Redhat-install-list mailing list > > > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > > > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > > > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > > > Subject: unsubscribe > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Redhat-install-list mailing list > > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > > Subject: unsubscribe > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Redhat-install-list mailing list > > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > > Subject: unsubscribe > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > From cinetron at passport.ca Thu Jul 27 21:29:24 2006 From: cinetron at passport.ca (jim ruxton) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:29:24 -0400 Subject: partition nightmares In-Reply-To: <1154030927.32461.303.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <1153950349.5990.21.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1154030927.32461.303.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <1154035764.2589.30.camel@localhost.localdomain> > On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 17:45 -0400, jim ruxton wrote: > > Hi, I recently reinstalled Fedora (went from 3 to 5) . Rather than doing > > an upgrade I did a complete reinstall. Everything went well till I > > decided to create a FAT32 partition on my Windows partition . I dual > > boot this machine. I was using Partition Magic while trying to create > > the FAT32 partition. Next time I booted using Grub into my Windows > > partition Windows wouldn't load. My files are still there and I can > > mount them using ntfsmount in linux but can't start windows. When I load > > the windows systems CD that came with my laptop I can't start Windows > > either. I really don't want to wipe my nice new FC5 to reload Windows. > > Any thoughts what I can do to get Windows back? Here is the output of > > fdisk -l ? Thanks. > > > > jim > > > > > > Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > /dev/hda1 * 3951 7296 26876713+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > > /dev/hda2 1 13 104391 83 Linux > > /dev/hda3 14 3950 31623952+ 8e Linux LVM > > > > Partition table entries are not in disk order > > > > Disk /dev/dm-0: 31.2 GB, 31272730624 bytes > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3802 cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > > > Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table > > > > Disk /dev/dm-1: 1073 MB, 1073741824 bytes > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 130 cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > > > Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table > > Remember that fdisk has no concept of what the internals of LVM are. > The "/dev/dm*" stuff is a device mapper creation to allow other tools > to have access to a quasi-physical device that happens to be a part > of the LVM system. They appear to be real drives to fdisk, but they're > a creation of the "pvcreate" mechanism and aren't real drives or > partitions. > > Internal LVM stuff is handled by the "pv*" "vg*" and "lv*" commands. > See "man lvm" for details. Thanks Rick. Do you think the fact I can't boot into Windows has anything to do with lvm? My problem came about when I was trying to resize my ntfs partition with Partition Magic so I could create a fat32 partition. Unfortunately PM crashed during the resizing process and I could no longer boot Windows. Any thoughts as to what I should try to figure out the culprit? I'm using GRUB as the boot loader. jim > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - When all else fails, try reading the instructions. - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > From rstevens at vitalstream.com Thu Jul 27 21:30:40 2006 From: rstevens at vitalstream.com (Rick Stevens) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 14:30:40 -0700 Subject: partition nightmares In-Reply-To: <1154035764.2589.30.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1153950349.5990.21.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1154030927.32461.303.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <1154035764.2589.30.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <1154035840.32461.325.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 17:29 -0400, jim ruxton wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 17:45 -0400, jim ruxton wrote: > > > Hi, I recently reinstalled Fedora (went from 3 to 5) . Rather than doing > > > an upgrade I did a complete reinstall. Everything went well till I > > > decided to create a FAT32 partition on my Windows partition . I dual > > > boot this machine. I was using Partition Magic while trying to create > > > the FAT32 partition. Next time I booted using Grub into my Windows > > > partition Windows wouldn't load. My files are still there and I can > > > mount them using ntfsmount in linux but can't start windows. When I load > > > the windows systems CD that came with my laptop I can't start Windows > > > either. I really don't want to wipe my nice new FC5 to reload Windows. > > > Any thoughts what I can do to get Windows back? Here is the output of > > > fdisk -l ? Thanks. > > > > > > jim > > > > > > > > > Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes > > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders > > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > > /dev/hda1 * 3951 7296 26876713+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > > > /dev/hda2 1 13 104391 83 Linux > > > /dev/hda3 14 3950 31623952+ 8e Linux LVM > > > > > > Partition table entries are not in disk order > > > > > > Disk /dev/dm-0: 31.2 GB, 31272730624 bytes > > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3802 cylinders > > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > > > > > Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table > > > > > > Disk /dev/dm-1: 1073 MB, 1073741824 bytes > > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 130 cylinders > > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > > > > > Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table > > > > Remember that fdisk has no concept of what the internals of LVM are. > > The "/dev/dm*" stuff is a device mapper creation to allow other tools > > to have access to a quasi-physical device that happens to be a part > > of the LVM system. They appear to be real drives to fdisk, but they're > > a creation of the "pvcreate" mechanism and aren't real drives or > > partitions. > > > > Internal LVM stuff is handled by the "pv*" "vg*" and "lv*" commands. > > See "man lvm" for details. > > Thanks Rick. Do you think the fact I can't boot into Windows has > anything to do with lvm? My problem came about when I was trying to > resize my ntfs partition with Partition Magic so I could create a fat32 > partition. Unfortunately PM crashed during the resizing process and I > could no longer boot Windows. Any thoughts as to what I should try to > figure out the culprit? I'm using GRUB as the boot loader. That smells like the NTFS filesystem got corrupted by PM. I think I see A Windows "chkdisk" in your future. I doubt sincerely that LVM has or had anything to do with it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - You possess a mind not merely twisted, but actually sprained. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From tyche at ica.net Thu Jul 27 22:28:12 2006 From: tyche at ica.net (tyche) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 18:28:12 -0400 Subject: ipv6, fedora 5, how to get ipv4 NOT 6 up and running Message-ID: <44C93DFC.2010802@ica.net> think the subject header says it all. also, how to get grub to pass init 3 when booting the machine would be helpful as well. my experience with fc 5 is bad from the get go. was installed 2 days ago, and had to modify the inittab by hand with knoppix to do anything with the comp. reinstalled fc 5, (without x) and now still cant get to the internet becuase of selinux. redhat is unfortunately getting worse than ms with what it allows and disallows. this was written from my laptop with (yuck) 98 tia tyche From bob at bobcatos.com Thu Jul 27 22:45:51 2006 From: bob at bobcatos.com (Bob McClure Jr) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:45:51 -0500 Subject: ipv6, fedora 5, how to get ipv4 NOT 6 up and running In-Reply-To: <44C93DFC.2010802@ica.net> References: <44C93DFC.2010802@ica.net> Message-ID: <20060727224551.GA20970@bobcat.bobcatos.com> On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 06:28:12PM -0400, tyche wrote: > think the subject header says it all. also, how to get grub > to pass init 3 when booting the machine would be helpful as > well. On a one-time basis, with the grub boot line selected, hit "a" to append, add " 3" to the end of the boot line, then hit return. For the long-term, edit /etc/inittab and change the id:5:initdefault: line to read id:3:initdefault:. > my experience with fc 5 is bad from the get go. was > installed 2 days ago, and had to modify the inittab by hand > with knoppix to do anything with the comp. > > reinstalled fc 5, (without x) and now still cant get to the > internet becuase of selinux. I've had no experience with selinux. I disable it. > redhat is unfortunately getting worse than ms with what it > allows and disallows. Knowing it to be the bleeding edge, a proving ground for the commercial offering, perhaps they put more adventurous stuff in it. I've not upgraded any of my FC4 boxes to FC5 yet. I'm not in a hurry, and I don't have that much time to spare. Maybe if I read the README for FC5, I'll get more interest. > this was written from my laptop with (yuck) 98 Gaaah! My sympathies. > tia > > tyche Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. bob at bobcatos.com http://www.bobcatos.com Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD. - Psalm 33:12 Righteousness exalts a nation. - Proverbs 14:34 From tyche at ica.net Thu Jul 27 23:34:11 2006 From: tyche at ica.net (tyche) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 19:34:11 -0400 Subject: ipv6, fedora 5, how to get ipv4 NOT 6 up and running In-Reply-To: <20060727224551.GA20970@bobcat.bobcatos.com> References: <44C93DFC.2010802@ica.net> <20060727224551.GA20970@bobcat.bobcatos.com> Message-ID: <44C94D73.5080904@ica.net> Bob McClure Jr wrote: > On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 06:28:12PM -0400, tyche wrote: > >>think the subject header says it all. also, how to get grub >>to pass init 3 when booting the machine would be helpful as >>well. > > > On a one-time basis, with the grub boot line selected, hit "a" to > append, add " 3" to the end of the boot line, then hit return. ty for that, very much. > > For the long-term, edit /etc/inittab and change the id:5:initdefault: > line to read id:3:initdefault:. > > took me a few minutes to remember what file in /etc that was in. i dont like graphical boots from the get go. so that did come out. (ty knoppix for a good rescue disk). >>my experience with fc 5 is bad from the get go. was >>installed 2 days ago, and had to modify the inittab by hand >>with knoppix to do anything with the comp. >> >>reinstalled fc 5, (without x) and now still cant get to the >>internet becuase of selinux. > > > I've had no experience with selinux. I disable it. how might one do that? i find it is very intrusive. > > >>redhat is unfortunately getting worse than ms with what it >>allows and disallows. > > > Knowing it to be the bleeding edge, a proving ground for the > commercial offering, perhaps they put more adventurous stuff in it. > I've not upgraded any of my FC4 boxes to FC5 yet. I'm not in a hurry, > and I don't have that much time to spare. Maybe if I read the README > for FC5, I'll get more interest. > > >>this was written from my laptop with (yuck) 98 > > > Gaaah! My sympathies. > > >>tia >> >>tyche > > > Cheers, tia From tpotter at techmarin.com Fri Jul 28 00:03:39 2006 From: tpotter at techmarin.com (Ted Potter) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:03:39 -0700 Subject: ipv6, fedora 5, how to get ipv4 NOT 6 up and running In-Reply-To: <44C94D73.5080904@ica.net> References: <44C93DFC.2010802@ica.net> <20060727224551.GA20970@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <44C94D73.5080904@ica.net> Message-ID: <5ce05200607271703s2ce91a0ahca5401e796cd85a9@mail.gmail.com> HOW TO DISABLE selinux in /etc/selinux edit the file called confiig edit the line to read SELINUX=disabled I think a reboot would then be in order. On 7/27/06, tyche wrote: > > Bob McClure Jr wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 06:28:12PM -0400, tyche wrote: > > > >>think the subject header says it all. also, how to get grub > >>to pass init 3 when booting the machine would be helpful as > >>well. > > > > > > On a one-time basis, with the grub boot line selected, hit "a" to > > append, add " 3" to the end of the boot line, then hit return. > > ty for that, very much. > > > > > For the long-term, edit /etc/inittab and change the id:5:initdefault: > > line to read id:3:initdefault:. > > > > > > took me a few minutes to remember what file in /etc that was > in. i dont like graphical boots from the get go. so that did > come out. (ty knoppix for a good rescue disk). > > >>my experience with fc 5 is bad from the get go. was > >>installed 2 days ago, and had to modify the inittab by hand > >>with knoppix to do anything with the comp. > >> > >>reinstalled fc 5, (without x) and now still cant get to the > >>internet becuase of selinux. > > > > > > I've had no experience with selinux. I disable it. > > how might one do that? i find it is very intrusive. > > > > > >>redhat is unfortunately getting worse than ms with what it > >>allows and disallows. > > > > > > Knowing it to be the bleeding edge, a proving ground for the > > commercial offering, perhaps they put more adventurous stuff in it. > > I've not upgraded any of my FC4 boxes to FC5 yet. I'm not in a hurry, > > and I don't have that much time to spare. Maybe if I read the README > > for FC5, I'll get more interest. > > > > > >>this was written from my laptop with (yuck) 98 > > > > > > Gaaah! My sympathies. > > > > > >>tia > >> > >>tyche > > > > > > Cheers, > > tia > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > -- Ted Potter tpotter at techmarin.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tyche at ica.net Fri Jul 28 00:15:30 2006 From: tyche at ica.net (tyche) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:15:30 -0400 Subject: ipv6, fedora 5, how to get ipv4 NOT 6 up and running In-Reply-To: <5ce05200607271703s2ce91a0ahca5401e796cd85a9@mail.gmail.com> References: <44C93DFC.2010802@ica.net> <20060727224551.GA20970@bobcat.bobcatos.com> <44C94D73.5080904@ica.net> <5ce05200607271703s2ce91a0ahca5401e796cd85a9@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <44C95722.80405@ica.net> Ted Potter wrote: > > HOW TO DISABLE selinux > > in /etc/selinux edit the file called confiig > edit the line to read > SELINUX=disabled > > I think a reboot would then be in order. > ty > > > > On 7/27/06, tyche > wrote: > > Bob McClure Jr wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 06:28:12PM -0400, tyche wrote: > > > >>think the subject header says it all. also, how to get grub > >>to pass init 3 when booting the machine would be helpful as > >>well. > > > > > > On a one-time basis, with the grub boot line selected, hit "a" to > > append, add " 3" to the end of the boot line, then hit return. > > ty for that, very much. > > > > > For the long-term, edit /etc/inittab and change the id:5:initdefault: > > line to read id:3:initdefault:. > > > > > > took me a few minutes to remember what file in /etc that was > in. i dont like graphical boots from the get go. so that did > come out. (ty knoppix for a good rescue disk). > > >>my experience with fc 5 is bad from the get go. was > >>installed 2 days ago, and had to modify the inittab by hand > >>with knoppix to do anything with the comp. > >> > >>reinstalled fc 5, (without x) and now still cant get to the > >>internet becuase of selinux. > > > > > > I've had no experience with selinux. I disable it. > > how might one do that? i find it is very intrusive. > > > > > >>redhat is unfortunately getting worse than ms with what it > >>allows and disallows. > > > > > > Knowing it to be the bleeding edge, a proving ground for the > > commercial offering, perhaps they put more adventurous stuff in it. > > I've not upgraded any of my FC4 boxes to FC5 yet. I'm not in a > hurry, > > and I don't have that much time to spare. Maybe if I read the README > > for FC5, I'll get more interest. > > > > > >>this was written from my laptop with (yuck) 98 > > > > > > Gaaah! My sympathies. > > > > > >>tia > >> > >>tyche > > > > > > Cheers, > > tia From cinetron at passport.ca Fri Jul 28 06:40:54 2006 From: cinetron at passport.ca (jim ruxton) Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 02:40:54 -0400 Subject: partition nightmares In-Reply-To: <1154035840.32461.325.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> References: <1153950349.5990.21.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1154030927.32461.303.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> <1154035764.2589.30.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1154035840.32461.325.camel@prophead.corp.publichost.com> Message-ID: <1154068854.2918.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> > > > > Thanks Rick. Do you think the fact I can't boot into Windows has > > anything to do with lvm? My problem came about when I was trying to > > resize my ntfs partition with Partition Magic so I could create a fat32 > > partition. Unfortunately PM crashed during the resizing process and I > > could no longer boot Windows. Any thoughts as to what I should try to > > figure out the culprit? I'm using GRUB as the boot loader. > > That smells like the NTFS filesystem got corrupted by PM. I think I > see A Windows "chkdisk" in your future. I doubt sincerely that LVM has > or had anything to do with it. Thanks Rick, Success!! I downloaded a bootable CD with chkdsk on it and was able to fix windows. Thanks everyone for your help. cheers, jim > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - You possess a mind not merely twisted, but actually sprained. - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request at redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe > From roberto.forlani at nikemresearch.com Fri Jul 28 08:37:06 2006 From: roberto.forlani at nikemresearch.com (Forlani Roberto) Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 10:37:06 +0200 Subject: RAID1 configuration Message-ID: <3578F30C8DBF04489FA7E4E563407BB44C3939@VSPW2113.nikemresearch.dc> Dear all, I would like to configure at best my partition table for a software "high availability" RAID1 during the RH linux enteprise 4 installation step. Can you point to me some interesting readings about how to set up it? The red hat official documentation is not very clear. Thank you very much. roberto