From earl at iastate.edu Mon Jul 13 01:57:00 2009 From: earl at iastate.edu (earl) Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:57:00 -0500 Subject: [rhn-users] grub.conf and ping(live-os) multi-boot Message-ID: <4A5A946C.20806@iastate.edu> i've been trying to "... put the PING ISO into my harddisk and boot from it..." as discussed at "http://ping.windowsdream.com/ping/doc-2.01/annex.html". i've tried to modify /boot/grub/grub.conf (in red hat enterprise linux 5) to be similar to the lilo.conf on the website mentioned (grub.conf pasted at bottom of email. Red hat still loads fine, however, ping boots until it gets to the RAMDISK and VFS lines, here is the error my screen displays just before freezing up. RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 RAMDISK: incomplete write (-28 !=32768) 4194304 VFS: Cannot open root device "" or unknown-block(3,2) Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions 0800 97685784 sda driver: sd 0801 27985784 sda1 0802 1 sda2 0805 24994557 sda5 0806 4466038 sda6 0807 14673346 sda7 0808 25559383 sda8 0b00 1048575 sr0 driver: sr Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,2) please let me know what I can do to make both partitions boot. thanks in advance, earl ####################################grub.conf############################################ # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg. # root (hd0,0) # kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda1 # initrd /boot/initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/sda default=0 timeout=60 splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (2.6.18-128.1.16.el5) root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.1.16.el5 ro root=LABEL=rhel5 rhgb quiet crashkernel=128M at 16M initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-128.1.16.el5.img title Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (2.6.18-128.1.10.el5) root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 ro root=LABEL=rhel5 rhgb quiet crashkernel=128M at 16M initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5.img title Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (2.6.18-120.el5) root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-120.el5 ro root=LABEL=rhel5 rhgb quiet crashkernel=128M at 16M initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-120.el5.img ############## below is what i've modified ######### title PING restore root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/ping.kernel append="pxe init=/linuxrc root=/dev/ram0 rw noapic nolapic lba devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=33000 load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0" initrd /boot/ping.initrd.gz title ping (/restore) rootnoverify (hd0,6) kernel /kernel append="pxe init=/linuxrc root=/dev/ram0 rw noapic nolapic lba devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=33000 load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0" label=restore initrd /initrd.gz From pjvendra at ncn.ca Mon Jul 13 20:01:48 2009 From: pjvendra at ncn.ca (pjvendra at ncn.ca) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:01:48 -0400 Subject: [rhn-users] AUTO: paul jvendra is out of the office Message-ID: I am out of the office until 07/20/2009. 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From pjvendra at ncn.ca Mon Jul 13 20:01:45 2009 From: pjvendra at ncn.ca (pjvendra at ncn.ca) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:01:45 -0400 Subject: [rhn-users] AUTO: paul jvendra is out of the office Message-ID: I am out of the office until 07/20/2009. Note: This is an automated response to your message "rhn-users Digest, Vol 65, Issue 1" sent on 7/13/09 12:00:08 PM. This is the only notification you will receive while this person is away. Note: This e-mail may be privileged and/or confidential, and the sender does not waive any related rights and obligations. Any distribution, use or copying of this e-mail or the information it contains by other than an intended recipient is unauthorized. If you received this e-mail in error, please advise me (by return e-mail or otherwise) immediately. Note: Ce courrier ?lectronique est confidentiel et prot?g?. L'exp?diteur ne renonce pas aux droits et obligations qui s'y rapportent. Toute diffusion, utilisation ou copie de ce message ou des renseignements qu'il contient par une personne autre que le (les) destinataire(s) d?sign?(s) est interdite. Si vous recevez ce courrier ?lectronique par erreur, veuillez m'en aviser imm?diatement, par retour de courrier ?lectronique ou par un autre moyen. From dburbano at uniandes.edu.co Mon Jul 27 21:30:15 2009 From: dburbano at uniandes.edu.co (Daniel Alberto Burbano Sefair) Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:30:15 -0500 Subject: [rhn-users] Red Hat Appliance Message-ID: <006d01ca0f01$6e4eea90$4aecbfb0$@edu.co> Hello, Somebody know how to convert o create a Linux Red Hat Appliance?, or somebody has a doc where explain steps to create Linux Appliance? We want to use RedHat with the minimal components for an specific function. Daniel Alberto Burbano Sefair Ingeniero Profesional Direcci?n de Tecnolog?as de Informaci?n Universidad de los Andes dburbano at uniandes.edu.co Tel.: [571] 339 4949/99 Ext.: 4702 Bogot?, Colombia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From benjamindadams at gmail.com Wed Jul 29 02:08:57 2009 From: benjamindadams at gmail.com (Benjamin Adams) Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:08:57 -0400 Subject: [rhn-users] php and mysql Message-ID: <7a386e10907281908r2b181d07o93233c9380e47e92@mail.gmail.com> I want to convert my Server from OpenBSD to Redhat 5.3 Software concerns are with: php5, mysql, php-gd2, php-odbc I know Redhat backs JBoss but how is it with php rpms? Road map is to convert site from php to jsp, sometime next year. But this year I'm buying a new server I would like to run RHEL 5 Advanced Platform on. Thanks Ben Adams -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: