The boot should be /dev/sda. The LI is a symptom of a geometry
mismatch that adding "linear" to lilo.conf usually fixes.
The message about the disk not being the first disk is just a
warning as some BIOSes don't provide support for booting from other
than the first disk.
Tony
On Friday, Octobe
Debian doesn't install LILO as the MBR, but rather uses a program
called MBR. It is MBR that is presenting this prompt. Look in
/usr/doc/MBR for documentation.
You don't give enough of a description of your installation to
determine the problem. Here's a guess though. It sounds as if
you also
It's covered in the LILO User's Guide. It says it's either due
to a geometry mismatch (between LILO and the BIOS) or a moved
/boot/boot.b file. I'd bet on the geometry mismatch. You can
usually get around the mismatch problem by adding the "linear"
option to lilo.conf and rerunning lilo. Alter
Bo came with the MCA patches included. I'm not sure about Hamm.
It worked right out of the box for me, but this will be very hardware
dependent. There is an Linux for MCA web site. Check there for info.
(Look in the related links area at debian.org)
Tony
On Monday, October 12, 1998 2:50 PM,
I don't know the answer to your question, but I've got an alternative
approach.
Mount the boot partition of the new distribution:
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
Then add the following stanza (it's based on your entry below)
to lilo.conf:
image=/mnt/vmlinuz
label=newdistro
root=/dev/hda12
Then lil
I've used rawrite2 with NT without problems. I have administrator
privileges on the NT box that I'm using though. (Maybe that's
important for writing to the floppy drive through DOS under NT? I
wouldn't think so, but I don't know.).
I also use a DOS program named hd-copy (search for it on the w
BO used a kernel patched to support MCA and worked right out the
box for me on on old 386 PS/2 Model 80. Has the kernel for HAMM
been patched to support MCA as well?
Thanks,
Tony Richardson
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Yes, so can LILO. I have linux installed on a logical partition on a
second drive
and with either LILO or System Commander installed as MBR it boots fine.
On Tuesday, August 18, 1998 2:03 PM, Paul Miller
[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Can Linux boot from an extended partition if I use
The prompts you are referring to aren't LILO prompts. When you run
liloconfig
LILO isn't installed as the master boot loader on your system another
program
is (I can't recall the name of the program that is used, but look thru
the
liloconfig script for details and then look into the appro
To switch stdout and stderr try this (in bash):
program 3>&1 1>&2 2>&3 | less
stderr will be paged thru less, while stdout will be sent to
the display.
Does any one have a cleaner solution? (I don't like using the
temporary file discriptor (3)).
Tony Richardson
On Monday, July 27, 1998 3:25
I'd guess you are trying to setup DOSEMU. I don't know why
what you are doing doesn't work, but you might try downloading and
installing the latest version of DOSEMU. It provides a much nicer
way to create a bootable hard drive image. (You don't need a floppy
anymore, just run the script setup-hdi
Check out the gnuwin32 project at the cygnus site. It includes
win32 ports of most of the gnu software including bash, the
standard file utils, gcc, etc. A lot of the X windows client
stuff has been ported as well. (You still need an X server for NT
but there are a couple of no-cost ones availabl
Should be:
mkdir /dos
mount -t msdos /dev/hdb6 /dos
The mkdir command only has to be given once. The mount command needs
to be given everytime you log in (or you can edit the /etc/fstab file
so that the partition is automatically mounted).
The second logical partition on the second drive is hdb
ginal Message-
From: Christopher Barry [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 1998 4:02 PM
To: Nils Rennebarth
Cc: Richardson,Anthony; Hamish Moffatt; p.meidl; debian-user
Subject: Re: linux + win95: linux boot partition/
Hi,
SCSI is not so expensive anymore, just check out www.pricewatc
oader
that gets its geometry from the BIOS. The LILO map installer (the "lilo"
program
run at a Linux prompt) gets the geometry from the Linux kernel (which
normally
gets the geometry from the BIOS at boot time I believe).
>On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 03:26:00PM -0400, Richard
On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Nils Rennebarth wrote:
>>On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 08:39:00AM -0400, Richardson,Anthony wrote:
>> The 1024 problem is a very "real" one.
>Please, it really occurs in very few systems/configurations. It had been
a
>problem for me occasinally beca
The 1024 problem is a very "real" one.
On old BIOSes the 1024 cylinder corresponded to 528 MB.
Newer BIOSes do translation (they pretend the drive has more
heads than it actually does so they can pretend that it
has fewer cylinders than it actually does) and the 1024
cylinder corresponds to about
DOS and Windows (up through Win95 at least) can't be
booted from anything other than the first disk. There
are ways to fake an OS that only uses the BIOS (DOS)
into thinking the second drive is the first one.
(LILO's map-drive option can do this.) I'm fairly sure
this won't work for Win95 though.
Maybe I can help with the boot problem. Debian doesn't use LILO
as a MBR boot manager. They use a program known just as MBR. (At
least this is true for the bo release, is it true for hamm?) I'm
not quite sure why LILO isn't used as the MBR boot manager, because
it appears to be superior to MBR in
I don't believe that it is required for any of the MS operating
systems. I don't use it in my lilo.conf file and everything
works. Have you tried omitting it?
Tony Richardson
-Original Message-
From: Nathan E Norman [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 1998 7:17 PM
To: deb
I don't know about the next version (hamm) but did you
know that the current version (bo) already includes
MCA support? It works beautifully on my PS2 Model 85
(386 with 11 MB RAM and 2 GB IDE HD and ATAPI CDROM.) I
just needed to use a couple of boot options so the
kernel could find my disk contr
Check out the Linux+NT-Loader mini-HOWTO.
Basically run LILO to create a Linux boot sector. Here's an
example lilo.conf:
compact
boot=/dev/hdb6
image=/vmlinux
root=/dev/hdb6
read-only
This assumes that Linux is installed on the second logical
partition on disk 2. Change hdb6 as needed.
You just need to add a "password=XX" line to each OS stanza as
shown in the lilo.conf file below. You are prompted for
a password after entering your OS selection at the lilo prompt:
prompt
compact
single-key
timeout=600
boot=/dev/hda
message=/boot/message
image=/vmlinuz
label=Linux
alias
> Mark H. Mabry wrote:
> I'm having a problem partitioning my 9.6 GB harddrive on my Dell P-II
> 400. This is an EIDE drive. When I use cfdisk, it sees only 8 GB.
> I believe that this is due to a limit in cfdisk which sets the max
> number of sectors to 1024. Mine should have 1227 (approx).
>
First, kudos to the Debian and Linux developers. I was given a
PS/2 Model 80 (386 - Microchannel (MCA) machine) with an
MCA IDE controller. I added a 2 GB IDE drive and an ATAPI
CDROM. The debian installation went flawlessly!!! Both the
hard disk and CDROM were recognized and usable.
I'm impre
Here in the US, the ringing signal (what the receiver hears) and the
ringback
signal (what the caller hears) are completely separate signals. The
signals
are put on the line by the local central office serving each phone. They
are
completely independent signals and not necessarily in sy
All disk access in Unix is through the directory tree and all directories
are under
the root (/) directory.
If the NT partition is FAT you're in luck. While logged in as root:
1) Create a mount point for the partition somewhere under the root
directory.
mkdir /winnt
2) Mount the par
There are some pecularities with regard to MS
OS's that you need to watch out for. They require that their boot
partition be marked
active or bootable. You can do that with Linux's fdisk. Linux doesn't
care whether its
partition is marked active or not. (If you run multiple independent M
Richardson,Anthony
Cc: Alan Su; Ossama Othman; debian-user
Subject: RE: Setting up Anon FTP?
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Richardson,Anthony wrote:
>
> Maybe installing wu-ftpd will solve the problem then? I was trying
> to set things up by man according to the man page. I'm still
> curious
1998 2:44 PM
To: Alan Su
Cc: Ossama Othman; Richardson,Anthony; debian-user
Subject: Re: Setting up Anon FTP?
I was having the same problem (wu-ftpd, hamm distribution) and sent a
message to the list a few days ago with no responses.
After seeing Ossama's message, I copied the lib files to
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Sent: Thursday, February 26, 1998 12:34 PM
To: Richardson,Anthony
Cc: debian-user
Subject: RE: Setting up Anon FTP?
Why are you trying to chroot to /bin/ls? The ftpd daemon automatically
does a chroot when someone logs in as "anonymous" or "ftp." Here is an
excer
I had already done what is suggested below, but no luck. The following:
chroot /home/ftp /bin/ls
gives
chroot: cannot execute /bin/ls: No such file or directory
(using ls or bin/ls instead of /bin/ls gives the same message).
I've got all the libraries copied to /home/ftp/lib, but still no lu
al Message-
From: Alan Su [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 1998 8:27 PM
To: Richardson,Anthony
Cc: 'debian-user'
Subject: Re: Setting up Anon FTP?
"Richardson,Anthony" wrote (Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:01:00 -0500 ):
|>
|>I'm trying to set
I'm trying to set up an anonymous ftp server. Everything seems to be
working except
ls or dir. I copied /bin/ls to /home/ftp/bin/ls and set up permissions
as described in the
ftpd man page. When I type "ls" however I get:
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for '/bin/ls'.
226 Tra
I'm working thru some of the exercises in the book "A Practical Guide to
Linux".
In the GUI chapter the author mentions that you can start multiple X
servers in
different blank virtual consoles. I thought this would be neat and
thought I'd try it.
When I do "startx -- :1.0 &" the server
Try setting the bootable flag using Liunx's fdisk and then rebooting. If
you get an
"Operating system not found" or "Non-system disk message" the boot
sector on the
boot partition has been corrupted. (The boot sector is not the same as
the MBR. The MBR is
the first sector on the first
Is there a command which displays how a kernel is configured? For
example,
say I walk up to a Linux box and want to see if the kernel was compiled
with
gateway support. How do I do that?
Thanks
Tony Richardson
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cdrecord (ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/cdrecord) will do a direct CD
to CD
copy. (I don't believe that X-CD-Roast will.). It compiled and
installed easily
on my Debian 1.3 box.
Tony Richardson
p.s. There is an article on X-CD-Roast in the Jan. issue of Linux
Journal.
The author men
I've set up one machine in a lab of identical machines with Debian. I
then create a tar
file from that set up and transfer the tar file to CD. I then untar on
the other machines.
The procedure works nice (I can set up a machine in about 15 minutes)
but I'm having
trouble with a lot of
Check out " A Practical Guide to Linux" by Mark Sobell and published
by Addison-Wesley. It's one of the few Unix books that is written in
text book style (with exercises and end-of-chapter problems). It's also
useful as a reference.
The foreword is by Linus Torvalds and he mentions that one of
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