Re: Device Numbers, LILO

2001-05-15 Thread Tim Fletcher
t it (over 1023 cylinders) then you turn it on at your own risk. I know this from the experiance of breaking lilo on my workstation :) -- Tim Fletcher - Network manager .~. /V\ L I N U X [EMAIL PROTECTED]// \\ >Don

Re: 2.4.1-pre10 slowdown at boot.

2001-01-25 Thread Tim Fletcher
r until Vojtech Pavlik gets the driver to a state he and Andre Hendrick are happy with. iirc the driver has dma disabled for all VIA chipsets -- Tim Fletcher - Network manager .~. /V\ L I N U X [EMAIL PROTECTED]// \\ >Don&#x

Re: 2.4.1-pre10 slowdown at boot.

2001-01-25 Thread Tim Fletcher
> Or, perhaps DMA is now off on your IDE drive, making everything slower. Are you using a VIA ide chipset? because a much slower version of the driver has been put in recently -- Tim Fletcher - Network manager .~. /V\ L I N U X [EM

Re: kernel BUG at slab.c:1542!(2.4.1-pre9)

2001-01-24 Thread Tim Fletcher
> > > kernel BUG at slab.c:1542! > > The kernel should never oops, no matter what user space does to it. What ever a none privilaged user space apps does witness: root@localhost# dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/mem -- Tim Fletcher - Network manager .~.

Re: kernel BUG at slab.c:1542!(2.4.1-pre9)

2001-01-24 Thread Tim Fletcher
> The kernel appears to run fine with this bug() removed. > > BTW- gimp and a few other apps also manage to trigger it.. You can add sane with an advansys scsi card and various scsi scanners to that list -- Tim Fletcher - Network manager .~. /

Re: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order?

2001-01-18 Thread Tim Fletcher
hda5" problem ? It doesn't nothing can as the way that the pcbios extended partition works as a (linked?) list of partitions so removing one shuffles the rest up. -- Tim Fletcher - Network manager .~. /V\ L I N U X [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order?

2001-01-18 Thread Tim Fletcher
t scripts, assuming the driver is in kernel or if not I only need to change the line /etc/modules.conf. -- Tim Fletcher - Network manager .~. /V\ L I N U X [EMAIL PROTECTED]// \\ >Don't fear the penguin< [EMAIL PROT

Re: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order?

2001-01-18 Thread Tim Fletcher
ernel autodetect code for scsi devices will deal with this case, but I'm not sure. -- Tim Fletcher - Network manager .~. /V\ L I N U X [EMAIL PROTECTED]// \\ >Don't fear the penguin< [EMAIL PROTECTED] /( )\ ir

Re: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order?

2001-01-17 Thread Tim Fletcher
/dev/hdc as the boot drive > How does MD/RAID0 know which array should be /dev/md0? What if you had a > second array on /dev/hdb and /dev/hdd, would that become /dev/md0 (assuming > it had a kernel/boot sector)? /etc/raidtab specifies which drives belong in which array, but I only have

Re: File System Corruption with 2.2.18

2001-01-17 Thread Tim Fletcher
test wipes all data on the partition out during the test, right?) with no loss of data on the machine. The partition is still on the same disk so the test data is valid? I am thinking that the test is somewhat like badblocks -w or have I got the wrong end of the stick? -- Tim

Re: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order?

2001-01-17 Thread Tim Fletcher
baring winging about the missing disk (all the drives are mirrored) carried on as normal. A fresh disk was put and rebuilt no problems and was then booted off with the other disk missing. -- Tim Fletcher - Network manager .~. /V\ L I N U

Re: File System Corruption with 2.2.18

2001-01-17 Thread Tim Fletcher
> > Hi! > > > > Cute. Can it be run on say a swap partition? > > maybe but why? Because it stores no data, hence the wiping out of it is no problem? -- Tim Fletcher - Network manager .~. /V\ L I N U