lilo on serial consoles
by Deboo ^
I'm trying to prepare to give some Linux tests and got a question that
I am confused with, even after digging in to the serial howto and
googling. Can somone give it a try?
2 to 4 seem important to me. 1 is the only option that seems not as
important but then the alias is needed for ttyS0, right? So what could
be the odd one out?
Which one of the following is NOT necessary if you want to be able to
use a serial connection to select a boot image from lilo, to view
kernel and init output, and log in as root?
1. /etc/modules.conf: alias /dev/ttyS0 serial
2. /etc/lilo.conf: serial=0,115200n8
3. /etc/lilo.conf: append="console=ttyS0,115200n8"
4. /etc/securetty: ttyS0
5. /etc/inittab: TO:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 115200 vt100
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Install DVD
by David Miller
I have started using Redhat about Redhat 4 and started using Fedora
after RedHat 9.
I am a little more than a casual user. I develop embedded software and
use linux for my development platform but I don't develop linux code.
I currently have a fiber internet connection and downloads are normally
quick.
I went to http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-all and downloaded the
direct download for Fedora 10 and burned a DVD with K3B but the DVD
would not mount in my system.
I went back and downloaded the Bit Torrent and verified the sha1sum and
then burned another DVD with K3B and asked K3B to verify the write. All
went well until I tried to mount the DVD.
I get a popup with the following: Error
org.freedesktop.Hal.PermissionDenied. Details Permission denied: Not in
active session.
I haven't seen this described any where else. Can anyone give me a hand.
David Miller
15 years, 3 months
[SEMI-OT] USB flash fails to boot on Intel motherboard
by John Wendel
I built a bootable flash F10 using the wiki instructions, but I'm having
boot problems. I'm pretty sure it's a bios problem, since it never gets
to grub.
1st try was X86-64 and it didn't boot on either of the 2 intel based
systems I tried. One system prints "boot error" and the other silently
hangs.
2nd try was a 386 version and it booted correctly on my old AMD Athlon
box. But on the Intel boxes, same errors.
I'm sure there must be a bios setting that is incorrect, but I've tried
every bios setting that seems to make sense and it isn't working. If you
have an Intel bios and boot from a USB device, could by post your bios
settings.
Thanks,
John
15 years, 3 months
Cannot change 'Message List' fonts in Kmail
by Kevin Kempter
Hi All;
I'm running KDE 4.2 on Fedora 10 x86_64. Sometime recently it's changed so
that changes to the various 'Message List' items per using custom fonts have
no affect....
Thoughts ?
Thanks in advance
15 years, 3 months
Off the wall quuestion about browsing.
by Aaron Konstam
I notice that when I browse certain sites they can determing what city I
live in. How is that done? I can't figure that out.
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15 years, 3 months
Protecting files in linux
by Jorge Delgado
Hi, i would like to protect files like passwords and websites of Firefox
(iceweasel), and this cannot be done encripting the files.
So, i need some program for protect the files and, at the same time be
using them. If i encript the files, i cannot use them at the same time.
And if I cannot use them at the same time, it's meaningless.
Somebody could help me? Thank you very much, I appreciatte your help.
15 years, 3 months
Read error at booting
by Paul Smith
Dear All,
I am trying to boot in my F10 partition, but just before the grub menu
appears (and it does not show up), I get the following error:
"Read error".
I cannot boot anymore.
Any ideas? Yesterday, everything was working fine.
Thanks in advance,
Paul
15 years, 3 months
qGo and sound
by Colin Paul Adams
Since updating my F10 system today, I no longer get sound out from
qGo.
If I select the Sound option from it's help menu, it says:
"You are not running the Network Audio System"
"If you have the 'au' command, run it in the background before
this program."
"Nevertheless, if you have oss sound should be working and directed to
/dev/dsp".
Apparently I don't have the au command.
Burt everything was working yesterday.
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15 years, 3 months
grub
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
I have 2 systems (identical) on 2 different disks:
THis is my /etc/grub.conf
boot=/dev/sda
title Fedora (2.6.23.17-88.fc7)
root (hd0,7)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.17-88.fc7 ro root=/dev/sda8 rhgb quiet
selinux=0
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.23.17-88.fc7.img
title Fedora (2.6.23.17-88.fc7 new)
root (hd1,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.17-88.fc7 ro root=/dev/sdb5 rhgb quiet
selinux=0
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.23.17-88.fc7.img
I can easily boot on /dev/sda8, but not on /dev/sdb5, However, if I do:
root (hd0,7)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.17-88.fc7 ro root=/dev/sdb5 rhgb quiet
selinux=0
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.23.17-88.fc7.img
then I can boot on /dev/sdb5
I try plenty of things but I have not been able to make it works properly.
When I try to make a grub-install from /dev/sdb5, I get:
Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly.
I check the /boot/grub/device.map (it has both! hd0 and hd1).
Still from /dev/sdb5,
If I do: grub
then: root (hd1,4)
I get:
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
find /boot/grub/stage1
gives: (hd0,7) !!!
Same if I do:
find /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.14-64.fc7
It only find the one on sda8 and never the one on sdb5
It does the same from both systems (loading from sda8 or sdb5)
I check both kernels are identical and at the right place.
then:
setup (hd0)
gives:
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no
Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... no
Error 2: Bad file or directory type
How can I fix this grub configuration ?
thank.
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