Re: Install completed but boot failure
by Roger Lin
OK, here is the output for reinstall grub:
Installation finished. No error reported.
This is the content of the device map /boot/grub/device.map.
Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect,
fix it and re-run the script 'grub-install'.
# this device map was generated by anaconda
(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd0) /dev/hda
I have no idea if this right or wrong, so I try to reboot the system,
same thing, here is the last 3 lines on the screen after a few
minutes:
Verifying DMI Pool Data ..............
Boot from CD :
DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER
Any ideas, please? Here is the email from Nelson:
before grub is found i don't think so... grub is the very first thing
that should be started, wrigth after some hardware!! sorry but i
don't know to much about this and i don't want to give you a wrong
answer. But i think before grub there's nothing. only after that you
can have some sort of output...
regards,
nelson
I believe he is right, the machine may not be able to find the MBR?
How should I check that? Please help!
Thanks a lot,
Roger
>>---- Original Message ----
>>From: paul(a)city-fan.org
>>To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com
>>Subject: Re: Install completed but boot failure
>>Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 08:28:36 +0000
>>
>>>On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 21:54 -0800, Roger Lin wrote:
>>>> Please let me know if there is any workaround or I should try a
>>>> different Linux. I downloaded the Fedora core 3 DVD iso file,
>>>burned
>>>> to DVD, it checked out fine, install on a AMC Sempron 2400+ with
>>>ECS
>>>> KT600-A MB, WD 80 GB IDE drive. The installation completed
>>>> successfully, then click the restart button, it try to boot for
>>>> several minutes then failed with the following message:
>>>>
>>>> BOOT FAILURE, ENTER SYSTEM DISK PRESS ENTER.
>>>>
>>>> I have tried twice, 1st manually partitioned the drive on the
>brand
>>>> new hard drive. The second time, I deleted all the partition and
>>>used
>>>> auto partition option. Both time failed with the same error.
>>>>
>>>> I installed Windows XP on a seperate drive, all went fine.
>Running
>>>as
>>>> smooth as it can be.
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas? Was the problem related to the processor or the hard
>>>> drive? It's a plain new WD IDE drive with 8 mb cache, can't
>believe
>>>> that can be a problem...
>>>
>>>Which bootloader option did you select during the installation?
>Grub
>>>on
>>>Master Boot Record?
>>>
>>>Try booting from the DVD again and enter "linux rescue" at the boot
>>>prompt. You should eventually be able to get to a shell prompt
>where
>>>you
>>>can enter:
>>>
>>># chroot /mnt/sysimage
>>># grub-install /dev/hda
>>>
>>>That'll have another go at installing grub on your Master Boot
>>>Record.
>>>
>>>> I would like to try Fedora Core 2, see if that can install on the
>>>> same box, but can't find the link to download it. Is it still
>>>> available?
>>>
>>>Yes, but that would be a step backwards so I wouldn't do it.
>>>
>>>Paul.
>>>--
>>>Paul Howarth <paul(a)city-fan.org>
>>>
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>>
19 years, 2 months
Scanning with HP LaserJet 3300mfp
by Jan Morales
I am trying to set up my HP LaserJet 3300mfp multifunction device to
scan. I have the printing function all set up and working with ptal and
cups, and I am now trying to set up scanning with hpoj and sane
following the instructions in /usr/share/doc/hpoj-0.91/. It's a USB
connection.
When "scanimage --list-devices" said that no scanners were found, I
started to follow the "scanning details and troubleshooting"
instructions. According to those instructions, I need libsane-hpoj.so.1
in /usr/lib/sane, but I can't find that library. I see
/usr/lib/libhpojip.so.0 in the hpoj package, so I tried a symlink from
there to /usr/lib/sane, but that didn't work.
Can anyone give me any suggestions on how to proceed? I had the scan
function of this device working under RH9 a while ago so I know it
works, but sadly I have no memory or notes on how I did that.
Thanks,
Jan
19 years, 2 months
"mount" as a user
by James Pifer
I've made the switch to linux (FC3) as my OS and I'm using crossover
office for a couple required windows only apps, like Lotus Notes.
So I'm trying to adjust to this new environment. One of the things I was
accustomed to on my old windows system was mapping to my other machines,
getting to files, etc. The "other" machines are a mix of Windows and
Linux, but mostly Linux.
For the windows machines I'll continue to map shares using samba. The
problem is my linux machines. On windows I use to map them using Samba,
but now that I'm running linux, I was thinking NFS is probably the
better way to go. Right? Wrong? Of course I can't run mount unless I'm
root and then I don't have rights as my login to the data anyway. Is
there any way I can seamless mount these drives and still have rights to
them with my login?
Should I just use samba to map these as well?
Also, my old windows drive is also mounted as read only using an NTFS
module. Again, it's mounted as root and works, but when I'm logged in as
me I can view anything. I'd like to view/copy my old windows files
logged in as myself.
How are others handling these scenerios?
Thanks,
James
19 years, 2 months
Re: Linux sucks
by Erik Hemdal
>>> Yes.
>>>
>>> I am not trying to be biased but i was quit impress with the tools and
>>> SLA Microsoft has. And they solved our problem.
>>
I'm desperately trying to avoid a flame war, but I am very curious about
a couple of things:
1. What kind of SLA will Microsoft offer to a small business or an
individual user?
2. For the case above, where the poster spoke to a kernel developer,
what kind of response was promised in the SLA and how much did it cost?
For the record, I use Windows, because a specific toolchain I need isn't
going to be ported to Linux. But where I can (which is nearly
everywhere else), I use Fedora, in fact, I do most of my email, "Office"
work, and presentations using Linux. I've found Microsoft support to be
expensive and antagonistic to customers. A recent experience bears this
out.
I have an issue working for a friend now where MS support is needed. My
friend entered "DLL Purgatory" because of a defect in a version of
MSVCRT.DLL, used by just about everything on the system. The Knowledge
Base article which discloses the defect announces a hotfix for the
problem. But to get the hotfix, one must place a toll call to Microsoft
and pay the charge for a service call to obtain the fix.
The Microsoft technician has the discretion to decide whether to charge
you Microsoft's fee for the consultation, but in any event, you pay for
the phone call. So no matter what you do, it will cost you money if
you want your system to work. My friend didn't do anything except
install Service Pack 2, and her system went south. Now her system is
degraded and it will cost her to recover it.
For those who are unhappy with the support one gets from the Linux
community for free, I must ask: Is this kind of support worth paying
for? I am grateful for the support of this community. You all do great
things.
Erik
19 years, 2 months
Help GLIBC Error with Informix on FC3
by Kevin Kempter
I've installed a version of Informix on FC3 designed for GLIBC v. 2.2.x
When I try and initialize the db I get the following error:
/relocation error: /var/lib/libpthread.so.0: symbol _h_errno, version
GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference
/
I found a post on the net that says to install a previous version of GLIBC:
/Actually, You can try to install another GLIBC
package onto Your existing Linux.
For example, 'glibc-2.2.93-5.i686.rpm' works fine for IDS 9.21+
/Here's my questions:
1. Is there another way to fix this other than installing an older
version of GLIBC (Currently I'm at 2.3) Here's an rpm query listing:
root@Issac # rpm -qa | grep -i glib
glibc-2.3.4-2.fc3
dbus-glib-0.22-10.FC3.2
glib-1.2.10-15
glibc-kernheaders-2.4-9.1.87
glibc-devel-2.3.4-2.fc3
glibc-common-2.3.4-2.fc3
glibc-headers-2.3.4-2.fc3
glib2-devel-2.4.8-1.fc3
glib2-2.4.8-1.fc3
2. If I have to install an older version of GLIBC can I add it as an addition
and only point the Informix files to use it?
3. If neither of the above questions are options, will I break my
system by reverting to an older version of GLIBC ?
Thanks in advance for your help.
/Kevin
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Your Mouse Has Moved.
Windows Must restart to affect the changes.
Reboot Now [Y] ?
==============================================
19 years, 2 months
(no subject)
by ravi shrivastava
I am having problem in MySQL on fedora core 1.I have selected the option while installation but Mysql is not running.Help me out.Thankyou.
19 years, 2 months
RE: Browse Samba server from XP
by Irving, Dave
I tried this exact configuration:
Try adding the following section to your smb.conf
[publicShare]
path = /home/public
browseable = Yes
writeable = No
guest ok = Yes
... Users were still challenged for a password :o(
-----Original Message-----
From: Alexander Apprich [mailto:a.apprich@science-computing.de]
Sent: 01 March 2005 14:50
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: Browse Samba server from XP
Dave,
Irving, Dave wrote:
> Now im really confused... I thought that the guest account was
> supposed to exist in /etc/passwd? I've obviously got the wrong end of
> the stick from the docs I've read.
No, as soon a you use a user that exists either in /etc/passwd or smbpasswd
you have to auth. the user.
>
> So what should guest account be? If its not meant to be in /etc/passwd
> or smbpasswd, should it just be a random name? (If so, I tried that -
> and I still got challenged for a user name / password...?)
>
AFAIK guest doesn't work if you want to modify files/directories.
Try adding the following section to your smb.conf
[publicShare]
path = /home/public
browseable = Yes
writeable = No
guest ok = Yes
then kill all smbd/nmbd processes or restart xinetd if xinetd serves your
samba.
Hth
Alex
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19 years, 2 months
*** Announcement: dmraid 1.0.0.rc6 ***
by Heinz Mauelshagen
*** Announcement: dmraid 1.0.0.rc6 ***
dmraid 1.0.0.rc6 is available at
http://people.redhat.com:/heinzm/sw/dmraid/ in source tarball,
source rpm and i386 rpms (shared, static and dietlibc).
This release introduces support for VIA Software RAID.
dmraid (Device-Mapper Raid tool) discovers, [de]activates and displays
properties of software RAID sets (i.e. ATARAID) and contained DOS
partitions using the device-mapper runtime of the 2.6 kernel.
The following ATARAID types are supported on Linux 2.6:
Highpoint HPT37X
Highpoint HPT45X
Intel Software RAID
LSI Logic MegaRAID
NVidia NForce
Promise FastTrack
Silicon Image Medley
VIA Software RAID *** NEW ***
Please provide insight to support those metadata formats completely.
Thanks.
See files README and CHANGELOG, which come with the source tarball for
prerequisites to run this software, further instructions on installing
and using dmraid!
CHANGELOG is contained below for your convenience as well.
Call for testers:
-----------------
I need testers with the above ATARAID types, to check that the mapping
created by this tool is correct (see options "-t -ay") and access to the
ATARAID data is proper.
In case you have a different ATARAID solution from those listed above,
please feel free to contact me about supporting it in dmraid.
You can activate your ATARAID sets without danger of overwriting
your metadata, because dmraid accesses it read-only unless you use
option -E together with -r in order to erase ATARAID metadata
(see 'man dmraid')!
This is a release candidate version so you want to have backups of your valuable
data *and* you want to test accessing your data read-only first in order to
make sure that the mapping is correct before you go for read-write access.
Contacts:
---------
The author is reachable at <Mauelshagen(a)RedHat.com>.
For test results, mapping information, discussions, questions, patches,
enhancement requests and the like, please subscribe and mail to
<ataraid-list(a)redhat.com>.
--
Regards,
Heinz -- The LVM Guy --
CHANGELOG:
---------
Changelog from dmraid 1.0.0-rc5f to 1.0.0.rc6 2005.02.28
FIXES:
------
o sil status()
o _sil_read() used LOG_NOTICE rather than LOG_INFO in order to
avoid messages about valid metadata areas being displayed
during "dmraid -vay".
o isw, sil filed metadata offset on "-r -D" in sectors rather than in bytes.
o isw needed dev_sort() to sort RAID devices in sets correctly.
o pdc metadata format handler name creation. Lead to
wrong RAID set grouping logic in some configurations.
o dos.c: partition table code fixes by Paul Moore
o _free_dev_pointers(): fixed potential OOB error
o hpt37x_check: deal with raid_disks = 1 in mirror sets
o pdc_check: status & 0x80 doesn't always show a failed device;
removed that check for now. Status definitions needed.
o sil addition of RAID sets to global list of sets
o sil spare device memory leak
o group_set(): removal of RAID set in case of error
o hpt37x: handle total_secs > device size
o allow -p with -f
o enhanced error message by checking target type against list of
registered target types
FEATURES:
---------
o VIA metadata format handler
o added RAID10 to lsi metadata format handler
o "dmraid -rD": file device size into {devicename}_{formatname}.size
o "dmraid -tay": pretty print multi-line tables ala "dmsetup table"
o "dmraid -l": display supported RAID levels + manual update
MISCELANIOUS:
------------
o more inline comments
o libdmraid_init() now returns lib context
o check_set() enhanced to do RAID set stack unrolling and
to check correct number of devices in sets; saves code in
metadata format handlers
o introduced read_raid_dev() to further reduce metadata format handler code
o optimized parse_table()
o updated dmraid manual
o devmapper.c: check target type registered before trying to load table record
o misc.c: avoid find_percent().
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Heinz Mauelshagen Red Hat GmbH
Consulting Development Engineer Am Sonnenhang 11
56242 Marienrachdorf
Germany
Mauelshagen(a)RedHat.com +49 2626 141200
FAX 924446
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19 years, 2 months
FC3 and Apache Mixed SSL & Non-SSL Virtual Hosts Config
by Lonnie Cumberland
Hello All,
How are you all doing today? Good I hope.
I have FC3 installed on a server and have recently added mod_ssl to the
Apache install because I am trying to set up an SSL test server.
the problem is that I am mixing secured and unsecured virtual hosts in my
httpd.conf and everything seems to work except the
"DocumentRoot" command that I have set in my ssl virtual host is not
working. The Apache server is looking for my secured document in
"/etc/httpd/htdocs" and I cannot seem to locate why?
Also, I have changed all of the site names, but will have multiple
unsecure sites as well as multiple secure sites.
Additionally, I have 5 IP addresses in which to work so maybe someone has
a better solution for handling this problem.
# Unsecure sites go here -------
---------------------------------------------
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster(a)unsecure1.com
DocumentRoot /www/websites/unsecure1/html
ServerName www.unsecure1.com
ServerAlias unsecure1.com
ErrorDocument 404 /index.pl/page_not_found
ErrorLog logs/www.unsecure1.com-error_log
CustomLog logs/www.unsecure1.com-access_log common
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/www/websites/unsecure1/cgi-bin/"
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster(a)unsecure2.com
DocumentRoot /www/websites/unsecure2/html
ServerName www.unsecure2.com
ServerAlias unsecure2.com
ErrorDocument 404 /index.pl/page_not_found
ErrorLog logs/www.unsecure2.com-error_log
CustomLog logs/www.unsecure2.com-access_log common
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/www/websites/unsecure2/cgi-bin/"
</VirtualHost>
----------------------------------------------
# Secure Server Hosts Sites -- Multiple secure sites will be here
<VirtualHost www.site1.com>
ServerName www.site1.com:443
ServerAdmin postmaster(a)site1.com
DocumentRoot /www/websites/site1/html
ErrorLog logs/ssl_error_log
<IfModule mod_log_config.c>
TransferLog logs/ssl_access_log
</IfModule>
SSLEngine on
SSLCipherSuite
ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT56:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW:+SSLv2:+EXP:+eNULL
SSLCertificateFile /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt/server.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key/server.key
<Files ~ "\.(cgi|shtml|phtml|php?)$">
SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
</Files>
<Directory "/www/websites/site1/cgi-bin">
SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
---------------------------------------------
Thanks in advance,
Lonnie
19 years, 2 months
