2.6.0-1.107 and 2.6.0-1.109 kernels from Arjan wont boot
by Joseph Strafach
2.6.0-1.104 installed and boots fine. I ran up2date and it installed
107, but didn't boot. I was wondering if anybody else was seeing the
same problem or am I missing something obvious. Error message was that I
needed a valid root= boot option. I checked /etc/grub.conf. It looked
okay. So I went back to the 104 kernel. When I ran up2date today, it
installed the 109 kernel. I rebooted and got the same error message. So
I'm back at 2.6.0-1.104 for now. My /etc/grub.conf looks like this:
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this
file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda2
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Fedora Core (2.6.0-1.109)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.0-1.109 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb
initrd /initrd-2.6.0-1.109.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.0-1.107)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.0-1.107 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb
initrd /initrd-2.6.0-1.107.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.0-1.104)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.0-1.104 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb
initrd /initrd-2.6.0-1.104.img
title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2135.nptl)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2135.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb
initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2135.nptl.img
title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2129.nptl)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2129.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb
initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2129.nptl.img
title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2115.nptl)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb
initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.img
~
~
thanks for any help.
Joe
20 years, 4 months
ALSA drivers question
by John Lagrue
Looking at FreshRPMS I see kernel-module-alsa for versions 2115 and
2129. Does anybody know where I could get the RPM for kernel version
2135? I don't yet have sound and know that I have to kick around ALSA
before I can.
John
20 years, 4 months
RH9-Fedora upgrade problem: Chinese, i18n fonts
by John Li
Please help!
I have just upgraded from RH9 to Fedora. However,
I have a problem using Simplified Chinese (Traditional
Chinese works fine). When at the login prompt I
choose languages, the script next to the simplified
Chinese option does not display Chinese, but little
squares of hex code. (Thai is the same way.) When I
choose simplified Chinese and log in, Linux will not
load, and the following message pops up:
Your session only lasted 10 seconds....this could
mean there is some installation problem....
[ellipses represent text deleted by me]
The option is presented to view file ~/.xsession-errors,
which contains:
0mXftFontOpen(): Failed:
(and then, in Chinese: "file or directory doesn't exist")
Following charsets:
0: -Sony-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--16-120-100-100-c-80-ISO8859-1
1: -Sony-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--16-120-100-100-c-80-ISO8859-1
2: -isas-fangsong ti-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-gb2312.1980-0
3: -jis-fixed-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-jisx0208.1983-0
4: -baekmuk-batangbdf-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-ksc5601.1987-0
5: -taipei-fixed-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-big5-0
6: -arabic-newspaper-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1
....
** (gnome-session:5681): WARNING **: Cannot open font file for font
ZYSong 18030 10
** (gnome-session:5681): WARNING **: Cannot open fallback font, nothing
to do
What can I do to fix this problem?
By the way, no such problem existed in my RH9 installation. I'm aware
that RH9 used zh_CN.gb18030, while Fedora uses zh_CN.UTF-8, I think.
Thanks very much!
20 years, 4 months
Fedora stability
by Mark Haney
Okay, kind of a stupid and maybe useless question, but as I"ve been really
tinkering with (gasp!) SUSE, I'm kind of wondering how stable FC1 really
is? I mean I realize there are issues, otherwise this list wouldn't be
very useful, but how well does it work as a Workstation (not server) as
compared with any other distros especially RH9?
--
Mark Haney
Development, Systems and Network Administration
DoctorDirectory.com
http://www.doctordirectory.com
20 years, 4 months
Kmail after upgrade from rh9 to Fedore Core 1
by John Gray
'morning all
Just wondering if there is someway of getting my kmail emails back after
upgrading from rh9.
Before you all say, "where is your backup?" I will say with egg on face that I
thought I had but I hadn't!
When I first opened up kmail under Gnome desktop they were all there, but when
I opened up under kde, none were showing. The files are still there under my
/home/john/Mail directory.
Thank
John
20 years, 4 months
re-syncing the partition table with "blockdev"
by Robert P. J. Day
for some time now, i've gotten used to having to reboot after creating
a new partition since (at least in some cases) the kernel is no longer
in sync with the actual partition table on the hard drive.
from memory, someone once mentioned that this is only necessary
for logical(?) partitions, but i never really tried to remember the specific
conditions -- i just assumed, new partition ==> reboot.
however, recently, as i was reading the LVM howto, i noticed the
recipe for formatting a physical volume using "pvcreate" if you need
to get rid of the partition table:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/diskname bs=1k count=1 #fair enough
# blockdev --rereadpt /dev/diskname # hey, what's this?
now *that's* interesting, i thought -- i'd never heard of the "blockdev"
command, and the argument of "--rereadpt" sure looks promising.
as i don't have a machine around that i can arbitrarily create a new
partition on at the moment, can anyone discuss the logistics of this
command, and whether it would really force a reread of the disk
partition table to prevent a reboot?
rday
20 years, 4 months
Re: Installing Fedora from ISO Images
by Barry Yu
I am having the same problem like you - don't have neither floppy drive nor cdrom equipped in my sony notebook, but you're saying that you have xp/Mandrake 9.1 both running on your laptop, since you said don't have neither floppy drive nor cdrom,I understand in such circumstance could use LAN to copy \i386 into laptop and use winnt.exe to setup (This is how I did my XP setup in my laptop),and I tried to setup Mandrake by inserting the Mandrake cd1 into cdrom of my desktop(in same LAN with shared cdrom),I started my laptop with XP, tried to setup Mandrake under XP environement via network, the Mandrake did the autorun as I inserted it into the desktop cdrom, but when I started installation as Mandrake indicated (installation under M$ windows),the process just won't go further but just stay there without response. What way you used to install Mandrake into your laptop without floppy and cdrom? Thanks for sharing it if u would.
Mihai Maties <mihai(a)xcyb.org> wrote:
>On Thursday 01 January 2004 04:15, David Hunt wrote:
>> I am currently running Windows XP / Mandrake 9.1 on a Dell Inspiron 5100. I
>> was planning on upgrading to Mandrake 9.2 (mainly for ACPI) and decided to
>> give Fedora a try. Well that's the preample. But, here is the catch. I
>> didn't pay for the external floppy drive, or a CD writer. So, I've
>> downloaded the ISO images, I have verified the MD5SUM, I can even mount the
>> images and view the files inside. But as far as I can tell, without writing
>> the images to a CD, it appears that I can't do anything usefull with them.
>> It seems like it should be possible to mount the images during the install
>> process, instead of the CD-ROM. Has anyone ever tried that?
>
>Boot up Mandrake 9.1 and then issue the commands:
>
>mount /first/fedora/iso/image.iso /mnt/cdrom -o loop
>mount /mnt/cdrom/images/bootdisk.img /mnt/floppy -o loop
>mkdir /boot/fedora
>cp /mnt/floppy/vmlinuz /boot/fedora
>cp /mnt/floppy/initrd.img /boot/fedora
>
>now add the following lines to your grub.conf file:
>
>title - Install Fedora Core 1 -
>root (hd0,1)
>kernel /boot/fedora/vmlinuz
>initrd /boot/fedora/initrd.img
>
>Pay attention to the "root (hd0,1)" part and change it to match the "root..."
>part from the Mandrake installation.
>
>That's it, now reboot your computer and select "Install Fedora Core 1" from
>Grub's menu. After a few dialogs you will be asked to enter the path to the
>Fedora Core iso images so make sure you'll remember it. Also note that the
>iso images cannot be loaded from a NTFS partition ( if you have the images on
>a Windows partition move them to one of Mandrake's partitions).
>
>
>Mihai
>
>
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20 years, 4 months
Intro to kernel modules?
by Dave Roberts
Can anybody recommend a good intro explanation to the Linux kernel
modules system? I'd like to understand that level of configuration
better so I can tune my system better.
Thanks,
--
Dave Roberts <ldave(a)droberts.com>
20 years, 4 months