installing Fedora 11 on dual-boot machine changes active partition?
by Andre Robatino
My father has a dual-boot Vista/Fedora 11 machine, with Grub on the MBR.
He recently enabled recommended updates in Vista, and it wanted him to
install SP2, but he was unable to. At Stage 3, after rebooting, it got
to 100% but then failed and reverted the changes. The associated error
number was 80004005. We found that the source of the problem was that
the active partition was the Fedora /boot partition, not the Windows
one. By using Vista's Disk Management tool to make the Vista partition
active again, the problem was solved. Grub doesn't seem to care which
partition is active (at least if it's on the MBR). Looking at old saved
fdisk output from 2 of my machines, I suspect that F11 changed the
active partition, and that in F10 and earlier, the Windows partition was
active. Is this new behavior in the F11 installer (to change the active
partition, even though Grub doesn't care), and if so, is it deliberate?
14 years, 4 months
FC10 install will not offer 'askmethod'
by Robert Moskowitz
I am doing yet another install, this time on a Dell SFF with an internal CD.
I want to do a network install from my local repo.
With older Redhat stuff, I did a 'linux askmethod' at the enter prompt.
I have noticed with FC10, that I would frequently not be given the
chance to press enter, let alone type in the above command, but I would
be given a menu that would allow me to supply a URL anyway.
Well on this system I go right to the menu about
install/recover/bootlocal/memcheck and from here it goes into the
install from CD without ever being given the option to provide the URL
of my local repo. Even if I let it go all the way to where you can
provide which repos to load from, I cannot see how to point the
installation repo to my network one.
I have tried various combinations of F1, F2, F3 at that startup menu,
but I never can get it to a point to let me provide the URL of my repo.
Am I going to have to use a USB CD drive to trick it?
14 years, 5 months
SSH and X forwarding not working from my laptop
by Gary Stainburn
I'm sure I've reported this a while back but I can't find it in the archives.
I'm having a problems connecting from my laptop to a number of my servers.
It's not a solid fault, but it's fairly constant at the moment.
I have a number of servers FC7 to FC10 that I connect to, as well as a number
of FC10 workstations. These all work fine. However from my laptop I get the
following when I connect:
Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding.
tcsetattr: Interrupted system call
Last login: Wed Aug 26 11:13:21 2009 from gary.ringways.co.uk
[root@stan ~]#
and then once I'm in the BASH command line editing doesn't work.
Can anyone suggest where I can start looking into the problem. I'm not too
bad with ssh but have no knowledge of xauth, konsole, BASH etc.
Gary
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14 years, 5 months
clone a bootable fedora USB drive?
by David L
After a recent hard drive crash on my laptop,
I've been trying to limp along by installing
f11 on a 8GB USB stick. After an installation
from a live USB stick to another USB stick,
I drove to a local hotspot to update and
yum install some stuff that wasn't on the
live USB. It took forever to update, not
even counting the download time. I'm sure
there is a reason, but I was surprised that
the original installation took about 7 minutes
and it took several hours to update that
installation AFTER downloading all of
the updated rpms.
Anyhoo, now that I've spent most of a
day getting the USB stick updated
and configured, I want to clone it to
another USB stick. I tried a few naive
things like copying directories to the
backup stick, but ran into boot errors
(I think due to different uuids on the
backup sticks partitions). What is the
right way to clone a fedora installation
on a USB stick to a second stick that
isn't exactly the same size (they are
both 8G, but different models so have
slightly different sizes).
Thanks,
David
14 years, 5 months
Converting GPT to MBR
by Markus Kesaromous
Second try to find an answer...
Hi all,
I purchased a 1.5 TB HD, and I used gparted to create 4 partitions (GPT),
without knowing that winx XP (32) cannot access GPT. Among the
is a vfat partition which I mount under winxp - acts as a way to
share files on a dual boot system. However, windows cannot see
any partitions on this disk.
Now I would like to convert these partitions to MBR type of partitions
without losing the filesystems (data) in each partition.
I have no second disk to back up these partitions to.
Is it possible to make this conversion? How?
Cheers,
MK
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14 years, 5 months
Novatel MC950D 3G-device in fedora 11
by Joerg Bergmann
I try to get running a novatel MC950D 3G device in
fedora 11. lsusb shows vedor/device as 1410:5010.
Any hints?
Thank you! Joerg Bergmann
14 years, 5 months
HP Mini 5101 and Broadcom 4353 wireless
by Valent Turkovic
I have installed Fedora 11 on HP Mini 5101 that has Broadcom 4353
wireless card.
It looks like that chip is currently unsupported under Fedora 11, does
anybody have a solution. I would like not to use windows drivers via
ndiswrapper if there is an alternative to it.
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14 years, 5 months
How do you clear a botched kernel on a PPC system?
by Joel Rees
I find myself in another nice catch 22.
Some time last week, I updated with yum (after several weeks of not
updating) and, for some reason, I was able to reboot that day, but
the next day attempting to boot Fedora resulted in a kernel panic.
Looking things up, I see I'm not the only one with a panicking kernel.
So, I got to work to clear the crudded kernel out of the way.
Took me a while of looking around the web to rediscover the
incantation to get to rescue mode with an install CD: "linux rescue"
at the second stage boot prompt.
Then I booted to rescue mode. I was thinking along the lines of, even
though I don't get a grub menu like on x86, I should be able to
change the configuration file to default to the previous kernel.
Is the usual approach to that to use ybin? (And it looks like, with
all the strange parameters, and the success rate I'm having today
with arcane command parameters, it would likely take several tries to
get it right.)
Isn't there an easier way to do this?
I tried passing the kernel name of the previous kernel in at the
second stage prompt, but, even though I figured out (again) the
arcane open firmware syntax to point to the kernel:
hd:<drive>,/vmlinuz-<version>.ppc
(Since the boot volume is separate, the path to the kernel is empty.)
it tells me that I should try passing in the init= parameter. I tried
several permutations of what I thought was the probable syntax,
boot: hd:3,/vmlinuz-2.6.29.5-191.fc11.ppc init=/
initrd-2.6.29.5-191.fc11.ppc.img
and such, but all of them failed to execute, suggested specifying
init= and left me at 180 seconds to reboot.
So I'm having a hard time with things today. Can someone put me out
of my misery?
Joel Rees
14 years, 5 months
Re: How do you clear a botched kernel on a PPC system?
by Joel Rees
On Sep 27, 2009, at 3:20 AM, a helpful person wrote me off-list:
(Leaving out the name in case the off-list was intentional. Or maybe
it was because it was a reply to my mis-post to the -test-list.)
> On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 07:19:45PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
>>
>> it tells me that I should try passing in the init= parameter. I tried
>> several permutations of what I thought was the probable syntax,
>>
>> boot: hd:3,/vmlinuz-2.6.29.5-191.fc11.ppc init=/
>> initrd-2.6.29.5-191.fc11.ppc.img
> yh
> Err..., init is a program you are running first. If everything
> else failed try 'init=/bin/bash'
Okay, [...] init=/bin/bash
...
VFS: mounted root [and something I missed as it rebooted.]
Freeing unused kernel memory: 332k init
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
Failed to execute /bin/bash. Attempting defaults. . .
Kernel panic. - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option
to kernel.
Rebooting in 180 seconds.
> Don't you have some earlier kernel which still boots? If that fails
> too then maybe indeed your /sbin/init is messed up but that would
> have nothing to do with kernels.
The previous kernel did work, as I mentioned in another post, but
only when I went in, renamed it (and the three other files) and so
forth, as I described in the other post. I've yum remove-d
kernel-2.6.30.5-43.fc11.ppc, and so it boots the old kernel and seems
to run okay.
So if the init= parameter is not supposed to be the initrd file, the
bug in yaboot (under this ibook's openfirmware) might be that it's
trying to pass an init= parameter when none is specified on the boot
line. Hmm.
I got a message back from the developers, from a comment I left where
someone else reported this bug. Getting a fixed kernel is going to
take a little time, they say.
In the meantime, I'm avoiding updating, to keep the kernel at the
previous level, and hoping the kernel/userland level mismatch will
not bomb me out of anything important.
Thanks.
Joel Rees
14 years, 5 months