fc6 / windows xp dual-boot system
by Don Raikes
Hello,
I have a gateway computer which had windows xp installed on the second partition. The first aprtition was a "recovery" image for xp.
I had 100gb of free space on the drive and installed fc6 onto that.
My grub.conf lists the windows partition, but when I try to boot to the windows system, the pc just hangs.
--- grub.conf ---
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
# root (hd0,2)
# kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda3
# initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=1
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,2)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/xen.gz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
module /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
module /boot/initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen.img
title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader +1
-- end of grub.conf --
-- partition table --
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
Using /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 250GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
2 32.3kB 5840MB 5840MB primary fat32
1 5840MB 144GB 138GB primary ntfs boot
3 144GB 244GB 99.6GB primary ext3
4 244GB 250GB 6185MB extended
5 244GB 250GB 6078MB logical linux-swap
-- end of partition table --
any suggestions appreciated.
Cheers,
Don Raikes, Accessibility Specialist
4848 W. Rosebay S.
Tucson, AZ 85742
Home office: (520) 579-9481
AIM: dnraikes
17 years, 6 months
Missing Dependency libparted-1.7.so.1
by elk dolk
Hi all,
The package updater can not apply available security updates because of missing dependencies. It says libparted-1.7.so.1 is missing where can I find it?
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17 years, 6 months
installing kernel.org kernels
by Gene Heskett
Greetings;
I have managed to install 2.6.19 from kernel.org, and its running right
now, however I have a few questions.
1. During the boot, I saw a message go by indicating that TUX was not
supported by this kernel. Frankly, I hadn't figured out what it as for
when it starts about 60 copies of itself at boot time that AFAIK, have
never done anything constructive for *me* that I know of. Can someone
comment about this for my edification? And if it does serve a usefull
purpose, how can I re-enable it in a make xconfig?
2. Trying to do this as a user rather than root because you all decry my
running everything as root. To that end I have broken my 'makeit' script
in two, doing all the building as myself and leaving the installation to
a separate script that must be run as root. This seems to work, but is
there a way to run as the common user and still have rights to install
the modules in /lib/modules/$kernelver, and to install the pieces and
links in /boot that are required to achieve a working boot?
Many thanks for any tutorial urls and answers I get on these 2 subjects.
--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
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message by Gene Heskett are:
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17 years, 6 months
FC5 media player needs changing
by Tom Poe
Where can I find the default media player setting, and change it from
Helix Player to xmms or mplayer?
Thanks, Tom
17 years, 6 months
Re: FC6 Network Definitions
by Gene Poole
That did it.
Thanks,
Gene Poole
gene.poole(a)fds.com
Hadders wrote:
> On the windows box bring up a command prompt (start > run > cmd) type
> ipconfig /all
> This will list the IP configuration of the Windows machine, one of
such
> will be the IP address of the DNS server(s)
>
> On your Linux box either do the following by hand through a terminal,
su
> -, to become root, use emacs or vi
> /etc/sysconfig/networking/device/ifcfg-eth0
> DEVICE=eth0
> BOOTPROTO=none
> BROADCAST=192.168.1.255
> HWADDR=00:16:E6:46:F6:D1
> IPADDR=192.168.1.13
> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> NETWORK=192.168.1.0
> ONBOOT=yes
> USERCTL=no
> IPV6INIT=no
> PEERDNS=yes
> GATEWAY=192.168.1.1
> TYPE=Ethernet
>
> Then, edit
> /etc/resolv.conf and enter the DNS address(es) nameserver
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> /etc/hosts and enter any name short cuts you want xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
alias
>
> OR
> System > Administration > Network. Edit the device, SAVE and restart
it.
17 years, 6 months
Trying to make a bootable DVD disk from a Fedora Core 6 iso image
by Jeffrey D. Yuille
Hello,
Okay, okay, now I am able to burn a Fedora Core 6 DVD iso image to
disk. The only problem now is that it only seems to make a copy of the
DVD iso image onto the disk instead of making a bootable disk and
creating files that I can actually see when the disk is finished being
burned. I am using k3b as my burning software. Again, what gives?
After googling and seeing that my original problem was a disk limitation
size of 2 GB, I bought a dual layer disk to burn the image onto it. I
never had this problem when trying to burn regular CD's to put Fedora on
it. Please help.
17 years, 6 months
D-BUS waring on Nautilus sudo??
by Bill Case
Hi;
Just tried to run nautilus from user account as root using the following
command on the command line and got this warning:
$ sudo nautilus --no-desktop --browser
Password:
"process 11686: D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up; failed
to read machine uuid: Failed to open "/var/lib/dbus/machine-id": No such
file or directory
See the manual page for dbus-uuidgen to correct this issue.
Initializing nautilus-search-tool extension
Initializing nautilus-open-terminal extension
(nautilus:11686): Eel-WARNING **: Trying to add a callback for
preferences/background_set that already exists.
(nautilus:11686): Eel-WARNING **: Trying to add a callback for
preferences/background_color that already exists.
(nautilus:11686): Eel-WARNING **: Trying to add a callback for
preferences/background_filename that already exists.
(nautilus:11686): Eel-WARNING **: Trying to add a callback for
preferences/background_set that already exists.
(nautilus:11686): Eel-WARNING **: Trying to add a callback for
preferences/background_color that already exists.
(nautilus:11686): Eel-WARNING **: Trying to add a callback for
preferences/background_filename that already exists."
The file browser worked as root. I wanted to set this up as a script in
Gnome using zenity. I would like to clear up the warning before
proceeding.
I took the warnings advice and checked the manual page for dbus-uuidgen.
They were completely Greek to me.
--
Regards Bill
17 years, 6 months
"k3b isn't configed properly", it whines.
by Ric Moore
K3b could not mount <>. Please run K3bSetup.
I have no clue. I cannot locate this file to run either. It sure mounted
the DVD ok, it gave me a selection list for copy and it sure has
permissions to write to my directory. I'd love to find this program,
that it alludes to , just to crank it up and do it's thing and fix my
problem. This is an educational use, mind you. Purely an intellectual
pursuit, I'm not copying The Fighting Temptations (one helluva flick,
especially if you like REAL gospel music.
So, I don't know what mounting <> is and I'm sure it doesn't compute.
Thank you for any considerations! Ric
17 years, 6 months
firefox slow rendering (e.g. wikipedia)
by Ian Malone
Okay, I've had this problem for a while and I'm beginning
to wonder why.
Firefox sometimes responds very slowly, especially when
rendering Wikipedia and a few other pages (mostly wikis
actually). I don't mean connecting to the internet, I mean
responding to the user; e.g. I run a mouse gestures
extension which can become unusable with a couple
of Wikipedia tabs open. Booting the same machine into
Windows Me and running Firefox I don't have this problem.
System is FC5, Athlon 1.3GHz, 1GB RAM, GeForce 3 Ti200
with Nvidia drivers.
So:
Does anyone else have this problem?
Is this also present in FC6 (I will be upgrading shortly, and
won't bother with anything else if that will fix it)?
I've seen mention that this is because FC FF is optimised
for size, not speed, and various patches slow it down. Does
this sound plausible? (I suppose it's easy enough to test
by downloading a binary FF from Mozilla)
--
imalone
17 years, 6 months
