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RE: [wlug] boot problems
by Justin Hyde 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

> root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-5-386 root= /dev/hd1 ro quiet splash > initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.10-5-386 > savedefault > boot One would assume the /dev/hd1 should be /dev/hda1 (or hdb1 possibly) Yes, I made a typo, currently it is /dev/hda1

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RE: [wlug] boot problems
by Justin Hyde 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

Thanks for the help, got home and tried a few ideas these are my "start up" lines in grub root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-5-386 root= /dev/hd1 ro quiet splash initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.10-5-386 savedefault boot (I may have added/left out a space after transposing this via hardcopy) I have tried changing hd0 to hd1 in the first line, this starts the boot process, but hangs on another error (that i forgot to write down) looks like I will see you guys on Monday..... -----Original Message----- From: Matt Brown [mailto:matt(a)mattb.net.nz] Sent: Wed 2005-06-08 10:35 To: Waikato Linux Users Group Cc: Subject: Re: [wlug] boot problems On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 10:31 +1200, zcat wrote: > OK, on digging a little further, /dev/hda1 is type 0x7 which is NTFS. > That's almost certainly not your root partition, so I'll change my advice. > > Boot a live CD and find out where your root partition really is. Mount > it rw and edit the grub or lilo config appropriately (and reinstall lilo > if that's what you use) and THEN the box should boot normally. Note that if you're using grub (which Ubuntu does by default) you don't need to mount rw to fix problems. simply push 'e' on the line that is about to be booted and you'll be able to edit it. This will allow you to try booting with different root partitions /dev/hda2, /dev/hda3 etc until you find the correct one. Once you done that and booted up ubuntu successfully then you can modify the grub config on the hard disk. Yet another reason why grub is much better than lilo :) Regards -- Matt Brown matt(a)mattb.net.nz Mob +64 275 611 544 www.mattb.net.nz _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug

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LAN mail server
by Michael Honeyfield 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

I am looking for suggestions and maybe even links, on info on setting up a LAN mail server. It needs to collect ISP email and send email to an ISP. So, collect @orcon.net.nz email, store it in imap or what ever and send it back to orcon. No IP address or domain name, just ISP email. I am a complete email server nub, so any help would be great. Mike

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Re: [wlug] Sarge is out
by Michael Honeyfield 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

Its not *my* client. If you have read other emails of my, I have apologised for Orcon's shit webmail Thanks :) Mike -----Original Message----- From: "A. Pagaltzis" <pagaltzis(a)gmx.de> Sent: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 01:19:19 +0200 To: wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: [wlug] Sarge is out please fix your mailclient. Itâs sending tons of extraneous tags (in non-HTML mails) and it doesnât add an In-Reply-To header either (breaks threading).

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Re: [wlug] Sarge is out
by Michael Honeyfield 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

netinstall ISO :) Mike -----Original Message----- From: James Clark <jamesc(a)bofh.co.nz> Sent: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 10:20:22 +1200 To: Waikato Linux Users Group <wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> Subject: Re: [wlug] Sarge is out On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 10:14:55AM +1200, Craig Box wrote: > New 3.1r0a images will be available shortly to correct this flaw. In the > meantime, CD vendors should delay pressing CDs or DVDs of Debian 3.1. We > apologise for the inconvenience. > --- > > Sucks to be an early adopter. Have to download the entire thing again > today! If you use jigdo it'll build the image from what it downloads, and it only downloads changed packages (IIRC). James. _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug

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Re: [wlug] boot problems
by Michael Honeyfield 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

ext3 is default. I would question the sanity of the person that leaves ext3 out of the kernel. Possible a corrupt partition table? Mike PS: sorry for orcons crap webmail sevice and poorly formated emails :( -----Original Message----- From: zcat <zcat(a)maxnet.co.nz> Sent: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 10:17:13 +1200 To: Waikato Linux Users Group <wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> Subject: Re: [wlug] boot problems > > Had a look on Ubuntu forums, some people have reinstalled Ubuntu after booting from a bootable CD to get around this problem. That sounds a bit extreme!! What filesystem does ubuntu use by default? Sounds to me like someone released a new kernel without compiling in the appropriate FS support. My solution would be boot from the live CD, mount your root partition, copy over the live CD kernel and initrd.img, then edit grub or lilo to boot from that kernel. After that you should be able to boot normally and go find a newer kernel that works like it should. -- Disclaimer: Any disclaimer attached to this message may be ignored. _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug

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Sarge is out
by James Clark 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

http://www.debian.org/News/2005/20050606 James.

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boot problems
by Justin Hyde 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

Since installing the synaptic update last month I have not been able to boot to Ubuntu, (and I have been using Windows ever since) I get the following error on boot up kernel /boot/vmlinux-2.6.10-5-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet splash Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition root (hd0,0) Filesystem type unknown, partition, typ 0x7 after this I can get to Grub and boot to WinXP only System is 2 HDD, 10GB has Ubuntu, 60GB has WinXP Had a look on Ubuntu forums, some people have reinstalled Ubuntu after booting from a bootable CD to get around this problem. Are there any other options? My experience level is not very high having just installed Ubuntu at the fest last month. Cheers Justin Hyde

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ActiveState on Mac OS X
by Craig Box 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

Sent to me by one of our generous benefactors. -- Craig Dear Daniel, ActiveState is thrilled to announce today the release of ActivePerl, ActivePython, and ActiveTcl for the Mac OS X platform. The release of this world-renowned open source language distribution on OS X marks the beginning of ActiveState's commitment to Mac OS X developers. This brings the number of free language distributions to four platforms - with the existing Linux, Solaris and Windows free downloads. You may be interested to know that we are busily working on bringing Komodo to Mac OS X. We expect to offer a beta in August and release later this year. To keep up-to-date with our Mac OS X progress, betas and announcements, we invite you and your group to join our new mailing list: osx-announce(a)ActiveState.com You can join the OS X announce list on the ActiveState Programmer Network (ASPN): http://listserv.activestate.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-announce Looking to update your Perl, Python, or Tcl distros on Mac OS X? See www.ActiveState.com/osx Please pass this information on to the members of your user group and we thank you all for your ongoing support of ActiveState and our products! Thank You, Shezmeen Hudani Marketing Associate shezmeenh(a)activestate.com Tel: 604.484.6809 Web: www.ActiveState.com ActiveState, a division of Sophos

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WLUG Meeting this Monday
by John R. McPherson 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

WLUG Meeting - 13th June 2005 Location: LitB, 7pm. Nandor Tanczos of the Green Party is scheduled to discuss his views on Open Source software. (taken from http://www.wlug.org.nz/MeetingTopics.2005-06-13)

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