Ran a dual boot with vista and fedora 10 and wanted to put something else on the drive that fedora lived on and in my ignorance just formated over the fedora drive (well...I wanted to see what would happen anyway ). Problem is I forgot the computer likes to know how to boot and now when I start it BIOS gives it's little screen and then goes to a blank with a cursor.What I think is going on is that the boot record is looking for something on my D drive and when it finds the formatted drive it just puts up a blank.
I'm told my vista disc has a utility that will fix the problem and boot my C drive where windows lives but I haven't been able to find it. I'd like to just change the boot and not lose any data so anything that would help me do that would be great.
I was trying to install Backtrack - Ubuntu dual boot with ubuntu pre-installed. I created another partition for backtrack but now grub doesn't point to the correct file in order to start Ubuntu, and so only backtrack starts. How can I correct it? I am able to mount my Ubuntu Partition and the files at /boot/ (in the ubuntu partition) mentioned at menu.lst at /boot/grub/ on the backtrack partition seem to exist... Does anybody know what should I do? (e.g. point menu.lst to the /dev/sda1/boot/IMAGES or something?)
To clarify: I have two kernels, (a) one that "works" and (b) another that I am experimenting with. Each has it's own modules directory tree (in /lib/modules) and they are mutually incompatible ie kernel (a) will only work with module tree (a) and similarly for (b). I have two boot entries in lilo.conf which can be selected from the boot menu.
Now the problem is, what if something goes wrong when I boot to (b)? I'd like to be able to return to the safe option (a), but the current module tree is (b) and it won't work with kernel (a). I could use the Slack installationCD and rename the module directory (I presume this would work)but is there a simpler way, whereby I can select the correct module tree at boot time (or set it in lilo.conf)?
I assume to make the boot menu appear I have to add an entry into 40_custom file. Not quiet sure how to make that entry, or if it has to be positioned a certain way.
I have a problem with GRUB 2 that I hope someone here can help me fix. Every time I boot I get an error because GRUB deletes that last part of the initrd line in /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
So this:
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Becomes this (notice the missing "c" at the end):
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And the windows part is also broken:
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If I add an extra character at the end of the line it get removed instead and then it works. But only until next time the grub.cfg is auto updated. The error is only there when booting. Reading the file every character is in there.
I have an old Dell Dimension 4500 that, until recently, had 2 hard drives. One drive is running Xubuntu Koala and the other was running XP. I had set up Xubuntu to run LVM.
After needing XP again for a small project I tried reinstalling XP, got disk errors, took the drive out to just have Xubuntu, and now when I boot I get "Error loading operating system".
I have tried restoring GRUB from a Live CD with no help. Everyplace I look on the net talks about restoring GRUB after installing Windows on another drive. I'm trying to get GRUB working again after removing the XP drive.
I've recently installed Fedora 12, and it constantly freezes. The only common aspect between the freezes is that the freezes occurred when firefox was running. When it does freeze, I'm not able to use ctrl+alt+f[1...6] or even ctrl+alt+backspace.
Building an nVidia driver requires sources for the currently-running kernel. In my case (Fedora 12), it is, according to 'uname -a', 2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686
I thought I could get the sources with 'yum install kernel-sources', but there is no such package. Then I tried 'yum install kernel-devel'. That package exists, but the kernel is 2.6.32.9-67.fc12.i686
I have some experience with Linux (mostly Ubuntu) but absolutely none with Fedora. In fact I have needed to re-install twice just to get to this stage. I now have a fully updated Fedora 14 Gnome desktop. I have (finally) got Nvidia graphics drivers up and running. I can open the Nvidia Settings screen and everything looks ok except that the desktop screen resolution doesn't seem correct. I have a Sony Vaio with default screen resolution of 1920x1200. In Nvidia settings it was set to AUTO, but I've changed that as root user to 1920x1200 with a refresh rate of 60 Hz and rebooted. My desktop looks quite good, but it's not 1920x1200 - maybe 1600x1200? Perhaps. How do I confirm the current resolution?
I have run Code: glx info | grep direct and the output is Code: direct rendering: Yes GL_EXT_Cg_shader, GL_EXT_depth_bounds_test, GL_EXT_direct_state_access, Which I presume is ok?
just installed fedora 15 on my dell inspiron mini 10. I used the livecd to install it to the harddrive with the wizard. I need to use the root account to get the yum to install the wifi drivers and such. i set the root password as "root01" the first time. it didnt work so i figured maybe i made a mistake. so i reinstalled it making sure i used "root01". it still doesnt work. anybody had this problem or heard of this problem before? i am under the impression that the passwd file could be recovered by using Grub to load it under a singleuser setting. however grub wasnt installed
I have got a Dell Latitude E6420 and I run Fedora 15 on it. Almost everything works fine except that I can not get correct CPU temperature with, for example, the sensors command.
I have a number of CentOS 5.5 virtual machines running on VMware ESXi 4. Most of them are fine, but one of them has the incorrect time and no matter what I try I can't get it to display properly. The time seems to be 15 hours behind and I think that might be because the original source virtual machine was an appliance built in Canada and my timezone is Australia/Sydney.
I am new to Fedora. I just put it on my H.P AMD Quad core machine. I have eight gigs of ram and plenty of storage. I loaded it into Microsoft Virtual PC, and it boots fine and seems to work ok in tty1. I am a cit student at a community college and seem to get little to no support from my teacher who is teaching a beginning course on Linux. He told me to ask here. When I use ctrl-alt-f2 or f3-f4 and so on all the way up the levels, I got green lines across the screen, as if the graphics card is not working. I have 23 inch monitor and a Nvidia 9500 GT ddr3 512mb graphics card that I installed after I bought the computer. My host operating system is Windows 7 , and is working fine. I am now two weeks behind on labs for this class and getting nervous, I need to be able to go to tty2 to do these labs.
I came in to work today and updated my laptop, which is common for fedora to either update every week or bi-weekly. But now the system has a major delay that is making it unbearable, is anyone else experiencing this? I am running Fedora on a insprion 1525 with dual core pentiums, and 4gig ram.
I've just installed FC15 and starting to like Gnome 3. There's something wrong with the keyboard layout: at, number, tilde and anything with [AltGr] does not work (square, cubic, Euro sign, micro sign,...). Language is german but keyboard is british. Where/how can I correct this ?
I just downloaded the "Fedora-11-i686-Live-KDE.iso" and "Fedora-11-i686-Live.iso". I want to check if the downloaded files correct or not. I can use a tool to get the md5 sum of the downloaded files. But I want to compare them with the original ones.
I have a new system I built this week. I have the nvidia drivers installed, but desktop effects, googleearth and Quake4 all try to load the /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 from mesa-libGL and fail to start.I have two other machines, both with nvidia video, and don't have the problem with them. I've looked for differences on the systems, but haven't located anything so far.
I use F12 and I need help with correct syntax to specify range of IP address in hosts.allow or hosts.deny or in /etc/exports file eg. 192.168.1.100 to 192.168.1.255.
I'm using Fedora 15. For some reason, my computer is booting up graphically. I do not have video drivers for a graphical setup apparently now that Gnome is getting more advanced, so I really need to restore to a CLI. I see /etc/inittab is now deprecated thanks to systemd. The instructions say the following:
Code: # Ctrl-Alt-Delete is handled by /etc/systemd/system/ctrl-alt-del.target # systemd uses 'targets' instead of runlevels. By default, there are two main targets: # multi-user.target: analogous to runlevel 3 # graphical.target: analogous to runlevel 5 To set a default target, run: # ln -s /lib/systemd/system/<target name>.target /etc/systemd/system/default.target
And that's exactly what I have set up! Code: [root@server system]# pwd /etc/systemd/system [root@server system]# ls -la total 20 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 May 31 10:41 default.target -> /lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target
Why is this machine starting up graphically? I even removed the symlink and recreated it... but that obviously isn't the issue here.
I have adjust the clock to my country current time but after a reboot,all the setting is gone. How to permanently setting the correct time?I have select my country region.
I have two displays: my main being an Apple Cinema Display (1920x1200), and my secondary being a Compaq W17q (1440x900). Previously all applications saw the secondary fine, being able to detect its name, native resolution, refresh rate, and so forth. But today, for no reason, after going into nvidia-settings the display is now being called "CRT-0" with only 4:3 resolutions available (1024x768 being the highest).
So now I'm stuck with the wrong resolution on my second monitor. All I can guess is that something more integral in Fedora is no longer able to read the EDID in it or something (I say integral as it's not just nvidia-settings, its everything, not to mention my install of Win 7 still reads the display A-OK)? Maybe I could just force the 1440x900 resolution? If so, how? Everything I've tried so far has either had no effect or resulted in glitch city.
Code: Fedora 12 2.6.32.9-70.fc12.i686 GEFORCE GO 7400
When my notebook boots I get a high screen resolution. However, when I login it seems to go to a lower resolution that is not clear. I think this all started when I updated to a new kernel. So I reinstalled the nvida drivers using leigh's guide. However, I still can't seem to get it to display correctly.
Code: # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig # nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (mockbuild@) Sun Feb 28 14:49:02 EST 2010 # Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen "Default Screen" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" EndSection .....
I know - who uses parallel ports any more? People like me with an excellent, but old, HP OfficeJetPro 1150C. This is an old problem marked [SOLVED] in the following link to nowhere:
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I'm at Fedora 13 - 2.6.34.8-68.fc13.i686.PAE
Problem 1. /dev/parport0 is not found by sane unless you reset permissions after each boot 2. hplip udev rules only seem to support usb devices. 3. there are no/dev/parport[0-9] rules in udev/rules.d anymore 4. Did I read something about these ports being handled by HAL ACLs? If so, how do you do it?
default: ls -laF /dev/parport0 crw-rw---- 1 root lp 99, 0 Jun 23 07:48 /dev/parport0
must do at each boot: sudo chmod 666 /dev/parport0
Is anyone familiar with how to correct a glitch with Qemu-KVM that prevents virtual machines (Windows Server guests) from starting after the Linux host has been rebooted? It gives an error constructing a domain in /dev/sr0 because of /usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/engine.py line 493 [run_domain vm_startup], /usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py line 573 [startup self.vm create()] and /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/libvirt.py line 287 [create if ret=-1 raise libvirtError].
Firefox 3.6.16 I recently installed Fedora 14. I get this message when I browse to some web pages: Code: Cannot play media.You do not have the correct version of the flash player. I have installed the flash-plugin. And has been installed to the following directory;
I have downloaded both versions of Fedora 11 (Gnome and KDE) to iso files on my hard disk - in Windows XP. I then tried the verification procedure advised in [URL]... section 3.1. I have successfully installed and run hashcalc, with the SHA1 option, and got the following results:
- for the Gnome version : 795b52b3c7b16eba6f2cae055ec894d8648d8095 - for the KDE version : 38ef6c97e29803add28d40add05aa025b6f4c92b.
But I can't find any SHA1SUM files to give me the correct character sequences against which to compare the said results.
if an admin decides this is security feel free to move, at the moment I can't decide where so posted here...On my laptop (msi-u100) my bluetooth stack creates rfcomm0 but is not applying the correct context label to it so selinux is bitching.
I've been trying to update Fedora 15 for weeks. I always end up with a transaction error and the update stalls. The error reads: GPG keys listed for RPM Fusion for Fedora Rawhide-free repository are installed but they are not correct for this package. Check that the correct key urls are configured for this repository. This is far too involved for a linux newbie, I think my only option is to reformat and reinstall. This is so frustrating, there are 250 MB of updates available that I can't access.
