I am new to install slackware, i am using scientific linux 6 and first, I don't know how to detect the wireless network and I don't know how to write the grub in my sl, I define the kernel to /boot/vmlinuz, which is a symbolic link, linking to the large single user mode, how can I use different kernels and it's easy to load the kernel but the config file, how should i edit the grub.conf
View 10 RepliesI am trying to install grub in MBR. I have working configuration on my root partion. I tried "grub-install" on MBR but gives me some warning.
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/usr/sbin/grub-install /dev/sda
WARNING! You are trying to invoke the unsupported grub-install script with a parameter. To really do this, call grub-install.unsupported. You should rather call "yast2 bootloader" or create configuration files appropriate for the intended target. Also I tried it from Yast but still MBR has Chamelon boot loader.(I have chamelon boot loader, I want to overwrite my MBR with current grub configuration on my root partition.)
I tried using grub-install.unsupported but it did not work either. it says: /dev/sda does not have any corresponding BIOS drive.
I tried grub-editor (kde module) to do the work, but it gives me error: grub-install returned and unknown error exit code 1.
I have XP on the boot HD, Ubuntu 8.04 on the other HD, and grub on the MBR of the Windows side. Then the Windows HD went bad and I need to get grub onto the other side so I can change the boot sequence to what was the second HD (the Linux one) and abandon the Windows side. Booting from a live CD is no problem, but I can't figure how to install grub onto the Linux side, which has been partitioned. I know where menu.lst is, and have backups of it as well.
Is this something that needs supergrub, or can a simple write to the proper place be done in a terminal window?
If switching the boot sequence is not enough (don't see why it shouldn't be) then I can also switch the jumper configurations on the two hard disks. But I don't think that should be necessary.
Howto write Grub into a root partition instead of MBR on Centos 5.6 using CentOS-5.6-i386-LiveCD?
View 1 Replies View RelatedCan Slackware 13.37 write on Win7's NTFS? I'm dual-booting and I've been thinking upgrading to Win7. I need to write to the Windows partition from Slackware and the NTFS-write compatibility will affect my decision.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am currently running Linux Mint 8 on a Thinkpad T60p and I decided to free up 20 GB, formatted to EXT4 for Slackware.ed G-Parted)I was able to install Slackware with VirtualBox with my Linux Mint host and I was able to follow through with a full installation without any problems.However when I tried to install it on a real partition I got the below notification: "You will not be able to write the partition table.
Note: Sector size is 2048 (not 512)Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel.Building a new disklabel with disk identifier 0xf4252222.Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.After that, of course, the previous content won't be recoverable.Warning: Invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table will be corrected by (w)rite"
On my ubuntu system when I was editing pdf files I used PDF-ShufflerSo now I wrote a slackbuild script for my slackware 13 (xfce)To be more specific, I dont know how to write a slackbuild script so I try to edit the pyPdf.SlackBuild script, hopefully it works! So I want to give it in public view maybe someone need it some time.
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Homepage:
http://pdfshuffler.sourceforge.net/
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I've a multiboot machine and I recently installed Slackware64-13.1 on sda33. I added menu entry in SUSE boot loader and configured menu list as per [URL].. it returns GrUB error 15. Here is my menu list entry for Slackware -
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###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: other###
title Slackware64-13.1
root (hd0,32)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda33 ro hdd=scsi
savedefault
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I made a clean install of opense Suse and by mistake I overwrited the menu.lst (because of the restoration utility). As a result I have the grub error 15 : file not found, and tried everything I could think.
Grub is installed on the MBR and boots from the extended partition. The new openSuse is on sda8, there is an old openSuse on sda4 but xorg is broken. I can boot on Windows, and sda4, but not on sda8 menu.lst
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Someone sees what's wrong in the menu.lst ?
I have a windows 7 hard drive as Sda0 and have a second hard drive as Sdb1, which is where I want to install OpenSuse 11.4. Now here is where I am not sure on the install, so I don't screw my self up. I have 100mb partition on sda0 that windows 7 is using, do I enable grub or have the boot write to MBR?
View 3 Replies View Relatedkernel 2.6.21.5, GNU (slackware 12.0). KDE 3.5.7.
Suppose I enter a forum where everyone writes in Spanish. When I want to post, the editor, as I type the words, underlines them in red, as if I were misspelling the words. But, if I write an English word, he doesn't underline it. Obviously, he is thinking I'm writing in English.
I suppose the editor is in my system. That is, it is not an editor sent to my machine by the site. Hence, I must have the means of telling him not to care about spelling.
I have 13.1 as a dual boot with xp on a 40G hd. There is a 500G hd where I keep all my files, in ntfs format, and I have usb sticks in fat32 and ntfs. When I installed 13.1 I chose read and write access for all users for all of these media. 13.1 will read from them, but will not write to them. How can I fix this?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI installed AlienBob's KDE 4.6.2 a few days ago to give it a shot.
I'm really satisfied with it and wish to keep it, but there's one thing bugging me : I can't write to my NTFS USB drives.
To be precise, I can write as much as I want to existing files, but I can't add nor delete files nor directories.
Worse, root isn't allowed either, even in runlevel 1 when mounted by hand (mount -t ntfs /dev/sde1 /mnt/foo).
Did I miss something to configure among the dependencies of KDE 4.6 ?
Output of /var/log/messages
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May 11 08:37:52 rafale kernel: [46953.570204] usb 1-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
May 11 08:37:53 rafale kernel: [46954.274818] usb 1-6: New USB device found, idVendor=1058, idProduct=0730
May 11 08:37:53 rafale kernel: [46954.274821] usb 1-6: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
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I have this Maxtor USB external HDD which I mount via dolphin-hal when needed. This HDD has a built in feature to 'sleep' if not used for some time, say 20 min. Now I don't want it to sleep because it irritates me to wait everytime for it to be active for use, so I figured crontab job should fulfill my requirement.
*Edit: I think a script needs to be executed every 15 minutes. The script has to do the following(I think):
Check to see if HDD is conected via USB:
If YES then - Do the below things
If NO - Do nothing
"Below Things":
Check if the ext4 fs is mounted on media/Maxtor-C; if yes then check if any file operation is being performed; if yes-do nothing, if no then write and remove an empty file. if hdd is connected but not mounted then hdparm -z /dev/sdxx (read partitions)
I need to evaluate PostBooks, an accounting packages that's 32-bit only,needs PostgreSQL and I only have Slackware 64-bit boxes available, I don't really want to install multilib, so I'm thinking VirtualBox for a quick and dirty (got the DVD, got 32-bit, got PostgreSQL, what the heck). Then I got to wondering -- before I screw something up, do you write to the virtual drive MBR or is there a better way?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI boot my slackware through usb and I don't install lilo. I want to add slackware to fedora grub.conf.I have tried some methods,but failed. How can I do? fedora grub.conf
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title Fedora (2.6.35.10-72.fc14.x86_64)
root (hd0,5)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.35.10-72.fc14.x86_64 ro root=UUID=5cc13bf9-725f-
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My Windows partition is using system encryption (preboot authentication) and I'm trying to access it in Linux.I run this command:
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sudo truecrypt --mount --password="MYPASSWORD" --mount-options="system" --fs-options="umask=000" /dev/sda4 /mnt/windows
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I've blown a couple of DVDs trying to burn them with correct file masks (directories and files are read-only). There doesn't seem to be any documentation for K3b (building the index doesn't do squat and the help says "The file or folder help:/k3b/index.html does not exist"). I can't seem to figure out a setting that simply copies everything the "way it is."
View 7 Replies View RelatedI am running Slackware 12.2.
I have checked the file like /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf, and the command 'ip' or 'ifconfig', but still can not figure out how to write a script to switch between two network configurations easily.
Suppose that one configuration uses DHCP server to dynamically give the ip address, and uses a Default Gateway 1.1.1.1, a net mask 1.0.0.0, a DNS server 1.1.1.0;
and in another configuration the Ip address is fixed, and use a Default Gateway 2.2.2.2, a net mask 2.0.0.0, a DNS server 2.2.2.0;
Anyone would like to give me a hint on how to write one (or two separate) script(s) to switch between these two settings?
I have been following this tutorial [URL]. When I get to the end of the installation and try to install GRUB to the /boot partition I have set up it throws a fatal error at me. No explanation other than it can't write to the specified location. I double checked all the partition settings which were the same as the tutorial then skipped the GRUB installation and finished. The only thing I can think of that might be wrong is that the 250MB partition size specified for /boot in the tutorial is too small.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI got a new Sony Vaio Z and try to install Ubuntu on it. The laptop has got two 64 GB SSDs setup as a RAID 0 array. [URL]. As the configuration is done in the BIOS, I assume it's hardware RAID. [URL]. The problem is that - no matter what I try - the installers are unable to write the GRUB loader on the hard disk. I tried both, standard and alternate installer (9.10 / 64 bit), and both failed at that point. Not a really error message, it just says "cannot write GRUB boot loader".
I also tried two different scenarios:
- Ubuntu beside Windows (shrinked the partition for that)
- Ubuntu on the empty RAID
I can read and write data dvds, but cannot play a regular dvd now. I have libdvdcss installed. I am running Slackware 64 13.37 (just installed).
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MPlayer 20101218-4.5.1 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
Playing dvd://.
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.10 for DVD access
libdvdread: Could not open /dev/dvd with libdvdcss.
libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading
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It can see the drive is there and /dev/sr0 is linked to /dev/dvd and I tried running as root to check if it was a permissions problem but got the same thing.
I have tried lots of different DVDs in the drive, same issue. I even switched out my DVD drive to another old DVD-ROM I had laying around, same thing.
I just bought a USB hard disk and when I plug it in it gets mounted as owner root and group root. I tried writing a udev rule for it based on the following guide:Nothing seems to work, it always mounts as root. Slackware 13.1, KDE, Dell Optiplex GX280, Western Digital Passport USB 320 gig drive.I am a member of the plugdev group, so it seems to me a rule should not even be necessary.
View 14 Replies View RelatedAbout NFS.
Server:
Client(s):
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I have followed Robbie Workmans' HowTo [url]
Reading and writing works absolutely fine with small files but large files are tediously slow in writing to the server. (rw,no_subtree_check) are options in exported directories.
What is your experience with NFS and how can I speed up large file/folder transfer(write) speeds?
i have installed Salix 13.1 LXDE version (Salix 13.1 is compatible with Slackware 13.1). I must use various external hard disks formatted with NTFS. The hard disks are automatically recognized and mounted with PCmanFM file manager, but only user root can write on them. How can I allow normal users to write on automounted external ntfs drives?
View 3 Replies View RelatedOn one of my machines the DVD/DVDRW/CDROM drive appears as /dev/hdc and is not identified as an optical drive by HAL. It is owned by root: disk and thus no users get permission to read/write in the device (not even those in the cdrom group). This stops playing DVDs, ripping CDs, no notifications appear when a disk is inserted, etc. etc. When I set the permissions for all to read/write from the device then users can access but still no notifications are shown.
On all my other machines the optical drive is identified as /dev/sr0 and is owned by root:cdrom . All have Slack 13.1 . Previously with Slack 12.2 this machine still had the drive in /dev/hdc but the permissions were right (I think because I added it to /etc/fstab with options for users to access it). I believe the problem is down to HAL not setting this drive to the correct group, but how do I fix it? I hate HAL, it has a mind of its own, just like in the scifi movie
I installed Debian on my PC and then installed Ubuntu. This worked fine and I could dual boot between the two. The PATA disk was /dev/hda on debian and (I think) /dev/sda on Ubuntu. I copied the entire disk to a sata disk using dd from knoppix and put the PATA one to one side. Now the Ubuntu comes up fine but when I boot debian, it complains about references to /dev/hda1, which is present in grub - root=/dev/hda1. Debian now expects sda references rather than hda references. How do I persuade Ubuntu to write /dev/sda1 to the bootloader rather than /dev/hda1 using grub-mkconfig?
View 1 Replies View RelatedFor various reasons, I have to learn my way around CentOS. I have an old computer (P3) with Slackware on it. I threw in a second HDD that I had lying around and installed CentOS to it. I was figuring that I'd just decline installing GRUB or point GRUB to Slackware as the second OS and end up with dual boot.
The CentOS install, though, blew right past that part with offering me any options. It put a small boot partition on the CentOS drive and now the box boots straight into CentOS.
I've spent the better part of the day trying to get GRUB to boot the Slackware drive and had no luck, though I've learned a lot about GRUB error messages.
By the way, CentOS uses GRUB v 0.97.
Question: someone could point me to a reference.
Here's the output of fdisk -l on that computer (/dev/sda is a 4GB SCSI disk that was originally the boot disk for Windows 2000 server on that computer):
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Here's the currentGRUB file. I added the section about Slackware. I've also tried pointing it at:
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I've also tried:
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Slackware's LILO:
It's been six months or more since I used this computer. It's my experiment-er "play" computer and I had taken the HDD out to test a computer for one of the members of my LUG, so I can't remember exactly how I configured the LILO install, but, if I did what I usually do, I installed it to the MBR of /dev/hda. I have considered just blowing away LILO, but I'd be happier if I could just use GRUB to call LILO.
I was having problems with LILO (upon installing Slackware 13.1 next to myUbuntu/Vista), I reinstalled GRUB2 using my Ubuntu LIVECD. Grub did not auto-detect Slackware 13.1 upon install. I would like to add Slackware 13.1 to GRUB so I can also boot it. (Right now my only options in Grub are Ubuntu and Vista- along with memtest etc)
note: /sda5 is Slackware and /sda8 is Ubuntu
fdisk -l
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Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
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I'm setting up a dual-boot for a friend with Ubuntu Studio and Slackware 13.1. Slackware will be the primary OS and Lilo will control the bootloader. After doing some research it seemed to me the best way would be to chainload grub from the lilo menu, so when I installed Ubuntu I stuck Grub in the Ubuntu root partition instead of the MBR and added the following to Slackware's lilo.conf:
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It's not working. It just errors out and asks me to boot something else when I select Ubuntu_Studio from the lilo menu. I've never tried this before so I'm sure I'm making a really basic error;