November 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

RE: [SLE] LILO vs GRUB
by Matt Stamm 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Thank you James and Carlos for the LILO insights. I think I'll stick with LILO for now (if it ain't broke, don't fix it!) Thanks again, Matt ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "James D. Parra" <Jamesp(a)MusicReports.com> Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 11:30:23 -0800 > >>That you need to run 'lilo' after doing any change to the bootloader >>configuration or a kernel update or change. Grub doesn't need that. > >> Grub can read directly from the filesystem, so it can read the menu and >> other files directly during boot. On the other hand, lilo can not do >> that, it needs a map to find those things it needs being compiled before >> hand (by running the 'lilo' command). > >Just to concur with Carlos, after any kernel upgrade, you'll need to run >"#/sbin/lilo" to update Lilo's boot selection. There is plenty of >documentation for lilo and it is easy to update and modify. It may lack a >few of the functions that Grub supports, but it works well enough. You won't >be disappointed. Besides, after you make any changes you need or want, you >won't need to tend to it again. > >~James > >-- >Check the headers for your unsubscription address >For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com >Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com >Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com > >

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RE: [opensuse] Re: suse in a windows network (authentication)
by Daniel Hatfield 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

> Please post it to the list or wiki if you get chance Daniel! It's coming. I have a bunch of time on my hands starting in January. Cheers, Daniel

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128 GB limit with USB / Firewire external HDD
by Fergus Wilde 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Don't think we have done this one recently, apologies if we have: Having run out of disk space on an external firewire 120 GB drive, I thought it would be fun to fit a bigger disk and installed a 400 GB drive into the enclosure. No dice, SuSE sees only 128GB of it. Explore, discover some enclosures appear to have limitations in this regard. Buy new enclosure, this one does USB2 & Firewire, and manufacturers rate it to 400 GB. Use YaST partitioner to provide a single partition - success! Partitioner sees: /dev/sda1 372.6GB Linux native /media/usbdisk 0 48640 And the device appears to mount OK: # mount | grep sda /dev/sda1 on /media/usbdisk type subfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,sync,fs=reiserfs) So get on with rsync'ing data across, but it stops :-( Why? # df /media/usbdisk/ Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 134202876 134201336 1540 100% /media/usbdisk So different parts of the system appear to have different views of the disk and partition concerned: YaST can see the 400GB disk, but the filesystem can apparently only see 128GB again? The machine has ide disks with partitions > 128GB without difficulty. Because it seemed to matter in some related discussions at lists.suse.com: # rpm -qa | grep hal hal-0.5.4-6.2 hal-resmgr-0.1_SVNr59-2 This phenomenon appears in the same way on two separate machines running SuSE 10. Anyone got a clue how to get the system to 'see' the remaining part of the disk in the same way the YaST partitioner appears to see it? I do realise that there may be hardware issues here, but it would be very interesting to hear from anyone who has a large external usb2 or firewire disk running successfully. Cheers Fergus

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booting to different monitors
by John R. Sowden 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Today I took my desktop home to access our dsl to download the latest open office. I booted into a blank screen after the first grub menu. I was unable to determine how to insert custom boot parameters. Is there a reasonable way to set up a different menu selection in grub to access a monitor with less resolution, or just different parameters? -- John R. Sowden AMERICAN SENTRY SYSTEMS, INC. Residential & Commercial Alarm Service UL Listed Central Station Serving the San Francisco Bay Area Since 1967 mail(a)americansentry.net www.americansentry.net

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What the core team is discussing
by Sonja Krause-Harder 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Hi, we've added http://www.opensuse.org/Core_Team_Issues to show the topics that are currently being discussed in our (internal) core team meetings. We'll update this page regularily. Sonja -- Sonja Krause-Harder (skh(a)suse.de) Research & Development SUSE Linux Products GmbH

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Re: [SLE] LILO vs GRUB
by Matt Stamm 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Matthew Stringer <qube(a)firstnet.co.uk> Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 15:16:08 +0000 >On Wednesday 0 >> Concerning the BIOS setting, its a Phoenix BIOS. In order >> to access the SATA info you have to hit <TAB>. When you >> hit <DEL> to enter the normal BIOS stuff there is no mention >> of the SATA drives. The <TAB> section displays two channels, >> with nothing on channel one and my 80 gig drive on channel 0. >> >> Does this tell you what you need to know? >> >> Matt > >Although it doesn't help I had this same problem with a Phoenix BIOS'ed mobo >and SATA drives. Made no diff what version of Suse/Fedora I used it wouldn't >boot. > >In the end I swapped the mobo, but with same IDE SATA controller and disks it >worked fine. > >Matthew > Matthew, In researching this problem I came across some discussions concerning the VIA chip set which is on my MOBO. So far everything is working fine after I changed the bootloader to LILO and finished the install. Unless I learn a compelling reason to change from LILO back to GRUB I think I'll just leave well-enough alone. Is there a reason I should try to get back to GRUB ??? Matt

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problem setting up samba on suse 9.3
by Istvan Gabor 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Dear SUSE users: I would like to use samba on my suse 9.3 box. I have set up the samba shares through yast. I also cheked the 'open port in firewall' option. But when I want to browse the windows/samba network, clicking on the desktop icon 'Network Browsing', then on the 'SMB Shares' icon in the upcoming window, I get the following error message: "Unable to find any workgroups in your local network. This may be caused by an enabled firewall." I checked my firewall settings and made sure that Samba Server is allowed, furthermore UDP ports 138 and 139 are enabled. Still can't browse the samba network. I can't even see my own shares. If I turn off the firewall I can browse the samba ahares and the samba network with no hassle. So it seems that the culprit is the firewall but which setting? I had no this type of problem in 9.1 and 9.2 Please help! Thanks, IG _________________________________________________________________________ Töltsd le Caramel első saját szerzeményét, és nyerj egy közös vacsorát vagy VIP-jegyeket a lemezbemutató koncertre! http://zenearuhaz.t-online.hu/index.php?m=info&albumid=14517&sp=74&sty=78

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adding env variables to root
by mike 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

hi i am new to SUSE. using SUSE 10 how can i add the env variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the root's profile.? thanks

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SLES 9 SP2 on OES??
by Ryan McCain 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

I'm a bit confused. Can I install SLES 9 SP2 onto OES? I'm thinking this because isnt OES essentially SLES 9 SP1? Thanks, Ryan

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Problem with size of GTK fonts
by Daniel Bertolo 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Hi On my notebook, I have a problem with font sizes of GTK fonts. The resolution of the display is 1680x1050 (16:10 aspect ration). I did a KDE-standard install of SUSE 10.0. With the default setup, the font size within GTK applications is huge while QT apps display correctly. I found an application that is called gnome-font-properties. With that, I could set the font size of GTK apps to a normal level. This works. In order to have it work after a relogin, I installed a shortcut in my Autostart folder to '/opt/gnome/lib/control-center-2.0/gnome-settings-daemon'. After login, everything works. But after some minutes, all QT apps get small fonts. What's the problem here? How are font size linked between GTK and QT apps? I thought that the gtk-qt-engine does not affect font sizes, does it? Thanks for help, Daniel

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