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Re: [opensuse] Re: [openSUSE] BIOS/GRUB Problem
by Stan Goodman 28 Oct '10

28 Oct '10

On Thursday 28 October 2010 12:09:57 Stan Goodman wrote: > On Thursday 28 October 2010 09:34:46 Felix Miata wrote: > > On 2010/10/28 06:31 (GMT+0200) Stan Goodman composed: > > > > It's quite common for that result from (first) BIOS disk (0) to be > > incorrectly configured to boot. The BIOS has transferred control to a > > (first) BIOS disk (0) that has either no boot code, or invalid boot > > code, or has standard MBR code but no boot flag set on any primary > > partition on that same HD. > > > > What probably happened, and I expected as much based upon your > > experience, is that the BIOS reset values and the BIOS settings > > prior to clearing had the Seagate and Hitachi reversed, which is the > > root of your trouble. Apparently now you have inappropriately > > configured Grub on MBR of (first) BIOS HD (0), unless you're only > > getting the black screen after selecting something from the BM menu. > > I'm assuming, since the thread is a mile long and I can't remember > > the whole history, that BM isn't working currently. > > > > <aside> > > I had Bob S's 2 PATA/1 SATA system here for several days until this > > AM. The disagreement among the BIOS, Grub, and the disk drivers for > > Knoppix, 10.2, 11.0, 11.2, 11.3 & 11.4 were unbelievable. It's no > > wonder people's systems won't boot after installation to a multi-HD > > system, particularly when PATA & SATA are both present. > > http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/Bobs/ contains the partitioning > > information for 10.2, 11.0, 11.2, 11.3 & 11.4 respectively. > > > > He had a perfectly working 11.0 on hdb, with hda set as the first > > BIOS HD, and the SATA as the #3 BIOS HD. He tried to install 11.0 to > > the SATA, but the installer put sufficient portions of 11.3 on 11.0's > > / to irreparably corrupt it. I wound up doing fresh installs of 11.0, > > 11.2, 11.3 & 11.4M2, preserving intact only 10.2 > > </aside> > > > > I suggest, if the facts above match my memory and both BM is not > > functional and it is not 11.3's grub prompt you were able to boot > > from manually in recent week(s), to leave the Hitachi unconnected, > > ensure the Seagate is connected to the first SATA port, and do a Grub > > repair, followed by MBR restoration: > > Seagate is hd0/sda/v11.3; Hitachi is hd1. I have been booting through > GRUB on hd1. > > When the machine is turned on, BM does come up, and I can select either > OS, and the corresponding herald screen comes up, followed by a > complaint of Error 15 (I think, just from memory), with the added note > that a file (unnamed) has not been found. Then I can get to either > GRUB, the one on hd1 can boot, that on hd0 makes a black screen. > > > 1-boot the 11.3 DVD to repair shell prompt > > 2-grub > > > > > > 3-reboot to something that can run DFSee, and start it > > 4-newmbr 1 > > 5-reboot to Seagate > > I assume that #1 begins with selecting Rescue System. What then? > > > At this point the BM menu should come up, and you should be able to > > select sda6/11.3 to boot from, whereupon 11.3's grub menu should > > come up, from which you should be able to get 11.3 booted. If my > > memory is wrong, please refresh it. I can't tell from > > ftp://hashkedim.com/pub/DFSWORK.LOG which is Hitachi and which is > > Seagate. I don't remember if we ever decided which Grub you were > > successfully using before the BIOS reset. > > See above. > While awaiting a reply, I booted to DFSee to try to find anything that seemed out of the ordinary. I found that DFSee says that "MBR boot code unknown to DFSee" (it should be generic). So I thought to take a shot at making new MBR code. When it came to choosing which HD, DFSee reported that the sole disk present as "1 Disk2 ....". Before any of this mess happened, I reported to Jan that, depending where in DFSee one looked, the HD numbers were interchanged, or they were both labeled Disk2. He didn't know what to make of this. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Re: [opensuse-kde] Windows 7 like preview for minimized apps in KDE?
by Roger Oberholtzer 28 Oct '10

28 Oct '10

On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 14:11 +0200, Freek de Kruijf wrote: > It's in KDE 4.5.x. It is a live view. Not just a snapshot when the view is made. Pretty nice. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] MinGW versions of openSUSE libraries
by Roger Oberholtzer 28 Oct '10

28 Oct '10

I really like the idea of the MinGW version of libraries and other things on openSUSE that is available in OBS. I am planning on moving some of the Windows libs that I maintain to using the ones in OBS. However, (there had to be a however, right?) I am a bit confused: There are on OBS versions of, say, libtiff, for openSUSE and for Windows. Interestingly, there is a MinGW repository for each release of openSUSE. For example, windows:/mingw:/win32/openSUSE_11.2 I would think that the reason for having different versions of the MinGW repos is that each can contain a version that matches the version installed in the corresponding openSUSE release. Alas, that is not the case. For example, on openSUSE 11.2, libtiff is at version 3.8.2, while the MinGW version is 3.9.4. This is the case for many, perhaps even most, libraries. If the version in the windows:/mingw:/win32/openSUSE_XX.X directory has nothing to do with the version of that library installed in openSUSE_XX.X, why are there version for each openSUSE release? -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Firefox crashes after Novell moonlight update
by Oszkó Albert 27 Oct '10

27 Oct '10

Hi all, The situation is mentioned in the Subject. It happens on two computers with oS 11.3, KDE 4.4.4 and Firefox 3.6.10. Does anybody else experiences it? Best regards, Oszkoa

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[opensuse] martian source
by Chuck Payne 27 Oct '10

27 Oct '10

Guys, I have followed a couple site on turning off the martian source so that dmesg is flooded. Is there anything else I can do? Here is m # # 17.) # Do you want to enable additional kernel TCP/IP security features? # If set to yes, some obscure kernel options are set. # (icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses, icmp_echoreply_rate, # icmp_destunreach_rate, icmp_paramprob_rate, icmp_timeexeed_rate, # ip_local_port_range, log_martians, rp_filter, routing flush, # bootp_relay, proxy_arp, secure_redirects, accept_source_route # icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts, ipfrag_time) # # Tip: Set this to "no" until you have verified that you have got a # configuration which works for you. Then set this to "yes" and keep it # if everything still works. (It should!) ;-) # # Choice: "yes" or "no", if not set defaults to "yes" # FW_KERNEL_SECURITY="YES" ----------------------------------------- Discover it! Enjoy it! Share it! openSUSE Linux. ----------------------------------------- openSUSE -- en.opensuse.org/User:Terrorpup openSUSE Ambassador/openSUSE Member skype,twiiter,identica,friendfeed -- terrorpup freenode(irc) --terrorpup/lupinstein Have you tried SUSE Studio? Need to create a Live CD, an app you want to package and distribute , or create your own linux distro. Give SUSE Studio a try. www.susestudio.com. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] modprobe question
by C. Brouerius van Nidek 27 Oct '10

27 Oct '10

On my machine I am running xawtv in corner of my screen in order to keep an eye on the program and switch to my TV screen if it starts to become interesting. When using Skype I want to use my webcam. I run xawtv with the instruction to use video1 (xawtv -c /dev/video1) and keep the Skype on video0. In order to achieve that I have to give a "#modprobe bttv" before using xawtv. I assume that there must an easier way to achieve that but did not find out the howto. Could somebody help me out? -- Linux User 183145 using LXDE on a Pentium IV , powered by openSUSE 11.3 (i586) Kernel: 2.6.36-rc8-33-desktop LXDE WM & KDE Development Platform: 4.5.2 (KDE 4.5.2) 17:39pm up 0:21, 2 users, load average: 1.17, 1.34, 0.95 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] sig changes from "--" to "- --"
by DenverD 27 Oct '10

27 Oct '10

with reference to this thread http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-help-here/network-internet/448586-nn… several nntp users on the openSUSE forum have discussed an unexpected change in the line preceding the nntp signature from "--" to "- --" when using several different Linux mail/usenet clients and signing the message with OpenPGP.. while it doesn't seem to be a problem with the clients (and i highly doubt it to be an openSUSE problem) i failed in trying to google and learn if: 1. it is a bug in OpenPGP 2. if a bug, if it has been reported 3. the extra "- " just what the nntp/pgp RFC calls for 4. it is a bug in PGP 5. it is a bug in the interaction between nntp and PGP/OpenPGP 6. ??? any event, if anyone can tell me anything about where to ask or report, i'd appreciate it.. sorry if i overlooked an easily found answer, DenverD -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Lirc
by ka1ifq 27 Oct '10

27 Oct '10

Is anybody using this with OS 11.3? If so what remote / IR interface are you using? Thanks, Mike. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] virtual
by Hans Witvliet 27 Oct '10

27 Oct '10

Hi all, I'm using xen for quite a while, and personally i'm quite satisfied with it. However, regularly i've got questions about KVM/vmware, so i want to be able to provide it also. But not "instead of xen". >From the latest weekly rapport i understand (correct me if i am wrong) that a system can either host virtual xen-images OR kvm-images, but never both simultaneously. Is this indeed so? And if so is this a choice or something more fundamental.... I mean, with 8 cores and 36G mem, it is a waste to have a dedicated machine for one or two KVM-images. So is it (theoretically) possible to have multiple virtualisation techniques running side-by-side? like: -xen -kvm -vmware hw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] referrer leakage problem
by C. Brouerius van Nidek 27 Oct '10

27 Oct '10

Via a dutch security web site I found an interesting article about referrer problems. The article (in English can be found at: http://paranoia.dubfire.net/2010/10/it-is-time-for-web-browser-vendors-to.h… Interesting reading. -- Linux User 183145 using LXDE on a Pentium IV , powered by openSUSE 11.3 (i586) Kernel: 2.6.36-rc8-34-desktop LXDE WM & KDE Development Platform: 4.5.2 (KDE 4.5.2) 16:05pm up 1 day 18:06, 2 users, load average: 1.60, 1.66, 1.47 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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