Hi,
I am sorry for that incomplete post. Sent the message without
completing it! sorry once again. The problem is without sighted assistance I
am not able to do things correctly, since emacspeak is also not working. I
will try to get as much info from RH manuals and also subscribe to their
mailing lists. Thank you.
Prasad
----- Original Message -----
From: "L. C. Robinson" <lcr@onewest.net>
To: <blinux-list@redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 10:50
Subject: Re: Using loadlin
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Prasad Chaturvedula wrote:
>
> > mounted the filesystem read write and I could run lilo and do
> > everything normally.
> *--^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> So if you can "do everything normally", that would seem to
> indicate that the partition problems mentioned below are no
> problem? Or have you rebooted yet? The circumstances are too
> vague, and this is getting off topic for this list (is a general
> type installation problem). Have you subscribed to your
> distribution's mailing list yet?
>
> > But the problem is my partition table sems to have changed
> > after i added the second disk. Previously my root partition
> > and swap were hda7 & hda8. Now they are hda6 & hda7
> > respectively. I could see this in /etc/fstab and
> > /etc/lilo.conf.
>
> And what kind of distribution and version are you running, or did
> you mention that? Does the fstab file use the newer LABEL=<xxxx>
> syntax, instead of /dev/hdaX? Very convenient for moving disks
> around, and essential for scsi removable drives.
>
> > I am also not able to mount any fat16 filesystems in my disk. I
> > think this happened because some changes were made in the cmos
> > setup when I added the second disk.
>
> So you need to read the fstab man page, and edit fstab
> accordingly. Example line:
>
> # <device> <mountpoint> <filesystemtype> <options> <dump> <fsckorder>
> /dev/hdb4 /dos/win9x vfat
user,noauto,uid=520,gid=100,umask=2,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
>
> Device is the partition, in linux syntax (all hardware are
> accessed as files in /dev).
>
> > How can I now update these changes to linux , I mean at what
> > all places in linux does this change needs to be made like
> > /etc/fstab, lilo etc. and how can i do that?
>
> Do:
> man fstab lilo lilo.conf
>
> read the lilo manual, etc, and see if they make sense (reading
> man pages takes some getting used to, but gets easy with
> practice). Your distribution's manuals and web site can also be
> very helpful. Then your questions can be specific enough for
> someone on an appropriate list to figure out you need. Give them
> some appropriate lines from your system config files, and some
> info about your hardware -- list your partition tables with
> "sfdisk -l" and post relevant info. Show the relevant output of
> "cat /proc/mounts" and "mount -l". If you deliver enough
> specifics, someone may offer some modified config lines you can
> try: no one could even guess at the answer from what we have here.
> Does the "free" command show any swap space?
>
> Also, the other day, I saw an announcement for a new crash-rescue
> HOWTO that might help tutor you (or point to a tutor):
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/LILO-crash-rescue-HOWTO.html
>
> LCR
>
> --
> L. C. Robinson
> reply to no_spam+munged_lcr@onewest.net.invalid
>
> People buy MicroShaft for compatibility, but get incompatibility and
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>
>
>
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