Linuxers November 2004

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Help! Can't boot into linux after re-installing Win XP.
by Sarfaraz Kazi 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

Hi Linuxers, I'm having problem booting into my linux installation. I have Win XP on C: drive and root is on hda8. Recently, I had to re-install XP due to which, I guess, the MBR has got overwritten. Now, I don't get LILO on bootup. My distro is Mandrake 9.1 . Before re-installing XP, I had created a boot floppy from the Mandrake Control Centre module. I tried to boot using this floppy. It gives the boot prompt. I tried several commands at this prompt: /sbin/lilo linux linux image=/boot/vmlinuz linux root=/dev/hda8 Nothing works. Error message thrown up is "kernel image not found" or something like that. The floppy contains only one file by the name of "ldlinux" Next, I tried to use the rescue mode from the installation CD. The steps I followed are: 1. Boot into installation CD. 2. Press F1 for more options. 3. Type rescue at the boot prompt. 4. Screen shows - "Please wait - Loading program into memory" and shows these options at the bottom - "Alt-F1 for here, Alt-F3 to see the logs, Alt-F4 for kernel msgs". 5. On pressing Alt-F3, screen shows - *found a Mandrake Linux CDROM, good news! *trying to load /tmp/image/Mandrake/base/rescue_stage2.bz2 as a ramdisk 6. On pressing Alt-F4, screen shows- <4> hdc : ATAPI reset complete <6> end_request : I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 1261592 <4> hdc : cd_rom_decode_status : status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error} <4> hdc : cd_rom_decode_status : error=0x30 LastFailedSense 0x03 ...and on it goes. After some time, the main screen gives this message- "ERROR - Could not uncompress second stage ramdisk. This is probably an hardware error while reading the data. (this may be caused by a hardware failure or a linux kernel bug)" On pressing OK the screen goes blank and nothing happens. My installation CD is a little scratched but it used to work perfectly earlier. Could this be the problem? Is there any other way that I can remedy this situation? Please help. Regards, Sarfaraz Kazi The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none have tried to contact us. - Calvin. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] RAM Testing
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

What line should I add to the grub.conf file so that this extra > partition can now be added to the boot list? I have XP, RHEL and > Xandros installed in my system. My current boot loader is grub from > Xandros. in Debian edit /boot/grub/menu.lst (that is the default conf file). Add these lines to the end title memtest86 root (hdx,y) kernel /abcd ro root=/dev/hda5 where x is the ide disk (0=1st drive, 1=2nd drive etc) y is the partition (0=1st partition 1=2nd etc) abcd is your kernel usually file named vmlinuz rgds jtd

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Linux Bangalore 04
by Philip Tellis 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

Any of you guys gonna be at Linux Bangalore 2004? We'll be having several informal BoF meets there. Philip

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Cron job. how to shift the running time for this one.
by Amish Mehta 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

>> It usually runs at 2 minutes past 4, and is found in /etc/cron.daily on >> RedHat (and derivatives). >Hi Devdas, The Script is in /etc/cron.daily and its described above. >However, I need to know how to change the time from current time to >one hour prior? See /etc/crontab you might as well want to read man crond man 5 crontab man anacron Amish.

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Mega LUG meet / BoF session at LB/04
by Guntupalli Karunakar 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

Hi all, There is a plan to have a Mega LUG meet / BoF Session, where people coming from different LUGs / places across country for LB/04 , would meet and discuss on how to make FLOSS grow in India. Some aspects that could be discussed are - How to increase FLOSS usage in education/organizational/individual levels. - How to encourage students to participate in FLOSS development - Increasing LUGs scope and reach. - TODO: suggest more points of discussion. More suggestions/ideas on how this could go about are welcome (& needed) Here this idea is not just meet up and have a fruitful discussion, but also evolve some kind of charter or roadmap, which could also be translated into some action. Duration of meet could be 90-120 mins. A rough plan on how it could go about #1 First get some common agenda / points which would form basis of #discussion in the meet ( these could be chalk out on list discussions #) 2 Those who may not be able to make it to the meet, can post their #view on LIG/LB04 list or in their respective LUG list (& someone fwd #it directly to me or to LIG/LB04 list ). 3 Those who would be making #for LB04 , make sure you are there for the meet Once the points for discussion are fixed, it would be good to have some people who have experience on them speak for few minutes, to set the ball rolling on those issues. Also we would need some volunteers, who can take some notes on discussions , summarise it and prepare up a report and a charter/roadmap/action plan document. Please fwd this mail to LUG list ur on if its not already posted there. Regards, Karunakar

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[ILUG-BOM] [Commercial] Opening for Search Engine Friendly Content Developer
by New Immigrant new 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

There is a contract-to-hire onsite opening for a content developer with expertise in online marketing and search engine friendly html pages development. Some of the Responsibilities and qualifications for the position are: *To generate informative and organized content for a Web Hosting company. *To ensure a high quality site with excellent marketing and support information for both current and prospective customers. *To develop pages with a higher search engine ranking in mind. *Familiarity with writing search engine friendly pages. *Excellent command over written and spoken english. *Ability to work long hours and at odd hours. *A nitpicker. Attention to detail should be an inherent trait. *Web Surfing Junkie. *The candidate should have a proven track record displaying interest and proficiency in this kind of work, else you wont be doing justice to yourself or the job. *Be able to customize content available in the public domain to increase website reach and appeal. *Be able to work independently as well as in teams. *Open to constructive criticism. *Programming expertise not essential, but can be a added advantage to the company as well as to the candidate. *To work closely with the Sales Team to ensure relevant content to drive sales activities. If interested, please send an email to the above address attn: Sagar along with your Resume, Salary expectations and work samples. This is a position based in Mumbai city. thank you, _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/

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Re: Linuxers Digest, Vol 19, Issue 28
by Onkar Nawathe 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

>Dear Linuxers, > >Due to my constant fooling arnd with GRUB and LILO and the MBR, i now face a problem. > >I cannot boot into WINDOWS: > >When I booted my machine I got two options DOS and Linux, when i select Linux it boots fine, when i select DOS i get an error > >Disk write error >Pls press any key to reboot > >These are the things that I tried : > >1. I erased the MBR and then did a lilo -v in rescue mode. No luck although. > >2. Tried installing grub instead of lilo > >grub-install /dev/hda > >No luck > >3. I erased the MBR and then re-installed WINDOWS in the same folder C:\WINNT > >I'am using windows2k professional. > >Could somebody suggest a remedy.....! > >bye rgds >PP BIJU KRISHAN >When you re-installed Windows, GRUB/LILO should have been overwritten by the NTLDR and you should have been able to boot Windows. Or atleast after that, GRUB should have been inaccessible. > >What exactly happened after you reinstalled Windows in C:\WINNT? > >Raseel Bhagat I agree with Raseel Bhagat. after u reinstall windows , MBR should get over written, with linux not being accessible to you, i.e. there will not be any grub/lilo left and u would not be able to boot in to linux. ...even i'm curious as to what happened after u installed windows. regards, Onkar Nawathe Onkar P. Nawathe

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Cron job. how to shift the running time for this one.
by Vivek J.Patankar 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

On Fri Nov 19 4:09 , 'New Immigrant new' <newimmigrant(a)hotmail.com> sent: >Hi. >Got this script running in a cron job daily. and its called slocate.cron >Now it runs daily at a certain time. say 6 PM. I need to shift it to say 5 >PM. I just cannot seem to find that option anywhere. >I did a crontab -l but there is no listing for the script above. Try in /var/spool/cron/ This folder contains cron files for all users. VJP

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November GLUG meet
by Venkatesh Hariharan 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

Just a reminder to all about the next GLUG meet to be held this Sunday. Venky ===== The theme for the next GLUG meet is "Free/Open Source Community Software." There is a tremendous amount of innovation that is happening in the area of community software with sites like Ryze, Linked In, Orkut etc growing rapidly in popularity. Blogs are another form of community software that have become very popular in recent times. One of the speakers at the upcoming GLUG meet is Veer Bothra who manages Blogstreet.com. Amish, do you want to talk about Mono at this meeting? Also, many of us will be away from Mumbai on the second Sunday of November (myself included) because of the long weekend for Diwali. I therefore suggest that the next GLUG meet be held on 21st November 2004 between 3PM-5PM. The venue for the same will be Netcore's office [1] in Lower Parel. Feedback, suggestions, speakers welcome! Venky [1] http://www.emergic.com/contact/directions.html

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regarding tally
by santosh rao 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

Derwyn "I too had a problem runing tally 6.3 in wine but try a lower version 5.4 version it works on wine. As far as printing problem goes I just adjusted the margins and it worked. Try it Hope it works." can u just guide me on how to adjusting the margins of tally, i dont have the right know-how of tally. -- "He who fights monsters should look to it that he himself does not become one." - Friedrich Nietzche -- "He who fights monsters should look to it that he himself does not become one." - Friedrich Nietzche

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Linuxers November 2004