Re: Re: SATA - How to access disk ???
Hi, I'm new to the list (and to Debian) so I'm not too sure of the protocol here... but I have a related question, so thought I'd tag mine onto this. (However some groups want all separate questions even if they repeat very nearly that of another). I too can't get the boot sequence to read the SATA, but I've determined that in my case (and possibly the original posters) it's because the initrd image doesn't contain the driver for the disk. I am struggling to build the initrd image. Some background: I have been a 'user' (rather than technical administrator) of linux for about 6 years running various flavours of Mandrake - with MNDRK-10 since it was released on my old PIII-dual processor box. 3 weeks ago I decided to upgrade both my OS and machine. I bought a brand new fast PC with AMD64 Athlon - 300gig SATA - and onboard NVIDIA chips, without pausing to think about driver support. With Mandrake/Mandriva's drive to 'sell' packages and support I decided it time to dump them. I got the full set of Debian Sarge 3.1r5 [but for the i386 rather than 64bit AMD] to go with new machine. Cutting a long story ... couldn't get it to work. Downloaded kernel that someone else had built with SATA support... it worked but no graphics (no NVIDIA). Decided to build my own kernel based upon 3.6.8 for 64bit. Compiled for NVIDIA/SATA/AMD-64/etc (NOTE very steep learning curve - 'in at the deep end' - never done anything similar before - but seems to have worked). BUT... still wont boot because can't 'see' the SATA... have rooted around and detremined that it fails still within the RAMDISK. The image doesn't contain a device entry for the disk so it can't see it. Have read 7 different versions of how to create a ramdisk image for the initrd, but they are all confusing to say the least ... and I can't get it to work. Can anyone help with a plain-english 'idiots-guide' for this idiot? Thanks. Ian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: SATA - How to access disk ???
Hi, I'm new to the list (and to Debian) so Ihope I'm not breaking protocol here by attaching a related question to this thread (However some groups want all separate questions even if they repeat very nearly that of another, if this is the case here then I apologise). I too can't get the boot sequence to read the SATA, but I've determined that in my case (and possibly the original posters) it's because the initrd image doesn't contain the device file for the disk. I am struggling to build the initrd image. Some background: I have been a 'user' (rather than technical administrator) of linux for about 6 years running various flavours of Mandrake - with MNDRK-10 since it was released on my old PIII-dual processor box. 3 weeks ago I decided to upgrade both my OS and machine. I bought a brand new fast PC with AMD64 Athlon - 300gig SATA - and onboard NVIDIA chips, without pausing to think about driver support. With Mandrake/Mandriva's drive to 'sell' packages and support I decided it time to dump them. I got the full set of Debian Sarge 3.1r5 [but for the i386 rather than 64bit AMD] to go with new machine. Cutting a long story ... couldn't get it to work. Downloaded kernel that someone else had built with SATA support... it worked but no graphics (no NVIDIA). Decided to build my own kernel based upon 3.6.8 for 64bit. Compiled for NVIDIA/SATA/AMD-64/etc (NOTE very steep learning curve - 'in at the deep end' - never done anything similar before - but seems to have worked). BUT... still wont boot because can't 'see' the SATA... have rooted around and detremined that it fails still within the RAMDISK. The image doesn't contain a device entry for the disk so it can't see it. Have read 7 different versions of how to create a ramdisk image for the initrd, but they are all confusing to say the least ... and I can't get it to work. Can anyone help with a plain-english 'idiots-guide' for this idiot? Thanks. Ian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: SATA - How to access disk ???
Hi Joe, I think the posting twice was more of a duoo-moment, than an 'oops' but anyway back to the question. You have solved my problem THANKS Downloaded the image .. burn .. boot ... (allow it to do it's thing) .. and voila... a system that works. I could have saved myself more than 2 weeks of 'learning curve' if I'd but asked the question in the first place. (But then I learned more about the way that linux works in the past 2 weeks than I had in the past 5 years). I must admit though... I hadn't looked at Debian prior to 3 weeks ago it has to have the most confusing bunch of documentation I have come across in a long time. As I wrote initially... I found 7 descriptions as to how to create the RamDisk image; and the best description actually came from an IBM site rather than Debian itself. I'm going to enjoy getting to grips with Debian ... I can tell ! Thanks again. Ian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems with GRUB and SATA
I asked last week about getting Debian to run on my new box. Joe Hart pointed me in the direction of ETCH rather than the SID I was trying to use. Everything worked fin until Saturday switched on and it failed with an Error 18 at the GRUB. It took me 8 attempts over the weekend to reinstall to system it kept failing at the 'Installing Software' stage and wouldn't proceed. I downloaded the latest installer yesterday- - burnt another dic and tried again it all seemed to go fine and the system was up and running again. I have just switched on the machine - it booted OK - got to Gnome desktop... and the whole thing froze (reminiscent of the bad old Windoze days) ... switched it off (couldn't shutdown ... wouldn't take any inputs) switched back on and I'm back with my Error 18 during GRUB again Any sage advice please. I will remind folks that I am not 'that' technical, so please be gentle with me with I ask stpid questions. It seems as if I have a hard disk problem but I even went and bought a new drive at the weekend so this has happened to two separate SATA drives. A kinda obvious question but is anyone else having problems with SATA and ETCH? I understand that Error 18 is a read attempt beyond 8GB on older machines. but this is a brand new Motherboard, AND in any event I always have BOOT in a separate 50meg partition at the front of the disk. Advice / comments please, Ian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Slow internet on AMD64 running Etch
I have been having all sorts of problems lately in setting up a new box with an AMD64 and Etch. BUT . slow speed networking aint one of them in fact I was surprised at how fast it was compared with the old workhorse machine it will eventually replace. So ... sorry... but it looks as if it's possibly your configuration. Ian On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 17:11, Dave Stephenson wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been running a current version of Etch for a few months. My > internet download speeds are in the range of 10 - 15 kB/s. Until > recently I blamed it on my ISP, SignalPeak, which has been having > troubles, Recently I noticed that the Windoz boxes on the same router > are getting speeds about 3 times faster. Transfers between the Linux > & windoz boxes are too fast to measure easily, but in the MB/s range. > > Is this a known ETCH problem or am I doing something strange? I did a > fairly standard net install. I can post diagnostic info if some kind > soul will tell me which ones would be helpful. > > Dave > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NVIDIA and Etch : WAS Re: Problems with GRUB and SATA
Hello folks, I'm still puzzling with my build of Etch on this new machine I've solved the GRUB error 16 and error 18 problems, by disabling the SMART options in the BIOS and stopping the appropriate services for smartmon. Everything on that front now appears to be stable ...and I don't appear to have a faulty disc-controller after all. But I am still puzzling over the NVIDIA and sound modules. My latest 'problem' is with NVIDIA. (I'll worry about why ALSA isn't working next). I have rebuilt the 2.6.18-4-amd64 with the NVIDIA components, have installed the nvidia-glx module, but whenever I let the etc/X11/xorg.conf build with the nvidia configuration tool it builds the 'conf' with a declaration for the driver to be nvidia, ...but ... X wont start then, ... warns me that there is no device for NVIDIA 00:1:3 (and/or if I manually change it to include 00:1:3) 00:13:0, and finally stops with a grumble about the kernel kicking out an error 11. BUT, ... if I change xorg.conf to use the driver nv (rather than nvidia) X (gdm) will start, does have the higher resolution set (1600x1200), but has a significant 'pink' colour cast. I can't find a configuration tool for the nvidia settings (such as Gamma etc). Question please... should the driver be 'nvidia' or 'nv', (if 'nvidia' - any suggestions as to what I am missing?) ... if it's should be 'nv' in any event .. then can someone help me find the settings for this to get the colours to be accurately displayed? Thanks again folks, Ian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mySQL and 'testing'
Sorry if this repeats a previous query I did scan the list of topics but couldn't spot this. I am running the 'testing' version. I came back from 3 weeks offline and simply let synaptic gather all the updates and apply them (OK.. yes , that was probably a bit dumb... but too late now)... Everything seemed to go ok until I went to log in to mySQL. and it cant find the socket. I tried to update the files using the mysql-client and mysql-server, and although the client ran OK the server complains about an unspecified dependency error and a corrupt server file. Has anyone else come across this, or should I start panicking now? Thanks Ian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mySQL and 'testing'
On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 18:33, Jeff D wrote: > ieb wrote: > > Sorry if this repeats a previous query I did scan the list of topics > > but couldn't spot this. > > > > I am running the 'testing' version. I came back from 3 weeks offline > > and simply let synaptic gather all the updates and apply them (OK.. yes > > , that was probably a bit dumb... but too late now)... > > Everything seemed to go ok until I went to log in to mySQL. and it cant > > find the socket. I tried to update the files using the mysql-client and > > mysql-server, and although the client ran OK the server complains about > > an unspecified dependency error and a corrupt server file. > > > > Has anyone else come across this, or should I start panicking now? > > Thanks > > Ian > > > > > > Are the errors with the server reported through synaptic or when you try > to start the server? Have you tried to resolve the dependancies with > synaptic? And could you also post the error messages you get? > > Thx, > Jeff > Hi Jeff, sorry for the delay in responding >Are the errors with the server reported through synaptic or when you >try to start the server? Both. It began with me firing up mysql-navigator... it started OK and showed the option to connect to the localhost - but when I tried to connect to the db it reported: Cannot connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock'[2] So I, somewhat simplistically, presumed that one of the many dozens of updates that ran after my period away from my desk had screwed-up MySQL. Because this is a relatively new machine with only small volumes of data in the databases (which I could reconstruct if 'push came to shove') I decided to simply reinstall MySQL. The client seems to install OK using Synaptic but when it gets to the server Synaptic baulks and reports :- E:mysql-server-5.0: sub-process post-installation script returned error exit status 1 E: mysql server: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured My biggest problem is that I am still unfamiliar with where all the logs and programmes are maintained/held in Linux, so my investigations tend to consist of repeatedly lurching from one wild idea to the next in the forlorn hope of gathering a clue as to the root of the problem (rather than having the detail knowledge necessary for any systematic probing and fault identification). Therefore any help/advice is gratefully received. Ian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mySQL and 'testing'
'Problem' has been solved. The clue was in 'syslog' it recorded that MySQl had been unable to open the directory "/home////Database" because it was too full. Now with a 500gig drive in this box and 250gig on my 'home' directory and only 7% used it couldn't possibly be 'too full'. On taking a look I spotted that somehow the directory (and all it's siblings at that same level) were no longer made up of titles that began with a single upper case and the rest in lower case .. but were all upper case (viz --- Database was now DATABASE) renamed it back to the original and reran the installation through synaptic, ... and it ran flawlessly and my data is still intact. I am being verbose in my explanation in case anyone else comes across a similar issue. Why the directories at that level (seven of them) became renamed to all upper case is the bigger mystery but as the original problem has been 'cured' my plea for assistance has been fulfilled. Thanks folks. Ian On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 16:00, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 10/27/2007 06:15 AM, ieb wrote: > > [...] > > E:mysql-server-5.0: sub-process post-installation script returned error > > exit status 1 > > E: mysql server: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New Server
On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 13:59, Ed Curtis wrote: > I'm getting ready to build a new server. Has anyone on the list had any > problems or used Silicon Mechanics before. I'm checking out some quotes > from there. They use Nvida MCP55 Pro dual nics in their system. I > thought I had heard about problems with Nvida nics in the past on the > list but Google hasn't given me any bad new about them. > > TIA for any info, > > Ed > I ted using NVidia with my new box when I first set it up a couple of months back (using 'testing').I never did get it to work reliably even with the help of many folks from this list. I eventually ditched it after having wasted more than 2 weeks of effort and much frustration. So, my advice would be don't waste your time with it. Ian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
