Re: LI- Lilo just stops working

2000-12-05 Thread Jiri Klouda
he voice of Satan? > > That's nothing! If you play it forward, it'll install Windows 2000. Here might be some hint. This error is very normal when you install ANY Windows (98,2k,NT,ME). They don't make the MBR right for their use, but they at least mess LILO :) The worst po

Re: [OT] debianHELP is down??

2000-12-05 Thread Jiri Klouda
p (like > microsoft.com for example :) > > debianhelp.org appears to reply to icmp replies bnow btw. Most corporate firewalls are set to block ICMP mainly in case they use M$ software which has long history of crashing after receiving wrong icmp packets. No wonder microsoft.com keeps up to this too :) Ji

Re: HD Error...

2000-12-05 Thread Jiri Klouda
> search the archives for "DriveReady SeekComplete". this has been > discussed to some extent before ;-) > > &rw > > >Dec 5 13:54:39 zaya kernel: hdc: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady > >SeekComp > >lete DataRequest Error } > >Dec 5 13:54:39 zaya kernel: hdc: read_intr: error=0x40 { Uncorrec

HD Error...

2000-12-05 Thread Jiri Klouda
5 13:54:39 zaya kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:03 (hdc), sector 6553363 Any idea what might cause this error? How to get rid of it? How to check my HD for more errors. Its relatively new IBM HD, I don't think it would be physical error... Jirka -- Jiri Klouda <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Redhat to Debian

2000-12-01 Thread Jiri Klouda
t, are largely independent and still share users for both. Jirka -- Jiri Klouda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~jk

Re: How to make useful boot disk (was: Re: How to get rid of LILO)

2000-11-30 Thread Jiri Klouda
ppy/lib/ld-2.1.3.so /floppy/lib/ld-linux.so.2 ln /floppy/lib/libc-2.1.3.so /floppy/lib/libc.so.6 cp /mnt/bin/ash /mnt/bin/dd /floppy/ umount /mnt rm root.bin And change the script accordingly to run ash instead of sash. Jirka PS: If you are lucky and your vmlinuz is around 750k, you should fit

How to make useful boot disk (was: Re: How to get rid of LILO)

2000-11-30 Thread Jiri Klouda
> > > fdisk /mbr (undocumented feature of fdisk) > > > does the trick. > > > > > > Joop > > > > Just wondering, is there a linux way to do this? > > -samuel > > Yes... but only if you still have linux intact... > Lilo saves a copy of your bootsector on first install. > this can be recovered with