[gentoo-user] new gentoo installed but can't boot: "Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk And Press Enter"

2005-09-17 Thread michael
Hello, I've been using my computer for awhile and decided to upgrade to gentoo 2005.1. Since there is nothing important on this system I decide to install from scratch. I follow the quickinstall howto and reference the installation manual for 2005.1 and my own notes, as I've installed perhaps 8 o

[gentoo-user] Motherboard/CPU upgrade

2005-09-17 Thread Dan Johansson
Hi, A few days ago I had to replace my Motherboard and CPU. Now I want to make use of the new CPUs features. Old CPU: Intel Pentium 4 New CPU: Intel Pentium 4 (Prescott) # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15

Re: [gentoo-user] new gentoo installed but can't boot: "Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk And Press Enter"

2005-09-17 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I've been using my computer for awhile and decided to upgrade to gentoo > 2005.1. Since there is nothing important on this system I decide to > install from scratch. I follow the quickinstall howto and reference t

Re: [gentoo-user] Motherboard/CPU upgrade

2005-09-17 Thread Chris White
On Saturday 17 September 2005 16:32, Dan Johansson wrote: > Hi, > > A few days ago I had to replace my Motherboard and CPU. Now I want to make > use of the new CPUs features. > Old CPU: Intel Pentium 4 > New CPU: Intel Pentium 4 (Prescott) ok, remember though, new Motherboard is usually = new IDE

Re: [gentoo-user] new gentoo installed but can't boot: "Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk And Press Enter"

2005-09-17 Thread michael
On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, gentuxx wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've been using my computer for awhile and decided to upgrade to gentoo 2005.1. Since there is nothing important on this system I decide to install from scratch. I follow the q

[gentoo-user] Are the nptl and nptlonly USE flags compatible with each other?

2005-09-17 Thread William Kenworthy
Are the nptl and nptlonly USE flags compatible with each other? euse allows you to set both at once. Can they/should they both be set for a normal system, or one *OR* the other? What info I have looked at so far is a bit confusing. BillK -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home! -- gen

Re: [gentoo-user] Are the nptl and nptlonly USE flags compatible with each other?

2005-09-17 Thread Chris White
On Saturday 17 September 2005 17:18, William Kenworthy wrote: > Are the nptl and nptlonly USE flags compatible with each other? yes > euse allows you to set both at once. Can they/should they both be set for > a normal system, or one *OR* the other? What info I have looked at so far > is a bit

Re: [gentoo-user] Doubts about how to create a free software project

2005-09-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 16 September 2005 19:40, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote: > You mean something like this? > > /** >* * Copyright (C) 2005 by Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales > * * [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Are the nptl and nptlonly USE flags compatible with each other?

2005-09-17 Thread William Kenworthy
Thanks, that confirms what I thought took place. BillK On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 01:55 +0900, Chris White wrote: > On Saturday 17 September 2005 17:18, William Kenworthy wrote: > > Are the nptl and nptlonly USE flags compatible with each other? > yes > > euse allows you to set both at once. Can th

[gentoo-user] Where does portage keep resume infrmation

2005-09-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
Since emerge --resume works after a reboot, portage must keep the list of remaining emerges on disk somewhere, but where? -- Neil Bothwick Become a gynaecologist, look up a friend today. pgpD5EJH1QUVe.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Are the nptl and nptlonly USE flags compatible with each other?

2005-09-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 16:18:16 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > Are the nptl and nptlonly USE flags compatible with each other? euse > allows you to set both at once. Can they/should they both be set for a > normal system, or one *OR* the other? What info I have looked at so far > is a bit confu

Re: [gentoo-user] Where does portage keep resume infrmation

2005-09-17 Thread Chris White
On Saturday 17 September 2005 18:13, Neil Bothwick wrote: > Since emerge --resume works after a reboot, portage must keep the list of > remaining emerges on disk somewhere, but where? /var/cache/edb/mtimedb this file is a serialized python object. This basically means that a python object was d

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk

2005-09-17 Thread Paul
On Friday 16 Sep 2005 16:37, Michael Kintzios wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 16 September 2005 15:23 > > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > Subject: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > My main harddisk is star

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-6.8.2-r3: rdesktop badness after xorg upgrade

2005-09-17 Thread Stuart Howard
dont have an answer but there was a long "argument " on the security list entitled [gentoo-security] org-x11 GLSA 200509-07. Is bug #96053 fixed in -r3? (black icons) Sounds up your street, the long and short of it was that reverting back to r1 "may" fix it but the people involved did not have m

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-6.8.2-r3: rdesktop badness after xorg upgrade

2005-09-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Stuart Howard schreef: > dont have an answer but there was a long "argument " on the security > list entitled > > [gentoo-security] org-x11 GLSA 200509-07. Is bug #96053 fixed in -r3? > (black icons) > > Sounds up your street, the long and short of it was that reverting > back to r1 "may" fix

Re: [gentoo-user] Where does portage keep resume infrmation

2005-09-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 03:00:46 +0900, Chris White wrote: > /var/cache/edb/mtimedb > > this file is a serialized python object. This basically means that a > python object was dumped into a text file for later use. However, it's > python specific serialization so you're going to need python to unp

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do about firefox

2005-09-17 Thread Jonathan Wright
Holly Bostick wrote: Firefox itself has any issues, but it does seem to have a memory leak? hog? something-- which saddens me, because it makes me feel like I'm using Mozilla again, which had these kinds of problems for a long, long time. Firefox was a big relief because it *didn't* have 'that da

Re: [gentoo-user] Doubts about how to create a free software project

2005-09-17 Thread Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales
Cool, thanks for the help everyone. 2005/9/17, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 16 September 2005 19:40, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote: > > You mean something like this? > > > > /** > >* * Copyright (C) 2005

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-6.8.2-r3: rdesktop badness after xorg upgrade

2005-09-17 Thread William Kenworthy
With r3, CTRL-z the emerge as it starts to do the patch process, delete patch 9914-something from the work/patch directory, the "fg" to continue. I was going to flame those on the security list here about their attitude, but thats unfair as there are also good contributers, and the problems basica

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do about firefox

2005-09-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Jonathan Wright schreef: > Holly Bostick wrote: > >> Firefox itself has any issues, but it does seem to have a memory >> leak? hog? something-- which saddens me, because it makes me feel >> like I'm using Mozilla again, which had these kinds of problems for >> a long, long time. Firefox was a b

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-6.8.2-r3: rdesktop badness after xorg upgrade

2005-09-17 Thread fire-eyes
Thank you, it sounds rather familiar. I added my information to the bug. Stuart Howard wrote: > dont have an answer but there was a long "argument " on the security > list entitled > > [gentoo-security] org-x11 GLSA 200509-07. Is bug #96053 fixed in -r3? > (black icons) > > Sounds up your stree

[gentoo-user] fontconfig question: mozilla and gnome behave differently?

2005-09-17 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Hello. Here is my situation. I love to use the font 'Bitstream Vera Serif' as the default font for my Gnome 2.8 desktop for every situation except mono. Actually I wish to use it exclusively as default, for example, mozilla use 'serif' font as default, and I wish Bitstream Vera Sans is used as 'se

[gentoo-user] Re: disappearing hdc

2005-09-17 Thread capsel
On 9/16/05, Dave Nebinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I did something like that: > > -I set up RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="no" > > -rebooted, all hdcX disappeard, and hdc appeard > > -I set up RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="yes" > > -rebooted > > -there is no hdc* > > > > what else can I do? > > Go to the udev migr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: disappearing hdc

2005-09-17 Thread Dave Nebinger
So for example lp* stays (it's another one that disappears), all hdc? stays, but hdc still is not there. File devices.tar.bz2 is updated by system and it has not hdc. What else can I do? Not use the tarball option? I mean, seriously, are you really seeing it's saving you anything at boot? I co

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do about firefox

2005-09-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 9/17/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> And, I think with one of the tab extensions that you can download> it'll save the current tabs you have open and recreate them all for> you when you restart firefox.Why/How else do you think I have 30 tabs open constantly? Of *course* I use Se

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: disappearing hdc

2005-09-17 Thread capsel
2005/9/17, Dave Nebinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > So for example lp* stays (it's another one that disappears), all hdc? > > stays, but hdc still is not there. File devices.tar.bz2 is updated by > > system and it has not hdc. > > What else can I do? > > Not use the tarball option? > > I mean, seri

Re: [gentoo-user] Doubts about how to create a free software project

2005-09-17 Thread Sean Crandall
If you're not looking for a patent yourself, but want to make sure that nobody else pulls one on you, you may want to look into the USPTO's Statutory Invention Registration program. It basically creates a public domain patent of your invention so nobody else can "invent" it and claim priority.

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do about firefox

2005-09-17 Thread Jonathan Wright
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I'm sure this is , so just send a pointer if you like, and I'll stop. But... This is great! I haven't paid much attention to FF/TB extensions up to now because the few I tried early on got obsolete and/or didn't work well. They are getting better - in fact there are a

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do about firefox

2005-09-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Kevin O'Gorman schreef: > On 9/17/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Session Saver, and the modular search engine bar, are such good >> features, which I find so essential, that Firefox would have to get >> a whole lot closer to unuseable than this before I'd consider >> giving i

[gentoo-user] Managing FF/TB plugins in Gentoo

2005-09-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I've just had a look at FireFox about:plugins and I'm both worried and confused. No surprise there; it happens a lot when I peek under the covers.  :o) There are two versions of the Java plugin listed, with the same libjavaplugin_oji.so filename.  The latest is Java 1.5.0_04b05. There are two ver

[gentoo-user] Cannot see my own posts: configuring gentoo-users in gmail

2005-09-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
When I start a new thread, I do not see my own posting, even after others have responded.  It gets put in the "sent" folder and stays there. This is in gmail, where I do all my mailing lists in an account that I use for nothing else.  It's not hard to fix: for each thread I start, I find the mail i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: disappearing hdc

2005-09-17 Thread Rumen Yotov
capsel wrote: > 2005/9/17, Dave Nebinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>>So for example lp* stays (it's another one that disappears), all hdc? >>>stays, but hdc still is not there. File devices.tar.bz2 is updated by >>>system and it has not hdc. >>>What else can I do? >> >>Not use the tarball option? >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot see my own posts: configuring gentoo-users in gmail

2005-09-17 Thread Tim Igoe
I've seen this myself - I think its a feature of the way gmail works. And i've not seen any way to 'fix' it. Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > When I start a new thread, I do not see my own posting, even after others > have responded. It gets put in the "sent" folder and stays there. > This is in gmail, w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: disappearing hdc

2005-09-17 Thread capsel
As I can see you did not read whole message :) So the problem is : When RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="no" there is no lp0 and sometimes hdc, it doesn't depend on cd/dvd disc inside my dvd, or on if my printer is set to "on"/"off" When RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="yes" lp0, hdc1..20 are in /dev but hdc is only on fir

Re: [gentoo-user] Random Kernel Crashes ... Need more info

2005-09-17 Thread Kris Kerwin
All, I apologize for getting back so late. It's tough being a college student. ;-) Thanks to Arturo and gentux for helping out so far. I've tried catting the output from dmesg and running it regularly with crontab, as was advised below. This, unfortunately doesn't work because cron can only ru

Re: [gentoo-user] Random Kernel Crashes ... Need more info

2005-09-17 Thread Dave Nebinger
I've been experiencing some random kernel crashes, and need a way of finding out what happened. Kris, I'd start by answering the following: 1. What version of the kernel are you using? Your OP is quite old, and many releases of the kernel have come out since then. Have you tried a newer ke

Re: [gentoo-user] Random Kernel Crashes ... Need more info

2005-09-17 Thread Jonathan Wright
Kris Kerwin wrote: I've tried catting the output from dmesg and running it regularly with crontab, as was advised below. This, unfortunately doesn't work because cron can only run as often as once a minute. This means that if a crash happens in between these dmesg snapshots, the debugging infor

Re: [gentoo-user] Random Kernel Crashes ... Need more info

2005-09-17 Thread Kris Kerwin
Thanks Dave. 1) The problem appears to be independant of the kernel version, as I've had it occur on a 2.6.10 and 2.6.12 kernel. 2) How might I check for flakey hardware? 3) I have had my BIOS respond after 3 crashes that the computer crashed due to excessive heat. I think that this maybe inde

Re: [gentoo-user] Random Kernel Crashes ... Need more info

2005-09-17 Thread Kris Kerwin
Thanks Jonathan. Anyone have any thoughts on this? I'm not a bash or any other programmer, and was wondering if this would work. And how might I code that while loop? Thanks again, all, for your help. Kris On Saturday 17 September 2005 14:10, Jonathan Wright wrote: > Kris Kerwin wrote: > > I'v

Re: [gentoo-user] Random Kernel Crashes ... Need more info

2005-09-17 Thread Dave Nebinger
1) The problem appears to be independant of the kernel version, as I've had it occur on a 2.6.10 and 2.6.12 kernel. 2) How might I check for flakey hardware? I would guess hardware problem (unless 3 applies below), but actually finding the errant component can be quite a task. For a desktop

[gentoo-user] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `localhost' does NOT match server name

2005-09-17 Thread Joseph
How to get rid of this error: [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `localhost' does NOT match server name Every time I start apache it generate this error in ssl_error_log My certificate is for my domain-name not my localhost, and I don't have any vhost configured with localhost so why

[gentoo-user] Error in compiling libquicktime and smpeg

2005-09-17 Thread Derrick Hendricks
I work with 4 or 5 different computers that all run Gentoo linux, 2 at home and 3 at work. One of them actually belongs to my friend at work. And he is having a problem compiling libquicktime and smpeg. Both of them give the same error, that they cannot find -lGL. Does anyone know what could be

Re: [gentoo-user] Error in compiling libquicktime and smpeg

2005-09-17 Thread Derrick Hendricks
Problem solved. /usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/lib/libGL.a and /usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/lib/libGL.so existed but the links for the /usr/lib directory did not. I linked them in and everything is fine. I'm not sure why the links weren't already there. Sorry for posting when the problem was easily solved

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do about firefox

2005-09-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 9/17/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> But: what's the modular search thingie?Click on the "G" in your search bar, you'll get a drop-down list ofother search engines that you can use to search for whatever you'researching for. Installed by default are Google, ebay, Amazon.com,Crea

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do about firefox

2005-09-17 Thread David Morgan
On 14:20 Sat 17 Sep , Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Once again I must be doing something wrong. I see the "Add more..." and > I can navigate it okay, but nothing new ever shows up in the list of search > engines. I've tried 4 or 5, so it's not the particular one... > I seem to remember that this ne

Re: [gentoo-user] Random Kernel Crashes ... Need more info

2005-09-17 Thread Jonathan Wright
Kris Kerwin wrote: Thanks Jonathan. Anyone have any thoughts on this? I'm not a bash or any other programmer, and was wondering if this would work. And how might I code that while loop? Actually - the while loop was fine. I wrote that line and thought I can't do that! I'll have to look it up

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do about firefox

2005-09-17 Thread Holly Bostick
David Morgan schreef: > On 14:20 Sat 17 Sep , Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> Once again I must be doing something wrong. I see the "Add more..." >> and I can navigate it okay, but nothing new ever shows up in the >> list of search engines. I've tried 4 or 5, so it's not the >> particular one...

[gentoo-user] Setting up group for ppp and dial up

2005-09-17 Thread Mick
Hi All, I eventually decided to set up my winmodem (hcfpci) to be able to send/receive faxes and as a backup for when adsl goes down. I noticed that a group called dialout was created: === dialout:x:20:root === The Dial up Gentoo Wiki says

Re: [gentoo-user] Random Kernel Crashes ... Need more info

2005-09-17 Thread Kris Kerwin
Alright! Thanks to Jonathan Wright and his program, I think that I may have found something. See what you guys think: Before the crash, the following three lines appeared (in this order) nearly 53,000 times for a total of 16MB of text: > Sep 17 13:45:51 kerwin [4314362.567000] ip_local_deliver:

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up group for ppp and dial up

2005-09-17 Thread Chris White
On Sunday 18 September 2005 09:38, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I eventually decided to set up my winmodem (hcfpci) to be able to > send/receive faxes and as a backup for when adsl goes down.  I noticed that > a group called dialout was created: > === > dialout:x:20:root >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: disappearing hdc

2005-09-17 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 20:01:41 +0200 capsel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So the problem is : > > When RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="no" there is no lp0 and sometimes hdc, it > doesn't depend on cd/dvd disc inside my dvd, or on if my printer is > set to "on"/"off" > On a properly operating system, /dev/lp0

[gentoo-user] ntsysv equivalent

2005-09-17 Thread C. Beamer
Hi all, When I installed Gentoo, I chose syslog-ng as my system logger. It was suggested that I install logrotate to prevent my logfiles from becoming unmanagageably large. I did this. However, my /var/log/messages file includes logging from the first day that Gentoo was running on my system an

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -pv mplayer questions

2005-09-17 Thread maxim wexler
--- Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/16/05, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Differs from both of yours again. Here's my > > > package.use for the machine: > > > > > > dragonfly ~ # cat /etc/portage/package.use > > > > no such file on my machine. Did I miss so

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -pv mplayer questions

2005-09-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/17/05, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > cat /etc/make.profile/make.defaults > > > > This will show you the default flags your system is > > using. To that you > > add make.conf and any package.use flags to get what > > the system will > > use for your package. > > /etc/make.profil

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up group for ppp and dial up

2005-09-17 Thread maxim wexler
--- Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I eventually decided to set up my winmodem (hcfpci) > to be able to > send/receive faxes and as a backup for when adsl > goes down. I noticed that > a group called dialout was created: > === > dialout:x:20:root > ===

[gentoo-user] Need a script that will add pwdfail IPs to shorewall blacklist

2005-09-17 Thread Daevid Vincent
I was poking around my system today and noticed a log that I never knew existed. /var/log/pwdfail/* Much to my surprise, I see all these entries (hundreds) from some 'blankety blank blank' trying to hack my server!! daevid pwdfail # cat current Sep 17 13:00:25 [sshd(pam_unix)] authentication fa

Re: [gentoo-user] Dell 1850/Dell Partition

2005-09-17 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 12:07:43PM +0100, Michael Kintzios wrote > Before I installed Gentoo on a Compaq machine I saved both the > as built image and the current OS onto a DVD using partimage from > Knoppix and then I royally wiped the lot off the drive. Can you do that? Has Compaq stopped pu

RE: [gentoo-user] ntsysv equivalent

2005-09-17 Thread Daevid Vincent
Are you shure you have any daemons started in your rc-update? You might have to do something like: rc-update add syslog-ng default I don't use syslog, I use metalog myself, but I assume it's the same idea. rc-update show Will show all the things you have started and at what r

Re: [gentoo-user] Need a script that will add pwdfail IPs to shorewall blacklist

2005-09-17 Thread Brian Parish
On Sunday 18 September 2005 13:36, Daevid Vincent wrote: > I was poking around my system today and noticed a log that I never knew > existed. > > /var/log/pwdfail/* > > Much to my surprise, I see all these entries (hundreds) from some 'blankety > blank blank' trying to hack my server!! > > daevid p

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -pv mplayer questions

2005-09-17 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 08:53:10PM -0700, maxim wexler wrote > > Differs from both of yours again. Here's my > > package.use for the machine: > > > > dragonfly ~ # cat /etc/portage/package.use > > no such file on my machine. Did I miss something? package.use is a file where you can turn USE f

Re: [gentoo-user] quickpkg gtk+

2005-09-17 Thread Rumen Yotov
Hi, On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 23:24:39 + Rodrigo Lazo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, thanks all of you for your replies. I did rebuild the package > using quickpkg but it didn't fix the problem, the only way I found to > do it was compiling it on the second computer. That fix it but it > woul

Re: [gentoo-user] new gentoo installed but can't boot: "Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk And Press Enter"

2005-09-17 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 12:06:57AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > Thanks for the idea. As I've said, I've been using this computer pretty > solidly with no indication, but that's not to say it can't happen. > > Your suggestion made me look at the BIOS boot stage and I notice that my > hard driv

Re: [gentoo-user] Motherboard/CPU upgrade

2005-09-17 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 01:36:59AM +0900, Chris White wrote > New: CFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" > > is enough. Don't forget "-mfpmath=sse" -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Need a script that will add pwdfail IPs to shorewall blacklist

2005-09-17 Thread Josh Helmer
> Yes, I see that on all our servers. Not much more than an annoyance unless > you have stupidly obvious passwords, but annoying for sure. On customer > servers that don't require access from the everywhere and anywhere I just > configure hosts.allow and hosts.deny to drop traffic from all but kn

Re: [gentoo-user] ntsysv equivalent (and logrotate frequency)

2005-09-17 Thread John Myers
On Saturday 17 September 2005 20:11, C. Beamer wrote: > Hi all, > > When I installed Gentoo, I chose syslog-ng as my system logger. It was > suggested that I install logrotate to prevent my logfiles from becoming > unmanagageably large. On my desktop system, my /var/log/messages starts October 19,

Re: [gentoo-user] new gentoo installed but can't boot: "Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk And Press Enter"

2005-09-17 Thread John Myers
On Saturday 17 September 2005 21:47, Walter Dnes wrote: > Can you check the jumpers on the drive? In the old days, there were > just "master" and "slave". Now there's a 3rd option "cable select", > which may be abbreviated as "CS". It works "automagically" with Windows > but it does *NOT* work