corrupt partitiontable

2002-09-05 Thread Weimer_Markus
Helo, i execuded a devel inq program and after that the patitiontable was corrupt. Doing an fdisk listing shows me nothing. The server is still running and i didn`t reboot him since that happend. I think that the mbr is broken too. Is there a way to reconstruct the partitiontable ? I didn`t run

RE: Utilities to format partition?

2002-07-31 Thread Weimer_Markus
You can simple do that under RH with "mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda1" but be aware that you are loosing all your data on that partition !!! also see the manpage of mkfs.ext3 for the possible options. best regards, Markus Weimer -Original Message- From: Reuben D. Budiardja [mailto:[EMAIL PROT

RE: Boot Problems

2002-07-31 Thread Weimer_Markus
Hi Joey,   it looks like that you are booting in runnlevel 5 and the X server could not start correct. Try booting from disk or cd in rescue mode and edit your /etc/inittab. Change the following line "runlevelid:5:initdefault:" to "id:3:initdefault:" Normally in rescuemode your harddrives

RE: changing scsi cards after install/ scsi cd burn dies on fixa

2002-07-29 Thread Weimer_Markus
I think gregs right. But don't forget to check /etc/modules.conf. There right module should be in there, because mkinitrd is just appends the modules listed in modules.conf. best regards, Markus Weimer -Original Message- From: Gregory Hosler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Montag

Linux and ddns in a W2K-Domain

2002-07-25 Thread Weimer_Markus
I have a Linux box within a W2K domain and want to register my hostname to the dynamic-dns host. Has someone ever done this before ? I `ve no idea where to look to do it. I use DHCP at the moment and it works fine. But I`m not able to connect to the Linux Box via the hostname. RH 7.3 THX for you

RE: /bin/login: Permission denied

2002-07-02 Thread Weimer_Markus
Hi Ramnath, this seems to be a PAM problem. Check the login in /etc/pam.d it should look like this : #%PAM-1.0 auth required /lib/security/pam_securetty.so auth required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth auth required /lib/security/pam_nologin.so accou

Migrate to other disk

2002-06-27 Thread Weimer_Markus
Hi folks, I want to migrate my Linux System (incl. / and /boot) to a new scsi disk. My idea of doing this is the following : 1) make the new scsi-adapter and the new disk available on the old system. 2) set up a raid 1 (softwareraid with raidtools) via a floppy or CD system. 3) make a sync and