debian-user-digest Digest V2007 #2252

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debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2007 : Issue 2252

Today's Topics:

  Re: Networking problems               [ "Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum"  ]
  Re: using a remote IMAP server and s  [ "Richard Lyons"  ]
  Re: Unsolved Scanner Problem          [ Felix Karpfen  ]
  Re: using a remote IMAP server and s  [ Florian Kulzer  ]
  Re: Search for string in files        [ - Tong -  ]

  Re: Cannot open root device "hda1" o [ "Francois Duranleau" <xiao.bai.xion ]   Re: Re: Re^4: Lenny, X, dead mouse [ Peter Easthope <peasthope@shaw.ca> ]

Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 14:13:03 -0700 (PDT) From: "Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" <bg271828@yahoo.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Networking problems

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> Please don't Cc: me, I am subscribed to the list.

Sorry, on some other lists im on its considered polite to cc the posters.

And i know im breaking threading by responding now with a new message. I have to stop the digest subscription, sorry....

> On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 11:08 -0700, Dr. Jennifer >
Nussbaum wrote:
>> Also, theres still the (probably bigger) problem
that
>> 2.6.18-5 doesnt find my wireless interface at all.
And
>> that even though i upgraded to 2.6.18-6, this isnt
>> given to me as an option when i boot. Any thoughts
>> about those?
>
>Let's see which kernel versions are installed
>actually, please post the

r>esult of:
>
>$ dpkg -l linux-image-2.6*

Sorry about the formatting.

• begin included --- ~ $ dpkg -l linux-image-2.6* Desired=3DUnknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=3DNot/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=3D(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=3Dboth-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=3Dbad) ||/ Name Version =20 Description +++-=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D-=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D-=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D un linux-image-2.6 <none> =20 (no description available) ii linux-image-2.6-686 2.6.18+6etch2 =20 Linux kernel 2.6 image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4 ii linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12etch2 =20 Linux 2.6.18 image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4 ii linux-image-2.6.18-5-686 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch1 =20 Linux 2.6.18 image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4
• end included ---

I dont know where 2.6.18-6 is--the update applet on the panel told me there was an update, i ran it, it said
that 2.6.18-6 was ready, i installed it, but now its not there, i guess.

>What is your Wi-Fi chip? Maybe you don't have the
>driver module
>installed for the newer kernel version.

Its an Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG. From my dmesg in the 2.6.18-4 kernel:

---
ipw3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945 Network Connection
driver for Linux, 1.1.2dmpr
ipw3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
---

But i didnt get any message about this driver being
out of date.

Thank you again!

Jen




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Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 14:09:34 -0700 From: Mike Bird <mgb-debian@yosemite.net> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Search for string in files Message-Id: <200708251409.34572.mgb-debian@yosemite.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 25 August 2007 14:34, Johannes Tax wrote:
> On [Sat, 25.08.2007 13:15], Mike Bird wrote:
> > grep -l 'a_certain_function' $(find . -name '*.c')
>
> That's exactly what I need. It also shows that I have to investigate the
> grep command a little bit further ...
BTW, unlike backquote, dollar-paren nests. If you need to edit those files with e.g. emacs you can: emacs $(grep -l 'a_certain_function' $(find . -name '*.c')) --Mike Bird

Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 22:09:58 +0100 (BST) From: "Richard Lyons" <richard@the-place.net> To: "debian-user " <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: using a remote IMAP server and smarthost Message-ID: <41162.83.67.89.134.1188076198.squirrel@www.the-place.net> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, August 25, 2007 18:56, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 17:30:12 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote:
[...]
>> I have an IMAP server on a remote vm. I access it with mutt because i=
t
>> sucks least. But when I want to send mail, I have to open a webmail
[...]
> Can you log in on the vm via ssh? Is a sendmail-equivalent command
> available to you there? There are various tricks that can be played wit=
h
> ssh tunneling and/or with remotely running sendmail via ssh. (I'll be
> happy to provide more details if an ssh-based approach is feasible for
> you.)
Yes, no problem with ssh. I have also tried simply using mutt on the server, which works but has two disadvantages: I cannot copy mail to the local machine, and for presumably different reasons of misconfiguration that also cannot send mail! But the tunnelling sounds a good way forward. I did try installing stunnel once, but the guide I was referring to was not up to my level of ignorance. Please do tell me more... --=20 richard

Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:10:14 +0200 From: Johannes Tax <jo.ey@gmx.at> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Search for string in files Message-ID: <20070825151014.GA4775@johannes.tax-gmbh.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to find a certain string inside a bunch of files. If I, for examples, look for a certain function in a large source tree, I could do cat `find . -name '*.c'` | grep 'a_certain_function' but this seems quite awkward, furthermore it doesn't help that much because I don't know in which file the string was found. Maybe there's a tool that makes it possible to find a string in a bunch of files and also to list in which file the string was found? Or any modification to the command given above? Thanks a lot in advance, Johannes -- Johannes Tax jo.ey@gmx.at

Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 21:17:13 +0000 (UTC) From: Felix Karpfen <felixk@webone.com.au> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Unsolved Scanner Problem Message-ID: <faq68o$vvh$1@sea.gmane.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:43:31 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: SNIP
>=20
> Thinking about this I have concluded that it is not the scanner, it is=20
> unlikely that its the sane backend (Iscan uses the sane backend so it i=
s=20
> in play for both scanners), it is unlikely that both Iscan and Xsane=20
> have the same fault, it is unlikely that it is a udev/usb problem as I=20
> have not seen myriad postings on the Debian user's list, so the problem=
=20
> must be with the kernel I complied.
>=20
> Does any one have any idea what I might have done wrong?
>=20
I ran into (unresolved) scanning-problems when I upgraded from Sarge to Etch.=20 Epson has a bulletin-board for posting scanner problems. Although _I_ have failed dismally in persuading this Bulletin Board to accept my messages, hopefully you can work out how to use it. A starting-point is: http://avasys.jp/hp/menu000000500/hpg000000442.htm=20 Good luck Felix Karpfen --=20 Felix Karpfen Public Key 72FDF9DF (DH/DSA)

Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:37:05 -0500 From: Neil Gunton <neil@nilspace.com> To: Johannes Tax <jo.ey@gmx.at> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Search for string in files Message-ID: <46D0AF11.7030208@nilspace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Johannes Tax wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to figure out how to find a certain string inside a bunch of
> files. If I, for examples, look for a certain function in a large source
> tree, I could do
>
> cat `find . -name '*.c'` | grep 'a_certain_function'
>
> but this seems quite awkward, furthermore it doesn't help that much
> because I don't know in which file the string was found. Maybe there's a
> tool that makes it possible to find a string in a bunch of files and
> also to list in which file the string was found? Or any modification to
> the command given above?
I wrote a perl script that does this (and other stuff) - it's called 'deep' and available on my website: http://www.neilgunton.com/doc/deep In your example, you'd just do this: shell> deep find 'a_certain_function' And it tells you the file and line numbers where the matches were found. As the name implies, the script recurses on directories automatically. There are other features like replace, delete, do (cmd), etc. /Neil

Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 00:27:32 +0200 From: Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: using a remote IMAP server and smarthost Message-ID: <20070825222732.GA3848@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 22:09:58 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote:
> On Sat, August 25, 2007 18:56, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 17:30:12 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote:
> [...]
> >> I have an IMAP server on a remote vm. I access it with mutt because it
> >> sucks least. But when I want to send mail, I have to open a webmail
> [...]
>
> > Can you log in on the vm via ssh? Is a sendmail-equivalent command
> > available to you there? There are various tricks that can be played with
> > ssh tunneling and/or with remotely running sendmail via ssh. (I'll be
> > happy to provide more details if an ssh-based approach is feasible for
> > you.)
>
> Yes, no problem with ssh. I have also tried simply using mutt on
> the server, which works but has two disadvantages: I cannot copy mail
> to the local machine, and for presumably different reasons of
> misconfiguration that also cannot send mail! But the tunnelling sounds
> a good way forward. I did try installing stunnel once, but the guide
> I was referring to was not up to my level of ignorance.
>
> Please do tell me more...
OK, I will outline the two methods I know, then you can decide which one you like better. (Don't hesitate to ask for more details if necessary.) In the following I will assume that your ~/.ssh/config is set up such that you can use "ssh myvm" to log in on the vm. (This allows me to keep the command syntax simple and in any case I think it is a good approach in practice.) I would also recommend to set up public key authentication and to use ssh-agent, to avoid having to type your password whenever you send mail. Method 1: --------- You can forward a local port via ssh like this: ssh -N -L 2525:smtp.smarthost.tld:25 myvm This command establishes an ssh connection to myvm. Everything that is sent to port 2525 on your local computer will be forwarded to myvm and then myvm will pass it on to smtp.smarthost.tld, port 25. This is like a mini-VPN for only one port; you have to run this command before you send mail(s) and you can cancel it (CTRL-C) when you are done. Mutt (or any other MUA) on the local computer can now simply be configured to use localhost, port 2525 as its smtp server. To smtp.smarthost.tld, on the other hand, it will seem as if the smtp-connection originates from myvm and it should accept it. The connection works in both directions and all reactions of the smarthost will be sent back to your local computer, port 2525. If the smarthost requires smtps connections from myvm then you have to use port 465 instead of port 25: ssh -N -L 2525:smtp.smarthost.tld:465 myvm and you have to configure mutt or your local MTA accordingly. Method 2: --------- You can set up mutt's sendmail command to use a short script which invokes ssh to run sendmail on myvm directly. This requires that sendmail works on myvm, though. The advantage is that you don't have to do anything else before you send mail (unlike with method 1). It seems that you do not have sendmail fully operational on myvm at the moment, so maybe you will want to stick with method 1 right now. In any case, here is the necessary wrapper script for method 2: ---------- STARTS BELOW (this line is not part of the script) ---------- #! /bin/sh # sendmail-via-ssh.sh # wrapper script for mutt to use sendmail via ssh # # activated by this option in ~/.muttrc: # set sendmail="/path/to/sendmail-via-ssh.sh" cat - | ssh myvm "/usr/sbin/sendmail -oem -oi $@" ---------- ENDS ABOVE (this line is not part of the script) ---------- -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian |

Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 16:40:42 -0700 (PDT) From: "Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" <bg271828@yahoo.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Networking problem (SOLVED) Message-ID: <251625.99861.qm@web53406.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>>What is your Wi-Fi chip? Maybe you don't have the
>>driver module
>>installed for the newer kernel version.
>
>Its an Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG. From my dmesg in
>the 2.6.18-4 kernel:
>
>---
>ipw3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945 Network
Connection
>driver for Linux, 1.1.2dmpr
>ipw3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
>---
>
>But i didnt get any message about this driver being
>out of date.
Im sorry, i looked closely at the packages and i see now that theres a new version of the driver package to go with the new kernel. I would have expected that there would be some kind of automatic update, or some way of letting me know that when i upgraded the kernel i needed to upgrade the driver package as well. Anyway i just installed the new version of the driver, that goes with the -5 kernel, and its working fine. Thank you for putting up with this newbie! Jen ___________________________________________________________________= _________________ Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user pa= nel and lay it on us. http://surveylink.yahoo.com/gmrs/yahoo_panel_invite= .asp?a=3D7=20

Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 00:52:30 +0100 (BST) From: "Richard Lyons" <richard@the-place.net> To: "debian-user " <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: what is /command directory? Message-ID: <45306.83.67.89.134.1188085950.squirrel@www.the-place.net> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I just noticed with a sinking feeling that my root partition is 96% full. I do wish I hadn't let the installer use LVM and choose its own sizes. Now I am stuck trying to work round its choices. I also notice a number of directories I've never heard of before under root: command, package, service 'service' contains a symlink to /etc/tinydns, left over from an attempt to install tinydns, I assume. Is it likely the others also belong to tinydns, because if so I can delete them as it didn't run anyway. TIA --=20 richard

Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 16:54:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Joris Huizer <joris_huizer@yahoo.com> To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: fresh kde install Message-ID: <464194.42921.qm@web52711.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable --- "L.V.Gandhi" <lvgandhi@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have installed etch base system and th en
> installed xorg. I was
> trying to install kde
> apt-get install kde kdm
> I get msg saying
> .....
> the following packages has unmet dependencies
> kde:depends on kde-core(>=3D5.47), but it not going to
> be installed
> :depends on kde-amusements(>=3D5.47), but it not
> going to be installed
> :depends on kdeaddons(>=3D4:3.4.3), but it not going
> to be installed
> :depends on kde-pim(>=3D4:3.4.3), but it not going to
> be installed
> Whe there is this problem in even in stable?
> How to install kde
> --=20
> L.V.Gandhi
> http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/
> linux user No.205042
>=20
No idea why those won't install automatically -- maybe they are kept in a 'hold' state for some reason. You could run `aptitude install kde kdm`, it might try harder to get kde installed. Also this can be done using the gui of `aptitude`; it will show problems it found with your requested installation of packages Alternatively, you might add all the packages that "are not going to be installed" to the apt-get line, like `apt-get install kde kdm kde-core kde-amusements kdeaddons kde-pim` - that way you'll probably get around the problem too HTH, Joris =20 _________________________________________________________________________= ___________ Choose the right car based on your needs. Check out Yahoo! Autos new Car= Finder tool. http://autos.yahoo.com/carfinder/

Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 01:59:16 +0200 From: Krzysztof =?UTF-8?Q?Luba=C5=84ski?= <luban@nerdshack.com> To: Debian-user list <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: Networking problems Message-Id: <1188086356.13572.35.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 14:13 -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
> > Please don't Cc: me, I am subscribed to the list.
>
> Sorry, on some other lists im on its considered polite
> to cc the posters.
No problem - different places, different rules. Here they are as on http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct. Possibly the assumption is that everyone is subscribed unless he/she states otherwise.
> And i know im breaking threading by responding now
> with a new message. I have to stop the digest
> subscription, sorry....
For me now it's not too bad - turning on fallback threading by subject helps sometimes.
> >$ dpkg -l linux-image-2.6*
>
> Sorry about the formatting.
Right, should have advised you to grep the result.
> ii linux-image-2.6-686 2.6.18+6etch2
> Linux kernel 2.6 image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4
> ii linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12etch2
> Linux 2.6.18 image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4
> ii linux-image-2.6.18-5-686 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch1
> Linux 2.6.18 image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4

> I dont know where 2.6.18-6 is--the update applet on
> the panel told me there was an update, i ran it, it
> said
> that 2.6.18-6 was ready, i installed it, but now its
> not there, i guess.
Hmm, on second thoughts - wasn't it the latest security update, linux-image-2.6-686 version 2.6.18+6etch2? This "+6" can be misleading, because this package depends on another - linux-image-2.6.18-5-686, which contains the actual kernel. So it's still 2.6.18-5, there's no 2.6.18-6 in Etch yet. And I suppose this is what you've installed, perfectly okay.
> >What is your Wi-Fi chip? Maybe you don't have the
> >driver module
> >installed for the newer kernel version.
>
> Its an Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG. [...]
Same as I have, it's pretty widespread. Probably you haven't installed the driver module for your latest kernel (2.6.18-5). Try installing the ipw3945-modules-2.6-686 package, it will keep your modules up-to-date in the future. And right now it depends on ipw3945-modules-2.6.18-5-686, which will enable the chip on your 2.6.18-5 kernel. Maybe you've installed ipw3945-modules-2.6.18-4-686 earlier, so it fitted the old kernel, but without the ipw3945-modules-2.6-686 "umbrella package" it just stuck at this version. Hope this helps, -- Krzysztof Lubanski

Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 02:06:10 +0200 From: Krzysztof =?UTF-8?Q?Luba=C5=84ski?= <luban@nerdshack.com> To: Debian-user list <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: Networking problem (SOLVED) Message-Id: <1188086770.13572.40.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 16:40 -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
> Im sorry, i looked closely at the packages and i see
> now that theres a new version of the driver package to
> go with the new kernel. I would have expected that
> there would be some kind of automatic update, or some
> way of letting me know that when i upgraded the kernel
> i needed to upgrade the driver package as well.
Just install ipw3945-modules-2.6-686, which I mentioned in the other reply - it does just this. Sorry I haven't seen your last post before replying to the previous.
> Anyway i just installed the new version of the driver,
> that goes with the -5 kernel, and its working fine.
Good to know!
> Thank you for putting up with this newbie!
You're welcome. It's what this list is for. -- Krzysztof Lubanski

Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 19:13:59 -0500 From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: what is /command directory? Message-ID: <46D0C5C7.6090308@cox.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/25/07 18:52, Richard Lyons wrote:
> I just noticed with a sinking feeling that my root partition is 96% full.
> I do wish I hadn't let the installer use LVM and choose its own sizes.
> Now I am stuck trying to work round its choices. I also notice a number
> of directories I've never heard of before under root:
> command, package, service
>
> 'service' contains a symlink to /etc/tinydns, left over from an attempt
> to install tinydns, I assume. Is it likely the others also belong to
> tinydns, because if so I can delete them as it didn't run anyway.
If /var is not in it's own partition, then "apt-get autoclean" will free up a lot of space. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG0MXHS9HxQb37XmcRAtLmAKCKs4yJ9M1/dq3MYHjpUHETSVG57wCdG1oO 0PTYkWFvcKH5hNG1hg0tABw= =+np0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 00:25:10 +0000 (UTC) From: - Tong - <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Search for string in files Message-ID: <faqh96$mcl$1@sea.gmane.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:37:05 -0500, Neil Gunton wrote:
>> I'm trying to figure out how to find a certain string inside a bunch o=
f
>> files. If I, for examples, look for a certain function in a large sour=
ce
>> tree, I could do
>>=20
>> cat `find . -name '*.c'` | grep 'a_certain_function'
>>=20
>> but this seems quite awkward, furthermore it doesn't help that much
>> because I don't know in which file the string was found. Maybe there's=
a
>> tool that makes it possible to find a string in a bunch of files and
>> also to list in which file the string was found? Or any modification t=
o
>> the command given above?
>=20
> I wrote a perl script that does this (and other stuff)
I wrote such a perl script as well when in Window$. But now I stick to plain *nix solution -- why bother a script if you can do it with pure=20 *nix command. Try this: grep -Hn 'a_certain_function' `find . -name '*.c'` If the find command returns over hundreds of files, which might yield command line too long error, try this: find . -name '*.c' | xargs grep -Hn 'a_certain_function'=20 You can also substitute grep with agrep for much more advanced searches: agrep text search tool with support for approximate patterns See, the combination of pure *nix command can solve every possible problems you may have, whereas in window$, you have to have thousands of individual tools for thousands of different tasks, and even with the same task, say rename files, you may have to choose from hundreds of tools to pick the one that suits your needs. Yuck. HTH --=20 Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 20:36:01 -0400 From: "Francois Duranleau" <xiao.bai.xiong@gmail.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Cannot open root device "hda1" or unknown-block(0,0) Message-ID: <8eb883950708251736y3a9cddcdte8a5f02e30005899@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 8/24/07, Wayne Topa <linuxone@intergate.com> wrote:
> Francois Duranleau(xiao.bai.xiong@gmail.com) is reported to have said:
[snip]
> > It's an old system: AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1.1GHz with 1.25GB RAM and
> > an 80GB Western Digital drive, for sur not SATA, I bought this
> > computer in december 2000. The motherboard is an ABIT KT7 (no RAID,
> > VIA chipsets). Right now I am not using the kernel's VIA chipset
> > driver because it causes me some troubles (see
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/08/msg00252.html and the rest
> > of the thread).
>
> I am using the same MB with less Mem but 160G HD to write this. I
> would like to see the contents of the /boot dir.
Here it is (ls -lR /boot/): total 3676 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 508410 Aug 5 22:45 System.map-2.4.27 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 521488 Aug 5 23:31 System.map-2.6.18 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Dec 31 2003 boot.0300 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Dec 31 2003 boot.0303 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Dec 31 2003 boot.0304 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Sep 3 2005 boot.b -> boot-text.b -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 308326 Apr 9 15:38 coffee.bmp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25341 Aug 5 22:33 config-2.4.27 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 34755 Aug 5 23:14 config-2.6.18 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Sep 3 2005 debian.bmp -> /boot/sid.bmp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 153720 Apr 9 15:38 debianlilo.bmp drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 6 23:21 grub -rw------- 1 root root 33792 Feb 16 2007 map -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23662 Apr 9 15:38 sarge.bmp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24116 Apr 9 15:38 sid.bmp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 873763 Aug 5 22:45 vmlinuz-2.4.27 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1188132 Aug 5 23:31 vmlinuz-2.6.18 /boot/grub: total 196 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 197 Feb 16 2007 default -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30 Feb 16 2007 device.map -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7584 Feb 16 2007 e2fs_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7424 Feb 16 2007 fat_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Feb 16 2007 jfs_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4278 Aug 6 23:21 menu.lst -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4278 Aug 6 23:21 menu.lst~ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6848 Feb 16 2007 minix_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9280 Feb 16 2007 reiserfs_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Feb 16 2007 stage1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 108360 Feb 16 2007 stage2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8904 Feb 16 2007 xfs_stage1_5
> The menu.lst looks ok, if you are not using an initrd image.
I am not using such an image. [snip] -- Francois

Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:28:26 -0700 From: Peter Easthope <peasthope@shaw.ca> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Re: Re^4: Lenny, X, dead mouse Message-id: <46D0C92A.1010209@shaw.ca> Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Andrei, ap> Did you ever restart this machine? I mean after installing with debootstrap. If yes then try a 'dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.18-4-686' and then reboot (BTW you should upgrade to 2.6.18-5-686). Thanks. A look in deselect elaborated the problem immediately: no kernel package. I should have realized that debootstrap copied a kernel but did not install the kernel package. There was an Ethernet driver but no mouse driver. ap> I always thought of debootstrap to be the most "hackish" way of installing Debian. The new installer is really great. Given a working system able to communicate with a deb server and an attached target storage device, installation on the target should be straightforward and efficient. Works well really. The third storage medium, CD or USB or other, isn't necessary, provided my wits are present. ap> Could you please not start a new thread each time you answer. Just use reply Topic for another message. Thanks, Peter E, End of debian-user-digest Digest V2007 Issue #2252 ************************************************** Received on Sat Aug 25 21:41:56 2007