Displaying 20 results from an estimated 20000 matches similar to: "Changing boot drives"
2008 Oct 06
1
Boot disk order: h/w vs. grub
I'm still having conceptual trouble with this one.
I have two PATA and two SATA disks in my home system. When the system
comes up, these are, espectively, /dev/hda, /dev/hdb, /dev/sda and
/dev/sdb. I have the boot order of the drives in the boot PROM set to
boot from /dev/sda (hard drive 2), then /dev/hda (hd 0), and usually
that works fine. /dev/sda is properly set up with the MBR and
2008 Jul 28
5
Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)
Over the weekend, I had to make a technical support call on one of my
DVD burners, and at one point the recorded message mentioned I should
have my serial number handy. I thought there was a way to read that
from at least one piece of software on the system, but I couldn't
remember one and man -k on a number of subjects was unrevealing.
Can someone enlighten me (us)?
Thanks.
mhr
2008 Sep 11
3
Alarming (?) smartd reports
I decided, after the last discussion of smartd and S.M.A.R.T. disks,
to take a look in my /var/log/messages, and I'm seeing fair bit of
this:
Sep 10 20:11:23 mhrichter smartd[3361]: Device: /dev/sda, 4294967295
Offline uncorrectable sectors
Sep 10 20:41:23 mhrichter smartd[3361]: Device: /dev/hdb, 21 Currently
unreadable (pending) sectors
Sep 10 20:41:24 mhrichter smartd[3361]: Device:
2008 Sep 22
2
Problem with booting/grub (?)
Earlier this evening, I had the interesting experience of shutting down
my machine (because of that lp out-of-sync problem, discussed
elsewhere), and watching it not come back up. I admit that I changed
out one of my DVD writers for another one, but I don't understand how
that could have had any effect on this:
When I restarted the machine, it came up to the point where it normally
shows:
2009 Sep 02
6
dnsmasq - I'm a little confused....
I have attempted to update with yum over the last 27 hours, and all I
get is this:
[mhr at mhrichter ~]$ sudo yum update
Password:
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: linux.mirrors.es.net
* updates: centos.g5selfstorage.com
* extras: centos.mirrors.redwire.net
kbs-CentOS-Extras | 951 B 00:00
2008 Jul 10
3
Understanding iptables
In following up on the rsh "problem" I was having earlier, I decided
to try out the suggestion Felipe sent about using
system-config-securitylevel-tui to open up ports 513 and 514, but that
doesn't seem to do the job, either.
# iptables -L
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
RH-Firewall-1-INPUT all -- anywhere anywhere
2009 Jun 14
3
Trouble (?) reformatting flash drive to include former U3 partition
Semi-OT?
I just got a new SanDisk 8GB flash drive, and, as usual, it came with
the U3 software (for Windoze) on a "CD" partition and considerably
less than 8GB on the disk partition. I put it into my WinXP portable
and told U3 to delete itself, but I still can't get at the old U3 part
of the drive. I've tried WinXP's format command, disk management and
CentOS's fdisk,
2008 Dec 31
6
CD burning issues & questions
I have been having some strange results trying to burn CDs under
CentOS. I don't think they are hardware related because I have had
some success, in fact most of this usually works.
I use k3b for most of my CD and DVD writing - it seems to work fairly
well (well, except for wrecking my installation a few weeks ago when
it crashed my installation and I had to reinstall to get it back, but
2008 Aug 01
2
Remounting a USB flash drive
I've noticed that once I right click on my flash drive icon and umount
it, in order to remount it I have to unplug it and then plug it back
in.
Is there a command that will accomplish the same task without the
unplug and plug back in physics?
Thanks.
mhr
2009 May 20
5
Video on (video-capable digital) still camera not accessible
I'm looking for any intelligent commentary on this - it may be a
little off topic, but I'm wondering if anyone knows about this. This
isn't short, so bear with me.
Yesterday, I tried to download a video off of one of my digital still
cameras that also takes videos (Canon Powershot SX10 iS) on my CentOS
x86_64 5.3 system. When I plugged the camera into a USB port and
turned it on, it
2008 Aug 26
1
(Global/Any) setting for "show hidden files?" - SOLVED
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 11:33 AM, MHR <mhullrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a setting somewhere in the "global" arena of CentOS that
> controls whether or not "hidden" (.prefixed) files are displayed in
> file lists?
>
Never mind - apparently if you right-click in the file list and select
"show hidden files", it sticks system-wide.
mhr
2009 Dec 11
4
Firewall for virtual machines
I realize I'm not getting a lot of questions answered here lately, and
I'm going to presume that this is for legitimate reasons (i.e., people
don't know or are too busy to think about it), not because they seem
stupid (if they do, please tell me, on the list or privately).
I run Windows as a VMWare guest on top of my CentOS host, and I
generally have not used a firewall on the guest.
2008 Jul 17
2
yum update glitch on latest update to 5.2
]# yum update
Loading "priorities" plugin
Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirror.hmc.edu
* updates: mirrors.versaweb.com
* kbs-CentOS-Extras: centos.karan.org
* extras: centos-distro.cavecreek.net
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
Excluding Packages from CentOS-5 - Base
Finished
Excluding Packages from
2007 Aug 01
3
Can't print PDFs or PSs in CentOS 5.0
For some reason, when I try to print any graphic PDF (or a PS file made
from said graphic), it kills my Minolta 1100 laser printer, and I have
to cancel the job, disable the printer and turn the printer off and on
as many times as it takes to clear its buffer of the trash.
I'm running CentOS 5.0 and have tried Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 for
Linux; I have also tried printing the pdf to a file
2010 May 13
1
Can't print a pdf?
I just had a strange occurrence. I was printing out some PDFs and I
pulled one down off the web (my wireless bill) and tried to print page
1. My browser properly fired up AR9, but nothing printed. I tried
agian, still nothing. I saved the file, opened it with the Document
Viewer and it can't print the file either. I tried opening it with
GIMP, and it gets this error:
Opening
2009 May 13
2
File compare word by word
Is there a utility that compares files word by word, instead of whole
lines or single bytes?
I found that I can simulate this by replacing all the spaces in a file
with linefeeds, then 'diff -B' the results, but that's kind of awkward
and hard to read when differences that matter come up.
(For the record, I tried using OOo's document comparer, converting to
text and using diff,
2008 May 12
1
Partly OT: Is there a DVD (or other) firmware flash download program for CentOS/Linux?
All I can see with google is sfdnwin.exe for Window$ only....
Thanks.
mhr
2008 Nov 11
2
Reinstalled Windows and GRUB - Cannot boot Linux - SOLVED
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 4:32 PM, MHR <mhullrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists at gmail.com> wrote:
<snip>
>> Question: Is /hda3 mounted properly? I don't think so, because when I
>> try to boot Linux from the Grub menu on the HD, it gives me "Error 17:
>> Cannot mount selected partition"
2010 May 21
2
Can't umount flash drive because an application has it locked
This occasionally happens to me when I've been editing an OOo document
that resides on a flash drive I use with one of my laptops. I've
tried poking around in ps to find out which process has the drive
locked, and I can't figure it out. Nothing directly refers to the
flash drive except one of the hald processes, and it's just scanning
the drive (I tried killing that and it made
2008 May 13
1
Re: Curiosity when installing CentOS 5.1 in addition to W98 & WXP - SOLVED
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 4:47 PM, MHR <mhullrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote:
> > on 5-12-2008 10:17 AM MHR spake the following:
> >
>
> > It might not have finished the install, and something made it reboot before
> > it had written the grub records.
> >
>
> I figure