similar to: Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible to restore WinXP?

On Monday, 19 November 2007, Ross S. W. Walker rwalker at medallion.com wrote: <snip> > You can fix it all from CentOS. Ross: In addition to coming up with another slick way to fix this box, which I truly appreciate, you came up with the below: >You need to run some kind of rootkit detection and cleaner on the >system before it reboots or else it will just reinstall itself.

Have you disconnected all your usb hardware before trying the repair? I've repaired my box more times than I can count and the only time I've seen lots of hdd activity is when I had some weird hardware attached. Geoff Sent from my BlackBerry wireless handheld. -----Original Message----- From: gjgowey at tmo.blackberry.net Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 18:01:11 Subject: [centos] dual boot

Hello: Starting Friday afternoon, I blew away the installations on the three (3) boxes we use as Desktops. On two (2) of them (my Dell Dimension 2400 and my wife's Compaq Evo D300v), I have MS Windows XP and CentOS5 running. :-) On my daughters box (Dell Dimension 4300) I am having problems with the partitioning. Probably this is due to some mistake I have made, with regard to

I wouldn't necessarily wipe the whole HD, just the windows partition. You could also use Xen in CentOS 5 for your Windows virtualization. I'd wait for 5.1 though which will be more refined then version 5. I've been thinking of setting up a Xen machine of my own with a Windows HVM and a couple of Linux PVMs with their GUIs/consoles pinned to different virtual consoles. It has always

"Alain Spineux" <aspineux at gmail.com> wrote: >> probably I will need to wipe the HD and install both OS's again. Lanny >> > > Yes and keep on hand a bart-pe boot disk, this time :-) > That's probably "a good thing". You don't know what else was changed (e.g., registry entries, etc.) that won't keep the system from

On 29 August 2007, "Ross S. W. Walker" <rwalker at medallion.com> wrote: > Message: 39 <snip> > I wouldn't worry too much about the OS HD configuration, you are > always going to want RAID1 for the OS, whether software or hardware. > > Reason I say not to worry too much about the OS HD config is because > you are almost certainly going to put the

Some thoughts, for anyone faced with this type of problem on a dual boot box in the future: My first thought was to try to Rescue the WinXP Spanish language installation that came on the Dell Dimension 2400, out of the Dell factory. Later, I decided to wipe the entire drive, since I now have a WinXP English language Restore CD and I wanted to redo CentOS5, so I would have room to experiment with

On 25 November 2007, John Bowden j-alan at btconnect.com wrote: <snip> >I think the problem is that you can only have 4 Primary partitions on a disk. >If you to convert one of the NTFS partitions to an extended partition, with >the NTFS partition inside it. Personally, if you want to keep the 4 drive >letters in windoz, I would back up the whole disk ("in case"), set up

My test server was in very eavy load, running kolab's components: postfix, cyrus-imap and openldap A second test machine was sending, and reading emails as fast as it can. The CPU was never idle ! I left the server at about 17H30 and at 22H I find it "uncommitted" (difficult to work when the partition in read-only !) However the mount command report it as RW ! The /boot is still RW

Hi I need to store about 250.000.000 files. Files are less than 4k. On a ext4 (fedora 14) the system crawl at 10.000.000 in the same directory. I tried to create hash directories, two level of 4096 dir = 16.000.000 but I had to stop the script to create these dir after hours and "rm -rf" would have taken days ! mkfs was my friend I tried two levels, first of 4096 dir, second of 64

On 06 November 2007, Arnaud Gomes-do-Vale Arnaud.Gomes at ircam.fr wrote: Tue Nov 6 21:44:19 UTC 2007 <snip> >After ruling out the obvious (is /opt full?), check your logs (most >probably dmesg and/or /var/log/messages). >Now a wild guess: what file system are you using for /opt? Does it >support symlinks? JACKPOT! Your "wild guess" was *dead* on! Google is installing

Hi, I have a quite strange problem. I have updated my Server with Suse 9.0 to Samba 2.2.8a. From that moment on I couln'd run programms directly from the share anymore. The WinXP Client says: "you dont have the permission for this file." But I have all permissions for it. This only occurs in that shares where I have set "inherit permissions" to yes. When I set it to

Is it possible to chain isolinux and memdisk over pxelinux? If it's possible, I'd like to boot a CD Image over the network. I've been using pxelinux to boot ltsp for years, and recently upgraded to take advantage of memdisk for booting a DOS hd-image. Ideally I'd be able to boot a CD-Image. Thoughts? -- <:3)~ Michael T. Garrison Stuber

Hello find /etc -size -1G should return all files less than 1Giga byte in /etc, but return a list of empty file (size=0) find /etc -size -2G work fine and return all the files This works the same on my fedora11 and my centos 5 ! Did I miss something or is it a bug ? Regards -- Alain Spineux | aspineux gmail com Your email 100% available |

I stumbled onto another tidbit that may shed some more light. From the new laptop, I tried to create a new folder on the 'samba' share. It fails with the following error message: "Unable to create the folder 'New Folder'. Access is denied" It obviously looks like a permissions issue, but what? I did not have to make any changes to my other laptop (upgraded from XP

Hello My ssh terminal froze some times, and I was thinking it might be related to centos , but now I found that even ubuntu users experiencing the same problem. does ssh logs any where, and what do you suggest for finding the cause. Thanks

So I've been playing with this for hours and still unable to get everything working properly. In short I'm trying to boot an ISO image created by BartPE over pxelinux. When I attempt to do this it goes directly to a blank screen that just has a blinking cursor. Here's what my setup looks like: pebuilder.iso - the ISO file created from BartPE using WinXP SP2 CD as source but with

I was just wondering if there are special tricks people do that compile A LOT on centos? Do RAM disks help or something else I dont about that minimizes your compile time? I presently have and AMD x2 4800+ with 2GIG ram. Just curious if I can reduce any more time out of my compiles. Jerry

(I *really* need to learn this list is configured for replying to sender instead of the list itself..) Dinesh P. schreef: > Hi there, > I am using memdisk with pxelinux, i have created ms-dos boot disk from windows xp, but when i boot from it stops on starting.... > what is the problem can anybody tell me.. > please read Syslinux and Memdisk

HPA, I believe that support to boot windows CD bootsectors was broken in 3.05. I have tested 2.13, 3.00, 3.02, 3.05, 3.06, 3.08, 3.11, and 3.20pre6. All versions >= 3.05 are broken. All versions <= 3.02 work fine with the same config. The error message I get is: ================================================================ IOSLINUX 3.20 3.20-pre6 Copyright (C) 1994-2005 H. Peter Anvin