[UCLA-LUG] HELP
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Tue, 8 Feb 2000 11:03:10 -0800
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> 1. Problem after partitioning disk (Dirk Stroobandt)
> 2. Help - ATI Rage 128 Xpert (John A. Gregory)
> 3. Error in /dev/sda7 (MIng Yu)
> 4. Re: Error in /dev/sda7 (witten)
> 5. kppp suddenly won't work (Taison Tan)
> 6. Re: Error in /dev/sda7 (MIng Yu)
> 7. Re: Problem after partitioning disk (mike chan)
> 8. modem (Chun Che Li)
> 9. Partition (Chun Che Li)
> 10. need help please: 1) DSL and 2) BootMagic (Bernie Eisenberg)
> 11. sawmill.themes.org screenshot (Mark Fasheh)
> 12. Re: sawmill.themes.org screenshot (Mark Fasheh)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 10:34:09 -0800
> From: Dirk Stroobandt <dstr@cs.ucla.edu>
> Organization: UCLA
> To: linux@linux.ucla.edu
> Subject: [UCLA-LUG] Problem after partitioning disk
> Reply-To: linux@linux.ucla.edu
>
> Hi,
>
> I went to the Linux Installfest last Saturday and got linux successfully
> installed on my Laptop. However, after partitioning the disk with
> partitionmagic, Windows would not start up (message "non-system disk or
> disk error"). We installed linux from CD-ROM and it works fine but
> Windows still does not run. There must be something wrong with the
> master boot record. The Windows partition is mounted on linux partition
> so I can see my old files there.
>
> I used the recovery CD from my notebook on ran
> fdisk /mbr
> but that did not help. Windows is still dead. I could of course back up
> all my files in the windows partition (but I only have floppies at the
> moment and I would need lots of them), then install the entire (Windows)
> system again (I still need/want windows ...) and do the linux
> installation over again but that is going to take some time (I also
> installed several other packages under windows before).
>
> Any suggestions on how I can get Windows to start up again without those
> drastic measures?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dirk
>
> --
> ************************************************************
>
> Dr. Dirk Stroobandt
>
> Postdoctoral Fellow of the Fund for Scientific Research
> (F.W.O.) at the University of Ghent, ELIS Department
>
> Visiting Andrew B. Kahng's group at UCLA from 7/99 to 6/2000
>
> URL: http://www.elis.rug.ac.be/~dstr/dstr.html
>
> ***********************************************************
>
>
>
>
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>
> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 19:57:59 +0100
> To: linux@linux.ucla.edu
> From: "John A. Gregory" <j.gregory@completion.nl>
> Subject: [UCLA-LUG] Help - ATI Rage 128 Xpert
> Reply-To: linux@linux.ucla.edu
>
> Hi,
> I've a Fujitsu-Siemens Myrica with an ATI Rage 126 Xpert video card. I've
> been trying to install Red Hat Linux 6.1, but a standard (with Xwindows)
> installation failed with server not found. I then succesfgully installed
it
> in text mode.
> At the beginning of January I downloaded the latest XFree86 with ATI Rage
> 128 support. I've installed it and managed to configure it using XF86Setup
> - horiz synch 30-86, vert synch 50-120.
> I can now start Xwindows but the characters look mostly like bar codes!
> Any ideas?
> Thanks in advance,
> John
> ________________________________________________________
> John A. Gregory
> j.gregory@completion.nl j.a.gregory@bcs.org.uk
> De Ideale Aanvulling op uw Kennis
> Hij die geen fouten maakt, maakt in de regel niets!
> Als je pindas betaalt, krijg je altijd apen
> ________________________________________________________
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 13:41:35 -0800
> From: MIng Yu <myu@anderson.ucla.edu>
> To: linux@linux.ucla.edu
> Subject: [UCLA-LUG] Error in /dev/sda7
> Reply-To: linux@linux.ucla.edu
>
> Hi,
>
> My linux ran perfectly till this Monday. It suddenly cannot boot up. The
> error msg said:
>
> checking root filesyste
> /dev/sda7 contains a file system with errors, check forced.
> /dev/sda7:
> Inode 23271 has illegal blocks.
> /dev/sda7: unexpected inconsistency; run fsck manually.
>
> When I tried to run fsck, it said "Parallelizing fsck version 1.15".
>
> I have no idea what's the problm since I'm new to linux. Can anyone help
> me on this?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Ming
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 06:48:48 -0800
> From: witten <witten>
> To: linux@linux.ucla.edu
> Subject: Re: [UCLA-LUG] Error in /dev/sda7
> Reply-To: linux@linux.ucla.edu
>
> On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 01:41:35PM -0800, MIng Yu wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > My linux ran perfectly till this Monday. It suddenly cannot boot up. The
> > error msg said:
> >
> > checking root filesyste
> > /dev/sda7 contains a file system with errors, check forced.
> > /dev/sda7:
> > Inode 23271 has illegal blocks.
> > /dev/sda7: unexpected inconsistency; run fsck manually.
>
> This is usually what happens if you power off the machine without properly
> shutting down the machine. fsck is analogous to scandisk in Windows.. If
you
> power off the machine without shutting down properly, Windows will run
> scandisk the next time you boot up to correct filesystem errors.
>
> >
> > When I tried to run fsck, it said "Parallelizing fsck version 1.15".
> >
>
> fsck -a /dev/sda7
>
> Then answer yes to all questions.
>
> That should do the trick. Usually, the machine will be able to run fsck by
> itself and correct everything, but sometimes, as in this case you're
> experiencing, fsck must be run manually.
>
> > I have no idea what's the problm since I'm new to linux. Can anyone help
> > me on this?
> >
>
> Once you fix the filesystem, be sure that in the future you shut off the
> machine all the way before you power down.
>
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Ming
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > UCLALUG Linux mailing list - Linux@linux.ucla.edu
> > http://linux.ucla.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux
>
> --
> Dan Helfman
> UCLA Linux Users Group: http://www.linux.ucla.edu
> My GnuPG key: http://torsion.org/witten/public-key.txt
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 14:55:14 -0800 (PST)
> From: Taison Tan <taisont@coho.seas.ucla.edu>
> To: linux@linux.ucla.edu
> Subject: [UCLA-LUG] kppp suddenly won't work
> Reply-To: linux@linux.ucla.edu
>
>
> When I try using kppp to connect to BOL, for some reason it doesn't allow
> me to log in. It connects fine and communicates, but something goes wrong
> in the authentication. The only thing I did different from the time it was
> working to the time it stopped working was change my password. So since I
> changed my password, I set up a new account with the new password, but it
> won't connect. Did anything change with BOL?
>
> Taison
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 15:21:39 -0800
> From: MIng Yu <myu@anderson.ucla.edu>
> To: linux@linux.ucla.edu
> Subject: Re: [UCLA-LUG] Error in /dev/sda7
> Reply-To: linux@linux.ucla.edu
>
> Millions of thanks for witten and Bryan for helping me out on this. It
works!
> Everything returns to normal condition now.
>
> Ming
>
> witten wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 01:41:35PM -0800, MIng Yu wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > My linux ran perfectly till this Monday. It suddenly cannot boot up.
The
> > > error msg said:
> > >
> > > checking root filesyste
> > > /dev/sda7 contains a file system with errors, check forced.
> > > /dev/sda7:
> > > Inode 23271 has illegal blocks.
> > > /dev/sda7: unexpected inconsistency; run fsck manually.
> >
> > This is usually what happens if you power off the machine without
properly
> > shutting down the machine. fsck is analogous to scandisk in Windows.. If
you
> > power off the machine without shutting down properly, Windows will run
> > scandisk the next time you boot up to correct filesystem errors.
> >
> > >
> > > When I tried to run fsck, it said "Parallelizing fsck version 1.15".
> > >
> >
> > fsck -a /dev/sda7
> >
> > Then answer yes to all questions.
> >
> > That should do the trick. Usually, the machine will be able to run fsck
by
> > itself and correct everything, but sometimes, as in this case you're
> > experiencing, fsck must be run manually.
> >
> > > I have no idea what's the problm since I'm new to linux. Can anyone
help
> > > me on this?
> > >
> >
> > Once you fix the filesystem, be sure that in the future you shut off the
> > machine all the way before you power down.
> >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Ming
> > >
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > UCLALUG Linux mailing list - Linux@linux.ucla.edu
> > > http://linux.ucla.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux
> >
> > --
> > Dan Helfman
> > UCLA Linux Users Group: http://www.linux.ucla.edu
> > My GnuPG key: http://torsion.org/witten/public-key.txt
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > UCLALUG Linux mailing list - Linux@linux.ucla.edu
> > http://linux.ucla.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux
>
> It should allow you to enter the root password.
> After you login and arep resented with a prompt, type
> fsck /dev/sda7
>
> It should find and fix all problems.
> If it does not, your disk might be going bad.
>
> Bryan G. Seitz
> UofD Computer Science
> UofD LUG Admin
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 22:17:56 -0800
> To: linux@linux.ucla.edu
> From: mike chan <snotty@ucla.edu>
> Subject: Re: [UCLA-LUG] Problem after partitioning disk
> Reply-To: linux@linux.ucla.edu
>
> Dirk,
>
> I believe I mounted your windows partition into Linux... If you want, you
can copy all your files to linux, reinstall windows... reinstall lilo, and
copy your windows files back to your windows partition..
>
> hrm... try booting off a win98 floppy and running "fdisk /mbr"
>
> mike
>
> At 10:34 AM 2/7/00 -0800, you wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I went to the Linux Installfest last Saturday and got linux successfully
> >installed on my Laptop. However, after partitioning the disk with
> >partitionmagic, Windows would not start up (message "non-system disk or
> >disk error"). We installed linux from CD-ROM and it works fine but
> >Windows still does not run. There must be something wrong with the
> >master boot record. The Windows partition is mounted on linux partition
> >so I can see my old files there.
> >
> >I used the recovery CD from my notebook on ran
> >fdisk /mbr
> >but that did not help. Windows is still dead. I could of course back up
> >all my files in the windows partition (but I only have floppies at the
> >moment and I would need lots of them), then install the entire (Windows)
> >system again (I still need/want windows ...) and do the linux
> >installation over again but that is going to take some time (I also
> >installed several other packages under windows before).
> >
> >Any suggestions on how I can get Windows to start up again without those
> >drastic measures?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Dirk
> >
> >--
> >************************************************************
> >
> >Dr. Dirk Stroobandt
> >
> >Postdoctoral Fellow of the Fund for Scientific Research
> >(F.W.O.) at the University of Ghent, ELIS Department
> >
> >Visiting Andrew B. Kahng's group at UCLA from 7/99 to 6/2000
> >
> >URL: http://www.elis.rug.ac.be/~dstr/dstr.html
> >
> >***********************************************************
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >_______________________________________________
> >UCLALUG Linux mailing list - Linux@linux.ucla.edu
> >http://linux.ucla.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux
> >
> snotty e/c
> PGP Key http://www.linuxvalue.com/pgp.html
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 8
> Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:39:05 -0800 (PST)
> From: Chun Che Li <charlesccli@yahoo.com>
> To: linux@linux.ucla.edu
> Subject: [UCLA-LUG] modem
> Reply-To: linux@linux.ucla.edu
>
> Hi,
> My modem is still not working for linux after Linux
> was installed on Satarday.
> My modem use com4, it was not properly assigned to
> com1 originally. I tried to change it to ttyS3 by
> linuxconf and minicom but it still doesn't work.
> I took a look at /var/log/messages,
> I find the folling message
> ttyS00(irq = 4) is 16550
> and say nothing about ttyS3.
>
> My modem is an internal modem, its brand is
> MSP5900U. Please let me know how can I fix it.
> Thank you.
>
> Charles
> __________________________________________________
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger.
> http://im.yahoo.com
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 9
> Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:42:51 -0800 (PST)
> From: Chun Che Li <charlesccli@yahoo.com>
> To: linux@linux.ucla.edu
> Subject: [UCLA-LUG] Partition
> Reply-To: linux@linux.ucla.edu
>
> Hi,
> Something is wrong about the partition of my hard disk
> after install linux. I find out that a new "D" drive
> is
> created with type FAT16. And 6GB disappears. I guess
> the 6GB is unallocated. How can I combine back the "C"
> drive and "D" drive together. and get back my 6GB?
> Do I need a partiton magic to do it?
> Thank you.
>
> Charles
>
> __________________________________________________
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger.
> http://im.yahoo.com
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 10
> Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 23:48:50 -0800
> To: linux@linux.ucla.edu
> From: Bernie Eisenberg <ursa@mediaone.net>
> Subject: [UCLA-LUG] need help please: 1) DSL and 2) BootMagic
> Reply-To: linux@linux.ucla.edu
>
> I'm a new user who just got installed at the fest. Many thanks for your
> great assistance. I have two questions.
>
> 1) Would someone please describe the steps I need to take to connect up
> with my ADSL ISP?
>
> 2) Here's a problem I ran into after I set lilo up to dual boot to win98
or
> linux and everything was working fine.
> I decided to install Powerquest's BootMagic. Apparently, this wrote the
> master boot record thereby overlaying lilo's boot record info. BootMagic
> starts ok but won't start linux. BootMagic just hangs.
> I used my linux boot disk to reboot and ran lilo once again which put lilo
> back in charge of the mbr.
>
> I read somewhere that lilo's boot record need not necessarily be installed
> in the MBR, rather it can be installed in the linux partition.
> If I want to use BootMagic to dual (or triple) boot, how can I get it to
> boot into lilo to start linux? Am I being unnecessarily complex to want to
> use BootMagic to do this? Should I just use lilo to boot dual or triple or
> more?
>
> thanks in advance,
> Bernie Eisenberg
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 11
> Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:59:06 -0800 (PST)
> From: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@linux.ucla.edu>
> To: linux@linux.ucla.edu
> Subject: [UCLA-LUG] sawmill.themes.org screenshot
> Reply-To: linux@linux.ucla.edu
>
> Hey you guys, checkout my screenshot on sawmill.themes.org... I'm famous
> :) of course, this is the same one I have on our web page. Great chance
> to plug my favoraite student run organization though :)
> --Markf
>
> --------------
> 'Chocolate pudding is a tool of the establishment and Bill Cosby too.
> It promotes instant gratification and destroys the morals of our
children.'
> -Dan Helfman
>
> Mark James Fasheh <mfasheh@linux.ucla.edu>
> http://www.exothermic.org
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 12
> Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 00:00:54 -0800 (PST)
> From: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@linux.ucla.edu>
> To: linux@linux.ucla.edu
> Subject: Re: [UCLA-LUG] sawmill.themes.org screenshot
> Reply-To: linux@linux.ucla.edu
>
> Oh, almost forgot... my username on themes.org is Mr. Mot, if you're
> looking for my shot...
> --Mark
>
> --------------
> 'Chocolate pudding is a tool of the establishment and Bill Cosby too.
> It promotes instant gratification and destroys the morals of our
children.'
> -Dan Helfman
>
> Mark James Fasheh <mfasheh@linux.ucla.edu>
> http://www.exothermic.org
>
> On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Mark Fasheh wrote:
>
> > Hey you guys, checkout my screenshot on sawmill.themes.org... I'm
famous
> > :) of course, this is the same one I have on our web page. Great
chance
> > to plug my favoraite student run organization though :)
> > --Markf
> >
> > --------------
> > 'Chocolate pudding is a tool of the establishment and Bill Cosby too.
> > It promotes instant gratification and destroys the morals of our
children.'
> > -Dan
Helfman
> >
> > Mark James Fasheh <mfasheh@linux.ucla.edu>
> > http://www.exothermic.org
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > UCLALUG Linux mailing list - Linux@linux.ucla.edu
> > http://linux.ucla.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux
> >
>
>
>
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