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installing Fedora 11 on dual-boot machine changes active partition?
by Andre Robatino 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

My father has a dual-boot Vista/Fedora 11 machine, with Grub on the MBR. He recently enabled recommended updates in Vista, and it wanted him to install SP2, but he was unable to. At Stage 3, after rebooting, it got to 100% but then failed and reverted the changes. The associated error number was 80004005. We found that the source of the problem was that the active partition was the Fedora /boot partition, not the Windows one. By using Vista's Disk Management tool to make the Vista partition active again, the problem was solved. Grub doesn't seem to care which partition is active (at least if it's on the MBR). Looking at old saved fdisk output from 2 of my machines, I suspect that F11 changed the active partition, and that in F10 and earlier, the Windows partition was active. Is this new behavior in the F11 installer (to change the active partition, even though Grub doesn't care), and if so, is it deliberate?

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Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces
by RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA 11 Nov '09

11 Nov '09

Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces? If yes how? Kishore

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FC10 install will not offer 'askmethod'
by Robert Moskowitz 30 Oct '09

30 Oct '09

I am doing yet another install, this time on a Dell SFF with an internal CD. I want to do a network install from my local repo. With older Redhat stuff, I did a 'linux askmethod' at the enter prompt. I have noticed with FC10, that I would frequently not be given the chance to press enter, let alone type in the above command, but I would be given a menu that would allow me to supply a URL anyway. Well on this system I go right to the menu about install/recover/bootlocal/memcheck and from here it goes into the install from CD without ever being given the option to provide the URL of my local repo. Even if I let it go all the way to where you can provide which repos to load from, I cannot see how to point the installation repo to my network one. I have tried various combinations of F1, F2, F3 at that startup menu, but I never can get it to a point to let me provide the URL of my repo. Am I going to have to use a USB CD drive to trick it?

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SSH and X forwarding not working from my laptop
by Gary Stainburn 26 Oct '09

26 Oct '09

I'm sure I've reported this a while back but I can't find it in the archives. I'm having a problems connecting from my laptop to a number of my servers. It's not a solid fault, but it's fairly constant at the moment. I have a number of servers FC7 to FC10 that I connect to, as well as a number of FC10 workstations. These all work fine. However from my laptop I get the following when I connect: Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. tcsetattr: Interrupted system call Last login: Wed Aug 26 11:13:21 2009 from gary.ringways.co.uk [root@stan ~]# and then once I'm in the BASH command line editing doesn't work. Can anyone suggest where I can start looking into the problem. I'm not too bad with ssh but have no knowledge of xauth, konsole, BASH etc. Gary -- Gary Stainburn This email does not contain private or confidential material as it may be snooped on by interested government parties for unknown and undisclosed purposes - Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, 2000

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clone a bootable fedora USB drive?
by David L 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

After a recent hard drive crash on my laptop, I've been trying to limp along by installing f11 on a 8GB USB stick. After an installation from a live USB stick to another USB stick, I drove to a local hotspot to update and yum install some stuff that wasn't on the live USB. It took forever to update, not even counting the download time. I'm sure there is a reason, but I was surprised that the original installation took about 7 minutes and it took several hours to update that installation AFTER downloading all of the updated rpms. Anyhoo, now that I've spent most of a day getting the USB stick updated and configured, I want to clone it to another USB stick. I tried a few naive things like copying directories to the backup stick, but ran into boot errors (I think due to different uuids on the backup sticks partitions). What is the right way to clone a fedora installation on a USB stick to a second stick that isn't exactly the same size (they are both 8G, but different models so have slightly different sizes). Thanks, David

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Converting GPT to MBR
by Markus Kesaromous 11 Oct '09

11 Oct '09

Second try to find an answer... Hi all, I purchased a 1.5 TB HD, and I used gparted to create 4 partitions (GPT), without knowing that winx XP (32) cannot access GPT. Among the is a vfat partition which I mount under winxp - acts as a way to share files on a dual boot system. However, windows cannot see any partitions on this disk. Now I would like to convert these partitions to MBR type of partitions without losing the filesystems (data) in each partition. I have no second disk to back up these partitions to. Is it possible to make this conversion? How? Cheers, MK _________________________________________________________________ Microsoft brings you a new way to search the web. Try Bing™ now http://www.bing.com?form=MFEHPG&publ=WLHMTAG&crea=TEXT_MFEHPG_Core_tagline_… bing_1x1

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Novatel MC950D 3G-device in fedora 11
by Joerg Bergmann 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

I try to get running a novatel MC950D 3G device in fedora 11. lsusb shows vedor/device as 1410:5010. Any hints? Thank you! Joerg Bergmann

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HP Mini 5101 and Broadcom 4353 wireless
by Valent Turkovic 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

I have installed Fedora 11 on HP Mini 5101 that has Broadcom 4353 wireless card. It looks like that chip is currently unsupported under Fedora 11, does anybody have a solution. I would like not to use windows drivers via ndiswrapper if there is an alternative to it. Cheers! -- pratite me na twitteru - www.twitter.com/valentt http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/ linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic, msn: valent.turkovic(a)hotmail.com

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How do you clear a botched kernel on a PPC system?
by Joel Rees 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

I find myself in another nice catch 22. Some time last week, I updated with yum (after several weeks of not updating) and, for some reason, I was able to reboot that day, but the next day attempting to boot Fedora resulted in a kernel panic. Looking things up, I see I'm not the only one with a panicking kernel. So, I got to work to clear the crudded kernel out of the way. Took me a while of looking around the web to rediscover the incantation to get to rescue mode with an install CD: "linux rescue" at the second stage boot prompt. Then I booted to rescue mode. I was thinking along the lines of, even though I don't get a grub menu like on x86, I should be able to change the configuration file to default to the previous kernel. Is the usual approach to that to use ybin? (And it looks like, with all the strange parameters, and the success rate I'm having today with arcane command parameters, it would likely take several tries to get it right.) Isn't there an easier way to do this? I tried passing the kernel name of the previous kernel in at the second stage prompt, but, even though I figured out (again) the arcane open firmware syntax to point to the kernel: hd:<drive>,/vmlinuz-<version>.ppc (Since the boot volume is separate, the path to the kernel is empty.) it tells me that I should try passing in the init= parameter. I tried several permutations of what I thought was the probable syntax, boot: hd:3,/vmlinuz-2.6.29.5-191.fc11.ppc init=/ initrd-2.6.29.5-191.fc11.ppc.img and such, but all of them failed to execute, suggested specifying init= and left me at 180 seconds to reboot. So I'm having a hard time with things today. Can someone put me out of my misery? Joel Rees

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Re: How do you clear a botched kernel on a PPC system?
by Joel Rees 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

On Sep 27, 2009, at 3:20 AM, a helpful person wrote me off-list: (Leaving out the name in case the off-list was intentional. Or maybe it was because it was a reply to my mis-post to the -test-list.) > On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 07:19:45PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: >> >> it tells me that I should try passing in the init= parameter. I tried >> several permutations of what I thought was the probable syntax, >> >> boot: hd:3,/vmlinuz-2.6.29.5-191.fc11.ppc init=/ >> initrd-2.6.29.5-191.fc11.ppc.img > yh > Err..., init is a program you are running first. If everything > else failed try 'init=/bin/bash' Okay, [...] init=/bin/bash ... VFS: mounted root [and something I missed as it rebooted.] Freeing unused kernel memory: 332k init Warning: unable to open an initial console. Failed to execute /bin/bash. Attempting defaults. . . Kernel panic. - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. Rebooting in 180 seconds. > Don't you have some earlier kernel which still boots? If that fails > too then maybe indeed your /sbin/init is messed up but that would > have nothing to do with kernels. The previous kernel did work, as I mentioned in another post, but only when I went in, renamed it (and the three other files) and so forth, as I described in the other post. I've yum remove-d kernel-2.6.30.5-43.fc11.ppc, and so it boots the old kernel and seems to run okay. So if the init= parameter is not supposed to be the initrd file, the bug in yaboot (under this ibook's openfirmware) might be that it's trying to pass an init= parameter when none is specified on the boot line. Hmm. I got a message back from the developers, from a comment I left where someone else reported this bug. Getting a fixed kernel is going to take a little time, they say. In the meantime, I'm avoiding updating, to keep the kernel at the previous level, and hoping the kernel/userland level mismatch will not bomb me out of anything important. Thanks. Joel Rees

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