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ok, now i'm scratching my head, my minimum frequency is 3000000, maximum is 24000000, which i suppose is .3 and 2.4 ghz, i have - ondemand conservative powersave userspace performance and i am currently using performance, so a rough guess is - somethings wrong, i dual boot so i'm going to reboot into the bios and have a nosy, then boot into windows and have a see what that says

can anyone explain why my cpu shows as 1ghz less than it should be, and its only single core - as far as i am aware, my cpu is a pentium 4 prescott, 3.4ghz 800fsb if this is an issue, does someone know how to fix it ta

it was the UUID, all sorted now, thanks tux99, after nearly 3 years i still have a lot to learn, i'll check the link out later, thanks

i am running mandriva 2008.1, fully updated, i was running 2008.1 and i installed 2009.1 from the live cd, but kept my /swap and /home, i didn't like dolphin to much and it seemed a bit 'buggy', i had made an image of my 2008.1 / partition (using partimage) and decided to image it back over 2009.1, i have just noticed that my /swap does not mount at cold boot or a reboot but i can mount it through disk management, if i logout and login it stays mounted, does anyone know how i can fix this so my /swap mounts at boot ta

thanks, it worked :D , i had a feeling it might be that, but i went with the default at drakboot - ah well

i am booting various o/s's from grub, mostly with no problems, the only one i am having a little trouble with is linux on my ide secondary master - at the moment its mandriva 2009.1, i boot into grub with mandriva 2009.0 on my primary master and windows on my primary slave, i also have an entry in grub for windows on my secondary master - with this configuration i have no problem booting to any of the 4 operating systems (i have 2 x windows controlled by ntldr) when i physically swap drives on my secondary master to 2009.1 all i get is a white screen i added 2009.1 via drakboot, i know that this is probably a minor issue but at the moment i can't seem to figure it out, any ideas ? (i know 2009.1 works as my motherboard supports the F11 boot options) here is my menu.lst, its the last entry i am having headaches with title linux kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=UUID=f215643f-b7ad-4e91-b3fc-c7500a55b994 resume=UUID=88fa5363-9636-45dc-9694-8ddf777abdab splash=silent vga=788 initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img title linux-nonfb kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux-nonfb root=UUID=f215643f-b7ad-4e91-b3fc-c7500a55b994 resume=UUID=88fa5363-9636-45dc-9694-8ddf777abdab splash=silent initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img title failsafe kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=failsafe root=UUID=f215643f-b7ad-4e91-b3fc-c7500a55b994 failsafe initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img title Windoze rootnoverify (hd1,0) map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) makeactive chainloader +1 title play hdd rootnoverify (hd2,0) map (hd0) (hd2) map (hd2) (hd0) makeactive chainloader +1 title desktop586 2.6.27.19-1mnb kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.19-desktop586-1mnb BOOT_IMAGE=desktop586_2.6.27.19-1mnb root=UUID=f215643f-b7ad-4e91-b3fc-c7500a55b994 resume=UUID=88fa5363-9636-45dc-9694-8ddf777abdab splash=silent vga=788 initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd-2.6.27.19-desktop586-1mnb.img title desktop586 2.6.27.21-1mnb kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.21-desktop586-1mnb BOOT_IMAGE=desktop586_2.6.27.21-1mnb root=UUID=f215643f-b7ad-4e91-b3fc-c7500a55b994 resume=UUID=88fa5363-9636-45dc-9694-8ddf777abdab splash=silent vga=788 initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd-2.6.27.21-desktop586-1mnb.img title linux-0 kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.29.3-desktop586-1mnb BOOT_IMAGE=linux-0 root=UUID=a913dfc7-91b9-4e2a-8eba-7843f00de8f0 UUID=a913dfc7-91b9-4e2a-8eba-7843f00de8f0 splash=silent vga=788 initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img

decided to swap the usb adapter for a wireless pci card (don't tell the misses :D ) uninstalled the bcmrndis driver problem number 2 - inserted the pci card, booted my pc, extracted the .inf and .sys, installed the driver and - nothing, rebooted my pc - black screen, and again, and again - finally got it to boot, checked ndiswrapper -l pc locked up, reboot and black screen tried again and this time it told me the driver was installed - but no card, checked lspci and its listed, went to set up a new connection and it says there is no device, uninstalled the driver, took out the pci card, closed the case and inserted my ethernet cable, no lock ups, no black screens, internet running fine, wireless in the bin, problem solved and i'm happy thanks for trying, i just got fed up with going over the same things

none of them worked, i had already followed this link before i posted here, any more ideas ?

i've got a usb wireless dongglything, its a belkin g+ usb adapter, i have a belkin wireless g adsl gateway, i connect by ethernet cable at the moment but i want to go wireless, i have coppied the bcmrndis.inf and rndismpk.sys from the windows install disk and tried mmc to enable my adapter, problem is it won't work, it says there is no interface, i multiboot so i installed the adapter in windows and tried mmc using c/program files > > > .inf, but it still gives the same error this is my ndiswrapper output [dave@localhost ~]$ sudo ndiswrapper -l Password: bcmrndis : invalid driver! another problem i have is that my mdv will not boot with the adapter plugged in, yet when its fully booted and i plug the adapter in it correctly recognises it, i have - ndiswrapper bcm43xx-fwcutter b43-fwcutter all enabled can anyone point me in the right direction thanks

i understand that a little, i replaced the {name-your-????-image-here} with the relevant images from boot/ in pclinuxos, does it make any difference that i installed pclos 'fully' - ie. with no other disks installed and grub installed to the mbr, so in reality i have 2 versions of grub - 1 x mandriva and 1 x pclos, (if i boot via F11 and choose the pclos disk then i am presented with grub, with 2 options, pclos and failsafe) so i would be booting from mdv's grub into pclos's grub - not straight into the operating system could this be the confusing hd2 and hd0 ? do i need to boot to pclos's grub from mandriva ? be aware that i am no stretch of the imagination a linux expert - but i learn fast, and forgive me if i'm talking rubbish thanks for all your help so far

progress so far, i've been working on this a while now, this entry title PCLOS root (hd2,0) kernel /boot/{name-your-kernel-image-here} root=/dev/sdc1 ro initrd /boot/{name-your-initrd-image-here} only gives me error 17, i have tried adding and editing lines - nothing works when i use this entry title pclos kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sdc1 ro initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img i can boot into pclinuxos without sound or networking (and maybe a few others, but i want to resolve this issue first) is there anything else i should be adding to my entry in menu.lst (ps, my disks are now all in order) thanks

this is the message i got, there was quite a bit but this is the end creating root device mounting root filesystem mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root' setting up other filesystems setuproot: moving /dev failed: no such file or directory setuproot: error mounting /proc: no such file or directory setuproot: error mounting /sys: no such file or directory switching to new root and running init switchroot: /dev does not exist in new root booting has failed

hi scarecrow, i was just about to unmount my sata drive and new drive then re-mount as sdd and sdc, the new drive is a 'mess around' drive, so i would like to keep the 2nd windows option (play hdd) as i know this entry works with windows on the drive, would there be any problem keeping the entry ? could i just edit menu.lst to add your suggestion to the end ? would this same line work with any flavour of linux installed on the hdd ? (with kernel image edited)

the pclos hdd has only the root partition mounted in mandriva, swap and home are not mounted, [dave@localhost ~]$ cat /etc/fstab # Entry for /dev/sda1 : UUID=f215643f-b7ad-4e91-b3fc-c7500a55b994 / ext3 defaults 1 1 # Entry for /dev/sda6 : UUID=d9846411-a909-43f9-9c6f-8e52a67c80bf /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom auto umask=0,users,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 # Entry for /dev/sdb1 : UUID=50E40580E4056994 /media/sdb1 ntfs-3g defaults 0 0 # Entry for /dev/sdb2 : UUID=F8ECF289ECF24204 /media/sdb2 ntfs-3g defaults 0 0 # Entry for /dev/sdb4 : UUID=DEF4F631F4F60B91 /media/sdb4 ntfs-3g defaults 0 0 # Entry for /dev/sdb5 : UUID=3D17240729781B1D /media/sdb5 ntfs-3g defaults 0 0 # Entry for /dev/sdb6 : UUID=144AB0BE6EAEF003 /media/sdb6 ntfs-3g defaults 0 0 # Entry for /dev/sdc1 : UUID=0C243CB2243CA09E /media/sdc1 ntfs-3g defaults 0 0 # Entry for /dev/sdc2 : UUID=6EE4732CE472F5A5 /media/sdc2 ntfs-3g defaults 0 0 # Entry for /dev/sdc1 : UUID=511f3434-2bf6-4739-a53c-dde5055fe400 /media/sdc3 ext3 defaults 1 2 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 # Entry for /dev/sda5 : UUID=88fa5363-9636-45dc-9694-8ddf777abdab swap swap defaults 0 0 [dave@localhost ~]$ cat /boot/grub/menu.lst timeout 10 color black/cyan yellow/cyan gfxmenu (hd0,0)/boot/gfxmenu default 0 title linux kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=UUID=f215643f-b7ad-4e91-b3fc-c7500a55b994 resume=UUID=88fa5363-9636-45dc-9694-8ddf777abdab splash=silent vga=788 initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img title linux-nonfb kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux-nonfb root=UUID=f215643f-b7ad-4e91-b3fc-c7500a55b994 resume=UUID=88fa5363-9636-45dc-9694-8ddf777abdab splash=silent initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img title failsafe kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=failsafe root=UUID=f215643f-b7ad-4e91-b3fc-c7500a55b994 failsafe initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img title Windoze rootnoverify (hd1,0) map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) makeactive chainloader +1 title play hdd rootnoverify (hd2,0) map (hd0) (hd2) map (hd2) (hd0) makeactive chainloader +1 title linux-0 kernel (hd0,0)/boot/gfxmenu BOOT_IMAGE=linux-0 root=UUID=511f3434-2bf6-4739-a53c-dde5055fe400 [dave@localhost ~]$ sudo fdisk -l Password: Disk /dev/sda: 41.1 GB, 41110142976 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4998 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x1e281e27 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 1019 8185086 83 Linux /dev/sda2 1020 4998 31961317+ 5 Extended /dev/sda5 1020 1528 4088511 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda6 1529 4998 27872743+ 83 Linux Disk /dev/sdb: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000001 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 2550 20482843+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sdb2 2551 5130 20723850 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sdb3 5131 16573 91915897+ 5 Extended /dev/sdb4 16574 24321 62235810 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sdb5 5131 7693 20587266 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sdb6 7694 16573 71328568+ 7 HPFS/NTFS Disk /dev/sdc: 41.1 GB, 41110142976 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4998 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x89108910 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 * 1 1019 8185086 83 Linux /dev/sdc2 1020 4998 31961317+ 5 Extended /dev/sdc5 1020 1528 4088511 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sdc6 1529 4998 27872743+ 83 Linux Disk /dev/sdd: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0001365e Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdd1 * 1 12748 102398278+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sdd2 12749 30401 141797722+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

hi all, i have just installed a hdd in my tower, installed pclinuxos 2009 and alls working ok, the problem is when i boot into my mandriva i cannot add pclos as a boot option in my grub bootloader, i've tried everything that seems reasonable in mandriva to add it but all i get is error 13, i have booted into pclos but the sound and networking was not detected, so this is not an option the hdd in question is on my secondary ide, set to slave and on the middle connector, its showing as sdc (/media/sdc3) in my disk management i cannot add this drive to my primary ide, as i dual boot windows already and my windows hdd is currantly on my primary/slave my motherboard supports the F11 option (choose boot device), so i know that pclos is running ok, but i would prefer to have the boot option in grub any ideas ta

after more headaches and configurations, i have finally solved the problem believing that mandriva was not the problem, left me with one other option i changed my graphics card for a radeon 9250, enabled compiz and it works, configured compiz how i want it - changed back to the 9550, white screen only, changed back to the 9250 - full compiz, tried the 9550 in a pclinuxos box fully configured - white screen only my conclusion is that i have a faulty radeon 9550 graphics card this issue is solved, thanks

hi, i am running mdv2009 one from a fresh install of a 'live' cd, problem is my compiz is not working, i have tried all the configurations i know but as soon as i go to system settings > desktop-system settings > configure desktop effects > general and tick the box, log-out and log-in, i am presented with a white screen then a dark gray screen - with no desktop, the only way i can get out of this is by logging out and logging back into kde3, unticking the above box, logging out and logging back into kde4 (with no compiz in kde3 either) i have tried changing the driver from the default ATI one, but my system becomes unusable and i have to use knoppix to re-edit my xorg.conf i have also tried control center > hardware > configure 3D desktop effects > advanced settings and choosing xgl with this i get compiz, but its very slow and 'jerky', infact everything is slow and i have to change back to native support any help or pointers would ease my headache i have 1gb ddr400 ram, p4 3.4 cpu and a radeon 9550 256ddr graphics card thanks

problem is now solved i have reluctantly done a fresh install of 2009 one

problem is now solved i have reluctantly done a fresh install of 2009 one

ran this and it downloaded the package, it installed ok, i re-booted but still had the same options in my grub screen, same desktop and same info in sysinfo, i tried re-enabling virtualbox (just to check) and got the same message about 'spawning session' then it just hangs and i have to kill it, thanks for your help so far

i only have desktop586 2.6.24.4-1mnb and desktop586 2.6.24.7-1mnb as extra boot options in my /grub/menu.lst, i installed 2008.1 from a live cd, but had a lock-up problem so i upgraded via easyurpmi and a terminal and ran the update command after the upgrade, everything else seems to be running ok (apart from no compiz for a while but i changed the driver)

i have upgraded my 2008.1 to 2009.0 but i seem to have a little problem, i need to have sun virtualbox working but i need the 2009.0 kernel, can anyone help me change/upgrade my kernel i have p4 3.4 prescott cpu, 1gb ddr4 pc3200 ram and a radeon 9550 256mb ddr graphics card, if it helps there is this output rpm -qa | grep kernel madwifi-kernel-2.6.24.7-desktop586-2mnb-0.9.3.3-5.r3114mdv2008.1 fglrx-kernel-2.6.27.4-desktop586-2mnb-8.522-3mdv2009.0 madwifi-kernel-2.6.24.7-desktop586-1mnb-0.9.3.3-5.r3114mdv2008.1 madwifi-kernel-desktop586-latest-0.9.4-1.20081106.3.r3835mdv2009.0 nvidia71xx-kernel-desktop586-latest-71.86.06-1.20081106.5mdv2009.0 madwifi-kernel-2.6.24.4-desktop586-1mnb-0.9.3.3-5.r3114mdv2008.1 unicorn-kernel-desktop586-latest-0.9.3-1.20081031.7mdv2008.1 nvidia71xx-kernel-2.6.24.7-desktop586-1mnb-71.86.04-4mdv2008.1 nvidia-current-kernel-desktop586-latest-177.70-1.20081106.2.3mdv2009.0 nvidia-current-kernel-2.6.24.4-desktop586-1mnb-169.12-4mdv2008.1 vboxvfs-kernel-2.6.27.4-desktop586-2mnb-2.0.2-2mdv2009.0 hsfmodem-kernel-2.6.24.7-desktop586-2mnb-7.68.00.07-1mdv2008.1 nvidia-current-kernel-2.6.24.7-desktop586-2mnb-169.12-4mdv2008.1 slmodem-kernel-2.6.24.7-desktop586-2mnb-2.9.11-0.20070813.3mdv2008.1 nvidia96xx-kernel-2.6.24.7-desktop586-1mnb-96.43.05-4mdv2008.1 nvidia71xx-kernel-2.6.27.4-desktop586-2mnb-71.86.06-5mdv2009.0 kernel-desktop586-2.6.27.4-2mnb-1-1mnb2 nvidia96xx-kernel-desktop586-latest-96.43.07-1.20081106.5mdv2009.0 kernel-desktop586-latest-2.6.27.4-2mnb2 slmodem-kernel-2.6.24.4-desktop586-1mnb-2.9.11-0.20070813.3mdv2008.1 kernel-desktop586-2.6.24.4-1mnb-1-1mnb1 kernel-desktop586-2.6.24.7-2mnb-1-1mnb1 virtualbox-kernel-desktop586-latest-2.0.2-1.20081106.2mdv2009.0 vboxvfs-kernel-desktop586-latest-2.0.2-1.20081106.2mdv2009.0 nvidia96xx-kernel-2.6.24.4-desktop586-1mnb-96.43.05-4mdv2008.1 hsfmodem-kernel-desktop586-latest-7.68.00.13-1.20081106.1mdv2009.0 unicorn-kernel-2.6.24.7-desktop586-2mnb-0.9.3-7mdv2008.1 kernel-desktop586-devel-latest-2.6.27.4-2mnb2 hsfmodem-kernel-2.6.24.7-desktop586-1mnb-7.68.00.07-1mdv2008.1 unicorn-kernel-2.6.24.7-desktop586-1mnb-0.9.3-7mdv2008.1 hsfmodem-kernel-2.6.27.4-desktop586-2mnb-7.68.00.13-1mdv2009.0 slmodem-kernel-desktop586-latest-2.9.11-1.20081106.0.20080817.1mdv2009.0 fglrx-kernel-2.6.24.4-desktop586-1mnb-8.471-3mdv2008.1 vboxadd-kernel-2.6.27.4-desktop586-2mnb-2.0.2-2mdv2009.0 fglrx-kernel-2.6.24.7-desktop586-2mnb-8.471-3mdv2008.1 nvidia71xx-kernel-2.6.24.7-desktop586-2mnb-71.86.04-4mdv2008.1 virtualbox-kernel-2.6.27.4-desktop586-2mnb-2.0.2-2mdv2009.0 madwifi-kernel-2.6.27.4-desktop586-2mnb-0.9.4-3.r3835mdv2009.0 kernel-firmware-2.6.27-2mnb2 nvidia-current-kernel-2.6.27.4-desktop586-2mnb-177.70-2.3mdv2009.0 unicorn-kernel-2.6.24.4-desktop586-1mnb-0.9.3-7mdv2008.1 kernel-headers-2.6.27-4mnb2 kernel-desktop586-2.6.24.7-1mnb-1-1mnb1 nvidia-current-kernel-2.6.24.7-desktop586-1mnb-169.12-4mdv2008.1 nvidia96xx-kernel-2.6.27.4-desktop586-2mnb-96.43.07-5mdv2009.0 fglrx-kernel-desktop586-latest-8.522-1.20081106.3mdv2009.0 nvidia71xx-kernel-2.6.24.4-desktop586-1mnb-71.86.04-4mdv2008.1 kernel-desktop586-devel-2.6.27.4-2mnb-1-1mnb2 nvidia96xx-kernel-2.6.24.7-desktop586-2mnb-96.43.05-4mdv2008.1 slmodem-kernel-2.6.24.7-desktop586-1mnb-2.9.11-0.20070813.3mdv2008.1 vboxadd-kernel-desktop586-latest-2.0.2-1.20081106.2mdv2009.0 slmodem-kernel-2.6.27.4-desktop586-2mnb-2.9.11-0.20080817.1mdv2009.0 hsfmodem-kernel-2.6.24.4-desktop586-1mnb-7.68.00.07-1mdv2008.1 fglrx-kernel-2.6.24.7-desktop586-1mnb-8.471-3mdv2008.1 thanks [moved from Software by spinynorman]

thats right, i did an upgrade via easyurpmi and a terminal from 2008.1, i'll start a new thread on how to upgrade my kernel - after i try a clean install of 2009.0 on a spare hdd i have, thanks for your help

not to clever at the moment with kernels, but my guess is you mean my main linux kernel i checked in my software and i have kernel-desktop586-2.6.24.4-1mnb kernel-desktop586-2.6.24.7-1mnb kernel-desktop586-2.6.24.7-2mnb all enabled, and virtualbox-kernel-2.6.27.4-desktop586-2mnb i don't have a virtualbox-kernel-2.6.24.?-desktop586-?mnb (i was going to ask why my drivers are all 2008.1, is this related ?) sorry if this is wrong and is not what you meant

hi, i'm running mdk2009.0 one and i can't seem to get the version of virtualbox in my software running - all it gives me is the message 'spawning session', is there an rpm of the full version around (free version) ? i've been to sun but they only have a version for 2008, the same with rpmfind, can anyone point me in the right direction - or even help get my copy working thanks