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  1. Is my second hard drive sbd or sdc?

    in Hardware

    Posted

    It would only do this if it finds another device. How many drives have you got? You mentioned the jaz drive? What does this appear as?

     

    You *have* to disconnect it to troubleshoot and find out where the problem is. I have problems in 2007 that never happened to me in 10.0/10.1/LE2005 and 2006. So, just because the previous version worked, it's not going to be the same for the new version.

     

    Unless you're willing to try what I suggested and disconnect the jaz drive, then I can't help you any further. We need to find out where the problem is.

     

    I was just wanting more information on why it would do this. You don't have to get snappy.

     

    If it was switching between sdb and sdc without me changing drive configuration between boots, what difference would it make if I took the SCSI card out of the system? I would think it would then just switch between sda and sdb instead.

     

    I'm just wondering what would cause the system to detect it differently every time, if there's a kernel bug, or what. I'm just requesting information, that's all.

     

    Otherwise, I'll try taking the SCSI card out of my system when I get a chance.

  3. Is my second hard drive sbd or sdc?

    in Hardware

    Posted

    I have a SATA hard drive that I use to store my data on, connected to a SATA PCI card. However, sometimes Mandriva 2007 detects it as /dev/sdb, and sometimes it detects it as /dev/sdc. This means I have to manually change it in fstab every time I boot. How can I keep it consistently reading it as one or the other?

     

    I also have a SCSI PCI card, which I believe is being read as /dev/sda (however, the only thing connected to it is a jaz drive that doesn't get used much)

  4. Unable to boot from multimedia kernel

    in Command Line, Kernel and Programming

    Posted

    Personally, I doubt if you REALLY need the mm-kernel to work with a pseudo-24bit soundcard like the SB Live. The normal kernel has sufficiently low latency time, you won't notice any difference.

     

    Actually, there is a difference between the regular kernel and multimedia kernel. I've recorded audio with the regular kernel before, and there are small pops and cracks in the audio.

     

    Plus, the multimedia kernel allows realtime scheduling for normal users, helpful in running plugins while recording. While I could do that with the regular kernel by running as root, I'd rather not.

  5. Unable to boot from multimedia kernel

    in Command Line, Kernel and Programming

    Posted

    I finally got booted into the multimedia kernel. But it was a bit of a roundabout way of getting there...

     

    I had a theory that it was my onboard RAID controller that was taking up hda, hdb, hdc, and hdd. But I didn't have any drives plugged into it (they are labeled "IDE3" and IDE4 on my motherboard). I plugged into what I thought was my primary and secondary IDE controllers (IDE1 and IDE2). I guess for some reason, any linux kept assuming that the RAID controllers were the first drives, and the regular IDE controllers were the second ones, hence, why my main hard drive, plugged into IDE1, was being read as hde instead of hda.

     

    I'm guessing this particular multimedia kernel was, for some reason, hard-wired into looking specifically for hda, and would complain when it couldn't find it.

     

    So I went into my BIOS and disabled my onboard RAID controller. This wasn't without consequences, though. My system wouldn't boot at all after that. I ended up running the Mandriva install routine, but I picked the "upgrade" option, which doesn't erase anything, but creates correct configuration files.

     

    So all was well when I booted into the regular kernel, then I booted into the multimedia kernel, and it had no problems at all.

     

    Probably a small oversight in compiling the kernel, but not really a problem most people would face, so it was probably overlooked.

  7. Unable to boot from multimedia kernel

    in Command Line, Kernel and Programming

    Posted · Edited by emh

    This is why, you have two resumes in your append line, remove the resume2 line and then rerun lilo to rewrite lilo to the mbr. Just type:

     

    I tried that, still the same kernel errors, except it also tells me that the extra resume2 line is necessary and to put it in.

     

    Also, my /dev/hde5 partition is just a junk partition that I use to mess around with. I didn't get around to having it set to be mounted every time, but I went ahead and edited fstab to mount /dev/hde5 every time, but that didn't fix the problem with my multimedia kernel.

     

    Given the designation of your hard drive as hde, I assume you have an addon pci ide controller card that your hard drive connects to. The first drive connected to a pci ide controller is usually hde with the onboard drives taking up hda thru hdd.

     

    Actually, I don't. The main hard drive (hde) is connected to the primary IDE channel.

     

    Output of lspci:

     

    00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333]

    00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333 AGP]

    00:09.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-2940U/UW/D / AIC-7881U

    00:0a.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3112 [sATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)

    00:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 0a)

    00:0c.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! Game Port (rev 0a)

    00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)

    00:0e.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 50)

    00:0e.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 50)

    00:0e.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 51)

    00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: Triones Technologies, Inc. HPT366/368/370/370A/372/372N (rev 05)

    00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233A ISA Bridge

    00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)

    00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 23)

    00:11.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 23)

    01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev b2)

     

    The PCI cards in my system are a SCSI controller, a SATA controller (/dev/sdb), and aa Soundblaster Live Card.

     

    I'll also try booting with parameters suggested earlier another day. I'm tired of messing with this tonight.

     

    P.S. disabling acpi in the boot menu of MCC had no effect on the error.

  8. Unable to boot from multimedia kernel

    in Command Line, Kernel and Programming

    Posted

    I'm a little confused by why your HD is hde, but I think the real problem is that /dev/hde5 (your /home partition?) is not in your fstab.

     

    My hard drive has been "hde" since I got this computer, back with Mandrake 9.1.

     

    My /dev/hde5 is actually a separate partition that I use in case I wanted to experiment with other distros or install a separate version of Mandriva to do something potentially dangerous, so that I don't screw up my main installation. I don't actually have a separate /home partition

     

    I'll try adding /dev/hde5 to my fstab, but it doesn't explain why my regular kernel boots just fine while my multimedia kernel doesn't. As far as I know, they use the same fstab (although I could be wrong).

  9. Unable to boot from multimedia kernel

    in Command Line, Kernel and Programming

    Posted

    Here is my /etc/lilo.conf:

     

    # File generated by DrakX/drakboot

    # WARNING: do not forget to run lilo after modifying this file

     

    default="desktop_2.6.17.13-mm-3"

    boot=/dev/hde

    prompt

    nowarn

    timeout=100

    message=/boot/message

    image=/boot/vmlinuz

    label="linux"

    root=/dev/hde1

    initrd=/boot/initrd.img

    append="resume=/dev/hde6 splash=silent"

    vga=788

    image=/boot/vmlinuz

    label="linux-nonfb"

    root=/dev/hde1

    initrd=/boot/initrd.img

    append="resume=/dev/hde6"

    image=/boot/vmlinuz

    label="failsafe"

    root=/dev/hde1

    initrd=/boot/initrd.img

    append="failsafe resume=/dev/hde6"

    image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17.13-mm-desktop-3mdv

    label="desktop_2.6.17.13-mm-3"

    root=/dev/hde1

    initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.17.13-mm-desktop-3mdv.img

    append="resume=/dev/hde6 splash=silent resume2=swap:/dev/hde6"

    vga=788

     

    Here is my /etc/fstab:

     

    /dev/hde1 / reiserfs notail 1 1

    /dev/hdh /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0022,users,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec 0 0

    /dev/sdb1 /mnt/data reiserfs user,defaults 1 2

    none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0022,iocharset=utf8,sync 0 0

    none /proc proc defaults 0 0

    /dev/hde6 swap swap defaults 0 0

     

    My output of "fdisk -l"

     

    Disk /dev/hde: 41.1 GB, 41110142976 bytes

    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4998 cylinders

    Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

     

    Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

    /dev/hde1 * 1 3571 28684026 83 Linux

    /dev/hde2 3572 4998 11462377+ 5 Extended

    /dev/hde5 3572 4851 10281568+ 83 Linux

    /dev/hde6 4852 4998 1180746 82 Linux swap / Solaris

     

    Disk /dev/sdb: 82.3 GB, 82348277760 bytes

    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10011 cylinders

    Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

     

    Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

    /dev/sdb1 * 1 10011 80413326 83 Linux

     

    Thanks in advance for any help.

  10. Unable to boot from multimedia kernel

    in Command Line, Kernel and Programming

    Posted

    When I select the option to continue, these are the messages that pop up:

     

    Suspend2 2.2.7.3: missing or invalid storage location (resume2= parameter) Please correct and rerun LILO (or equivalent) before suspending.

     

    Mounting root filesystem /dev/root with flags notail

    mount: error 6 mounting reiserfs flags notail

    well, retrying without the option flags

    mount: error 6 mounting reiserfs

    well, retrying read-only without any flag

    mount: error 6 mounting reiserfs

    Switching to new root

    ERROR opening /dev/console!!!!: 2

    unmounting old /proc

    unmounting old /sys

    switchroot: mount failed: 22

    Initrd finished

    Kernel Panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!!

  11. Unable to boot from multimedia kernel

    in Command Line, Kernel and Programming

    Posted

    I'm attempting to use ther multimedia kernel 2.6.17.13-3 on Mandriva 2007.

     

    I get the following message:

     

    "BIG FAT WARNING: failed to translate "/dev/hde6" into a device ID (note: /dev/hde6 is my swap partition)

     

    "If you want to use the current suspend image, reboot and try again with the same kernel that you suspended from. If you want to forget that image, continue and the image will be erased."

     

    It gives me the option to continue booting or to reboot. Unfortunately, continuing to boot ends with a kernel panic, so I have to reboot and use the default kernel.

     

    I really need the multimedia kernel, because I do occasional music creation with my computer. Anybody that knows how to fix this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

     

     

    [moved from Software by spinynorman]

  22. My Thoughts About Converting People

    in Everything Linux

    Posted · Edited by emh

    ***inflammatory post deleted by poster*****

     

    I'll just say, as a musician who's also learning how to do multitrack audio recording with his computer (and other expensive toys.....:D), Linux (at least Mandrake) is more than ready for my desktop. But I understand it's not quite ready for some people. My dad, for example, probably the only thing keeping him on Windows right now is Access databases he needs to access for work. (And, as a side note, after researching a bit, I'm believing Lindows or Xandros would be a better choice for him than Mandrake, just simply because there are enough things that don't quite work right that would concern me about showing someone else how to use it) The next time Dad and I talk about this, I'll probably ask if he'll settle for just running Access on Crossover Office at least until mdbtools matures enough to where it can safely write to Access databases as well. But, for the time being, both of us have better things to do with our lives (I've got a musical to play piano for, as well as solo/ensemble contests to accompany on piano for).

     

    Anyway, I'll shut up now.

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