ITpro: Linux set for mobile boost, says Nokia
ITpro: Linux set for mobile boost, says Nokia.
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Archive for May, 2008
SlashDot: Mark Shuttleworth Reveals Ubuntu Netbook Remix
SlashDot: Mark Shuttleworth Reveals Ubuntu Netbook Remix.
Full story: Werner Heuser (wehe at tuxmobil.org)
ZEPTO goes Mandriva Linux with some of their notebooks
ZEPTO goes Mandriva Linux with some of their notebooks.
Full story: Werner Heuser (wehe at tuxmobil.org)
Heise News: Eee PC with UMTS-Stick from T-Mobile
Heise News: Eee PC with UMTS-Stick from T-Mobile.
Full story: Werner Heuser (wehe at tuxmobil.org)
Gammu+ - manager for various mobile phones/modems (0.40.00)
Gammu+ is a cellular manager for various mobile phones/modems.
Full story: Werner Heuser (wehe at tuxmobil.org)
Disk Parameter Table
LILO is usually able to obtain information about the hard disks and floppy disks on the system by reading the kernel. On some systems(especially some SCSI adapters and adapters that do not behave as IDE or SCSI normal devices), though, this isn’t possible. When LILO can’t obtain the disk parameter information, it generates an error […]
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Removing or Disabling LILO
To prevent LILO from booting the system, you must disable the boot sector (by using fdisk to change the active partition) or remove it completely. Most versions of LILO can be quickly disabled with the command
/etc/lilo/lilo -u
If you are using the newer directory structure, substitute the pathname as necessary. Some later versions of LILO use […]
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Troubleshooting LILO
LILO displays error messages when it can’t function properly. These error messages should be sufficient to identify the problem. The most common error messages and their solutions are shown in Table 4.1.
Table 4.1 Common LILO error messages.
Message Solution
Can’t put the boot sector on logical partition X LILO attempted to put the boot sector on the […]
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Using BOOTACTV
A slight modification of the last boot process is replacing the normal MBR with a utility called BOOTACTV, which prompts for the partition to boot from. This utility requires that a non-DOS-compatible copy of the boot sector be written, so you should use it only when Linux will be the dominant operating system and LILO […]
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