Re: Re: US Daylight Savings Time change

Billy Pollifrone wrote:

> On 2/27/07, Anerobe <anerobe@...>
> wrote:
>>
>> How do I update /etc/localtime ?
>>
> 
> What distro are you running?

PCLinuxOS

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Re: Re: Re: US Daylight Savings Time change

You can use Synaptic to keep your system up to date.

On 2/28/07, Anerobe <anerobe@...> wrote:
> Billy Pollifrone wrote:
>
> > On 2/27/07, Anerobe <anerobe@...>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> How do I update /etc/localtime ?
> >>
> >
> > What distro are you running?
>
> PCLinuxOS
>
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Re: Re: Grub wont come up

I boot from disk with grub, I tried to follow the "Grub from the ground up "
but I'm still at ground level ...
I keep getting errors when trying to find /sbin/init or trying to use tab to
complete.
Does this mean I should give up or maybe there are more ways to go ?
Thanks,
Rafi

On 2/25/07, Anita Lewis <ajlewis2@...> wrote:
>
> On 02/24/2007 12:08 PM Rafi Gabzu wrote:
> > Hi ,
> > After resizing partition (increase Linux partition and decrease Windows)
> I
> > get Grub error 17 and PC stuck . Any ideas ?
> > Thanks
> > Rafi
>
> Due to the resizing, grub is not finding where things it needs are on
> the hard drive.  I'm not sure at what point in the process you are
> getting this message.
>
> Try using the grub commandline to find the kernel and boot.  After you
> boot into Linux, rerun grub-install.  Depending on what your drive is,
> it will be something like this. This would put grub in the MBR of the
> first drive:
>
> grub-install /dev/hda
>
> Information on using the grub commandline is here:

Re: Grub wont come up

Rafi Gabzu wrote:
> I boot from the rescue cd , and type : mount -t ext3 /dev/hda2 
> /mnt/mydir ,
> I got :
> "wrong fs type , bad option ,bad superblock on /dev/hda2, missing code page
> or other error " ....
> 

You could try fsck on that partition to see if there are errors
preventing mounting. You shouldn't need to tell mount that it is an
ext3. I thought it would auto detect that filesystem type.

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Re: Grub wont come up

I boot from the rescue cd , and type : mount -t ext3 /dev/hda2  /mnt/mydir ,
I got :
"wrong fs type , bad option ,bad superblock on /dev/hda2, missing code page
or other error " ....

Any ideas ?

Thanks ,
Rafi

On 2/27/07, Goksin Akdeniz <goksin@...> wrote:
>
> > What is "System Rescue CD [1] for repair and rescue operations" where do
> I
> > get it from , Debian ?
> I am terribly sorry. I did not provide a download adress. Here it is.
>
> http://www.sysresccd.org
>
> System Rescue CD is a stand alone Live cd with many tools, such as file
> system
> check, partition restore tools.
>
> > What is sysimage in   "/mnt/sysimage" ... ?
>
> /mnt/sysimage is a directory in rescue cd. The idea of sysimage is simply
> mount "/" in a subdirectory  of mnt. You can mount "/" to /mnt directory
> if
> you like.
>

Re: Re: Grub wont come up

Rafi Gabzu wrote:
> I boot from disk with grub, I tried to follow the "Grub from the ground
> up "
> but I'm still at ground level ...
> I keep getting errors when trying to find /sbin/init or trying to use
> tab to
> complete.
> Does this mean I should give up or maybe there are more ways to go ?

Try this:

Boot.  When the grub list shows up, type ‘c’ for ‘command line’. This
will give you the prompt for GRUB ‘grub>’

Do you get a grub menu when you boot? If you are not getting the grub
menu, then you will not be able to do this. If you get the grub menu and
then the prompt after typing "c", then type:

find /sbin/init

If you get an error at this point, tell us what the error is.

Anita

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Re: Re: Grub wont come up

I boot from  a floppy disk that contain GRUB , without it (suddenly) I boot
straight to Windows, which works
The error I'm getting  when trying to find /usr/sbin  "Error 15 : file not
found " or "Error 17:cannot mount selected partition" when I'm using tab.
When I look at the partitions through gparted I see
1. /dev/hda1 ntfs 19 GiB - my windows partition
2. /dev/hda2  unknown 17Gib
3. 1Gib - unallocate -  I do not know where this came from ....  probably
used to be  part  of the Linux partition and maybe  is causing me all the
trouble
4. Swap - 588 M

Item 2 should have been my Linux ext3 partition but it wont recognize it as
any fs. When I try to resize /combine item 2 and/or 3
it won't let me .
Thanks,
Rafi

On 3/1/07, Anita Lewis <a.lewis@...> wrote:
>
> Rafi Gabzu wrote:
> > I boot from disk with grub, I tried to follow the "Grub from the ground
> > up "
> > but I'm still at ground level ...
> > I keep getting errors when trying to find /sbin/init or trying to use
> > tab to
> > complete.
> > Does this mean I should give up or maybe there are more ways to go ?
>
>

Re: Re: Grub wont come up

Rafi Gabzu wrote:
> I boot from  a floppy disk that contain GRUB , without it (suddenly) I boot
> straight to Windows, which works
> The error I'm getting  when trying to find /usr/sbin  "Error 15 : file not
> found " or "Error 17:cannot mount selected partition" when I'm using tab.
> When I look at the partitions through gparted I see
> 1. /dev/hda1 ntfs 19 GiB - my windows partition
> 2. /dev/hda2  unknown 17Gib
> 3. 1Gib - unallocate -  I do not know where this came from ....  probably
> used to be  part  of the Linux partition and maybe  is causing me all the
> trouble
> 4. Swap - 588 M
> 
> Item 2 should have been my Linux ext3 partition but it wont recognize it as
> any fs. When I try to resize /combine item 2 and/or 3
> it won't let me .

It sounds like the partition has been ruined somehow. You cannot combine
 item 3 as there is nothing there. Unallocated means that the section
has nothing there.

As I said in a previous message, ext3 should be detected without needing
to 'tell' the software what it is. If it cannot detect it as ext3, then
something may have become corrupted on it. This is why backups are so
important.

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Re: Re: Grub wont come up

On 03/02/2007 06:51 AM Rafi Gabzu wrote:
> I boot from  a floppy disk that contain GRUB , without it (suddenly) I boot
> straight to Windows, which works
> The error I'm getting  when trying to find /usr/sbin  "Error 15 : file not
> found " or "Error 17:cannot mount selected partition" when I'm using tab.
> When I look at the partitions through gparted I see
> 1. /dev/hda1 ntfs 19 GiB - my windows partition
> 2. /dev/hda2  unknown 17Gib
> 3. 1Gib - unallocate -  I do not know where this came from ....  probably
> used to be  part  of the Linux partition and maybe  is causing me all the
> trouble
> 4. Swap - 588 M
> 
> Item 2 should have been my Linux ext3 partition but it wont recognize it as
> any fs. When I try to resize /combine item 2 and/or 3
> it won't let me .
> Thanks,
> Rafi

Ah, this is nicely descriptive.  Thank you.

It may be that you can recover Linux.  You said in the beginning that
you resized and increased the size of the Linux partition.  Whatever you
used must have changed the partition type on the bigger /dev/hda2.

You can try to make the type into ext2/ext3.  They are the same really
except that there is a journal on ext3. To do this, you will need the
Linux fdisk.  Do not use Windows fdisk; it is very different and will
destroy the data.  Linux fdisk will rewrite the partition table, but
will not destroy data.

Re: Re: Re: US Daylight Savings Time change

Billy Pollifrone wrote:

> You can use Synaptic to keep your system up to date.

That's not an option as the repos are frozen pending the release of PCLOS
2007... So I was seeking a manual means... After a few hours of poking
around I managed to find an upgrade path :) So I believe I'm set... thanks!

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