I had linux 9.0 installed and had partioned it automatically during installation. Now due to norton antivirus my mbr was corrupted and i thought by working in rescue mode and doing a 'dd' copy everything would work fine however during booting it directly went to windows without even prompting. By the fdisk of windows i came to know, that i still had the linux partitons but they were showing up as extended dos partitons. By some R&D i came to know that windows had enabled a large disk support by which my mbr was extended to 604 bytes and i think this is where the problem lied. However in rescue mode i came to know that actually my mbr was still 512 bytes. I think this is a bug in the linux rescue. Moreover the rescue mode told me that my windows was /dev/hda1 whereas actually windows fdisk told me it was /dev/hda2. Now neither rescue mode nor installation worked. So i deleted the extended partition and i thought reinstalling 9.0 would solve the problem. But during installation anaconda terminates abrubtly and flashes a error 'received signal 11' i tried to find out what this signal 11 is but to no use. Plz help i need to reinstall 9.0 as fast as possible. thank you
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hitesh gaa wrote:
I had linux 9.0 installed and had partioned it automatically during installation.
Most of us are from 2003 A.D., when linux was only in 2.x (2.4/2.5 as of this writing). You seem to have come down from a distant future. Many of us in 2003 believe that, by the time linux is 9.0, Windows will be extinct. Your post seems to suggest otherwise. Can you elaborate on the situation? What year is this? Are you able to distinguish between linux-powered humanoids and real humans? Are you human?
To 2003'ers: Has anyone noticed, there are a lot of people these days coming down from the future, almost all of them having problems with linux 7.0-9.0. Which means that, in the future, people can travel back in time (possibly using a time-machine running linux!). Also, these "people" seem to exhibit a slightly lower IQ--either humans have gone dumb, or these are not-yet-perfected human-like machines (a la The Matrix). Interesting.
-Manish
Manish,
Next time please put [Humour] in your mail. Though the matter or version number (or distro number if you want) has been discussed many times, I am quiet sure the poor fellow has absolutely no idea what you are talking about. I quiet suspect he must be sitting in front of the pc wondering what you are talking about........
I wonder if this is on the FAQ somewhere.......or we should put it in.
Incidentally, (I know this was asked before), but I cant find the FAQ page from the link at the bottom of the mail ( http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers)
Regards Saswata
----- Original Message ----- From: "Manish Jethani" manish.j@gmx.net To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 2:06 PM Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] problem plz help
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hitesh gaa wrote:
I had linux 9.0 installed and had partioned it automatically during installation.
Most of us are from 2003 A.D., when linux was only in 2.x (2.4/2.5 as of this writing). You seem to have come down from a distant future. Many of us in 2003 believe that, by the time linux is 9.0, Windows will be extinct. Your post seems to suggest otherwise. Can you elaborate on the situation? What year is this? Are you able to distinguish between linux-powered humanoids and real humans? Are you human?
To 2003'ers: Has anyone noticed, there are a lot of people these days coming down from the future, almost all of them having problems with linux 7.0-9.0. Which means that, in the future, people can travel back in time (possibly using a time-machine running linux!). Also, these "people" seem to exhibit a slightly lower IQ--either humans have gone dumb, or these are not-yet-perfected human-like machines (a la The Matrix). Interesting.
-Manish
-- Manish Jethani (manish.j at gmx.net) phone (work) +91-80-51073488
This Linux 8.0 / 9.0 maybe due to some websites selling the Redhat Cds by this name to avoid Redhat logo infringement.
Anyway there has to be some empathy with newbies. One must understand they may come from a world where everything was spoon fed to them. I agree that here some level of reading and self- understanding has to be there. But there has to be a balance. You are not proving any point with your mail.
Hi,
I feel answer given by Mr. Manish is sarcastic, Ironic. Not everybody is as intelligent or aware of Gnu/Linux as Mr. Manish
I came to know about GNU/Linux and not "Linux" after joining this mailing list.
We are here to promote use of Linux in any form. It would be great if Mr. Manish politely say sorry to Mr.Hitesh.
Instead of being a newbie, he has done lots of R&D related to his problem.
If you can not inspire anybody, at least don't demotivate.
Richard
I am assuming that you are using lilo as your boot loader and HDD size is 40GB
try again the rescue mode it will find your root partion and mount it on /mnt/sysimage (redhat) or somwhere else just look where it mounts the root partition than do chroot /mnt/sysimage or the directory where it mounts your root partition than do vi /etc/lilo.conf than look for line linear your conf file change that to lba32 and save your file than type lilo -v on the prompt and reboot your system.
Hope this will solve your problem
Regards, Mohan Cheema.
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, hitesh gaa wrote:
I had linux 9.0 installed and had partioned it automatically during
Okay, considering the sarcastic reply from Manish, you should now learn to differentiate between a distribution and the kernel of the operating system you are using.
Red Hat Linux 9.0 is a distribution. Linux is the kernel which runs the whole system. A GNU/Linux System is a Linux kernel bundled with GNU tools (ls, mv, cp, other utilities) developed by Free Software Foundation. This combination makes a usable operating system.
Another reason we stress differentiating between distro names and generic 'Linux' is because there are differences in the way each distribution handles packaging of software, as well as placement of files on the system. If you are not smart enough to figure out what distribution you are using, you shouldn't be asking questions but reading documentation on Linux first.
Now back to your questions, 'Linux 9.0' may be Red Hat Linux 9.0 or Mandrake Linux 9.0, both do auto-partitioning of hard disks. how am I supposed to know which one you are using? For speedier replies including little more info about what you exactly want is important.
installation. Now due to norton antivirus my mbr was corrupted and i thought by working in rescue mode and doing a 'dd' copy everything would work fine however during booting it directly went to windows without even prompting.
Because you copied the original MBR (before Linux was installed) back.
By the fdisk of windows i came to know, that i still had the linux partitons but they were showing up as extended dos partitons.
OK.
By some R&D i came to know that windows had enabled a large disk support by which my mbr was extended to 604 bytes and i think this is where the problem lied. However in rescue mode i came to know that actually my mbr was still 512 bytes.
Never heard of extended MBR, tell us where you got this. BTW the "large disk support" only gives you FAT32 instead of FAT16, so...
I think this is a bug in the linux rescue. Moreover
No it is not.
the rescue mode told me that my windows was /dev/hda1 whereas actually
which is correct.
windows fdisk#told me it was /dev/hda2. Now neither rescue mode nor
Check again. C: = /dev/hda1. Windows fdisk doesn't know about /dev/hda. But there is a Linux program also called 'fdisk' which does.
installation worked.##So i deleted the extended partition and i thought reinstalling 9.0 would solve the problem. But during installation anaconda terminates abrubtly and flashes a error 'received signal 11' i tried to find out what this signal 11 is but to no use. Plz help i need to reinstall 9.0 as fast as possible.
'received signal 11' means the anaconda process was interrupted due to a memory access violation. Look up man page of 'kill' and 'signal'. For now choose install, but partition manually, delete all existing Linux partitions. Then recreate them as you want, or you can choose auto-partitioning again. Just make sure not to touch you widows partition. Read Red Hat's installation manual and Partition-HOWTO on the net.
Best regards, Rajesh
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 12:33:33PM -0400, Rajesh Deo wrote:
'received signal 11' means the anaconda process was interrupted due to a memory access violation. Look up man page of 'kill' and 'signal'. For now choose install, but partition manually, delete all existing Linux partitions. Then recreate them as you want, or you can choose auto-partitioning again. Just make sure not to touch you widows partition. Read Red Hat's installation manual and Partition-HOWTO on the net.
And in case you do reinstall RedHat, when you boot again into Windows, Norton will again complain about an MBR that was changed since the last check. Just tell it that the changes are fine and not to recover the MBR. I don't know if this is part of the problem you faced, but thought I should mention it simply because Norton was mentioned in the original mail.
Sameer.
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