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Installation issues / Re: Unable to pxeboot - Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt

« on: March 30, 2008, 12:07:31 pm »

Zaerc, i had similar issues trying to network book a HP DV9607US laptop....

so i went to /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/ & changed default like so

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$ diff default.ORIGINAL default
5,6c5
< APPEND root=/dev/nfs acpi=off vga=normal initrd=default/initrd ramdisk_size=10240 rw ip=all apicpmtimer
<
---
> APPEND root=/dev/nfs vga=normal initrd=default/initrd ramdisk_size=10240 rw ip=all apicpmtimer

so basically just removed acpi=off, since there are no BIOS options relating to acpi & i have the latest bios as far as i know

now, i get as far as... "we announce our self to the CORE"
its says loading diskless.sh
then it says rebooting... & reboots...
i tried a few times to boot the image but it always does these exact same things...

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:/usr/pluto/diskless/74$ sudo du -hs .
2.5G    .

this leads me to believe that the CORE has finished creating the image.
htop shows nothing much happening on the core...

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Installation issues / Re: PXE booting Media Director

« on: March 30, 2008, 10:37:05 am »

Lexje, i also have a 250G SATA drive...

i used the DVD to install so i didn't get any choices with partitioning...
i would have done this:
/ 20G-30G
swap 2-3G (i like putting swat at the end of the drive)
/home = the rest of the drive...

the DVD makes a 10G partition at the end of a drive for a backup/restore i think...

totallymaxed, can you please shed some light on /usr/share/pluto/diskless/
is that supposed to be a sand box or UML for the diskless MD's?
because on my brother's MD, when he loads into KDE he is root & gets full access to the core... which i really dont want... (its scary)

also i noticed:

/usr/pluto/diskless/53/boot$ ls
initrd.img                    initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic.bak  vmlinuz
initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic  System.map-2.6.22-14-generic      vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic

there is no grub menu list to edit... so how/were would i change boot paramiters?

thanks

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Installation issues / Re: Install Hangs on AMD 64 Computer

« on: March 30, 2008, 10:29:02 am »

1knight:
i have a AMD64 as well, bad chaintech mobo...

i booted the DVD, pressed F6 & removed:

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quiet splash --and then it booted just fine... a bunch of stuff flys past me on the screen but that really doesn't bother me... it works just fine...

i also tried all the apci switches & non of them worked...
hope that helps 

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Users / MD's getting ROOT access in KDE???

« on: March 30, 2008, 09:53:06 am »

on my brothers MD... its a diskless MD... everything works great...
except when the starts KDE... he is root...

whats going on here... why is my brother root... that gives him full access to everything on the core...

in the LMCE UI, he is the user "Chris"... which is right...

how can i fix that? thanks

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Users / Re: Copy Media to the CORE

« on: March 30, 2008, 09:49:18 am »

i should have made that another thread...

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Users / Re: Copy Media to the CORE

« on: March 30, 2008, 12:11:26 am »

on my brothers MD... its a diskless MD... everything works great...
except when the starts KDE... he is root...

whats going on here... why is my brother root... that gives him full access to everything on the core...

in the LMCE UI, he is the user "Chris"... which is right...

how can i fix that? thanks

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Users / Re: Copy Media to the CORE

« on: March 28, 2008, 04:02:58 pm »

thanks ill try that...
would be nice to just add stuff as my normal user...

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Users / Re: Copy Media to the CORE

« on: March 28, 2008, 02:01:53 pm »

i tried that a few times but got permission errors...

eventually i did something like this: sudo cp -V <source> <destination>
but the destination was /home/temp

LMCE has not cataloged any of that media... some of it i want to be only for me...
but most of it i want to be viewed by everyone. ie public...

do i just copy all the videos/movies to /home/public/data/videos? etc... for all the music as well?

thanks

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Users / Copy Media to the CORE

« on: March 28, 2008, 11:14:27 am »

I have a CORE setup, & 120G removeable hard drive fulled with movies/videos/audio...
how can i have the CORE copy all the media off the removeable drive?
i dont want to use the removable drive as storage space on the core (its not mine, its a friends)

another thing... in /home there are 5 users... user_[1..5] why didnt they use my family members names.... i dont know which is my home directory...

thanks

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Installation issues / Re: Unable to pxeboot - Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt

« on: March 28, 2008, 10:46:02 am »

i also get an error when trying to network boot by laptop.
i get a kernel panic, then message tells me to try boot with noacpi or  apci=off
how or where do i do pass that to a network image?
thanks

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Installation issues / Re: DVD vs CD Installation

« on: March 28, 2008, 10:39:40 am »

i like the DVD install... i just wish that fglrx drivers were included...
i added them manually & adjusted the resolution...
LMCE keeps trying to generate screens...
i messed up my xorg.conf lucky i have backups...

i installed with a WinFast XP2000 PVR tunner, which was not detected... & a webcam, but im guessing i ether need to add drivers manually or they are not supported