[ltp] something for the experts

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Andr=E9 Wyrwa wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> I'm having two little problems here on my T23, which keep me wondering
> and wondering...
>
> 1. Even though I thought i solved this problem, it turned out, I didn't:
>    When trying to mount drives as user, which require kernel modules to
>    be modprobed, they don't get modprobed automatically (namely the ones
>    needed to enable scsi-ide emulation). Modprobe seems not even to be
>    called by the kernel. When doing it as root everything works fine.
>    Any ideas?

do cat /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe, see if it's /sbin/modprobe?

> 2. The partition table of my harddrive might be considered a bit wired,
>    I have to admit:
>
>    /dev/hda1   *         1         7     52888+  83  Linux
>    /dev/hda2             8       285   2101680    7  HPFS/NTFS
>    /dev/hda3           286      5168  36915480    f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
>    /dev/hda4          5141      5168    211680   a0  IBM Thinkpad
> hibernation
>    /dev/hda5           286       979   5246608+   7  HPFS/NTFS
>    /dev/hda6           980      3754  20978968+   c  Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
>    /dev/hda7          3755      3789    264568+  82  Linux swap
>    /dev/hda8          3790      4483   5246608+  83  Linux
>    /dev/hda9          4484      4761   2101648+  83  Linux
>    /dev/hda10         4762      5038   2094088+   7  HPFS/NTFS
>
>    Please don't ask why I want to have both Win2k and WinXp.
>
>    What I want to do is to make my boot selection with lilo...or maybe
>    grub later on, but for the time being its still lilo.
>
>    I have everything set up on the linux side, I'd say, here's
>    lilo.conf:
>
> boot    =3D /dev/hda1
>
> install =3D /boot/boot-bmp.b
> #bitmap =3D /boot/img/logo64a.bmp
> #bmp-colors =3D 6,9,0,15,9,0
> #bmp-table =3D 59,5,1,18
> #bmp-timer =3D 66,28,6,8,0
>
> #bitmap =3D /boot/img/ins64a.bmp
> #bmp-colors =3D 14,11,,15,9,0
> #bmp-table =3D 21,287p,2,4,175p
> #bmp-timer =3D 73,29,12,8,0
>
> bitmap =3D /boot/img/ibmtp1.bmp
> bmp-colors =3D 4,0,15,1,0,15
> bmp-table =3D 60,20,1,5
> bmp-timer =3D 2,24,3,0,15
>
> vga =3D 791
> read-only
> lba32
> prompt
> timeout =3D 30
> #message        =3D /boot/message
>
> append=3D"hde=3Dide-scsi"
>
>   other  =3D /dev/hda2
>   label  =3D win2k
>
>   image  =3D /boot/lfskernel
>   label  =3D lfs
>   root   =3D /dev/hda8
>   initrd =3D /boot/initrd.splash
>   append =3D "hdc=3Dide-scsi hde=3Dide-scsi hdf=3Dide-scsi idebus=3D66
> splash=3Dsilent"
>   read-write
>
>   image  =3D /boot/lfskernel.2.4.22
>   label  =3D lfssave
>   root   =3D /dev/hda8
>   read-write
>
>   image  =3D /boot/lfskernel.2.4.19
>   label  =3D failsafe
>   root   =3D /dev/hda8
>
> #  image  =3D /boot/vmlinuz.suse
> #  label  =3D suse
> #  root   =3D /dev/hda9
> #  initrd =3D /boot/initrd.suse
>
>   other  =3D /dev/hda5
>   label  =3D winxp
>
> My problem is how to get rid of the stupid win bootmenu?
> If I boot to win2k (/dev/hda2), I get the boot menu with entries for
> winxp and win2k, but if i boot to winxp (/dev/hda5) it just doesn't do
> anything. I once did this already on an older system which i haven't
> anymore and i don't find the guide anymore which i followed back then.
>
> I mirrored ntldr, ntdetect.sys and boot.ini as well as arcldr.exe and
> arcsetup.exe to both win partitions. And I know what modifications I'd
> have to do to the boot.ini files, but I remember that I was supposed to
> do a call to some executable under winxp, to install the bootloader on
> the xp partition as well.
>
> Any ideas are very much appreciated.
>
> Andre.
>
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