Subject: Installation problems: boot, nfs, X

From: Mikko Suonio <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 17:46:23 +0300 (EET DST)

Hi!

 I finally moved from RH(2.1) to Debian(1.1.4) and I have to admit that this
looks promising! Just learned the first steps using dselect; hopefully
I learn to ftp the latest version of Debian with it someday!

 Jep, I also run into three problems. First, I am only able to boot with
a floppy. I installed lilo on the mbr of /dev/hda during the installation
but when I reboot the machine says

 Starting Dynamic Drive Overlay
 Press spacebar to boot from diskette...
 ERROR: Incompatible BIOS Translation Detected.
 Refer to your Ontrack documentation for more information.
 Insert boot ...

It seems to be a hardware problem. Or?

 2. In the Debian installation I tried to include the nfs-module into the
kernel. It did not succeed, but gave the following (I reproduced this
with modprobe)

 Loading failed! The module symbols (from linux-2.0.6) don't match your linux-2.0.6

(the whole message is in http://www.helsinki.fi/~msuonio/nfs_error.txt).
I will compile the kernel as soon as I get more familiar with the
Debian-style kernel compilation. But it would be nice to get nfs running
right now.

 3. I am not able to run XFree. I'm using the Mach64-server with a
XF86Config that worked with RH 2.1. I just get (startx)

PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file  Roman_M
Fatal server error:
Cannot open mouse (No such device)

TRANS(SocketUNIXConnect) () can't connect: errno = 111
giving up.
xinit:  Connection refused (errno 111):  unable to connect to X server
xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.

The mouse error is due to ps2-style mouse, which is not in the kernel.
I haven't tested another xserver yet, so it still possible that mach64
is the problem (with Xfree 3.1.2). Sometimes I got something running,
because the screen went blank with flickering, and I had to reboot.
(That might be a genuine mach problem.) But usually the above text
appeared. I reinstalled the x11 packages, but it did not seem to help.

 I tried to search these from docs, debian-user archives, newsgroups,
ChangeLog of Debian 1.1.8, and Debian FAQ (new one), but I didn't find
anything. Could someone help me on this?

-- 
	Mikko
		http://www.helsinki.fi/~msuonio

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From: [email-masked] (Bruce Perens)
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 96 11:48 PDT

From: Mikko Suonio <[email-masked]>
> It seems to be a hardware problem. Or?

You are using Ontrack Disk Manager on your hard disk. This isn't going
to work well with Linux. If you don't have anything _but_ Linux on that
hard drive, I suggest you purge Disk Manager from the drive. If this is
the "C:" drive on the computer, you can probably purge it by saying "y"
to the "install master boot record" question when you install the LILO
package.

Otherwise, just boot Linux from a floppy.

Regarding the NFS problem, please build a custom kernel for your system.

The ps/2 mouse driver is in the "psaux" module.

	Bruce