On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 11:22:25AM -0600, Justin Haaheim wrote:
> Hi. I've got a linux question.
>
> I've got a gateway system (about a year old) running RedHat 8. The
> machine has a SoundBlaster Live! Value card in it which has four ports
> on the back (Line in, Mic, Speaker output, Aux output). On my gateway
> system (and with my digital boston speakers), the drivers/software
> allowed me to select the primary speaker output to be digital (and then
> I hooked my stereo up to the aux output which remained analog). Now
> that I'm running linux, my aux output still works to my stereo, but I
> can't figure out how to tell my drivers to give digital output to my
> speakers through the main speaker out port. If you guys can give any
> help, that would be greatly appreciated.
STFW. [1] is the first hit on google for
linux sound blaster live digital
>
> I've actually got a second question. I'm running Win XP and Redhat 8 on
> two separate hard drives (this is the same machine) and trying to dual
> boot. As it is, i can boot into either by switching which hard drive
> the bios goes to in order to boot, but the GRUB booter doesn't work.
> The grub booter was configured during install, and the config file is
> consistent with information i've read on dual booting. When i go to
> select windows to boot, it prints the commands that GRUB runs but then
> just sits there. Could it be that, because both os's were installed
> with their respective hard drive being the main boot hard drive, that's
> why i can't dual boot?
Yes.
Let's assume your two harddrives are connected like this. If not, change
as appropriate:
controller0:
hdd0 - windows
hdd1 - empty
controller1:
hdd0 - linux
hdd1 - empty
The solution is:
* boot linux
* make a backup copy of /etc/fstab
cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.good
* make a working copy of /etc/fstab
cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.new
* update the entries in /etc/fstab.new by replacing all /dev/hdaX with
/dev/hdcX. If there are no such references you might be lucky,
because you are using mount by label.
* boot linux with bash as your init program by putting this on
the command line: "init=/bin/bash". If you don't know how to
do this, send the /boot/grub/menu.lst to the list and I will
help you. That file does not contain any sensitive information.
* mount the root partition read-write
mount -w -o remount /
* copy the new fstab
cp /etc/fstab.new /etc/fstab
* mount the root partition read-only
mount -r -o remount /
* set the harddrive where you installed Windows as the first harddrive.
* install grub on a floppy disk to have as backup
* boot windows using floppy
* boot linux using floppy
* install grub on the harddrive
If this did frighten you, come to the next install fest.
Cheers,
florin
1. http://www.euronet.nl/~mailme/
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