[HLUG] Last couple of messages didn't go through

[David Shorthouse]

Thanks Andrew,

Bit late now the board has been ripped out & replaced.. I did a search &
basically I couldn't get a boot bios to detect the a: drive it started
reading it but couldn't get any further. I tried doing the suggestions of
creating a boot disk writing the bin file onto a blank disk.. So give up
after about 6-7hours trying to get it to read the disk... bloody thing.

I had to get the machine running again...  So got another board you wouldn't
know how hard it was to find a board with standard IDE rather than sata.

I am short of IDE slots of 4 IDEslots now :( until I can get a new EPROM
chip for the board.

Anyway learnt a bit after Linux or windows wouldn't boot after installing
the new board I booted the machine up using a SUSE9.2 live CD.
I managed to find out how to mount the drives but because most of the fs is
read-only the only place I couldn't mount my disks was in my home...(that
was fun on its own)

I su to get root & typed "mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /home/linux/windows" Then
I did the same for my old Linux drive but it had a blank partition on it so
had to do "mount -t auto /dev/hdb2 /home/linux/oldlinux" I was then able to
backup all the files to my 160gig drive(which caused all this)

I also found mkdir useful.
Hopefully once the install is done I can just copy all the files back & away
I go..

Anyway thanks Andrew...

Wishing everyone a happy new-year. I hope you all don't have hangovers :)


Dave



-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Hodgson [mailto:andrew at hodgsonfamily.org]
Sent: 31 December 2005 7:23 PM
To: Herefordshire Linux Users Group.
Subject: RE: [HLUG] Last couple of messages didn't go through


Hi,

I think what it is looking for is the BIOS flash file on a floppy disk.
I have seen mentions to this in the past when doing google searches for
firmware.  If you put the file on a disk with a certain name and press
enter, it will reflash and hopefully (!) work again.  Consult the mobo
manuals/support pages to find out what it should be called.

Andrew.

-----Original Message-----
From: herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of David
Shorthouse
Sent: 31 December 2005 19:00
To: herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: [HLUG] Last couple of messages didn't go through

Hi All,

I hope you all had a good Christmas. the last message see below.

Does anyone know how to flash a eprom that wont recognise the a drive?

I installed a new drive in my server machine & it wouldn't see it so I
though flash the board to the latest bios & it should be ok... all seem
to
go ok then it rebooted & I get left with a screen

Award BootBlock BIOS v1.0
ROM checksum error.
INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER.

I tried this made a windows floppy boot disk I haven't been able to get
the
machine to boot.
I have now got another board that doesn't support Raid so I am left with
4
hard disks until I can reflash the bios.

Anyway that's the bad news the other news is I have put all the drives
onto
the new board & it seems to be throwing a woobly its  doing a system
repair
at the moment for some reason it couldn't mount the Linux
drive...although
it gets to the boot loader screen ok...

Will keep you posted.

I cant do a fresh install of Linux because there is data I need to get
off
that drive.. after I have that off I will do a clean install of Suse
again.

Dave...

PS why didn't my message not go through last time see below. :

Happy new-year.....



Hi All,

I hope everyone is still merry after the Christmas break and ready for
the
New years one.... :)

I have noticed someone has been/or trying to gain access to my ssh on my
linux server. I get a log sent to my gmail account every hour from my
router. I have noticed that the ssh port 22 being used. see below.

Wed, 2005-12-28 19:29:02 - TCP Packet - Source:202.63.114.43,46799
Destination:192.168.0.2,22 - [SSH match]
Wed, 2005-12-28 19:29:14 - TCP Packet - Source:202.63.114.43,48700
Destination:192.168.0.2,22 - [SSH match]
Wed, 2005-12-28 19:29:17 - TCP Packet - Source:202.63.114.43,48779
Destination:192.168.0.2,22 - [SSH match]
Wed, 2005-12-28 19:29:21 - TCP Packet - Source:202.63.114.43,48858
Destination:192.168.0.2,22 - [SSH match]
Wed, 2005-12-28 19:29:26 - TCP Packet - Source:202.63.114.43,49768
Destination:192.168.0.2,22 - [SSH match]

Although from this i can tell someone is trying to gain access but is
there
somewhere that will log ssh attempts???


Cheers & be merry...

Oh sending via linux :)

Dave



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