Comments for iceflatline http://www.iceflatline.com A Practical Guide Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:57:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Comment on Installing SliTaz Linux on a Hard Drive by steve http://www.iceflatline.com/2010/06/installing-slitaz-linux-on-a-hard-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-3247 steve Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:57:29 +0000 http://www.iceflatline.com/?p=268#comment-3247 Slitaz has some serius installation issue ! Installation proces complete but grub bootloader does not instal sucesfuly either do manual install nor do manual so called fix ! This must be done right from the box and fuly without user intervention ! Id like to use Slitax for virtualization purposes, as live is useles to me ! Slitaz has some serius installation issue ! Installation proces complete but grub bootloader does not instal sucesfuly either do manual install nor do manual so called fix ! This must be done right from the box and fuly without user intervention ! Id like to use Slitax for virtualization purposes, as live is useles to me !

]]> Comment on How to Dual Boot Windows 7 and Linux using BCDEdit by iceflatline http://www.iceflatline.com/2009/09/how-to-dual-boot-windows-7-and-linux-using-bcdedit/comment-page-1/#comment-3131 iceflatline Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:13:19 +0000 http://www.iceflatline.com/?p=90#comment-3131 Thomas, thank you for posting. Next time you might try Gparted rather than Ubuntu's partitioner. It features support for hardware RAID, motherboard BIOS RAID, and Linux software RAID. Once partitioned correctly, the remaining steps should work correctly. Anyway, glad you were able find a solution that worked for you :) Thomas, thank you for posting. Next time you might try Gparted rather than Ubuntu’s partitioner. It features support for hardware RAID, motherboard BIOS RAID, and Linux software RAID. Once partitioned correctly, the remaining steps should work correctly. Anyway, glad you were able find a solution that worked for you :)

]]> Comment on How to Dual Boot Windows 7 and Linux using BCDEdit by Thomas Widmann http://www.iceflatline.com/2009/09/how-to-dual-boot-windows-7-and-linux-using-bcdedit/comment-page-1/#comment-3128 Thomas Widmann Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:24:39 +0000 http://www.iceflatline.com/?p=90#comment-3128 I solve the problem by using EasyBCD instead of BCDedit. I solve the problem by using EasyBCD instead of BCDedit.

]]> Comment on How to Dual Boot Windows 7 and Linux using BCDEdit by Installing Ubuntu 10 on Fake RAID 1 : The Widmann Blog http://www.iceflatline.com/2009/09/how-to-dual-boot-windows-7-and-linux-using-bcdedit/comment-page-1/#comment-3097 Installing Ubuntu 10 on Fake RAID 1 : The Widmann Blog Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:48:39 +0000 http://www.iceflatline.com/?p=90#comment-3097 [...] then found a blog posting describing how to use Windows 7′s boot loader, BCDedit, to boot Linux. It looked promising, [...] [...] then found a blog posting describing how to use Windows 7′s boot loader, BCDedit, to boot Linux. It looked promising, [...]

]]> Comment on How to Dual Boot Windows 7 and Linux using BCDEdit by Thomas Widmann http://www.iceflatline.com/2009/09/how-to-dual-boot-windows-7-and-linux-using-bcdedit/comment-page-1/#comment-3094 Thomas Widmann Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:01:30 +0000 http://www.iceflatline.com/?p=90#comment-3094 Thanks for this article. I've been struggling to install Ubuntu 10 on a machine with FakeRAID 1 running Windows 7. Although the Ubuntu 10 installer recognised the RAID setup, it wouldn't let me reformat the partition (the harddisks had already been partitioned by the vendor). I followed a suggestion I saw on an Ubuntu forum and installed Ubuntu 9, and then Ubuntu 10 without reformatting the Linux partition, and that seemed to work... ... Except that Grub wasn't working. I tried to install it in different places, but it never seemed to make any difference whatsoever -- the machine booted happily into Windows as if Grub didn't exist. I was therefore hopeful when I found this, but alas it didn't work. I didn't get any error messages, but just as others have described in comments above, I just get a blank screen with a blinking cursor when I select Linux. I'm wondering whether Grub didn't get written correctly to the Linux partition, either. Is there a non-Grub way to boot Linux, I wonder? Thanks for this article.
I’ve been struggling to install Ubuntu 10 on a machine with FakeRAID 1 running Windows 7. Although the Ubuntu 10 installer recognised the RAID setup, it wouldn’t let me reformat the partition (the harddisks had already been partitioned by the vendor). I followed a suggestion I saw on an Ubuntu forum and installed Ubuntu 9, and then Ubuntu 10 without reformatting the Linux partition, and that seemed to work…
… Except that Grub wasn’t working. I tried to install it in different places, but it never seemed to make any difference whatsoever — the machine booted happily into Windows as if Grub didn’t exist.
I was therefore hopeful when I found this, but alas it didn’t work. I didn’t get any error messages, but just as others have described in comments above, I just get a blank screen with a blinking cursor when I select Linux.
I’m wondering whether Grub didn’t get written correctly to the Linux partition, either.
Is there a non-Grub way to boot Linux, I wonder?

]]> Comment on How to Dual Boot Windows 7 and Linux using BCDEdit by iceflatline http://www.iceflatline.com/2009/09/how-to-dual-boot-windows-7-and-linux-using-bcdedit/comment-page-1/#comment-2788 iceflatline Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:51:24 +0000 http://www.iceflatline.com/?p=90#comment-2788 alexander, thanks so much for sharing this. Your experience made me smile... I encountered the same issue and fixed it the same way you did! Something in that particular update changed the boot sector enough to render the image we created useless. Creating a new boot sector image using dd was the only way out of the mess. Ain't Linux great!? Thanks again for sharing your solution. I'm sure it will be of help to others. alexander, thanks so much for sharing this. Your experience made me smile… I encountered the same issue and fixed it the same way you did! Something in that particular update changed the boot sector enough to render the image we created useless. Creating a new boot sector image using dd was the only way out of the mess. Ain’t Linux great!?

Thanks again for sharing your solution. I’m sure it will be of help to others.

]]> Comment on How to Dual Boot Windows 7 and Linux using BCDEdit by alexander http://www.iceflatline.com/2009/09/how-to-dual-boot-windows-7-and-linux-using-bcdedit/comment-page-1/#comment-2755 alexander Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:35:31 +0000 http://www.iceflatline.com/?p=90#comment-2755 Thanks a lot, iceflatline. The guide is great. I would like to share some experience as well. It seems like some critical updates of an installed Ubuntu 10.04 may affect its GRUB boot sector. It makes the "C:\linux.bin" file a kind of out-of-sync. Well I'm not sure that I get things right so I simply tell I downloaded and installed updates through the Update Manager (Now I can't tell which updates there were), Ubuntu prompted me to reboot. Windows boot manager showed both the windows and the ubuntu options, but choosing Ubuntu lead to a black screen - grub menu didn't show up. 1. I booted from a liveusb and "wrote the first 512 bytes of our Linux boot partition to a file" again. 2. Then I put the new file in the C:\ and compared it with the old one (Windows shell: C:\>comp linux.bin linux2.bin /a). They were different. 3. So I removed the old file and renamed the new one to "linux.bin" thus there would be no need to update the BCD entry. 4. Rebooted. These measures fixed the black screen problem and Ubuntu got up and running again. Thanks a lot, iceflatline. The guide is great.
I would like to share some experience as well. It seems like some critical updates of an installed Ubuntu 10.04 may affect its GRUB boot sector. It makes the “C:\linux.bin” file a kind of out-of-sync. Well I’m not sure that I get things right so I simply tell

I downloaded and installed updates through the Update Manager (Now I can’t tell which updates there were), Ubuntu prompted me to reboot. Windows boot manager showed both the windows and the ubuntu options, but choosing Ubuntu lead to a black screen – grub menu didn’t show up.

1. I booted from a liveusb and “wrote the first 512 bytes of our Linux boot partition to a file” again.
2. Then I put the new file in the C:\ and compared it with the old one (Windows shell: C:\>comp linux.bin linux2.bin /a). They were different.
3. So I removed the old file and renamed the new one to “linux.bin” thus there would be no need to update the BCD entry.
4. Rebooted.

These measures fixed the black screen problem and Ubuntu got up and running again.

]]> Comment on How to Install and Configure dnsmasq by iceflatline http://www.iceflatline.com/2010/02/how-to-install-and-configure-dnsmasq/comment-page-1/#comment-2727 iceflatline Sun, 22 Aug 2010 03:37:55 +0000 http://www.iceflatline.com/?p=249#comment-2727 David, thanks! Good points. I do find, however, that the pfSense implementation of dnsmasq lacks some of the configuration options available in the stand-alone version. No worries though, pfSense more than makes up for it in so many other ways. David, thanks! Good points. I do find, however, that the pfSense implementation of dnsmasq lacks some of the configuration options available in the stand-alone version. No worries though, pfSense more than makes up for it in so many other ways.

]]> Comment on How to Install and Configure dnsmasq by David Szpunar http://www.iceflatline.com/2010/02/how-to-install-and-configure-dnsmasq/comment-page-1/#comment-2713 David Szpunar Sat, 21 Aug 2010 14:28:05 +0000 http://www.iceflatline.com/?p=249#comment-2713 Also note that dnsmasq is included in pfSense (from another of your posts) with a very easy web interface since you are running that now. Easy to override DNS entries as needed or for entire domains. Also note that dnsmasq is included in pfSense (from another of your posts) with a very easy web interface since you are running that now. Easy to override DNS entries as needed or for entire domains.

]]> Comment on Set up a Super Key on an IBM Laptop for use in CrunchBang Linux by iceflatline http://www.iceflatline.com/2009/08/set-up-a-super-key-on-an-ibm-laptop-for-use-in-crunchbang-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-2693 iceflatline Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:40:50 +0000 http://www.iceflatline.com/?p=77#comment-2693 Alastair, glad you got it working! Thanks much for contributing. Alastair, glad you got it working! Thanks much for contributing.

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