Almost got it...NEED HELP please

blaksaga · Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2003 5:15 am Post subject: Almost got it...NEED HELP please

Well I only spent 4 hours on it tonight and almost have everything working...but I still have a few problems

1) Grub
I screwed up the grub commands...how do I change them? I need to mount the boot partition right? I tried but couldnt get it...can somebody drop me some commands how to do it?

2) Ethernet & genkernel
I am using genkernel but still have no ethernet. I don't have much experience with linux so I have no idea how to track down the problem. Any help is appreciated.

meowsqueak · Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2003 5:23 am Post subject:

1. boot up and mount the boot partition:

$ mkdir /mnt/boot (if it doesn't already exist)
$ mount /dev/hdX# /mnt/boot -o rw

where X# is the partition you have your boot files on, e.g. a1

You should find something like /mnt/boot/grub/grub.conf - change the grub config in there.

blaksaga · Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2003 5:34 am Post subject: thanx + more info

thanks meowsqueak. I'll give that a whirl.

As far as my ethernet problem...an ifconfig shows up with ETH0. But when I try and do a ping on anything it IMMEDIATELY returns a host not found.

meowsqueak · Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2003 5:40 am Post subject:

Can you post the output of 'ifconfig' here?

blaksaga · Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2003 5:52 am Post subject: ifconfig

ifconfig

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:BA:C8:B4:5F inetaddr: 192.168.0.2 Bcast: 192.168.0.255 Mask: 255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::250:baff:fec8:645f/10 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU: 1500 Metric: 1 RX packets: 8198 errors: 0 ...... TX packets: 4 ...... RX bytes: 496480 (4848 kb) TX bytes: 288 (288.0 b) Interrupt: 11 Base address: 0x50000

lo Link ......

ETH0 seems up and running but doesn't work for some reason.

blaksaga · Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2003 5:58 am Post subject: hostname?

Would the hostname or domainname that I set matter? I just put down mymachine for hostname and mydomain.com for domainname because I did not know what else to use.

meowsqueak · Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2003 11:33 pm Post subject:

That shouldn't affect it, since you're trying to ping an IP address not a DNS name, aren't you?

What's the IP address of the machine you're trying to ping? Is it on the same subnet? e.g. 192.168.0.XXX ?

MADcow · Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2003 11:40 pm Post subject:

rc-update add net.eth0 default
/etc/init.d/net.eth0 start

mind you, this will bring your ethernet device up on boot, and is not advisable for all systems.
take a look at your /etc/init.d/net.eth0, you may need to give it your ip (if static) or tell it to use dhcp (if dynamic)

edit: disregard my post, as i did not see that you had obtained an ip address.