Linux-Precision Digest, Vol 22, Issue 3

Tue Aug 8 09:23:01 CDT 2006

I cannot get the onboard soundcard to work on the precision 380
workstation using Fedora Core 5? It appears to load the correct driver,
but no sound? 

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Today's Topics:

   1. weird precision 370/380 BIOS question (Gary Gatling)
   2. Precision 470 with CERC SATA RAID0: dual boot? (glowing pear)
   3. Re: Precision 470 with CERC SATA RAID0: dual boot? (Scott M. Dier)

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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 12:03:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Gary Gatling <gsgatlin at eos.ncsu.edu>
Subject: weird precision 370/380 BIOS question
To: linux-precision at lists.us.dell.com
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Greetings,

Recently I've been asked to update the Sun eeprom passwords we use on
all 
of our sunblade 150 workstations. I am going to use the Solaris "eeprom"

command in combination with "expect" to change that password on all
these 
Sun systems.

I wonder if there would be a way to do something similar with a
Precision 
370/380 running Red Hat Linux? Could I log in as root via ssh to a 
workstation and run some series of commands to change the BIOS 
security password? Or must this only be done manually by traveling to
each 
workstation and rebooting it and changing settings by hand?

Just curious to see if such a thing would even be possible... (`cause we

have 400+ boxes running red hat)

Cheers,

Gary Gatling      | ITECS Systems
ITECS, BOX 7901   | Technology Support Analyst
NCSU, Raleigh, NC | Email: gsgatlin at eos dot ncsu dot edu
27695-7901        | Phone: (919) 513-4572 (5B Page Hall)

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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 21:27:28 +0000
From: "glowing pear" <theglowingpear at gmail.com>
Subject: Precision 470 with CERC SATA RAID0: dual boot?
To: linux-precision at dell.com
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Hi all,

We recently purchased a Precision 470 with WinXP installed to a 2-disk
160GB
RAID0 array.  I'd like to put Ubuntu Linux on there and be able to
dual-boot
it.  I've been doing a lot of research and this doesn't sound
particularly
easy, unfortunately (dealing with preexisting software RAID seems like a
dark art in Linux).  Right now, I'm booted off the Dapper Drake LiveCD
and I
loaded the aacraid module into the kernel. GPartEd doesn't seem to be
able
to see what's going on with the disks, but fdisk does (?)

ubuntu at ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9726 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1           6       48163+  de  Dell Utility
/dev/sda2   *           7       19419   155934922+   7  HPFS/NTFS

That sure looks good to me!  I already went into the CERC's BIOS config
to
make the array bootable, hence the *.  Now, the $64K question is: how do
I
go about resizing the NTFS partition to make room for Linux, and
installing
Ubuntu so that Grub can boot either Linux or WinXP?

Thanks!
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 16:58:32 -0500
From: "Scott M. Dier" <sdier at cs.umn.edu>
Subject: Re: Precision 470 with CERC SATA RAID0: dual boot?
To: glowing pear <theglowingpear at gmail.com>
Cc: linux-precision at dell.com
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glowing pear wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> We recently purchased a Precision 470 with WinXP installed to a 2-disk

> 160GB RAID0 array.  I'd like to put Ubuntu Linux on there and be able
to 
> dual-boot it.  I've been doing a lot of research and this doesn't
sound 
> particularly easy, unfortunately (dealing with preexisting software
RAID 
> seems like a dark art in Linux).  Right now, I'm booted off the Dapper

> Drake LiveCD and I loaded the aacraid module into the kernel. GPartEd 
> doesn't seem to be able to see what's going on with the disks, but
fdisk 
> does (?)

Do you have any output on the terminal when gparted can't see the 
partition?  I would also try the 'alternate' install disk, which may 
work better in this case.

-- 
Scott Dier <sdier at cs.umn.edu>
CS/IT Systems Staff

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