February 28, 2005
NeXTstation is up and running
I had a ton of laundry to do this evening, so I decided to leave my laptop at work (so I'd actually get it done). In between loads I decided to play around with my NeXTstation turbo. Several months ago I incorrectly set the NIS domain which caused the system to hang during boot. I found out this evening that if the network cable isn't plugged in, the network subsystem won't start (since I'm using DHCP), and the NIS check won't occur. It was a non-elegant way to get it to work, but at least it's up. I'll need to learn more about the NeXTOS boot procedure. Here's a shot of it:
Posted by bcroft at 9:19 PM | Comments (0)
Putty Alien
Adding marbles to putty opens a whole new world of putty creations... Lamont and I made this one.
Posted by bcroft at 3:01 PM | Comments (0)
February 25, 2005
GRUB Tip - Saving the last booted kernel
Byron Clark mentioned this to me a while back, but I hadn't messed with it until this evening. GRUB has the ability to remember which GRUB entry (kernel or OS) was the last to be booted instead of having the same default entry each time.
Replace "default X" in /boot/grub/grub.conf with "default saved". Then for each entry in /boot/grub/grub.conf add "savedefault". The final result should look something like:
default saved
title Kernel 2.6.9
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9 root=/dev/hda2
initrd /initrd-2.6.9.img
savedefault
title Kernel 2.6.10
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10 root=/dev/hda2
initrd /initrd-2.6.10.img
savedefault
Posted by bcroft at 7:16 PM | Comments (0)
February 23, 2005
Greetings
Besides the simple blog on my webpage, I've never really blogged much. But I do like the word "blog", so maybe I'll give it a shot. I'll post later when I have something meaningful to say...
Posted by bcroft at 10:50 PM | Comments (0)