System Commander won't boot RH 7.2 and Internet Problems

[Offroad]

Just installed RH 7.2 (Intel), its on my first SCSI drive.
I have System commander on my first IDE drive that boots Win98 and XP on it.

I have installed a workstation load of RH and set it up using both Grub and Lilo on both the mbr and first sector of boot partition.

System Commander does not recognize RH. If I manually configure an entry for RH it still fails to boot.

Booting with a boot diskette is fine.

Also can't get the internet working under RH 7.2
I have used the internet wizard to configure a dialup connection. It appears to have TCP/IP asscociated and will connect to my ISP but browsers will not go anywhere.

Could a misconfiguration of RH's firewall be causing this? I followed the install guide and it seems ok.

Any advice or redirection to a more appropriate forum would be greatly appreciated. :o

[scanez]

Hmmm, okay. Seems to me you either have to install lilo/grub in the MBR or root partition of the IDE disk and configure lilo/grub to boot the Windows OSs, or try to configure system commander again. How did you try to get it to boot RedHat?

Did you add your DNS servers to /etc/resolv.conf? Here try to go to this address

216.239.33.101

that's the IP for google. If it works, then indeed you have a DNS problem. Get the DNS servers from you isp and add them to /etc/resolv.conf

Good luck
SC

[Offroad]

Scanez:

System Commander is on my first IDE drive.
You are supposed to be able to put Lilo or Grub on the root partition of the disk RH is on then point SysCmndr to it to boot. (according to the RH 7.2 IG)

I did not specify any DNS servers on RH 7.2, when I ran the Internet wizard I just let it default to automatic assignment of IP and DNS.
This works ok for all my Win OS's and I thought worked for Mandrake 7.1 as well.

I can add the DNS entry's to the file you suggested for a try.

Thanks.

[bdg1983]

I would check the System Commander website to see if your particular version has problems with Linux/Redhat 7.2.

Why not just forget SC and use Grub to boot all your operating systems?

[Offroad]

Figured out the Internet problem.
For some reason the KPPP Dialer would connect but never allow any IP traffic (at least not to any browser I tried)
Using RH Dialer I have configured a dialup account to my ISP and it works fine.

Still haven't figured out how to get System Commander to boot RH 7.2 on my first SCSI drive. I went through System Commander's OS Wizard and it did set up the partitions a bit differently than a default install of RH did.
The only thing I changed was to set the root partition back to ext3, perhaps System Commander doesn't understand ext3?

I have the latest version of System Commander v5.06
I will try another install and leave it at ext2 and see if that makes any difference.

Any other suggestions appreciated, up to trying to add RH 7.2 to this system I have been very happy with System Commander. ;)

[Offroad]

I figured it out last night. Best I can tell System Commander has problems with the ext3 format that RH 7.2 wants to use.

If I let RH 7.2 handle the partitioning of my 2.1gb sda drive it sets up the following:

/boot -- 40mb ext3
/ -- 1700mb ext3
swap -- 400mb

If I change the format on the /boot partition to ext2 and set the boot loader to go on the first boot sector of sda I can use either Lilo or Grub (using Grub) and System Commander is able to boot RH 7.2 just fine.

I am using the latest version of System Commander v5.06
The tip off was when you went into System Commander to manually add an entry for RH 7.2 all of the sda partitions show as ext2 formatted even when they are really ext3.

System Commander does recognize the operating system as Linux but apparently can't really handle ext3 properly.
Hopefully they will release an update that will fix this.

I am going to forward this to them, RH 7.2 is very new and perhaps they were not aware of this. I'm new to Linux so I'm not sure how many other Distro's are using ext3 but if I'm not mistaken I think its a new feature in the latest Kernels? :D

[bdg1983]

If we had known you were using ext3 or ReiserFS, that would have given us a clue to why System Commander would not work.

The same goes for imaging software such as Drive Image. They have yet to include support for ReiserFS and probably ext3.

[X-treme]

I have the same problem with kppp in RH7.1. If I login using gnome after a fresh boot and use the RH dialer I can connect and surf sites. But if I login using kde after a fresh boot and use kppp I can connect but I am not able to get any websites. However if I exit out of kde go back and login using gnome and connect using RH dialer then log back off and log into kde, kppp will work just fine and allow me to surf websites.. I have yet to figure out what the world is going on with it.. But I have found that this works everytime????

X-treme :confused: