Montag, 29. Dezember 2008

siemens 4000 micro needs SM1

The siemens telefon 4000 4010 4015 micro needs Slim-Lumberg-SM1
The SM2 is not compatible!

Dienstag, 16. Dezember 2008

edit initrd image

1. Rename:
mv initrd.img initrd.img.gz
2, Uncompress:
gzip -d initrd.img.gz
3. Extract: (WARNING!! without "--no-absolute-filenames" extracts in your root "/")
mkdir root
cd root
cpio -i --no-absolute-filenames < ../initrd.img
4. Do the editing
5. New archive:
find . | cpio -o -H newc > ../initrd_new.img
6. Compress:
cd ../
gzip -c initrd_new.img > initrd_new.img.gz
7. Rename:
mv initrd_new.img.gz to initrd.img

Montag, 1. Dezember 2008

howto repair the MBR in linux

1. Pop in the Live CD, boot from it until you reach the desktop.
2. Open a terminal window or switch to a tty.
3. Type "grub"
4. Type "root (hd0,6)", or whatever your harddisk + boot partition numbers are (my /boot is at /dev/sda7, which translates to hd0,6 for grub).
5. Type "setup (hd0)", ot whatever your harddisk nr is.
6. Quit grub by typing "quit".
7. Reboot.