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Published by kyle on 18 Jul 2008

Grub on a DL380

Having had the misfortune to be editing the partition table of one of our Oracle servers, I discovered that Grub 0.97 (the SLES SP1 variety) doesn’t play well with DL380 Smart Array Controllers. The magic auto detection that we’ve all grown to know and love just… it just doesn’t.

WMSR0008:~ # grub-install –recheck –root-directory=/mnt /dev/cciss/c0d0
WMSR0008:~ #/dev/cciss/c0d0 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive.

You have to hand hold Grub through the process instead.

Map hd0 to the correct device node
grub> device (hd0) /dev/cciss/c0d0

Specify the root device
grub> root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0×83

Search for and (hopefully) find the stage1 loader
grub> find /grub/stage1
(hd0,0)

Tell it to install to the bootsector
grub> setup (hd0)
Checking if “/boot/grub/stage1″ exists… yes
Checking if “/boot/grub/stage2″ exists… yes
Checking if “/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5″ exists… yes
Running “embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)”… 22 sectors are embedded. succeeded
Running “install /boot/grub/stage1 d (
hd0) (hd0)1+22 p
(hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage
2 /boot/grub/grub.conf”…
succeeded Done.

Hurray!
grub> quit

One fresh bootsector and bootloader. Reboot and you’re sorted.

No Comments Yet Computers, Geek, Linux, Work

Published by kyle on 15 Jul 2008

Infamy!

Well, not quite. I just spotted that my favourite bit of work, Anderston was featured as an image of the week on the wiki. Admittedly it was in relation to OpenStreetbugs, but it’s a bug I filed as a reminder that’s the highlight.

My claim to fame at last :-p

One Comment Geek, Internet, Openstreetmap

Published by kyle on 15 Jul 2008

An Idea

It’s probably already been covered, but my 30 seconds of Google-Fu hasn’t turned anything up so bear with me…

Take one OpenMoko phone, a geolocation service like Fire Eagle, an online celltower database such as CellDB, and some code to use those lovely d-bus bindings, and you could have a location reporting service that’s easy on the battery and mostly precise in urban areas. If your area isn’t covered by CellDB, then run around with the OpenMoko GPS reciever online for a while to report celltower locations, and you’re sorted.

Use all of the above to create services like Socialight, location based Twittering, rough geotagging for photos (courtesy of Flickr and FireEagle [both Yahoo companies]) , pre-emptive OSM tile downloads, Asterisk routing - you could even implement ex-girlfriend logic to it all, if she were to have a similar device

Well, I’m sure someone has thought of this already, but I thought I would commit ideas to storage just in case. Once my FreeRunner arrives, I know what I’ll be working on

2 Comments Computers, Cool things, Geek, Internet, Linux, Openstreetmap, Twitter, Web

Published by kyle on 04 Jul 2008

NDSRepair on Linux

Migrated to OES on Linux, and missing out on that menu driven dsrepair fun? Fret no more, as DSRmenu will nicely wrap up the CLI version of ndsrepair, and put it into a nice menu driven system for you.

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Published by kyle on 30 Jun 2008

Timekeeping

I now have a printed email in my hands confirming an license upgrade to MSA National Rally Timekeeper. So, uurm, yay!

Goes well with the National Race Timekeeper status on my current license.

No Comments Yet Life, Motorsport

Published by on 27 Jun 2008

Twitter Updates for 2008-06-27

Bus wouldn’t stop at Clydeside Expressway or let me off when requested. Not terribly or cheerful #

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Published by kyle on 23 Jun 2008

Courage

You don’t mention it until it’s too late. It’s one of those things that you may think to yourself, but never reveal it until after the event. It takes a special person to battle their way through cancer and a variety of illnesses, and still have a positive outlook on life. Still be able to be the frighteningly clever, funny and positive person, and still find time to idle on IRC and let us know how he’s doing in the hospital.

Sadly, however, Simon lost the battle in his sleep on Saturday night. He will be missed, part of the life and soul of #linux, one of the bright lights in the Glasogw Linux social fabric, an enthusiastic photographer, and most of all, our friend. You’ll be missed Morner. Sleep well.