A Few Issues [Solved]

[joeoden]

Open sulfur click on the on the word Sulfur on the filemenu then select Avanced Mode, 3 more buttons will appear on the top toolbar click on the Availiable button (or just click the All button) and scroll down to Games

Then select any games you want to install, there is few games to chose from in each section starting from games-action all the way to games-util

If you know the name of the program you want to install you can search for it by typing the name in the search bar, another handy feature of sulfur is if you select the first item app-accesibillity and then start to type the list will jump to what ever you type, for example if you type g the list will jump to the first program beginning with g in the list, so if you typed kdeg the list would jump to kdegames-meta

To get some info about a program double clicking it will open the program information window, if not enough info then google the program name

You can access your music files by mounting your MS partition first then point xmbc to the directory that holds your files

Have fun
Joe

[livinglifeback]

xmbc already know where they files are i've told it what the path is for the folder but it says file path is invalid untill i open dolphin

[livinglifeback]

I can't boot into windows anymore

when the boot chooser shows up it has
sabayon
sabsyon safe
other operating... windows vista

they all used to work fine i tried to get into windows today and it started the proccess but then showed me the sabayon 4.2 graphic then switches to the sabayon 4.1 graphic all i've done since last being on windoows is install Virtual box

[Fitzcarraldo]

Re: lost vista boot loader after install

I think the title of this thread is a misnomer.

[livinglifeback]

okay here's the deal i guess i'm not explaining it yet well, my computer loaded vista fine forever i updated sabayon and insatlled Virtual box and now the menu.lst file shows sabayon and other operating system - microsoft windows as loading the same kernel, i checked the menu_orginal.lst and it shows them using the same kernel as well, so i've got two questions

1) what happened to change the kernel from windows to sabayon and how do i stop it

2)how do i find the windows kernel to make it boot windows instead of sabayon

[joeoden]

Still not sure what you mean, let me have a guess
When you select from the grub boot menu
other operating system - microsoft windows
Your computer starts Sabayon instead of MS Windows

If so please paste your
/boot/grub/grub.conf
and your
/boot/grub/menu.lst
in this post, so that we can see what is going on, it could be that rootnoverify (hd0,0) is incorrect in your grub.conf

If you mount your MS partition can you see any files on it (use Dolphin)

Hope we can sort your problems out
Joe

[livinglifeback]

grub .conf

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 grub.conf generated by the Sabayon Linux Installer

#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd0,2)
#          kernel /kernel-genkernel real_root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
#          initrd /initramfs-genkernel
#boot=sda
default=2
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title Sabayon Linux x86 (genkernel-x86-2.6.29-sabayon)
        root (hd0,2)
        kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.29-sabayon  root=/dev/ram0 ramdisk$
        initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.29-sabayon
        savedefault

title Sabayon Linux x86 (genkernel-x86-2.6.29-sabayon) (safe mode)
        root (hd0,2)
        kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.29-sabayon root=/dev/ram0 ramdisk=$
        initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.29-sabayon
        savedefault

title Other Operating System - Microsoft Windows
        rootnoverify (hd0,1)
        chainloader +1
        savedefaulttitle=Sabayon Linux (kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.29-sabayon)
        root (hd0,2)
        kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.29-sabayon root=/dev/ram0 ramdisk=$
        initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.29-sabayon
        savedefault


menu.lst

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 grub.conf generated by the Sabayon Linux Installer
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd0,2)
#          kernel /kernel-genkernel real_root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
#          initrd /initramfs-genkernel
#boot=sda
default=2
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title Sabayon Linux x86 (genkernel-x86-2.6.29-sabayon)
        root (hd0,2)
        kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.29-sabayon  root=/dev/ram0 ramdisk$
        initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.29-sabayon
        savedefault

title Sabayon Linux x86 (genkernel-x86-2.6.29-sabayon) (safe mode)
        root (hd0,2)
        kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.29-sabayon root=/dev/ram0 ramdisk=$
        initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.29-sabayon
        savedefault

title Other Operating System - Microsoft Windows
        rootnoverify (hd0,1)
        chainloader +1
        savedefaulttitle=Sabayon Linux (kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.29-sabayon)
        root (hd0,2)
        kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.29-sabayon root=/dev/ram0 ramdisk=$
        initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.29-sabayon
        savedefault


i get the feeking that it's a problem they're the same?

[livinglifeback]

what do you mean by mount? maybe i'm not understanding that correctly

[ReemZ]

what do you mean by mount? maybe i'm not understanding that correctly

Veeeeeeeeeeeery simply put, mounting is making a partition visible (and accessible) in your filesystem.

To do this, first you make a directory to mount the winblows partition to:

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mkdir /home/justin/winblows

where /home/justin/winblows is just an example and could be virtually anything you choose it to be, but I'd advise to do this in your homedir.

Then, mount the winblows partition (I'll assume it's sda1, if different on your system, change accordingly):

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mount -t filesystem /dev/sda1 /home/justin/winblows

where filesystem could be vfat, ext3, reiser, etc.
Dunno what it actually should be for winblows, someone else will have to help here.

Don't forget to unmount (and if you really wanna clean up, remove the mount directory) when you're done:

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umount /home/justin/winblows
rmdir /home/justin/winblows

A little homework:

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man mount
man umount

And just to be sure: the proper command for unmounting is umount, NOT unmount

(use Dolphin)

Why not Konqueror?

[joeoden]

grub .conf

Your problem is
title Other Operating System - Microsoft Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader +1
savedefaulttitle=Sabayon Linux (kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.29-sabayon)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.29-sabayon root=/dev/ram0 ramdisk=$
initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.29-sabayon
savedefault

Should be
title Other Operating System - Microsoft Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader +1
savedefault

title=Sabayon Linux (kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.29-sabayon)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.29-sabayon root=/dev/ram0 ramdisk=$
initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.29-sabayon
savedefault

For some reason the last entry has been placed at the end of savedefault instead of a new line, to fix open grub.conf as root with a text editor place your cursor in between the tt (of savedefaulttitle) press enter twice, save and close all open programs (windows) and reboot

If it doesn't work delete the = that is in between title=Sabayon so that it looks like title Sabayon

Have fun
Joe