Info on how to flash ROM on Samsung Galaxy S

Here's the nice info on how to flash custom ROM on Samsung Galaxy S.

Darky's Extreme Edition v10.1 ★ JVH ★ Fast. Sleek. Beautiful.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=814091

[GUIDE] Final v10.1 - Official DarkyROM - Gingerbread (JVH) - Noob-Friendly

http://www.darkyrom.com/community/index.php?threads/guide-final-v10-1-official-darkyrom-gingerbread-jvh-noob-friendly.3080/

How to boot Open SuSe 11 to Serial Console

To enable default disable GUI booting and serial redirection to Serial Console.
You will need to edit the /etc/inittab file:

1) Change id:5:initdefault:      à    id:3:initdefault:    
 2) Change #S0:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty –L 9600 ttyS0 vt102   à  S0:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty –L 115200 ttyS0 vt102

If you are still having GUI as the default boot. Press Ctrl + Alt + F2 will switch to console and Press Ctrl + Alt + F7 will switch back to GUI.  

Links for good Linux information

Linux ArchWiki is a nice place to get information on linux

https://wiki.archlinux.org 

How to check Fedora Core 14 Linux Partition

A few ways you can check how's your partition was link

1) Edit the file in /etc/fstab

2) Type fdisk -l  , where l is a small letter of L

Suse 11 Root Login

If you are having some problem rooting your Suse 11 GUI login
Open GUI terminal (bash prompt) and type the following command to become root
$ su

Make a backup of your login account
cp /etc/pam.d/login /root

Open the account using vi editor
vi /etc/pam.d/login

Find the follwing line :

Auth [user_unknown=ignore success=ok ignore=ingore auth_err=die default=bat] pam_securetty.so

and change it to

#Auth [user_unknown=ignore success=ok ignore=ingore auth_err=die default=bat] pam_securetty.so

Save and close the file.

Logout from SuSe and login again using the "root" account.

Fedora Core 14 Native EFI installation

Here's the steps you can take to perform a Fedora Core 14 installation in EFI environment

1) Copy the vmlinuz and initrd.img from Fedora Core 14 installation disc to a pendrive
3) Compile elilo from http://sourceforge.net/projects/elilo/ and place it to the path where vmlinuz and initrd.img were copied
4) Create and add the following text to elilo.conf.

default=install
prompt


image=vmlinuz
    label=install
    description="Install"
    initrd=initrd.img

5) Place the Fedora Core 14 installation disc in your DVD ROM and Execute elilo.efi in EFI shell
6) Your installation should start by now.
7) Optional: Add the following line to the elilo.config if you need to redirect to serial console
    append="console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8"


Alternative for elilo.conf to find FC14 installation disc
prompt
timeout=50
default=Linux


image=vmlinuz
  label=Linux
  initrd=initrd.img
  append="console = ttyS0, 115200n8"

Linux command for Sleep State

If you are running without a GUI.
Here's the following command to bring your Linux into sleep state

Sleep
# echo mem > /sys/power/state

Hibernate
# echo disk > /sys/power/state

How to check Kernel version

Use terminal and type in "uname -r" to get the Kernel version