Re: Fedora online doc utility

2012-05-15 Thread Tom H
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net wrote: Again, _design_ is here orthogonal to HTML, and as web surfer providing no citations to back up your opinion or contradict my statements, yours is pure useless opinion. Pretty != well-designed. Pretty != usable. Pretty

Re: Fedora online doc utility

2012-05-15 Thread Tom H
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: I don't really care who's right and who's wrong, but website design is off-topic for test@. Please take it to the websites list. Sorry, but I didn't and don't think that insulting a design team, any design team, like

Re: Fedora online doc utility

2012-05-10 Thread Tom H
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 4:55 AM, Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net wrote: On 2012/05/09 13:25 (GMT-0400) Tom H composed: Felix Miata  wrote:  4-I filed a bug (still unfixed) 19 months ago about this:  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638726 Like most of the web

Re: obsolete http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda_Boot_Options

2012-05-09 Thread Tom H
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 5:13 AM, Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net wrote: kernel (hd0,6)/f17inst/vmlinuz repo=http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/fedora/development/17/i386/os ip=192.168.1.2 gateway=192.168.1.1 netmask=255.255.255.0 dns=192.168.1.1 rd.luks=0 rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 splash=verbose noipv6

Re: Fedora online doc utility (was: obsolete http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda_Boot_Options)

2012-05-09 Thread Tom H
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net wrote: On 2012/05/09 13:32 (GMT+0100) Frank Murphy composed: Is there some reason Fedora BFO won't suit? https://boot.fedoraproject.org/faq Thanks (I think, separate on-topic response to follow)! I never knew it existed.

Re: obsolete http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda_Boot_Options

2012-05-09 Thread Tom H
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 08:19:46 -0400,  Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: Why do have both enforcing=0 and selinux=0? Because they are different. enforcing=0 will run selinux in permissive mode, selinux=0 will disable

Re: obsolete http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda_Boot_Options

2012-05-09 Thread Tom H
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 13:31:42 -0400,  Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 08:19:46 -0400,  Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: Why

Re: F17: Firewall disable/stop

2012-05-06 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 6:55 PM, antonio montagnani antonio.montagn...@alice.it wrote: how do I disable/stop the firewall in a F-17 fresh installation??? If firewalld is active, systemctl stop firewalld.service. If iptables is active, systemctl stop iptables.service. -- test mailing list

Re: F17: Firewall disable/stop

2012-05-06 Thread Tom H
On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 2:24 AM, antonio montagnani antonio.montagn...@alice.it wrote: Ed Greshko ha scritto / said the following    il giorno/on 06/05/2012 07:55: On 05/06/2012 01:46 PM, antonio montagnani wrote: I have 3 different F17, but only 1 fresh installation: I have installed

Re: OT: Sabotage was Re: GIMP 2.8

2012-05-01 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:15 AM, stan gr...@q.com wrote: On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:21:08 -0400 Tom Horsley horsley1...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:26:39 +0200 Karel Volný wrote: I hope there doesn't exist one more step before like in previous iteration, users were bad to us, so

Re: PXE boot in F17 has changed considerably?

2012-04-28 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Mark Zhitomirski ma...@mail.ru wrote: I've got used to installing Fedora 15/16 via PXE by simply putting/modifying a couple of lines in pxelinux.cfg/default like these: LABEL Fedora16    MENU LABEL Install Fedora 16 x86-64    KERNEL fedora16x64/vmlinuz    

Re: Karma needed for builds intended for TC1

2012-04-25 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 5:31 AM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 20:12 -0700, John Reiser wrote: EFI booting that DVD to update an existing Fedora 17 Beta x86_64 with EFI boot, and requesting Do not change bootloader config, has left my system unbootable.

Re: F17 Rawhide grub2.cfg confusion

2012-04-24 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Frank Murphy frankl...@gmail.com wrote: The last F17 update Gave a grub2.cfg entry similar to: Fedora Linux Advanced options for Fedora Linux xxx I have since upgrade this vm to Rawhide\F18 (7 fc18 kernels) Thought I can click on the above entry, which is

Re: F17 Rawhide...

2012-04-23 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Rob Healey robheal...@gmail.com wrote: Is rawhide usable once again?  I am tired of getting dracut shell Could anyone tell me if the issue causing the dracut shell has been fixed or not yet??? I do not want to upgrade my computer if it is still worthless

Re: Hey! Hard disk install of DVD iso works!

2012-04-19 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Clyde E. Kunkel clydekunkel7...@verizon.net wrote: On 04/19/2012 10:10 AM, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Adam Williamsonawill...@redhat.com  wrote: If grub2 isn't designed to be chainloaded in that way, it isn't. Like I said, I believe

Re: Grub2 mkconfig

2012-02-23 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Timothy Davis cpuobses...@gmail.com wrote: It's not the recovery mode entry that bothers me, but the fact that for all of the kernels in my boot parttion gets assigned to F17 or what every the last distro installed. Maybe the mkconfig program isn't samrt

Re: RC4 and NFS

2012-02-23 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 4:55 AM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R c...@omen.com wrote: Here is the relevant /etc/exports entry in my server: /  192.168.1.1/255.255.255.0(rw,async) Here is the screen capture from RC4 64 bit Xfce session: [root@omen3 /]# mount 192.168.1.13:/ /o mount.nfs: No such

Re: Grub2 mkconfig

2012-02-22 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Timothy Davis cpuobses...@gmail.com wrote: Once again grub2 has installed dozens (at least 20) different entries in my boot menu. I understand that Fedora is bleeding edge and not for the feint of heart I accept that and have no problem tweaking anything.

Re: f 17 netinst.iso in virtualbox 4.1.8

2012-02-07 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Andre Robatino robat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Andre Robatino robatino at fedoraproject.org writes: BTW, you mentioned in another message that you thought the reason you couldn't build the guest additions was a missing symlink in /usr/src. I never had that

Re: Follow-up on usrmove and ldconfig

2012-02-02 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 20:26 -0500, Tom H wrote: [root@localhost ~]# mv /etc/ld.so.conf.d/usrmove.conf . [root@localhost ~]# ldconfig [root@localhost ~]# ldconfig -p | wc -l 825 [root@localhost ~]# ldconfig -p | grep

Re: Follow-up on usrmove and ldconfig

2012-02-02 Thread Tom H
dracut-014-81.git20120202.fc17 has fixed the problem for me and for another reporter. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: Fedora 17’s unified filesystem (/usr-move)

2012-02-01 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, 2012-01-27 at 14:10 +0100, Harald Hoyer wrote: Fedora 17 will locate the entire base operating system in /usr. The directories /bin, /sbin, /lib, /lib64 will only be symlinks:  /bin → /usr/bin  /sbin →

Re: Fedora 17’s unified filesystem (/usr-move)

2012-02-01 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 18:04 -0500, Tom H wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, 2012-01-27 at 14:10 +0100, Harald Hoyer wrote: Fedora 17 will locate the entire

Follow-up on usrmove and ldconfig

2012-02-01 Thread Tom H
[root@localhost ~]# mv /etc/ld.so.conf.d/usrmove.conf . [root@localhost ~]# ldconfig [root@localhost ~]# ldconfig -p | wc -l 825 [root@localhost ~]# ldconfig -p | grep usr | wc -l 11 [root@localhost ~]# mv usrmove.conf /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ [root@localhost ~]# ldconfig [root@localhost ~]# ldconfig -p

usrmove problem

2012-01-31 Thread Tom H
I noticed late Sunday night that I was booting after the usrmove procedure from a pre-usrmove kernel. When I tried to boot from a kernel updated from the f17-usrmove repository (3.3.0-0.git4.1.fc17), I got: /bin/sh: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file:

Re: usrmove problem

2012-01-31 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Josh Boyer jwbo...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 3:47 AM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: I noticed late Sunday night that I was booting after the usrmove procedure from a pre-usrmove kernel. When I tried to boot from a kernel updated from the f17

Re: usrmove problem

2012-01-31 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Josh Boyer jwbo...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 3:47 AM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: I noticed late Sunday night that I was booting after the usrmove procedure from a pre-usrmove

Re: usrmove problem

2012-01-31 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 09:26 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 10:44 -0500, Tom H wrote: Also, the problem is in your initramfs, not the kernel itself. Harald? I was about to follow up. I

Re: Fedora 17’s unified filesystem (/usr-move)

2012-01-28 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Frank Murphy frankl...@gmail.com wrote: On 28/01/12 02:22, Adam Williamson wrote: suggest we want at least: * two or three successful tests of the yum process with an existing Rawhide install I have updated an Rawhide to /usr no problems. +1 -- test

Re: F17 Alpha 'TC1' note

2012-01-23 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Sat, 2012-01-21 at 14:00 -0500, Tom H wrote: On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 12:11 PM, John Watzke watz...@gmail.com wrote: Actually neither image seems bootable right now (at least not through a VM) so the matrix might

Re: Mass rebuild downgrades

2012-01-21 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: The following is yum distro-sync output pointing out the packages with this issue that I have installed. Downgrading:  ConsoleKit                  i686        0.4.3-5.fc17        rawhide       85 k  ConsoleKit-libs    

Re: F17 Alpha 'TC1' note

2012-01-21 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 12:11 PM, John Watzke watz...@gmail.com wrote: Actually neither image seems bootable right now (at least not through a VM) so the matrix might be overkill :-). +1 :( -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe:

Re: gfxmode Grub2 F17\Rawhide

2011-12-22 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Frank Murphy frankl...@gmail.com wrote: How do I set gfxmode=1400x900 (or 1024x768) Looked at /etc/grub.d/00header But am uncertain set gfxpayload=keep in /etc/grub2.ccfg is segfaulting out, unless commented out. qemu-kvm virt boxes.

Re: Release criteria proposal: 'support' /boot on RAID

2011-11-16 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:53:17 -0800 Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 10:29 -0600, David Lehman wrote: On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 09:42 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at

Re: bash filename completion buggy in F16?

2011-10-23 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 5:13 AM, Michael Schwendt mschwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:52:06 -0600, EB (Eric) wrote: Meanwhile, feel free to file a bug report against bash-completion that it is not doing the right smart completions on firefox.  After all, bash-completion is an

Re: bash filename completion buggy in F16?

2011-10-20 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Joachim Backes joachim.bac...@rhrk.uni-kl.de wrote: I opened a BZ (682785) concerning the described problems, and it was rejected as no bug (obviously the completion works not independent from the leading command, for example if the cmd is firefox, as in my

Re: OK, how do you really update the grub2 config file?

2011-10-10 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Tom Horsley horsley1...@gmail.com wrote: The comment in /boot/grub2/grub.cfg says it was generated by grub2-mkconfig, but if you run grub2-mkconfig, you get a file radically different than the one just created by (for instance) installing a new kernel. Could

Re: OK, how do you really update the grub2 config file?

2011-10-10 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Tom Horsley horsley1...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:28:45 -0400 Tom H wrote: Anaconda seems to run grub2-mkconfig, whereas new kernels run grubby - and they have different menu entry formats. And does grubby pay attention to changes made in /etc

Re: grub2 confusion

2011-10-06 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Michael Schwendt mschwe...@gmail.com wrote: $ cat /etc/grub.d/41_custom #!/bin/sh cat EOF if [ -f  \$prefix/custom.cfg ]; then  source \$prefix/custom.cfg; fi EOF If I didn't want to append stuff to that file, what might $prefix expand to? Very likely

Re: grub2 confusion

2011-10-06 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Michael Schwendt mschwe...@gmail.com wrote: So, more symlink madness. /etc/grub2.cfg - /boot/grub2/grub.cfg and it doesn't even work flawlessly: This is like the grub1 /etc/grub.conf symlink; faster access to the grub configuration and grub configuration

Re: grub2 confusion

2011-10-06 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 16:40 -0400, Tom H wrote: I use vi /etc/grub2.cfg, which is perfectly reasonable and useful, and is the same as using vi /etc/grub.conf previously. except that there's a big header saying: # DO

Re: dual boot with Ubuntu 11.10 and FC16?

2011-10-04 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 3:38 AM, Rob Healey robheal...@gmail.com wrote: First of all, thank you for whatever information/ help that anyone can give to me! I would like to know before I crash and dump my system, I know there were some problems with this before? I would like to install Ubuntu

Re: grub2 menu entry for Fedora 16 is not nice

2011-09-18 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Peter Gueckel pguec...@gmail.com wrote: Why does the grub2 menu entry list Fedora like this: Linux, with Linux 3.1.0-0.rc6.git0.3.fc16.x86_64? Instead of like this: Fedora 16, with Linux 3.1.0-0.rc6.git0.3.fc16.x86_64? If you set GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=Fedora in

Re: preventing os-prober from looking for other installations

2011-09-16 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Clyde E. Kunkel clydekunkel7...@cox.net wrote: How do we prevent os-prober from looking for installed distros other that the one currently booted when we do: grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg Add GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=true to /etc/default/grub before

Re: Pre-BetaTC2 Installer Testing

2011-09-12 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Clyde E. Kunkel clydekunkel7...@cox.net wrote: On 09/08/2011 06:16 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 17:28 -0400, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote: On 09/08/2011 01:57 PM, Tim Flink wrote: Who's ready for some pre-betaTC2 installer testing fun? I built a

Re: F16: After update to grub2-1.99-1.fc16.x86_64 cannot boot

2011-09-02 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 4:45 AM, Joachim Backes joachim.bac...@rhrk.uni-kl.de wrote: After having updated to grub2-1.99-1.fc16.x86_64, grub2 refuses to boot (file not found). Getting rid from this by re-installing the bootloader to /dev/sda. Anybody has the same issue? Yes. Just happened to

Re: F16 Grub2 not including windows

2011-09-01 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:07 AM, David Lehman dleh...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 07:39 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 08/26/2011 10:01 PM, David Lehman wrote: We added code to automatically generate entries using os-prober, but apparently os-prober is not available if you

Re: Draft 'install alongside Windows' test case

2011-09-01 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 8:08 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: Hey, folks. I just threw together a quick draft of an 'install alongside Windows' test case - we have this as a final criterion, but no test case for it as of yet. Here's the draft:

Re: Draft 'install alongside Windows' test case

2011-09-01 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 10:10 -0400, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 8:08 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: Hey, folks. I just threw together a quick draft of an 'install alongside Windows' test case

Re: Karma for pykickstart, lorax and anaconda

2011-08-30 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Orion Poplawski or...@cora.nwra.com wrote: On 08/30/2011 02:56 PM, Tim Flink wrote: As we're getting ready for the F16 Beta TC1, we need some karma to get required updates into stable. Anyone know how to create a bootloader stage1 target device via kickstart?

Re: F16 Alpha GRUB install failure

2011-08-27 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Michael Schwendt mschwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:47:15 -0400, TH (Tom) wrote: # grub2-install --grub-setup=/bin/true '(hd0,3)' Installation finished. No error reported. AFAIK, this won't be bootable, unless grub-install has run

Re: Adding Fedora15 to F16alpha grub2 menu {solved}

2011-08-27 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Scott Robbins scot...@nyc.rr.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:12:13PM -0400, Tom H wrote: On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Scott Robbins scot...@nyc.rr.com wrote: I now have my own, very small page, which is Fedora centric at present... http

Re: F16 Alpha GRUB install failure

2011-08-27 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Michael Schwendt mschwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 07:50:39 -0400, TH (Tom) wrote: On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:47:15 -0400, TH (Tom) wrote: # grub2-install --grub-setup=/bin/true '(hd0,3)' Installation finished. No error reported. AFAIK,

Re: Adding Fedora15 to F16alpha grub2 menu {solved}

2011-08-26 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 2:47 AM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 21:27 -0400, Scott Robbins wrote: On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 07:05:55PM -0600, Peter G.  wrote: Adam Williamson wrote: did you run 'update_grub'? no I didn't. first I heard of it. that might

Re: grub2 weirdness

2011-08-26 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:05 AM, Andre Robatino robat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Tom H tomh0665 at gmail.com writes: That must be the result of grubby duplicating a menuentry stanza when a new kernel's installed because the stanzas have echo ... statements that are probably not being updated

Re: Adding Fedora15 to F16alpha grub2 menu {solved}

2011-08-26 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Scott Robbins scot...@nyc.rr.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 11:47:18PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: In my defence, I don't run Ubuntu or anything evil like that. I just cargo-cult things I vaguely remember from Google searches. That's much better, right?

Re: F16 Alpha GRUB install failure

2011-08-26 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Michael Schwendt mschwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 17:18:56 +0200, me wrote: Doesn't work for me. # grub2-install --grub-setup=/bin/true /dev/sda3 Installation finished. No error reported. # grub2-install --grub-setup=/bin/true '(hd0,3)'

Re: F16 Grub2 not including windows

2011-08-26 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Mike Chambers m...@miketc.net wrote: Up until F16 (and it *might* have done it once during the early alpha testing stages), windows has been detected and included in grub during install.  But the last few installs haven't included it and not included on my

Re: Adding Fedora15 to F16alpha grub2 menu {solved}

2011-08-26 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Scott Robbins scot...@nyc.rr.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 09:33:59AM -0400, Tom H wrote: On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Scott Robbins scot...@nyc.rr.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 11:47:18PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: In my defence, I don't

Re: F16 Update Kernels fail to boot

2011-08-25 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Orion Poplawski or...@cora.nwra.com wrote: On 08/24/2011 04:31 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: The fact that GRUB 2 by default won't install to a partition, and will only do it if you use --force, is known. It's why anaconda can't install the bootloader to a

Re: Adding Fedora15 to F16alpha grub2 menu

2011-08-25 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Petrus de Calguarium pguec...@gmail.com wrote: Clyde E. Kunkel wrote: As far as I know, everything is relative to /boot.  No change from old grub. In the old grub, you had to explicitly state /boot. In the old grub.conf it even states: all kernel and

Re: F16 Update Kernels fail to boot

2011-08-25 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Orion Poplawski or...@cora.nwra.com wrote: On 08/25/2011 04:11 AM, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Orion Poplawskior...@cora.nwra.com  wrote: Is there a way to workaround this in a kickstart file (other than running grub2-install --force (hd0,0

Re: Adding Fedora15 to F16alpha grub2 menu

2011-08-25 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Petrus de Calguarium pguec...@gmail.com wrote: Tom H wrote: In the old grub, you had to explicitly state /boot. In the old grub.conf it even states: all kernel and initrd paths are relative to / That means everything is relative to root (/), not /boot

Re: Adding Fedora15 to F16alpha grub2 menu {solved}

2011-08-25 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Petrus de Calguarium pguec...@gmail.com wrote: Petrus de Calguarium wrote: I have installed F16α and with it grub2 to the MBR of /dev/sda. I am experimenting happily with F16, but I am unable to add F15 to the grub2 boot menu. I have edited

Re: F16 Update Kernels fail to boot

2011-08-24 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Andy Lawrence dr.die...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Genes MailLists li...@sapience.com wrote: On 08/23/2011 06:49 PM, Andy Lawrence wrote: According to this: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Grub2 grub2 is used by default with F16, so

Re: Oh YES! grub2 FINALLY

2011-08-19 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 3:19 PM, cornel panceac cpanc...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/8/19 cornel panceac cpanc...@gmail.com anybody knows how to add more operating systems to grub2 , in fedora 16? never mind, i've added the answer to: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Grub2 You have to set

Install onto a single MDRAID RAID1 partition

2011-08-19 Thread Tom H
The installation of grub2 fails, even Anaconda reports it as having succeeded, and you end up at an unusable (AFAIK because only the two disks are detected, the partitions and the array aren't detected) grub rescue prompt when you reboot. Bug filed:

Re: Kickstart and grub2

2011-08-18 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Chris Lumens clum...@redhat.com wrote: Are there any new grub2-related kickstart settings for the bootloader line in kickstart? No, there have been no changes to the bootloader command for grub2. Should there be? Using vga=... throws up a warning at boot

Re: Kickstart and grub2

2011-08-18 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Chris Lumens clum...@redhat.com wrote: OT for this thread but for the record regarding kickstart documentation: the part biosboot --fstype=biosboot --size=1 kickstart entry to create a bios_grub partition on a GPT disk isn't yet documented on the kickstart

Re: Kickstart and grub2

2011-08-17 Thread Tom H
2011/8/17 Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com: On 08/16/2011 11:25 PM, Tom H wrote: Are there any new grub2-related kickstart settings for the bootloader line in kickstart? VGA= is not a kickstart setting it's an kernel command line parameter and with grub2 you need to use set

Re: Kickstart and grub2

2011-08-17 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Michal Jaegermann mic...@harddata.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 05:48:51AM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: VGA= is not a kickstart setting it's an kernel command line parameter and with grub2 you need to use set gfxpayload=$your-desired-resolution

Re: Oh YES! grub2 FINALLY

2011-08-17 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Michael Cronenworth m...@cchtml.com wrote: Karel Volný wrote: - last time I checked, the website with the docs was down, and it lasted for at least a week, then I gave up (maybe it is online now?) http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/ I suspect that

Re: Oh YES! grub2 FINALLY

2011-08-17 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net wrote: No small problem with Grub2 is that few but Grub devs know how to configure it. Grub2 documentation is among the worst of the bad, virtually non-existent, particularly in a form those who need it most can comprehend,

Re: Oh No! Not grub2?!?

2011-08-16 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Tom Horsley horsley1...@gmail.com wrote: I noticed to my horror in another thread today that fedora 16 is going to switch to grub2. I hope it is packaged and updated totally differently from the version in ubuntu, because the ubuntu version is a nightmare.

Kickstart and grub2

2011-08-16 Thread Tom H
Are there any new grub2-related kickstart settings for the bootloader line in kickstart? For example, I installed F16 through kickstart yesterday with vga=794, which adds it to the linux ... line. I get correct resolution but I also get a boot message that using vga=... is deprecated and that