Thanks, Bill -- and apologies for the bumps! We have had only a handful of people actively testing the ISO this time.
The Grub menu generation is currently performed by a third-party tool called OSProber. The snapshot of that tool that I used in the ISO was a bit broken and had to be tweaked a bit -- it could be that some bug like that was hiding and was not properly caught. I will look into reproducing that soon and will update the wiki accordingly. Best regards, Lucas On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 12:46 AM, William Dudley <[email protected]> wrote: > This is major homework. I'll perform some of the experiments tomorrow and > get back > to you with the results. > > Another problem: The GoboLinux installer messed up the boot of the > existing Ubuntu > installation. I used gparted to make the sda1 partition smaller, created > sda3, installed > GoboLinux to sda3. The resulting grub menu lists both GoboLinux and the > pre-existing > Ubuntu installation, but the Ubuntu install wouldn't boot; it was trying > to load the GoboLinux > kernel, if my interpretation of the error message is correct. > > I repaired the grub install with the Ubuntu live CD, so now I can boot > either OS. > > More tomorrow. > > Bill Dudley > > > This email is free of malware because I run Linux. > > On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 9:16 PM, Lucas C. Villa Real < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Bill, >> >> This is indeed odd. Does /var/log/Xorg.0.log give any hints on the >> problem? >> Also, could you let me know what's the output of "dmesg | grep efifb" on >> the LiveDVD? >> Could you tell me whether "efivar -l" outputs anything? >> >> Regarding your Nvidia setup: >> One thing you could try is to edit GRUB's command line to add extra >> arguments to the kernel. Some options that may help you are: >> video=vesafb:off >> video=efifb:off >> video=efifb:stride:2048,width:1440,height:900 >> >> Note that, if you are running in pure UEFI mode (that is, "efivar -l" >> outputs something), then booting with video=efifb:off will leave you with a >> blank screen until nvidiafb is loaded by udev. >> >> Regarding your Matrox setup: >> Is there any difference in the output of "lsmod" when you boot from the >> LiveDVD and when you boot it from the installed system? Ditto for the >> output of "dmesg". >> >> If possible, could you post the output of lsmod and dmesg somewhere? >> (e.g. http://gist.github.com) >> >> Thanks, >> Lucas >> >> >> >> >> On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 5:31 PM, William Dudley <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Addendum. I installed GoboLinux 16 to the hard disk. Tried to fire up >>> X. That fails. Run Xorg -configure and startx -- -config xorg.conf.new; >>> that fails. Reboot the Live DVD. Re-generate the xorg.conf.new that >>> I had generated last time. I can get X session from the Live DVD. Save >>> THAT xorg.conf.new to the GoboLinux partition on the hard disk. >>> >>> I reboot to GoboLinux on the hard disk. X doesn't work. The two >>> different >>> xorg.conf files only differ in things that are commented out, and yet, >>> the Live >>> DVD can run X, and the hard disk installation cannot. >>> >>> This is beginning to surpass the amount of time that can be wasted on a >>> problem >>> that I thought we solved 20 years ago -- how to get X running. >>> >>> Any suggestions on how to get X to run on the hard disk install? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Bill Dudley >>> >>> >>> This email is free of malware because I run Linux. >>> >>> On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 9:33 AM, William Dudley <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Lucas, >>>> >>>> Thanks for the reply. >>>> >>>> I should have noted in my original email that my video card on this >>>> machine is >>>> an Nvidia GeForce 6800. I eventually found this page: >>>> https://github.com/gobolinux/Documentation/wiki/Afterboot#Known_Issues >>>> where it says Nvidia cards are "problematic" (my word). >>>> >>>> I cannot try running the two commands you suggest (at least with the >>>> Nvidia card >>>> installed), as the screen is unreadable from the very start. I see the >>>> boot messages >>>> scroll up the screen, and then when the extra-special GoboLinux font >>>> kicks in, >>>> I get "nothing" as described in my last email. >>>> >>>> I now know what the screen is *supposed* to look like, as I stuck an >>>> old PCI bus >>>> video card (Matrox Millenium II) in the machine (no on-motherboard >>>> video) and got as far as the >>>> text prompt where one is prompted to either run startx or Installer. >>>> startx fails >>>> as the Xorg on the DVD does not like my ancient Matrox video card. >>>> >>>> I tried the commands you suggest with the Matrox video card. That also >>>> failed to get >>>> an X session up. I then edited the xorg.conf.new file so that it had >>>> video driver set >>>> to "vesa" and now, finally, I have X and "awesome" up and running. >>>> >>>> So far I can't say I'm real impressed with "awesome", at least not with >>>> the Goth "purple >>>> on black" theme, and no apparent way (at least from the GUI) to change >>>> the theme, >>>> wallpaper, window focus rules, etc. I tried "Config" and that put me >>>> in a nano session >>>> editing a text file, but without significant documentation, I'll not be >>>> changing anything >>>> in there. I did look, and there appears to be only the one theme >>>> installed on the machine. >>>> >>>> Is it possible to run Mate window manager in GoboLinux? >>>> >>>> Finally, somebody should update gobolinux.org to fix the search link. >>>> The page that >>>> needs fixing is this one: https://gobolinux.org/community.html >>>> >>>> Again, thanks for your help. >>>> >>>> Bill Dudley >>>> retired software developer >>>> >>>> This email is free of malware because I run Linux. >>>> >>>> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 10:19 PM, Lucas C. Villa Real < >>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 12:50 AM, William Dudley <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I've tried two different monitors, and both of them don't work with >>>>>> GoboLinux 016 DVD. >>>>>> >>>>>> The Dell just tells me that the video is out of range, and try to use >>>>>> it's native 1600x1200. >>>>>> >>>>>> The (newer) Viewsonic just shows flashing vertical colored strips. >>>>>> Good thing I'm not >>>>>> an epileptic. >>>>>> >>>>>> Is it possible to boot the DVD up in "safe" mode at some "normal" >>>>>> video resolution? >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Hi Bill, >>>>> >>>>> Could you try running the two commands below? >>>>> >>>>> $ Xorg -configure >>>>> $ startx -- -config xorg.conf.new >>>>> >>>>> You may also make changes to the generated xorg.conf.new, as >>>>> documented here: >>>>> https://github.com/gobolinux/Documentation/wiki/Running-unde >>>>> r-VirtualBox >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> I'd have tried searching the archives, but the search link on the >>>>>> gobolinux web site, to >>>>>> search.gmane.org, doesn't work, Firefox says search.gmane.org >>>>>> doesn't exist. >>>>>> >>>>>> ping search.gmane.org >>>>>> ping: unknown host search.gmane.org >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> gmane.org has been shut down recently: >>>>> https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/07/28/the-end-of-gmane/ >>>>> >>>>> As an alternative, you may use the following resource to search the >>>>> mailing list archives: >>>>> http://marc.info/?l=gobolinux-users&r=1&w=3 >>>>> >>>>> Lucas >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> gobolinux-users mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-users >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> gobolinux-users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-users >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gobolinux-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-users >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > gobolinux-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-users > >
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