Re: [arch-general] Single Drive Fresh Install (mbr/grub2) Fails to boot (can boot existing from .iso??)

2016-10-28 Thread Uwe via arch-general
Hi Just to clarify: do you really boot from BIOS via MBR or do you use UEFI (and are therefore in need of GPT)? For the latter I recommend creating a 1MB Bios-Boot-partition (ef02) with gdisk, some swap after that and, dependant on your personal needs, either the rest for system or a bit for s

Re: [arch-general] Single Drive Fresh Install (mbr/grub2) Fails to boot (can boot existing from .iso??)

2016-10-28 Thread Juan Carlos Villegas Botero via arch-general
And I also think that I read somewhere that theboot partition (EFI) must be the first one in the disk. On 10/28/2016 10:59 PM, Juan Carlos Villegas Botero wrote: Sorry for the html response :S On 10/28/2016 10:58 PM, Juan Carlos Villegas Botero wrote: I'm not 100% sure that this is the solu

Re: [arch-general] Single Drive Fresh Install (mbr/grub2) Fails to boot (can boot existing from .iso??)

2016-10-28 Thread Juan Carlos Villegas Botero via arch-general
Sorry for the html response :S On 10/28/2016 10:58 PM, Juan Carlos Villegas Botero wrote: I'm not 100% sure that this is the solution, but if you are loading from UEFI, the boot partition must be formatted using GPT: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/EFI_System_Partition On 10/28/2016 0

Re: [arch-general] Single Drive Fresh Install (mbr/grub2) Fails to boot (can boot existing from .iso??)

2016-10-28 Thread Juan Carlos Villegas Botero via arch-general
I'm not 100% sure that this is the solution, but if you are loading from UEFI, the boot partition must be formatted using GPT: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/EFI_System_Partition On 10/28/2016 09:58 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: All, After 7 years and 30+ installs, I thought I had seen

[arch-general] Single Drive Fresh Install (mbr/grub2) Fails to boot (can boot existing from .iso??)

2016-10-28 Thread David C. Rankin
All, After 7 years and 30+ installs, I thought I had seen it all. I have a new (used) laptop, that I put a fresh 1T drive in, partitioned and loaded arch. The laptop can't find the drive to boot? Huh? There is only a single drive in the laptop, but it will only boot if booting from grub hd1 (ins

Re: [arch-general] Browsers crashing

2016-10-28 Thread John Briggs
On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 09:35:39PM +0200, Zorro via arch-general wrote: > Op 28-10-2016 om 18:17 schreef Alex Theotokatos via arch-general: > > Then, lets start from the basics... > > Run memtest. > Just installed it but if I understand it well I need to boot with it. > Need to figure out how. > >

Re: [arch-general] Browsers crashing

2016-10-28 Thread Zorro via arch-general
Op 28-10-2016 om 21:41 schreef Jan Alexander Steffens via arch-general: On Fri, Oct 28, 2016, 21:36 Zorro via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: Op 28-10-2016 om 18:17 schreef Alex Theotokatos via arch-general: Then, lets start from the basics... Run memtest. Just installed it

Re: [arch-general] Browsers crashing

2016-10-28 Thread Merlin Büge
On Fri, 28 Oct 2016 21:35:39 +0200 Zorro via arch-general wrote: > Op 28-10-2016 om 18:17 schreef Alex Theotokatos via arch-general: > > Then, lets start from the basics... > > Run memtest. > Just installed it but if I understand it well I need to boot with it. > Need to figure out how. You coul

Re: [arch-general] Browsers crashing

2016-10-28 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens via arch-general
On Fri, Oct 28, 2016, 21:36 Zorro via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > Op 28-10-2016 om 18:17 schreef Alex Theotokatos via arch-general: > > Then, lets start from the basics... > > Run memtest. > Just installed it but if I understand it well I need to boot with it. > Need to fig

Re: [arch-general] Browsers crashing

2016-10-28 Thread Zorro via arch-general
Op 28-10-2016 om 18:17 schreef Alex Theotokatos via arch-general: Then, lets start from the basics... Run memtest. Just installed it but if I understand it well I need to boot with it. Need to figure out how. If you use wayland, use Xorg. I am using LXDE. What is your graphics card? 00:02.0

Re: [arch-general] Browsers crashing

2016-10-28 Thread Guus Snijders via arch-general
Op 28 okt. 2016 14:17 schreef "Zorro via arch-general" < arch-general@archlinux.org>: > > Hi, > > On my Arch Linux x32 system most (all) browser regularly crash. > > I have tried Firefox, Midori, Xombrero. > > For instance for Xombrero journalctl shows: > > systemd-coredump[6615]: Process 6478 (xom

Re: [arch-general] Browsers crashing

2016-10-28 Thread Alex Theotokatos via arch-general
Then, lets start from the basics... Run memtest. If you use wayland, use Xorg. What is your graphics card? uname -a Test if there is a bug on gpu driver.

Re: [arch-general] LightScribe

2016-10-28 Thread Germán Gutiérrez via arch-general
On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 2:35 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 28 Oct 2016 15:12:54 +0300, Alex Theotokatos wrote: > >On 10/28/2016 02:30 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> has somebody successfully used LightsScribe on an up-to-date 64bit > >> Arch Linux install? > >> > >> Yesterday I tried to do it o

Re: [arch-general] LightScribe

2016-10-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
The exact links to the sources I know are http://www.yardbird.net/lightscribe/ http://www.pawtec.com/lightscribe/ http://www.lacie.com/files/lacie-content/download/drivers/LaCie%20LightScribe%20Labeler%201.0%20Linux.rpm

Re: [arch-general] Browsers crashing

2016-10-28 Thread Zorro via arch-general
Op 28-10-2016 om 14:53 schreef Óscar García Amor: 2016-10-28 14:44 GMT+02:00 Zorro via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org>: Yes I think my system is up to date. I do a pacman -Syu once a week. Though for Midori as Xombrero both crash with the same trace to the libjavascriptcoregtk-3.0.

Re: [arch-general] Browsers crashing

2016-10-28 Thread Zorro via arch-general
Op 28-10-2016 om 14:49 schreef Ralf Mardorf: On Fri, 28 Oct 2016 14:15:44 +0200, Zorro via arch-general wrote: Do others experience this too? Yesno, on LAU [1] somebody posted a link and when opening it with Firefox, I need to use the reset button of my PC, since it leads to a black screen and

Re: [arch-general] Browsers crashing

2016-10-28 Thread Óscar García Amor
2016-10-28 14:44 GMT+02:00 Zorro via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org>: > > Yes I think my system is up to date. > > I do a pacman -Syu once a week. > > Though for Midori as Xombrero both crash with the same trace to the > libjavascriptcoregtk-3.0.so.0 library (version 16.19). > Maybe a

Re: [arch-general] Browsers crashing

2016-10-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 28 Oct 2016 14:15:44 +0200, Zorro via arch-general wrote: >Do others experience this too? Yesno, on LAU [1] somebody posted a link and when opening it with Firefox, I need to use the reset button of my PC, since it leads to a black screen and an unresponsive computer. I tried it two times.

Re: [arch-general] Browsers crashing

2016-10-28 Thread Zorro via arch-general
Op 28-10-2016 om 14:22 schreef David Demelier: 2016-10-28 14:15 GMT+02:00 Zorro via arch-general : Hi, On my Arch Linux x32 system most (all) browser regularly crash. I have tried Firefox, Midori, Xombrero. For instance for Xombrero journalctl shows: systemd-coredump[6615]: Process 6478 (xom

Re: [arch-general] LightScribe

2016-10-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 28 Oct 2016 15:12:54 +0300, Alex Theotokatos wrote: >On 10/28/2016 02:30 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> has somebody successfully used LightsScribe on an up-to-date 64bit >> Arch Linux install? >> >> Yesterday I tried to do it on Arch (4.8.4-1-ARCH 64bit, FWIW >> threadirqs) and another 64bit d

Re: [arch-general] Browsers crashing

2016-10-28 Thread David Demelier via arch-general
2016-10-28 14:15 GMT+02:00 Zorro via arch-general : > Hi, > > On my Arch Linux x32 system most (all) browser regularly crash. > > I have tried Firefox, Midori, Xombrero. > > For instance for Xombrero journalctl shows: > > systemd-coredump[6615]: Process 6478 (xombrero) of user 1002 dumped core. >

[arch-general] Browsers crashing

2016-10-28 Thread Zorro via arch-general
Hi, On my Arch Linux x32 system most (all) browser regularly crash. I have tried Firefox, Midori, Xombrero. For instance for Xombrero journalctl shows: systemd-coredump[6615]: Process 6478 (xombrero) of user 1002 dumped core. Stack trace of thread 6478: #0

Re: [arch-general] LightScribe

2016-10-28 Thread Alex Theotokatos via arch-general
On 10/28/2016 02:30 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hi, has somebody successfully used LightsScribe on an up-to-date 64bit Arch Linux install? Yesterday I tried to do it on Arch (4.8.4-1-ARCH 64bit, FWIW threadirqs) and another 64bit distro without success. Later I used another old 64bit bit distro's r

[arch-general] LightScribe

2016-10-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, has somebody successfully used LightsScribe on an up-to-date 64bit Arch Linux install? Yesterday I tried to do it on Arch (4.8.4-1-ARCH 64bit, FWIW threadirqs) and another 64bit distro without success. Later I used another old 64bit bit distro's release for lack of time to lightscribe a DVD.