Re: [arch-general] Install Archlinux on HP Elitebook

2017-12-24 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 2017-12-22 1:14 pm, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: On 12/20/2017 09:45 AM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: More of a workaround than a solution, but I stopped using grub altogether once they upgraded to grub2.  (The complexity of the grub2 config file as compared to the simplicity of the grub

Re: [arch-general] Install Archlinux on HP Elitebook

2017-12-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I migrated from grub2 to syslinux. When using grub2 I manually edited grub.cfg. I removed all the useless crap from grub.cfg and never used the config for the config and all that auto-configuration features of grub2. However, I've got a dual head setup and syslinux isn't able to display the menu on

Re: [arch-general] Install Archlinux on HP Elitebook

2017-12-24 Thread Leonid Isaev via arch-general
On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 07:19:17PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > MENU LABEL Ubuntu ^Q LightScribe Rt > LINUX /.boot/ubuntu_q/boot/vmlinuz-3.6.5-rt14 > APPEND root=LABEL=q ro nomodeset > INITRD /.boot/ubuntu_q/boot/initrd.img-3.6.5-rt14 > > LABEL Suse > MENU LABEL ^Vintage SUSE

[arch-general] netctl multiple dns servers

2017-12-24 Thread David Rosenstrauch
I'm using netctl to initialize my server's network stack, using a tweak of the "ethernet-static" example profile. I'm specifying a list of DNS servers, but only one of them is winding up in the resolv.conf file. I'm wondering why/how to fix. In my netctl profile: DNS=('127.0.0.1' '208.67.222

Re: [arch-general] Install Archlinux on HP Elitebook

2017-12-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 24 Dec 2017 12:25:05 -0700, Leonid Isaev via arch-general wrote: >What are those ctrl-* characters (like ^Q)? Ok, the config isn't entirely self-explaining ;). The ^ marks the hotkey. In this case pushing the q-key without the Ctrl-key directly boots the particular Linux install. It's also

Re: [arch-general] netctl multiple dns servers

2017-12-24 Thread David Runge
Hi David, I refrain from using netctl. Currently I have setup that only requires systemd-networkd. For my server I use unbound as local dns and forward requests to several instances of dnscrypt-proxy. Unbound is not much overhead and is caching, so this could be of benefit depending on your set

Re: [arch-general] Install Archlinux on HP Elitebook

2017-12-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 24 Dec 2017 20:52:04 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >On Sun, 24 Dec 2017 12:25:05 -0700, Leonid Isaev via arch-general >wrote: >>What are those ctrl-* characters (like ^Q)? > >Ok, the config isn't entirely self-explaining ;). The ^ marks the >hotkey. In this case pushing the q-key without the

Re: [arch-general] Install Archlinux on HP Elitebook

2017-12-24 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 12/24/2017 12:43 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > Usually an example/stub config file is provided, which makes it very > easy to adapt it to your needs. Yes, grub2 really and truly sucks in this regard. > Not misinformation, or FUD, just a difference of opinion.  In my opinion > - and in my exp

Re: [arch-general] Install Archlinux on HP Elitebook

2017-12-24 Thread Jagannathan Tiruvallur Eachambadi via arch-general
On Sunday 24 December 2017 9:06:58 PM CET Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: > The current wiki page buries all information about the ability to > manually create a grub.cfg, in the "Tips and tricks" sub-page as a tiny > blurb. Last time I read the wiki page I remember it explicitly stating not

Re: [arch-general] Install Archlinux on HP Elitebook

2017-12-24 Thread Ken OKABE via arch-general
The preparation of GRUB and UEFI boot partition for Linux Installation process is always bothersome. Although currently I usually prepare 256MB of FAT32 partition-1, sometimes it is the best manner that you simply have a boot-loader in an external USB drive, especially when you have a hard time ju