Re: debian installation issue

2021-07-04 Thread Felix Miata
David Wright composed on 2021-07-04 10:29 (UTC-0500): > On Tue 29 Jun 2021 at 13:26:04 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: >> David Wright composed on 2021-06-29 11:16 (UTC-0500): ... >>> I don't understand the attraction of messing about with boot flags >>> in order to choose which primary partition to

Re: debian installation issue

2021-07-04 Thread David Wright
On Tue 29 Jun 2021 at 13:26:04 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > David Wright composed on 2021-06-29 11:16 (UTC-0500): > > On Thu 24 Jun 2021 at 00:07:56 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > >> David Wright composed on 2021-06-22 10:50 (UTC-0500): > > >> I'm not sure there is "a" definition. One could be any

Re: debian installation issue

2021-06-29 Thread Felix Miata
David Wright composed on 2021-06-29 11:16 (UTC-0500): > On Thu 24 Jun 2021 at 00:07:56 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: >> David Wright composed on 2021-06-22 10:50 (UTC-0500): >> I'm not sure there is "a" definition. One could be any code that a Windows >> installation would not replace. Another cou

Re: debian installation issue

2021-06-29 Thread David Wright
On Thu 24 Jun 2021 at 00:07:56 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > David Wright composed on 2021-06-22 10:50 (UTC-0500): > > On Fri 11 Jun 2021 at 16:57:35 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > > >> OTOH, putting a bootloader on the MBR of a disk on a PC designed for > >> Windows is a > >> relative newcomer to

Re: debian installation issue

2021-06-23 Thread Felix Miata
David Wright composed on 2021-06-22 10:50 (UTC-0500): > On Fri 11 Jun 2021 at 16:57:35 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: >> OTOH, putting a bootloader on the MBR of a disk on a PC designed for Windows >> is a >> relative newcomer to the world of booting such a PC. I've been installing >> operating sys

Re: debian installation issue

2021-06-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 23 iun 21, 19:43:14, Richard Hector wrote: > > Is that something that needs to be done by one company? Perhaps because of > how SecureBoot is implemented? For a logistic point of view, at least for x86, Microsoft appears to be the natural choice: many mainboard manufacturers, but most ha

Re: debian installation issue

2021-06-23 Thread Richard Hector
On 22/06/21 12:54 am, Steve McIntyre wrote: [ Apologies, missed this last week... ] to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 09:20:52AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 11 iun 21, 15:07:11, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Secure Boot (Microsoft's attempt to stop you from using Linux) reli

Re: debian installation issue

2021-06-22 Thread David Wright
On Fri 11 Jun 2021 at 16:57:35 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > Greg Wooledge composed on 2021-06-11 15:07 (UTC-0400): > > On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 09:38:37PM +0300, Semih Ozlem wrote: > > >> How to check where grub is installed? And what is a friendly guide to > >> learning about grub? > > > GRUB sh

Re: debian installation issue

2021-06-21 Thread tomas
On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 12:54:31PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > [ Apologies, missed this last week... ] No need to apologise: I appreciate the detailed answer. > > - do you know any other alternative CA besides Microsoft [...] > I've been in a number of discussions about this over the last few

Re: debian installation issue

2021-06-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ Apologies, missed this last week... ] to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 09:20:52AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Vi, 11 iun 21, 15:07:11, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> > >> > Secure Boot (Microsoft's attempt to stop you from using Linux) relies on >> > UEFI booting, and therefor

Re: Secure Boot in QEMU (was Re: debian installation issue)

2021-06-14 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 06:07:50AM -0400, Kenneth Parker wrote: > Okay. I am running Debian Bullseye (selected earlier, during its testing > phase, because I needed its level of QEMU to import a VM from Mint 20's > QEMU: Buster's QEMU refused). My computer is an HP EliteDesk 705 G1-SFF. > > I h

Re: [Off topic thoughts] Re: debian installation issue

2021-06-14 Thread Joe
On Mon, 14 Jun 2021 11:41:37 +0200 wrote: > "Any sufficiently advanced malice is indistinguishable from > stupidity" > > (some call that "plausible deniability"). > > "People would rather appear stupid than evil". -- Joe

Secure Boot in QEMU (was Re: debian installation issue)

2021-06-14 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 4:45 AM Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > Secure Boot (Microsoft's attempt to stop you from using Linux) > > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > While I'm not a fan of Microsoft: > > > https://wiki.debian.org/SecureBoot#What_is_UEFI_Secure_Boot_NOT.3 > >

Re: [Off topic thoughts] Re: debian installation issue

2021-06-14 Thread tomas
On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 10:46:34AM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > Secure Boot (Microsoft's attempt to stop you from using Linux) > > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > While I'm not a fan of Microsoft: > > > https://wiki.debian.org/SecureBoot#What_is_UEFI_Secure_Boot

[Off topic thoughts] Re: debian installation issue

2021-06-14 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > Secure Boot (Microsoft's attempt to stop you from using Linux) Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > While I'm not a fan of Microsoft: > > https://wiki.debian.org/SecureBoot#What_is_UEFI_Secure_Boot_NOT.3 > > "Microsoft act as a Certification Authority (CA) for SB, and they wil

Re: debian installation issue

2021-06-14 Thread tomas
On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 09:20:52AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 11 iun 21, 15:07:11, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > Secure Boot (Microsoft's attempt to stop you from using Linux) relies on > > UEFI booting, and therefore this was one of the driving forces behind it, > > but not the *only* d

Re: debian installation issue

2021-06-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 11 iun 21, 15:07:11, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Secure Boot (Microsoft's attempt to stop you from using Linux) relies on > UEFI booting, and therefore this was one of the driving forces behind it, > but not the *only* driving force. If your machine doesn't use Secure Boot, > don't worry abou

Re: debian installation issue

2021-06-12 Thread Felix Miata
(I wrote this over 12 hours ago, before I went to bed, and forgot to send first.) Joe composed on 2021-06-12 07:59 (UTC+0100): > It doesn't help that the BIOS is broken, that it does not honour the > EFI DefaultBoot, and always rewrites entry if I change it.

Re: debian installation issue

2021-06-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
Joe wrote: > >Grub lives in more than one place: most of it is in /boot/grub, but >there is a first-stage bootloader which calls this. To be honest, >I don't know for sure where that lives on a GPT disk, on the old >DOS-type partition it would live at the start of either the whole hard >drive or th

Re: debian installation issue

2021-06-12 Thread songbird
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: ... > These sound like either: broken versions of UEFI / broken installations or, > exceptionally, a broken manufacturer somewhere. > > It may be worth revisiting installations when Bulleseye comes out to > get something that works and is supportable for the next few years

Re: debian installation issue

2021-06-12 Thread Joe
On Sat, 12 Jun 2021 11:47:16 + "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: > On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 07:09:29AM -0400, songbird wrote: > > Joe wrote: > > ... > > > It doesn't help that the BIOS is broken, that it does not honour > > > the EFI DefaultBoot, and always rewrites entry if I change > > > it.

Re: debian installation issue

2021-06-12 Thread Joe
On Sat, 12 Jun 2021 07:09:29 -0400 songbird wrote: > Joe wrote: > ... > > It doesn't help that the BIOS is broken, that it does not honour the > > EFI DefaultBoot, and always rewrites entry if I change it. > > Fortunately, it does honour NextBoot, or I'd never be able to get it > > booted in

Re: debian installation issue

2021-06-12 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 07:09:29AM -0400, songbird wrote: > Joe wrote: > ... > > It doesn't help that the BIOS is broken, that it does not honour the > > EFI DefaultBoot, and always rewrites entry if I change it. > > Fortunately, it does honour NextBoot, or I'd never be able to get it > > boot

Re: debian installation issue

2021-06-12 Thread songbird
Joe wrote: ... > It doesn't help that the BIOS is broken, that it does not honour the > EFI DefaultBoot, and always rewrites entry if I change it. > Fortunately, it does honour NextBoot, or I'd never be able to get it > booted into buster. But it worked with stretch. I could try installing > s

Re: debian installation issue

2021-06-11 Thread Joe
On Fri, 11 Jun 2021 18:24:43 -0400 Felix Miata wrote: > Joe composed on 2021-06-11 20:14 (UTC+0100): > > > I have a netbook which booted fine into grub on stretch, > > but an upgrade to buster killed that, and to boot into buster I > > have to use a rescue medium and use efibootmgr to set NextBo

Re: debian installation issue

2021-06-11 Thread Felix Miata
Joe composed on 2021-06-11 20:14 (UTC+0100): > I have a netbook which booted fine into grub on stretch, > but an upgrade to buster killed that, and to boot into buster I have to > use a rescue medium and use efibootmgr to set NextBoot to the right > entry. Nobody here seems able to help, and I gav

Re: debian installation issue

2021-06-11 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 12:52:47AM +0300, Semih Ozlem wrote: > Yes I am running in UEFI mode, but the partitioning is MBR and not GPT. Is > this a problem? Which is preferred when? Really, GPT is the future. The "MBR" disk label is another product of the 1980s. It doesn't even support disks over

Re: debian installation issue

2021-06-11 Thread Semih Ozlem
Dear Greg, and everyone else thanks for the detailed responses. By UEFI versus Legacy Boot you mean things that are determined in BIOS settings correct? Yes I am running in UEFI mode, but the partitioning is MBR and not GPT. Is this a problem? Which is preferred when? Why would legacy boot be pre

Re: debian installation issue

2021-06-11 Thread Felix Miata
Greg Wooledge composed on 2021-06-11 15:07 (UTC-0400): > On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 09:38:37PM +0300, Semih Ozlem wrote: >> How to check where grub is installed? And what is a friendly guide to >> learning about grub? > GRUB should be installed on the *disk* (not on a partition) that you > intend t

Re: debian installation issue

2021-06-11 Thread Joe
On Fri, 11 Jun 2021 21:38:37 +0300 Semih Ozlem wrote: > I reinstalled the system, including an efi partition (500MiB) and the > problem was fixed. > > How to check where grub is installed? And what is a friendly guide to > learning about grub? I don't like quoting specific sources, as they go o

Re: debian installation issue

2021-06-11 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 09:38:37PM +0300, Semih Ozlem wrote: > I reinstalled the system, including an efi partition (500MiB) and the > problem was fixed. This suggests that you booted the installer in UEFI mode, rather than in Legacy mode. If you boot the installer in UEFI mode, you are expected

Re: debian installation issue

2021-06-11 Thread Semih Ozlem
I reinstalled the system, including an efi partition (500MiB) and the problem was fixed. How to check where grub is installed? And what is a friendly guide to learning about grub? Richard Owlett , 11 Haz 2021 Cum, 20:17 tarihinde şunu yazdı: > On 06/11/2021 11:31 AM, Semih Ozlem wrote: > > Hi ev

Re: debian installation issue

2021-06-11 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/11/2021 11:31 AM, Semih Ozlem wrote: Hi everyone, I am using 64bit with 4GiB system memory Intel COre i3-7100U @ 2.40 GHZ machine. I installed debian on a usb (sandisk cruzer blade 2.0 32 GB). I created a single partition. At the moment the system does not boot. From the installation medi

debian installation issue

2021-06-11 Thread Semih Ozlem
Hi everyone, I am using 64bit with 4GiB system memory Intel COre i3-7100U @ 2.40 GHZ machine. I installed debian on a usb (sandisk cruzer blade 2.0 32 GB). I created a single partition. At the moment the system does not boot. From the installation media grub menu shows up. Is there a way without

Re: Debian installation issue

2003-12-15 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Kent West (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Sreelal Chandrasenan wrote: >> [...] >> Even Debian could not detect the ethernetcard on the P4 board, >> though it was detected by Redhat 9.X and Windows 2K. It is an Intel >> Pro 100 based card. I tried different Debain CDs, still I am getting >

Re: Debian installation issue

2003-12-15 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Sreelal Chandrasenan (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > One of the Pentium 4 box, when I instaled the Debian linux, I got > nano_1.0.6_2_i386.deb corrupt error and I am unable to proceed further > with installation. I tried multiple times and I could not succeed. I > could install debian on oth

FW: Debian installation issue

2003-12-15 Thread Sreelal Chandrasenan
> > -- > From: Sreelal Chandrasenan > Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 9:25:22 AM > To: Debian User (E-mail) > Subject: FW: Debian installation issue > Auto forwarded by a Rule > > > -Original Message- From: Sreelal Chandrase

Re: Debian installation issue

2003-12-15 Thread Kent West
Sreelal Chandrasenan wrote: One of the Pentium 4 box, when I instaled the Debian linux, I got nano_1.0.6_2_i386.deb corrupt error and I am unable to proceed further with installation. I tried multiple times and I could not succeed. I could install debian on other Pentium3 systems using the same CD

FW: Debian installation issue

2003-12-15 Thread Sreelal Chandrasenan
-Original Message- From: Sreelal Chandrasenan Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 9:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Debian installation issue One of the Pentium 4 box, when I instaled the Debian linux, I got nano_1.0.6_2_i386.deb corrupt error and I am unable to proceed further

Debian installation issue

2003-12-15 Thread Sreelal Chandrasenan
One of the Pentium 4 box, when I instaled the Debian linux, I got nano_1.0.6_2_i386.deb corrupt error and I am unable to proceed further with installation. I tried multiple times and I could not succeed. I could install debian on other Pentium3 systems using the same CD without any problem. E