[gentoo-amd64] Sanity check: systemd works with LVM2 root volume?

2015-11-30 Thread Steven Lembark
mount /dev/vg00/root $root; for i in $root/$init $root/usr $root/usr/bin do # drop to shell if the root filesystem is botched. [ -e $i ] || exec /bin/busybox sh; done # seems bootable: init is there and /usr is mounted. exec switch_root $root $init; -- Steven Lembark

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: early boot failure, not sure how to diagnose

2013-08-09 Thread Steven Lembark
mdadm, lvm in the bin dir, and /dev populated with null, zero, console, tty, and the sd* devices you really have on the device. Cpio+gzip it into something like /boot/rescue.cpio.gz and use it with initrd. -- Steven Lembark 3646 Flora Pl Workhorse Computing

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Keyboard Stops Working Under X

2012-11-14 Thread Steven Lembark
dicated AT keyboard and mouse ports -- prior to USB with all of its switching and shared bandwidth issues. If you really, really, really want to use the old drivers then find a MB with the old hardware they were designed for and use that instead. Otherwise you will suffer far less frus

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Keyboard Stops Working Under X

2012-11-14 Thread Steven Lembark
e returning invalid values. Be nice if the driver would successfully reject all bad input, but there is no guarantee that pushing white noise into it won't put it into a locked up state. And, yes, I've learned that the hard way :-) -- Steven Lembark

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Keyboard Stops Working Under X

2012-11-14 Thread Steven Lembark
nts to throw out becuse they "might be useful". Taking the time to clean the thing out -- along with your .Xdefaults, .xinitrc, .fvwm[2]rc -- is a worthwhile part of running a machine. -- Steven Lembark 3646 Flora Pl Workhorse Computing

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Keyboard Stops Working Under X

2012-11-14 Thread Steven Lembark
flakey USB port or keyboard hardware. In my experience, purely random flakeyness is more likely to be a hardware issue. In any case, I'm happily running with fvwm 2.6.3, INPUT_DEVICES="evdev", and no xorg.conf whatever. -- Steven Lembark

Re: [gentoo-amd64] New person

2012-06-28 Thread Steven Lembark
On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 17:13:23 +0200 Oszk__r Ocsen__s wrote: Good news/bad news: List is pretty dead becuase most things Just Work on the amd_64 platform. Leaves us without all that much to discuss :-) enjoi -- Steven Lembark 3646 Flora Pl Workhorse

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Unable to read PDF on amd64

2009-05-01 Thread Steven Lembark
uot;1" for the echo). Guess I'll strace it next and see where it ends up. Thanks to all of you for taking the time, at least I know that it should be working! -- Steven Lembark85-09 90th St. Workhorse Computing

[gentoo-amd64] Unable to read PDF on amd64

2009-04-13 Thread Steven Lembark
/funding/424/SF424_RR_Guide_General_Adobe_VerA.pdf thanx -- Steven Lembark85-09 90th St. Workhorse Computing Woodhaven, NY, 11421 lemb...@wrkhors.com +1 888 359 3508