On Sunday 17 May 2015 10:09:11 Rich Freeman wrote:
Just a few clarifications below.
One thing this discussion is missing is any mention of BIOS / EFI.
Which reminds me: can anyone here confirm whether grub-legacy can handle GPT?
I'm getting close to building my new system and I don't want to
On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 5:42 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote:
No, it's only new SSDs, not the whole system, which is six years old. Does
that mean my choice is restricted to just the two versions of GRUB?
Well, you could always use syslinux or something else. However, GRUB
is
On Wed, 20 May 2015 13:01:20 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
You should really consider moving to GRUB2 though.
Last time I looked, it couldn't handle all the kernels and options I
have.
GRUB2 can handle anything GRUB1 can. You probably mean that
grub2-mkconfig couldn't do what you want,
On Wednesday 20 May 2015 06:26:08 Rich Freeman wrote:
On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 5:42 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote:
No, it's only new SSDs, not the whole system, which is six years old. Does
that mean my choice is restricted to just the two versions of GRUB?
Well, you could
On Wed, 20 May 2015 06:51:53 -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
You should really consider moving to GRUB2 though. I don't know about
legacy GRUB, but GRUB2 can handle your boot partition being on btrfs.
I still left space on my drives for a boot partition anyway, since it
will be
On 05/20/2015 05:23 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 20 May 2015 10:16:09 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Which reminds me: can anyone here confirm whether grub-legacy can
handle GPT? I'm getting close to building my new system and I don't
want to change too many things at once. By which I
On Wed, 20 May 2015 06:19:52 -0400, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote:
I do not find grub2 complicated, although I've never had a setup with
LVM or RAID. It's always just been:
It's not more complicated, just different.
grub-install --recheck /dev/sda
# cosmetic changes to /etc/default/grub
On Wed, 20 May 2015 10:42:41 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
No, it's only new SSDs, not the whole system, which is six years old.
Does that mean my choice is restricted to just the two versions of GRUB?
No, you could use LiLo ;-)
--
Neil Bothwick
System halted - hit any Microsoft employee to
On Wednesday 20 May 2015 11:23:21 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 20 May 2015 10:42:41 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
No, it's only new SSDs, not the whole system, which is six years old.
Does that mean my choice is restricted to just the two versions of GRUB?
No, you could use LiLo ;-)
Ho ho
Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote:
On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 5:42 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote:
No, it's only new SSDs, not the whole system, which is six years old. Does
that mean my choice is restricted to just the two versions of GRUB?
Well, you could always use
On 19 May 2015 at 17:24, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
The master control program (qsstv) raises its shield against Tron, displaying
Sound card error: Device or resource busy.
And silence was the only voice heard by the folks...
And nothing was displayed anymore.
Oops, I forgot the last line
On Wednesday 20 May 2015 10:23:55 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 20 May 2015 10:16:09 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Which reminds me: can anyone here confirm whether grub-legacy can
handle GPT? I'm getting close to building my new system and I don't
want to change too many things at once. By
On Wed, 20 May 2015 10:16:09 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Which reminds me: can anyone here confirm whether grub-legacy can
handle GPT? I'm getting close to building my new system and I don't
want to change too many things at once. By which I mean that I'm going
to try btrfs (my fingers will
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Wed, 20 May 2015 06:51:53 -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
You should really consider moving to GRUB2 though. I don't know about
legacy GRUB, but GRUB2 can handle your boot partition being on btrfs.
I still left space on my drives for a
On Wed, 20 May 2015 08:21:34 -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
If you want to be able to use UEFI, you need to use GPT. UEFI needs a
FAT partition at the start of the drive, type FE00, but booting a GPT
disk with MBR requires a small BIOS boot partition, type EF02, at the
start of the
On Wednesday 20 May 2015 13:55:27 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 20 May 2015 08:21:34 -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
If you want to be able to use UEFI, you need to use GPT. UEFI needs a
FAT partition at the start of the drive, type FE00, but booting a GPT
disk with MBR requires a
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Wed, 20 May 2015 08:21:34 -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
If you want to be able to use UEFI, you need to use GPT. UEFI needs a
FAT partition at the start of the drive, type FE00, but booting a GPT
disk with MBR requires a small BIOS boot
On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 12:56:36PM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Wednesday 20 May 2015 11:23:21 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 20 May 2015 10:42:41 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
No, it's only new SSDs, not the whole system, which is six years old.
Does that mean my choice is restricted to
On Wed, 20 May 2015 14:29:27 +0100, Mick wrote:
Thanks, does the 1mb partition have to have anything in it?
No. If doesn't even need a filesystem, just create the partition with
the correct type and GRUB will work.
From what I recall gdisk just starts at sector 2048, doesn't this
On Wed, 20 May 2015 09:24:12 -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
Thanks, does the 1mb partition have to have anything in it?
No. If doesn't even need a filesystem, just create the partition with
the correct type and GRUB will work.
I have been usinglilo, so till I need to go to a
On Wednesday 20 May 2015 13:08:42 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 20 May 2015 13:01:20 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
You should really consider moving to GRUB2 though.
Last time I looked, it couldn't handle all the kernels and options I
have.
GRUB2 can handle anything GRUB1 can. You
Emanuele Rusconi ema...@gmail.com [15-05-20 17:36]:
On 19 May 2015 at 17:24, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
The master control program (qsstv) raises its shield against Tron,
displaying
Sound card error: Device or resource busy.
And silence was the only voice heard by the folks...
And
On Wed, 20 May 2015 16:09 Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote:
I followed the instructions in https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2_Migration
,
after copying my grub.conf as you suggested, but when I rebooted, the GRUB2
menu text was minuscule, it only included one of the five kernel lines
On 20 May 2015 at 18:23, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
...and confusion reaches the head of great Jack D. and
from his mouth the words were heard:
#sudo /etc/init.d/jackd restart
* Starting JACK Daemon ...
* JACK daemon can't be started! Check logfile: /var/log/jackd.log
On 20 May 2015 18:46:26 CEST, Bob Wya bob.mt@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, 20 May 2015 16:09 Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote:
I followed the instructions in
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2_Migration
,
after copying my grub.conf as you suggested, but when I rebooted, the
GRUB2
menu
I am currently trying to slim down and minimize my own few machines.
Way too much customer servers out there so I'd like to keep it simple in
here at least.
This lead me to configuring and provisioning my machines via ansible.
The goals:
* make sure that my user exists
* roll out
On 20/05/2015 23:06, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
I am currently trying to slim down and minimize my own few machines.
Way too much customer servers out there so I'd like to keep it simple in
here at least.
This lead me to configuring and provisioning my machines via ansible.
The
On Wed, 20 May 2015 16:46:26 +, Bob Wya wrote:
Personally I feel the Grub 2 OS detection script sucks really badly. So
much so that I completely re-wrote it so I got proper entries for my
various Windows installs (version accurately detected using chntpw) and
multiple Linux distros
On Wed, 20 May 2015 16:08:53 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
I followed the instructions in
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2_Migration, after copying my
grub.conf as you suggested, but when I rebooted, the GRUB2 menu text
was minuscule, it only included one of the five kernel lines it should
Emanuele Rusconi ema...@gmail.com [15-05-20 19:36]:
On 20 May 2015 at 18:23, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
...and confusion reaches the head of great Jack D. and
from his mouth the words were heard:
#sudo /etc/init.d/jackd restart
* Starting JACK Daemon ...
* JACK daemon can't be
On 20 May 2015 at 19:49, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
(it become really fun to create Koans from problems! Nice
and positive way to walk down the way to the solution...grin)
:) I'm afraid my English is not quite up to the task, but it's fun to try.
While it was calm and silent on the surface
Emanuele Rusconi ema...@gmail.com [15-05-21 03:08]:
On 20 May 2015 at 19:49, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
(it become really fun to create Koans from problems! Nice
and positive way to walk down the way to the solution...grin)
:) I'm afraid my English is not quite up to the task, but it's fun
Emanuele Rusconi ema...@gmail.com [15-05-21 03:08]:
On 20 May 2015 at 19:49, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
(it become really fun to create Koans from problems! Nice
and positive way to walk down the way to the solution...grin)
:) I'm afraid my English is not quite up to the task, but it's fun
On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Bruce Schultz brul...@gmail.com wrote:
On 21 May 2015 2:23:54 AM AEST, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
Emanuele Rusconi ema...@gmail.com [15-05-20 17:36]:
On 19 May 2015 at 17:24, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
The master control program (qsstv) raises its
On 21 May 2015 2:23:54 AM AEST, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
Emanuele Rusconi ema...@gmail.com [15-05-20 17:36]:
On 19 May 2015 at 17:24, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
The master control program (qsstv) raises its shield against Tron,
displaying
Sound card error: Device or resource busy.
On Wednesday 20 May 2015 15:26:59 I wrote:
Looks like I don't have much of an excuse now. I'll think of something
though... ;-)
Never a truer word...
I followed the instructions in https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2_Migration,
after copying my grub.conf as you suggested, but when I
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