[gentoo-user] Re: Dual Booting - selection from command line

On 10/01/2024 02:18, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: I have a box that is two HD's and both are bootable; using "refind" instead of grub. So the selection I choose at boot which drive to boot will be the default (during reboot, from command line) until I select the second drive. The box will be

Re:[SOLVED] [gentoo-user] Re: ssh from linux to Windows

On 1/8/24 07:34, Nuno Silva wrote: On 2024-01-08, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: On 1/8/24 01:41, Nuno Silva wrote: On 2024-01-08, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: On 1/6/24 20:09, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: I installed openssh server on Windows 11 and tried to ssh to it using the id_rsa.pub

[gentoo-user] Re: ssh from linux to Windows

On 2024-01-08, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > On 1/8/24 01:41, Nuno Silva wrote: >> On 2024-01-08, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >> >>> On 1/6/24 20:09, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: I installed openssh server on Windows 11 and tried to ssh to it using the id_rsa.pub key but I didn

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ssh from linux to Windows

On Monday, 8 January 2024 13:45:16 GMT the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > On 1/8/24 01:41, Nuno Silva wrote: > > On 2024-01-08, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > >> On 1/6/24 20:09, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > >>> I installed openssh server on Windows 11 and tried to ssh to it > >>> using the id_rsa

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ssh from linux to Windows

On 1/8/24 01:41, Nuno Silva wrote: On 2024-01-08, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: On 1/6/24 20:09, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: I installed openssh server on Windows 11 and tried to ssh to it using the id_rsa.pub key but I didn't have luck.  I copied the key to .ssh\authorized_keys file. On lin

[gentoo-user] Re: ssh from linux to Windows

On 2024-01-08, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > On 1/6/24 20:09, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >> I installed openssh server on Windows 11 and tried to ssh to it >> using the id_rsa.pub key >> but I didn't have luck.  I copied the key to .ssh\authorized_keys file. >> On linux the last line ending w

[gentoo-user] Re: Genlop wonky again

On 2024-01-05, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > I've just had some strange output from genlop on my 16-thread i5 box, thus: > > # genlop -t libreoffice | /bin/grep minute >merge time: 37 minutes and 38 seconds. >merge time: 52 minutes and 59 seconds. >merge time: 46

[gentoo-user] Re: udev rule for periodic polling of USB gamepad?

On 03/01/2024 19:53, Michael Cook wrote: On 1/3/24 12:33, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Is it possible to have a USB controller (8BitDo Pro 2) polled every second or so with a udev rule? Or through some other mechanism? This controller has a quirk where it disconnects every 4 seconds or so and rub

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Python 3.11 USE flags being flipped on

On 2023-12-29 01:07, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 2023-12-28 23:00:36, stefan1 wrote: Should I at least file bugs about those packages? Surely there is no reason to artificially limit the python version in ::gentoo? Yes, especially if the package has a test suite that passes under python-3.1

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Python 3.11 USE flags being flipped on

On 2023-12-28 23:00:36, stefan1 wrote: > Should I at least file bugs about those packages? > Surely there is no reason to artificially limit the python version in > ::gentoo? Yes, especially if the package has a test suite that passes under python-3.12. Most python packages are community-main

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Python 3.11 USE flags being flipped on

On 2023-12-28 20:23, Martin Vaeth wrote: stefan1 wrote: On 2023-12-28 15:21, Martin Vaeth wrote: stefan1 wrote: This got me wondering though, is there no way to fix this globally via make.conf instead of adding patched ebuilds to my overlay? No. Until https://bugs.gentoo.org/209653

[gentoo-user] Re: Python 3.11 USE flags being flipped on

Martin Vaeth wrote: > > /etc/portage/patches can patch practically everything > in ebuilds *except metadata*. That's exactly what > bug 209653 is about. Typo: I meant /etc/portage/env/*/*

[gentoo-user] Re: Python 3.11 USE flags being flipped on

stefan1 wrote: > On 2023-12-28 15:21, Martin Vaeth wrote: >> stefan1 wrote: >>> This got me wondering though, is there no way to fix this globally >>> via make.conf instead of adding patched ebuilds to my overlay? >> >> No. Until https://bugs.gentoo.org/209653 is fixed (which did not >> h

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Python 3.11 USE flags being flipped on

On Thu, 2023-12-28 at 18:38 +, stefan1 wrote: > > Anyway, at least I don't have many ebuilds to patch to support python > 3.12. If you're comfortable with git, you could switch your ::gentoo repo to a git checkout and edit/commit your changes there. Then when you git pull/rebase, you'll

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Python 3.11 USE flags being flipped on

On 2023-12-28 15:21, Martin Vaeth wrote: stefan1 wrote: This got me wondering though, is there no way to fix this globally via make.conf instead of adding patched ebuilds to my overlay? No. Until https://bugs.gentoo.org/209653 is fixed (which did not happen since 16 years and presumably n

[gentoo-user] Re: Python 3.11 USE flags being flipped on

Arve Barsnes wrote: > On Thu, 28 Dec 2023 at 16:21, Martin Vaeth wrote: >> >> stefan1 wrote: >> > This got me wondering though, is there no way to fix this globally >> > via make.conf instead of adding patched ebuilds to my overlay? >> >> No. Until https://bugs.gentoo.org/209653 is fixed (wh

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Python 3.11 USE flags being flipped on

On Thu, 28 Dec 2023 at 16:21, Martin Vaeth wrote: > > stefan1 wrote: > > This got me wondering though, is there no way to fix this globally > > via make.conf instead of adding patched ebuilds to my overlay? > > No. Until https://bugs.gentoo.org/209653 is fixed (which did not > happen since 16

[gentoo-user] Re: Python 3.11 USE flags being flipped on

stefan1 wrote: > This got me wondering though, is there no way to fix this globally > via make.conf instead of adding patched ebuilds to my overlay? No. Until https://bugs.gentoo.org/209653 is fixed (which did not happen since 16 years and presumably never will), there is no other way to fix

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Python 3.11 USE flags being flipped on

On 2023-12-16 09:47, Martin Vaeth wrote: stefan1@shitposting.expert wrote: I have done the migration to python 3.12. The problem is that portage is pulling in python 3.11. A python version jump in gentoo is always a horrible work: Many ebuilds have not been updated and pull in unnecessari

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Python 3.11 USE flags being flipped on

rsnes" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Python 3.11 USE flags being flipped on On Fri, 15 Dec 2023 at 10:09, wrote: > The problem is that I'm on python 3.12 and portage is pulling in an > older version. Should have mentioned it in the first post, the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: alsamixer - no sound

If I remember correctly, running alsamixer - allows you select certain cards, ESC exits alsactl store - would write the setting to a file, under user it would be ~/.asoundrc (I could be wrong). But in my case "alsactl store" doesn't do anything, It opens "master" setting single bar setting.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: alsamixer - no sound

On 12/16/23 20:00, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 17/12/2023 01:54, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: But the scary thing is I don't know what fix it and running as user: alsamixer still does not allow me to save default sound card I select with F6. You don't set a "default sound card" with F6. All

[gentoo-user] Re: alsamixer - no sound

On 17/12/2023 01:54, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: But the scary thing is I don't know what fix it and running as user: alsamixer still does not allow me to save default sound card I select with F6. You don't set a "default sound card" with F6. All that does is simply allow you to see the mix

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: alsamixer - no sound

On 12/16/23 16:33, Nuno Silva wrote: On 2023-12-16, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: After recent upgrade I have no sound. Running as root: alsamixer XDG_RUNTIME_DIR (/run/user/1000) is not owned by us (uid 0), but by uid 1000! (This could e.g. happen if you try to connect to a non-root PulseAud

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: alsamixer - no sound

On 12/16/23 16:33, Nuno Silva wrote: On 2023-12-16, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: After recent upgrade I have no sound. Running as root: alsamixer XDG_RUNTIME_DIR (/run/user/1000) is not owned by us (uid 0), but by uid 1000! (This could e.g. happen if you try to connect to a non-root PulseAud

[gentoo-user] Re: alsamixer - no sound

On 2023-12-16, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > After recent upgrade I have no sound. > > Running as root: alsamixer > XDG_RUNTIME_DIR (/run/user/1000) is not owned by us (uid 0), but by > uid 1000! (This could e.g. happen if you try to connect to a non-root > PulseAudio as a root user, over the n

[gentoo-user] Re: Python 3.11 USE flags being flipped on

stefan1@shitposting.expert wrote: > I have done the migration to python 3.12. > The problem is that portage is pulling in python 3.11. A python version jump in gentoo is always a horrible work: Many ebuilds have not been updated and pull in unnecessarily python 3.11. If you use any of these p

Re: [SOLVED][gentoo-user] Re: No text scrolling at boot

On 12/14/23 08:34, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 13/12/2023 21:29, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: When gentoo boots grub display only kernel selection on the screen, hitting "Enter" there is not kernel line scrolling, only the login screen after few seconds: graphical login, user and password. Whi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Python 3.11 USE flags being flipped on

On 2023-12-15 09:22, Arve Barsnes wrote: On Fri, 15 Dec 2023 at 10:09, wrote: The problem is that I'm on python 3.12 and portage is pulling in an older version. Should have mentioned it in the first post, then it would be easy to look into it and tell you that media-libs/mesa is only supporte

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Python 3.11 USE flags being flipped on

On Fri, 15 Dec 2023 at 10:09, wrote: > The problem is that I'm on python 3.12 and portage is pulling in an > older version. Should have mentioned it in the first post, then it would be easy to look into it and tell you that media-libs/mesa is only supported up to 3.11 (in the ebuild anyway). You

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Python 3.11 USE flags being flipped on

On 2023-12-14 23:38, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 15/12/2023 00:53, stefan1@shitposting.expert wrote: I just tried to run today's emerge, when I saw that python 3.11 was being pulled in and packages had this USE flag flipped on. Python 3.11 is the default right now (and has been for some mo

[gentoo-user] Re: Python 3.11 USE flags being flipped on

On 15/12/2023 00:53, stefan1@shitposting.expert wrote: I just tried to run today's emerge, when I saw that python 3.11 was being pulled in and packages had this USE flag flipped on. Python 3.11 is the default right now (and has been for some months now.) You should follow the python upgrad

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Wifi issues with 6.1.66 kernel and rtl8723bu driver

Thank you both for replying quickly. Michael, the driver does not seem to differ and nothing has changed in my configuration. rtl8723bu is not, to my knowledge, run in AP mode. I have blacklisted rtl8xxu. Also, I use NetworkManager. Nikos, thanks for the link ! Updating to 6.1.67 solved my issu

[gentoo-user] Re: No text scrolling at boot

On 13/12/2023 21:29, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: When gentoo boots grub display only kernel selection on the screen, hitting "Enter" there is not kernel line scrolling, only the login screen after few seconds: graphical login, user and password. Which parameter controls it. is it grub? In /e

[gentoo-user] Re: Wifi issues with 6.1.66 kernel and rtl8723bu driver

On 13/12/2023 22:34, Alexis Praga wrote: Hi, After a recent update to the latest kernel, I'm having troubles with a custom wifi driver [1], packaged using latest git into GURU. The laptop does recognize and connect to my wifi (that is, my iphone). But I cannot access internet and NetworkManage

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VboxClient: the virtualbox kernel service is not running. Exiting

On 12/12/23 15:17, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2023-12-12, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: It was a virtualbox upgrade (not kernel), the notification is on Gentoo host system running VM. Were you trying to run guest additions on the host? Gentoo is a main machine; Windows is running in VirtualBo

[gentoo-user] Re: VboxClient: the virtualbox kernel service is not running. Exiting

On 2023-12-12, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > It was a virtualbox upgrade (not kernel), the notification is on > Gentoo host system running VM. Were you trying to run guest additions on the host? > I might be related to "app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions" > Unmerging this package solved

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Abnormal processor temperature.

Michael, On Wednesday, 2023-11-29 17:56:37 +, you wrote: > ... > It depends on the hardware, this is what I have enabled on an AMD MoBo: > > ~ $ grep SPI /usr/src/linux/.config > ... > CONFIG_SCSI_SPI_ATTRS=y > CONFIG_SPI=y > CONFIG_SPI_MASTER=y > ... > CONFIG_SPI_AMD=m > ... > CONFIG_SPI_DY

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ffmpeg: WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a dependency conflict

Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > Dale schrieb am 05.12.23 um 18:27: >> >> This is where I'm putting the patch and the patch. >> >> >> root@fireball / # cat /etc/portage/patches/media-video/mplayer.diff > > Maybe you should try: > /etc/portage/patches/media-video/mplayer/mplayer.diff > as written in the Wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ffmpeg: WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a dependency conflict

Dale schrieb am 05.12.23 um 18:27: This is where I'm putting the patch and the patch. root@fireball / # cat /etc/portage/patches/media-video/mplayer.diff Maybe you should try: /etc/portage/patches/media-video/mplayer/mplayer.diff as written in the Wiki. The directory requires the category th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ffmpeg: WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a dependency conflict

Michael wrote: > > Oops! I misread it. It is indeed the other way around, mplayer requiring > h264enc. My bad. In this case Dale needs to look into using ffmpeg for the > odd file he wants to transcode, instead of mplayer's menconder. Update.  It gives a clean update now except for mplayer s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ffmpeg: WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a dependency conflict

On Monday, 4 December 2023 19:20:12 GMT Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2023-12-04, Michael wrote: > >> However, the "h264enc" package has a hard dependency on mplayer. > > > > Which I believe is not needed for mpv. You can set: > The problem is not that h264enc is required by mplyaer, it's that the >

[gentoo-user] Re: ffmpeg: WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a dependency conflict

On 2023-12-04, Michael wrote: >> However, the "h264enc" package has a hard dependency on mplayer. > > Which I believe is not needed for mpv. You can set: The problem is not that h264enc is required by mplyaer, it's that the h264enc package requires mplayer: >From the h264enc ebuild >[https://

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ffmpeg: WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a dependency conflict

On Monday, 4 December 2023 17:48:43 GMT Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2023-12-04, Dale wrote: > > Grant Edwards wrote: > >> Do you really need both mpv and mplayer? > > > > Given the new one fails to build, that is a good question. Personally, > > I just want to play videos. lol This is what equer

[gentoo-user] Re: ffmpeg: WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a dependency conflict

On 2023-12-04, Dale wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: > >> Do you really need both mpv and mplayer? > > > Given the new one fails to build, that is a good question.  Personally, > I just want to play videos.  lol  This is what equery shows as needing > mplayer.  > > > > root@fireball / # equery d medi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ffmpeg: WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a dependency conflict

Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2023-12-04, Dale wrote: > >> I either started a thread on this a while back or it was mentioned >> inside another thread.  This has been popping up for months now.  Either >> I have something set wrong or there is a problem in a ebuild or >> something.  I just don't know

[gentoo-user] Re: ffmpeg: WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a dependency conflict

On 2023-12-04, Dale wrote: > I either started a thread on this a while back or it was mentioned > inside another thread.  This has been popping up for months now.  Either > I have something set wrong or there is a problem in a ebuild or > something.  I just don't know what.  This is what I get. 

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge load again

On Thursday, 30 November 2023 10:16:25 GMT Nuno Silva wrote: > The load limit is being set only for emerge, not make, so it would only > affect the decision to start building more packages in parallel. The > already started ongoing builds could still take the load beyond 30, with > more than 30 pr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge load again

On Thursday, 30 November 2023 10:16:25 GMT Nuno Silva wrote: > On 2023-11-29, Michael wrote: > > On Monday, 27 November 2023 15:39:33 GMT Peter Humphreey wrote: > >> Hello list, > >> > >> I still can't see how portage limits the load. Today I'm emerging > >> libreoffice, and it's spending almost t

[gentoo-user] Re: Emerge load again

On 2023-11-29, Michael wrote: > On Monday, 27 November 2023 15:39:33 GMT Peter Humphreey wrote: >> Hello list, >> >> I still can't see how portage limits the load. Today I'm emerging >> libreoffice, and it's spending almost the whole time working with 4 CPU >> threads. But: >> >> $ grep -e '\-j'

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Abnormal processor temperature.

On Wednesday, 29 November 2023 17:34:48 GMT Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > Michael, > > On Tuesday, 2023-11-28 10:13:56 +, you wrote: > > ... > > I suggested enabling the SPI modules because they are used by the CPU to > > communicate with various sensors, adjust clock frequency between > > compone

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Abnormal processor temperature.

Michael, On Tuesday, 2023-11-28 10:13:56 +, you wrote: > ... > I suggested enabling the SPI modules because they are used by the CPU to > communicate with various sensors, adjust clock frequency between components > and thereafter to receive signals a/synchronously to control temperatures.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Abnormal processor temperature.

On Monday, 27 November 2023 23:14:14 GMT Laurence Perkins wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Grant Edwards > > Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2023 8:36 AM > > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Abnormal processor tempe

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Abnormal processor temperature.

> -Original Message- > From: Grant Edwards > Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2023 8:36 AM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Abnormal processor temperature. > > On 2023-11-21, Laurence Perkins wrote: > > > I have a sy

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage reports preserved libs, but won't rebuild

-- Original Message -- From "Wols Lists" To gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Date 24.11.2023 13:35:39 Subject Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage reports preserved libs, but won't rebuild On 24/11/2023 10:27, Nuno Silva wrote: On 2023-11-24, Arve Barsnes wrote: On Fri, 24

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage reports preserved libs, but won't rebuild

On 24/11/2023 10:27, Nuno Silva wrote: On 2023-11-24, Arve Barsnes wrote: On Fri, 24 Nov 2023 at 04:07, Jack wrote: May or may not help, but have you tried revdep-rebuild? Also, you can try just one-shotting the reported packages, such as (for the last one in your list): emerge -1 sys-lib

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT]/[Meta] Subscribers of gentoo-user using Microsoft e-mail services

On Friday, 24 November 2023 10:51:19 GMT Nuno Silva wrote: > On 2023-08-02, Nuno Silva wrote: > > The subscriber which has subscribed to this list using a Microsoft > > mailbox (@live.ru?) is still subscribed, and still has that mailbox set > > to forward e-mails to a Gmail address. > > > > Which

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT]/[Meta] Subscribers of gentoo-user using Microsoft e-mail services

On 2023-08-02, Nuno Silva wrote: > The subscriber which has subscribed to this list using a Microsoft > mailbox (@live.ru?) is still subscribed, and still has that mailbox set > to forward e-mails to a Gmail address. > > Which would be fine, except Microsoft also still hasn't fixed the way > their

[gentoo-user] Re: Portage reports preserved libs, but won't rebuild

On 2023-11-24, Matt Connell wrote: > Sorry for the double post; I got a mail-undeliverable from Google so I > thought it didn't go through and retried it. Turns out it got to the > mailing list (both times) but not to gmail recipients because Google > doesn't like my SPF record (record says hard-

[gentoo-user] Re: Portage reports preserved libs, but won't rebuild

On 2023-11-24, Arve Barsnes wrote: > On Fri, 24 Nov 2023 at 04:07, Jack wrote: >> >> May or may not help, but have you tried revdep-rebuild? > > Also, you can try just one-shotting the reported packages, such as > (for the last one in your list): > > emerge -1 sys-libs/zlib > > Regards, > Arve S

[gentoo-user] Re: Abnormal processor temperature.

On 2023-11-21, Laurence Perkins wrote: > I have a system here running an Intel N97 processor, which is idling > at 70-80C on Gentoo with all cores 99% idle. This is 40 degrees > hotter than it runs on Ubuntu or Windows 10. > > Powertop confirms that the CPU is spending nearly all of its time in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Debugging NFS mounts

On Sunday, 19 November 2023 15:59:37 GMT Remy Blank wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote on 19.11.2023 16:12: > > Yes, indeed. In fact I don't know why this has only just bitten me; I've > > been doing the same thing for years without problem. > > > > That search turns up so many answers that I don't kno

[gentoo-user] Re: Debugging NFS mounts

Peter Humphrey wrote on 19.11.2023 16:12: Yes, indeed. In fact I don't know why this has only just bitten me; I've been doing the same thing for years without problem. That search turns up so many answers that I don't know where to start, even prefixing the phrase with "gentoo". Most of them see

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help: boot loader info

On 19/10/2023 12:55, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 23:49:25 -0500, Dale wrote: That config kinda reminds me of the old grub.  A title line, location of kernel and then options.  Sounds easy enough.  The new grub config is almost impossible to config by hand.  They had to make a tool

RE: [gentoo-user] RE: libva-glx.so.2

> From: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com<mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com> > Sent: Monday, October 23, 2023 12:47 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org<mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] RE: libva-glx.so.2 > > Laurence Perkins wrote: &g

Re: [gentoo-user] RE: libva-glx.so.2

Laurence Perkins wrote: > > > From: Laurence Perkins lperk...@openeye.net > > > > Sent: Monday, October 23, 2023 11:05 AM > > > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > > Subject: [gentoo-user] libva-glx.so.2 > > > > > > I have a progr

[gentoo-user] RE: libva-glx.so.2

> From: Laurence Perkins lperk...@openeye.net > Sent: Monday, October 23, 2023 11:05 AM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] libva-glx.so.2 > > I have a program with an embedded copy of ffmpeg that is choking o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help: boot loader info

Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 19 Oct 2023 09:45:10 -0500, Dale wrote: > >>> I like rEFIind, but I recall it needs/needed a separate /boot >>> partition if you are running LVM/RAID. >>> >> I have /boot on ext2, / on ext4 and rest on LVM on my main system.  On >> the 770T rig, I have /boot on ext2

[gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help: boot loader info

On 2023-10-19, Dale wrote: > That config kinda reminds me of the old grub.  A title line, location of > kernel and then options.  Sounds easy enough.  The new grub config is > almost impossible to config by hand.  They had to make a tool to do it.  > That says a lot there.  ;-)  Manually configu

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help: boot loader info

> >That config kinda reminds me of the old grub. A title line, location of >kernel and then options. Sounds easy enough. The new grub config is almost >impossible to config by hand. They had to make a tool to do it. That says a >lot there. ;-) > >Dale > You can still write that kind of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help

Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 18:24:41 -0500, Dale wrote: > >>> Do you mean booting from the ISO images? That's a GRUB thing, it >>> doesn't matter how it is loaded, EFI or MBR. >>> >>> However, being able to do away with GRUB is, to me, a bigger benefit >>> than not being able to boot

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help: boot loader info

On Thu, 19 Oct 2023 09:45:10 -0500, Dale wrote: > > I like rEFIind, but I recall it needs/needed a separate /boot > > partition if you are running LVM/RAID. > > > > I have /boot on ext2, / on ext4 and rest on LVM on my main system.  On > the 770T rig, I have /boot on ext2 I think and everything

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help: boot loader info

On Thursday, 19 October 2023 12:59:06 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > Incidentally, systemd-boot can also generate and update boot menu entries > automatically with "bootctl install" and "bootctl update" although I have > never tried either. Yes, that's what I use. Once your kernel is complete, with r

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help: boot loader info

Michael wrote: > On Thursday, 19 October 2023 05:49:25 BST Dale wrote: >> Neil Bothwick wrote: >>> On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 17:27:28 -0500, Dale wrote: I used cgdisk and GPT for my disk even tho it is small, only 300GBs or so, mostly out of habit. The grub install failed and I did a search.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help: boot loader info

On Thu, 19 Oct 2023 12:55:43 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > That config kinda reminds me of the old grub.  A title line, location > > of kernel and then options.  Sounds easy enough.  The new grub config > > is almost impossible to config by hand.  They had to make a tool to > > do it. That says

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help: boot loader info

On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 23:49:25 -0500, Dale wrote: > That config kinda reminds me of the old grub.  A title line, location of > kernel and then options.  Sounds easy enough.  The new grub config is > almost impossible to config by hand.  They had to make a tool to do it.  > That says a lot there.  ;-

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On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 18:24:41 -0500, Dale wrote: > > Do you mean booting from the ISO images? That's a GRUB thing, it > > doesn't matter how it is loaded, EFI or MBR. > > > > However, being able to do away with GRUB is, to me, a bigger benefit > > than not being able to boot ISOs is a drawback. Use

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On Thursday, 19 October 2023 00:06:43 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > If you like simple, here is a config file I use with systemd-boot > > version 6.1.57-gentoo > linux /vmlinuz-6.1.57-gentoo > options root=/dev/sda3 panic=10 net.ifnames=0 i915.enable_ips=0 > > That's it! There is a separate file

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On Thursday, 19 October 2023 05:49:25 BST Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 17:27:28 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> I used cgdisk and GPT for my disk even tho it is small, only 300GBs or > >> so, mostly out of habit. The grub install failed and I did a search. I > >> found this

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Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 17:27:28 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> I used cgdisk and GPT for my disk even tho it is small, only 300GBs or >> so, mostly out of habit.  The grub install failed and I did a search.  I >> found this and it worked.  >> >> >> >> grub-install fails with "grub-inst

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Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 12:49:34 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> I usually use cgdisk, or cfdisk, but they all do the same thing.  Just a >> different interface.  As long as all this is documented, I'll just >> follow it and it should work.  After all, efi has been around for a long >> w

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On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 17:27:28 -0500, Dale wrote: > I used cgdisk and GPT for my disk even tho it is small, only 300GBs or > so, mostly out of habit.  The grub install failed and I did a search.  I > found this and it worked.  > > > > grub-install fails with "grub-install: warning: this GPT parti

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Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2023-10-18, Michael wrote: >>> The protective MBR and the BIOS boot partition are two different, >>> unrelated things. The BIOS boot partition is a real partition (usually >>> 1-2MB in size) that's present in the GPT parition table. It's used by >>> Grub as a place to sto

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On 2023-10-18, Michael wrote: > >> The protective MBR and the BIOS boot partition are two different, >> unrelated things. The BIOS boot partition is a real partition (usually >> 1-2MB in size) that's present in the GPT parition table. It's used by >> Grub as a place to store its files. > > Yes, th

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On Wednesday, 18 October 2023 18:45:27 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 10:23:23 +0100, Michael wrote: > > > Oh, and if you use GPT, you no longer need the MBR compatibility > > > partition, or whatever its called. I no longer need it so I can't > > > remember the exact name. > > > >

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On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 12:49:34 -0500, Dale wrote: > I usually use cgdisk, or cfdisk, but they all do the same thing.  Just a > different interface.  As long as all this is documented, I'll just > follow it and it should work.  After all, efi has been around for a long > while now.  I'm sure millions

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On Wednesday, 18 October 2023 14:57:51 BST Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2023-10-18, Michael wrote: > >> Oh, and if you use GPT, you no longer need the MBR compatibility > >> partition, or whatever its called. I no longer need it so I can't > >> remember the exact name. > > > > Man pages of partition

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Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 11:15 PM Grant Edwards > wrote: >> For example, if one >> of the links is down, Ubuntu is really fond of waiting a couple >> mintues for it to come up before it finishes booting. [If it doesn't >> wait for all the network interfaces, how is it going to

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Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2023-10-18, Michael wrote: > >>> Oh, and if you use GPT, you no longer need the MBR compatibility >>> partition, or whatever its called. I no longer need it so I can't >>> remember the exact name. >> Man pages of partitioning tools refer to it as "Protective MBR", althoug

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On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 10:23:23 +0100, Michael wrote: > > Oh, and if you use GPT, you no longer need the MBR compatibility > > partition, or whatever its called. I no longer need it so I can't > > remember the exact name. > > Man pages of partitioning tools refer to it as "Protective MBR", > altho

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On 2023-10-18, Rich Freeman wrote: > Oh well, I rarely reboot so it just hasn't been on the top of my > list of things to fix. I don't really care much on the Ubuntu servers I maintain because they are rarely rebooted, and their network interfaces are always up. A couple weeks ago I was testing

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On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 11:15 PM Grant Edwards wrote: > > For example, if one > of the links is down, Ubuntu is really fond of waiting a couple > mintues for it to come up before it finishes booting. [If it doesn't > wait for all the network interfaces, how is it going to do all that > cloudy crap

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On 2023-10-18, Michael wrote: >> Oh, and if you use GPT, you no longer need the MBR compatibility >> partition, or whatever its called. I no longer need it so I can't >> remember the exact name. > > Man pages of partitioning tools refer to it as "Protective MBR", although > I've > seen it menti

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On Wednesday, 18 October 2023 08:36:06 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 17 Oct 2023 21:50:35 -0500, Dale wrote: > > > EFI is much simpler to work with. for one thing, you don't need the > > > monster that GRUB has become. > > > > While I kinda dread it, it does seem that quite a while ago, it ha

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On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 03:15:56 - (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > > I have 4 Ubuntu-based machines here and over the last 6 years I've > > never seen a 1 minute delay to login, much less 5 minutes. > > I see it all the time. Two minutes is the most common delay that I run > into, but I've seen l

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On Tue, 17 Oct 2023 21:50:35 -0500, Dale wrote: > > EFI is much simpler to work with. for one thing, you don't need the > > monster that GRUB has become. > While I kinda dread it, it does seem that quite a while ago, it has > become much easier.  I noticed as I went through the install of Gentoo,

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On 2023-10-17, Mark Knecht wrote: > I have 4 Ubuntu-based machines here and over the last 6 years I've > never seen a 1 minute delay to login, much less 5 minutes. I see it all the time. Two minutes is the most common delay that I run into, but I've seen longer. The two-minute delay I frequently

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Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 17 Oct 2023 13:54:47 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> I just realized, my new rig will almost certainly be efi.  I kinda dread >> that.  At least it is well documented tho.  Should be easy enough.  I >> hope.  o_O > EFI is much simpler to work with. for one thing, you don't ne

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On Tue, 17 Oct 2023 13:54:47 -0500, Dale wrote: > I just realized, my new rig will almost certainly be efi.  I kinda dread > that.  At least it is well documented tho.  Should be easy enough.  I > hope.  o_O EFI is much simpler to work with. for one thing, you don't need the monster that GRUB has

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Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2023-10-17, Dale wrote: > >> I to find Gentoo to be much better documented. There were places where >> the old BIOS and efi info got a little confusing but eventually I >> figured it out. I been trying to think of a way to color code the docs >> but I can't figure out a s

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