On 2014-12-13, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
Once a long time gentoo user returning after about 2 yrs and have
forgotten nearly everything I ever new about gentoo.
Currently, what is the wise move on a fresh install (gentoo as vbox
guest on a solaris host (Openindiana 151_a9)), as
On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Grant Edwards
grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote:
Can you even still build a kernel that will boot directly from a raw
floppy?
It does contain the bootloader, but all it does is tell you to
bugger_off_msg. Yes, you can go ahead and grep the arch/boot
directory
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes:
On Sat, 13 Dec 2014 10:34:34 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
Currently, what is the wise move on a fresh install (gentoo as vbox
guest on a solaris host (Openindiana 151_a9)), as concerns installing
a boot-loader?
GRUB2 for a BIOS based system, that or
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes:
I'm trying the next lower version... that is still a beta version as I
write.. Maybe better end result... will post
grub-(~)2.02_beta2-r6... ended in failure as posted.
grub-2.02_beta2-r ended in the same errors and failure
Now trying
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes:
On Sat, 13 December 2014, at 9:58 pm, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
can't open file ./unifont.pcf, index 0: error 2: unknown file format
Top hit when googling this message is the GRUB bugs database, which links to
b.g.o.
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Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes:
Now we'll see how it goes. ... more later...
Installing unifont was no help at all:
emerge -v grub:
[...]
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale (C).
i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -o build-grub-mkfont
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes:
Installing unifont was no help at all:
I am able to install the older grub
grub-0.97-r14 installed without issue.
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