On Sun, 18 May 2008 15:16:27 -0400
"Bob King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> One thing I have found can work is that when the system is first booted
> (before I log on) I hit Ctrl-Alt-F1 and log in as root and restart the
> wpa_supplicant.
>
> That usually allows me to log in and have NM connect on
On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:43:42 -0400 (EDT)
"John Abreau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What always drove me nuts about NetworkManager was that when I disabled
> it, it wouldn't stay disabled. It would fail to set up the network,
> I'd shut it off and configure my network settings by hand, and
> every
On Thu, April 24, 2008 11:19 am, Ben Scott said:
>> ... NetworkManager ...
>
> NetworkManager is a crock. It happens to work sometimes, maybe even
> a lot of the time, but it's still a crock. NM either works
> automagically, or it mysteriously fails. When it works, great. When
> it fails, t
On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:19:15 -0400
"Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> NetworkManager is a crock. It happens to work sometimes, maybe even
> a lot of the time, but it's still a crock. NM either works
> automagically, or it mysteriously fails. When it works, great. When
> it fails, there's
On 4/24/08, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > For instance, dynamic reconfiguration of X.org ...
> X is kinda rough. I take it the idea of trying to use the
> run-without-a-full-config-file/always-probe-the-video-
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For instance, dynamic reconfiguration of X.org ...
X is kinda rough. I take it the idea of trying to use the
run-without-a-full-config-file/always-probe-the-video-card strategy
never worked?
> ... NetworkManager ...
On 4/21/08, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Windows NT (2000/XP/...) work a lot more like GRUB. The NTLDR file
> is kind of like GRUB's stage2. I'm not sure how the MBR boot block
> gets around to loading it.
The MBR block loads based on an offset from the start of the
partition, loadi
"Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 1:26 AM, Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> initrd needed new drivers ...
>
> Yah, "rebuild your initrd's ahead of time" is a good thing to know
> ahead of time. :-/
Heh, reminds me of the old saying:
Good judgemen
Warning: Giant message ahead. If you're of the "TL;DR" persuasion,
hit delete now! :-)
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I thought those were similar enough that grub would be copacetic ...
I would have thought so, too. :(
> So, I'm not even su
On Apr 20, 2008, at 03:01, John Abreau wrote:
> The way you describe it makes it sound like you had significant
> effort and downtime to get this to work. Was it really much less
> than a reinstall/reconfig would have taken?
In this case it was a matter of certainty - one of the systems had a
On Apr 19, 2008, at 23:05, Ben Scott wrote:
> I'm a little confused about what you mean here.
I am as well. :P
> The GRUB shell (the
> GRUB work-a-like that runs under Linux) probes to figure out which
> Linux kernel devices correspond to which BIOS devices, so that you can
> type "root (hd0
The way you describe it makes it sound like you had significant
effort and downtime to get this to work. Was it really much less
than a reinstall/reconfig would have taken?
On Sat, April 19, 2008 1:26 am, Bill McGonigle said:
> Wow, so today was a weird day - I wound up moving three servers onto
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 11:05 PM, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When installing Ubuntu, the flash device will be seen as the second
> BIOS fixed disk (in GRUB terms, "(hd0)") ...
Argh, no, (hd1) is the second BIOS fixed disk. See what I mean
about keeping it all straight?
-- Ben
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On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 1:26 AM, Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> initrd needed new drivers ...
Yah, "rebuild your initrd's ahead of time" is a good thing to know
ahead of time. :-/
> modprobe.conf's needed to be updated to make that happen
Really? I haven't done this in awhile
Wow, so today was a weird day - I wound up moving three servers onto
different hardware, and their configuration was complex enough and
the downtime requirements were tight enough and the budget small
enough that a re-install and re-configure wasn't in the mix - so it
was a 'move the hard d
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