Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Home built PC w/ Win10 cannot get Ubuntu

2016-03-01 Thread jf
Quoting Ross Jordan : I do not have the exact error message. My fault, I did not note it down at first, and I should. Indeed, both internal hard disks were detected, and "fdisk -l" listed their partitions properly. As for re-ordering the disks, when In installed Windows first, on the "Dri

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Home built PC w/ Win10 cannot get Ubuntu

2016-03-01 Thread Ross Jordan
What was the error message? Was the disk detected? (dmesg | grep sda) Can you open the disk with fdisk and read it? Some BIOS may re-order drives when booting from an external drive. -Ross It would seem j...@messier.ca, on Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 10:12:49PM +, wrote: > Today, my son and I asse

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Home built PC w/ Win10 cannot get Ubuntu

2016-03-01 Thread Charles MacDonald
On 16-03-01 05:12 PM, j...@messier.ca wrote: Today, my son and I assembled a brand new PC, Reboot from the USB key, and try to manually run grub-install /dev/sda. Also get an error message. Anyone has an idea what I did wrong ? I set the motherboard to be in Legacy mode. This is a recent ASUS mo

[OCLUG-Tech] Home built PC w/ Win10 cannot get Ubuntu

2016-03-01 Thread jf
Today, my son and I assembled a brand new PC, with all the parts (March break activity). We then installed Windows 8.1 (that's what he wanted). Everything is fine. I went ahead with installing Ubuntu, booting the install from a USB key. I have two physical hard disks in the box. A first of ~32

[OCLUG-Tech] Update: March Meeting: 2016-03-03

2016-03-01 Thread Murphy Scott
Due to an unforeseen commitment, we will not be having the IPv6 talk this month and the “panic” bugs is actually pandoc bugs. Auto-correct is not your friend. Location: Woodroffe Campus, Algonquin College - Building T, Room T-303 This month we will be having at least three talks - scanning woes

[OCLUG-Tech] puzzled by something regarding labels in device tree source files

2016-03-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
a minor curiosity about labels in DTS files ... as an example, let's pick on some powerpc 8544-related files under arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl, and show some snippets: mpc8544ds.dts: = /include/ "mpc8544si-pre.dtsi"< irrelevant / { model = "MPC8544DS"; co