[GTALUG] Online Course for Lex/Yacc?

Every now and then, I come across situation where an ideal solution would have been a custom parser/interpreter, either to parse data format or to write my own sets of commands. In each case, I don't know enough to write it (I'm not Comp Sci) or don't have time. So, I end up resorting to shell, a

Re: [GTALUG] Boot setup issues

TL;DR: lots of history, some explanation of why things are done certain ways. | From: o1bigtenor via talk | OK - - - good to know. For many years it was | /boot, Covered well by Lennart. This first came up for me with UNIX System V release 2 on a PC. The boot loader only understood a a speci

Re: [GTALUG] Boot setup issues

On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 3:06 PM, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 02:53:06PM +, D. Joe via talk wrote: >> To the best of my understanding, these tools are built with the assumption >> that one wants to run just the OS that invokes them. >> >> Although the Debian wiki

Re: [GTALUG] Boot setup issues

On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 02:53:06PM +, D. Joe via talk wrote: > To the best of my understanding, these tools are built with the assumption > that one wants to run just the OS that invokes them. > > Although the Debian wiki has some hints > > https://wiki.debian.org/Grub > > this seems to be

Re: [GTALUG] Boot setup issues

On 14/09/18 10:22, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > So I've installed both of these systems (more than once each) they > have their own partitions for everything but boot and efi yet I'm only > seeing one system available on grub (depending upon the last install > as to which). So I'm doing something w

Re: [GTALUG] Boot setup issues

On a test machine I had installed Debian Enlightenment. first, and then Manjaro second. Manjaro screwed up the booting. I repeatedly used the Ubuntu Boot Repair disk to get me unstuck. The Boot Repair disk is Linux agnostic. Don On Fri, 14 Sep 2018 at 12:24, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > On Fri,

Re: [GTALUG] Boot setup issues

On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 9:53 AM, D. Joe via talk wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 09:22:20AM -0500, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: >> Greetings >> >> I want to have two different copies of debian on one box with the >> choice of which when I boot in. > > [...] > >> So I've installed both of these syst

Re: [GTALUG] Boot setup issues

On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 09:22:20AM -0500, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > Greetings > > I want to have two different copies of debian on one box with the > choice of which when I boot in. [...] > So I've installed both of these systems (more than once each) they > have their own partitions for ever

Re: [GTALUG] Last Ubuntu OS Update Breaks ffmpeg

On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 08:15:57AM -0400, Stephen via talk wrote: > And help and/or advise appreciated. > > I am using 18.4 and apply all updates. > > I have been using ffmpeg for many years to convert file formats. I am now > getting errors that have me confused. Here is the command line: > > f

Re: [GTALUG] Boot setup issues

Have you tried the Ubuntu Boot Repair disk? That usually works for me. On Fri, 14 Sep 2018 at 10:22, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > Greetings > > I have had it working before but I can't seem to get things right this > time. > > I want to have two different copies of debian on one box with the > c

[GTALUG] Boot setup issues

Greetings I have had it working before but I can't seem to get things right this time. I want to have two different copies of debian on one box with the choice of which when I boot in. Wanting to have available both debian stable (9.5 at present) and debian testing (10). This is so I can experime

Re: [GTALUG] Last Ubuntu OS Update Breaks ffmpeg

I have no particular knowledge of this, but I'll take a whack at it. What is libGL? Read this: It looks as if ffmpeg is trying to use your graphics card to help with the conversion. libGL is unable to load a driver. Since one of the later choices appea