Re: Fedora online doc utility

2012-05-15 Thread Tom H
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > I don't really care who's right and who's wrong, but website design is > off-topic for test@. Please take it to the websites list. Sorry, but I didn't and don't think that insulting a design team, any design team, like that should go un

Re: Fedora online doc utility

2012-05-15 Thread Tom H
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Felix Miata wrote: > > Again, _design_ is here orthogonal to HTML, and as web surfer providing no > citations to back up your opinion or contradict my statements, yours is pure > useless opinion. Pretty != well-designed. Pretty != usable. Pretty != > accessible. Pr

Re: Fedora online doc utility

2012-05-10 Thread Tom H
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 4:55 AM, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2012/05/09 13:25 (GMT-0400) Tom H composed: >> Felix Miata  wrote: > >>>  4-I filed a bug (still unfixed) 19 months ago about this: >>>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638726 Like most of the w

Re: obsolete http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda_Boot_Options

2012-05-09 Thread Tom H
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 13:31:42 -0400, >  Tom H wrote: >> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: >>> On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 08:19:46 -0400, >>>  Tom H wrote: >>>> >>

Re: obsolete http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda_Boot_Options

2012-05-09 Thread Tom H
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 08:19:46 -0400, >  Tom H wrote: >> >> Why do have both "enforcing=0" and "selinux=0"? > > Because they are different. enforcing=0 will run selinux in permissive >

Re: Fedora online doc utility (was: obsolete http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda_Boot_Options)

2012-05-09 Thread Tom H
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2012/05/09 13:32 (GMT+0100) Frank Murphy composed: > >> Is there some reason Fedora BFO won't suit? >> https://boot.fedoraproject.org/faq > > Thanks (I think, separate on-topic response to follow)! I never knew it > existed. Several things ab

Re: obsolete http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda_Boot_Options

2012-05-09 Thread Tom H
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 5:13 AM, Felix Miata wrote: > > kernel (hd0,6)/f17inst/vmlinuz > repo=http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/fedora/development/17/i386/os > ip=192.168.1.2 gateway=192.168.1.1 netmask=255.255.255.0 dns=192.168.1.1 > rd.luks=0 rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 splash=verbose noipv6 enforcing=0 selinux=0

Re: F17: Firewall disable/stop

2012-05-06 Thread Tom H
On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 2:24 AM, antonio montagnani wrote: > Ed Greshko ha scritto / said the following    il giorno/on 06/05/2012 07:55: >> On 05/06/2012 01:46 PM, antonio montagnani wrote: >>> >>> I have 3 different F17, but only 1 fresh installation: I have installed >>> system-config 1.2.29-7.F

Re: F17: Firewall disable/stop

2012-05-06 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 6:55 PM, antonio montagnani wrote: > > how do I disable/stop the firewall in a F-17 fresh installation??? If firewalld is active, "systemctl stop firewalld.service". If iptables is active, "systemctl stop iptables.service". -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.or

Re: OT: Sabotage was Re: GIMP 2.8

2012-05-01 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:15 AM, stan wrote: > On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:21:08 -0400 > Tom Horsley wrote: >> On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:26:39 +0200 >> Karel Volný wrote: >> >> > I hope there doesn't exist one more step before like "in previous >> > iteration, users were bad to us, so let's break some f

Re: PXE boot in F17 has changed considerably?

2012-04-28 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Mark Zhitomirski wrote: > > I've got used to installing Fedora 15/16 via PXE by simply putting/modifying > a couple of lines in pxelinux.cfg/default like these: > > LABEL Fedora16 >    MENU LABEL Install Fedora 16 x86-64 >    KERNEL fedora16x64/vmlinuz >    initrd

Re: Karma needed for builds intended for TC1

2012-04-25 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 5:31 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 20:12 -0700, John Reiser wrote: >> >> EFI booting that DVD to update an existing Fedora 17 Beta x86_64 with >> EFI boot, and requesting "Do not change bootloader config", has left >> my system unbootable. > > That opti

Re: F17 > Rawhide grub2.cfg confusion

2012-04-24 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: > > The last F17 update > Gave a grub2.cfg entry similar to: > > Fedora Linux > Advanced options for Fedora Linux xxx > > I have since upgrade this vm to Rawhide\F18 (7 fc18 kernels) > Thought I can click on the above entry, which is listed at t

Re: F17 >> Rawhide...

2012-04-23 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Rob Healey wrote: > > Is rawhide usable once again?  I am tired of getting dracut shell > > Could anyone tell me if the issue causing the dracut shell has been > fixed or not yet??? > > I do not want to upgrade my computer if it is still worthless to do so? Wh

Re: Hey! Hard disk install of DVD iso works!

2012-04-19 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote: > On 04/19/2012 10:10 AM, Tom H wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Adam Williamson >>  wrote: >>> >>> If grub2 isn't designed to be chainloaded in that way, it isn't. Like I >>>

Re: Hey! Hard disk install of DVD iso works!

2012-04-19 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > If grub2 isn't designed to be chainloaded in that way, it isn't. Like I > said, I believe the answer is simply 'to chainload grub2 you load > core.img, rather than using the "chainloader" command'. Regarding the link that you posted earl

Re: grubby vs. grub2-mkconfig

2012-04-17 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:49:46 +0200 (CEST) Adam Pribyl wrote: >> >> The only reason I know is, that "people tend to modify grub.cfg manually", >> but with grub2 this is plain wrong anyway. Why do we support this messy >> setup then? > > Because

Re: RC4 and NFS

2012-02-24 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 8:41 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: > On 02/23/2012 08:50 PM, Tom H wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 4:55 AM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R >>  wrote: >>> >>> Here is the relevant /etc/exports entry in my server: >>

Re: RC4 and NFS

2012-02-23 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 4:55 AM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: > > Here is the relevant /etc/exports entry in my server: > /  192.168.1.1/255.255.255.0(rw,async) > > Here is the screen capture from RC4 64 bit Xfce session: > [root@omen3 /]# mount 192.168.1.13:/ /o > mount.nfs: No such device

Re: Grub2 mkconfig

2012-02-23 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Timothy Davis wrote: > > It's not the recovery mode entry that bothers me, but the fact that for > all of the kernels in my boot parttion gets assigned to F17 or what > every the last distro installed. Maybe the mkconfig program isn't samrt > enought or maybe I sh

Re: Grub2 mkconfig

2012-02-22 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Timothy Davis wrote: > > Once again grub2 has installed dozens (at least 20) different entries in my > boot menu. I understand that Fedora is bleeding edge and not for the feint > of heart > > I accept that and have no problem tweaking anything. But come on now! I

Re: NumLock won't turn off in rawhide

2012-02-20 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote: > > How do I get the numlock the turn off?  (please don't tell me to press the > NumLock key!!  It doesn't work in rawhide right now. :-) ) > > I tried numlockx off, but no effect. I installed F17 (F17 Desktop Live CD) and Rawhide (F16 Desk

Re: f 17 netinst.iso in virtualbox 4.1.8

2012-02-07 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Andre Robatino wrote: > Andre Robatino fedoraproject.org> writes: > > BTW, you mentioned in another message that you thought the reason you couldn't > build the guest additions was a "missing" symlink in /usr/src. I never had > that > symlink, but the guest addit

Re: Follow-up on usrmove and ldconfig

2012-02-02 Thread Tom H
dracut-014-81.git20120202.fc17 has fixed the problem for me and for another reporter. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: Follow-up on usrmove and ldconfig

2012-02-02 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 20:26 -0500, Tom H wrote: >> [root@localhost ~]# mv /etc/ld.so.conf.d/usrmove.conf . >> [root@localhost ~]# ldconfig >> [root@localhost ~]# ldconfig -p | wc -l >> 825 >> [root@localhos

Follow-up on usrmove and ldconfig

2012-02-01 Thread Tom H
[root@localhost ~]# mv /etc/ld.so.conf.d/usrmove.conf . [root@localhost ~]# ldconfig [root@localhost ~]# ldconfig -p | wc -l 825 [root@localhost ~]# ldconfig -p | grep usr | wc -l 11 [root@localhost ~]# mv usrmove.conf /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ [root@localhost ~]# ldconfig [root@localhost ~]# ldconfig -p

Re: Fedora 17’s unified filesystem (/usr-move)

2012-02-01 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 18:04 -0500, Tom H wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: >> > On Fri, 2012-01-27 at 14:10 +0100, Harald Hoyer wrote: >> >> >> >> Fedora 17 will

Re: Fedora 17’s unified filesystem (/usr-move)

2012-02-01 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Fri, 2012-01-27 at 14:10 +0100, Harald Hoyer wrote: >> >> Fedora 17 will locate the entire base operating system in /usr. The >> directories >> /bin, /sbin, /lib, /lib64 will only be symlinks: >>  /bin → /usr/bin >>  /sbin → /usr/sbin >

Re: usrmove problem

2012-01-31 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 09:26 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: >> On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 10:44 -0500, Tom H wrote: >> >> > >> Also, the problem is in your initramfs, not the kernel itself. >> > >>

Re: usrmove problem

2012-01-31 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 10:44 -0500, Tom H wrote: > >> >> Also, the problem is in your initramfs, not the kernel itself. >> >> >> >> Harald? >> > >> > I was about to follow up.

Re: usrmove problem

2012-01-31 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Josh Boyer wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 3:47 AM, Tom H wrote: >>> >>> I noticed late Sunday night that I was booting after the usrmove >>> procedure from a pre-usrmove

Re: usrmove problem

2012-01-31 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 3:47 AM, Tom H wrote: >> >> I noticed late Sunday night that I was booting after the usrmove >> procedure from a pre-usrmove kernel. When I tried to boot from a >> kernel updated from the f17-

usrmove problem

2012-01-31 Thread Tom H
I noticed late Sunday night that I was booting after the usrmove procedure from a pre-usrmove kernel. When I tried to boot from a kernel updated from the f17-usrmove repository (3.3.0-0.git4.1.fc17), I got: "/bin/sh: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file:

Re: Fedora 17’s unified filesystem (/usr-move)

2012-01-28 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: > On 28/01/12 02:22, Adam Williamson wrote: >> >> suggest we want at least: >> >> * two or three successful tests of the yum process with an existing >> Rawhide install > > I have updated an Rawhide to /usr no problems. +1 -- test mailing lis

Re: F17 Alpha 'TC1' note

2012-01-23 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Sat, 2012-01-21 at 14:00 -0500, Tom H wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 12:11 PM, John Watzke wrote: >>> >>> Actually neither image seems bootable right now (at least not through a >>> VM) so the ma

Re: F17 Alpha 'TC1' note

2012-01-21 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 12:11 PM, John Watzke wrote: > > Actually neither image seems bootable right now (at least not through a > VM) so the matrix might be overkill :-). +1 :( -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/tes

Re: Mass rebuild downgrades

2012-01-21 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > The following is yum distro-sync output pointing out the packages with this > issue that I have installed. > > Downgrading: >  ConsoleKit                  i686        0.4.3-5.fc17        rawhide       85 > k >  ConsoleKit-libs          

Re: gfxmode Grub2 F17\Rawhide

2011-12-22 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: > > How do I set gfxmode=1400x900 (or 1024x768) > Looked at /etc/grub.d/00header > > But am uncertain > set gfxpayload=keep in /etc/grub2.ccfg > is segfaulting out, > unless commented out. > > qemu-kvm virt boxes. "GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX" in "/e

Re: Release criteria proposal: 'support' /boot on RAID

2011-11-16 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:53:17 -0800 > Adam Williamson wrote: > >> On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 10:29 -0600, David Lehman wrote: >> > On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 09:42 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: >> > > On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 21:42:40 -0600, >> > >   Chri

Re: Release criteria proposal: 'support' /boot on RAID

2011-11-16 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Adam Williamson wrote: >> >> Any thoughts, modifications, objections? Thanks! > > Looks good. AFAIK, and I'm sure you're aware, booting off RAID is broken > with Fedora 16. > > I used to have systems with /boot on RAID-1 but switched wh

Re: bash filename completion buggy in F16?

2011-10-23 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 5:13 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:52:06 -0600, EB (Eric) wrote: > >> Meanwhile, feel free to file a bug report against bash-completion that >> it is not doing the right smart completions on firefox.  After all, >> bash-completion is an active project

Re: bash filename completion buggy in F16?

2011-10-20 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Joachim Backes wrote: > > I opened a BZ (682785) concerning the described problems, and it was > rejected as "no bug" (obviously the completion works not independent > from the leading command, for example if the cmd is firefox, as in my > case, it's not expected t

Re: OK, how do you really update the grub2 config file?

2011-10-10 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:28:45 -0400 Tom H wrote: > >> Anaconda seems to run grub2-mkconfig, whereas new kernels run grubby - >> and they have different menu entry formats. >> > And does grubby pay attention to change

Re: OK, how do you really update the grub2 config file?

2011-10-10 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > > The comment in /boot/grub2/grub.cfg says it was generated > by grub2-mkconfig, but if you run grub2-mkconfig, you > get a file radically different than the one just created > by (for instance) installing a new kernel. > > Could the comment per

Re: grub2 confusion

2011-10-06 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 16:40 -0400, Tom H wrote: > >> I use "vi /etc/grub2.cfg", which is perfectly reasonable and useful, >> and is the same as using "vi /etc/grub.conf" previously. > > except th

Re: grub2 confusion

2011-10-06 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 14:44:09 -0400, TH (Tom) wrote: >>> >>> So, more symlink madness. /etc/grub2.cfg -> /boot/grub2/grub.cfg >>> and it doesn't even work flawlessly: >> >> This is like the grub1 "/etc/grub.conf" symlink; faster access to the

Re: grub2 confusion

2011-10-06 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > So, more symlink madness. /etc/grub2.cfg -> /boot/grub2/grub.cfg > and it doesn't even work flawlessly: This is like the grub1 "/etc/grub.conf" symlink; faster access to the grub configuration and grub configuration accessible under "/e

Re: grub2 confusion

2011-10-06 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > $ cat /etc/grub.d/41_custom > #!/bin/sh > cat < if [ -f  \$prefix/custom.cfg ]; then >  source \$prefix/custom.cfg; > fi > EOF > > If I didn't want to append stuff to that file, what might > $prefix expand to? Very likely it is not /usr:

Re: dual boot with Ubuntu 11.10 and FC16?

2011-10-04 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 3:38 AM, Rob Healey wrote: > > First of all, thank you for whatever information/ help that anyone can give > to me! > > I would like to know before I crash and dump my system, I know there were > some problems with this before? > > I would like to install Ubuntu 11.10 within

Re: grub2 menu entry for Fedora 16 is not nice

2011-09-18 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Peter Gueckel wrote: > > Why does the grub2 menu entry list Fedora like this: > > Linux, with Linux 3.1.0-0.rc6.git0.3.fc16.x86_64? > Instead of like this: > Fedora 16, with Linux 3.1.0-0.rc6.git0.3.fc16.x86_64? If you set "GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=Fedora" in "/etc/defau

Re: preventing os-prober from looking for other installations

2011-09-16 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote: > > How do we prevent os-prober from looking for installed distros other > that the one currently booted when we do: > > grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg Add "GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=true" to "/etc/default/grub" before running "grub2-mk

Re: Pre-BetaTC2 Installer Testing

2011-09-12 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote: > On 09/08/2011 06:16 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: >> On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 17:28 -0400, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote: >>> On 09/08/2011 01:57 PM, Tim Flink wrote: Who's ready for some pre-betaTC2 installer testing fun? I built a custo

Re: F16: After update to grub2-1.99-1.fc16.x86_64 cannot boot

2011-09-02 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 4:45 AM, Joachim Backes wrote: > > After having updated to grub2-1.99-1.fc16.x86_64, grub2 refuses to boot > (file not found). Getting rid from this by re-installing the bootloader to > /dev/sda. > > Anybody has the same issue? Yes. Just happened to me. "/boot/grub2/" is a

Re: Draft 'install alongside Windows' test case

2011-09-01 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 10:10 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 8:08 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: >> > >> > Hey, folks. I just threw together a quick draft of an 'install alongside >> > Win

Re: Draft 'install alongside Windows' test case

2011-09-01 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 8:08 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > Hey, folks. I just threw together a quick draft of an 'install alongside > Windows' test case - we have this as a final criterion, but no test case > for it as of yet. Here's the draft: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adamwill/Dra

Re: F16 Grub2 not including windows

2011-09-01 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:07 AM, David Lehman wrote: > On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 07:39 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> On 08/26/2011 10:01 PM, David Lehman wrote: >> > >> > We added code to automatically generate entries using os-prober, but >> > apparently os-prober is not available if you install f

Re: Karma for pykickstart, lorax and anaconda

2011-08-30 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: > On 08/30/2011 02:56 PM, Tim Flink wrote: >> >> As we're getting ready for the F16 Beta TC1, we need some karma to get >> required updates into stable. > > Anyone know how to create a "bootloader stage1 target device" via kickstart? Do you

Re: grub2 and kernel-PAE with Fedora 16α {solved}

2011-08-29 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Peter G. wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> I wasn't implying that you had. > > I never got the impression that you were implying that I had changed the file > :-) OK. > I thought you were stating that I _must_ change the file to get the

Re: grub2 and kernel-PAE with Fedora 16α {solved}

2011-08-28 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Peter G. wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> >> (unless you change that default behavior in "/etc/default/grub") > > I didn't make any changes. I wasn't implying that you had. I was only pointing out that some people - like me -

Re: grub2 and kernel-PAE with Fedora 16α

2011-08-28 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 1:46 AM, Peter G. wrote: > > I installed (rpm -ivh) kernel-PAE on a Fedora 16α system. > I changed /etc/sysconfig/kernel: DEFAULTKERNEL=kernel-PAE > > The new kernel-PAE shows up in grub.cfg, but some things are not quite how > they > should be: > - the menu entry for ke

Re: F16 Alpha GRUB install failure

2011-08-27 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 07:50:39 -0400, TH (Tom) wrote: >> > On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:47:15 -0400, TH (Tom) wrote: >> > >> >> > # grub2-install --grub-setup=/bin/true '(hd0,3)' >> >> > Installation finished. No error reported. >> >> >> >> AFAIK

Re: Adding Fedora15 to F16alpha grub2 menu {solved}

2011-08-27 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Scott Robbins wrote: > On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:12:13PM -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Scott Robbins wrote: >> > >> > I now have my own, very small page, which is Fedora centric at >> > present...

Re: F16 Alpha GRUB install failure

2011-08-27 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:47:15 -0400, TH (Tom) wrote: > >> > # grub2-install --grub-setup=/bin/true '(hd0,3)' >> > Installation finished. No error reported. >> >> AFAIK, this won't be bootable, unless grub-install has run >> successfully be

Re: grub2 weirdness

2011-08-26 Thread Tom H
> When I boot my computer, it shows the list of kernels that are installed > and could be used... I take the default of kernel-3.1.0-rc3.git0.0.fc17. x86_64! Grub2 tells me that I am booting from kernel-3.0.1-3.fc16.x86_64 ... I am just curious as of why the discr

Re: Adding Fedora15 to F16alpha grub2 menu {solved}

2011-08-26 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Scott Robbins wrote: > On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 09:33:59AM -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Scott Robbins wrote: >> > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 11:47:18PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: >> >> >> >> In

Re: F16 Grub2 not including windows

2011-08-26 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Mike Chambers wrote: > > Up until F16 (and it *might* have done it once during the early alpha > testing stages), windows has been detected and included in grub during > install.  But the last few installs haven't included it and not included > on my current insta

Re: F16 Alpha GRUB install failure

2011-08-26 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 17:18:56 +0200, me wrote: > >> Doesn't work for me. > > # grub2-install --grub-setup=/bin/true /dev/sda3 > Installation finished. No error reported. > > # grub2-install --grub-setup=/bin/true '(hd0,3)' > Installation f

Re: Adding Fedora15 to F16alpha grub2 menu {solved}

2011-08-26 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Scott Robbins wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 11:47:18PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: >> >> In my defence, I don't run Ubuntu or anything evil like that. I just >> cargo-cult things I vaguely remember from Google searches. That's much >> better, right? > > We'd f

Re: grub2 weirdness

2011-08-26 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:05 AM, Andre Robatino wrote: > Tom H gmail.com> writes: >> >> That must be the result of grubby duplicating a menuentry stanza when >> a new kernel's installed because the stanzas have "echo ..." >> statements that are pro

Re: Adding Fedora15 to F16alpha grub2 menu {solved}

2011-08-26 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 2:47 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 21:27 -0400, Scott Robbins wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 07:05:55PM -0600, Peter G.  wrote: >> > Adam Williamson wrote: >> > >> > > did you run 'update_grub'? >> > >> > no I didn't. first I heard of it. that might

Re: grub2 weirdness

2011-08-26 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 3:55 AM, Andre Robatino wrote: > Rob Healey gmail.com> writes: > >> When I boot my computer, it shows the list of kernels that are installed and > could be used...  I take the default of kernel-3.1.0-rc3.git0.0.fc17.x86_64! >  Grub2 tells me that I am booting from kernel-3

Re: Adding Fedora15 to F16alpha grub2 menu {solved}

2011-08-25 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > >> I have installed F16α and with it grub2 to the MBR of /dev/sda. I am >> experimenting happily with F16, but I am unable to add F15 to the >> grub2 boot menu. >> >> I have edited /etc/grub.d/40_custom an

Re: Adding Fedora15 to F16alpha grub2 menu

2011-08-25 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > Tom H wrote: >>> >>> In the old grub, you had to explicitly state /boot. >>> >>> In the old grub.conf it even states: >>> >>> "all kernel and initrd paths are relative to

Re: Adding Fedora15 to F16alpha grub2 menu

2011-08-25 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > > So if, for example, (hd0,0) is the grub name for > a dedicated /boot partition, then the file names > you use would be relative to /boot (just say /initramfs...) > > On the othr hand if (hd0,2) is the grub name for > the "/" root partition, a

Re: F16 Update Kernels fail to boot

2011-08-25 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote: > On 08/25/2011 04:11 AM, Tom H wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Orion Poplawski  wrote: >>> >>> Is there a way to workaround this in a kickstart file (other than running >>> grub2-instal

Re: Adding Fedora15 to F16alpha grub2 menu

2011-08-25 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > Clyde E. Kunkel wrote: > >> As far as I know, everything is relative to /boot.  No change from old >> grub. > > In the old grub, you had to explicitly state /boot. > > In the old grub.conf it even states: > > "all kernel and initrd pa

Re: F16 Update Kernels fail to boot

2011-08-25 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: > On 08/24/2011 04:31 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: >> >> The fact that GRUB 2 by default won't install to a partition, and will >> only do it if you use --force, is known. It's why anaconda can't install >> the bootloader to a partition in Alph

Re: F16 Update Kernels fail to boot

2011-08-24 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Andy Lawrence wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: >> On 08/23/2011 06:49 PM, Andy Lawrence wrote: >>> >>> According to this: >>> >>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Grub2 >>> >>> grub2 is used by default with F16, so I'm gonna guess tha

Install onto a single MDRAID RAID1 partition

2011-08-19 Thread Tom H
The installation of grub2 fails, even Anaconda reports it as having succeeded, and you end up at an unusable (AFAIK because only the two disks are detected, the partitions and the array aren't detected) "grub rescue" prompt when you reboot. Bug filed: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=73

Re: Oh YES! grub2 FINALLY

2011-08-19 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 3:19 PM, cornel panceac wrote: > 2011/8/19 cornel panceac >> >> anybody knows how to add more operating systems to grub2 , in fedora 16? >> > never mind, i've added the answer to: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Grub2 You have to set "GRUB_DEFAULT=saved" in "/etc/defau

Re: Kickstart and grub2

2011-08-18 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Chris Lumens wrote: >> >> OT for this thread but for the record regarding kickstart >> documentation: the "part biosboot --fstype=biosboot --size=1" >> kickstart entry to create a bios_grub partition on a GPT disk isn't >> yet documented on the kickstart fp.o page.

Re: Kickstart and grub2

2011-08-18 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Chris Lumens wrote: >> >> Are there any new grub2-related kickstart settings for the bootloader >> line in kickstart? > > No, there have been no changes to the bootloader command for grub2. > Should there be? Using "vga=..." throws up a warning at boot that it's d

Re: Oh YES! grub2 FINALLY

2011-08-17 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > > No small problem with Grub2 is that few but Grub devs know how to configure > it. Grub2 documentation is among the worst of the bad, virtually > non-existent, particularly in a form those who need it most can comprehend, > e.g. multibooters,

Re: Oh YES! grub2 FINALLY

2011-08-17 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Karel Volný wrote: >> >> - last time I checked, the website with the docs was down, and it >> lasted for at least a week, then I gave up (maybe it is online >> now?) > > http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/ I suspect that Karel wa

Re: Kickstart and grub2

2011-08-17 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Michal Jaegermann wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 05:48:51AM +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: >> >> VGA= is not a kickstart setting it's an kernel command line parameter >> and with grub2 you need to use "set gfxpayload=$your-desired-resolution" >> instead.

Re: Kickstart and grub2

2011-08-17 Thread Tom H
2011/8/17 "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" : > On 08/16/2011 11:25 PM, Tom H wrote: >> >> Are there any new grub2-related kickstart settings for the bootloader >> line in kickstart? > > VGA= is not a kickstart setting it's an kernel command line parameter and &g

Kickstart and grub2

2011-08-16 Thread Tom H
Are there any new grub2-related kickstart settings for the bootloader line in kickstart? For example, I installed F16 through kickstart yesterday with "vga=794", which adds it to the "linux ..." line. I get correct resolution but I also get a boot message that using "vga=..." is deprecated and tha

Re: Oh No! Not grub2?!?

2011-08-16 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > > I noticed to my horror in another thread today that > fedora 16 is going to switch to grub2. > > I hope it is packaged and updated totally differently > from the version in ubuntu, because the ubuntu > version is a nightmare. > > Do we still