On Monday 27 Jan 2014 16:04:44 I wrote:
On Sunday 26 Jan 2014 21:42:54 Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Sunday 26 Jan 2014 21:28:55 I wrote:
On Sunday 26 Jan 2014 20:13:58 Neil Bothwick wrote:
Uncomment this line in /etc/default/grub
#GRUB_TERMINAL=console
Thanks, but I'm using a
I do. Why, does it have its own info reader? Personally I've never had to bite
the bullet and had to learn how to use info.
Regards
Peter
I tried to learn info and never did well, always lost my place and had to hit q
to get out.
Reading the info file as plain text worked better.
On 28/01/2014 13:38, Thomas Mueller wrote:
I do. Why, does it have its own info reader? Personally I've never had to
bite
the bullet and had to learn how to use info.
Regards
Peter
I tried to learn info and never did well, always lost my place and had to hit
q to get out.
On Tuesday 28 Jan 2014 14:26:43 Alan McKinnon wrote:
You could even go so far as to auto-convert all info pages yourself at
emerge time by hooking a custom script into portage's phase hooks. Then
view it locally in a browser; the info in info pages is actually very
good (far better than in
On 28/01/2014 14:54, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Tuesday 28 Jan 2014 14:26:43 Alan McKinnon wrote:
You could even go so far as to auto-convert all info pages yourself at
emerge time by hooking a custom script into portage's phase hooks. Then
view it locally in a browser; the info in info pages
On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 21:28:55 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
The variables you can set in here are documented in the info pages.
Also, and much easier to read, in an HTML file downloaded from the grub
site.
Not if you use KDE :P
--
Neil Bothwick
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On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 21:28:55 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Uncomment this line in /etc/default/grub
#GRUB_TERMINAL=console
Thanks, but I'm using a manually written grub.cfg, so I need to find
out what that definition translates to. I'm searching now...
Just run grob-mkconfig with and
On Monday 27 Jan 2014 09:38:32 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 21:28:55 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
The variables you can set in here are documented in the info pages.
Also, and much easier to read, in an HTML file downloaded from the grub
site.
Not if you use KDE :P
I do.
On Sunday 26 Jan 2014 21:42:54 Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Sunday 26 Jan 2014 21:28:55 I wrote:
On Sunday 26 Jan 2014 20:13:58 Neil Bothwick wrote:
Uncomment this line in /etc/default/grub
#GRUB_TERMINAL=console
Thanks, but I'm using a manually written grub.cfg, so I need to find
On 27/01/2014 18:00, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Monday 27 Jan 2014 09:38:32 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 21:28:55 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
The variables you can set in here are documented in the info pages.
Also, and much easier to read, in an HTML file downloaded from the grub
On Monday 27 Jan 2014 09:40:44 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 21:28:55 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Uncomment this line in /etc/default/grub
#GRUB_TERMINAL=console
Thanks, but I'm using a manually written grub.cfg, so I need to find
out what that definition translates
On Monday 27 Jan 2014 18:07:40 Alan McKinnon wrote:
On 27/01/2014 18:00, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Monday 27 Jan 2014 09:38:32 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 21:28:55 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
The variables you can set in here are documented in the info pages.
Also, and
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 4:42 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote:
On Sunday 26 Jan 2014 21:28:55 I wrote:
On Sunday 26 Jan 2014 20:13:58 Neil Bothwick wrote:
Uncomment this line in /etc/default/grub
#GRUB_TERMINAL=console
Thanks, but I'm using a manually written grub.cfg, so I
On 27/01/2014 18:19, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Monday 27 Jan 2014 18:07:40 Alan McKinnon wrote:
On 27/01/2014 18:00, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Monday 27 Jan 2014 09:38:32 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 21:28:55 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
The variables you can set in here are
On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 16:19:53 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Entering info:// as a URL in konqueror gives a page with all info ages
on the system listed.
info:/some_info_page opens that one directly
That explains it then. I can't remember the last time I used Konqueror
for anything.
On Sat, 25 Jan 2014 16:42:21 -0500, Mike Gilbert wrote:
I have heard good things about extlinux.
http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/EXTLINUX
Ah yes, the bootloader for people that hate reading docs. I battled with
syslinux n DVDs for quite a while, but ended up switching to using GRUB2
On Saturday 25 Jan 2014 12:22:27 Mike Gilbert wrote:
grub2 is able to load any font you like; you just need to convert it
to pf2 format using the grub-mkfont utility. You may need to enable
the truetype use flag to get that installed.
By default, it provides a font called unifont, which is
On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 20:08:49 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Yes, that does enable all the line-drawing characters to be displayed
properly; now all I need to do is make grub use the plain old 80x25
line display instead of the frame buffer.
Uncomment this line in /etc/default/grub
On Sunday 26 Jan 2014 20:13:58 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 20:08:49 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Yes, that does enable all the line-drawing characters to be displayed
properly; now all I need to do is make grub use the plain old 80x25
line display instead of the frame buffer.
On Sunday 26 Jan 2014 21:28:55 I wrote:
On Sunday 26 Jan 2014 20:13:58 Neil Bothwick wrote:
Uncomment this line in /etc/default/grub
#GRUB_TERMINAL=console
Thanks, but I'm using a manually written grub.cfg, so I need to find out
what that definition translates to. I'm searching now...
On 2014-01-25 7:18 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote:
I've been operating this way for years and maintained the kernel versions
manually. That was not a lot of work, with the help of some elementary bash-
ing and copypasting, and I don't want the flexibility of boot options thrown
Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote:
On 2014-01-25 7:18 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote:
I've been operating this way for years and maintained the kernel
versions
manually. That was not a lot of work, with the help of some
elementary bash-
ing and copypasting, and I don't
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 7:18 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote:
Any ideas anyone?
Here's a manually written grub.cfg that should do pretty much what
your old menu.lst did.
root=(hd0,msdos1)
timeout=10
default=0
fallback=3
color_normal=white/blue
color_highlight=black/light-gray
On Saturday 25 Jan 2014 10:42:52 Mike Gilbert wrote:
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 7:18 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk
wrote:
Any ideas anyone?
Here's a manually written grub.cfg that should do pretty much what
your old menu.lst did.
---8
Well, what a gent! I didn't mean to imply
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote:
On Saturday 25 Jan 2014 10:42:52 Mike Gilbert wrote:
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 7:18 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk
wrote:
Any ideas anyone?
Here's a manually written grub.cfg that should do pretty much
On Saturday 25 Jan 2014 17:22:27 Mike Gilbert wrote:
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk
wrote:
On Saturday 25 Jan 2014 10:42:52 Mike Gilbert wrote:
Maybe it'll become clear over time how to arrange the input to
grub2-mkconfig to achieve a similar
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
Perhaps I'm getting older or just bored with change, but is there an
alternative to grub2 that has the simplicity of grub-legacy, for more complex
than your average Ubuntu-like user requirements?
I have used grub2 on some
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