[gentoo-user] Big USB disks

2020-12-22 Thread Peter Humphrey
Greetings, Just a quickie - is there a way to enable a machine built on an MSDOS BIOS to recognise a partition on a 4TB external disk? I think I know the answer already, but just in case... -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Big USB disks

2020-12-22 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 7:58 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Just a quickie - is there a way to enable a machine built on an MSDOS BIOS to > recognise a partition on a 4TB external disk? I think I know the answer > already, but just in case... I suspect most newer firmwares are fine with it (even

Re: [gentoo-user] Big USB disks

2020-12-22 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 11:36 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I wondered about that. I'm nervous, though, because this is my ultimate backup > disk, and of course I don't want to endanger it. This disk is an external USB > unit, not for booting from. > Oh, if you aren't booting from it then I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] sci-electronics/ngspice-27-r1 missing tcl

2020-12-22 Thread David M. Fellows
>Neil Bothwick: >> On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 18:30:47 +0100 (CET), k...@aspodata.se wrote: >> >> > What can I do to make ./configure below use the suggested option ? >> > >> > sci-electronics/ngspice-27-r1's build log contains: >> > >> > checking for tclConfig.sh... >> > can't find Tcl

Re: [gentoo-user] Big USB disks

2020-12-22 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 22 December 2020 15:32:27 GMT Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 7:58 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Just a quickie - is there a way to enable a machine built on an MSDOS BIOS > > to recognise a partition on a 4TB external disk? I think I know the > > answer already, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Big USB disks

2020-12-22 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 22 December 2020 16:48:26 GMT Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 11:36 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I wondered about that. I'm nervous, though, because this is my ultimate > > backup disk, and of course I don't want to endanger it. This disk is an > > external USB unit,

Re: [gentoo-user] sci-electronics/ngspice-27-r1 missing tcl

2020-12-22 Thread karl
DaveF: > >Neil Bothwick: > >> On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 18:30:47 +0100 (CET), k...@aspodata.se wrote: > >> > What can I do to make ./configure below use the suggested option ? > >> > sci-electronics/ngspice-27-r1's build log contains: ... > >> > Should you add --with-tcl=/usr/lib64 to ./configure .. >

[gentoo-user] Is a USB-key-to-hard-drive-tap-dance-boot possible?

2020-12-22 Thread Walter Dnes
Situation; I have a Dell XPS8940 with that abomination known as UEFI, and no "legacy boot". UEFI claims there are no bootable partitions on the hard drive (/dev/sda). Yet it will automatically boot up properly from a USB key (/dev/sdb) with Gentoo minimal install. Question; is it possible to

[gentoo-user] Re: Is a USB-key-to-hard-drive-tap-dance-boot possible?

2020-12-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-12-23, Walter Dnes wrote: > Situation; I have a Dell XPS8940 with that abomination known as > UEFI, and no "legacy boot". UEFI claims there are no bootable > partitions on the hard drive (/dev/sda). Yet it will automatically > boot up properly from a USB key (/dev/sdb) with Gentoo

[gentoo-user] ERROR: asterisk failed to start

2020-12-22 Thread thelma
This is new asterisk (-13.36.0) installation when I try to start it, I get an error: * Caching service dependencies ... [ ok ] * Starting asterisk PBX ... * Max open filedescriptors : 4096 * Starting asterisk as :

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is a USB-key-to-hard-drive-tap-dance-boot possible?

2020-12-22 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 04:16:46AM -, Grant Edwards wrote > Does the UEFI BIOS recognize that /dev/sda1 exists, but just isn't > bootable? If yes, then it should be possible to install Grub on a USB > key and boot a kernel on /dev/sda1. It might be simpler to just put > the kernel and initrd