Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install a new system

2021-04-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 11 April 2021 12:02:27 BST Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 6:33 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I think I must have had a bad stage tarball. At any rate, that problem > > doesn't occur now. > > Possible, though it seems more likely that it was a bad repo that you > synced.

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install a new system

2021-04-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 8 April 2021 16:47:05 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 08 Apr 2021 13:27:51 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Untarring the latest stage-3 onto /mnt/gentoo, /mnt/gentoo/var and /mnt/ > > gentoo/usr/local gets me started. Then I chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash, > > and that works too.

[gentoo-user] motherboard BIOS vs CPU microcode

2021-04-12 Thread Adam Carter
Do these largely overlap? So if your motherboard manufacturer is diligent with releasing updates and you've applied them, you generally won't expect a 'microcode updated early to new patch_level' message from dmesg?

Re: [gentoo-user] motherboard BIOS vs CPU microcode

2021-04-12 Thread Michael
On Monday, 12 April 2021 11:56:40 BST Adam Carter wrote: > Do these largely overlap? Yes. > So if your motherboard manufacturer is diligent with releasing updates and > you've applied them, you generally won't expect a 'microcode updated early > to new patch_level' message from dmesg? >From