[gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-06 Thread Roger Mason
Hello all, I just built a new machine (celeron 3 GHz) using a script that builds the kernel using genkernel and a config that is copied from that of the kernel on the install cd. The latter was downloaded and burned from a very recent autobuild. The build process appears to complete

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-06 Thread Mick
On 6 May 2010 09:37, Roger Mason rma...@mun.ca wrote: Hello all, I just built a new machine (celeron 3 GHz) using a script that builds the kernel using genkernel and a config that is copied from that of the kernel on the install cd.  The latter was downloaded and burned from a very recent

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-06 Thread Roger Mason
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: On 6 May 2010 09:37, Roger Mason rma...@mun.ca wrote: Can anyone suggest how to debug this? When I get problems like this I usually run grub in a terminal and then use autocompletion to find out what grub sees: root (hd --tab it will list all

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 06 May 2010 10:08:42 -0230, Roger Mason wrote: I assume you mean to boot from the install CD then chroot into the new install and run grub from bash? Press c at the GRUB menu. -- Neil Bothwick The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten per cent of its capacity ... the rest is

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -e system - output info/errors to log

2010-05-06 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-04-18 2:05 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 13:37:40 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: Like I said, I have a bunch of *individual* logs (for individual ebuilds)... I was hoping for something a little easier to manage/read, all in one file... My preferred approach is to add mail to

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-06 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 06 May 2010 10:08:42 -0230, Roger Mason wrote: I assume you mean to boot from the install CD then chroot into the new install and run grub from bash? Press c at the GRUB menu. Did you mean press e ? Dale :-) :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-06 Thread Mick
On 6 May 2010 13:38, Roger Mason rma...@mun.ca wrote: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: On 6 May 2010 09:37, Roger Mason rma...@mun.ca wrote: Can anyone suggest how to debug this? When I get problems like this I usually run grub in a terminal and then use autocompletion to find out

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 06 May 2010 08:34:49 -0500, Dale wrote: Press c at the GRUB menu. Did you mean press e ? No. -- Neil Bothwick RAM DISK is NOT an installation procedure! signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-06 Thread Roger Mason
Roger Mason rma...@mun.ca writes: Can anyone suggest how to debug this? Egg on face. The processor is listed in the bios as Intel EM64T. Does that mean I should re-build this as an amd64 system? If the answer to that is yes, then I don't understand why the x86 install CD booted without

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes

2010-05-06 Thread Stroller
On 6 May 2010, at 00:51, Iain Buchanan wrote: ... ... Inotify has two drawbacks which make it hard or even impossible to use for Iain's use case: a) It does not work recursively which means that you have to create a new handle for each subdirectory. Of course, this only means more work

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-06 Thread Stroller
On 6 May 2010, at 09:37, Roger Mason wrote: ... I just built a new machine (celeron 3 GHz) using a script that builds the kernel using genkernel and a config that is copied from that of the kernel on the install cd. Are you sure ext[234] is compiled statically into the kernel in this

[gentoo-user] Open Source DSP tools for learning?

2010-05-06 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Does anyone possibly know of any tools in Open Source for exploring DSP filter design? Something that might allow me to write equations, stimulate the filter, see the results in a GUI? Thanks, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-06 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 06 May 2010 08:34:49 -0500, Dale wrote: Press c at the GRUB menu. Did you mean press e ? No. I don't see anything in the man page about hitting the c key. What does that do? I've used e, b and such but never heard of c. Dale :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 06 May 2010 10:03:59 -0500, Dale wrote: Did you mean press e ? No. I don't see anything in the man page about hitting the c key. What does that do? I've used e, b and such but never heard of c. It drops you to the grub command line, it's documented on the GRUB menu

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-06 Thread Roger Mason
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: On 6 May 2010, at 09:37, Roger Mason wrote: ... I just built a new machine (celeron 3 GHz) using a script that builds the kernel using genkernel and a config that is copied from that of the kernel on the install cd. Are you sure ext[234] is

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-06 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 6 May, Roger Mason wrote: Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: On 6 May 2010, at 09:37, Roger Mason wrote: ... I just built a new machine (celeron 3 GHz) using a script that builds the kernel using genkernel and a config that is copied from that of the kernel on the install

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-06 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 06 May 2010 10:03:59 -0500, Dale wrote: Did you mean press e ? No. I don't see anything in the man page about hitting the c key. What does that do? I've used e, b and such but never heard of c. It drops you to the grub command

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 06 May 2010 13:07:37 -0230, Roger Mason wrote: This what grep SATA kernel-config says: # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_SATA is not set CONFIG_SATA_PMP=y CONFIG_SATA_AHCI=m CONFIG_SATA_SIL24=m CONFIG_SATA_SVW=m CONFIG_SATA_MV=m CONFIG_SATA_NV=m CONFIG_SATA_QSTOR=m CONFIG_SATA_PROMISE=m

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure.

2010-05-06 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 05/05/2010 10:23 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 05.05.2010 22:17, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Remember that I said: I am not sure which HOWTO I followed ? What if I didn't use aes-256-ecb? You don't need to supplay that information to cryptsetup, it can (should) autodetect it. To

Re: [gentoo-user] Android tether and wpa_supplicant

2010-05-06 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 05 May 2010 13:52:20 Fredrik Andersson wrote: Hi fellow gentoo users I'm trying to connect my laptop to my HTC Hero using wpa_supplicant, has anyone done this? this is what I see in wpa_cli when I do scan_result #bssid / frequency / signal level / flags / ssid

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure.

2010-05-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 06.05.2010 18:24, schrieb Daniel Troeder: On 05/05/2010 10:23 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 05.05.2010 22:17, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Remember that I said: I am not sure which HOWTO I followed ? What if I didn't use aes-256-ecb? You don't need to supplay that information to

[gentoo-user] start-stop-daemon: how to set directory?

2010-05-06 Thread Grant Edwards
I'm writing an init script for a daemon that needs to be started in a particular directory, and I can't figure out how to do that with start-stop-daemon. It always seems to start the daemon in '/' regardless of the current working directory when start-stop-daemon is invoked. -- Grant Edwards

[gentoo-user] Loosing key presses since upgrade to xorg-server-1.7.6

2010-05-06 Thread Remy Blank
I upgraded xorg-server to 1.7.6 (and the few associated packages) a few days ago, and since then I seem to spuriously loose some key presses when typing fast. This only happens in X, not on the console. The box is a Dell Latitude E6500 laptop. I have already re-emerged all necessary drivers

Re: [gentoo-user] start-stop-daemon: how to set directory?

2010-05-06 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 20:27 +, Grant Edwards wrote: I'm writing an init script for a daemon that needs to be started in a particular directory, and I can't figure out how to do that with start-stop-daemon. It always seems to start the daemon in '/' regardless of the current working

[gentoo-user] Re: Loosing key presses since upgrade to xorg-server-1.7.6

2010-05-06 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 05/07/2010 02:09 AM, Remy Blank wrote: I upgraded xorg-server to 1.7.6 (and the few associated packages) a few days ago, and since then I seem to spuriously loose some key presses when typing fast. This only happens in X, not on the console. The box is a Dell Latitude E6500 laptop. I have

[gentoo-user] Re: Loosing key presses since upgrade to xorg-server-1.7.6

2010-05-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-05-06, Remy Blank remy.bl...@pobox.com wrote: I upgraded xorg-server to 1.7.6 (and the few associated packages) a few days ago, and since then I seem to spuriously loose some key presses when typing fast. This only happens in X, not on the console. The box is a Dell Latitude E6500

[gentoo-user] Re: start-stop-daemon: how to set directory?

2010-05-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-05-07, Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 20:27 +, Grant Edwards wrote: I'm writing an init script for a daemon that needs to be started in a particular directory, and I can't figure out how to do that with start-stop-daemon. It always seems to