[gentoo-user] Will ZFS clobber my MBR?

2014-01-22 Thread Chris Stankevitz
Hello, My / (root) lives on /dev/sdb1. My /dev/sda has no partitions and no data except for what I presume is the mbr written by lilo. [history: sdb is an SSD and I never wanted to use the slow sda] I have been playing with ZFS on a USB drive and I am ready to create a zpool on /dev/sda. ZFS

Re: [gentoo-user] Will ZFS clobber my MBR?

2014-01-22 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 22.01.2014 10:01, schrieb Chris Stankevitz: Hello, My / (root) lives on /dev/sdb1. My /dev/sda has no partitions and no data except for what I presume is the mbr written by lilo. [history: sdb is an SSD and I never wanted to use the slow sda] I have been playing with ZFS on a USB

Re: [gentoo-user] webcam software

2014-01-22 Thread gottlieb
On Tue, Jan 21 2014, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 9:30 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Sat, Jan 18 2014, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Jan 18, 2014 4:02 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: My main system is a dell latitude E6430s. I am embarrassed to say that, although I

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - memory testing

2014-01-22 Thread Linux
Hiya Mick; Thanks for your response. Great ideas. I'll pass it along. -Skippy On 1/21/2014 11:42 PM, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 21 Jan 2014 23:11:24 Skippy wrote: Have you ever found a program in linux that allows you to locate bad dims if you have faults? I’ve tried memtest86, memconf,

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot boot using systemd and initrd

2014-01-22 Thread covici
Mike Gilbert flop...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 7:38 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. I am having a problem booting using systemd and an initrd generated by genkernel. I get the message that says (may be slight paraphrase) that /dev/mapper/linux--files-64--root

Re: [gentoo-user] webcam software

2014-01-22 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 22 Jan 2014 12:52:25 gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Tue, Jan 21 2014, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 9:30 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Sat, Jan 18 2014, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Jan 18, 2014 4:02 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: My main system is a dell

[gentoo-user] g++ -fnothrow-opt

2014-01-22 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi list! I'm wondering if anyone tried setting -fnothrow-opt as a CXX_FLAG in make.conf? It makes C++ throw() statements behave like C++11 nothrow. This could have measurable performance benefits and will reduce code size. The only downside is that, when a function violates its throw()

Re: [gentoo-user] webcam software

2014-01-22 Thread gottlieb
On Wed, Jan 22 2014, Mick wrote: On Wednesday 22 Jan 2014 12:52:25 gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Tue, Jan 21 2014, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 9:30 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Sat, Jan 18 2014, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Jan 18, 2014 4:02 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu

[gentoo-user] Re: webcam software

2014-01-22 Thread walt
On 01/21/2014 07:30 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I recently became a grandfather... OMG! You're the youngest person in this group :)

[gentoo-user] trouble with gentoo-sources-3.10.25 and gnome

2014-01-22 Thread gottlieb
Today, on one amd64/systemd machine, I tried updating 3.10.17 to 3.10.25. As expected make oldconfig showed nothing new, so I thought the new kernel would just work. However gdm failed, with several pairs of messages Jan 22 17:04:49 localhost gdm[276]: GLib-GObject: g_object_ref: assertion

[gentoo-user] Re: Will ZFS clobber my MBR?

2014-01-22 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Wednesday, January 22, 2014, Michael Hampicke m...@hadt.biz wrote: But why don't you install lilo on /dev/sdb? You change change the boot order in BIOS after that. Michael, Thank you, that worked perfectly. Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: webcam software

2014-01-22 Thread gottlieb
On Wed, Jan 22 2014, walt wrote: On 01/21/2014 07:30 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I recently became a grandfather... OMG! You're the youngest person in this group :) Well I was born (just) before WWII ended, specifically 2 aug 45. I hadn't considered the possibility that I was younger than

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Will ZFS clobber my MBR?

2014-01-22 Thread William Kenworthy
On 23/01/14 07:58, Chris Stankevitz wrote: On Wednesday, January 22, 2014, Michael Hampicke m...@hadt.biz wrote: But why don't you install lilo on /dev/sdb? You change change the boot order in BIOS after that. Michael, Thank you, that worked perfectly. Chris Being someone who is

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with gentoo-sources-3.10.25 and gnome

2014-01-22 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Jan 22, 2014 5:55 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: Today, on one amd64/systemd machine, I tried updating 3.10.17 to 3.10.25. As expected make oldconfig showed nothing new, so I thought the new kernel would just work. However gdm failed, with several pairs of messages Jan 22 17:04:49

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with gentoo-sources-3.10.25 and gnome

2014-01-22 Thread gottlieb
On Wed, Jan 22 2014, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Jan 22, 2014 5:55 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: Today, on one amd64/systemd machine, I tried updating 3.10.17 to 3.10.25. As expected make oldconfig showed nothing new, so I thought the new kernel would just work. However gdm failed, with

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with gentoo-sources-3.10.25 and gnome

2014-01-22 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 7:54 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Wed, Jan 22 2014, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Jan 22, 2014 5:55 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: Today, on one amd64/systemd machine, I tried updating 3.10.17 to 3.10.25. As expected make oldconfig showed nothing new, so I thought

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with gentoo-sources-3.10.25 and gnome

2014-01-22 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 11:13 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 7:54 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Wed, Jan 22 2014, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Jan 22, 2014 5:55 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: Today, on one amd64/systemd machine, I tried updating