[gentoo-user] Re: grub-2 update

2015-07-17 Thread James
Steven Lembark lembark at wrkhors.com writes: Solution that works for me: - Compile the kernel with everything built-in leaving modules for the few things that really need to be reloadable. Turn everything in the bloody thing off. This avoids the need for a kernel-specific

[gentoo-user] Re: grub-2 update

2015-07-17 Thread James
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: So if I do this, what will I have to do to keep the system booting. Nothing, I installed r7 on June 26th and the system just kept booting. You can run grub-install if you really want to, but as this is a patch level update to the same version,

Re: [gentoo-user] booting from a usb flash drive

2015-07-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 21:39:56 -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote: Does your system have USB 3 ports? USB 3 is currently broken on the installcd images. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=554202 The system on which it failed for me has one USB 3 port, but it also failed in the USB 2 port. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub-2 update

2015-07-17 Thread wraeth
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 08:36:51AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: could try it on. But it's a headless MythTV backend in the loft, so there will be fun and games if it doesn't boot. Wouldn't it be more accurate to say there will be _no_ fun and games if it doesn't boot? -- wraeth

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: booting from a usb flash drive

2015-07-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 16 July 2015 20:53:56 Dale wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday 17 July 2015 00:50:59 I wrote: Half-way through this new thread of 50 messages I've been waiting for someone to recommend system rescue CD. Actually it was only about 30 messages. Still, the same applies.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub-2 update

2015-07-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 19:54:31 -0400, Jonathan Callen wrote: The Gummiboot project is no longer maintained, it has been merged into systemd as systemd-boot (note that using any other part of Systemd should *not* be required to use systemd-boot, but I don't know for sure because I do not have

[gentoo-user] Testing SSD? (Somewhat OT)

2015-07-17 Thread Daniel Frey
Well, I sure haven't had much luck with SSDs. This will be the third one I've lost. On Wednesday I was watching my mythtv frontend when it hardlocked. Last time this happened the 7-year-old rust recordings drive failed. However, all that checked out and I found out I couldn't ssh in to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub-2 update

2015-07-17 Thread wraeth
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 10:40:16AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 18:45:59 +1000, wraeth wrote: could try it on. But it's a headless MythTV backend in the loft, so there will be fun and games if it doesn't boot. Wouldn't it be more accurate to say there will be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub-2 update

2015-07-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 18:45:59 +1000, wraeth wrote: could try it on. But it's a headless MythTV backend in the loft, so there will be fun and games if it doesn't boot. Wouldn't it be more accurate to say there will be _no_ fun and games if it doesn't boot? Well, with no TV to watch, I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] Project:Installer

2015-07-17 Thread J.Rutkowski
Anyone take a look at RHEL Kickstart for automated installs? J. Rutkowski On Fri, Jul 17, 2015, at 12:25 PM, James wrote: From [1] we have Project:Installer [2] which looks very interesting. However, If I were to create a new gentoo installer, I think I'd leverage ansible and the

[gentoo-user] Project:Installer

2015-07-17 Thread James
From [1] we have Project:Installer [2] which looks very interesting. However, If I were to create a new gentoo installer, I think I'd leverage ansible and the persistence mode (usb stick) code that LikeWhoa put together, as a basis for the effort. I'd be most curious to read other folk's ideas

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Project:Installer

2015-07-17 Thread Jc García
2015-07-17 11:55 GMT-06:00 James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com: J.Rutkowski jrtk at pancakebungalow.com writes: Anyone take a look at RHEL Kickstart for automated installs? Yes Kickstart is very cool [4] and an examination of it, if not outright usage, is a keen idea for discussion. Has

[gentoo-user] Re: Project:Installer

2015-07-17 Thread James
J.Rutkowski jrtk at pancakebungalow.com writes: Anyone take a look at RHEL Kickstart for automated installs? Yes Kickstart is very cool [4] and an examination of it, if not outright usage, is a keen idea for discussion. Has anyone actually used kickstart to install gentoo? If so, any

[gentoo-user] Re: In the fear of getting hacked (WLAN setup)

2015-07-17 Thread James
Meino.Cramer at gmx.de writes: What is the best practice here? Is there a certain independant configuration, which I can set, which prevents this scenario? Briefly:: 'eix -Cc net-wireless' will tell you what the packages in this category do. You either have to purchase a wireless router,

[gentoo-user] In the fear of getting hacked (WLAN setup)

2015-07-17 Thread Meino . Cramer
Hi, in order to connect my ASUS Memp Pad 7 ME176CX to the internet I need a working WLAN (my DSL router/modem is of the copper area - no Wifi/WLAN). The hardware (an USB dongle) is already there...it needs only be configured and setup. The problem I (possibly needless) see is: While I am

[gentoo-user] Re: In the fear of getting hacked (WLAN setup)

2015-07-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 18/07/2015 06:34 πμ, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, in order to connect my ASUS Memp Pad 7 ME176CX to the internet I need a working WLAN (my DSL router/modem is of the copper area - no Wifi/WLAN). The hardware (an USB dongle) is already there...it needs only be configured and setup. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Virtualbox-5.0.0 [wow!]

2015-07-17 Thread Jeremi Piotrowski
On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 19:43:05 -0400 Fernando Rodriguez frodriguez.develo...@outlook.com wrote: On Tuesday, July 14, 2015 6:53:43 PM walt wrote: I'd like to know if anyone else is seeing spectacular speed performance with vbox-5.0.0. No noticeable performance improvement for me using

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Project:Installer

2015-07-17 Thread J.Rutkowski
It appears Kickstart may not necessarily require Anaconda as it is compatible the the Ubuntu installer [1]. While Kickstart itself may or may not be ideal, I think having install parameters in one single file is intriguing. [1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KickstartCompatibility J.