Re: [gentoo-user] Human configurable boot loader, OR useful grub2 documentation

2019-07-08 Thread Ian Bloss
Check out syslinux if grub is too obnoxious. I've found it much more straight forward than grub. On Fri, Jul 5, 2019, 2:05 AM wrote: > So, is there either a boot loader that a human can configure manually that > can handle LUKS partitions? No uefi, but GPT would be nice. The grub2 >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Human configurable boot loader, OR useful grub2 documentation

2019-07-08 Thread mad.scientist.at.large
Ok, you convinced me i can selectively read the grub2 manual for the essential commands less scripting.  I'll try that tonight.  I would like to know where to get the source of the legacy grub that observed gentoo use flags, I'm thinking about simpler systems including a couple of 32 bit

Re: [gentoo-user] Fdisk reports new HD as 10MiB

2019-07-08 Thread Adam Carter
> > lsdrv looks like lsblk, it's just that it handles afaik pretty much > everything - starts with the disk, then lists any partitions, any lvm's, > any raids, etc etc. > What does lsdrv have that lsblk is missing? lsblk is part of util-linux so its everywhere, which is handy.

[gentoo-user] FYI on kernel 5.2 systemd may fail to bring up the network

2019-07-08 Thread Adam Carter
Happened on 2/2 systems tested. You can bring the interface up manually if you're at the console. Error looks like systemd-networkd[252]: enp5s0: Could not bring up interface: Invalid argument Looks like its fixed in git https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/12784

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot upgrade to zfs 0.8.x

2019-07-08 Thread John Covici
On Mon, 08 Jul 2019 12:04:47 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 7:46 AM John Covici wrote: > > > > OK, so I successfully did build 0.8.1, but it does not like my root > > file system parameter, dracut chokes and puts me in an emergency shell > > and I have to mount it

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot upgrade to zfs 0.8.x

2019-07-08 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 7:46 AM John Covici wrote: > > OK, so I successfully did build 0.8.1, but it does not like my root > file system parameter, dracut chokes and puts me in an emergency shell > and I have to mount it manually. I tried root=rpool and > root=rpool/root which dracut completely

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How do I get rid of colors (console and xterm)?

2019-07-08 Thread Grant Taylor
On 7/8/19 2:18 AM, Christian Groessler wrote: Ideally for everything inside an xterm or console screen. I'm going to try "-cm" for xterm. Thanks David (in a previous post) for the suggestion. If the -cm command line option does what you want, you can easily add the following to the

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot upgrade to zfs 0.8.x

2019-07-08 Thread John Covici
On Mon, 08 Jul 2019 04:51:13 -0400, John Covici wrote: > > On Mon, 08 Jul 2019 03:35:36 -0400, > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > > [1 ] > > On Sun, 07 Jul 2019 23:42:24 -0400, John Covici wrote: > > > > > Hi. I have discovered that I cannot upgrade to zfs 0.8.x. The > > > problem seems to be

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot upgrade to zfs 0.8.x

2019-07-08 Thread John Covici
On Mon, 08 Jul 2019 03:35:36 -0400, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > [1 ] > On Sun, 07 Jul 2019 23:42:24 -0400, John Covici wrote: > > > Hi. I have discovered that I cannot upgrade to zfs 0.8.x. The > > problem seems to be that there is no sys-kernel/spl-0.8.x at all. I > > have seen on the zfs list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How do I get rid of colors (console and xterm)?

2019-07-08 Thread Christian Groessler
On 7/5/19 8:50 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 04/07/2019 22:10, Christian Groessler wrote: I'm new here. My question is how do I get rid of colors in "emerge", "man" and other command line programs. Do you want to disable colors for everything, or only for specific tools? Ideally for

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot upgrade to zfs 0.8.x

2019-07-08 Thread John Covici
On Mon, 08 Jul 2019 03:35:36 -0400, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > [1 ] > On Sun, 07 Jul 2019 23:42:24 -0400, John Covici wrote: > > > Hi. I have discovered that I cannot upgrade to zfs 0.8.x. The > > problem seems to be that there is no sys-kernel/spl-0.8.x at all. I > > have seen on the zfs

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot upgrade to zfs 0.8.x

2019-07-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 07 Jul 2019 23:42:24 -0400, John Covici wrote: > Hi. I have discovered that I cannot upgrade to zfs 0.8.x. The > problem seems to be that there is no sys-kernel/spl-0.8.x at all. I > have seen on the zfs list that people are upgrading to 0.8, so what is > happening here -- is this