[gentoo-user] Re: Installing grub2 in ext4 partition

2023-02-16 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2023-02-16, Grant Edwards wrote: > A while back, I stumbled across a web page or blog entry that > explained how to safely use grub2 with it installed in a partition > instead of a device (e.g. grub is installed in /dev/sda10 instead of > /dev/sda). And of course 20 minutes after I posted

[gentoo-user] Installing grub2 in ext4 partition

2023-02-16 Thread Grant Edwards
A while back, I stumbled across a web page or blog entry that explained how to safely use grub2 with it installed in a partition instead of a device (e.g. grub is installed in /dev/sda10 instead of /dev/sda). IIRC, it involved locking a couple key files in the /boot/grub directory so that they

RE: [gentoo-user] Jobs and load-average

2023-02-16 Thread Laurence Perkins
> -Original Message- > From: Rich Freeman > Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2023 6:24 AM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Jobs and load-average > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 8:39 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > I've just looked at 'man make', from which

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: my 5.15.93 kernel keeps rebooting

2023-02-16 Thread Laurence Perkins
>-Original Message- >From: John Covici >Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2023 7:20 AM >To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org >Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: my 5.15.93 kernel keeps rebooting > >On Wed, 15 Feb 2023 09:50:27 -0500, >Grant Edwards wrote: >> >> On 2023-02-14, Rich Freeman

Re: [gentoo-user] Jobs and load-average

2023-02-16 Thread Andreas Fink
On Thu, 16 Feb 2023 09:24:08 -0500 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 8:39 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > I've just looked at 'man make', from which it's clear that -j = --jobs, and > > that both those and --load-average are passed to /usr/bin/make, presumably > > untouched unless

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: my 5.15.93 kernel keeps rebooting

2023-02-16 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 9:08 AM John Covici wrote: > > hmmm, but what should I use for the source ip, I only assign those > when I bring the interface up when I start the interface -- I have > something like this: > [Unit] > Description=Network Connectivity for %i > ... > So, before I run this, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Jobs and load-average

2023-02-16 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 8:39 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I've just looked at 'man make', from which it's clear that -j = --jobs, and > that both those and --load-average are passed to /usr/bin/make, presumably > untouched unless portage itself has identically named variables. So I wonder > how

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: my 5.15.93 kernel keeps rebooting

2023-02-16 Thread Mark Knecht
address=192.168.0.1 netmask=24 broadcast=192.168.0.255 So, before I run this, I don't think the card has any ip address, does it? >From what you hope the receiving machine arp -a ? HTH, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: my 5.15.93 kernel keeps rebooting

2023-02-16 Thread John Covici
On Thu, 16 Feb 2023 07:11:12 -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 6:50 AM John Covici wrote: > > > > The sending computer has two nics, eno1 for the internal network and > > eno2 is on the internet. So, my netconsole stanza said > > netconsole=@192.168.0.1/eno1,@192.168.0.2 >

Re: [gentoo-user] Jobs and load-average

2023-02-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 16 February 2023 12:23:52 GMT Rich Freeman wrote: --->8 Much useful detail. That all makes perfect sense, and is what I'd assumed, but it's good to have it confirmed. > The load average setting is definitely useful and I would definitely > set it, but when the issue is swapping it

Re: [gentoo-user] Jobs and load-average

2023-02-16 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 5:32 AM Andreas Fink wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Feb 2023 09:53:30 + > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > Yes, I was aware of that, but why didn't --load-average=32 take precedence? > This only means that emerge would not schedule additional package job > (where a package job

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: my 5.15.93 kernel keeps rebooting

2023-02-16 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 6:50 AM John Covici wrote: > > The sending computer has two nics, eno1 for the internal network and > eno2 is on the internet. So, my netconsole stanza said > netconsole=@192.168.0.1/eno1,@192.168.0.2 Is CONFIG_NETCONSOLE enabled for your kernel? I'm not sure if the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: my 5.15.93 kernel keeps rebooting

2023-02-16 Thread John Covici
On Wed, 15 Feb 2023 09:50:27 -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2023-02-14, Rich Freeman wrote: > > > Where are you getting this from, the system log/journal? This doesn't > > seem like a clean shutdown, so if it is a kernel PANIC I wouldn't > > expect the most critical info to be in the log

Re: [gentoo-user] Jobs and load-average

2023-02-16 Thread Andreas Fink
On Thu, 16 Feb 2023 09:53:30 + Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday, 15 February 2023 13:18:24 GMT Rich Freeman wrote: > > > First, keep in mind that --jobs=16 + -j16 can result in up to 256 > > (16*16) tasks running at once. Of course, that is worst case and most > > of the time you'll

Re: [gentoo-user] Jobs and load-average

2023-02-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 15 February 2023 13:18:24 GMT Rich Freeman wrote: > First, keep in mind that --jobs=16 + -j16 can result in up to 256 > (16*16) tasks running at once. Of course, that is worst case and most > of the time you'll have way less than that. Yes, I was aware of that, but why didn't