Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 17:27:28 -0500, Dale wrote:
>
>> I used cgdisk and GPT for my disk even tho it is small, only 300GBs or
>> so, mostly out of habit. The grub install failed and I did a search. I
>> found this and it worked.
>>
>>
>>
>> grub-install fails with
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 12:49:34 -0500, Dale wrote:
>
>> I usually use cgdisk, or cfdisk, but they all do the same thing. Just a
>> different interface. As long as all this is documented, I'll just
>> follow it and it should work. After all, efi has been around for a long
>>
On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 17:27:28 -0500, Dale wrote:
> I used cgdisk and GPT for my disk even tho it is small, only 300GBs or
> so, mostly out of habit. The grub install failed and I did a search. I
> found this and it worked.
>
>
>
> grub-install fails with "grub-install: warning: this GPT
Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2023-10-18, Michael wrote:
>>> The protective MBR and the BIOS boot partition are two different,
>>> unrelated things. The BIOS boot partition is a real partition (usually
>>> 1-2MB in size) that's present in the GPT parition table. It's used by
>>> Grub as a place to
On 2023-10-18, Michael wrote:
>
>> The protective MBR and the BIOS boot partition are two different,
>> unrelated things. The BIOS boot partition is a real partition (usually
>> 1-2MB in size) that's present in the GPT parition table. It's used by
>> Grub as a place to store its files.
>
> Yes,
Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Tuesday, 17 October 2023 17:41:23 BST Dale wrote:
>
>> Maybe some color coding would help???
> Not only that, but judicious use of colour would help a great deal. Having
> everything in monochrome is no help at all. Neither is showing a numbered
> list
> of contents
On Wednesday, 18 October 2023 18:45:27 BST Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 10:23:23 +0100, Michael wrote:
> > > Oh, and if you use GPT, you no longer need the MBR compatibility
> > > partition, or whatever its called. I no longer need it so I can't
> > > remember the exact name.
> >
>
On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 12:49:34 -0500, Dale wrote:
> I usually use cgdisk, or cfdisk, but they all do the same thing. Just a
> different interface. As long as all this is documented, I'll just
> follow it and it should work. After all, efi has been around for a long
> while now. I'm sure
On Wednesday, 18 October 2023 14:57:51 BST Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2023-10-18, Michael wrote:
> >> Oh, and if you use GPT, you no longer need the MBR compatibility
> >> partition, or whatever its called. I no longer need it so I can't
> >> remember the exact name.
> >
> > Man pages of
Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 11:15 PM Grant Edwards
> wrote:
>> For example, if one
>> of the links is down, Ubuntu is really fond of waiting a couple
>> mintues for it to come up before it finishes booting. [If it doesn't
>> wait for all the network interfaces, how is it going
Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2023-10-18, Michael wrote:
>
>>> Oh, and if you use GPT, you no longer need the MBR compatibility
>>> partition, or whatever its called. I no longer need it so I can't
>>> remember the exact name.
>> Man pages of partitioning tools refer to it as "Protective MBR",
On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 10:23:23 +0100, Michael wrote:
> > Oh, and if you use GPT, you no longer need the MBR compatibility
> > partition, or whatever its called. I no longer need it so I can't
> > remember the exact name.
>
> Man pages of partitioning tools refer to it as "Protective MBR",
>
On 2023-10-18, Rich Freeman wrote:
> Oh well, I rarely reboot so it just hasn't been on the top of my
> list of things to fix.
I don't really care much on the Ubuntu servers I maintain because they
are rarely rebooted, and their network interfaces are always up.
A couple weeks ago I was
On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 11:15 PM Grant Edwards
wrote:
>
> For example, if one
> of the links is down, Ubuntu is really fond of waiting a couple
> mintues for it to come up before it finishes booting. [If it doesn't
> wait for all the network interfaces, how is it going to do all that
> cloudy
On 2023-10-18, Michael wrote:
>> Oh, and if you use GPT, you no longer need the MBR compatibility
>> partition, or whatever its called. I no longer need it so I can't
>> remember the exact name.
>
> Man pages of partitioning tools refer to it as "Protective MBR", although
> I've
> seen it
On Tuesday, 17 October 2023 17:41:23 BST Dale wrote:
> Maybe some color coding would help???
Not only that, but judicious use of colour would help a great deal. Having
everything in monochrome is no help at all. Neither is showing a numbered list
of contents but no sign of the numbers in the
On Wednesday, 18 October 2023 08:36:06 BST Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2023 21:50:35 -0500, Dale wrote:
> > > EFI is much simpler to work with. for one thing, you don't need the
> > > monster that GRUB has become.
> >
> > While I kinda dread it, it does seem that quite a while ago, it
Dale wrote:
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Tue, 17 Oct 2023 11:41:23 -0500, Dale wrote:
>>
> Neil, I tired that command journalctl but not sure about the
> options. It either returned a lot or nothing related. I'll make
> note of the systemctl command. If Ubuntu survives, I may need it
On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 03:15:56 - (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
> > I have 4 Ubuntu-based machines here and over the last 6 years I've
> > never seen a 1 minute delay to login, much less 5 minutes.
>
> I see it all the time. Two minutes is the most common delay that I run
> into, but I've seen
On Tue, 17 Oct 2023 21:50:35 -0500, Dale wrote:
> > EFI is much simpler to work with. for one thing, you don't need the
> > monster that GRUB has become.
> While I kinda dread it, it does seem that quite a while ago, it has
> become much easier. I noticed as I went through the install of
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