Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub heartbreaker

2008-04-24 Thread Don Jerman
On 4/24/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] In the screen shot provided note that it appears grub is expecting an intramfs and only lists those types of devices, rejecting both (hd0,0) and /dev/sda3.

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub hangs when a USB disk is attached

2008-02-29 Thread Don Jerman
On 2/28/08, andrea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On gio, 2008-02-28 at 19:23 +0100, KH wrote: Hi, never tried that and might only be a temporary workaround. You could install grub in the mbr of both disk and then point them only to your internal disk. That way you should always be able to

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub hangs when a USB disk is attached

2008-02-29 Thread Don Jerman
On 2/29/08, andrea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On ven, 2008-02-29 at 13:00 -0500, Don Jerman wrote: When the usb disk is attached after boot the BIOS doesn't give it a HD number in the series 0x80,0x81, etc, where 0x80 = (hd0) in grub or /dev/sda. The OS handles all the controller events

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub hangs when a USB disk is attached

2008-02-28 Thread Don Jerman
I've had problems with disk presentation order changing (fairly randomly) when USB disks are attached during boot. Apparently there's a race between the SCSI controller and the USB controller(s). If you attach the USB disk later the SCSI stuff has all been discovered so of course it gets

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub hangs when a USB disk is attached

2008-02-28 Thread Don Jerman
I've had problems with disk presentation order changing (fairly randomly) when USB disks are attached during boot. Apparently there's a race between the SCSI controller and the USB controller(s). If you attach the USB disk later the SCSI stuff has all been discovered so of course it gets

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 status - Alternative to ext2/3 for gentoo portage and more

2008-02-15 Thread Don Jerman
I personally prefer JFS to XFS and have used it for years on my servers and laptop with no problem other than hardware errors (and if the hardware fails the fs will not help you). I had system board problems in the laptop and a bad RAID controller in the server this last year :(. Other than that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: migrating to LVM

2007-10-21 Thread Don Jerman
On 10/20/07, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Don Jerman, So / and /boot will be smallish physical partitions - I use the minimum size for /boot and around 10G for root, When did 10GB become small for a root partition? I have a 400MB root partition, 35% full, no /boot

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: migrating to LVM

2007-10-19 Thread Don Jerman
On 10/19/07, Thufir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:26:49 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: hda1: Windows hda2: Linux (/boot) hda3: Linux (/) hda4: PV for LVM (PV = Physical Volume) hdb1: PV for LVM The two PVs will be assigned to one Volume Group (VG), inside which you

Re: [gentoo-user] grub problem

2007-10-04 Thread Don Jerman
On 10/4/07, Rafael Barrera Oro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.22-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hdb3 try: kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-gengenkernel-x86-2.6.22-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hdb3 why: /boot is where you mount (hd0,0) while gentoo is running, but while grub is running

Re: [gentoo-user] Webcam on Pavilion Dv1000

2007-09-10 Thread Don Jerman
On 9/5/07, CESAR GAVIDIA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings brothers, I have a laptop Hp Pavilion dv1000, this brings incorporated a webcam and a microphone, which have been able to fail to utilize. Sam Revich had a driver for the webcam on my HP dv9000t, which allowed me to get images.

Re: [gentoo-user] MCE in kernel

2007-09-04 Thread Don Jerman
On 9/3/07, Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you. I have solved the problem for now, but live in fear that there is something untoward going in on my hardware. Quite possible. It can also be caused by misconfiguring kernel drivers. I recently (accidently) selected the ATI agpart

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11: How To Calibrate Monitor Color?

2007-08-30 Thread Don Jerman
On 8/30/07, fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using xorg 7.2.0 with open source drivers on an ati card. How would I calibrate my monitor? i.e. what a photographer or graphics person would want to to, do ensure I'm seeing accurate colors on my screen? you could take the trouble to learn

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub md5crypt broken

2007-08-20 Thread Don Jerman
On 8/20/07, Dan Cowsill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I started having problems with my boot password not too long after I changed it and I stumbled upon something altogether weird. The following is a copy of what grub is giving me for an md5 hash: -- grub md5crypt Password: Encrypted:

Re: [gentoo-user] OT :video cameras and gentoo

2007-08-10 Thread Don Jerman
On 8/10/07, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello to all, I'm in need of a portable video camera(or rig), such as the sony SR82, but one that is gentoo friendly for video transfer. Hopefully I can find a video camera that transfers directly to a gentoo sytem via usb 2.0? After my experience

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching from Genkernel to manual build

2007-08-01 Thread Don Jerman
On 8/1/07, Abraham Marín Pérez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Cowsill escribió: Is there any specific process to or problems one might encounter as a result of switching from a Genkernel built kernel over to a manually built kernel? As far as I can think of it would be enough getting the

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine freezes during gcc compile

2007-07-30 Thread Don Jerman
If it's brand-new, have you ever installed Linux on this particular processor/motherboard combination? I had a problem with freezeups with my TurionX2 laptop until I used -noapic on the kernel line. Nothing much to do with load, except that more work = more chance of encountering the problem. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine freezes during gcc compile

2007-07-30 Thread Don Jerman
It appears there are still apic issues under x86_64 SMP, so look at noapic if you continue to have hangups (you may have this AND heat problems). Also look at the AMD_64 architecture forums at gentoo.org. I'm not familiar with the Acer peripherals but that forum helped me with my HP9000z. On

Re: [gentoo-user] about grub

2007-07-05 Thread Don Jerman
On 7/5/07, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] As I wrote in my first answer to this thread (which somehow didn't make it to the list, yet), the problem is (IMHO) with /boot not beeing mounted at all. Yes, if you followed the Gentoo install instructions closely /boot is not mounted