Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help: boot loader info

2023-10-29 Thread Wols Lists
On 19/10/2023 12:55, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 23:49:25 -0500, Dale wrote: That config kinda reminds me of the old grub.  A title line, location of kernel and then options.  Sounds easy enough.  The new grub config is almost impossible to config by hand.  They had to make a tool

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help: boot loader info

2023-10-19 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 19 Oct 2023 09:45:10 -0500, Dale wrote: > >>> I like rEFIind, but I recall it needs/needed a separate /boot >>> partition if you are running LVM/RAID. >>> >> I have /boot on ext2, / on ext4 and rest on LVM on my main system.  On >> the 770T rig, I have /boot on

[gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help: boot loader info

2023-10-19 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2023-10-19, Dale wrote: > That config kinda reminds me of the old grub.  A title line, location of > kernel and then options.  Sounds easy enough.  The new grub config is > almost impossible to config by hand.  They had to make a tool to do it.  > That says a lot there.  ;-)  Manually

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help: boot loader info

2023-10-19 Thread Laurence Perkins
> >That config kinda reminds me of the old grub. A title line, location of >kernel and then options. Sounds easy enough. The new grub config is almost >impossible to config by hand. They had to make a tool to do it. That says a >lot there. ;-) > >Dale > You can still write that kind of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help

2023-10-19 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 18:24:41 -0500, Dale wrote: > >>> Do you mean booting from the ISO images? That's a GRUB thing, it >>> doesn't matter how it is loaded, EFI or MBR. >>> >>> However, being able to do away with GRUB is, to me, a bigger benefit >>> than not being able to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help: boot loader info

2023-10-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 19 Oct 2023 09:45:10 -0500, Dale wrote: > > I like rEFIind, but I recall it needs/needed a separate /boot > > partition if you are running LVM/RAID. > > > > I have /boot on ext2, / on ext4 and rest on LVM on my main system.  On > the 770T rig, I have /boot on ext2 I think and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help: boot loader info

2023-10-19 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 19 October 2023 12:59:06 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > Incidentally, systemd-boot can also generate and update boot menu entries > automatically with "bootctl install" and "bootctl update" although I have > never tried either. Yes, that's what I use. Once your kernel is complete, with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help: boot loader info

2023-10-19 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Thursday, 19 October 2023 05:49:25 BST Dale wrote: >> 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.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help: boot loader info

2023-10-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 19 Oct 2023 12:55:43 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > That config kinda reminds me of the old grub.  A title line, location > > of kernel and then options.  Sounds easy enough.  The new grub config > > is almost impossible to config by hand.  They had to make a tool to > > do it. That says

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help: boot loader info

2023-10-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 23:49:25 -0500, Dale wrote: > That config kinda reminds me of the old grub.  A title line, location of > kernel and then options.  Sounds easy enough.  The new grub config is > almost impossible to config by hand.  They had to make a tool to do it.  > That says a lot there. 

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help

2023-10-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 18:24:41 -0500, Dale wrote: > > Do you mean booting from the ISO images? That's a GRUB thing, it > > doesn't matter how it is loaded, EFI or MBR. > > > > However, being able to do away with GRUB is, to me, a bigger benefit > > than not being able to boot ISOs is a drawback.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help

2023-10-19 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 19 October 2023 00:06:43 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > If you like simple, here is a config file I use with systemd-boot > > version 6.1.57-gentoo > linux /vmlinuz-6.1.57-gentoo > options root=/dev/sda3 panic=10 net.ifnames=0 i915.enable_ips=0 > > That's it! There is a separate file

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help: boot loader info

2023-10-19 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 19 October 2023 05:49:25 BST Dale wrote: > 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help: boot loader info

2023-10-18 Thread Dale
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help

2023-10-18 Thread Dale
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 >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help

2023-10-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help

2023-10-18 Thread Dale
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

[gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help

2023-10-18 Thread Grant Edwards
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,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help

2023-10-18 Thread Michael
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. > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help

2023-10-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help

2023-10-18 Thread Michael
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help

2023-10-18 Thread Dale
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help

2023-10-18 Thread Dale
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",

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help

2023-10-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
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", >

[gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help

2023-10-18 Thread Grant Edwards
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help

2023-10-18 Thread Rich Freeman
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

[gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help

2023-10-18 Thread Grant Edwards
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help

2023-10-18 Thread Michael
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help

2023-10-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help

2023-10-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
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

[gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help

2023-10-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2023-10-17, Mark Knecht 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 longer. The two-minute delay I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help

2023-10-17 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 17 Oct 2023 13:54:47 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> I just realized, my new rig will almost certainly be efi.  I kinda dread >> that.  At least it is well documented tho.  Should be easy enough.  I >> hope.  o_O > EFI is much simpler to work with. for one thing, you don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help

2023-10-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 17 Oct 2023 13:54:47 -0500, Dale wrote: > I just realized, my new rig will almost certainly be efi.  I kinda dread > that.  At least it is well documented tho.  Should be easy enough.  I > hope.  o_O EFI is much simpler to work with. for one thing, you don't need the monster that GRUB

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help

2023-10-17 Thread Dale
Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2023-10-17, Dale wrote: > >> I to find Gentoo to be much better documented. There were places where >> the old BIOS and efi info got a little confusing but eventually I >> figured it out. I been trying to think of a way to color code the docs >> but I can't figure out a

[gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help

2023-10-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2023-10-17, Dale wrote: > I to find Gentoo to be much better documented. There were places where > the old BIOS and efi info got a little confusing but eventually I > figured it out. I been trying to think of a way to color code the docs > but I can't figure out a sensible way. You got BIOS