Re: [gentoo-user] a day of PAIN.

2020-05-14 Thread madscientistatlarge
I'm using a nearly 10 year old server, bought specifically so I can compile faster. None of my machines is newer than that. None of my machines support UEFI other than an older imac. The server, which was inexpensive ($500) only has 48 cores, 64 as soon as I update the processors (2

Re: [gentoo-user] a day of PAIN.

2020-05-14 Thread Andrew Udvare
> On 2020-05-12, at 18:45, Alan Grimes wrote: > > Why is this not a forced-on setting for any machine with UEFI enabled? I > can't imagine that this would be unacceptable for more than 0.001% of > the install base. Because not every user has UEFI and many just use the BIOS compatibility layer

[gentoo-user] a day of PAIN.

2020-05-12 Thread Alan Grimes
Ouch. Yesterday I made the dubious decision to go ahead and mobo swap my aging 1800x to [nondisclosed]. Ok... The new mobo is EFI only... Back in the good old days, the BIOS would just load the first sector off your floppy drive, check for a basic sanity check pattern to make sure the

Re: [gentoo-user] a day of PAIN.

2020-05-12 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 06:45:21PM -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: > I don't feel comfortable manually yanking any of these packages... What > is the cannonical solution to this CF? > > > Total: 1701 packages (628 upgrades, 16 new, 2 in new slots, 1055 > reinstalls, 1 uninstall),