Re: [gentoo-user] USB device (ATtiny86 w. mcronucleus bootloader) not recognized ?

On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 11:32 PM, R0b0t1 wrote: > Hello again, I believe I have cause to bring this thread back to life. > > On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 11:50 AM, wrote: >> When I plug in such a little board into my PC, demesg >> reports: >> [ 1429.834140] usb 7-4:

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting minimal installer ISO on rx4640 and rx2660 fails

On Thursday 17 Aug 2017 12:36:38 Frank Scheiner wrote: > Just a quick answer while I'm rechecking my burned CDROMs as per Mick's > suggestions. Cleverer suggestion I just found in the interwebs: dd if=/dev/cdrom | head -c `stat --format=%s file.iso` | md5sum The above will read the ISO size in

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting minimal installer ISO on rx4640 and rx2660 fails

17. Aug 2017 03:36 by frank.schei...@web.de: > Hi, > > I'm trying to boot my Itanium gear with the current minimal installer ISO [1] > on CDROM but so far had no success at all. I also tested the oldest of the > minimal installer ISOs [2] still available, also without success. For both my >

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting minimal installer ISO on rx4640 and rx2660 fails

Hi Frank, On Thursday 17 Aug 2017 11:36:41 Frank Scheiner wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to boot my Itanium gear with the current minimal installer > ISO [1] on CDROM but so far had no success at all. I also tested the > oldest of the minimal installer ISOs [2] still available, also without >

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting minimal installer ISO on rx4640 and rx2660 fails

I've also seen such behavior when i've burnt a cd image to a dvd.  also the installer may have trouble with your' particular hardware.  what burner are you using and how is it connected (i.e. mother boards sata/pata interfaces, external usb, etc.).  also what motherboard are you using?  Have

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting minimal installer ISO on rx4640 and rx2660 fails

17. Aug 2017 03:36 by frank.schei...@web.de: > Hi, > > I'm trying to boot my Itanium gear with the current minimal installer ISO [1] > on CDROM but so far had no success at all. I also tested the oldest of the > minimal installer ISOs [2] still available, also without success. For both my >

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting minimal installer ISO on rx4640 and rx2660 fails

Just a quick answer while I'm rechecking my burned CDROMs as per Mick's suggestions. On 08/17/2017 12:29 PM, mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote: you did turn uefi off in the bios didn't you? gentoo installer won't work with uefi, though one hopes for a more specific error message in

[gentoo-user] Booting minimal installer ISO on rx4640 and rx2660 fails

Hi, I'm trying to boot my Itanium gear with the current minimal installer ISO [1] on CDROM but so far had no success at all. I also tested the oldest of the minimal installer ISOs [2] still available, also without success. For both my rx4640 and rx2660 I get the following output when trying

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting minimal installer ISO on rx4640 and rx2660 fails

17. Aug 2017 04:36 by frank.schei...@web.de: > Just a quick answer while I'm rechecking my burned CDROMs as per Mick's > suggestions. > > On 08/17/2017 12:29 PM, > mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com> wrote: >> you did turn uefi off in the bios didn't you? gentoo installer won't work >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting minimal installer ISO on rx4640 and rx2660 fails

Mick and mad.scientist.at.large - thanks for your suggestions so far. On 08/17/2017 12:14 PM, mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote: Last time i used it, Brasero didn't have an option to verify the just burned disk, you likely have a bad burn. The Brasero version as used by me has an

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting minimal installer ISO on rx4640 and rx2660 fails

On 08/17/2017 02:12 PM, mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote: I know others have turned it off, should be a bios setting. I know this only of recent x86_64 based machines. I don't think this is possible on Itanium, but I might be wrong. Would be cool to get confirmation from someone

Re: [gentoo-user] Online hosting recommendation - VMs?

On 8/16/2017 6:00 PM, Stroller wrote: On 26 Mar 2017, at 03:57, Stroller wrote: In the next few weeks I need to move my email server (a very old Gentoo installation) from the closet in my home, into the cloud so that I can go travelling and access my mail

Re: [gentoo-user] efibootmgr "Could not prepare Boot variable: Read-only file system"

Am Dienstag, 15. August 2017, 22:02:19 CEST schrieb Mike Gilbert: > On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 2:17 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 11:04 AM, Mick wrote: > >> I can't recall if I did this myself in a moment of security induced > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Online hosting recommendation - VMs?

> On 17 Aug 2017, at 12:40, Todd Goodman wrote: > > I use AWS instances extensively at work and they have been incredibly > reliable and after initially learning the tools they're very convenient to > manage (IMNHO of course.) > > I've used the AWS free tier EC2 to set up

[gentoo-user] Re: Online hosting recommendation - VMs?

On 2017-08-17 23:05, Stroller wrote: > You mentioned the AWS free tier - if I use one of those, can I be sure > that it won't exceed the usage limits without billing me? > > Linode were mentioned by a couple of people in the previous thread, > too. They seem like the logical choice, but if I can

Re: [gentoo-user] efibootmgr "Could not prepare Boot variable: Read-only file system"

On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 3:09 PM, Marc Joliet wrote: > > I'm somewhat confused about the whole thing. Wasn't the core problem of > accidentally bricking devices solved by the kernel by making > a subset of EFI variables immutable? (Actaully, I found the commit, which > says that

Re: [gentoo-user] efibootmgr "Could not prepare Boot variable: Read-only file system"

On Tuesday 15 August 2017 22:12:41 Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 15 Aug 2017 16:02:19 Mike Gilbert wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 2:17 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 11:04 AM, Mick wrote: > > >> I can't recall if I did this

Re: [gentoo-user] efibootmgr "Could not prepare Boot variable: Read-only file system"

On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 10:29 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 15 August 2017 22:12:41 Mick wrote: >> On Tuesday 15 Aug 2017 16:02:19 Mike Gilbert wrote: >> > On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 2:17 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> > > On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 11:04

Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning /var/lib/portage/world

On Wednesday 16 August 2017 18:07:21 Neil Bothwick wrote: > emerge -cpv cat/pkg will tell you whether the package can be removed or > if it is needed by something else. It will take a while to run it for > every atom in @world but it will give reliable results, as determined by > portage. That's

Re: [gentoo-user] efibootmgr "Could not prepare Boot variable: Read-only file system"

On Thursday 17 Aug 2017 11:25:04 Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 10:29 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Tuesday 15 August 2017 22:12:41 Mick wrote: > >> On Tuesday 15 Aug 2017 16:02:19 Mike Gilbert wrote: > >> > On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 2:17 PM, Rich Freeman