Hi Jonathan, I'm very interested in learning CLI from Grub, never done it before and I,m pretty new to (advance CLI) as I would look at it. is there a link or a tut that you can point me to. Thanks Jose Lopez
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 11:36 PM, Jonathan Marsden <[email protected]>wrote: > On 05/31/2013 09:10 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote: > > > you can also utilise the abilities built into the linux kernel. > > Those kernel parameters *are* "abilities built into the Linux kernel", > aren't they? :) > > > I know at times I seem like a fan boi of virt-manager, but it is a > > GUI that uses the kvm abilities that are in built to the linux > > kernel. I'm sure the purists will prefer using virsh exactly, but I > > do ask why we need to learn so much command line stuff :) > > (1) When your machine doesn't boot, knowing enough to play with Grub a > little is something that suddenly seems well worth knowing :) Grub is > command based and text-file-configured, so unless you can point me to a > 100% GUI-configured boot manager to use instead of Grub, I think that > means learning a few keystrokes and config items, in order to understand > and manage how your PC boots. > > (2) Creating a test VM and installing a fresh Lubuntu OS into it, then > booting the VM and testing, and then (if you have limited disk space) > deleting the VM afterwards, takes *way* more time and effort than > rebooting a PC with an existing Lubuntu installation on it and typing > > mem=512M nosmp > > into one line of boot info and pressing Ctrl-X. > > I was responding to someone who said they "couldn't" test a Lubuntu in a > low RAM low-CPU environment because they had a dual-core CPU and 1GB... > my point was and remains that they absolutely *can* do such testing on > that hardware, with minimal time investment and in a way that leaves > their PC "just like it was before" once they are done testing and reboot > normally. > > Are you *sure* "use KVM to create a VM to test in" is an appropriate > response to a user with a Pentium D and 1 GB RAM? I think it's possibly > more appropriate for users with later CPUs and 4GB or more. > > Finally, even *if* the Pentium D the user concerned has supports VT-x > (which is needed for KVM, and the Smithfield Pentium D CPUs don't have > it, only the later Presler ones do!), > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM says that KVM in Ubuntu is > intended for server, not GUI workstation virtualization, for which > Virtualbox is better suited... that info may be out of date now, but it > used to be valid... > > Jonathan > > -- > Lubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users >
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