Re: Fixing a Grub Foul-up

2020-11-16 Thread Martin McCormick
Dan Ritter writes: > Here's what you can do: > > On a good system, mount your drive. Let's pretend that it's > recognized as /dev/sdg, and you have a /boot on /dev/sdg1 and > a root partition on /dev/sdg2. > > ls -al /dev/disk/by-partuuid/| grep sdg > > will get you the partition UUIDs for that

Re: Fixing a Grub Foul-up

2020-11-16 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Mon, Nov 16, 2020, 2:32 PM John Boxall wrote: > You might be running in to the problem that the blkid that is expected > may be changed during boot. As I am running into a similar problem on a > system I upgraded to buster from stretch, this link might help: > > > https://www.thegeekdiary.com/

Re: Most maintainable way to install perl modules on Debian sysetms

2020-11-16 Thread Mike Castle
I would not be surprised if the version number indicated the module in not Pure Perl, but rather includes some C source code. Which would then need to be compiled specifically for the version of Perl installed. mrc

Re: Fixing a Grub Foul-up

2020-11-16 Thread David
On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 at 05:58, Martin McCormick wrote: > If I look at grub.cfg and /etc/default/grub, everything > looks as if it should work but it doesn't. > Is there a safe way to mount this drive, possibly using > chroot, re-run grub-config and get the drive bootable again? Yes

Re: Fixing a Grub Foul-up

2020-11-16 Thread Dan Ritter
Martin McCormick wrote: > I have a usb device that lets one mount IDE and SATA > drives that are outside the system so I pulled the sata drive > which is the boot drive for the now dead system and plugged it in > to the usb converter. > > the drive breezes through fsck and looks perfe

Re: Fixing a Grub Foul-up

2020-11-16 Thread John Boxall
You might be running in to the problem that the blkid that is expected may be changed during boot. As I am running into a similar problem on a system I upgraded to buster from stretch, this link might help: https://www.thegeekdiary.com/inconsistent-device-names-across-reboot-cause-mount-failure

Fixing a Grub Foul-up

2020-11-16 Thread Martin McCormick
I have goofed, I think. There is a serca-2000-vintage Dell Optiplex that has been working fine up to yesterday when I did the usual apt-get update followed by the apt-get upgrade on buster. The update and upgrade appeared to work. One of the things that got visited was grub and it was th

Re: Connecting a base system via WiFi.

2020-11-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 15 nov 20, 07:10:36, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > On Mi, 04 nov 20, 21:45:16, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > According to packages.debian.org/buster/all/net, iw is not > > available in the suite. > > From: Andrei POPESCU > Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2020 12:31:25 +0200 > > Where did you find that path?

Re: How to manage audio volume unattended.

2020-11-16 Thread Curt
On 2020-11-15, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > >> Normalize the volume of the mp3 files beforehand rather than adjusting >> the volume of the player in real time for each individual file (e.g. >> with an app like python-rgain)? >> >> Or does this not speak to the reason for the volume changes? > > Unfo