Re: [arch-general] grub2 + luks + keyfile

2012-08-21 Thread Adrian Pop
Seems I forgot to add the usb hook. It works now. Thank you for replying and directing my attention towards mkinitcpio.

Re: [arch-general] grub2 + luks + keyfile

2012-08-20 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 08/20/2012 04:47 PM, Adrian Pop wrote: Hello, I'm trying to configure grub2 to read a keyfile from a usb flash drive in order to decrypt the root partition. The grub2 wiki page specifies that in order to decrypt the root partition, the following should be added in /etc/default/grub:

Re: [arch-general] Grub2 config file needs to be tweaked with last official ISO

2012-07-22 Thread Damjan
On 22.07.2012 13:40, fredbezies wrote: Hello. I've done today an install of archlinux in a virtualbox session. When I installed grub2 using pacstrap /mnt grub2-bios, I noticed that generated grub.cfg is not usable easily. As a workaround, I installed syslinux, and after first boot, I tweaked

Re: [arch-general] Grub2 config file needs to be tweaked with last official ISO

2012-07-22 Thread fredbezies
2012/7/22 Damjan gdam...@gmail.com: On 22.07.2012 13:40, fredbezies wrote: Hello. I've done today an install of archlinux in a virtualbox session. When I installed grub2 using pacstrap /mnt grub2-bios, I noticed that generated grub.cfg is not usable easily. As a workaround, I installed

Re: [arch-general] Grub2 config file needs to be tweaked with last official ISO

2012-07-22 Thread Nelson Marambio
Am 22.07.2012 13:50, schrieb Damjan: ps. any special reason that you have a separate /boot partition? /boot is still mentioned in the beginner's guide on https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners%27_Guide#Selecting_a_partitioning_scheme Maybe it should be removed there ? Kind

Re: [arch-general] Grub2 config file needs to be tweaked with last official ISO

2012-07-22 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sun, 22 Jul 2012 14:34:12 +0200 schrieb Nelson Marambio nelsonmaram...@gmx.de: Am 22.07.2012 13:50, schrieb Damjan: ps. any special reason that you have a separate /boot partition? /boot is still mentioned in the beginner's guide on

Re: [arch-general] Grub2 config file needs to be tweaked with last official ISO

2012-07-22 Thread Nelson Marambio
Am 22.07.2012 14:50, schrieb Heiko Baums: Am Sun, 22 Jul 2012 14:34:12 +0200 schrieb Nelson Marambio nelsonmaram...@gmx.de: Am 22.07.2012 13:50, schrieb Damjan: ps. any special reason that you have a separate /boot partition? /boot is still mentioned in the beginner's guide on

Re: [arch-general] Grub2 config file needs to be tweaked with last official ISO

2012-07-22 Thread Leonidas Spyropoulos
On 22 Jul 2012 12:49, Damjan gdam...@gmail.com wrote: ps. any special reason that you have a separate /boot partition? I think it was a requirement for when using btrfs. -- дамјан

Re: [arch-general] Grub2 config file needs to be tweaked with last official ISO

2012-07-22 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/22/12 05:50, Heiko Baums wrote: Btw., if I recall correctly somewhere in the grub2 docs or Wiki I read something that in some cases (BIOS/MBR or something like that) a separate /boot partition is necessary. If I'm understanding correctly,

Re: [arch-general] Grub2

2012-03-28 Thread Don deJuan
On 03/28/2012 12:42 AM, Ronny Karrestad wrote: På Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:43:36 -, skrev Don deJuan donjuans...@gmail.com: On 03/26/2012 03:08 AM, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: On Monday 26 Mar 2012 02:18:53 Saurav Modak wrote: Have you tried manually adding it in grub.cfg BTW? Editing grub.cfg

Re: [arch-general] Grub2

2012-03-28 Thread Kirill Churin
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Don deJuan donjuans...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/28/2012 12:42 AM, Ronny Karrestad wrote: I had no issue installing grub2, I only noticed it was missing the fallback image when I needed it as both my kernel and arch paniced on boot so was going to try one of

Re: [arch-general] Grub2

2012-03-28 Thread Don deJuan
On 03/28/2012 12:00 AM, Kirill Churin wrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Don deJuandonjuans...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/28/2012 12:42 AM, Ronny Karrestad wrote: I had no issue installing grub2, I only noticed it was missing the fallback image when I needed it as both my kernel and arch

Re: [arch-general] Grub2

2012-03-28 Thread Kirill Churin
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Don deJuan donjuans...@gmail.com wrote: ls /boot grub                                 lost+found initramfs-linux-fallback.img         memtest86+ initramfs-linux.img                  root initramfs-linux-qosmio-fallback.img  vmlinuz-linux

Re: [arch-general] Grub2

2012-03-28 Thread Don deJuan
On 03/28/2012 12:49 AM, Kirill Churin wrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Don deJuandonjuans...@gmail.com wrote: ls /boot grub lost+found initramfs-linux-fallback.img memtest86+ initramfs-linux.img root

Re: [arch-general] Grub2

2012-03-28 Thread Kirill Churin
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Don deJuan donjuans...@gmail.com wrote: ok well not obvious to me as they were there and working before grub2's most recent 2 updates that came through. Now no longer, sorry if its just noise You can try to regenerate them: mkinitcpio -p linux mkinitcpio -p

Re: [arch-general] Grub2

2012-03-28 Thread Don deJuan
On 03/28/2012 01:00 AM, Kirill Churin wrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Don deJuandonjuans...@gmail.com wrote: ok well not obvious to me as they were there and working before grub2's most recent 2 updates that came through. Now no longer, sorry if its just noise You can try to

Re: [arch-general] Grub2

2012-03-28 Thread Keshav P R
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 13:34, Don deJuan donjuans...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/28/2012 01:00 AM, Kirill Churin wrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Don deJuandonjuans...@gmail.com  wrote: ok well not obvious to me as they were there and working before grub2's most recent 2 updates that

Re: [arch-general] Grub2

2012-03-28 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Wednesday 28 Mar 2012 13:49:15 Kirill Churin wrote: Obviously, there are no fallback kernels, so grub-mkconfig doesn't find it. There never were any fallback kernels. The term fallback has always referred to the initramfs image, yet it used to detect them. Paul

Re: [arch-general] Grub2

2012-03-28 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Wednesday 28 Mar 2012 13:45:46 Keshav P R wrote: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/29037?getfile=8444 - Keshav This looks like exactly what is needed; thank you. Paul

Re: [arch-general] Grub2

2012-03-27 Thread Don deJuan
On 03/26/2012 03:08 AM, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: On Monday 26 Mar 2012 02:18:53 Saurav Modak wrote: Have you tried manually adding it in grub.cfg BTW? Editing grub.cfg is a naughty thing to do with Grub2 :p The correct thing to do would be to add the fallback to /etc/grub.d/41_custom.

Re: [arch-general] Grub2

2012-03-27 Thread Josh Silard
I'm on a fully updated system and I ran grub-mkconfig and I still have an option for the fallback kernel. Josh On Mar 27, 2012 7:44 PM, Don deJuan donjuans...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/26/2012 03:08 AM, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: On Monday 26 Mar 2012 02:18:53 Saurav Modak wrote: Have you tried

Re: [arch-general] Grub2

2012-03-26 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Monday 26 Mar 2012 02:18:53 Saurav Modak wrote: Have you tried manually adding it in grub.cfg BTW? Editing grub.cfg is a naughty thing to do with Grub2 :p The correct thing to do would be to add the fallback to /etc/grub.d/41_custom. However, Grub previously automatically detected the

Re: [arch-general] Grub2

2012-03-25 Thread Saurav Modak
Have you tried manually adding it in grub.cfg BTW? On 3/25/12, Paul Gideon Dann pdgid...@gmail.com wrote: With the latest Grub2 (grub2-efi-x86_64 1:2.00beta2-2), it seems that grub- mkconfig is not picking up my fallback initramfs any more, so there's no fallback option in the boot menu. Has

Re: [arch-general] grub2 efi image files

2012-03-13 Thread Keshav P R
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 19:10, Carsten Mattner carstenmatt...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, I could swear that some time back some version of archboot media gave me the choice to select grub2-efi-32-bit. Was this dropped? Yes it was removed wrt booting the iso from 32-bit EFI. But the setup

Re: [arch-general] grub2 efi image files

2012-03-13 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Keshav P R the.ridikulus@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 19:10, Carsten Mattner carstenmatt...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, I could swear that some time back some version of archboot media gave me the choice to select grub2-efi-32-bit. Was this

Re: [arch-general] grub2 efi image files

2012-03-13 Thread Keshav P R
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 22:24, Carsten Mattner carstenmatt...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Keshav P R the.ridikulus@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 19:10, Carsten Mattner carstenmatt...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, I could swear that some time back some

Re: [arch-general] grub2 efi image files

2012-03-13 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Keshav P R the.ridikulus@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 22:24, Carsten Mattner carstenmatt...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Keshav P R the.ridikulus@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 19:10, Carsten Mattner

Re: [arch-general] grub2 and xfs seems not to work :(

2010-03-06 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 22:12:10 +0100 Tobias Powalowski t.p...@gmx.de wrote: Am Freitag 05 März 2010 schrieb Tobias Powalowski: Hi guys, i'm just trying to get grub2 support in archboot's setup. Now i have found an irritating thing it seems it doesn't like xfs and the ususal xfs_freeze hack

Re: [arch-general] grub2 and xfs seems not to work :(

2010-03-06 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 14:43:34 +0100 Tobias Powalowski t.p...@gmx.de wrote: Am Freitag 05 März 2010 schrieb Dieter Plaetinck: On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 22:12:10 +0100 Tobias Powalowski t.p...@gmx.de wrote: Am Freitag 05 März 2010 schrieb Tobias Powalowski: Hi guys, i'm just trying to get

Re: [arch-general] grub2 and the ISOs (Was: Re: [arch-dev-public] grub with ext4 support)

2008-12-29 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Am Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:17:35 +0100 schrieb Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org: This is interesting: On many BIOSes, grub 0.x is unable to find the CD drive and thus many people want us to use isolinux. Personally i prefer isolinux as a better solution for ISO bootloader, but grub's advantage