Re: [DNG] Upgrades to testing... Is DebianBug#864043 relevant to us?

2017-06-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 03:37:04PM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 08:37:26AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > This is in response to a bug on the Debian documenation mailing list, > > but I'm replying to Devuan instead because some of it may be relevant > > here. > > > > I'm

Re: [DNG] EFI vs old BIOS booting

2017-06-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 11:50:02AM -0400, fsmithred wrote: > On 06/10/2017 08:22 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > > I have a old laptop with an EFI partition, but it has the old-style > > MBR partitioning structure. The EFI partition was there when it was > > new, together with a Windows XP

Re: [DNG] EFI vs old BIOS booting

2017-06-10 Thread fsmithred
On 06/10/2017 08:22 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > I have a old laptop with an EFI partition, but it has the old-style > MBR partitioning structure. The EFI partition was there when it was > new, together with a Windows XP system (which is no longer there). > > As far as I've been able to tell,

Re: [DNG] Upgrades to testing... Is DebianBug#864043 relevant to us?

2017-06-10 Thread KatolaZ
On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 08:37:26AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > This is in response to a bug on the Debian documenation mailing list, > but I'm replying to Devuan instead because some of it may be relevant > here. > > I'm particularly concerned by the sentence at the end: > > > But I haven't

[DNG] Upgrades to testing... Is DebianBug#864043 relevant to us?

2017-06-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
This is in response to a bug on the Debian documenation mailing list, but I'm replying to Devuan instead because some of it may be relevant here. I'm particularly concerned by the sentence at the end: > But I haven't heard anybody claiming to have > done any bug-free upgrades, so it's hard to

Re: [DNG] reportbug default bts

2017-06-10 Thread Nate Bargmann
I emailed a followup to 6...@bugs.devuan.org and received an acknowledgment from the BTS but the message has not appeared on the bug's Web page. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and

Re: [DNG] EFI vs old BIOS booting

2017-06-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 11:36:04PM -0400, fsmithred wrote: > On 06/08/2017 09:07 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > > I have a machine with both old-style MBR (fdisk) partitioned and > > gpt-style (needs gdisk) partitioned disks. It boots using grub or > > lilo. > > > > > > > How would booting