Re: [DNG] gpt boot on bios machine

2019-03-02 Thread . fsmithred via Dng
On 3/2/19, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > I will guess that boot partition has to be on the same disk as the MBR. > > And this boot partition that has to be at the "start", I suspect that isn't > the partition that remains mounted as /boot after the Linux system is up and > running. > > -- hendrik I

Re: [DNG] gpt boot on bios machine

2019-03-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Mar 02, 2019 at 11:04:54PM +0100, info at smallinnovations dot nl wrote: > On 02-03-19 23:02, Alessandro Selli wrote: > > On Sat, 2 Mar 2019 at 16:06:51 -0500 > > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > >> Currently booting from a 750G BIOS-partitioned disk. > >> Trying to enable booting from the 4.7T

Re: [DNG] gpt boot on bios machine

2019-03-02 Thread karl
hendrik: > Currently booting from a 750G BIOS-partitioned disk. > Trying to enable booting from the 4.7T drive, which is GPT partitioned. > > With grub-install I get errors: > > april:/farhome/hendrik# grub-install /dev/sda > Installing for i386-pc platform. > grub-install: warning: this GPT

Re: [DNG] gpt boot on bios machine

2019-03-02 Thread info at smallinnovations dot nl
On 02-03-19 23:02, Alessandro Selli wrote: > On Sat, 2 Mar 2019 at 16:06:51 -0500 > Hendrik Boom wrote: > >> Currently booting from a 750G BIOS-partitioned disk. >> Trying to enable booting from the 4.7T drive, which is GPT >> partitioned. >> >> With grub-install I get errors: >> >>

Re: [DNG] gpt boot on bios machine

2019-03-02 Thread Alessandro Selli
On Sat, 2 Mar 2019 at 16:06:51 -0500 Hendrik Boom wrote: > Currently booting from a 750G BIOS-partitioned disk. > Trying to enable booting from the 4.7T drive, which is GPT > partitioned. > > With grub-install I get errors: > > april:/farhome/hendrik# grub-install /dev/sda > Installing for

Re: [DNG] gpt boot on bios machine

2019-03-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Mar 02, 2019 at 10:14:57PM +0100, Antony Stone wrote: > On Saturday 02 March 2019 at 22:06:51, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > Trying to enable booting from the 4.7T drive, which is GPT partitioned. > > > Installing for i386-pc platform. > > That seems like a bizarre (and unlikely to work)

Re: [DNG] gpt boot on bios machine

2019-03-02 Thread Antony Stone
On Saturday 02 March 2019 at 22:06:51, Hendrik Boom wrote: > Trying to enable booting from the 4.7T drive, which is GPT partitioned. > Installing for i386-pc platform. That seems like a bizarre (and unlikely to work) combination to me. What sort of machine are you starting from which needs

Re: [DNG] bootlogd: /var/log/boot does not get rotated

2019-03-02 Thread KatolaZ
On Sat, Mar 02, 2019 at 05:06:10PM +0100, Stefan Krusche wrote: > Hi KatolaZ, > > thank you for the quick reply. > > Am Samstag, 2. März 2019 schrieb KatolaZ: > > Stefan, bootlogd will always log the current boot in /var/log/boot > > after having renamed it into /var/log/boot~. > > Yes, makes

[DNG] gpt boot on bios machine

2019-03-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
Currently booting from a 750G BIOS-partitioned disk. Trying to enable booting from the 4.7T drive, which is GPT partitioned. With grub-install I get errors: april:/farhome/hendrik# grub-install /dev/sda Installing for i386-pc platform. grub-install: warning: this GPT partition label contains no

Re: [DNG] bootlogd: /var/log/boot does not get rotated

2019-03-02 Thread Stefan Krusche
Hi KatolaZ, thank you for the quick reply. Am Samstag, 2. März 2019 schrieb KatolaZ: > Stefan, bootlogd will always log the current boot in /var/log/boot > after having renamed it into /var/log/boot~. Yes, makes sense. Unfortunately this is not happening on my system. $ ls -l /var/log/boo*

Re: [DNG] [SOLVED] How to test the backend of simple-netaid

2019-03-02 Thread aitor_czr
On 2/3/19 12:51, aitor_czr wrote: This security key hasn't a high priority in the project, because all the orders are sent from the gui through file descriptors (unix sockets and fifos) instead of arguments in the command line. On the other hand, the key should be generated at build time by

Re: [DNG] Migrate to Beowulf

2019-03-02 Thread aitor_czr
Hi, On 2/3/19 12:22, Antonio Trkdz.tab via Dng wrote: Hi All, I am trying the power manager from hezeh.org , and I have problems: It doesn't put the laptop into sleep mode automatically after 10 minutes (or other user settings). Laptop lid and direct invocation of the

Re: [DNG] bootlogd: /var/log/boot does not get rotated

2019-03-02 Thread KatolaZ
On Sat, Mar 02, 2019 at 03:28:31PM +0100, Stefan Krusche wrote: > Good day everyone, > > the file /var/log/boot on my system has now grown up to more than 1.2MB. > It never got rotated since I installed this system (~ June 2018). > > I looked into /etc/init.d/bootlogd and there's apparently

[DNG] bootlogd: /var/log/boot does not get rotated

2019-03-02 Thread Stefan Krusche
Good day everyone, the file /var/log/boot on my system has now grown up to more than 1.2MB. It never got rotated since I installed this system (~ June 2018). I looked into /etc/init.d/bootlogd and there's apparently some code to rotate /var/log/boot under the "stop)" clause of the "case

Re: [DNG] [SOLVED] How to test the backend of simple-netaid

2019-03-02 Thread aitor_czr
Hi, On 2/3/19 12:36, aitor_czr wrote: This security key hasn't a high priority in the project, because all the orders are sent from the gui through file descriptors (unix sockets and fifos) instead of arguments in the command line. On the other hand, the key should be generated at build time

Re: [DNG] How to test the backend of simple-netaid

2019-03-02 Thread aitor_czr
Hi all, A few months ago i talked about a security key for the suid backend of simple-netaid. On 15/9/18 21:26, aitor_czr wrote: The idea is very simple. The GUI and the suid binary will contain a non-existent header: #include "key.h" The key.h file will contain an unique line (the

Re: [DNG] Migrate to Beowulf

2019-03-02 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab via Dng
Hi All, I am trying the power manager from hezeh.org, and I have problems: It doesn't put the laptop into sleep mode automatically after 10 minutes (or other user settings). Laptop lid and direct invocation of the sleep command both work. Do you have any hints? Thanks. Antonio On Thu, Feb 28,