Re: [DNG] Beowulf; Increasing the number of boot options under grub. How To?

2021-05-19 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng
Hi, terryc writes: > [...] > > I understand the easiest method to install chimaera is a minimal > beowulf install and the the usual dist-grade route. As outline by > Florian about a month ago. (TY) I had a "good" experience with the alpha-20210426 installer for chimaera on amd64 for a fairly

Re: [DNG] Beowulf; Increasing the number of boot options under grub. How To?

2021-05-19 Thread Ludovic Bellière
On mer, 19 mai 2021, terryc wrote: > Normally I wouldn't consider it(risk a working system), but having > recently received two new boxen following the release of majic smoke > from the mail server, I'm actually in the position to do this on new > naked hardware. The global chip shortage meant I

Re: [DNG] Beowulf; Increasing the number of boot options under grub. How To?

2021-05-18 Thread Gregory Nowak via Dng
On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 12:15:50PM +1000, terryc wrote: > I understand the easiest method to install chimaera is a minimal > beowulf install and the the usual dist-grade route. As outline by > Florian about a month ago. (TY) There is a netinst image available for both amd64 and x86 of Chimaera on

Re: [DNG] Beowulf; Increasing the number of boot options under grub. How To?

2021-05-18 Thread terryc
On Tue, 18 May 2021 11:38:50 +0200 Ludovic Bellière wrote: > On mar, 18 mai 2021, onefang wrote: > > I recently bought an AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT card. Your 5700 might > > be too new for Beowulf, I had to jump through some hoops te get my > > 5600 working fully. Using the 5.10 kernel from

Re: [DNG] Beowulf; Increasing the number of boot options under grub. How To?

2021-05-18 Thread Brad Campbell via Dng
On 17/5/21 9:31 pm, terryc wrote: > I am hoping there is a simple config/number change in the grub > config files, but I can not find it in the doco I've read. > > In the past, the list of kernel images just grew each time you > loaded/updated the linux-image files. But the current system >

Re: [DNG] Beowulf; Increasing the number of boot options under grub. How To?

2021-05-18 Thread Ludovic Bellière
On mar, 18 mai 2021, onefang wrote: > I recently bought an AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT card. Your 5700 might be too > new for Beowulf, I had to jump through some hoops te get my 5600 working > fully. Using the 5.10 kernel from Beowulf-backports, Mesa drivers and a > bunch of related libraries from a

Re: [DNG] Beowulf; Increasing the number of boot options under grub. How To?

2021-05-17 Thread terryc
On Tue, 18 May 2021 02:18:02 +1000 onefang wrote: > On 2021-05-17 23:31:12, terryc wrote: > > I am hoping there is a simple config/number change in the grub > > config files, but I can not find it in the doco I've read. > > > > In the past, the list of kernel images just grew each time you > >

Re: [DNG] Beowulf; Increasing the number of boot options under grub. How To?

2021-05-17 Thread onefang
On 2021-05-17 23:31:12, terryc wrote: > I am hoping there is a simple config/number change in the grub > config files, but I can not find it in the doco I've read. > > In the past, the list of kernel images just grew each time you > loaded/updated the linux-image files. But the current system >

[DNG] Beowulf; Increasing the number of boot options under grub. How To?

2021-05-17 Thread terryc
I am hoping there is a simple config/number change in the grub config files, but I can not find it in the doco I've read. In the past, the list of kernel images just grew each time you loaded/updated the linux-image files. But the current system automatically trims it to just two, with normal and