[gentoo-user] Boot and EFI partitions

2023-12-06 Thread Peter Humphreey
Hello list, I have a new toy to play with - an Intel NUC with i5 (16 threads in all) and 1TB superfast M2 SSD. I grew tired of the noise and thirst of my Amari machine and I wanted something quiet and frugal, so now I'm building a new Gentoo system on it. I want to use bootctl from

Re: [gentoo-user] New installation - not booting

2023-12-06 Thread Peter Humphreey
On Wednesday, 6 December 2023 14:27:21 GMT the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > On 12/6/23 04:31, Michael wrote: > > On Tuesday, 5 December 2023 23:53:23 GMT Peter Humphreey wrote: > >> On Tuesday, 5 December 2023 19:35:11 GMT Michael wrote: > >>> Your boot parti

Re: [gentoo-user] New installation - not booting

2023-12-05 Thread Peter Humphreey
On Tuesday, 5 December 2023 19:35:11 GMT Michael wrote: > Your boot partition is /dev/nvme0n1p1 and its mountpoint is /boot. You must > create this partition with the appropriate EFI System type (in gdisk use > EF00). > > The /efi directory must be at the top of the /boot partition filesystem,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge load again

2023-11-30 Thread Peter Humphreey
On Thursday, 30 November 2023 10:16:25 GMT Nuno Silva wrote: > The load limit is being set only for emerge, not make, so it would only > affect the decision to start building more packages in parallel. The > already started ongoing builds could still take the load beyond 30, with > more than 30

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge load again

2023-11-29 Thread Peter Humphreey
On Wednesday, 29 November 2023 10:26:36 GMT Michael wrote: > Here's my hypothesis explaining your own observation with libreoffice. As a > package or more finished emerging, libreoffice's turn comes up. Soon > libreoffice starts to execute make jobs, but any of the following may > apply: > >

[gentoo-user] Emerge load again

2023-11-27 Thread Peter Humphreey
Hello list, I still can't see how portage limits the load. Today I'm emerging libreoffice, and it's spending almost the whole time working with 4 CPU threads. But: $ grep -e '\-j' -e distcc /etc/portage/make.conf EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs=18 --load-average=30 --backtrack=200 -- autounmask=n

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT]/[Meta] Subscribers of gentoo-user using Microsoft e-mail services

2023-11-24 Thread Peter Humphreey
On Friday, 24 November 2023 10:51:19 GMT Nuno Silva wrote: > On 2023-08-02, Nuno Silva wrote: > > The subscriber which has subscribed to this list using a Microsoft > > mailbox (@live.ru?) is still subscribed, and still has that mailbox set > > to forward e-mails to a Gmail address. > > > > Which