Le 2015-08-28 07:55, Tom H a écrit :
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 7:36 PM, Michel Catudal mcatu...@comcast.net wrote:
Le 2015-08-27 15:18, Fernando Rodriguez a écrit :
Who are you to tell them what they should work on? They're acting like
FOSS developers, many of whom work for free or underpaid so
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 7:41 PM, Fernando Rodriguez
frodriguez.develo...@outlook.com wrote:
On Wednesday, August 26, 2015 6:27:14 PM Michel Catudal wrote:
I've had serious problems in the past getting to to install on a partition
and gave up. Is that bug fixed? It insists on installing on the
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 12:50 PM, mcatu...@comcast.net wrote:
The maintainers of grub are basically acting like dictators much like
Microsoft. The whole point of using Linux was to have complete control of
the PC. Who those morons think they are to tell me what I should use to boot
Operating
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 7:22 AM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 9:11 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote:
On Thursday 27 August 2015 08:49:13 Mike Gilbert wrote:
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Michel Catudal mcatu...@comcast.net
I've had serious problems
On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 22:03:44 -0400, Michel Catudal wrote:
Commenting on dictatorial behavior by some developper is not acting
like a child, it is just defending a point.
All software is dictatorial, or at least oligarchic. code talks, those
that write it get to say what goes in it, those that
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 9:11 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote:
On Thursday 27 August 2015 08:49:13 Mike Gilbert wrote:
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Michel Catudal mcatu...@comcast.net
I've had serious problems in the past getting [grub2] to install on a
partition and gave
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 7:36 PM, Michel Catudal mcatu...@comcast.net wrote:
Le 2015-08-27 15:18, Fernando Rodriguez a écrit :
Who are you to tell them what they should work on? They're acting like
FOSS developers, many of whom work for free or underpaid so they work on
whatever the fuck they
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 7:06 PM, Michel Catudal mcatu...@comcast.net wrote:
The language toward us is not much nicer. There is some arrogance from the
other side of the issue.
We've been fighting this for years. It is a lie to say that it cannot
install on a partition. What makes it not
On Aug 27, 2015 6:50 PM, mcatu...@comcast.net wrote:
It's not a bug, and it won't be fixed. Installing on a partition is
simply not supported.
When a needed functionality is no longer working it is a bug. To have
grub installing itself on the MBR when the
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Michel Catudal mcatu...@comcast.net wrote:
Le 2015-08-27 23:36, Fernando Rodriguez a écrit :
On Thursday, August 27, 2015 9:25:01 PM Michel Catudal wrote:
This is nonsense. I have never had a case where it would not boot when I
have grub correctly installed
On Thursday, August 27, 2015 9:25:01 PM Michel Catudal wrote:
This is nonsense. I have never had a case where it would not boot when I
have grub correctly installed on the partition.
This hasn't happened to you so it obviously means it isn't possible...
On Fri, 28 Aug 2015, Michel
Le 2015-08-27 23:36, Fernando Rodriguez a écrit :
On Thursday, August 27, 2015 9:25:01 PM Michel Catudal wrote:
This is nonsense. I have never had a case where it would not boot when I
have grub correctly installed on the partition.
Install grub to a partition and do something like this:
su
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Michel Catudal mcatu...@comcast.net wrote:
Le 2015-08-26 13:37, Fernando Rodriguez a écrit :
This may not be complete and some of these may be possible to some extent
with
legacy grub:
1. Grub Legacy is 32-bit only, so you need 32-bit libraries or use grub-
On Thursday 27 August 2015 08:49:13 Mike Gilbert wrote:
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Michel Catudal mcatu...@comcast.net
I've had serious problems in the past getting [grub2] to install on a
partition and gave up. Is that bug fixed? It insists on installing on the
MBR which is
On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 16:50:15 + (UTC), mcatu...@comcast.net wrote:
The maintainers of grub are basically acting like dictators much like
Microsoft. The whole point of using Linux was to have complete control
of the PC. Who those morons think they are to tell me what I should use
to boot
On Thursday, August 27, 2015 8:49:13 AM Mike Gilbert wrote:
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Michel Catudal mcatu...@comcast.net
wrote:
Le 2015-08-26 13:37, Fernando Rodriguez a écrit :
This may not be complete and some of these may be possible to some extent
with
legacy grub:
1.
- Mail original -
It's not a bug, and it won't be fixed. Installing on a partition is
simply not supported.
When a needed functionality is no longer working it is a bug. To have grub
installing itself on the MBR when the users doesn't it to is unacceptable
because it wipes out the
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 04:50:15PM +, mcatu...@comcast.net wrote:
- Mail original -
It's not a bug, and it won't be fixed. Installing on a partition is
simply not supported.
When a needed functionality is no longer working it is a bug. To have
grub installing itself on the
On Thursday 27 Aug 2015 19:31:34 Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
On Thursday, August 27, 2015 2:23:56 PM Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
On Thursday, August 27, 2015 8:49:13 AM Mike Gilbert wrote:
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Michel Catudal mcatu...@comcast.net
wrote:
Le 2015-08-26 13:37,
On Thursday, August 27, 2015 4:50:15 PM mcatu...@comcast.net wrote:
The maintainers of grub are basically acting like dictators much like
Microsoft. The whole point of using Linux was to have complete control of the
PC. Who those morons think they are to tell me what I should use to boot
On Thursday, August 27, 2015 2:23:56 PM Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
On Thursday, August 27, 2015 8:49:13 AM Mike Gilbert wrote:
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Michel Catudal mcatu...@comcast.net
wrote:
Le 2015-08-26 13:37, Fernando Rodriguez a écrit :
This may not be complete and
Le 2015-08-27 14:23, Fernando Rodriguez a écrit :
I just got it to work with these steps:
1. Mount the partition to /mnt/usb
2. Run:
#grub2-install --directory /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc --boot-
directory=/mnt/usb/boot --force /dev/sdb2
Installing for i386-pc platform.
grub2-install: warning: File
Le 2015-08-27 15:18, Fernando Rodriguez a écrit :
Who are you to tell them what they should work on? They're acting like FOSS developers, many of whom work for free or underpaid so they work on whatever the fuck they want. The problem with FOSS is that we have too many idiots that like to rant
Le 2015-08-27 13:16, Alan Mackenzie a écrit :
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 04:50:15PM +, mcatu...@comcast.net wrote:
The maintainers of grub are basically acting like dictators much like
Microsoft. The whole point of using Linux was to have complete control
of the PC. Who those morons think
Le 2015-08-27 20:31, Jeremi Piotrowski a écrit :
On Fri, 28 Aug 2015, Michel Catudal wrote:
No one is asking them to do that. As mentioned before it works with some
override. A solution to the problem would be to remove the arrogance toward
people who want grub on a partition and remove the
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 9:25 PM, Michel Catudal mcatu...@comcast.net wrote:
You missed the point, I do not want some installation treating me like a
child by denying an install to protect me against myself. If I mess up my
system it is nobody's business but mine.
Well, then quit acting
On Thursday, August 27, 2015 9:25:01 PM Michel Catudal wrote:
This is nonsense. I have never had a case where it would not boot when I
have grub correctly installed on the partition.
Install grub to a partition and do something like this:
su
cd
mv /boot/grub grub
cp -r grub /boot
rm -r grub
Le 2015-08-27 21:50, Rich Freeman a écrit :
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 9:25 PM, Michel Catudal mcatu...@comcast.net wrote:
You missed the point, I do not want some installation treating me like a child
by denying an install to protect me against myself. If I mess up my system it
is nobody's
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 10:03 PM, Michel Catudal mcatu...@comcast.net wrote:
Le 2015-08-27 21:50, Rich Freeman a écrit :
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 9:25 PM, Michel Catudal mcatu...@comcast.net
wrote:
You missed the point, I do not want some installation treating me like a
child by denying an
On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 19:17:46 -0400, Michel Catudal wrote:
I don't care for the automatic ways of grub2, I prefer to edit the boot
file by hand and have a nice command line screen.
As you can with GRUB2. grub-mkconfig is a convenience, mainly for
providers of binary distros so they can update
On Fri, 28 Aug 2015, Michel Catudal wrote:
No one is asking them to do that. As mentioned before it works with some
override. A solution to the problem would be to remove the arrogance toward
people who want grub on a partition and remove the part in the installer that
refuses to install it
On Wednesday, August 26, 2015 3:10:55 PM James wrote:
James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes:
So on one particular (openrc) system, I have no interest in grub-2
or any other bootloaders. I see grub is both grub 1 and grub 2.
So some vintage installs/upgrades got me thinking. What
Le 2015-08-26 13:37, Fernando Rodriguez a écrit :
This may not be complete and some of these may be possible to some extent with
legacy grub:
1. Grub Legacy is 32-bit only, so you need 32-bit libraries or use grub-
static. Grub2 is portable, even beyond Intel architectures.
2. Grub2 has been
James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes:
So on one particular (openrc) system, I have no interest in grub-2
or any other bootloaders. I see grub is both grub 1 and grub 2.
So some vintage installs/upgrades got me thinking. What does Grub-2
offer that grub-1 does not. I cannot think of
On Wednesday, August 26, 2015 6:27:14 PM Michel Catudal wrote:
Le 2015-08-26 13:37, Fernando Rodriguez a écrit :
This may not be complete and some of these may be possible to some extent
with
legacy grub:
1. Grub Legacy is 32-bit only, so you need 32-bit libraries or use grub-
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 03:10:55PM +, James wrote:
James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes:
So on one particular (openrc) system, I have no interest in grub-2
or any other bootloaders. I see grub is both grub 1 and grub 2.
So some vintage installs/upgrades got me thinking. What
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