Re: [gentoo-user] new installation - partitions

2014-09-04 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: I have a new SSD 480GB drive and I'm trying to partition it. It was some time before I went through this so I found this information: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/SSD But they omitted the Boot partition. Device

Re: [gentoo-user] new installation - partitions

2014-09-04 Thread Christian Kruse
Hi, At Wed, 3 Sep 2014 22:30:32 -0600, Joseph wrote: But they omitted the Boot partition. Device Start End Size Type /dev/sda1 2048 6143 2M BIOS boot partition /dev/sda2 6144 4200447 2G Linux swap /dev/sda3 4200448

Re: [gentoo-user] new installation - partitions

2014-09-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 3 Sep 2014 22:30:32 -0600, Joseph wrote: I have a new SSD 480GB drive and I'm trying to partition it. It was some time before I went through this so I found this information: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/SSD But they omitted the Boot partition. Device Start End

Re: [gentoo-user] new installation - partitions

2014-09-04 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, September 04, 2014 09:01:41 AM Christian Kruse wrote: Hi, At Wed, 3 Sep 2014 22:30:32 -0600, Joseph wrote: But they omitted the Boot partition. Device Start End Size Type /dev/sda1 2048 6143 2M BIOS boot partition /dev/sda2

[gentoo-user] Firefox segfaults when using WebRTC

2014-09-04 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
Has anyone on this list experienced this issue? Is there a fix for that, that you know of? A Google search returned these two links in particular: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/977075 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-lib/+bug/1254562 equery -q l firefox

Re: [gentoo-user] oracle-jdk-bin 1.8.0.20 ebuild

2014-09-04 Thread Thanasis
on 09/03/2014 07:07 AM Saifi Khan wrote the following: Hi: portage has ebuild for oracle-jdk-bin-1.8.0.11 whereas oracle website has update 20 ie. oracle-jdk-bin-1.8.0.20 i am interested in tweaking the ebuild in order to install 1.8.0.20 dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin-1.8.0.20 is in the tree.

Re: [gentoo-user] new installation - partitions

2014-09-04 Thread Joseph
On 09/04/14 09:53, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: I have a new SSD 480GB drive and I'm trying to partition it. It was some time before I went through this so I found this information: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/SSD But they omitted

Re: [gentoo-user] new installation - partitions

2014-09-04 Thread Joseph
On 09/04/14 08:25, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 3 Sep 2014 22:30:32 -0600, Joseph wrote: I have a new SSD 480GB drive and I'm trying to partition it. It was some time before I went through this so I found this information: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/SSD But they omitted the Boot partition.

Re: [gentoo-user] new installation - partitions

2014-09-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 4 Sep 2014 07:05:28 -0600, Joseph wrote: Disk /dev/sda: 2.7 TiB, 3000592982016 bytes, 5860533168 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk

Re: [gentoo-user] new installation - partitions

2014-09-04 Thread Joseph
On 09/04/14 14:29, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 4 Sep 2014 07:05:28 -0600, Joseph wrote: Disk /dev/sda: 2.7 TiB, 3000592982016 bytes, 5860533168 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096

Re: [gentoo-user] new installation - partitions

2014-09-04 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 4 September 2014 15:54:17 CEST, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/04/14 14:29, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 4 Sep 2014 07:05:28 -0600, Joseph wrote: Disk /dev/sda: 2.7 TiB, 3000592982016 bytes, 5860533168 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical):

Re: [gentoo-user] new installation - partitions

2014-09-04 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: My BIOS boot partition is 1MB not 1GB. My /boot partition is 1GB to allow room for a couple of System Rescue CD ISO images. There are a few types of boot partitions these days. One is used when booting GPT from legacy

Re: [gentoo-user] new installation - partitions

2014-09-04 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: When booting from EFI you need a GPT boot partition (FAT - ugh) that actually contains the image that gets booted, so it needs to have room for at least a couple of kernels/initramfs - so that will be larger. If you're

Re: [gentoo-user] new installation - partitions

2014-09-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 4 Sep 2014 07:54:17 -0600, Joseph wrote: No, it's type is BIOS boot partition, it's a completely different type of partition and not used by your Linux installation at all, it's purely there for the BIOS. Thank you for explanation. Is your /home on root partition? I've notice

[gentoo-user] Re: new installation - partitions

2014-09-04 Thread James
Joseph syscon780 at gmail.com writes: Is your /home on root partition? I've notice that handbook does not designate separate partition for home anymore. Hello Joseph, Often, the Arch linux documents give one a more robust background for reading up on issues/choices related to Gentoo.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new installation - partitions

2014-09-04 Thread Jc García
2014-09-04 9:53 GMT-06:00 James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com: Joseph syscon780 at gmail.com writes: Is your /home on root partition? I've notice that handbook does not designate separate partition for home anymore. Hello Joseph, Often, the Arch linux documents give one a more robust

[gentoo-user] SSD discard / fstrim

2014-09-04 Thread Joseph
This is my first SSD drive 480GB (the only one in the box). I read about all discard / trim option and just want to double check that I'm doing it correct. I setup standard Gentoo and per instruction in Handbook. Not I'm reading about discard http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/SSD Do I setup:

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD discard / fstrim

2014-09-04 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Сергей protsero...@gmail.com wrote: You need to run Fstrim if you mounted your partition WITHOUT discard option and did lots of changes. For example, if you installed your system without discard, do fstrim and then add discard to /etc/fstab. Just a note that

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD discard / fstrim

2014-09-04 Thread thegeezer
On 04/09/14 20:07, Rich Freeman wrote: On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Сергей protsero...@gmail.com wrote: You need to run Fstrim if you mounted your partition WITHOUT discard option and did lots of changes. For example, if you installed your system without discard, do fstrim and then add

Re: [gentoo-user] new installation - partitions

2014-09-04 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
On 04. sep. 2014 16:52, Tom H wrote: On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: When booting from EFI you need a GPT boot partition (FAT - ugh) that actually contains the image that gets booted, so it needs to have room for at least a couple of kernels/initramfs - so

Re: [gentoo-user] new installation - partitions

2014-09-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 04/09/2014 22:05, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: On 04. sep. 2014 16:52, Tom H wrote: On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: When booting from EFI you need a GPT boot partition (FAT - ugh) that actually contains the image that gets booted, so it needs to have room

[gentoo-user] installed Gentoo on SSD - no bootable device

2014-09-04 Thread Joseph
I just installed gentoo on my new SSD (intel 480GB drive SSDSC2BF-480H501) I mostly was installing everything over ssh (easier) and using grub2 but upon rebooting I get: No bootable device - Insert boot disk and press any key I boot strap to my system: # swapon /dev/sda3 # mount -t ext4

Re: [gentoo-user] installed Gentoo on SSD - no bootable device

2014-09-04 Thread Joseph
On 09/04/14 18:17, Joseph wrote: I just installed gentoo on my new SSD (intel 480GB drive SSDSC2BF-480H501) I mostly was installing everything over ssh (easier) and using grub2 but upon rebooting I get: No bootable device - Insert boot disk and press any key I boot strap to my system: #

Re: [gentoo-user] installed Gentoo on SSD - no bootable device

2014-09-04 Thread Daniel Frey
On 09/04/2014 05:36 PM, Joseph wrote: When I installed grub2 I got no errors: grub2-install /dev/sda Installation finished. No error reported. If you are trying to boot in EFI mode, you aren't installing it correctly. That installed to the MBR in legacy mode. Instructions are here:

Re: [gentoo-user] new installation - partitions

2014-09-04 Thread Daniel Frey
On 09/04/2014 01:05 PM, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: On 04. sep. 2014 16:52, Tom H wrote: On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: When booting from EFI you need a GPT boot partition (FAT - ugh) that actually contains the image that gets booted, so it needs to have room

Re: [gentoo-user] installed Gentoo on SSD - no bootable device

2014-09-04 Thread Joseph
On 09/04/14 19:41, Daniel Frey wrote: On 09/04/2014 05:36 PM, Joseph wrote: When I installed grub2 I got no errors: grub2-install /dev/sda Installation finished. No error reported. If you are trying to boot in EFI mode, you aren't installing it correctly. That installed to the MBR in legacy

Re: [gentoo-user] installed Gentoo on SSD - no bootable device

2014-09-04 Thread Daniel Frey
On 09/04/2014 08:14 PM, Joseph wrote: I'm still lost with this grab2, very confusing. Gentoo official documentation did not mention any of this :-/ Official documentation did ask to create /dev/sda1 2M BIOS boot partition but there was no instruction how to mount it or format it. I was

Re: [gentoo-user] installed Gentoo on SSD - no bootable device

2014-09-04 Thread Daniel Frey
On 09/04/2014 08:14 PM, Joseph wrote: On 09/04/14 19:41, Daniel Frey wrote: On 09/04/2014 05:36 PM, Joseph wrote: When I installed grub2 I got no errors: grub2-install /dev/sda Installation finished. No error reported. If you are trying to boot in EFI mode, you aren't installing it

Re: [gentoo-user] installed Gentoo on SSD - no bootable device

2014-09-04 Thread Joseph
On 09/04/14 19:41, Daniel Frey wrote: On 09/04/2014 05:36 PM, Joseph wrote: When I installed grub2 I got no errors: grub2-install /dev/sda Installation finished. No error reported. If you are trying to boot in EFI mode, you aren't installing it correctly. That installed to the MBR in legacy

Re: [gentoo-user] installed Gentoo on SSD - no bootable device

2014-09-04 Thread Joseph
On 09/04/14 20:44, Daniel Frey wrote: On 09/04/2014 08:14 PM, Joseph wrote: On 09/04/14 19:41, Daniel Frey wrote: On 09/04/2014 05:36 PM, Joseph wrote: When I installed grub2 I got no errors: grub2-install /dev/sda Installation finished. No error reported. If you are trying to boot in EFI

Re: [gentoo-user] installed Gentoo on SSD - no bootable device

2014-09-04 Thread Sid S
I believe what you've said is correct... because I'm pretty sure I read it in the documentation. On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 11:08 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/04/14 20:44, Daniel Frey wrote: On 09/04/2014 08:14 PM, Joseph wrote: On 09/04/14 19:41, Daniel Frey wrote: On