On 06/09/2014 04:10, Joseph wrote:
On 09/05/14 21:02, Joseph wrote:
I'm configuring MBR partition for older disk and need to know what
code to enter for boot partition.
My BIOS is not EFI type.
Not that it particularly matters but a partition dedicated to /boot
contains a Linux filesystem and
On Wed, 3 Sep 2014, J. Roeleveld wrote:
On 3 September 2014 06:07:46 CEST, Saifi Khan wrote:
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
Can somebody e
On 6 September 2014 05:10:59 CEST, Joseph wrote:
>On 09/05/14 21:02, Joseph wrote:
>>I'm configuring MBR partition for older disk and need to know what
>code to enter for boot partition.
>>My BIOS is not EFI type.
>
>My current configuration:
>fdisk -l /dev/sda
>
>Disk /dev/sda: 447.1 GiB, 4801039
On 09/05/14 21:02, Joseph wrote:
I'm configuring MBR partition for older disk and need to know what code to
enter for boot partition.
My BIOS is not EFI type.
My current configuration:
fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 447.1 GiB, 480103981056 bytes, 937703088 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512
I'm configuring MBR partition for older disk and need to know what code to enter for boot partition.
My BIOS is not EFI type.
--
Joseph
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
> What changed with our docs? Most likely a deep change in doc-team
> personnel, but I don;t know for sure.
>
Some of it is probably the docs team. Some of it was that we were
very slow to switch to a Wiki, which makes it harder for non-sta
On 09/05/2014 01:12 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
>
> I'm planning on updating my aging media center. The Celeron+Intel
> video card are able to handle FullHD (1920x1080) video?
>
My local OTA broadcasts are almost all 1080i, and mythtv handles that no
problem with vaapi.
I looked around and f
On Fri, 5 Sep 2014 16:07:38 -0600, Joseph wrote:
> reboot the system and it still doesn't boot.
You've been asked before but I don't recall seeing the answer. If it
doesn't boot, what does happen? What messages do you see?
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Neil Bothwick
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On Fri, 5 Sep 2014 22:06:43 + (UTC), James wrote:
> Yep, good choice. Many old bios are, well a challenge. Sometimes
> vendors have differnt bios and bios versions on the same/similar family
> of motherboards. Maybe you can find a bios upgrade for your
> old mobo? Sometimes that helps, but you
On 06/09/14 06:07, Joseph wrote:
> On 09/05/14 22:06, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Fri, 5 Sep 2014 13:54:07 -0600, Joseph wrote:
>>
>>> >> I don't need to format sda1, grub2-install should take care of it.
>>> >> So what am I doing wrong?
>>> >
Something I have not seen so far is do you have a devic
On 09/05/14 22:06, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 5 Sep 2014 13:54:07 -0600, Joseph wrote:
>> I don't need to format sda1, grub2-install should take care of it.
>> So what am I doing wrong?
>
>Did you run grub2-install from within the chroot? I've had problems
>with this in the past, no error mes
Joseph gmail.com> writes:
> Hi James,
>
> I don't want to cause any problems :-/ I'm just trying to boot this piece
> of crap of mine so I can proceed with installation.
> But I'm out of luck. It could be due to my old BIOS not recognizing
> correctly GPT.
>
> I think my only options woul
On 09/05/14 20:50, James wrote:
Joseph gmail.com> writes:
But where to find older fdisk and in stall it from chroot environment.
Long answer. You are setting me up for another round of flame_arrows.
YOU should follow the advise you are given on how to solve your problem.
You are "hard head
On Fri, 5 Sep 2014 19:57:48 + (UTC), James wrote:
> > What does 'gdisk -l /dev/sda' say about GPT and MBR (it usually says
> > whether you have a valid GPT and/or MBR before printing information
> > about the partitions.)
>
> gfisk does not seem to be in the tree. That's the old name for th
On Fri, 5 Sep 2014 13:54:07 -0600, Joseph wrote:
> >> I don't need to format sda1, grub2-install should take care of it.
> >> So what am I doing wrong?
> >
> >Did you run grub2-install from within the chroot? I've had problems
> >with this in the past, no error messages but GRUB is not installed
Joseph gmail.com> writes:
> But where to find older fdisk and in stall it from chroot environment.
Long answer. You are setting me up for another round of flame_arrows.
YOU should follow the advise you are given on how to solve your problem.
You are "hard headed".. You'll do well with Gent
* James [140905 15:58]:
> Todd Goodman bonedaddy.net> writes:
>
> > What does 'gdisk -l /dev/sda' say about GPT and MBR (it usually says
> > whether you have a valid GPT and/or MBR before printing information
> > about the partitions.)
>
> gfisk does not seem to be in the tree. That's the old n
On 09/05/2014 04:11 PM, Joseph wrote:
>
> With a GPT partition and old BIOS 2008 system, I need to set the
> bootable flag on the protective MSDOS partition. Thats all the BIOS
> can see.
>
> I need to use an older fdisk and ignore the dire warning about a GPT
> partition table being detected.
>
>
Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes:
> > How to set a boot flag on sda1.
> > I'm using fdisk from util-linux 2.24.1 and in order to set it I need
> > version 2.22 or earlier
> You don't need to, that's only needed by the Windows bootloader.
When search for GUID partition table, I find (2) us
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Daniel Frey wrote:
> On 09/05/2014 11:16 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
>> I read about outdated BIOS-versions and the need/fix to connect
>> something via DisplayPort and enter BIOS once ... to "reset" things or
>> something.
>>
>> I don't have such a box ... just
On 09/05/14 19:57, James wrote:
Todd Goodman bonedaddy.net> writes:
What does 'gdisk -l /dev/sda' say about GPT and MBR (it usually says
whether you have a valid GPT and/or MBR before printing information
about the partitions.)
gfisk does not seem to be in the tree. That's the old name for t
On 09/05/2014 11:16 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> I read about outdated BIOS-versions and the need/fix to connect
> something via DisplayPort and enter BIOS once ... to "reset" things or
> something.
>
> I don't have such a box ... just echoing something I read (as I play
> with the thought to
Todd Goodman bonedaddy.net> writes:
> What does 'gdisk -l /dev/sda' say about GPT and MBR (it usually says
> whether you have a valid GPT and/or MBR before printing information
> about the partitions.)
gfisk does not seem to be in the tree. That's the old name for the
"gptfdisk" now in the porta
On 09/05/14 20:26, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 5 Sep 2014 08:02:08 -0600, Joseph wrote:
I don't need to format sda1, grub2-install should take care of it. So
what am I doing wrong?
Did you run grub2-install from within the chroot? I've had problems with
this in the past, no error messages b
On Fri, 5 Sep 2014 10:14:13 -0600, Joseph wrote:
> How to set a boot flag on sda1.
> I'm using fdisk from util-linux 2.24.1 and in order to set it I need
> version 2.22 or earlier
You don't need to, that's only needed by the Windows bootloader.
--
Neil Bothwick
Irritable? Who the bloody hell
On Fri, 5 Sep 2014 08:02:08 -0600, Joseph wrote:
> I don't need to format sda1, grub2-install should take care of it. So
> what am I doing wrong?
Did you run grub2-install from within the chroot? I've had problems with
this in the past, no error messages but GRUB is not installed correctly.
Inst
On Fri, 5 Sep 2014 11:55:49 -0600, Joseph wrote:
> It seems to me my BIOS can not read GPT partition so what are my
> alternatives? I think I will have to format the SSD in MBR
BIOS doesn't read partitions. It loads a few bytes of bootloader code,
then the bootloader takes over.
--
Neil Bothw
On 09/05/14 20:20, J. Roeleveld wrote:
On 5 September 2014 19:55:49 CEST, Joseph wrote:
On 09/05/14 14:11, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 5 Sep 2014 07:06:27 -0600, Joseph wrote:
I made a typo my Bios is from around 2008 so it can not be EFI.
So I need a "BIOS boot partition" which in my case
>> I have a Gigabyte 2807 (technically not a NUC but basically the same
>> thing) and nothing appears on the screen at all when it is connected
>> to a 55" OLED TV via HDMI. Just a "no signal" message. I was planning
>> to install Gentoo via a bootable USB stick but I don't even get a POST
>> scree
On 5 September 2014 19:55:49 CEST, Joseph wrote:
>On 09/05/14 14:11, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>On Fri, 5 Sep 2014 07:06:27 -0600, Joseph wrote:
>>
>>> I made a typo my Bios is from around 2008 so it can not be EFI.
>>> So I need a "BIOS boot partition" which in my case is "/dev/sda1"
>but I
>>> don't
Am 05.09.2014 um 16:51 schrieb Grant:
> I have a Gigabyte 2807 (technically not a NUC but basically the same
> thing) and nothing appears on the screen at all when it is connected
> to a 55" OLED TV via HDMI. Just a "no signal" message. I was planning
> to install Gentoo via a bootable USB stick bu
* Joseph [140905 13:37]:
> On 09/05/14 13:12, Todd Goodman wrote:
> >* Joseph [140905 12:14]:
> >> How to set a boot flag on sda1.
> >> I'm using fdisk from util-linux 2.24.1 and in order to set it I need
> >> version 2.22 or earlier
> >>
> >> --
> >> Joseph
> >
> >If you're using GPT partition
On 09/05/14 14:11, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 5 Sep 2014 07:06:27 -0600, Joseph wrote:
I made a typo my Bios is from around 2008 so it can not be EFI.
So I need a "BIOS boot partition" which in my case is "/dev/sda1" but I
don't need the /dev/sda2 - this is my 128M boot partition. My layout:
On 09/05/14 13:12, Todd Goodman wrote:
* Joseph [140905 12:14]:
How to set a boot flag on sda1.
I'm using fdisk from util-linux 2.24.1 and in order to set it I need version
2.22 or earlier
--
Joseph
If you're using GPT partitions then you should really be using gdisk or
recent parted (gpar
* Joseph [140905 12:14]:
> How to set a boot flag on sda1.
> I'm using fdisk from util-linux 2.24.1 and in order to set it I need version
> 2.22 or earlier
>
> --
> Joseph
If you're using GPT partitions then you should really be using gdisk or
recent parted (gparted.)
You'll see strange resu
How to set a boot flag on sda1.
I'm using fdisk from util-linux 2.24.1 and in order to set it I need version
2.22 or earlier
--
Joseph
On 09/05/14 10:25, Rich Freeman wrote:
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Joseph wrote:
ls -al /boot/
total 8671
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root1024 Sep 4 14:29 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root4096 Sep 4 16:51 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 94478 Sep 4 11:41 config-3.14.14-gentoo
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 10:04 AM, James wrote:
> Rich Freeman gentoo.org> writes:
>> On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 8:23 AM, James tampabay.rr.com>
>> wrote:
>
>> Bottom line is that it is hard to measure Gentoo popularity. I've
>> been using Gentoo since the early 2000s and in practice I can't really
>
On 09/05/14 10:25, Rich Freeman wrote:
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Joseph wrote:
ls -al /boot/
total 8671
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root1024 Sep 4 14:29 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root4096 Sep 4 16:51 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 94478 Sep 4 11:41 config-3.14.14-gentoo
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root
I have a Gigabyte 2807 (technically not a NUC but basically the same
thing) and nothing appears on the screen at all when it is connected
to a 55" OLED TV via HDMI. Just a "no signal" message. I was planning
to install Gentoo via a bootable USB stick but I don't even get a POST
screen.
http://www.
On 05/09/2014 15:39, Rich Freeman wrote:
>> The notable difference is Arch has some of the best documataion of any
>> > linux distro; Gentoo struggles to document many key components.
> Interestingly enough people used to say the same thing about Gentoo -
> when I look at the Arch documents they te
2014-09-05 8:04 GMT-06:00 James :
> Rich Freeman gentoo.org> writes:
>
>
>> On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 8:23 AM, James tampabay.rr.com>
>> wrote:
>
>> Bottom line is that it is hard to measure Gentoo popularity. I've
>> been using Gentoo since the early 2000s and in practice I can't really
>> see any
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Joseph wrote:
> ls -al /boot/
> total 8671
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root1024 Sep 4 14:29 .
> drwxr-xr-x 21 root root4096 Sep 4 16:51 ..
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 94478 Sep 4 11:41 config-3.14.14-gentoo
> drwxr-xr-x 6 root root1024 Sep 4 18:56 grub
> -
Rich Freeman gentoo.org> writes:
> On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 8:23 AM, James tampabay.rr.com>
> wrote:
> Bottom line is that it is hard to measure Gentoo popularity. I've
> been using Gentoo since the early 2000s and in practice I can't really
> see any decline, even if there aren't as many devs
On 09/05/14 14:11, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 5 Sep 2014 07:06:27 -0600, Joseph wrote:
I made a typo my Bios is from around 2008 so it can not be EFI.
So I need a "BIOS boot partition" which in my case is "/dev/sda1" but I
don't need the /dev/sda2 - this is my 128M boot partition. My layout:
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 8:23 AM, James wrote:
> Both are rolling distros. Both can be build up from sources, although
> Arch makes the binary install path the default for its (new) users,
> as well as recovery of binaries that get deleted or become corrupted.
Arch doesn't offer the equivalent of U
On 09/05/14 14:11, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 5 Sep 2014 07:06:27 -0600, Joseph wrote:
I made a typo my Bios is from around 2008 so it can not be EFI.
So I need a "BIOS boot partition" which in my case is "/dev/sda1" but I
don't need the /dev/sda2 - this is my 128M boot partition. My layout:
On Fri, 5 Sep 2014 07:06:27 -0600, Joseph wrote:
> I made a typo my Bios is from around 2008 so it can not be EFI.
> So I need a "BIOS boot partition" which in my case is "/dev/sda1" but I
> don't need the /dev/sda2 - this is my 128M boot partition. My layout:
>
> Device Start
On 09/05/14 13:44, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 5 Sep 2014 06:37:00 -0600, Joseph wrote:
My BIOS if from 1998 I think so it is not EFI.
I don't think I'm suppose to be doing this EFI.
"...UEFI (~EFI) is a firmware interface that is widespread on recent
computers, especially those more recent t
On Fri, 5 Sep 2014 06:37:00 -0600, Joseph wrote:
> My BIOS if from 1998 I think so it is not EFI.
> I don't think I'm suppose to be doing this EFI.
>
> "...UEFI (~EFI) is a firmware interface that is widespread on recent
> computers, especially those more recent than 2010. It is intended to
> re
On 09/05/14 09:04, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 4 Sep 2014 21:46:14 -0600, Joseph wrote:
>You need to mount /boot, and mount the EFI boot partition before
>installing grub2 using `grub2-install --target=x86_64-efi`.
How do I mount EFI boot partition?
Is it the /dev/sda1 2M
That's the BIOS co
Jc García gmail.com> writes:
> > Often, the Arch linux documents give one a more robust background for
> > reading up on issues/choices related to Gentoo. After all, Arch is
> > based
> > on Gentoo and their documents are often a good compliment for reading
> > up on issues you face with Gent
On Thursday 04 September 2014 11:57:19 Joseph wrote:
> 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 abo
On Thu, 4 Sep 2014 21:46:14 -0600, Joseph wrote:
> >You need to mount /boot, and mount the EFI boot partition before
> >installing grub2 using `grub2-install --target=x86_64-efi`.
>
> How do I mount EFI boot partition?
> Is it the /dev/sda1 2M
That's the BIOS compatibility partition. There a
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