On Jul 16, 2015, at 1:15 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Anyone else running into this?
No.
checking if linking against libMatroska works and if it requires
-DMATROSKA_DLL... yes, without -MATROSKA_DLL
checking for ZLIB... yes
checking for wx-config...
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 3:53 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't understand 'introspection' enough to know why we need it, but
apparently we do, so don't use the -introspection useflag like I did.
The trouble I introduced a few weeks ago when I disabled introspection
was subtle enough
On Thursday 16 July 2015 17:39:16 gottl...@nyu.edu wrote:
I will be trying system rescue CD.
Half-way through this new thread of 50 messages I've been waiting for someone
to recommend system rescue CD.
Glad you thought of it yourself ;-)
Somewhere on the Web are some instructions on writing
On Friday 17 July 2015 00:50:59 I wrote:
Half-way through this new thread of 50 messages I've been waiting for
someone to recommend system rescue CD.
Actually it was only about 30 messages. Still, the same applies.
--
Rgds
Peter
Hello::
Background::
I have had many challenges with grub 2, in the past (as have many).
Current::
Grub-2.02_beta2-r3 wants to upgrade to
grub-2.02_beta2-r7 It appears to be marked stable.
So if I do this, what will I have to do to keep the system booting.
No interamfs just a big
On 16 July 2015 at 23:39, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote:
On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
On 16 July 2015 at 23:28, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote:
On 2015-07-16, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
The Gentoo minimal CD does not work if you simply dd it to a
Anyone else running into this?
checking if linking against libMatroska works and if it requires
-DMATROSKA_DLL... yes, without -MATROSKA_DLL
checking for ZLIB... yes
checking for wx-config... /usr/lib64/wx/config/gtk2-unicode-3.0
checking for wxWidgets 2.8.0 or newer... 3.0.2 ok
checking for
I believe I correctly dd'ed a minimal cd onto a usb flash (aka thumb)
drive.
I set the boot order on my new system (dell 7450) to have the usb
storage device first. Sure enough I get the isolinux prompt and the
kernel is loaded.
However after asking for the keymap (I just hit enter)
it types
On Jul 16, 2015, at 3:46 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On 16/07/2015 21:34, James wrote:
Hello::
Background::
I have had many challenges with grub 2, in the past (as have many).
Current::
Grub-2.02_beta2-r3 wants to upgrade to
grub-2.02_beta2-r7 It appears to
On 07/16/2015 01:17 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote:
The Gentoo minimal CD does not work if you simply dd it to a thumb drive
(I rediscovered this anew on Monday). It works just fine if you use
unetbootin to do the magic though.
Is the partition table valid after you used dd to copy it over? If it
On 16/07/2015 22:17, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote:
On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote:
On Jul 16, 2015, at 3:44 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
The Gentoo minimal CD does not work if you simply dd it to a thumb drive
(I rediscovered this anew on Monday). It works just
I don't understand 'introspection' enough to know why we need it, but
apparently we do, so don't use the -introspection useflag like I did.
The trouble I introduced a few weeks ago when I disabled introspection
was subtle enough that I didn't realize until yesterday that I even had
a problem.
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes:
The don't use it, grub:0 still works just fine
It's all working fine (atm). But changes are problematic, or at least
they have been in the past
I gave grub-2 a try earlier this week and once again couldn;t figure out
how to install that
On Jul 16, 2015, at 3:44 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
The Gentoo minimal CD does not work if you simply dd it to a thumb drive
(I rediscovered this anew on Monday). It works just fine if you use
unetbootin to do the magic though.
I highly recommend using the ArchLinux
2015-07-16 14:17 GMT-06:00 gottl...@nyu.edu:
On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote:
On Jul 16, 2015, at 3:44 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
The Gentoo minimal CD does not work if you simply dd it to a thumb drive
(I rediscovered this anew on Monday). It works just
On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 21:44:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Or you could wait for the resident expert (Neil) to supply the magic
incantation that lets dd do what you want :-)
It's simple, use System Rescue Cd ;-)
--
Neil Bothwick
B?#$^f, said Pooh, as line noise garbled his transmission.
On 2015-07-16, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
The Gentoo minimal CD does not work if you simply dd it to a thumb drive
(I rediscovered this anew on Monday). It works just fine if you use
unetbootin to do the magic though.
Has that changed recently? I tought the minimal ISO was
On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 22:53:01 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
I need to double check memory of ancient hardware: A CD-R, that's that
thin round shiny thing about 5 across? What used to be used for music
before Napster came along? Just checking I have it right
That's right, it's like a Blu-Ray
Am Thu, 16 Jul 2015 13:53:12 -0700
schrieb walt w41...@gmail.com:
I don't understand 'introspection' enough to know why we need it, but
apparently we do, so don't use the -introspection useflag like I did.
The trouble I introduced a few weeks ago when I disabled introspection
was subtle
On 16/07/2015 18:40, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote:
I believe I correctly dd'ed a minimal cd onto a usb flash (aka thumb)
drive.
I set the boot order on my new system (dell 7450) to have the usb
storage device first. Sure enough I get the isolinux prompt and the
kernel is loaded.
However after
On 16/07/2015 21:34, James wrote:
Hello::
Background::
I have had many challenges with grub 2, in the past (as have many).
Current::
Grub-2.02_beta2-r3 wants to upgrade to
grub-2.02_beta2-r7 It appears to be marked stable.
So if I do this, what will I have to do to keep the
Alec Ten Harmsel alec at alectenharmsel.com writes:
Grub-2.02_beta2-r3 wants to upgrade to grub-2.02_beta2-r7
It looks like he’s going from grub-2.02 to grub-2.02. I don’t think
any action is necessary.
Notice r3-- r7
Grub 2 can be a bear in sheep's clothing
I know that for
On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote:
On Jul 16, 2015, at 3:44 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
The Gentoo minimal CD does not work if you simply dd it to a thumb drive
(I rediscovered this anew on Monday). It works just fine if you use
unetbootin to do the magic
On 16 July 2015 at 23:28, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote:
On 2015-07-16, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
The Gentoo minimal CD does not work if you simply dd it to a thumb drive
(I rediscovered this anew on Monday). It works just fine if you use
unetbootin to
Solution that works for me:
- Compile the kernel with everything built-in leaving modules for the
few things that really need to be reloadable. Turn everything in
the bloody thing off. This avoids the need for a kernel-specific
filestem in the initrd.
- This since you don't need
On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
On 16 July 2015 at 23:39, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote:
On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
On 16 July 2015 at 23:28, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote:
On 2015-07-16, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
The Gentoo minimal CD
On 16/07/2015 22:53, walt wrote:
I don't understand 'introspection' enough to know why we need it, but
apparently we do, so don't use the -introspection useflag like I did.
The trouble I introduced a few weeks ago when I disabled introspection
was subtle enough that I didn't realize until
On 16/07/2015 23:08, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 22:53:01 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
I need to double check memory of ancient hardware: A CD-R, that's that
thin round shiny thing about 5 across? What used to be used for music
before Napster came along? Just checking I have it
Am 16.07.2015 um 22:05 schrieb James:
I spent days during early kernel upgrades getting grub2 happy.
You only need to run `grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg` after each
kernel update. I'm using grub2 not for such a long time, but I made some
kernel upgrades since I switched from grub-legacy
On 16-Jul-15 21:34, James wrote:
Grub-2.02_beta2-r3 wants to upgrade to
grub-2.02_beta2-r7 It appears to be marked stable.
So if I do this, what will I have to do to keep the system booting.
No interamfs just a big partition with everything but /boot and /usr/local.
/dev/sda3
On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
On 16 July 2015 at 23:28, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote:
On 2015-07-16, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
The Gentoo minimal CD does not work if you simply dd it to a thumb drive
(I rediscovered this anew on Monday). It
On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Jc García wrote:
2015-07-16 14:17 GMT-06:00 gottl...@nyu.edu:
On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote:
On Jul 16, 2015, at 3:44 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
The Gentoo minimal CD does not work if you simply dd it to a thumb drive
(I
On 16 July 2015 at 23:48, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote:
On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
On 16 July 2015 at 23:39, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote:
On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
On 16 July 2015 at 23:28, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote:
On 2015-07-16, Alan McKinnon
On 16/07/2015 22:01, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote:
On Jul 16, 2015, at 3:44 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
The Gentoo minimal CD does not work if you simply dd it to a thumb drive
(I rediscovered this anew on Monday). It works just fine if you use
unetbootin to do the magic
2015-07-16 14:44 GMT-06:00 gottl...@nyu.edu:
I have not had trouble with the minimal cd. I do the actual work on
another (gentoo) machine.
* Tries to boot an Image, 4+ hours later and after asking help to the
mailing list, still no success in booting, has had no trouble with the
gentoo
dd worked for me last month :)
josh
On Jul 16, 2015 3:53 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On 16/07/2015 22:17, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote:
On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote:
On Jul 16, 2015, at 3:44 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
The Gentoo minimal CD
On 16/07/2015 22:39, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote:
On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
On 16 July 2015 at 23:28, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote:
On 2015-07-16, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
The Gentoo minimal CD does not work if you simply dd it to a thumb
Jarry mr.jarry at gmail.com writes:
I have similar setup as you and upgraded grub without any
problem. If beta2-r3 worked for you, beta2-r7 will as well.
If you did not disable /boot automount, there are no special
steps needed. Portage will mount /boot, update grub, and
dismound
On 16-Jul-15 22:08, James wrote:
I have similar setup as you and upgraded grub without any
problem. If beta2-r3 worked for you, beta2-r7 will as well.
If you did not disable /boot automount, there are no special
steps needed. Portage will mount /boot, update grub, and
dismound afterwards...
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 12:40 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote:
I believe I correctly dd'ed a minimal cd onto a usb flash (aka thumb)
drive.
I set the boot order on my new system (dell 7450) to have the usb
storage device first. Sure enough I get the isolinux prompt and the
kernel is loaded.
Am 17.07.2015 um 02:40 schrieb walt:
On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 02:30:24 +0200
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote:
I have had -introspection set for ages in make.conf.
It is turned on for some selected packages in package.use
Which packages, and what problems were you solving by
Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Friday 17 July 2015 00:50:59 I wrote:
Half-way through this new thread of 50 messages I've been waiting for
someone to recommend system rescue CD.
Actually it was only about 30 messages. Still, the same applies.
You mean you counted? ROFL
I been using system
On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 03:49:05 +0200
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote:
Am 17.07.2015 um 02:40 schrieb walt:
On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 02:30:24 +0200
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote:
I have had -introspection set for ages in make.conf.
It is turned
On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
On 16 July 2015 at 23:48, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote:
On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
On 16 July 2015 at 23:39, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote:
On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
On 16 July 2015 at 23:28, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com
On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 20:01:29 + (UTC), James wrote:
I gave grub-2 a try earlier this week and once again couldn;t figure
out how to install that mini-OS that bootstraps a boot loader which
bootstraps a boot loader which loads code that loads a kernel. So back
to grub:0 for me
I do
2015-07-16 18:40 GMT-06:00 walt w41...@gmail.com:
On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 02:30:24 +0200
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote:
I have had -introspection set for ages in make.conf.
It is turned on for some selected packages in package.use
Which packages, and what problems were
On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 19:34:18 + (UTC), James wrote:
Current::
Grub-2.02_beta2-r3 wants to upgrade to
grub-2.02_beta2-r7 It appears to be marked stable.
So if I do this, what will I have to do to keep the system booting.
Nothing, I installed r7 on June 26th and the system just
On 07/16/2015 05:16 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On 16/07/2015 22:53, walt wrote:
If anyone can splain what introspection does I'd be grateful.
It's a tricky concept if you haven't worked with Object Oriented
Programming, so lt's look at the USE description:
introspection - Add support for
On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Jc García wrote:
2015-07-16 14:44 GMT-06:00 gottl...@nyu.edu:
I have not had trouble with the minimal cd. I do the actual work on
another (gentoo) machine.
* Tries to boot an Image, 4+ hours later and after asking help to the
mailing list, still no success in
2015-07-16 15:33 GMT-06:00 gottl...@nyu.edu:
I was commenting on the use of the minimal CD rather than a fancy one
that had X etc. I have indeed had tremendous trouble this time and it
is getting worse.
Is not about fanciness, Is abut having the tools you need for the job,
I understand you
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On 2015-07-16 17:41, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 20:01:29 + (UTC), James wrote:
I gave grub-2 a try earlier this week and once again couldn;t
figure out how to install that mini-OS that bootstraps a boot
loader which
Am 17.07.2015 um 00:31 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés:
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 3:53 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com
mailto:w41...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't understand 'introspection' enough to know why we need it, but
apparently we do, so don't use the -introspection useflag like I did.
The
On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 02:30:24 +0200
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote:
I have had -introspection set for ages in make.conf.
It is turned on for some selected packages in package.use
Which packages, and what problems were you solving by turning it on?
On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 19:43:05 -0400
Fernando Rodriguez frodriguez.develo...@outlook.com wrote:
On Tuesday, July 14, 2015 6:53:43 PM walt wrote:
I fired up my vbox gentoo guest machine and, of course, I tried to
install the 5.0.0 guest additions kernel modules.
I got an error message
On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 21:44:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Or you could wait for the resident expert (Neil) to supply the magic
incantation that lets dd do what you want :-)
I tried it on my laptop and it refused to work. Dropping to a shell, I
found there was no /dev/sdb, no wonder the init
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