Re: making backports I have built recognised as providing correct package

2019-02-20 Thread Craig Sanders via luv-main
On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 08:11:16PM +1100, Mark Trickett wrote: > Aha, another piece of using apt-get. It is brilliant, but also a very steep > learning curve. It would be very good to have a good cheat sheet in a > printable form. $ apt-get --help apt 1.8.0~rc3 (amd64) Usage: apt-get [options]

Re: Boot problems after adding 2 new disks

2019-02-20 Thread Craig Sanders via luv-main
It should also give you a password prompt to get a root shell which you can use to investigate and fix the problem (you will need to run "mount -o remount,rw /" to be able to edit the root fs). Another alternative: 0. make a backup copy of your grub default file. e.g.: sudo cp

Re: Boot problems after adding 2 new disks

2019-02-20 Thread Andrew Greig via luv-main
Thanks Craig, It is late so I will digest all of this tomorrow. Andrew ___ luv-main mailing list luv-main@luv.asn.au https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main

Re: Boot problems after adding 2 new disks

2019-02-20 Thread Craig Sanders via luv-main
On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 10:25:13PM +1100, Andrew Greig wrote: > I apologise for my carelessness. In the days when I needed frequent help > (2000 - 2007) bottom posting was preferred, and so I defaulted to that > position. It was not laziness, just a lack of awareness that I included too > much of

Re: making backports I have built recognised as providing correct package

2019-02-20 Thread Mark Trickett via luv-main
Hello Craig, Not ignoring, just two rather long days of work, Traffic Control, an hour or a little less to the yard, then an hour to the work site, and the same returning, with more than 12 hours between arriving at the yard and getting back for two days. Thankfully shorter today. On 2/17/19,

Re: Boot problems after adding 2 new disks

2019-02-20 Thread Morrie Wyatt via luv-main
On 20/02/2019 4:00 PM, Andrew Greig via luv-main wrote: On 16/2/19 2:44 pm, Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote: On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 01:02:44PM +1100, Andrew Greig wrote: I have had some disks "ready to go" for a couple of months, meaning all that was required was to plug the SATA cables

Re: Boot problems after adding 2 new disks

2019-02-20 Thread Craig Sanders via luv-main
On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 08:18:59PM +1100, Morrie Wyatt via luv-main wrote: > The ECC warnings just mean that either your motherboard doesn't support ECC > error correcting RAM, or that you don't have ECC RAM installed. AFAIK, you see it when the motherboard supports ECC RAM but you only have

Re: Boot problems after adding 2 new disks

2019-02-20 Thread Andrew Greig via luv-main
On 20/2/19 9:07 pm, Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 08:18:59PM +1100, Morrie Wyatt via luv-main wrote: The ECC warnings just mean that either your motherboard doesn't support ECC error correcting RAM, or that you

Re: Boot problems after adding 2 new disks

2019-02-20 Thread Craig Sanders via luv-main
Firstly, can you please configure your thunderbird mail client to NOT send HTML mail? Or at least send both HTML and plain text? HTML mail really screws up the quoting, making it very hard to tell what's quoted and what's new. Also, don't bottom-post. Bottom posting is evil. And please trim

Re: Boot problems after adding 2 new disks

2019-02-20 Thread Andrew Greig via luv-main
Hi Craig, I apologise for my carelessness. In the days when I needed frequent help (2000 - 2007) bottom posting was preferred, and so I defaulted to that position. It was not laziness, just a lack of awareness that I included too much of the thread. Most of my