Re: [Dng] Boot loader?

2015-02-01 Thread Gordon Haverland
I am just finishing getting over a grub2/gpt problem that I am sidestepping by using the IsoLinux part of SysLinux (until Devuan comes out, so I can ditch Gentoo), and I had volunteered to do a presentation on backups to my local engineering association. As far as booting goes, there are too many

Re: [Dng] Boot loader?

2015-02-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Feb 01, 2015 at 10:13:09PM +, KatolaZ wrote: > > My point is that if you need to care about boot loaders (or > recompiling the kernel, or shrinking/extending a couple of > partitions), then you should know exactly what you are doing, or be > ready to accept the consequences, or refrain

Re: [Dng] Boot loader?

2015-02-01 Thread KatolaZ
On Sun, Feb 01, 2015 at 11:56:40AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: [cut] > > > I believe that the way forward is simple: let's give standard, > > rock-solid working environments to "home users", as that provided so > > far by Debian & relatives, but leave the freedom to mess things up to > > the peopl

Re: [Dng] Boot loader?

2015-02-01 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 1 Feb 2015 10:18:02 + KatolaZ wrote: > On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 09:48:37PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > [cut] > > > > > Perhaps detailed instructions for doing this should be in the > > documentation for devuan -- somewhere where the home user is likely > > to see it. > > > > I

Re: [Dng] Boot loader?

2015-02-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Feb 01, 2015 at 10:18:02AM +, KatolaZ wrote: > On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 09:48:37PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > [cut] > > > > > Perhaps detailed instructions for doing this should be in the > > documentation for devuan -- somewhere where the home user is likely to > > see it. > >

Re: [Dng] Package Versions

2015-02-01 Thread Noel Torres
On Friday, 30 de January de 2015 03:03:46 tilt escribió: > Am 30.01.2015 um 03:49 schrieb Adam Borowski: > > On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 09:39:19PM +, Noel Torres wrote: > > [...] > > > >> Given that, if we pin our repository to 1001, it will > >> always have bigger priority than Debian's, even if

Re: [Dng] Boot loader?

2015-02-01 Thread KatolaZ
On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 09:48:37PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: [cut] > > Perhaps detailed instructions for doing this should be in the > documentation for devuan -- somewhere where the home user is likely to > see it. > IMHO, a home user does not necessarily need to know how to rescue from a

Re: [Dng] Boot loader?

2015-02-01 Thread Daniel Cegiełka
Ok, I have a simple question. I have a modern server and I want to make advanced configuration for my TB data (eg. hard drives hot swapping etc.), so I'm doing something like this: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=4096 mkfs.btrfs -L dev_sda /dev/sda mount /dev/sda /mnt cd /mnt btrfs subvolume crea