One additional point. When I installed beowulf on the box with the
GT1030 card, the display was fine. It was only when I upgraded to
chimaera that the problem started. Don't know if firmware-misc-nonfree
is installed by default in beowulf and then removed by the chimaera
upgrade - at some point, I'
I wasn't quite there!
The upgrade to grub 2.06 fixed the boot problem - but when I booted into
chimaera, it came up with a major graphics problem - 640x480 display, no
tty sessions available, and /dev/dri and /dev/fb0 didn't exist: messages
in /var/log/Xorg.0.log saying that the framebuffer could
I cloned the grub git repo from
https://salsa.debian.org/grub-team/grub.git
- and then, using the git command-line environment and "set debug=all",
I narrowed the problem down to the file grub-core/loader/i386/linux.c,
somewhere between lines 798 and 891. ("debug=all" causes a lot of
messages sho
On Mon, 2022-02-14 at 06:57 -0500, Curtis Maurand wrote:
> Wow. Nice piece of troubleshooting.
Thanks :) Not there yet though - still some way to go ;)
> Have you thought about virtualizing some of this? I have a windows 7
> machine that I virtualized a long time ago. I just move it from hos
On 2/13/22 16:05, Peter Duffy wrote:
I've got an old box running CentOS 6.2 and Windows 7. Without going into
details, this box is vital and I use it every day. Finally I decided
that I had to bite the bullet and upgrade the linux system, and I
decided to go for chimaera.
Built a new box from sc
A couple of afterthoughts on this (after starting to work on the bug).
The CentOS system is actually 6.7, not 6.2 as I'd thought. It has been
upgraded fairly regularly over the years.
The kernel isn't vanilla 2.6 - it contains a vast number of patches
retrofitted by Red Hat (the version number i
Hi Emanuel
Thanks for that link. It's OK - I'm not hosting websites on my CentOS 6
box! There are a number of reasons why I've been terrified of trying to
upgrade this box up to now - and the experience of the last fortnight
has tended to confirm most of my existing fears and add a few more
beside
On Sun, 13 Feb 2022 21:05:41 +
Peter Duffy wrote:
> I've got an old box running CentOS 6.2 and Windows 7. Without going
> into details, this box is vital and I use it every day. Finally I
> decided that I had to bite the bullet and upgrade the linux system,
> and I decided to go for chimaera.
Hello Peter,
looks like someone else is experiencing the same issue (though there
where no answers yet):
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-kernel-70/gnu-grub-version-2-04-you-need-to-load-the-kernel-first-4175707760/
I don't see version 2 of the Linux kernel listed on https://ker
