On 12/25/20 10:28 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
> Also, given bloat over time, is 128 megabytes still sufficient for the
> boot partition today? I plan to keep 2 kernels around at all times,
> "Production" and "Experimental".
>
It depends on how you configure your kernel (and which modules are
built-in
This is my first UEFI install, so please pardon the questions.
1) Partitioning questions: The standard layout example in
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Full/Installation#What_is_the_BIOS_boot_partition.3F
says...
> The BIOS boot partition is needed when a GPT partition layout is
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Dec 2020 16:38:13 -0600, Dale wrote:
>
>>> You can also use systemd-boot, a separate package for OpenRC users,
>>> which I have used without an initramfs. systemd-boot is very
>>> lightweight and only requires a two line config for each kernel, plus
>>> a two line
On Fri, 25 Dec 2020 16:38:13 -0600, Dale wrote:
> > You can also use systemd-boot, a separate package for OpenRC users,
> > which I have used without an initramfs. systemd-boot is very
> > lightweight and only requires a two line config for each kernel, plus
> > a two line general config (timeout
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Dec 2020 15:55:23 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
>
>> One other thing, looking at the docs, it seems that refind requires
>> initrd. Am I reading it correctly? If so, I may as well go with grub.
>> Grub usually requires setting up stuff once. Initrd requires runnin
On Friday, 25 December 2020 16:32:13 GMT J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On 25 December 2020 10:44:52 CET, Peter Humphrey
wrote:
> >On Thursday, 24 December 2020 16:11:41 GMT J. Roeleveld wrote:
> >> On 24 December 2020 15:17:02 CET, Peter Humphrey
> >
> >
> >
> >wrote:
> >> >On Thursday, 24 December 2020
On Friday, 25 December 2020 19:17:24 GMT Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 06:45:42PM +, Jorge Almeida wrote
>
> > Learning about UEFI: https://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/
> > Suggestion: forget about grub; refind is the way to go (link above)
> > Also: you don't need parted; gdisk is
On Fri, 25 Dec 2020 15:55:23 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
> One other thing, looking at the docs, it seems that refind requires
> initrd. Am I reading it correctly? If so, I may as well go with grub.
> Grub usually requires setting up stuff once. Initrd requires running
> more often.
While I've
On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 9:01 PM Jorge Almeida wrote:
>
> On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 8:55 PM Walter Dnes wrote:
> >
>
> >
> The initrd documentation can be a bit overwhelming. Still, much better
I meant "The refind documentation", of course.
On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 8:55 PM Walter Dnes wrote:
>
>
> One other thing, looking at the docs, it seems that refind requires
> initrd. Am I reading it correctly? If so, I may as well go with grub.
> Grub usually requires setting up stuff once. Initrd requires running
> more often.
>
No. I us
On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 07:32:42PM +, Jorge Almeida wrote
> On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 7:17 PM Walter Dnes wrote:
> >
>
> > Thanks for the pointers. Are there any changes I have to make in my
> > linux kernel to boot UEFI? Note; legacy BIOS boot is *NOT* an option
> > on my new Dell XPS8940.
On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 7:17 PM Walter Dnes wrote:
>
> Thanks for the pointers. Are there any changes I have to make in my
> linux kernel to boot UEFI? Note; legacy BIOS boot is *NOT* an option
> on my new Dell XPS8940. It's UEFI boot only.
>
I'm not sure that it is really necessary for refi
On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 06:45:42PM +, Jorge Almeida wrote
> Learning about UEFI: https://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/
> Suggestion: forget about grub; refind is the way to go (link above)
> Also: you don't need parted; gdisk is fine if you're OK with fdisk
Thanks for the pointers. Are there a
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On Thursday, December 24, 2020 8:11 PM, wrote:
> {@} * {@} * {@} Merry X-mas and a Happy New Year!
> {@} * {@} * {@} * {@} Wish you all extra ordinary good luck!
> {@} * {@} * {@}
> \ \ \ 2021 / / /
>
> And thank you all for the help you trying to provide.
> T
On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 4:41 PM Walter Dnes wrote:
>
> After 20 years on linux, I've been reduced to a newbie. BIOS boot,
> Lilo, and fdisk served me well for 2 decades. Now I'm going to have to
> learn UEFI, grub, and parted all at once. I'll start a new thread
> tomorrow once I have my con
On Fri, 25 Dec 2020 11:41:03 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
> After 20 years on linux, I've been reduced to a newbie. BIOS boot,
> Lilo, and fdisk served me well for 2 decades. Now I'm going to have to
> learn UEFI, grub, and parted all at once. I'll start a new thread
> tomorrow once I have my co
On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 03:49:35PM -0700, Dan Egli wrote
> I see your problem, I think. You don't have your ESP mounted, so
> grub can't write the EFI files to it. You are likely trying to use
> grub with grub-install /dev/sda. That won't work for EFI.
>
> mkdir /boot/efi
> mount -t vfat /dev/sda1
On Fri, 25 Dec 2020 15:07:59 +, caveman رجل الكهف wrote:
> hi. i just want to help a bit by sharing a
> thought that i think is useful to the civilisation
> of life forms in general:
>
> - new year celebrations are wasteful in
> several ways (e.g. waste on needless
> purchas
On 25 December 2020 10:44:52 CET, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>On Thursday, 24 December 2020 16:11:41 GMT J. Roeleveld wrote:
>> On 24 December 2020 15:17:02 CET, Peter Humphrey
>
>wrote:
>> >On Thursday, 24 December 2020 09:52:03 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote:
>> >> Greetings,
>> >>
>> >> I asked about th
On Friday, 25 December 2020 03:56:58 GMT Ashley Dixon wrote:
> How's it going dudes?
>
> I bought a Logitech C270 webcam from Argos about a year ago, which,
> according to the LKDDb [1] and U.V.C. driver website [2], should work well
> on Linux. Despite working flawlessly until recently, some str
On Thursday, 24 December 2020 20:11:19 GMT the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
> {@} * {@} * {@} Merry X-mas and a Happy New Year!
> {@} * {@} * {@} * {@} Wish you all extra ordinary good luck!
> {@} * {@} * {@}
> \ \ \ 2021 / / /
>
> And thank you all for the help you trying
On Thursday, 24 December 2020 16:11:41 GMT J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On 24 December 2020 15:17:02 CET, Peter Humphrey
wrote:
> >On Thursday, 24 December 2020 09:52:03 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote:
> >> Greetings,
> >>
> >> I asked about this a long time ago, but I can't find the answer.
> >
> >Never min
Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> Am Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 03:19:08AM -0600 schrieb Dale:
>
>>> Something to look into before going the traditional raid/nfs route:
>>> moosefs or lizardfs. I am using arm based odroid HC2's and over the
>>> softraid based nfs I was using there are considerable power savin
Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> Am Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 10:38:33AM -0600 schrieb Dale:
>
>> My router also has two USB plugs for sharing external hard drives or USB
>> sticks. I'm not talking about that because I don't like hooking a drive
>> up over USB. It never works well for some reason. Accordi
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