Re: [gentoo-user] Grub fails. I missed something.

2025-04-05 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > You could chroot from a liveUSB or better your old hdd and check you have > /etc > /root and /home/dale in place and the contents and access rights have been > copied over correctly - rsync should do this fast enough. Before you start > nuking things indiscriminately please no

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub fails. I missed something.

2025-03-27 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sun, Mar 23, 2025 at 12:41:31AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Dale wrote: > > > > Sorry it took me a bit to do anything with this.  We still working on > > that tree.  We getting close to being done.  Anyway, I mounted the new > > SSD OS on the old OS and copied over /etc and /root again.  I really > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub fails. I missed something.

2025-03-23 Thread Dale
Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Sun, Mar 23, 2025 at 12:41:31AM -0500 schrieb Dale: >> Dale wrote: >>> Sorry it took me a bit to do anything with this.  We still working on >>> that tree.  We getting close to being done.  Anyway, I mounted the new >>> SSD OS on the old OS and copied over /etc and /r

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub fails. I missed something.

2025-03-22 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: > > Sorry it took me a bit to do anything with this.  We still working on > that tree.  We getting close to being done.  Anyway, I mounted the new > SSD OS on the old OS and copied over /etc and /root again.  I really > don't need /home much since I only use root on that thing.  Oh, for

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub fails. I missed something.

2025-03-18 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sun, Mar 16, 2025 at 10:50:05PM -0500 schrieb Dale: Dale wrote: Howdy, New problem.  As I mentioned in another reply, I booted the NAS box to update my backups.  The thing won't let me login.  I type in root, it sits there for 20 or 30 seconds then returns to a login prompt.  I also trie

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub fails. I missed something.

2025-03-17 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Sunday, 16 March 2025 11:40:14 Greenwich Mean Time you wrote: >> On Sunday, 16 March 2025 09:58:42 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote: >>> Dale wrote: Well, this got interesting. I booted the spinning rust drive again and redone the /boot from the old system. I rebuilt t

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub fails. I missed something.

2025-03-17 Thread Michael
You could chroot from a liveUSB or better your old hdd and check you have /etc /root and /home/dale in place and the contents and access rights have been copied over correctly - rsync should do this fast enough. Before you start nuking things indiscriminately please note your /etc/fstab is now

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub fails. I missed something.

2025-03-16 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > New problem.  As I mentioned in another reply, I booted the NAS box to update my backups.  The thing won't let me login.  I type in root, it sits there for 20 or 30 seconds then returns to a login prompt.  I also tried the user dale but no joy there either.  I'm back to s

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub fails. I missed something.

2025-03-16 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 16 March 2025 11:40:14 Greenwich Mean Time you wrote: > On Sunday, 16 March 2025 09:58:42 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote: > > Dale wrote: > > > Well, this got interesting. I booted the spinning rust drive again and > > > redone the /boot from the old system. I rebuilt the init thingy b

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub fails. I missed something.

2025-03-16 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 16 March 2025 09:58:42 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote: > Dale wrote: > > Well, this got interesting. I booted the spinning rust drive again and > > redone the /boot from the old system. I rebuilt the init thingy because > > the one that was there was for the old drive. I then ran the

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub fails. I missed something.

2025-03-16 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: > > Well, this got interesting.  I booted the spinning rust drive again and > redone the /boot from the old system.  I rebuilt the init thingy because > the one that was there was for the old drive.  I then ran the usual grub > commands to generate the config file and even reinstalled g

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub fails. I missed something.

2025-03-16 Thread Dale
William Kenworthy wrote: > > On 16/3/25 13:04, Dale wrote: >> eric wrote: >>> On 3/15/25 13:42, Dale wrote: The biggest thing that slows that system is that the CPU doesn't have AES support for my encryption on the drives.  Still, I wanted to play with it and see if it would go any f

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub fails. I missed something.

2025-03-15 Thread William Kenworthy
On 16/3/25 13:04, Dale wrote: eric wrote: On 3/15/25 13:42, Dale wrote: The biggest thing that slows that system is that the CPU doesn't have AES support for my encryption on the drives.  Still, I wanted to play with it and see if it would go any faster.  I kinda hate having a nice SSD drive

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub fails. I missed something.

2025-03-15 Thread Dale
eric wrote: > On 3/15/25 13:42, Dale wrote: >> The biggest thing that slows that system is that the CPU doesn't have >> AES support for my encryption on the drives.  Still, I wanted to play >> with it and see if it would go any faster.  I kinda hate having a >> nice SSD drive laying on the shelf do

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub fails. I missed something.

2025-03-15 Thread William Kenworthy
On 16/3/25 05:43, eric wrote: On 3/15/25 13:42, Dale wrote: The biggest thing that slows that system is that the CPU doesn't have AES support for my encryption on the drives.  Still, I wanted to play with it and see if it would go any faster.  I kinda hate having a nice SSD drive laying on t

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub fails. I missed something.

2025-03-15 Thread eric
On 3/15/25 13:42, Dale wrote: The biggest thing that slows that system is that the CPU doesn't have AES support for my encryption on the drives.  Still, I wanted to play with it and see if it would go any faster.  I kinda hate having a nice SSD drive laying on the shelf doing nothing.  I got a

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub fails. I missed something.

2025-03-15 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Saturday, 15 March 2025 07:29:32 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> I have a Samsung SSD 500GB drive that I ended up not using in my new >> build, went with the m.2 stick thingy. I decided that I would put it in >> the NAS box and replace the spinning rust drive.

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub fails. I missed something.

2025-03-15 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 15 March 2025 07:29:32 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I have a Samsung SSD 500GB drive that I ended up not using in my new > build, went with the m.2 stick thingy. I decided that I would put it in > the NAS box and replace the spinning rust drive. I booted a sysrescue