Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Gentoo wiki discussion notification options?

2012-08-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 00:19:12 -0400 "Walter Dnes" wrote: > Yes, I am a noob at wikis. I was doing the final edits on the > USB-automounting-under-mdev gentoo wiki page, and I wondered what the > "Discussion" tab was. I clicked, and saw that a couple of people had > asked questions weeks ago.

Re: [gentoo-user] Invalid modules format?!

2012-08-11 Thread Jesús J . Guerrero Botella
Use uname -r to check that the kernel version in that path matches the kernel version you are running. Also note that if you changed anything important in your kernel and recompiled it you might need to recompile the external module as well. What "important" means depends on the module itself, and

[gentoo-user] Cannot see Grub menu

2012-08-11 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Hi there So after the recent thread here about 32bit/64bit and some arguments from a friend, I made the switch from 32 bit to 64 bit (with a clean install from scratch of course). There’s one big problem I’m having: I cannot see the Grub (legacy) boot menu. It still functions alright, but I don’

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot see Grub menu

2012-08-11 Thread Mark Knecht
>From Kindle so very short response for now. 1) Was this disk previously used for 32-bit? 2) For 64-bit I've always used grub-static.

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot see Grub menu

2012-08-11 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 06:33:03PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > From Kindle so very short response for now. > > 1) Was this disk previously used for 32-bit? Yup. Well, I installed the 64 bit into a temporary partition that I created, so I still had the working 32 bit system in case something goes

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot see Grub menu

2012-08-11 Thread Mark Knecht
All of that is the OS, not grub which is in the MBR I think. emerge grub-static and then do the install as per the boot loader instructions in the manual. It will likely work fine then. Good luck.

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot see Grub menu

2012-08-11 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: > All of that is the OS, not grub which is in the MBR I think. emerge > grub-static and then do the install as per the boot loader > instructions in the manual. It will likely work fine then. > > Good luck. > > When I did my install, I used grub-static too. I never tried the pl