Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs only, without dracut

2014-05-19 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 17.05.2014 20:48, schrieb Greg Turner: > On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > >> It seems to not detect or interpret correctly the fact that there are 2 >> physical devices in there and then the "linux ..." line for grub.cfg >> gets messed up, at least for me here. >>

Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs and sparse VM image files

2014-05-19 Thread Marc Stürmer
Am 18.05.2014 14:28, schrieb Neil Bothwick: I'm confused about the desirability of keeping VM image files, usually space qcow files, on a btrfs volume. I have read the advice about using chattr +C on the subvolume, but are there any other gotchas? The btrfs wiki says in one place that using spar

Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts and bad eyes

2014-05-19 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 17 May 2014, Walter Dnes wrote: >On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 01:21:08PM +0200, David Haller wrote >> The Linux text-console font is also very good. > > I used to do email and various other stuff on a VGA2 screen (640x480). >There are 5 lat1 consolefonts... > >/usr/share/consolefonts/la

Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts and bad eyes

2014-05-19 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sun, 18 May 2014, Peter Humphrey wrote: >On Saturday 17 May 2014 13:21:08 David Haller wrote: >> The Linux text-console font is also very good. >Yes, except for one thing: the oblique stroke through the zero. That makes it >almost indistinguishable from an 8, to my poor eyes (one acute

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-19 Thread Tanstaafl
On 5/16/2014 6:04 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Whatever gets rid of LVM is good on my book. I've never understood why people uses it, and in my experience it only brings headaches. One very big reason to have been using it on linux - since it is only relatively recently that zfs has been an

Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs and sparse VM image files

2014-05-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 19 May 2014 12:07:32 +0200, Marc Stürmer wrote: > Just take a look at the official Gotchas Page of BTRFS, which can be > found here: > > https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Gotchas > > Putting virtual image files on Btrfs is something that the developers > still do not recommend at

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: PNG MIMI type

2014-05-19 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 04:43:31PM +0200, waben...@gmail.com wrote: > My classes have a optical power of about 4-dioptre and I need a special > class for screen reading. I'm using XFCE as WM and these are my > settings: OT, but SCNR: ;-) Did you just expose yourself as an apple user, or why does

Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts and bad eyes

2014-05-19 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 02:58:26PM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 17 May 2014 02:17:17 Dale wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > I'm curious. I'm sure there are some older folks on here that have eyes > > that are not in the best of shape. Mine are not real good even with > > glasses. My quest

Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts and bad eyes

2014-05-19 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 19 May 2014 12:29:09 David Haller wrote: > On Sun, 18 May 2014, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Some time ago I tried to find out where the VC font is defined, with > > a view to removing that oblique bar, but I ran out of steam before > > finding it. If anyone can shed any light on this I'd be

Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs and sparse VM image files

2014-05-19 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 7:01 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 19 May 2014 12:07:32 +0200, Marc Stürmer wrote: > >> Just take a look at the official Gotchas Page of BTRFS, which can be >> found here: >> >> https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Gotchas >> >> Putting virtual image files on Btrfs

Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs only, without dracut

2014-05-19 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 3:04 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 17.05.2014 20:48, schrieb Greg Turner: >> But if you have it working now without any initramfs then >> obviously that is full of win (the LA kind, not the Redmond variety)! > > I wonder if there are any real advantages of booting *w

Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs only, without dracut

2014-05-19 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 19.05.2014 15:39, schrieb Rich Freeman: > On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 3:04 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> ... it seems to me that this adds something like an additional layer >> around certain things and helps to make all that more bulletproof? >> > > Now that I know how to use dracut I'm basi

[gentoo-user] grub2 boots only older kernel

2014-05-19 Thread James
Hello, > grub 2 trouble? I have 6 different kernels. that show up in /boot and in the grub2 boot menu of choices. The lastest version that works is 3.13.6 I cannot get any since then to boot the (FX8350) gentoo system. Very weird. I even copied of the .config file from 3.13.6 to 3.14.4, answered

Re: [gentoo-user] udev or Gentoo issue?

2014-05-19 Thread Grant
I have this: # dmesg | grep enp [4.297862] systemd-udevd[659]: renamed network interface eth0 to enp0s20u2u1 [4.778289] systemd-udevd[660]: renamed network interface eth0 to enp0s20u2u2 [6.496193] ax88179_178a 3-2.1:1.0 enp0s20u2u1: ax88179 - Li

Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs only, without dracut

2014-05-19 Thread Dale
Rich Freeman wrote: > Now that I know how to use dracut I'm basically using it everywhere, > even for VMs that have a single ext4 partition (where it really is a > bit overkill). For the most part it is plug-and-play, and once you > start getting multiple disks involved it adds a lot of robustness

Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs only, without dracut

2014-05-19 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 19.05.2014 22:51, schrieb Dale: > I might add, I used dracut for a while. A while back when I went to > boot back up, shutdown because my power went out, the init thingy > failed. I had zero clue on how to fix it so I edited grub to ignore the > init part and booted up the old way. Once boot

Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs only, without dracut

2014-05-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 19/05/2014 23:43, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 19.05.2014 22:51, schrieb Dale: > >> I might add, I used dracut for a while. A while back when I went to >> boot back up, shutdown because my power went out, the init thingy >> failed. I had zero clue on how to fix it so I edited grub to igno

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 boots only older kernel

2014-05-19 Thread wraeth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 20/05/14 05:26, James wrote: > Hello, Greetings :-) > I even copied of the .config file from 3.13.6 to 3.14.4, answered the > questions and issued: By "answered the questions" can I assume this to mean `make oldconfig`? > make && make modules

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 boots only older kernel

2014-05-19 Thread wireless
On 05/19/14 19:00, wraeth wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 20/05/14 05:26, James wrote: Hello, Greetings :-) I even copied of the .config file from 3.13.6 to 3.14.4, answered the questions and issued: By "answered the questions" can I assume this to mean `make old

[gentoo-user] Re: problem getting systemd to work [solved more or less]

2014-05-19 Thread covici
Hi. I just wanted to thank everyone on the list, Canek and Stefan most of all, for finally helping me to get systemd going on my system! It was definitely a struggle, which should not be, but I finally got things to work pretty well. Booting is definitely faster, although I hope not to boot ofte