[gentoo-user] booting from a usb flash drive

I believe I correctly dd'ed a minimal cd onto a usb flash (aka thumb) drive. I set the boot order on my new system (dell 7450) to have the usb storage device first. Sure enough I get the isolinux prompt and the kernel is loaded. However after asking for the keymap (I just hit enter) it types "lo

[gentoo-user] media-video/mkvtoolnix-7.3.0 fails to configure it seems

Anyone else running into this? checking if linking against libMatroska works and if it requires -DMATROSKA_DLL... yes, without -MATROSKA_DLL checking for ZLIB... yes checking for wx-config... /usr/lib64/wx/config/gtk2-unicode-3.0 checking for wxWidgets 2.8.0 or newer... 3.0.2 ok checking for wxWi

Re: [gentoo-user] media-video/mkvtoolnix-7.3.0 fails to configure it seems

> On Jul 16, 2015, at 1:15 PM, Dale wrote: > > Anyone else running into this? > > No. > checking if linking against libMatroska works and if it requires > -DMATROSKA_DLL... yes, without -MATROSKA_DLL > checking for ZLIB... yes > checking for wx-config... /usr/lib64/wx/config/gtk2-unicode-3.0

[gentoo-user] grub-2 update

Hello:: Background:: I have had many challenges with grub 2, in the past (as have many). Current:: Grub-2.02_beta2-r3 wants to upgrade to grub-2.02_beta2-r7 It appears to be marked stable. So if I do this, what will I have to do to keep the system booting. No interamfs just a big partiti

Re: [gentoo-user] booting from a usb flash drive

On 16/07/2015 18:40, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: > I believe I correctly dd'ed a minimal cd onto a usb flash (aka thumb) > drive. > > I set the boot order on my new system (dell 7450) to have the usb > storage device first. Sure enough I get the isolinux prompt and the > kernel is loaded. > > Howeve

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-2 update

On 16/07/2015 21:34, James wrote: > Hello:: > > Background:: > I have had many challenges with grub 2, in the past (as have many). > > Current:: > Grub-2.02_beta2-r3 wants to upgrade to > grub-2.02_beta2-r7 It appears to be marked stable. > > > So if I do this, what will I have to do to

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-2 update

> On Jul 16, 2015, at 3:46 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On 16/07/2015 21:34, James wrote: >> Hello:: >> >> Background:: >> I have had many challenges with grub 2, in the past (as have many). >> >> Current:: >> Grub-2.02_beta2-r3 wants to upgrade to >> grub-2.02_beta2-r7 It appears to be mar

Re: [gentoo-user] booting from a usb flash drive

> On Jul 16, 2015, at 3:44 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > The Gentoo minimal CD does not work if you simply dd it to a thumb drive > (I rediscovered this anew on Monday). It works just fine if you use > unetbootin to do the magic though. I highly recommend using the ArchLinux ISO, which can be bu

[gentoo-user] Re: grub-2 update

Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: > The don't use it, grub:0 still works just fine It's all working fine (atm). But changes are problematic, or at least they have been in the past > I gave grub-2 a try earlier this week and once again couldn;t figure out > how to install that mini-OS that boot

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-2 update

On 16-Jul-15 21:34, James wrote: Grub-2.02_beta2-r3 wants to upgrade to grub-2.02_beta2-r7 It appears to be marked stable. So if I do this, what will I have to do to keep the system booting. No interamfs just a big partition with everything but /boot and /usr/local. /dev/sda3 746G

[gentoo-user] Re: grub-2 update

Jarry gmail.com> writes: > I have similar setup as you and upgraded grub without any > problem. If beta2-r3 worked for you, beta2-r7 will as well. > If you did not disable /boot automount, there are no special > steps needed. Portage will mount /boot, update grub, and > dismound afterwards...

[gentoo-user] Re: grub-2 update

Alec Ten Harmsel alectenharmsel.com> writes: Grub-2.02_beta2-r3  wants to upgrade to grub-2.02_beta2-r7    > It looks like he’s going from grub-2.02 to grub-2.02. I don’t think > any action is necessary. Notice r3--> r7 Grub 2 can be a bear in sheep's clothing > I know that for serve

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub-2 update

On 16-Jul-15 22:08, James wrote: I have similar setup as you and upgraded grub without any problem. If beta2-r3 worked for you, beta2-r7 will as well. If you did not disable /boot automount, there are no special steps needed. Portage will mount /boot, update grub, and dismound afterwards... AH

Re: [gentoo-user] booting from a usb flash drive

On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: >> On Jul 16, 2015, at 3:44 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> The Gentoo minimal CD does not work if you simply dd it to a thumb drive >> (I rediscovered this anew on Monday). It works just fine if you use >> unetbootin to do the magic though. > > I high

[gentoo-user] Re: booting from a usb flash drive

On 2015-07-16, Alan McKinnon wrote: > The Gentoo minimal CD does not work if you simply dd it to a thumb drive > (I rediscovered this anew on Monday). It works just fine if you use > unetbootin to do the magic though. Has that changed recently? I tought the minimal ISO was already "hybrid" and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: booting from a usb flash drive

On 16 July 2015 at 23:28, Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2015-07-16, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > The Gentoo minimal CD does not work if you simply dd it to a thumb drive > > (I rediscovered this anew on Monday). It works just fine if you use > > unetbootin to do the magic though. > > Has that changed

Re: [gentoo-user] booting from a usb flash drive

On 07/16/2015 01:17 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: >>> The Gentoo minimal CD does not work if you simply dd it to a thumb drive >>> (I rediscovered this anew on Monday). It works just fine if you use >>> unetbootin to do the magic though. Is the partition table valid after you used dd to copy it over

Re: [gentoo-user] booting from a usb flash drive

2015-07-16 14:17 GMT-06:00 : > On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > >>> On Jul 16, 2015, at 3:44 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> >>> The Gentoo minimal CD does not work if you simply dd it to a thumb drive >>> (I rediscovered this anew on Monday). It works just fine if you use >>> unetboot

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: booting from a usb flash drive

On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > On 16 July 2015 at 23:28, Grant Edwards wrote: >> >> On 2015-07-16, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> > The Gentoo minimal CD does not work if you simply dd it to a thumb drive >> > (I rediscovered this anew on Monday). It works just fine if you use >> > unetb

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: booting from a usb flash drive

On 16 July 2015 at 23:39, wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > >> On 16 July 2015 at 23:28, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> >>> On 2015-07-16, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> >>> > The Gentoo minimal CD does not work if you simply dd it to a thumb drive >>> > (I rediscovered this anew on Monda

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub-2 update

Solution that works for me: - Compile the kernel with everything built-in leaving modules for the few things that really need to be reloadable. Turn everything in the bloody thing off. This avoids the need for a kernel-specific filestem in the initrd. - This since you don't need any

Re: [gentoo-user] booting from a usb flash drive

On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Jc García wrote: > 2015-07-16 14:17 GMT-06:00 : >> On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: >> On Jul 16, 2015, at 3:44 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: The Gentoo minimal CD does not work if you simply dd it to a thumb drive (I rediscovered this anew on Mond

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: booting from a usb flash drive

On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > On 16 July 2015 at 23:39, wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: >> >>> On 16 July 2015 at 23:28, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2015-07-16, Alan McKinnon wrote: > The Gentoo minimal CD does not work if you simply dd it to a t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: booting from a usb flash drive

On 16 July 2015 at 23:48, wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > >> On 16 July 2015 at 23:39, wrote: >>> On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: >>> On 16 July 2015 at 23:28, Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2015-07-16, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > The Gentoo minim

Re: [gentoo-user] booting from a usb flash drive

On 16/07/2015 22:01, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > >> On Jul 16, 2015, at 3:44 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> The Gentoo minimal CD does not work if you simply dd it to a thumb drive >> (I rediscovered this anew on Monday). It works just fine if you use >> unetbootin to do the magic though. > > I hi

Re: [gentoo-user] booting from a usb flash drive

On 16/07/2015 22:17, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > >>> On Jul 16, 2015, at 3:44 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> >>> The Gentoo minimal CD does not work if you simply dd it to a thumb drive >>> (I rediscovered this anew on Monday). It works just fine if you

[gentoo-user] Don't disable 'introspection'

I don't understand 'introspection' enough to know why we need it, but apparently we do, so don't use the -introspection useflag like I did. The trouble I introduced a few weeks ago when I disabled introspection was subtle enough that I didn't realize until yesterday that I even had a problem. Por

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: booting from a usb flash drive

On 16/07/2015 22:39, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > >> On 16 July 2015 at 23:28, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> >>> On 2015-07-16, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> The Gentoo minimal CD does not work if you simply dd it to a thumb drive (I rediscovered this anew

Re: [gentoo-user] booting from a usb flash drive

dd worked for me last month :) josh On Jul 16, 2015 3:53 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 16/07/2015 22:17, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > >>> On Jul 16, 2015, at 3:44 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> >>> The Gentoo minimal CD does not work if you simply dd it t

Re: [gentoo-user] booting from a usb flash drive

2015-07-16 14:44 GMT-06:00 : > I have not had trouble with the minimal cd. I do the actual work on > another (gentoo) machine. > * Tries to boot an Image, 4+ hours later and after asking help to the mailing list, still no success in booting, has had no trouble with the gentoo minimal cd * Don'

Re: [gentoo-user] booting from a usb flash drive

On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 21:44:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Or you could wait for the resident expert (Neil) to supply the magic > incantation that lets dd do what you want :-) It's simple, use System Rescue Cd ;-) -- Neil Bothwick "B?#$^f," said Pooh, as line noise garbled his transmission.

Re: [gentoo-user] Don't disable 'introspection'

Am Thu, 16 Jul 2015 13:53:12 -0700 schrieb walt : > I don't understand 'introspection' enough to know why we need it, but > apparently we do, so don't use the -introspection useflag like I did. > > The trouble I introduced a few weeks ago when I disabled introspection > was subtle enough that I d

Re: [gentoo-user] booting from a usb flash drive

On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 22:53:01 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > I need to double check memory of ancient hardware: A CD-R, that's that > thin round shiny thing about 5" across? What used to be used for music > before Napster came along? Just checking I have it right That's right, it's like a Blu-R

Re: [gentoo-user] Don't disable 'introspection'

On 16/07/2015 22:53, walt wrote: > I don't understand 'introspection' enough to know why we need it, but > apparently we do, so don't use the -introspection useflag like I did. > > The trouble I introduced a few weeks ago when I disabled introspection > was subtle enough that I didn't realize unti

Re: [gentoo-user] booting from a usb flash drive

On 16/07/2015 23:08, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 22:53:01 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> I need to double check memory of ancient hardware: A CD-R, that's that >> thin round shiny thing about 5" across? What used to be used for music >> before Napster came along? Just checking I h

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub-2 update

Am 16.07.2015 um 22:05 schrieb James: > I spent days during early kernel upgrades getting grub2 happy. You only need to run `grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg` after each kernel update. I'm using grub2 not for such a long time, but I made some kernel upgrades since I switched from grub-legacy

Re: [gentoo-user] booting from a usb flash drive

On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Jc García wrote: > 2015-07-16 14:44 GMT-06:00 : > >> I have not had trouble with the minimal cd. I do the actual work on >> another (gentoo) machine. >> > > * Tries to boot an Image, 4+ hours later and after asking help to the > mailing list, still no success in booting, has

Re: [gentoo-user] booting from a usb flash drive

On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 21:44:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Or you could wait for the resident expert (Neil) to supply the magic > incantation that lets dd do what you want :-) I tried it on my laptop and it refused to work. Dropping to a shell, I found there was no /dev/sdb, no wonder the init sc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: booting from a usb flash drive

On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > On 16 July 2015 at 23:48, wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: >> >>> On 16 July 2015 at 23:39, wrote: On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > On 16 July 2015 at 23:28, Grant Edwards wrote: >> >> On 2015-07-16,

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-2 update

On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 19:34:18 + (UTC), James wrote: > Current:: > Grub-2.02_beta2-r3 wants to upgrade to > grub-2.02_beta2-r7 It appears to be marked stable. > > > So if I do this, what will I have to do to keep the system booting. Nothing, I installed r7 on June 26th and the system j

Re: [gentoo-user] booting from a usb flash drive

2015-07-16 15:33 GMT-06:00 : > I was commenting on the use of the minimal CD rather than a fancy one > that had X etc. I have indeed had tremendous trouble this time and it > is getting worse. > Is not about fanciness, Is abut having the tools you need for the job, I understand you would choose

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub-2 update

On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 20:01:29 + (UTC), James wrote: > > I gave grub-2 a try earlier this week and once again couldn;t figure > > out how to install that mini-OS that bootstraps a boot loader which > > bootstraps a boot loader which loads code that loads a kernel. So back > > to grub:0 for me

Re: [gentoo-user] Don't disable 'introspection'

On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 3:53 PM, walt wrote: > > I don't understand 'introspection' enough to know why we need it, but > apparently we do, so don't use the -introspection useflag like I did. > > The trouble I introduced a few weeks ago when I disabled introspection > was subtle enough that I didn'

Re: [gentoo-user] Don't disable 'introspection'

On 07/16/2015 05:16 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 16/07/2015 22:53, walt wrote: If anyone can splain what introspection does I'd be grateful. It's a tricky concept if you haven't worked with Object Oriented Programming, so lt's look at the USE description: introspection - Add support for GObj

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: booting from a usb flash drive

On Thursday 16 July 2015 17:39:16 gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: > I will be trying system rescue CD. Half-way through this new thread of 50 messages I've been waiting for someone to recommend system rescue CD. Glad you thought of it yourself ;-) Somewhere on the Web are some instructions on writing

[gentoo-user] Re: grub-2 update

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2015-07-16 17:41, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 20:01:29 + (UTC), James wrote: > >>> I gave grub-2 a try earlier this week and once again couldn;t >>> figure out how to install that mini-OS that bootstraps a boot >>> loader which

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: booting from a usb flash drive

On Friday 17 July 2015 00:50:59 I wrote: > Half-way through this new thread of 50 messages I've been waiting for > someone to recommend system rescue CD. Actually it was only about 30 messages. Still, the same applies. -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] Don't disable 'introspection'

Am 17.07.2015 um 00:31 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 3:53 PM, walt > wrote: > > > > I don't understand 'introspection' enough to know why we need it, but > > apparently we do, so don't use the -introspection useflag like I did. > > > > The trouble

[gentoo-user] Re: Don't disable 'introspection'

On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 02:30:24 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > I have had -introspection set for ages in make.conf. > > It is turned on for some selected packages in package.use Which packages, and what problems were you solving by turning it on?

[gentoo-user] Re: Virtualbox-5.0.0 [wow!]

On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 19:43:05 -0400 Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > On Tuesday, July 14, 2015 6:53:43 PM walt wrote: > > > > I fired up my vbox gentoo guest machine and, of course, I tried to > > install the 5.0.0 guest additions kernel modules. > > > > I got an error message about usb support in th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Don't disable 'introspection'

2015-07-16 18:40 GMT-06:00 walt : > On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 02:30:24 +0200 > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> I have had -introspection set for ages in make.conf. >> >> It is turned on for some selected packages in package.use > > Which packages, and what problems were you solving by turning it on? >

Re: [gentoo-user] booting from a usb flash drive

On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 12:40 PM, wrote: > I believe I correctly dd'ed a minimal cd onto a usb flash (aka thumb) > drive. > > I set the boot order on my new system (dell 7450) to have the usb > storage device first. Sure enough I get the isolinux prompt and the > kernel is loaded. > > However af

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Don't disable 'introspection'

Am 17.07.2015 um 02:40 schrieb walt: > On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 02:30:24 +0200 > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> I have had -introspection set for ages in make.conf. >> >> It is turned on for some selected packages in package.use > Which packages, and what problems were you solving by turning it on? >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: booting from a usb flash drive

Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 17 July 2015 00:50:59 I wrote: > >> Half-way through this new thread of 50 messages I've been waiting for >> someone to recommend system rescue CD. > Actually it was only about 30 messages. Still, the same applies. > You mean you counted? ROFL I been using sys

[gentoo-user] Re: Don't disable 'introspection'

On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 03:49:05 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am 17.07.2015 um 02:40 schrieb walt: > > On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 02:30:24 +0200 > > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > >> I have had -introspection set for ages in make.conf. > >> > >> It is turned on for some selected packages in pac