Re: [gentoo-user] Exact setting in grub to default to a kernel by name?

2021-06-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 13 June 2021 21:58:05 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 04:09:58PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote > > > Or the OP could use Lilo, the simplest boot manager of all. > > On a UEFI-only desktop PC? No. There is sys-boot/elilo, which ought to do, but I haven't tried it. -- Re

[gentoo-user] Re: Exact setting in grub to default to a kernel by name?

2021-06-14 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2021-06-14, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 01:00:38AM -, Grant Edwards wrote >> All my grub.cfg files looks like this: >> >> >> timeout=10 >> root=hd0,1 >> default=0 >> >> menuentry 'vmlinuz-5.10.27-g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Exact setting in grub to default to a kernel by name?

2021-06-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 13 Jun 2021 22:34:30 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > 1) Is "insmod extfs3" necessary? I've built extfs3 into the > > > kernels. > > > > If the kernel is on an ext3 filesystem, yes. This is GRUB's module, it > > uses it to read an ext3 filesystem in order to load the kernel. > > Som

Re: [gentoo-user] Building package "dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2021" failed

2021-06-14 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Michael, On Sunday, 2021-06-13 18:23:54 +0100, you wrote: > ... > Yes, this looks odd, but I have not worked out how locale is sourced in > detail. Have you added: > > LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" > > in your /etc/env.d/02locale for a system wide setting? No, this file still contains LANG="en_GB.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Exact setting in grub to default to a kernel by name?

2021-06-14 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 08:38:50AM -, Grant Edwards wrote > Note that on this machine I just tell grub to search for the > filesystem with the label "root" instead of specifying it manually -- > though it is still specified manually for the kernel argument. I don't > remember why I did that...