On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 at 02:13:02PM -0600, Dan McGhee wrote:
> For one thing it resolved my paranoia about where grub would write.
>
I would describe that as "sensible caution", not paranoia. I've
irretrievably bricked one machine, and I don't wish that on anyone.
In my case (the notorious Amig
On 11/09/2013 11:57 AM, Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 at 10:42:14AM -0600, Dan McGhee wrote:
>> I wanted to respond directly to you, Ken, because your original was so
>> detailed and obviously took a long time. Thanks for that.
>>
>> I'm keeping your suggestions for the "if all else fai
On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 at 10:42:14AM -0600, Dan McGhee wrote:
> I wanted to respond directly to you, Ken, because your original was so
> detailed and obviously took a long time. Thanks for that.
>
> I'm keeping your suggestions for the "if all else fails" part of my
> work. In what I have observ
Dan McGhee wrote:
> On 11/09/2013 10:49 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>> Dan McGhee wrote:
>>> I know I'm top-posting and ask for forgiveness. Please consider this a
>>> preface to my responses to what Bruce offered. And thanks, Bruce, for
>>> your thoughts. I am frustrated by not being able to find docum
On 11/09/2013 10:49 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Dan McGhee wrote:
>> I know I'm top-posting and ask for forgiveness. Please consider this a
>> preface to my responses to what Bruce offered. And thanks, Bruce, for
>> your thoughts. I am frustrated by not being able to find documentation
>> about what t
Dan McGhee wrote:
> I know I'm top-posting and ask for forgiveness. Please consider this a
> preface to my responses to what Bruce offered. And thanks, Bruce, for
> your thoughts. I am frustrated by not being able to find documentation
> about what the grub modules do--and now for many of the varia
On 11/08/2013 08:40 PM, Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 at 02:35:35AM +, Ken Moffat wrote:
>> [ snip EFI / grub.cfg details, I'm going to query your reasoning ]
>>
> I see Bruce has replied while I was composing this. Definitely try
> his suggestions first (he understands those horr
I know I'm top-posting and ask for forgiveness. Please consider this a
preface to my responses to what Bruce offered. And thanks, Bruce, for
your thoughts. I am frustrated by not being able to find documentation
about what the grub modules do--and now for many of the variables grub
uses. A simp
Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 at 02:35:35AM +, Ken Moffat wrote:
>> [ snip EFI / grub.cfg details, I'm going to query your reasoning ]
>>
> I see Bruce has replied while I was composing this. Definitely try
> his suggestions first (he understands those horrid gpt partitions
> and
On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 at 02:35:35AM +, Ken Moffat wrote:
> [ snip EFI / grub.cfg details, I'm going to query your reasoning ]
>
I see Bruce has replied while I was composing this. Definitely try
his suggestions first (he understands those horrid gpt partitions
and the even more horrid [1] gru
On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 06:17:44PM -0600, Dan McGhee wrote:
> I have everything in place to boot LFS in EFI-mode. The problem is that
> something is failing and the messages go by so fast that I can't see
> what it is. Just like I have it set up, the laptop boots to Ubuntu if
> the LFS boot fa
Dan McGhee wrote:
>> menuentry 'LFS-7.4' --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os
>> $menuentry_id_option
Those class things are for the display. They are not needed foar a
basic system.
>> 'gnulinux-simple-d52e1640-9ac4-4c5d-aad1-9c79ff1f0bbd' {
This is what is displayed as the boot option.
I have everything in place to boot LFS in EFI-mode. The problem is that
something is failing and the messages go by so fast that I can't see
what it is. Just like I have it set up, the laptop boots to Ubuntu if
the LFS boot failed. My problem is that I'm stymied in my troubleshooting.
I've r
13 matches
Mail list logo
