Re: UEFI Big Drive question

2014-05-10 Thread David Benfell
On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 09:21:38PM -0500, Robert Nichols wrote: > On 05/10/2014 06:50 PM, benf...@parts-unknown.org wrote: > >My experience would be with Windows 7, which absolutely has to install on > >GPT. > > Perhaps you mean that Windows 7 has to be _able_ to install on GPT, not that > GPT is

Re: UEFI Big Drive question

2014-05-10 Thread Robert Nichols
On 05/10/2014 06:50 PM, benf...@parts-unknown.org wrote: My experience would be with Windows 7, which absolutely has to install on GPT. Perhaps you mean that Windows 7 has to be _able_ to install on GPT, not that GPT is a requirement. Windows 7 installs just fine on a disk with only a legacy M

Re: CPUFREQ on a Thinkpad Yoga i7 in a new Fedora 20 install

2014-05-10 Thread g
On 05/11/14 03:50, Alan E. Davis wrote: What is the danger of messing with cpufreq? depends how how much you 'mess with cpu freq'. with "today's" mainboards and limitations set by em, you will/may not be able to do harm. have a look at; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over_clocking and ch

Re: UEFI Big Drive question

2014-05-10 Thread benfell
Liam Proven writes: It will only install on NTFS, not FAT32 (& is too big to fit onto a FAT16 volume) but that's an entirely different issue. A Fedora list is the last place I'd expect to get into an argument over what Windows would install on. But you are confusing partition schemes with

Re: UEFI Big Drive question

2014-05-10 Thread Liam Proven
On 11 May 2014 01:50, wrote: > My experience would be with Windows 7, which absolutely has to install on > GPT. This is not true; I have multiple machines with Win7 and not a single one of them has any GPT disks at all. It will only install on NTFS, not FAT32 (& is too big to fit onto a FAT16

Re: UEFI Big Drive question

2014-05-10 Thread benfell
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht writes: This is true. My laptop's MS Windows XP doesn't seem to like GPT. Not sure about anything more recent. I only use the XP partition to load updated firmware on consumer devices, so I'm not about to spend money to upgrade an OS I use perhaps once a year. My exper

Re: CPUFREQ on a Thinkpad Yoga i7 in a new Fedora 20 install

2014-05-10 Thread Alan E. Davis
What is the danger of messing with cpufreq? Alan On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Sudhir Khanger wrote: > > On May 8, 2014 9:27 PM, "Alan E. Davis" wrote: > > > > I had a good experience, almost perfect, with Fedora some months ago, > staring with the Beta of F20. Since then I've tried several

Re: UEFI Big Drive question

2014-05-10 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Stephen Morris writes: > The one limitation with GPT as I understand it is that in order to use > GPT you must also have UEFI active in the Bios. I use GPT on all my single-boot Fedora machines. All but one has the traditional BIOS. The traditional BIOS works just fine with GPT formatted disks.

Re: CPUFREQ on a Thinkpad Yoga i7 in a new Fedora 20 install

2014-05-10 Thread Alan E. Davis
The biggest question for me is this: is it a kernel issue that I am only seeing two governors, when other OSs see 4? Alan On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Sudhir Khanger wrote: > > On May 8, 2014 9:27 PM, "Alan E. Davis" wrote: > > > > I had a good experience, almost perfect, with Fedora some m

Re: grub2

2014-05-10 Thread Patrick Dupre
> Subject: Re: grub2 > > Hi, >  My experience with kernel installs in a grub 2 environment is that > I have to always manually run grub2-mkconfig and grub2-install as the > kernel install wants to run Gruby to update the grub configuration and > on my system, from Fedora 17 onwards, Gruby alwa

Remote Fedora 17 upgrade suggestions

2014-05-10 Thread Gary Stainburn
Hi folks. I've got a virtual server running on 123-reg's farm which is running F17. I'm looking for adivce, suggestions, gocha's etc regarding upgrading this system at least as far as F19 if not F20. I'm looking at probably using fedup as I've used that in the past but always on boxes that I w