Re: [arch-general] Another 'gotta be something idiotic': trying to create bootable USB thumb drive

2013-04-13 Thread Kyle
According to Rashif Ray Rahman: # -- with UUID. I dislike hardcoding label names as they are likely to # change, but UUIDs are static (barring reformats). I greatly prefer labels, because they are human readable, chosen by the end user, and unless I'm totally misunderstanding how they work, only c

[arch-general] and with rEFInd, was Re: gummiboot kernel panic: unable to mount root fs

2013-04-13 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/13/2013 12:11 PM, David Benfell wrote: > > I'm not quite sure what the best way to proceed is at this point. > I think I'm awfully close to having it working, but it *is* EFI, > and so far, that's always an adventure. > I decided to try rEFInd.

[arch-general] gummiboot kernel panic: unable to mount root fs

2013-04-13 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I haven't seen this one for a while--a long while. I assume it still means what it used to mean, that is, that I haven't correctly specified the root partition. gummiboot is proving to be a bit of an adventure on this Asus X202E. The gummiboo

Re: [arch-general] Another 'gotta be something idiotic': trying to create bootable USB thumb drive

2013-04-13 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/13/2013 12:43 AM, Rashif Ray Rahman wrote: > > It looks like your thumbdrive wasn't as stubborn as was initially > suspected. Recreating the partition table made it work. What you're > facing now is an issue with configuration. > > My personal

[arch-general] debug package repositories

2013-04-13 Thread William Giokas
All, With the inclusion of the debug option in pacman 4.1.0, I think it makes sense to do something with this in the official repositories. I've sifted through some bug reports asking for inclusion of the debug symbols in a separate package or repository officially for testing purposes. With [extr

Re: [arch-general] Another 'gotta be something idiotic': trying to create bootable USB thumb drive

2013-04-13 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 13 April 2013 14:27, David Benfell wrote: > On 04/12/2013 12:32 AM, P .NIKOLIC wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> Those SanDisk drive are a real pain you can use them but you are >> going to have to fdisk it first there is stuff on there that stops >> Linux dead in it's tracks i have several of them the 4Gb