Re: Possibly erroneous "device not present" message during boot

On 2017-04-18 at 15:42, Brian wrote: > On Tue 18 Apr 2017 at 20:55:43 +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > >> Le 17/04/2017 à 22:46, GiaThnYgeia a écrit : >>> >>> I hope this makes some sense to someone. >> >> Not to me. TL;DR. > > TL is "too loquacious"? DR is "drivel"? In case you're not being f

Encrypted RAID1 for storage with Debian Jessie

Hello, Is there an easy way to attach several pair of RAID1 disks (with full disk encryption) to a Debian Jessie system? Here is a picture of what I'm trying to achieve: http://imgur.com/vF7IqX2 I am building a home backup system, I have different type of data to backup (work, family, rand

Re: Possibly erroneous "device not present" message during boot

On Wed 19 Apr 2017 at 00:12:15 +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 18/04/2017 à 21:14, Brian a écrit : > > > >However, my main point was that the kernel > >identifying a card as a /dev/sdX disk does not imply it will necessarily > >be visible to GRUB and bootable by it. > > If the card reader is i

Re: Possibly erroneous "device not present" message during boot

Le 18/04/2017 à 21:14, Brian a écrit : However, my main point was that the kernel identifying a card as a /dev/sdX disk does not imply it will necessarily be visible to GRUB and bootable by it. If the card reader is idendified as /dev/sdX, then it probably behaves as a generic USB mass storag

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

On 19/04/17 02:34, Reco wrote: It's inevitable. Those who are paid for their work tend to align with employer's view of things. I don't see it as a Universally Bad Thing™, or The Source Of All Evil™. It's just the way things are. This alignment is a natural human response and occurs without pay

Re: Possibly erroneous "device not present" message during boot

On Tue 18 Apr 2017 at 20:55:43 +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 17/04/2017 à 22:46, GiaThnYgeia a écrit : > > > >I hope this makes some sense to someone. > > Not to me. TL;DR. TL is "too loquacious"? DR is "drivel"? -- Brian.

Re: Possibly erroneous "device not present" message during boot

On Tue 18 Apr 2017 at 20:42:40 +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 17/04/2017 à 21:04, Brian a écrit : > >On Sat 15 Apr 2017 at 00:07:39 +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > > >>No. The only bug is that the system installed on the SD card boots while it > >>should not. > > > >Why shouldn't the system

Re: Possibly erroneous "device not present" message during boot

On Tue 18 Apr 2017 at 20:32:38 +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 17/04/2017 à 21:05, Brian a écrit : > >On Mon 17 Apr 2017 at 08:48:50 +, Curt wrote: > > > >>On 2017-04-17, David Wright wrote: > >>> > >>>Oddly, this ancient laptop (Acer) has a slot that makes the SD card > >>>look like a /de

Re: Possibly erroneous "device not present" message during boot

Le 17/04/2017 à 22:46, GiaThnYgeia a écrit : I hope this makes some sense to someone. Not to me. TL;DR. Does a usb memory stick really have an MBR? Yes, if you write an MBR structure into the first sector.

Re: Possibly erroneous "device not present" message during boot

Le 18/04/2017 à 00:04, Richard Owlett a écrit : My *minimal* criterion was the ability to read *AND* write the device. Well then, installing a Debian system on it and booting it was overkill. You could have just performed some reads and writes on the device from any of the systems installed o

Re: Possibly erroneous "device not present" message during boot

Le 17/04/2017 à 21:04, Brian a écrit : On Sat 15 Apr 2017 at 00:07:39 +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: No. The only bug is that the system installed on the SD card boots while it should not. Why shouldn't the system boot? It has the same kernel that is on the hard disk By chance. In a more gen

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Re: Possibly erroneous "device not present" message during boot

Le 17/04/2017 à 21:05, Brian a écrit : On Mon 17 Apr 2017 at 08:48:50 +, Curt wrote: On 2017-04-17, David Wright wrote: Oddly, this ancient laptop (Acer) has a slot that makes the SD card look like a /dev/sdX disk, and the BIOS is happy to boot from it. I have an Acer X1430 with an int

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 04:00:34PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 05:34:56PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > My (tiny) contributions to Debian in the form of > > bug reports, patches and answering e-mails on this list here and there > > did not provide me with any income ☺. > > Li

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

On Tuesday 18 April 2017 11:00:34 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 05:34:56PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > My (tiny) contributions to Debian in the form of > > bug reports, patches and answering e-mails on this list here and > > there did not provide me with any income ☺. > > Likewise;

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

Reco: > So, sooner or later, money come into play (aren't they always do?). The > important thing here for me is 'who pays', not 'who gets paid'. I mostly agree with your analysis but here I would add to the "who pays", "why are they paying" and "what exactly are they paying for" In most case

Booting a CF or SD card from an internal card reader

1. This HOWTO is a result of the discussion on debian-user beginning at https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/04/msg00329.html 2. Some machines which have internal card readers do not expose the devices in them to the BIOS. When GRUB uses the BIOS it too will be unaware of what is in

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 05:34:56PM +0300, Reco wrote: > My (tiny) contributions to Debian in the form of > bug reports, patches and answering e-mails on this list here and there > did not provide me with any income ☺. Likewise; but your contributions are non-the-less appreciated. Thanks! > I'd li

Re: unattended upgrades does not do anything

I've just had a look, and I didn't do anything particularly special: I installed unattended-upgrades, ran dpkg-reconfigure -plow unattended-upgrades which created the necessary file in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d, and it is working. However, the default settings only do security updates; I have some packa

Re: Sound problems (mpd, mpv mainly)

On Mon, 17 Apr 2017, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 7:09 AM, Pierre Frenkiel > wrote: > > Nevertheless, I don't see why this package is not > > upgraded in Jessie: it just gives a list, and have then no dependency > > problem. > > Packages in Debian Stable are upgraded

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 10:38:28PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 02:57:35PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 06:37:03PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > > Red Hat employees do have significant involvement in Fedora. This is true. > > > May I ask, what mode

Re: Jessie for Udoo X86?

Larry Dighera: > I found the 'debian-8.7.1-amd64-DVD-1.iso' image here: > , burned it to > SD card in a USB reader with Rufus , and booted it > from USB on the Udoo X86 Advanced hardware (Intel quad-core Celeron N