Decrypting LUKS from initramfs; was: Re: ext2 for /boot ???

2018-09-15 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 11:52:01PM +0200, deloptes wrote: > I also wish I knew how to get ssh into initrd and the whole networking, so > that I could do it remotely when needed. I've never done it myself, as I have IPMI access to anything I care about, but it appears to be as simple as ins

Re: ext2 for /boot ???

2018-09-15 Thread deloptes
Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Interesting, when does grub get dropbear ssh equivalent, so that it > can be headless and have the crypted volume unlocked at boot using ssh? I also wish I knew how to get ssh into initrd and the whole networking, so that I could do it remotely when needed.

Re: SSD unrecognized disk label

2018-09-15 Thread Martin
Ok, fist I had a look at Google for 'SM2246AA'. There are some hits with exactly the problem you have. I have no real idea, what to make of those. With things like that, you need to know what you, guessing is a bad idea -> Sorry, I'm out at this point. Am 15.09.2018 um 19:10 schrieb Allen Hoov

Re: USB media install has wrong partition

2018-09-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, John Roman wrote: > > netinst and live both create a dos partition table on dd, and cp. Pascal Hambourg wrote: > "On dd, and cp" ? Steve McIntyre and i understood John's statement that after dd or cp there is a MBR partition table on the USB stick. The following conversation would make few s

Re: USB media install has wrong partition

2018-09-15 Thread Wayne Sallee
On 09/15/2018 02:16 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Others already addressed this point. Besides, what's wrong with booting in legacy mode ? You have to keep changing the bios settings whenever you boot the memory stick on an EFI computer. Wayne Sallee wa...@waynesallee.com http://www.WayneSallee

Re: USB media install has wrong partition

2018-09-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, John Roman wrote: > As a Gentoo user, In 2016 the Gentoo ISOs were BIOS-only. I now downloaded install-amd64-minimal-20180913T214501Z.iso which looks much like a Debian ISO, partition-wise. xorriso -indev install-amd64-minimal-20180913T214501Z.iso \ -report_system_area plain re

Re: USB media install has wrong partition

2018-09-15 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 15/09/2018 à 03:55, John Roman a écrit : the USB install media for netinst and live both create a dos partition table on dd, and cp. "On dd, and cp" ? By default, the Debian installer creates a DOS partition table when booted in BIOS/legacy mode and a GPT partition table when booted in EF

Re: USB media install has wrong partition

2018-09-15 Thread John Roman
Thomas, Thank you for clarification on the layout, as it is in fact most helpful in understanding GPT cruft. As a Gentoo user, I can in fact boot system-rescue-cd and Knoppix as EFI USB. Sadly, this seems like one more nail in the coffin of reasons I need to upgrade my PC. I cannot reproduce the

Re: SSD unrecognized disk label

2018-09-15 Thread Allen Hoover
On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 11:16:18AM +0200, Martin wrote: > I suggest, you first have a look what you have in front of you: > > What does 'lshw -c disk' say? *-disk description: ATA Disk product: SPCC Solid State physical id: 0.0.0 bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0 logical

Re: USB media install has wrong partition

2018-09-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, John Roman wrote: > As I understand, a Protective MBR may be located at LBA 0 In the case of the isohybrid partition layout of Matthew J. Garrett, which is used by Debian for i386 and amd64, the MBR is not protective. A bit confusing can be the GPT partition table debris that follows the MB

Re: ext2 for /boot ???

2018-09-15 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 15/09/18 16:48, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 15/09/2018 à 00:45, Matthew Crews a écrit : >> On Friday, September 14, 2018 10:58 AM, Pascal Hambourg >> wrote: >> >>> Actually you can have / including /boot on LUKS with GRUB. It >>> is just not

Re: USB media install has wrong partition

2018-09-15 Thread John Roman
As an update, Ive tested devuan, debian, and ubuntu media on a newer laptop (2015) which seems to recognize the EFI partition and boot normally. my desktop (2012) does not seem to understand 0xEF...I wish I knew why. On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 03:39:35AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > j...@dev1ce.c

Re: SyncTeX?

2018-09-15 Thread Boyan Penkov
-- Boyan Penkov www.boyanpenkov.com > On Sep 15, 2018, at 05:58, Curt wrote: > > On 2018-09-14, Glenn English wrote: >> >> I've looked in Aptitude for something installed -- there's a >> libsynctex installed, and I started to delete it. But Aptitude said it >> was a dependency of something th

Re: USB media install has wrong partition

2018-09-15 Thread John Roman
Correct sir, I am having issues installing to an asus sabertooth 990 motherboard. namely, the boot override menu fails to recognize the EFI media as a proper EFI bootable target. As I understand, a Protective MBR may be located at LBA 0 (i.e., the first logical block) of the disk if it is using t

Re: NVIDIA drivers and virtual console problem

2018-09-15 Thread Ric Moore
On 09/15/2018 10:28 AM, Thakur Mahashaya wrote: //"Есть два великих грехов в мире... ..грех невежества, грех от глупости.// So stupidity is the mode of ignorance. As the Sorting Hat once said, "I know what to do with YOU!" ...and off you go into my junk folder. :) Ric -- My father, Victor Mo

Re: NVIDIA drivers and virtual console problem

2018-09-15 Thread Thakur Mahashaya
//here are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.// So stupidity is the mode of ignorance. 15.09.2018, 17:20, "Ric Moore" : > On 09/14/2018 07:54 AM, Marco Righi wrote: >>  Hello, >>  the NVIDIA drivers (384 from Debian and 390 repositories from the nvidia

Re: NVIDIA drivers and virtual console problem

2018-09-15 Thread Thakur Mahashaya
//"Есть два великих грехов в мире... ..грех невежества, грех от глупости.// So stupidity is the mode of ignorance. 15.09.2018, 17:20, "Ric Moore" : > On 09/14/2018 07:54 AM, Marco Righi wrote: >>  Hello, >>  the NVIDIA drivers (384 from Debian and 390 repositories from the nvidia >> site) do not

Re: NVIDIA drivers and virtual console problem

2018-09-15 Thread Ric Moore
On 09/14/2018 07:54 AM, Marco Righi wrote: Hello, the NVIDIA drivers (384 from Debian and 390 repositories from the nvidia site) do not allow me to have "virtual consoles" (to be clear, those that are activated with Ctrl-Alt-F1 .. F6). By installing Nouveau the problem disappears, with the two

Re: The big, the bloated and the hungry (Was: ext2 for /boot ???)

2018-09-15 Thread Thakur Mahashaya
Hi, everybody... this only on Debian Sid ? 15.09.2018, 13:37, "Thakur Mahashaya" : > Hi, everybody... > this only on ...? > > 15.09.2018, 11:16, "Étienne Mollier" : >>  Good Day, >> >>  Gene Heskett on 2018-09-15T10:04 CEST: >>>   On Saturday 15 September 2018 02:40:14 Erik Christiansen wrote: >>

Re: SyncTeX?

2018-09-15 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 14 Sep 2018, Glenn English wrote: > Crazy-making; it litters my screen. Anyone have a suggestion/explanation? shell completion scripts? As in the stuff in bash-completion, etc. -- Henrique Holschuh

Re: The big, the bloated and the hungry (Was: ext2 for /boot ???)

2018-09-15 Thread Thakur Mahashaya
Hi, everybody... > this only on sid? 15.09.2018, 13:37, "Thakur Mahashaya" : > Hi, everybody... > this only on ...? > > 15.09.2018, 11:16, "Étienne Mollier" : >>  Good Day, >> >>  Gene Heskett on 2018-09-15T10:04 CEST: >>>   On Saturday 15 September 2018 02:40:14 Erik Christiansen wrote: >>>   >

Re: The big, the bloated and the hungry (Was: ext2 for /boot ???)

2018-09-15 Thread Thakur Mahashaya
Hi, everybody... this only on ...? 15.09.2018, 11:16, "Étienne Mollier" : > Good Day, > > Gene Heskett on 2018-09-15T10:04 CEST: >>  On Saturday 15 September 2018 02:40:14 Erik Christiansen wrote: >>  > GUI stuff now runs slower than back then, and developers >>  > futz with look and feel, withou

Re: SyncTeX?

2018-09-15 Thread Curt
On 2018-09-14, Glenn English wrote: > > I've looked in Aptitude for something installed -- there's a > libsynctex installed, and I started to delete it. But Aptitude said it > was a dependency of something that seems to have something to do with > GNOME (my GUI is XFCE4, but I'm aware that several

Re: The big, the bloated and the hungry

2018-09-15 Thread Étienne Mollier
Felix Miata on 2018-09-15T10:43 (CEST): > KDE3 was stable and efficient, didn't need to be abandoned to > (re)create KDE4 from scratch. In openSUSE, KDE3 remains > available, though a little lighter for having lost most > maintainers and a few packages. TDE, the KDE3 fork, hasn't > lost any of wha

Re: SSD unrecognized disk label

2018-09-15 Thread Martin
I suggest, you first have a look what you have in front of you: What does 'lshw -c disk' say? What does 'hdparm -I [device]' say? Do you have any SCSI and/or disk related errors in your kernel log? What does 'fdisk -l [device]' say? Martin Am 13.09.2018 um 23:16 schrieb Allen Hoover: > I have a

Re: The big, the bloated and the hungry

2018-09-15 Thread Felix Miata
Étienne Mollier composed on 2018-09-15 10:15 (UTC+0200): > Gene Heskett on 2018-09-15T10:04 CEST: >> Erik Christiansen wrote: >>> GUI stuff now runs slower than back then, and developers >>> futz with look and feel, without adding life-enriching new >>> functionality. I stopped upgrading Eagle y

The big, the bloated and the hungry (Was: ext2 for /boot ???)

2018-09-15 Thread Étienne Mollier
Good Day, Gene Heskett on 2018-09-15T10:04 CEST: > On Saturday 15 September 2018 02:40:14 Erik Christiansen wrote: > > GUI stuff now runs slower than back then, and developers > > futz with look and feel, without adding life-enriching new > > functionality. I stopped upgrading Eagle years ago, as

Re: ext2 for /boot ???

2018-09-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 15 September 2018 02:40:14 Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 14.09.18 16:10, Michael Stone wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 01:23:31PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > I just find it amazing that the kernel has grown to be so big as > > > to be comparable to a complete unix distributio

Re: ext2 for /boot ???

2018-09-15 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 15/09/2018 à 00:02, David Wright a écrit : On Fri 14 Sep 2018 at 09:02:22 (-0400), Dan Ritter wrote: The kernel is just over 4MB; the initrd is 22MB. There are two versions of each. Wow. Why are my initrds only 5MB? I have MODULES=most in /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf. Weird. My in