OT: GRUB kernel options (Was: Blank screen on tty (console))

On Fri, 1 Apr 2016 13:34:04 -0400 Felix Miata wrote: > Himanshu Shekhar composed on 2016-04-01 22:00 (UTC+0530): > > > I am unable to use virtual console. Tried all combinations of cTRL+alt+f- . > > Only X works fine. Rest all screens show an underscore (cursor) which > > doesn't blink. I can't

Re: code of conduct (was Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives)

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:53:59PM -0400, Wally Lepore wrote: > > I understand. Thank you for correcting my humble mistake. Will comply. > > You're welcome - and whilst I'm at it, welcome to the list! I hope you > find it > useful. > Thank yo

Re: code of conduct (was Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives)

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:53:59PM -0400, Wally Lepore wrote: > I understand. Thank you for correcting my humbly mistake. Will comply. You're welcome - and whilst I'm at it, welcome to the list! I hope you find it useful. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: code of conduct (was Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives)

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Wally Lepore wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Jon Dowland wrote: >> >> When communicating on a Debian mailing list, please direct your emails at >> the list address and do not CC the participants explicitly. For this and >> other >> rules, please see t

Re: code of conduct (was Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives)

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Jon Dowland wrote: > Hi Wally, > > When communicating on a Debian mailing list, please direct your emails at > the list address and do not CC the participants explicitly. For this and other > rules, please see the Code of Conduct at >

code of conduct (was Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives)

Hi Wally, When communicating on a Debian mailing list, please direct your emails at the list address and do not CC the participants explicitly. For this and other rules, please see the Code of Conduct at Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 06:58:33PM -0400, Wally Lepore wrote: > It was a struggle initially but I learned. It was my first real > progress with certain things that needed to be done with Linux. I had > no idea that files needed to be verified before burning to CD. They don't. It is just an added p

Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 19:17 -0400, Wally Lepore wrote: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > > > >> Wally, are you familiar with MS DOS or DR DOS commands? > > > > PS: Or have you ever used a QL, C64 or similar computer? > > I have no idea what QL, or a C64 is prior to googli

Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 18:58 -0400, Wally Lepore wrote: > I am familiar with some DOS commands The commands are simmilar, e.g. DOS | LINUX +-- CD | cd MD | mkdir The Linux terminal can help you, when using the Tab-key. Just type a character or some characters and then the Tab-key. [spi

Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> Wally, are you familiar with MS DOS or DR DOS commands? > > PS: Or have you ever used a QL, C64 or similar computer? I have no idea what QL, or a C64 is prior to googling. Is this QL ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_QL http://www.r

Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Wally, are you familiar with MS DOS or DR DOS commands? > Hi Ralf, Yes but only the most basic. As I started on this whole linux adventure I dusted off my DOS 6.0 / 6.2 books that have been sitting on my book shelf since the mid 1990's. I ha

Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

> Wally, are you familiar with MS DOS or DR DOS commands? PS: Or have you ever used a QL, C64 or similar computer? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1

Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

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Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

@Neal (really at Neal, not at Wally): We already confused Wally. Let's avoid sudo, since sudo can be set up in various ways and IIRC a default Debian comes without sudo. At the moment it's only important to explain that we don't login as root by a display manager, in the OP's case it for sure is G

Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 17:24 -0400, Wally Lepore wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Ralf Mardorf >> wrote: >> > Assumed that you are not blind, perhaps a YouTube video will help you to >> > learn faste, resp. it might better explain ho

Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

On Monday, October 15, 2012 05:19:29 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Assumed that you are not blind, perhaps a YouTube video will help you to > learn faste, resp. it might better explain how to e.g. become root in a > terminal emulation. Or, perhaps, a simple list of ways to become root without any clutt

Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 17:24 -0400, Wally Lepore wrote: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > > Assumed that you are not blind, perhaps a YouTube video will help you to > > learn faste, resp. it might better explain how to e.g. become root in a > > terminal emulation. > > > >

Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Assumed that you are not blind, perhaps a YouTube video will help you to > learn faste, resp. it might better explain how to e.g. become root in a > terminal emulation. > Yes, I will search youtube. Thank you -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

Assumed that you are not blind, perhaps a YouTube video will help you to learn faste, resp. it might better explain how to e.g. become root in a terminal emulation. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@list

Re: OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 16:25 -0400, Wally Lepore wrote: > Are you saying that all these commands are used > strictly in "Terminal"? For the moment my answer is YES to avoid confusion. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

On 10/15/2012 10:25 PM, Wally Lepore wrote: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: >> On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 13:51 -0400, Wally Lepore wrote: >>> Hi Lisi, Brian, Lee, Joe, Neal, Dom, and Ralf, [snip] >> >> Since you've got knowledge about computers, it will be easy for you to >> s

Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I won't confuse you Wally, or spread FUD, using the default GRUB seems > to be the best way for a beginner, because it's the default boot loader > for most distros. > > Personally I prefer GRUB legacy, the outdated, completely different > pred

Re: OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 13:51 -0400, Wally Lepore wrote: >> Hi Lisi, Brian, Lee, Joe, Neal, Dom, and Ralf, [snip] > > Since you've got knowledge about computers, it will be easy for you to > switch to Linux. You should take a look at "shell glob

Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

I won't confuse you Wally, or spread FUD, using the default GRUB seems to be the best way for a beginner, because it's the default boot loader for most distros. Personally I prefer GRUB legacy, the outdated, completely different predecessor of the current GRUB. IMO it's much easier to use. Many ex

OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 13:51 -0400, Wally Lepore wrote: > Hi Lisi, Brian, Lee, Joe, Neal, Dom, and Ralf, [snip] Since you've got knowledge about computers, it will be easy for you to switch to Linux. You should take a look at "shell globbing" and take a look at some beginners guide for "shell scrip

Re: [ot] grub with 2 hard disks (was [OT] Grub)

On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 11:25:11AM +0800, Joey Kool wrote: | Ok, I was finally able to boot /dev/hdb and sees "GRUB" on the monitor. | But that's all. Seems like the thing hang or something though a cursor | is blinking. | | Another thing I can do is to install grub into the mbr of hd0 but don'

Re: [ot] grub with 2 hard disks (was [OT] Grub)

On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Joey Kool wrote: > (For purpose of clarity, the previous problem of os not found was due to > the fact that I did not change the bios bootup sequence. I had to specify the > 2nd harddisk as the bootup disk instead of the first in bios. Most BIOS I know are braindamaged enoug

[ot] grub with 2 hard disks (was [OT] Grub)

Ok, I was finally able to boot /dev/hdb and sees "GRUB" on the monitor. But that's all. Seems like the thing hang or something though a cursor is blinking. I suppose I should be seeing "GRUB Loading stage2" like what the grub boot floppy does. Have checked out "info grub" but couldn't

Re: [OT] Grub

My version of grub is 0.5.93.1 Seems like this version of grub does not have "setup" as a command. I'm running potato now, so guess I've to get grub 0.5.96.1 from testing. > On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 03:17:00PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > > > "Joey" == Joey Kool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >

Re: [OT] Grub

On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 03:17:00PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > > "Joey" == Joey Kool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Joey> So using cfdisk, I made /dev/hda not bootable and /dev/hdb1 > Joey> bootable. Put stage1 and stage2 and menu.lst and other > Joey> files in /usr/share/grub/i386

Re: [OT] Grub

> "Joey" == Joey Kool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joey> So using cfdisk, I made /dev/hda not bootable and /dev/hdb1 Joey> bootable. Put stage1 and stage2 and menu.lst and other Joey> files in /usr/share/grub/i386-pc/* to /boot/grub/ I booted Joey> with the grub bootdisk and

[OT] Grub

If this is better off posting to grub's mailing list, just tell me. Thanks. Situation: /dev/hda running WinNT /dev/hdb running Debian /dev/hdb1 => /boot /dev/hdb2 => / /dev/hda is set to bootable. I can bootup using nt's os loader then booting lilo. What I want to do i

Re: [ot] grub is great!

>>"Bob" == Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> man kernel-img.conf. Bob> Hmm, I don't seem to have /etc/kernel-img.conf, but in Bob> /etc/kernel-pkg.conf: Oops. I should have mentioned that kernel-img.conf is an enhancement for woody kernel-package. Bob> image_in_boot:= 1

Re: [ot] grub is great!

On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 03:14:01AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >>"Andreas" == Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Andreas> Hmm, if I remove the /vmlinuz symlink before installing the > Andreas> kernel-image I get the following: > >[Elided] > > Andreas> Hmm, this is not the