Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd

2021-06-07 Thread David Wright
On Sun 06 Jun 2021 at 14:14:38 (+0300), Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 05 iun 21, 12:46:13, Martin McCormick wrote: > > > > One should be able to write a program to get the > > appropriate UUID's out of fstab on the working system > > and translate them in to corresponding UUID's for the syste

Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd

2021-06-07 Thread Martin McCormick
Felix Miata writes: > This is a big lurking booby trap that could have been the problem both > last time > and this time. It's one of the reasons why installation systems and Grub > switched > from using device names to using UUIDs: inconsistent and/or unpredicable > device > enumeration. > >

Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd

2021-06-06 Thread Felix Miata
Martin McCormick composed on 2021-06-06 16:59 (UTC-0500): ... > Swap is the last partition. > Disk /dev/sde: This is a big lurking booby trap that could have been the problem both last time and this time. It's one of

Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd

2021-06-06 Thread Martin McCormick
I admit I made several big mistakes, here. The first was not having a backup of /boot as I thought I did. The next is thinking I could just copy the whole boot directory from a known working system and be able to get it to work by using sed to replace the UUID's of the system it was on with those

Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd

2021-06-06 Thread Martin McCormick
Felix Miata writes: > IMO you gave up too soon. IIRC you never showed us output from parted -l > or fdisk > -l. Very likely on the problem PC the / filesystem was/is not on the first > partition, where often lies a swap partition. Very likely root=/dev/sda2 > would > have been/be correct. Sorry

Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd

2021-06-06 Thread Felix Miata
Martin McCormick composed on 2021-06-06 13:30 (UTC-0500): > The sample that Greg Wooledge showed looked very close to > how my grub.cfg looked after doctoring the drive references to > point to hd0,1msdos. and I tried booting that way and set the > root parameter to /dev/sda1, /dev/sdb1 and

Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd

2021-06-06 Thread Martin McCormick
Thanks to all for the advice and knowledge you shared about how grub works. I am writing this on June 6 and early this morning, I edited the boot command in the grub shell after verifying that my stubborn no-boot drive truly was sitting at hd0,1msdos and grub-install had picked out hd2,1msdos for

Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd

2021-06-06 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jun 05, 2021 at 08:17:38PM -0400, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 6/5/21, Martin McCormick wrote: > > First I greatly appreciate all this information as the idea is to > > fix a problem I probably created long ago though I am not sure > > how but the short story is that apt-get upgrade ran up

Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd

2021-06-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 05 iun 21, 12:46:13, Martin McCormick wrote: > > One should be able to write a program to get the > appropriate UUID's out of fstab on the working system > and translate them in to corresponding UUID's for the system on > the operating table. Alternatively you might want to consider

Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd

2021-06-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 05 June 2021 20:17:38 Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 6/5/21, Martin McCormick wrote: > > First I greatly appreciate all this information as the idea is to > > fix a problem I probably created long ago though I am not sure > > how but the short story is that apt-get upgrade ran update-gr

Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd

2021-06-05 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 6/5/21, Martin McCormick wrote: > First I greatly appreciate all this information as the idea is to > fix a problem I probably created long ago though I am not sure > how but the short story is that apt-get upgrade ran update-grub > and update-initramfs late last Fall and I was able to rescue i

Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd

2021-06-05 Thread Felix Miata
Martin McCormick composed on 2021-06-05 16:28 (UTC-0500): > the short story is that apt-get upgrade ran update-grub > and update-initramfs late last Fall and I was able to rescue it > but it happened again at the end of April so I figured I had > better fix it correctly since I didn't know it was

Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd

2021-06-05 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Jun 05, 2021 at 04:28:20PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > There's 1 UUID for the root file system in /boot/grub/grub.cfg > which is the file one must not normally edit by hand. It > reads > > menuentry 'Debian GNU/Linux' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu > --class os $menue

Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd

2021-06-05 Thread Martin McCormick
First I greatly appreciate all this information as the idea is to fix a problem I probably created long ago though I am not sure how but the short story is that apt-get upgrade ran update-grub and update-initramfs late last Fall and I was able to rescue it but it happened again at the end of April

Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd

2021-06-05 Thread Felix Miata
Martin McCormick composed on 2021-06-05 12:46 (UTC-0500): > I have a plan but I need some more information. Is there any > personalization done by the boot setup process? Do our UUID's > or any other specific information pertaining to the installation > make it in to the initrd files? Dracut in

Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd

2021-06-05 Thread Martin McCormick
Reco writes: > On Sat, Jun 05, 2021 at 12:46:13PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > > I have a plan but I need some more information. Is there any > > personalization done by the boot setup process? > > Yes. One of the GRUB's tasks is to supply kernel which is about to boot > with root=... cmdlin

Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd

2021-06-05 Thread Reco
On Sat, Jun 05, 2021 at 12:46:13PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > I have a plan but I need some more information. Is there any > personalization done by the boot setup process? Yes. One of the GRUB's tasks is to supply kernel which is about to boot with root=... cmdline parameter. Root filesyst

Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd

2021-06-05 Thread deloptes
Martin McCormick wrote: > As an aside, one ought to be able to do something like > this.  It makes life a lot simpler.  Both systems are using the > same kernel and versions of the same processor the only real > differences are the UUID's.  The grub configurations of both are > the same down to th

A Grub Boot Question about initrd

2021-06-05 Thread Martin McCormick
I have a plan but I need some more information. Is there any personalization done by the boot setup process? Do our UUID's or any other specific information pertaining to the installation make it in to the initrd files? While reading about the boot process, it doesn't appear that the ini

Re: Compact Flash (CF) boot question

2008-11-29 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
shr @dslextreme.com wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:28 AM, Emanoil Kotsev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Bob wrote: >> >> > Emanoil Kotsev wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> >> >> I have a fanless board by Acrosser with Geode GX CPU. The board has a >> >> CF slot that is seen as primary/secondary HD

Re: Compact Flash (CF) boot question

2008-11-21 Thread shr @dslextreme.com
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:28 AM, Emanoil Kotsev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bob wrote: > > > Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I have a fanless board by Acrosser with Geode GX CPU. The board has a CF > >> slot that is seen as primary/secondary HDD in Bios. I've jumpered to > >> primary

Re: Compact Flash (CF) boot question

2008-11-20 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Bob wrote: > Emanoil Kotsev wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have a fanless board by Acrosser with Geode GX CPU. The board has a CF >> slot that is seen as primary/secondary HDD in Bios. I've jumpered to >> primary as I don't have a HDD attached. The card is a CF card (hda: ELITE >> PRO CF CARD 4GB, ATA D

Re: Compact Flash (CF) boot question

2008-11-19 Thread Bob
Emanoil Kotsev wrote: Hello, I have a fanless board by Acrosser with Geode GX CPU. The board has a CF slot that is seen as primary/secondary HDD in Bios. I've jumpered to primary as I don't have a HDD attached. The card is a CF card (hda: ELITE PRO CF CARD 4GB, ATA DISK drive). Now the problem i

Compact Flash (CF) boot question

2008-11-18 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Hello, I have a fanless board by Acrosser with Geode GX CPU. The board has a CF slot that is seen as primary/secondary HDD in Bios. I've jumpered to primary as I don't have a HDD attached. The card is a CF card (hda: ELITE PRO CF CARD 4GB, ATA DISK drive). Now the problem is that the system can no

Re: newbie boot question

2005-09-29 Thread michael
On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 11:15 -0400, Jim Woodward wrote: > Mike McCarty wrote: > > Jim Woodward wrote: > > > >> michael wrote: > >> > michael wrote: > > > On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 12:20 -0400, Jim Woodward wrote: > > > > > >> How do I retrieve the messages that I see when boot

Re: newbie boot question

2005-09-29 Thread Jim Woodward
Mike McCarty wrote: Jim Woodward wrote: michael wrote: michael wrote: On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 12:20 -0400, Jim Woodward wrote: How do I retrieve the messages that I see when booting? dmesg does not have all the information. I'm using kernel 2.6.13.2 Thanks Obviously, there are some mess

Re: newbie boot question

2005-09-28 Thread Jim Woodward
michael wrote: On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 07:57 -0400, Jim Woodward wrote: michael wrote: michael wrote: On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 12:20 -0400, Jim Woodward wrote: How do I retrieve the messages that I see when booting? dmesg does not have all the information. I'm using kernel 2.6.13.2 Thanks

Re: newbie boot question

2005-09-27 Thread Mike McCarty
Jim Woodward wrote: michael wrote: michael wrote: On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 12:20 -0400, Jim Woodward wrote: How do I retrieve the messages that I see when booting? dmesg does not have all the information. I'm using kernel 2.6.13.2 Thanks Obviously, there are some messages which may be unret

Re: newbie boot question

2005-09-27 Thread michael
On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 07:57 -0400, Jim Woodward wrote: > michael wrote: > >>michael wrote: > >> > >>>On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 12:20 -0400, Jim Woodward wrote: > >>> > >>> > How do I retrieve the messages that I see when booting? > dmesg does not have all the information. > I'm using kernel

Re: newbie boot question

2005-09-27 Thread Jim Woodward
michael wrote: michael wrote: On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 12:20 -0400, Jim Woodward wrote: How do I retrieve the messages that I see when booting? dmesg does not have all the information. I'm using kernel 2.6.13.2 Thanks enable /etc/default/bootlogd: $ cat /etc/default/bootlogd # Run bootlog

Re: newbie boot question

2005-09-26 Thread michael
> michael wrote: >> On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 12:20 -0400, Jim Woodward wrote: >> >>>How do I retrieve the messages that I see when booting? >>>dmesg does not have all the information. >>>I'm using kernel 2.6.13.2 >>>Thanks >> >> >> >> enable /etc/default/bootlogd: >> >> >> $ cat /etc/default/bootlogd

Re: newbie boot question

2005-09-26 Thread Bill Marcum
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 03:52:27PM -0400, Jim wrote: > I did the above, rebooted and can't find thelog anywhere. > Could you tell me where it should be and what its name is? > Thanks > Try /var/log/boot. I sometimes use "ls -ltr /var/log" to look for the most recently modified log files. -- T

Re: newbie boot question

2005-09-26 Thread Jim
michael wrote: On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 12:20 -0400, Jim Woodward wrote: How do I retrieve the messages that I see when booting? dmesg does not have all the information. I'm using kernel 2.6.13.2 Thanks enable /etc/default/bootlogd: $ cat /etc/default/bootlogd # Run bootlogd at startup ? BOO

Re: newbie boot question

2005-09-26 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Jim Woodward wrote: How do I retrieve the messages that I see when booting? dmesg does not have all the information. I'm using kernel 2.6.13.2 Good question. I'd like to know this too. I always thought that short of puting up an external serial interface, this wasn't possible. Angelo --

Re: newbie boot question

2005-09-26 Thread michael
On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 12:20 -0400, Jim Woodward wrote: > How do I retrieve the messages that I see when booting? > dmesg does not have all the information. > I'm using kernel 2.6.13.2 > Thanks enable /etc/default/bootlogd: $ cat /etc/default/bootlogd # Run bootlogd at startup ? BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=

newbie boot question

2005-09-26 Thread Jim Woodward
How do I retrieve the messages that I see when booting? dmesg does not have all the information. I'm using kernel 2.6.13.2 Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Network on boot question

2003-07-17 Thread Aaron
Hi! I am running Woody on my laptop and I have two network interfaces. I have a built-in 3Com NIC, and sometimes I use my Linksys wireless card instead. If I don't have the card in, it doesn't start the card manager, which is fine. But if I do have the card in (and therefore no network cable conn

Re: Remote boot question

1999-01-08 Thread Michael Fox
>Eric Monson wrote: >> >> We are setting up a network with Linux and need some help. We are >> attempting to remote (network) boot the Win95 systems that we already >> have as >> clients for our Linux server. The problem is this: We have been looking >> into >If I understand you correctly you are

Re: Remote boot question

1999-01-08 Thread Ben Messinger
Eric Monson wrote: > > We are setting up a network with Linux and need some help. We are > attempting to remote (network) boot the Win95 systems that we already > have as > clients for our Linux server. The problem is this: We have been looking > into > using ROM chips plugged into the network car

Re: Remote boot question

1999-01-07 Thread Carey Evans
Eric Monson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We are setting up a network with Linux and need some help. We are > attempting to remote (network) boot the Win95 systems that we > already have as clients for our Linux server. The problem is this: > We have been looking into using ROM chips plugged into

Remote boot question

1999-01-07 Thread Eric Monson
We are setting up a network with Linux and need some help. We are attempting to remote (network) boot the Win95 systems that we already have as clients for our Linux server. The problem is this: We have been looking into using ROM chips plugged into the network cards on the clients, but commercial

Re: Boot question

1997-06-06 Thread Kevin Traas
> I'm trying to change the ethernet card in my machine from a 3c509 to an > SMC 9330 BDT, but during boot the 3c509 module gets loaded and the tulip > module doesn't. > > My question is where are these modules loaded into the kernel during boot? > I thought they would be in the rc.* files, or et

Boot question

1997-06-06 Thread Linux dist. research
Greetings, I'm trying to change the ethernet card in my machine from a 3c509 to an SMC 9330 BDT, but during boot the 3c509 module gets loaded and the tulip module doesn't. My question is where are these modules loaded into the kernel during boot? I thought they would be in the rc.* files, or e