Thank Wright! debian installer is netinst 12.8
since "ran successfully" can't be found in syslog, grub installation
must fail
but i didn't see any error msg during installation, it's rather dishonest
perhaps they hesitate whether to remove freebsd bootloader
i don't have time to debug for th
On Wed 12 Feb 2025 at 13:59:11 (+0800), hlyg wrote:
> i can't find "ran successfully" in entire syslog with editor's search
> function
That's because Grub wasn't installed in the MBR, hence explaining
why the FreeBSD loader wasn't touched.
> 2nd disk has 4 partitions, 2 for stretch and deb12, ins
Thank Wright!
i can't find "ran successfully" in entire syslog with editor's search
function
2nd disk has 4 partitions, 2 for stretch and deb12, installer seems to
parse their grub.cfg, making log very long
Feb 11 08:54:28 in-target: Creating config file /etc/default/grub with
new version^
On Wed 12 Feb 2025 at 08:33:57 (+0800), hlyg wrote:
> Thank Curley again! manually editing grub.cfg is amateur as it is
> auto-generated. but my stanza is simple, it's easy to add it if
> removed.
>
> if it were Windows, it would be much easier
>
> i examine syslog, among many lines probing each
Thank Curley again! manually editing grub.cfg is amateur as it is
auto-generated. but my stanza is simple, it's easy to add it if removed.
if it were Windows, it would be much easier
i examine syslog, among many lines probing each partition for OS, i
can't find how i specify installation targe
you should be able to edit that. The live CDs provide a different
installer; I have do idea what that does.
>
> old wisdom of dual boot still works
Good.
--
Does anybody read signatures any more?
https://charlescurley.com
https://charlescurley.com/blog/
b installation stick) ?
old wisdom of dual boot still works
On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 18:18:45 +0800
hlyg wrote:
> i follow usual wisdom, and install freebsd in 1st partition, then
> install deb12 in 2nd partition, hoping grub can handle both
>
> but grub fails to show, freebsd's bootloader remains unchanged
>
> i didn't see any error or warning msg during
i follow usual wisdom, and install freebsd in 1st partition, then
install deb12 in 2nd partition, hoping grub can handle both
but grub fails to show, freebsd's bootloader remains unchanged
i didn't see any error or warning msg during installation
i paste last part of installer syslog below(c
Hans composed on 2022-05-02 12:44 (UTC+0200):
...
> When I got it running, I tried to install grub again onto the MBR, which was
> successfull. But now appeared a blue screen, with choices: "Wait 10 seconds -
> go on - Restart - Do not ask any more" (similar, is from my remembers).
...
> Can ssom
nother EFI partition, shall I use it?" (or
> similar, it is from my remembers).
>
> Thanky for making things clear.
>
> Best
>
> Hans
>
Hello Hans,
I think this has also been covered in another thread here.
If Windows is the _only_ system on a disk, it hijacks the
Hi folks,
yesterday I installed debian bullseye besides a windows system. As UEFI could
not switched off, I used gparted to make the windows partition smaller.
Then used an usb-stick and installed bullseye as usual.
However, the installer discovered UEFI and respected this, but atthe first
b
just installed Debian 12 without encryption in a small
> > partition. Unfortunately, I can not boot Debian 11 anymore,
> > grub-efi only shows the Debian 12 install.
> >
> > Any help to make both install boot would greatly appreciated.
> > Being able to boot Debian 1
Debian 11 anymore, grub-efi only shows the
Debian 12 install.
Any help to make both install boot would greatly appreciated. Being able
to boot Debian 11 only would also be great if the dual boot is not
possible.
I found first an answer for the second question : the wiki
(https://wiki.debian.org
12 install.
Any help to make both install boot would greatly appreciated. Being able
to boot Debian 11 only would also be great if the dual boot is not possible.
Below is a reworked `lsblk` output:
sda
|-sda1 -> a data partition
|-sda2 -> D12 /
`-sda3 -> D12 swap
sdb
|-sdb1 -> E
> does it automatically boot to Debian with Windows listed in your GRUB menu?
Yes, exactly. It works as it should: Upon boot the GRUB menu is presented,
with Debian, its emergency option, and the option of booting into Windows.
Thus, all is right in the world. :-)
That was done by disa
On 8/28/21 1:07 PM, Intense Red wrote:
The problem was that Win10 would constantly overwrite the MBR and blow away
GRUB which forced the computer to boot straight into Windows.
The solution is to go into Windows, open a command prompt/shell as the
Windows administrator and run:
"bce
The problem was that Win10 would constantly overwrite the MBR and blow away
GRUB which forced the computer to boot straight into Windows.
The solution is to go into Windows, open a command prompt/shell as the
Windows administrator and run:
"bcedit /set {bootmgr} path \EFI\debian\grubx64.
On Fri 27 Aug 2021 at 21:35:38 (-0500), Intense Red wrote:
>On a new HP Laptop pre-installed with Win10 Home edition installed on an
> SSD. In the laptop's BIOS Secure Boot was turned off.
>
>A fresh copy of Debian 11 was installed into the machine's 1TB HD. After
> reboot, GRUB comes up
On Sat, Aug 28, 2021, 6:06 AM Joe wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Aug 2021 11:14:28 +0300
> ellanios82 wrote:
>
> > On 28/8/21 Intense Red:
> > > How can Windows be lobotomized
> >
> >
> >- maybe Install VirtualBox, & ONLY run windows inside Linux
> >
> >
>
> The Home version won't be licensed for use i
On 28/8/21 Intense Red:
How can Windows be lobotomized
- List been real Quiet : No word from the Amazing Polly
.
rgds
.
On 28/8/21 1:06 μ.μ., Joe wrote:
On Sat, 28 Aug 2021 11:14:28 +0300
ellanios82 wrote:
On 28/8/21 Intense Red:
How can Windows be lobotomized
- maybe Install VirtualBox, & ONLY run windows inside Linux
The Home version won't be licensed for use in a VM, and may be
engineered not to wo
On Sat, 28 Aug 2021 11:14:28 +0300
ellanios82 wrote:
> On 28/8/21 Intense Red:
> > How can Windows be lobotomized
>
>
> - maybe Install VirtualBox, & ONLY run windows inside Linux
>
>
The Home version won't be licensed for use in a VM, and may be
engineered not to work at all in one. Th
On 28/8/21 Intense Red:
How can Windows be lobotomized
- maybe Install VirtualBox, & ONLY run windows inside Linux
.
rgds
.
t stretch on a Win10 netbook, at some point the installer said it
had found another OS, did I want dual-boot? I didn't actually need
Windows, but I said 'yes' to keep the option open, and stretch just did
it. No problem. The BIOS was UEFI and didn't have a secure boot
disable, but
On a new HP Laptop pre-installed with Win10 Home edition installed on an
SSD. In the laptop's BIOS Secure Boot was turned off.
A fresh copy of Debian 11 was installed into the machine's 1TB HD. After
reboot, GRUB comes up normally and Linux works fine.
But once Windows is chosen from G
"Juan R. de Silva" writes:
> There is a difference in suggested by your link approach and my
> requirements. I have reasons to avoid re-installation of my existing
> Windows 10. The suggested procedure based on fresh install of Windows 10
> from from the media created by Microsoft Media Creati
be a problem? I intend to do this on my
> desktop system at some point. I thought I'd just get a new SSD and make
> that my boot drive and clone the partitions over but after a little
> googling it seems the conversion isn't that difficult.
>
> For example, these instructions
ust get a new SSD and make
that my boot drive and clone the partitions over but after a little
googling it seems the conversion isn't that difficult.
For example, these instructions cover the conversion of a Ubuntu +
Windows 10 dual boot system:
https://www.rojtberg.net/1032/converting
On Sun, 04 Jul 2021 17:23:33 -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> On 7/4/21 4:22 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I dual boot Debian 10 with Windows 10 from MBR in Legacy mode on my 6
>> years old Dell M4800 workstation. The BIOS supports both Legacy and
&
On 7/4/21 4:22 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote:
Hi folks,
I dual boot Debian 10 with Windows 10 from MBR in Legacy mode on my 6
years old Dell M4800 workstation. The BIOS supports both Legacy and UEFI
modes. With upcoming Windows 11 I am compelled to switch to UEFI mode.
Dell Precision M4800
Hi folks,
I dual boot Debian 10 with Windows 10 from MBR in Legacy mode on my 6
years old Dell M4800 workstation. The BIOS supports both Legacy and UEFI
modes. With upcoming Windows 11 I am compelled to switch to UEFI mode.
I know how to switch stand alone Windows 10 or stand alone Linux from
On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 2:19 PM Charles Curley <
charlescur...@charlescurley.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 12:03:20 -0500
> Kenneth Parker wrote:
>
> > I am helping a friend install Debian on an older MacBook, running OS X
> > 10.11 (El Capitan).
>
> How old? The current version of Mac OS is
On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 12:35 PM Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Kenneth Parker (2020-02-13 18:03:20)
> > I am helping a friend install Debian on an older MacBook, running OS X
> > 10.11 (El Capitan). It currently has a single 300G HFS Plus (Journaled)
> > Partition, with lots of free space.
>
Jonas Smedegaard composed on 2020-02-13 18:35 (UTC+0100):
> Debian (and Linux in general) supports read-write access to HFS+
> partitions, but it is unreliable. I would expect it to be difficult to
> setup and the result would be unreliable (either because you would end
> up depending on the u
On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 14:28:27 -0700
Charles Curley wrote:
> I didn't ask for my benefit, I asked for your benefit. I will guess
> that you have vetted your hardware on this list.
Sorry, that should be, "... I asked for the OP's benefit. I will guess
that he will vet his hardware on this list."
-
On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 20:59:07 +0100
Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > > I am helping a friend install Debian on an older MacBook, running
> > > OS X 10.11 (El Capitan).
> >
> > How old? The current version of Mac OS is Catalina, 10.15.3. This
> > on a Macbook Air made in mid-2012. ( -> About this
> >
Quoting Charles Curley (2020-02-13 19:56:31)
> On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 12:03:20 -0500
> Kenneth Parker wrote:
>
> > I am helping a friend install Debian on an older MacBook, running OS
> > X 10.11 (El Capitan).
>
> How old? The current version of Mac OS is Catalina, 10.15.3. This on a
> Macbook Ai
On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 12:03:20 -0500
Kenneth Parker wrote:
> I am helping a friend install Debian on an older MacBook, running OS X
> 10.11 (El Capitan).
How old? The current version of Mac OS is Catalina, 10.15.3. This on a
Macbook Air made in mid-2012. ( -> About this Mac)
--
Does anybody read
Quoting Kenneth Parker (2020-02-13 18:03:20)
> I am helping a friend install Debian on an older MacBook, running OS X
> 10.11 (El Capitan). It currently has a single 300G HFS Plus (Journaled)
> Partition, with lots of free space.
>
> He wants to keep OS X, and use Buster (or Sid, leading to the n
I am helping a friend install Debian on an older MacBook, running OS X
10.11 (El Capitan). It currently has a single 300G HFS Plus (Journaled)
Partition, with lots of free space.
He wants to keep OS X, and use Buster (or Sid, leading to the next Stable
Release).
He wants to shrink the Mac Partit
Hello guys,
As I promised, here a more detailed solution, with the steps I really used:
The problem:
* You have a Windows 10 UEFI and a Linux Legacy boot. They both work, but
to choose what to boot you need to change the BIOS option each time.
Possible solutions discussed in the thread:
1. Let
Hello all,
Thank you very much for all this thread and discussion.
Let me get back to you.
On Sun, 6 Oct 2019 at 18:26, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
Dear Pascal,
>
> If Windows boots in EFI mode :
> Mount the EFI partition on /boot/efi.
> Install grub-efi-amd64.
> Boot some Linux media in EFI mo
On 2019-10-08, Joe wrote:
>
> But I'm pretty sure that any pre-installed Windows, and very few people
> now install it themselves, will be a UEFI installation, which cannot be
> changed to boot in legacy mode, nor vice-versa.
>
>From what I'm understanding you're batting a thousand here, Joe.
ht
On Mon, 7 Oct 2019 23:29:09 +0200
Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 07/10/2019 à 09:42, Joe a écrit :
> > On Sun, 6 Oct 2019 23:26:32 +0200
> > Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> >
> >> Le 06/10/2019 à 22:45, Beco a écrit :
> >>>
> >>> Now the system can boot both systems ok. But to choose which one
> >>>
Le 07/10/2019 à 09:42, Joe a écrit :
On Sun, 6 Oct 2019 23:26:32 +0200
Pascal Hambourg wrote:
Le 06/10/2019 à 22:45, Beco a écrit :
Now the system can boot both systems ok. But to choose which one
you want, you need to enter the BIOS, change legacy to UEFI, and
vice-versa, then you can boot.
On Sun, 6 Oct 2019 17:45:37 -0300
Beco wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I have this laptop problem to solve: the original windows 10 is kept,
> shrunk partition to 1TB, originally cryptographied (but now normal).
> The rest was given to Linux, Debian 10: 800GB root and 8.2GB swap.
>
> Now the system can b
On Sun, 6 Oct 2019 23:26:32 +0200
Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 06/10/2019 à 22:45, Beco a écrit :
> >
> > Now the system can boot both systems ok. But to choose which one
> > you want, you need to enter the BIOS, change legacy to UEFI, and
> > vice-versa, then you can boot.
>
> Would you mind
Le 06/10/2019 à 22:45, Beco a écrit :
Now the system can boot both systems ok. But to choose which one you want,
you need to enter the BIOS, change legacy to UEFI, and vice-versa, then you
can boot.
Would you mind telling which systems boots in EFI mode and which one
boots in legacy mode ?
On Sun, 6 Oct 2019 17:45:37 -0300
Beco wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I have this laptop problem to solve: the original windows 10 is kept,
> shrunk partition to 1TB, originally cryptographied (but now normal).
> The rest was given to Linux, Debian 10: 800GB root and 8.2GB swap.
>
> Now the system can b
Hi guys,
I have this laptop problem to solve: the original windows 10 is kept,
shrunk partition to 1TB, originally cryptographied (but now normal). The
rest was given to Linux, Debian 10: 800GB root and 8.2GB swap.
Now the system can boot both systems ok. But to choose which one you want,
you nee
Le 11/06/2019 à 21:45, Stephen P. Molnar a écrit :
On 06/11/2019 02:20 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
IMO installing GRUB can be desirable for two reasons.
1) Obviously, it allows the drive to boot by itself so that you can
move it into another machine, or remove the current boot drive, or
chan
On 06/11/2019 02:20 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
Le 11/06/2019 ?? 13:36, songbird a ??crit :
what i'm not sure of is if you need to bother with
putting the grub bootloader on it so at the end
where it asks you perhaps you can skip that step.
IMO installing GRUB can be desirable for two rea
Le 11/06/2019 à 13:36, songbird a écrit :
what i'm not sure of is if you need to bother with
putting the grub bootloader on it so at the end
where it asks you perhaps you can skip that step.
IMO installing GRUB can be desirable for two reasons.
1) Obviously, it allows the drive to boot by
Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
> My Debian platform has four drives:
>
> NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
> sda 8:0 0 465.8G 0 disk
> ??sda1 8:1 0 457.9G 0 part /
> ??sda2 8:2 0 1K 0 part
> ??sda5 8:5 0 7.9G 0 part [SWAP]
> sdb 8:16 0 1.8T 0 disk
> ??sdb1 8:17 0 1.8T 0 part /sdb1
>
On 6/10/19 7:04 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
My Debian platform has four drives:
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 465.8G 0 disk
??sda1 8:1 0 457.9G 0 part /
??sda2 8:2 0 1K 0 part
??sda5 8:5 0 7.9G 0 part [SWAP]
sdb 8:16 0 1.8T 0 disk
??sdb1 8:17 0 1.8T 0 part /s
Le 10/06/2019 à 16:04, Stephen P. Molnar a écrit :
sda is a 500 GB SSD, currently the boot drive, running Stretch
(...)
I am planning on adding a 1 TB SSD to the system to be dedicated to
Buster (currently Testing).
I know that if I select the new drive (for the purpose of this note,
sdd) f
My Debian platform has four drives:
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 465.8G 0 disk
??sda1 8:1 0 457.9G 0 part /
??sda2 8:2 0 1K 0 part
??sda5 8:5 0 7.9G 0 part [SWAP]
sdb 8:16 0 1.8T 0 disk
??sdb1 8:17 0 1.8T 0 part /sdb1
??sdb2 8:18 0 1K 0 part
??sdb5 8:2
On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 07:02 Tom Browder wrote:
>
> I'm preparing to install Win 10 and Deb 9 on a new ZaReason laptop which has
> no installed OS on it.
Again, thanks to all who offered help.
I have my new Zareason laptop up and running! Basic specs:
UltraLap 6440 i7
Processor: i7-8550U
8
On Sat, 2019-04-13 at 08:18 +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 12/04/2019 à 22:46, Thomas D Dial a écrit :
> > In terms of management, it is a major advance over physical
> > partitioning
> > for the file systems and, depending on particular file system
> > characteristics, allows you to get out of
On Sat, 2019-04-13 at 08:26 +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 12/04/2019 à 22:25, Thomas D Dial a écrit :
> > I let the installer partition the USB key that was the install
> > target
> > and picked LVM, but specified distinct /, /usr/, /var, /home, and
> > swap
>
> Why did you create a distinct
Le 12/04/2019 à 22:25, Thomas D Dial a écrit :
I let the installer partition the USB key that was the install target
and picked LVM, but specified distinct /, /usr/, /var, /home, and swap
Why did you create a distinct volume for /usr ?
partitions and left some empty space within the LVM volu
Le 12/04/2019 à 22:46, Thomas D Dial a écrit :
In terms of management, it is a major advance over physical partitioning
for the file systems and, depending on particular file system
characteristics, allows you to get out of space problems without down
time in many cases (online resizing is avail
On 4/11/19 5:02 AM, Tom Browder wrote:
I'm preparing to install Win 10 and Deb 9 on a new ZaReason laptop
which has no installed OS on it.
It comes with one 120 Gb SSD as its primary drive and has an empty
bay where I will install a Samsung evo 860 1 Tb SSD.
I would like to use a live image on
David Wright wrote:
> Your figures are virtually meaningless without any sort of breakdown
> even into what's system and what's your documents.
>
yeah yeah ... use your imagination. Sqldeveloper, couple of virtual
machines, some installation packages each of which is 1-2GB and so one
Software fo
On Fri 12 Apr 2019 at 21:42:51 (+0200), deloptes wrote:
> David Wright wrote:
>
> > We have a laptop that was used with windows for just under four
> > years. Main applications are Office for excel/word/powerpoint,
> > Outlook for email, Coreldraw for publication figures. Disk usage
> > is approxi
On Fri, 2019-04-12 at 09:41 -0500, Tom Browder wrote:
> I've been using Linux for over 20 years, and Debian for over 10, but
> I've always used conventonal partitions and /etc/fstab definitions.
>
> Now that I'm getting a virgin, up-to-date laptop, I am considering
> ising LVM but want to get the
ata
and mount recognizes as an iso9660 file system.
Other parts of the Debian Installation Guide are likely to be useful as
well.
I can offer the following dual boot installation as a suggestive
example. This was to a HP Pavilion laptop dating from about 2011 that
has a traditional BIOS rather
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> A lot of people are still using cached knowledge from pre-jessie days.
no you know at least one in the context of fdisk.
I don't know why but I got the impression it does not understand GPT. Just 2
months ago I had to partition 5TB RAID5 disk and fdisk did not work.
Perhap
David Wright wrote:
> We have a laptop that was used with windows for just under four
> years. Main applications are Office for excel/word/powerpoint,
> Outlook for email, Coreldraw for publication figures. Disk usage
> is approximately 90GB, of which the user's own files are 45GB,
> in a partitio
On 12.04.2019 19:41, Tom Browder wrote:
> I've been using Linux for over 20 years, and Debian for over 10, but
> I've always used conventonal partitions and /etc/fstab definitions.
>
> Now that I'm getting a virgin, up-to-date laptop, I am considering
> ising LVM but want to get the option of exper
Le 12/04/2019 à 16:09, Tom Browder a écrit :
M.2 SSD:
120GB M.2 SSD (included)
Samsung SSD 860 EVO
==
V-NAND SSD
SATA 6 Gb/s
size: 1 Tb
my plan is to use the small disk for Win 10 and the other for Debian
If the small M.2 SSD has a NVMe or AHCI interface, it may be faster t
On Fri 12 Apr 2019 at 10:05:58 (+0200), deloptes wrote:
> Felix Miata wrote:
>
> >> No Win10 will not be happy with 120GB - better take 300GB from the large
> >> disk for windows and the rest for data linux, windows or both
> >
> > I limit Win10 system partitions to 48GB, and disable paging.
>
>
I've been using Linux for over 20 years, and Debian for over 10, but
I've always used conventonal partitions and /etc/fstab definitions.
Now that I'm getting a virgin, up-to-date laptop, I am considering
ising LVM but want to get the option of expert users: Should I go that
route?
Every thing I r
deloptes composed on 2019-04-12 10:05 (UTC+0200):
> Felix Miata wrote:
>>> No Win10 will not be happy with 120GB - better take 300GB from the large
>>> disk for windows and the rest for data linux, windows or both
>> I limit Win10 system partitions to 48GB, and disable paging.
> You always want
On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 10:01 PM David Christensen
wrote:
> Which model zareason laptop?
> Which make, model, form factor, and interface 120 GB SSD?
> Which form factor and interface Samsung EVO 860 1 TB SSD?
> How much RAM?
> Make and model WiFi interface?
David, here are the specs on the lapto
On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 10:07:04AM +0200, deloptes wrote:
> Pascal Hambourg wrote:
>
> > Why not ? Current versions support GPT.
>
> Thank you my fault - I have missed something
It changed after wheezy.
Wheezy's man page says:
fdisk does not understand GUID partition tables (GPTs) an
Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Why not ? Current versions support GPT.
Thank you my fault - I have missed something
Felix Miata wrote:
>> No Win10 will not be happy with 120GB - better take 300GB from the large
>> disk for windows and the rest for data linux, windows or both
>
> I limit Win10 system partitions to 48GB, and disable paging.
You always want to arge - but tell me how many applications or how much
On 4/11/19 5:02 AM, Tom Browder wrote:
I'm preparing to install Win 10 and Deb 9 on a new ZaReason laptop which
has no installed OS on it.
It comes with one 120 Gb SSD as its primary drive and has an empty bay
where I will install a Samsung evo 860 1 Tb SSD.
Which model zareason laptop?
Whic
Le 11/04/2019 à 20:47, deloptes a écrit :
fdisk is not suitable for GPT
Why not ? Current versions support GPT.
deloptes composed on 2019-04-11 20:47 (UTC+0200):
> Tom Browder wrote:
>> Given that I'm starting with two clean drives, my plan is to use the small
>> disk for Win 10 and the other for Debian and maybe have a small partition
>> to experiment with a BSD OS.
> No Win10 will not be happy with 120G
Tom Browder wrote:
> I'm preparing to install Win 10 and Deb 9 on a new ZaReason laptop which
> has no installed OS on it.
>
> It comes with one 120 Gb SSD as its primary drive and has an empty bay
> where I will install a Samsung evo 860 1 Tb SSD.
>
> I would like to use a live image on a large
Hi,
Tom Browder wrote:
> As I
> understand it, I believe I can just copy the Debian CD live iso image file
> onto the USB and it will be found and booted from fine.
Not necessarily. The question is: found by what ?
The computer's firmware (BIOS or EFI, i assume) will ignore such an ISO 9660
imag
I'm preparing to install Win 10 and Deb 9 on a new ZaReason laptop which
has no installed OS on it.
It comes with one 120 Gb SSD as its primary drive and has an empty bay
where I will install a Samsung evo 860 1 Tb SSD.
I would like to use a live image on a large USB for preparing the disks
befor
Le 29/12/2017 à 23:46, Dan Norton a écrit :
On 12/29/2017 08:52 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
The details for other detected OSes are provided by os-prober. The
entry title for the main OS is derived from the GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR
variable in /etc/default/grub. You can tweak it to fit your needs. If
On 12/29/2017 08:52 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
Le 21/12/2017 à 20:07, Dan Norton a écrit :
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: A615A904-0620-459F-BF44-5E53E54FDF24
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sda1 2048 411647 409600 200M BIOS boot
(...)
Is the
Le 21/12/2017 à 20:07, Dan Norton a écrit :
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: A615A904-0620-459F-BF44-5E53E54FDF24
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sda1 2048 411647 409600 200M BIOS boot
(...)
Is there a problem here?
Yes. /dev/sda1 has the type
On 12/28/2017 04:48 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
Le 24/12/2017 à 05:36, Felix Miata a écrit :
Dan Norton composed on 2017-12-23 19:15 (UTC-0500):
The menu inside the box is:
Debian GNU/Linux
Advanced options for Debian GNU/Linux
Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie) (on /dev/mapper/vol1-root)
Advanced opt
Le 24/12/2017 à 05:36, Felix Miata a écrit :
Dan Norton composed on 2017-12-23 19:15 (UTC-0500):
The menu inside the box is:
Debian GNU/Linux
Advanced options for Debian GNU/Linux
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Dan Norton composed on 2017-12-27 18:59 (UTC-0500):
> Felix Miata wrote:
>> Is there more than one directory in /boot/efi/EFI/? If not, it's likely time
>> for
>> you to explore using /etc/default/grub's GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR= option. I need to
>> (only one Debian, but 3 openSUSEs installed), but hav
Dan Norton composed on 2017-12-27 18:59 (UTC-0500):
> Felix Miata wrote:
>> Based on what I see and what you say, it seems you are modifying the timeout
>> for
>> Stretch (/etc/default/grub on vol2), but actually booting Stretch from
>> Jessie's
>> grub.cfg (/etc/default/grub on vol1), which re
On 12/23/2017 11:36 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
Dan Norton composed on 2017-12-23 19:15 (UTC-0500):
Felix Miata wrote:
The menu inside the box is:
Debian GNU/Linux
Advanced options for Debian GNU/Linux
Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie) (on /dev/mapper/vol1-root)
Advanced options for Debian GNU/Linux 8 (j
Dan Norton composed on 2017-12-23 19:15 (UTC-0500):
> Felix Miata wrote:
> The menu inside the box is:
> Debian GNU/Linux
> Advanced options for Debian GNU/Linux
> Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie) (on /dev/mapper/vol1-root)
> Advanced options for Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie) (on /dev/mapper/vol1-root)
On 12/23/2017 04:35 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
Dan Norton composed on 2017-12-23 15:12 (UTC-0500):
Felix Miata wrote:
[...]
It's not so easy to figure out when POST is over with UEFI. Here, it seems
efibootmgr -t provides extra delay beyond what the BIOS defines for you to make
a selection from i
Dan Norton composed on 2017-12-23 15:12 (UTC-0500):
> Felix Miata wrote:
>> [...]
>> It's not so easy to figure out when POST is over with UEFI. Here, it seems
>> efibootmgr -t provides extra delay beyond what the BIOS defines for you to
>> make
>> a selection from its own boot device selection
On 12/21/2017 05:13 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
[...]
It's not so easy to figure out when POST is over with UEFI. Here, it seems
efibootmgr -t provides extra delay beyond what the BIOS defines for you to make
a selection from its own boot device selection menu, which requires an F12
keystroke here to
Dan Norton composed on 2017-12-21 16:53 (UTC-0500):
> Felix Miata wrote:
>> Dan Norton composed on 2017-12-21 14:07 (UTC-0500):
>>> There are still mysteries I have not solved. For some reason, GRUB has
>>> decided that after POST, you only need 3 seconds to choose which
>>> installation to boot
On Thu, 21 Dec 2017 16:53:19 -0500
Dan Norton wrote:
> [1] "Insanity is doing the same thing over & over again and expecting
> a different result." - Einstein
>
Probably the single most stupid thing he ever said, given that he also
said 'God does not play dice', showing that he knew what dice
On 12/21/2017 02:54 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
Dan Norton composed on 2017-12-21 14:07 (UTC-0500):
2. You will make extra work for yourself by having a common swap
partition for all installations. With the common swap, each new
installation gave rise to these messages:
a. "gave up waiting for s
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