Re: Problem with Grub

2021-06-23 Thread Felix Miata
David Wright composed on 2021-06-22 11:00 (UTC-0500): > On Sat 19 Jun 2021 at 14:51:53 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: >> As already mentioned, you needn't have paid. Two unrelated things were >> likely to >> have caused this to happen. Vista and or Win10 could have been installed in >> MBR >> mode

Re: Problem with Grub

2021-06-22 Thread David Wright
On Sat 19 Jun 2021 at 14:51:53 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > William Lee Valentine composed on 2021-06-19 10:19 (UTC-0600): > > > I had installed a back version of Debian in a partition on a > > 500-megahertz computer that was otherwise running Windows 2000 and > > MS-DOS. > > > When I had finish

Re: Problem with Grub

2021-06-21 Thread Joe
On Sat, 19 Jun 2021 10:19:57 -0600 William Lee Valentine wrote: > > I later installed Debian 10.2 in a partition on a 64-bit computer that > was otherwise running Windows 10. > > When I had finished installing Linux, Grub wanted to know whether I > wanted it installed on the master boot record

Re: Problem with Grub

2021-06-19 Thread Felix Miata
William Lee Valentine composed on 2021-06-19 10:19 (UTC-0600): > I had installed a back version of Debian in a partition on a > 500-megahertz computer that was otherwise running Windows 2000 and > MS-DOS. > When I had finished installing Linux, on that machine, Grub wanted to > know whether I wan

Re: Problem with Grub

2021-06-19 Thread Douglas McGarrett
On 6/19/21 12:19 PM, William Lee Valentine wrote: I had installed a back version of Debian in a partition on a 500-megahertz computer that was otherwise running Windows 2000 and MS-DOS. When I had finished installing Linux, on that machine, Grub wanted to know whether I wanted it installed in

Re: Problem with Grub

2021-06-19 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 19/06/2021 13:19, William Lee Valentine wrote: I have now another 64-bit computer, running Windows 10, whose BIOS provides the option of booting from a USB device. If I install Debian 10.2 in a partition on this computer, would I tell Grub to make the partition bootable? Would Grub instead ins

Re: Problem with Grub

2021-06-19 Thread IL Ka
Hello. You do not need to reinstall Windows to fix boot problems. Download Windows iso from the Microsoft website along with a special tool to burn it to the flash drive, boot from it and Windows will repair most booting issues. Motherboard firmware may act in Legacy/BIOS mode or UEFI mode. Mast

Re: Problem with grub-install (d-i, soft RAID6, Jessie)

2016-01-08 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Christian Seiler a écrit : > On 01/08/2016 02:51 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >> Current tools won't align for compatibility purpose any more. The >> default 1-MiB alignment is only for performance purpose, not compatibility. > > This is new to me - I always thought that this was entirely for > comp

Re: Problem with grub-install (d-i, soft RAID6, Jessie)

2016-01-07 Thread David Christensen
On 01/07/2016 04:22 PM, W. Martin Borgert wrote: I try to install Jessie with a soft RAID6 of four disks, 1 TB each. The idea is to use the complete disk for RAID and then only on top separate swap and root. ... grub does not install on the fourth disk. It turns out, that the fourth disk is GPT,

Re: Problem with grub-install (d-i, soft RAID6, Jessie)

2016-01-07 Thread Christian Seiler
On 01/08/2016 02:51 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Christian Seiler a écrit : >> for compatibility reasons every tool that manipulates MBR >> partitions will therefore want to leave a gap after the MBR. > > Current tools won't align for compatibility purpose any more. The > default 1-MiB alignment i

Re: Problem with grub-install (d-i, soft RAID6, Jessie)

2016-01-07 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Christian Seiler a écrit : > > Well sure, but MBR also has all the CHS baggage - and while it isn't > used anymore on modern systems, there still is the de-factor standard > of aligning the first partition with the first CHS-sector that is so > ingrained historically that the gap between MBR and t

Re: Problem with grub-install (d-i, soft RAID6, Jessie)

2016-01-07 Thread Christian Seiler
On 01/08/2016 02:03 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Christian Seiler a écrit : >> Problem is that GPT doesn't have such a gap. > > GPT usually also has such a gap for partition alignment purpose. Well sure, but MBR also has all the CHS baggage - and while it isn't used anymore on modern systems, the

Re: Problem with grub-install (d-i, soft RAID6, Jessie)

2016-01-07 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Christian Seiler a écrit : > > Ok, if you use MBR, only the first 512 bytes are used for the MBR > partition table, so that the gap between those bytes and the first > partition (and there is *always* a gap, the size depends on the > details of the logical geometry of the disk) has traditionally >

Re: Problem with grub-install (d-i, soft RAID6, Jessie)

2016-01-07 Thread Christian Seiler
On 01/08/2016 01:22 AM, W. Martin Borgert wrote: > I try to install Jessie with a soft RAID6 of four disks, 1 TB each. > The idea is to use the complete disk for RAID and then only on top > separate swap and root. > > The installation worked fine on one machine, but for some reason, > grub does no

Re: Problem with grub-install (d-i, soft RAID6, Jessie)

2016-01-07 Thread Pascal Hambourg
W. Martin Borgert a écrit : > > I try to install Jessie with a soft RAID6 of four disks, 1 TB each. > The idea is to use the complete disk for RAID and then only on top > separate swap and root. > > The installation worked fine on one machine, but for some reason, > grub does not install on the f

Re: problem with grub loader and screen resolution in gnome

2008-12-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 04 December 2008, "raman narasimhan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'problem with grub loader and screen resolution in gnome': >A. How do i revert back to grub loader?? From within the running system install grub to the mbr. For more information, see the grub documentation. >B. Or

Re: problem with grub

2008-05-15 Thread Wackojacko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008-05-15 17:02+0200 Gilles Guiot: my server has two raid1 arrays, each with two disks, for a total of four hd. sda1 relates to the biggest partion on the first array (sda) and sdb1 relates to the only partition on the second raid array. point is this sdb1 is "in lv

Re: problem with grub

2008-05-15 Thread hh . eu
2008-05-15 17:02+0200 Gilles Guiot: my server has two raid1 arrays, each with two disks, for a total of four hd. sda1 relates to the biggest partion on the first array (sda) and sdb1 relates to the only partition on the second raid array. point is this sdb1 is "in lvm" so to speak, ie ther

Re: problem with grub

2008-05-15 Thread Gilles Guiot
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Am 2008-05-15 um 11:14 schrieb Gilles Guiot: Hello all, I'm a newbie to Linux. I have a Dell server with two raid arrays (sda and sdb), both raid 1. I created and LVM on sdb. After having copied the filesystem from sda onto sdb, I want to configure grub so that i

Re: problem with grub

2008-05-15 Thread hh . eu
Am 2008-05-15 um 11:14 schrieb Gilles Guiot: Hello all, I'm a newbie to Linux. I have a Dell server with two raid arrays (sda and sdb), both raid 1. I created and LVM on sdb. After having copied the filesystem from sda onto sdb, I want to configure grub so that it boots on sdb. Could y