Re: VM using Debian cloud image does not connect to virtual network.

Hello, I have found the solution to this and want to drop it here in case someone finds this and has the same problem. The solution is described in this section of the Debian docume

Re: VM using Debian cloud image does not connect to virtual network.

Hi Michael, Thank you very much for taking the time to respond to my e-mail. I will give the posts a read and try to adapt them to my issue. Will get back with feedback thereafter. Also I really like your website design. I've got it as a personal goal to create one for myself at some

Re: VM using Debian cloud image does not connect to virtual network.

On 15 Aug 2023 21:12 +0100, from cristian.caps...@gmail.com (Cristian Capsuna): > This is my first message to the community Welcome. > Finally, what is my problem? I have many problems but what you kind > folk might be able to help me with is the lack of network connectivity of > this VM mac

VM using Debian cloud image does not connect to virtual network.

Hello, This is my first message to the community so if I am doing something wrong please assume I am ignorant and not disobedient with respect to the community rules. I am also a novice with respect to this wonderful operating system. That being said, what am I trying to do? I am trying t

Using Debian in Russia

Good afternoon! We are planning to use Debian Source Code build 11.3 (the “Software”) in Russia and have several questions related to Unrestricted Encryption Source Code Notification Commodity (https://www.debian.org/legal/notificationforarchive, “Notification”) and export restrictions of the U

Re: After Feb 24 update my X11/KDE stopped working (can't log in). (using debian testing)

On 2/25/22 17:34, Karel Gardas wrote: hardware: amd64 + radeon R5? 230 + 2 monitors connected. One connected to DVI, one to VGA. Monitor connected to VGA is on the left and rotated to the portrait position. - what I do to crash is:  - start Settings  - search for 'disp'  - select Display

Re: After Feb 24 update my X11/KDE stopped working (can't log in). (using debian testing)

Him you could try to diable compositing to work around problems with the graphics driver. And you can report a bug at bugs.debian.org (you should first do some more investigation about which component causes the problem.) On 2022-02-25 17:34 UTC+0100, Karel Gardas wrote: > > Hi Cindy, > > you h

Re: After Feb 24 update my X11/KDE stopped working (can't log in). (using debian testing)

Hi Cindy, you helped a lot. Indeed, I've moved all dot files and folders into backup and even problematic user is able to log in. However, first configuration step brings X11 to the knees, crashing and then I'm seeing login windows again. So I guess this is the real culprit of what happene

Re: After Feb 24 update my X11/KDE stopped working (can't log in). (using debian testing)

On 2/25/22, Karel Gardas wrote: > On 2/25/22 13:29, Christian Britz wrote: >> Hello Karel, >> >> please try it with a temporary clean profile. >> > > thanks for the idea, indeed after creating a random new and clean user > and attempt to log into the Plasma (X11) session I went in well. > > On my

Re: After Feb 24 update my X11/KDE stopped working (can't log in). (using debian testing)

clean profile. Regards, Christian On 2022-02-25 13:12 UTC+0100, Karel Gardas wrote: Hello, I'm using debian testing so not sure if this is the right ML, but after Feb 24 update I'm no longer capable of logging into the X11/KDE-plasma. I simply log into, seeing KDE progress gear a

Re: After Feb 24 update my X11/KDE stopped working (can't log in). (using debian testing)

Hello Karel, please try it with a temporary clean profile. Regards, Christian On 2022-02-25 13:12 UTC+0100, Karel Gardas wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm using debian testing so not sure if this is the right ML, but after > Feb 24 update I'm no longer capable of loggin

After Feb 24 update my X11/KDE stopped working (can't log in). (using debian testing)

Hello, I'm using debian testing so not sure if this is the right ML, but after Feb 24 update I'm no longer capable of logging into the X11/KDE-plasma. I simply log into, seeing KDE progress gear and then it returns back to login. My .xsession errors shows that KDE complains about

Re: Using Debian OS to bundle and sell our product

On 2020-07-20 20:19, Kamal wrote:          I'm Kamalakannan from Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd. We build cloud apps and we have a plan to bundle our application in a laptop with debian OS and sell it to custmers with our product bundle over debian OS. We want to know whether it is allowed as per d

Re: Using Debian OS to bundle and sell our product

On Ma, 21 iul 20, 08:49:17, Kamal wrote: > Hi Debian Team, Dear Kamal, This is the user support forum, mostly read by other users. You might want to re-post your question to debian-project. >          I'm Kamalakannan from Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd. We build > cloud apps and we have a plan to

Re: Using Debian OS to bundle and sell our product

Hi Darwin,          Thanks for the details. Can we charge for the proprietary software bundled with debian OS which we install in that laptop ? Regards, Kamal On Tue, 21 Jul 2020 09:29:09 +0530 Darwin Apperagian wrote On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 9:23 AM Darwin Apperagian

Using Debian OS to bundle and sell our product

Hi Debian Team,          I'm Kamalakannan from Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd. We build cloud apps and we have a plan to bundle our application in a laptop with debian OS and sell it to custmers with our product bundle over debian OS.  We want to know whether it is allowed as per debian's policy or

Re: A Major Success Story, Using Debian 9.4

On Tue 24 Apr 2018 at 11:00:34 (+0200), Jochen Spieker wrote: > Kenneth Parker: > > One more thing. I'm now learning, quickly, about recent changes, such as > > the net-tools to iproute2 transition which, as I look at my other running > > systems, has been going for a while, > > It has been going

Re: A Major Success Story, Using Debian 9.4

Congratulation! such success story is hardly surprising to me debian has lots of such story if i meet problem, usually i can get help from this list sometimes i can't solve it even after seeking help but debian is still best in my experience On Tuesday, April 24, 2018, 1:39:03 PM GMT+8, Ken

Re: A Major Success Story, Using Debian 9.4

Kenneth Parker: > One more thing. I'm now learning, quickly, about recent changes, such as > the net-tools to iproute2 transition which, as I look at my other running > systems, has been going for a while, It has been going on since at least 2008, so calling these changes "recent" uses a quite fl

Re: A Major Success Story, Using Debian 9.4

One more thing. I'm now learning, quickly, about recent changes, such as the net-tools to iproute2 transition which, as I look at my other running systems, has been going for a while, and also learning more about the systemd changes. I will also add the Bios to UEFI transition, which the last two

Re: A Major Success Story, Using Debian 9.4

Congratulations, Kenneth! I’m proud to have been of help! Rick On Apr 23, 2018, at 10:38 PM, Kenneth Parker wrote: > Hello, > > I'm sure you are, more used to getting bad news posts, when people have > trouble. And my situation began that way. I'm the one with the recent > Chicken and Eg

Re: A Major Success Story, Using Debian 9.4

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 04:04:48PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Kenneth Parker writes: > > > Isn't this what this is all about? [...] > Excellent work, and a great result. Thanks for reporting it to us! Seconded. Thanks for the report. That's the spi

Re: A Major Success Story, Using Debian 9.4

Kenneth Parker writes: > Isn't this what this is all about? I now have a happy Debian user, who > was previously a marginalized Mac user, down on his luck, and unable > to afford the expensive new Macs! > > Now, he is up to date, and able to use Firefox, LibreOffice, and other > Debian Packages,

A Major Success Story, Using Debian 9.4

Hello, I'm sure you are, more used to getting bad news posts, when people have trouble. And my situation began that way. I'm the one with the recent Chicken and Egg Issue, helping a friend install Debian 9.4 on an expired MacBook, which Apple states can't run anything later than OSX Lion. The

Re: granting permission for using debian name in education purpose

On 13/09/17 17:07, debian wrote: Dear Sir I, pawan pandey (Asst. Professor in CSE),user of linux and open source software and of course debian user for last 10 years want to know that would i use debian name in my education project for school students as per my hobby is there need of any

granting permission for using debian name in education purpose

Dear Sir I, pawan pandey (Asst. Professor in CSE),user of linux and open source software and of course debian user for last 10 years want to know that would i use debian name in my education project for school students as per my hobby is there need of any no objection certificate regardin

Re: Question on using Debian with Davis weather station data loggers

Thanks for your replies, Phil and Bob. This will give me something to get started with. -- Jason On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 10:04:42AM -0400, Bob Weber wrote: > I have a Davis Vantage Pro2 up since 2008 and I am using weewx (since 2013) > running on debian installed in vm. It saves data in sqlite da

Re: Question on using Debian with Davis weather station data loggers

I have a Davis Vantage Pro2 up since 2008 and I am using weewx (since 2013) running on debian installed in vm. It saves data in sqlite data files which can be converted to other data file types if needed. I wrote some python programs to convert the data (including the time data to human readable

Re: Question on using Debian with Davis weather station data loggers

On Wed, 2017-07-12 at 21:07 -0500, Jason wrote: > I have a Davis Vantage Pro2 weather station and would like to get a > data logger for it but I'm not sure what it would take to retrieve > the > data with Linux. They have a USB version and a Serial version data > logger available, both packaged wit

Question on using Debian with Davis weather station data loggers

I have a Davis Vantage Pro2 weather station and would like to get a data logger for it but I'm not sure what it would take to retrieve the data with Linux. They have a USB version and a Serial version data logger available, both packaged with either Windows or Mac software. I'd be curious if anyon

Re: using debian debootstrap and chroot to login to other distro on neighbouring partition etc

On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 09:43:48PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Folks, > > I did the chrooting according to Mr Ingraham's recipe and I used it to > chroot into a gentoo installation I have on the machine here. > > It worked. > Excellent! Thanks for the update.

Re: using debian debootstrap and chroot to login to other distro on neighbouring partition etc

Dear Folks, I did the chrooting according to Mr Ingraham's recipe and I used it to chroot into a gentoo installation I have on the machine here. It worked. I also used terminology. I will try out lxc in a little while. Regards and thanks Michael Fothergill On 5 February 2016 at 20:

Re: using debian debootstrap and chroot to login to other distro on neighbouring partition etc

On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 08:22:53PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > On 5 February 2016 at 12:49, Michael Fothergill < > michael.fotherg...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > On 5 February 2016 at 12:30, Mirko Parthey wrote: > > > >> On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 06:05:50PM -0600, Dutch Ingraham wro

Re: using debian debootstrap and chroot to login to other distro on neighbouring partition etc

On 5 February 2016 at 12:49, Michael Fothergill < michael.fotherg...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > On 5 February 2016 at 12:30, Mirko Parthey wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 06:05:50PM -0600, Dutch Ingraham wrote: >> > I'm not sure debootstrap is what you are looking for here. If you just >>

Re: using debian debootstrap and chroot to login to other distro on neighbouring partition etc

On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 12:49:59PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > This is good advice, and these steps can be automated with the schroot > package. > > For any non-trivial operations inside your guest systems, such as > installing packages or running daemons, I can recommend Li

Re: using debian debootstrap and chroot to login to other distro on neighbouring partition etc

On 5 February 2016 at 12:30, Mirko Parthey wrote: > On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 06:05:50PM -0600, Dutch Ingraham wrote: > > I'm not sure debootstrap is what you are looking for here. If you just > > want to chroot into your Ubuntu,on the same disk, these are the steps: > > > > 1. Make a mount point,

Re: using debian debootstrap and chroot to login to other distro on neighbouring partition etc

On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 06:05:50PM -0600, Dutch Ingraham wrote: > I'm not sure debootstrap is what you are looking for here. If you just > want to chroot into your Ubuntu,on the same disk, these are the steps: > > 1. Make a mount point, say /mnt/ubuntu; > > 2. Mount the partition Ubuntu is on,

Re: using debian debootstrap and chroot to login to other distro on neighbouring partition etc

On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 10:55:26PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Folks, > > I am asking a general question about using chroot etc. > > On my AMD box here I am running Debian stretch. But I also have ubuntu > installed on the same disk and I think a third linux distribution installed >

using debian debootstrap and chroot to login to other distro on neighbouring partition etc

Dear Folks, I am asking a general question about using chroot etc. On my AMD box here I am running Debian stretch. But I also have ubuntu installed on the same disk and I think a third linux distribution installed on a second hard drive. If I wanted to mount e.g. the partition with ubuntu on it

Re: Recommendations regarding using Debian Testing

On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 01:07:13AM -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-choosing > > > > I myself use stable, even thought when I used unstable (not even testing) > > on armhf, I had almost zero problems. > > > > This just made my day. I wro

Re: Recommendations regarding using Debian Testing

On 01/07/2016 02:07 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 1:04 PM, Francesco Ariis wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 11:02:20PM +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: >>> I want to use Debian Testing (not Backports, as I had a bad experience), to >>> try the latest version of software

Re: Recommendations regarding using Debian Testing

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 1:04 PM, Francesco Ariis wrote: > On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 11:02:20PM +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: >> I want to use Debian Testing (not Backports, as I had a bad experience), to >> try the latest version of software available. >> However, I am a bit confused regarding wheth

Re: Recommendations regarding using Debian Testing

On Tuesday 05 January 2016 17:32:20 Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > However, I am a bit confused regarding whether testing would provide the > same level of stability as Stable does! Of course not!!! Just look at the names, they tell you all. (And look up the references supplied by other people.) Li

Re: Recommendations regarding using Debian Testing

On Tuesday 05 January 2016 23:02:20 Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > I want to use Debian Testing (not Backports, as I had a bad experience), to > try the latest version of software available. > However, I am a bit confused regarding whether testing would provide the > same level of stability as Stable do

Re: Recommendations regarding using Debian Testing

On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 11:02:20PM +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > I want to use Debian Testing (not Backports, as I had a bad experience), to > try the latest version of software available. > However, I am a bit confused regarding whether testing would provide the > same level of stability as Sta

Re: Recommendations regarding using Debian Testing

On Tue, 5 Jan 2016 23:02:20 +0530 Himanshu Shekhar wrote: >I want to use Debian Testing (not Backports, as I had a bad experience), to >try the latest version of software available. >However, I am a bit confused regarding whether testing would provide the >same level of stability as Stable does!

Re: Recommendations regarding using Debian Testing

On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 11:02:20PM +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > I want to use Debian Testing (not Backports, as I had a bad experience), to > try the latest version of software available. > However, I am a bit confused regarding whether testing would provide the > same level of stability as Sta

Recommendations regarding using Debian Testing

I want to use Debian Testing (not Backports, as I had a bad experience), to try the latest version of software available. However, I am a bit confused regarding whether testing would provide the same level of stability as Stable does! Any recommendations. Thanks for help. Regards Himanshu Shekhar

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

On 09/03/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: " > I don't know if it will be of any help at this point, but from what I > remember I believe the Ubuntu Server images has a rescue mode. > " That is the solution. I downloaded a Ubuntu 14.04 Server image, wrote it to a disk, and ran it in Rescue Mode, set th

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

On 09/03/2015, Curt wrote: > On 2015-03-09, Petter Adsen wrote: >> >> I don't know if it will be of any help at this point, but from what I >> remember I believe the Ubuntu Server images has a rescue mode. >> > > Seems there's a recovery mode from the grub menu you can boot into. > > https://wiki

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

On Mon 09 Mar 2015 at 15:37:15 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > The Debian 7.8.0 installation disk Rescue Mode has, as one of its > screens, the text > > "Enter a device you wish to use as your root filesystem > > Device to use as root filesystem: > /dev/sda (list of all such values for the system

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

On 2015-03-09, Petter Adsen wrote: > > I don't know if it will be of any help at this point, but from what I > remember I believe the Ubuntu Server images has a rescue mode. > Seems there's a recovery mode from the grub menu you can boot into. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RecoveryMode -- To UNSU

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

On Mon, 9 Mar 2015 15:37:15 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > Hello. > > I have managed to find a copy of the apparently last properly > functioning grub.cfg file, using the Debian 7.60 LXDE LiveCD file > manager, and have posted a copy of the file, to the GRUB help mailing > list. > > The file apparen

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

Hello. I have managed to find a copy of the apparently last properly functioning grub.cfg file, using the Debian 7.60 LXDE LiveCD file manager, and have posted a copy of the file, to the GRUB help mailing list. The file apparently sits in the Ubuntu installation partition, and it apparently shows

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

On Wed 04 Mar 2015 at 14:32:19 -0600, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Brian (a...@cityscape.co.uk): > > On Wed 04 Mar 2015 at 16:13:03 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > > On Wednesday 04 March 2015 16:03:28 Bret Busby wrote: > > > > Neither that screen, nor the one that showed the partitions, > > >

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

Quoting Brian (a...@cityscape.co.uk): > On Wed 04 Mar 2015 at 16:13:03 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Wednesday 04 March 2015 16:03:28 Bret Busby wrote: > > > Neither that screen, nor the one that showed the partitions, > > > identified using the UUID's (which, to a user like me, in the context

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

On Wed 04 Mar 2015 at 16:13:03 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 04 March 2015 16:03:28 Bret Busby wrote: > > Neither that screen, nor the one that showed the partitions, > > identified using the UUID's (which, to a user like me, in the context > > of trying to restore the GRUB multi-OS sele

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

On 3/4/15, David Wright wrote: > > With hot plugging and so on, you really can't get away with /dev/... > any more unless you want to accidently reformat the wrong partition. > And not everyone sets LABELs, so there's not much choice. As long as > you don't clone a partition without changing the U

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

On Thu 05 Mar 2015 at 00:03:28 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > No, it was not about labelling the swap partition. > > The original posting, was, I believe, seeking stepwise instructions > for recovery of the GRUB multi-OS selection bootloader, using the > Debian LiveCD. My recollection is that you go

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com): > > Neither that screen, nor the one that showed the partitions, > identified using the UUID's (which, to a user like me, in the context > of trying to restore the GRUB multi-OS selection bootloader, are > meaningless, and, as useful as listing the subato

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

On Wednesday 04 March 2015 16:03:28 Bret Busby wrote: > Neither that screen, nor the one that showed the partitions, > identified using the UUID's (which, to a user like me, in the context > of trying to restore the GRUB multi-OS selection bootloader, are > meaningless, and, as useful as listing th

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

On 04/03/2015, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20150228_1557-0500, Ric Moore wrote: >> On 02/28/2015 03:42 PM, Brian wrote: >> >On Sat 28 Feb 2015 at 15:14:19 -0500, Ric Moore wrote: >> > >> >>On 02/28/2015 03:06 PM, Brian wrote: >> >>> >> >>>Relenting, somewhat. I cannot stand the pain which comes from

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

On 20150228_1557-0500, Ric Moore wrote: > On 02/28/2015 03:42 PM, Brian wrote: > >On Sat 28 Feb 2015 at 15:14:19 -0500, Ric Moore wrote: > > > >>On 02/28/2015 03:06 PM, Brian wrote: > >>> > >>>Relenting, somewhat. I cannot stand the pain which comes from watching > >>>someone struggle. :) > >>> > >

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

On 02/28/2015 03:42 PM, Brian wrote: On Sat 28 Feb 2015 at 15:14:19 -0500, Ric Moore wrote: On 02/28/2015 03:06 PM, Brian wrote: Relenting, somewhat. I cannot stand the pain which comes from watching someone struggle. :) e2label(8). I often trust the opinion of our" hive-mind" more than I

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

On Sat 28 Feb 2015 at 15:14:19 -0500, Ric Moore wrote: > On 02/28/2015 03:06 PM, Brian wrote: > > > >Relenting, somewhat. I cannot stand the pain which comes from watching > >someone struggle. :) > > > >e2label(8). > > I often trust the opinion of our" hive-mind" more than I do a man > page. I hat

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

On 02/28/2015 03:06 PM, Brian wrote: On Sat 28 Feb 2015 at 19:23:58 +, Brian wrote: On Sat 28 Feb 2015 at 14:18:33 -0500, Ric Moore wrote: I'm having a job parsing this sentence, but are you referring here to the partitions' UUIDs? These are chosen at random when partitions are created an

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

On Sat 28 Feb 2015 at 19:23:58 +, Brian wrote: > On Sat 28 Feb 2015 at 14:18:33 -0500, Ric Moore wrote: > > > >I'm having a job parsing this sentence, but are you referring here to > > >the partitions' UUIDs? These are chosen at random when partitions are > > >created and it helps to make a n

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

Quoting Ric Moore (wayward4...@gmail.com): > On 02/28/2015 10:21 AM, David Wright wrote: > >of /run/udev/data/b8:... Also see man tune2fs. > > Can a label be created after?? Inquiring minds want to know. :) Ric And AFAICT you have to label a swapfile with mkswap because, unless you avoid it, the

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

On Sat, 28 Feb 2015 09:21:23 -0600 David Wright wrote: > Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com): > > I also note that (after taking about an hour, to remove the Debian > > 7.8 installer iso "removable media" disk from the computer, that, > > like Ubuntu, the Debian 7.6 LXDE LiveCD does not, us

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

On Sat 28 Feb 2015 at 14:18:33 -0500, Ric Moore wrote: > >I'm having a job parsing this sentence, but are you referring here to > >the partitions' UUIDs? These are chosen at random when partitions are > >created and it helps to make a note of them as they are entirely > >unmemorable. (I use LABELs

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

On 02/28/2015 10:21 AM, David Wright wrote: Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com): I also note that (after taking about an hour, to remove the Debian 7.8 installer iso "removable media" disk from the computer, that, like Ubuntu, the Debian 7.6 LXDE LiveCD does not, using the file manager, sh

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com): > I also note that (after taking about an hour, to remove the Debian 7.8 > installer iso "removable media" disk from the computer, that, like > Ubuntu, the Debian 7.6 LXDE LiveCD does not, using the file manager, > show Properties for partitions, and, in o

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

On Wednesday, February 25, 2015 at 7:40:05 PM UTC+5:30, Rusi Mody wrote: > > Have you tried configfile? > > configfile is a grub command that can be used to 'connect' to grub > eg > > 1. if your (working) debian's root is in /dev/sda5 >Then at the grub prompt try issuing the command >c

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

On Wednesday 25 February 2015 14:08:12 Ric Moore wrote: > On 02/25/2015 03:18 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Wednesday 25 February 2015 06:00:58 Bret Busby wrote: > >> Why does the Debian standard installation iso image, not include an > >> "Abort installation" option (at each screen, although, eve

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

Bret Busby wrote: > In trying to use a standard Debian installer iso, and booting into > rescue mode, I got toa screen "select partition into which to install > the root system", or words to that effect. Does it say "Rescue mode" in the corner? It should. Here is the official documentation for i

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

On 02/25/2015 03:18 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 25 February 2015 06:00:58 Bret Busby wrote: Why does the Debian standard installation iso image, not include an "Abort installation" option (at each screen, although, even, a single instantiation, on the primary menu, would help, by rebootin

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

On Wednesday, February 25, 2015 at 11:40:05 AM UTC+5:30, Bret Busby wrote: > On 20/02/2015, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Bret Busby wrote: > >> The Debian 7.60 LXDE LiveCD does not have an option to boot into rescue > >> mode. > > > > You could always download the standard debian-installer and use that >

Re: correctio - Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

On Wednesday 25 February 2015 11:44:35 Bret Busby wrote: > On 25/02/2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Wednesday 25 February 2015 11:21:42 Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> On Wednesday 25 February 2015 11:10:24 Gene Heskett wrote: > >> > Because that paper clip hole cannot be found on the face of the > >> > bla

Re: correctio - Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

On 25/02/2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 25 February 2015 11:21:42 Lisi Reisz wrote: >> On Wednesday 25 February 2015 11:10:24 Gene Heskett wrote: >> > Because that paper clip hole cannot be found on the face of the >> > blackfaced dvd drive when the tower is out of the direct light under >

correctio - Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

On Wednesday 25 February 2015 11:21:42 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 25 February 2015 11:10:24 Gene Heskett wrote: > > Because that paper clip hole cannot be found on the face of the > > blackfaced dvd drive when the tower is out of the direct light under the > > next table over and invisible ev

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

On Wednesday 25 February 2015 11:10:24 Gene Heskett wrote: > Because that paper clip hole cannot be found on the face of the blackfaced > dvd drive when the tower is out of the direct light under the next table > over and invisible even with 300 equ watts of ccfl lighting on the ceiling > turned on

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

On Wednesday 25 February 2015 03:18:20 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 25 February 2015 06:00:58 Bret Busby wrote: > > Why does the Debian standard installation iso image, not include an > > "Abort installation" option (at each screen, although, even, a single > > instantiation, on the primary m

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

On Wednesday 25 February 2015 09:11:02 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 25 February 2015 08:38:02 Bret Busby wrote: > > I do not remember being aware of that method, > > before your suggestion. > > It is what the little hole on the front of optical drives is for. You need > to straighten the paper

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

On Wed 25 Feb 2015 at 14:00:58 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On 20/02/2015, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > > You could always download the standard debian-installer and use that > > to boot rescue mode. It is a very good option. > > In trying to use a standard Debian installer iso, and booting into > res

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

On Wednesday 25 February 2015 08:38:02 Bret Busby wrote: > I do not remember being aware of that method, > before your suggestion. It is what the little hole on the front of optical drives is for. You need to straighten the paper clip, and it is better if it is a reasonably sturdy one. A tapes

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

On 25/02/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:38:02 +0800 > Bret Busby wrote: > >> On 25/02/2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> > On Wednesday 25 February 2015 06:00:58 Bret Busby wrote: >> >> Why does the Debian standard installation iso image, not include an >> >> "Abort installation" opt

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:38:02 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > On 25/02/2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Wednesday 25 February 2015 06:00:58 Bret Busby wrote: > >> Why does the Debian standard installation iso image, not include an > >> "Abort installation" option (at each screen, although, even, a > >> s

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

On 25/02/2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 25 February 2015 06:00:58 Bret Busby wrote: >> Why does the Debian standard installation iso image, not include an >> "Abort installation" option (at each screen, although, even, a single >> instantiation, on the primary menu, would help, by rebootin

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

On Wednesday 25 February 2015 06:00:58 Bret Busby wrote: > Why does the Debian standard installation iso image, not include an > "Abort installation" option (at each screen, although, even, a single > instantiation, on the primary menu, would help, by rebooting the > system into that menu, to do it

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

On 25/02/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > On 20/02/2015, Bob Proulx wrote: >> Bret Busby wrote: >>> The Debian 7.60 LXDE LiveCD does not have an option to boot into rescue >>> mode. >> >> You could always download the standard debian-installer and use that >> to boot rescue mode. It is a very good opti

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

On 20/02/2015, Bob Proulx wrote: > Bret Busby wrote: >> The Debian 7.60 LXDE LiveCD does not have an option to boot into rescue >> mode. > > You could always download the standard debian-installer and use that > to boot rescue mode. It is a very good option. > In trying to use a standard Debian

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

On 20/02/2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 20 February 2015 09:06:32 Bret Busby wrote: >> (as reworded version of the quote from Hamlet; "Tomorrow, and >> tomorrow, and tomorrow..." > > Sorry to quibble, but it's Macbeth. > > Lisi > I stand corrected. "Mone me si erro" "Errare est humanum (?)

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

On Fri 20 Feb 2015 at 16:26:03 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > I have searched and found > http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/776643-how-to-rescue-a-non-booting-grub-2-on-linux/ > > and have done ls, that shows 13 GPT partitions, of which, I know (or > believe) that 3 are operating system installat

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

On Friday 20 February 2015 09:06:32 Bret Busby wrote: > (as reworded version of the quote from Hamlet; "Tomorrow, and > tomorrow, and tomorrow..." Sorry to quibble, but it's Macbeth. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

On 20/02/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > > Also, have you looked at this: > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/boot-repair-cd/ > > ? > > Maybe it would be a simple way to fix it? > > Petter > I will have to try that, next week. I need to shut down the failed system, and, then, next week, when I have

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

On 20/02/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > On 20/02/2015, Bret Busby wrote: >> On 20/02/2015, Bob Proulx wrote: >>> Bret Busby wrote: The Debian 7.60 LXDE LiveCD does not have an option to boot into rescue mode. >>> >>> You could always download the standard debian-installer and use that >>> t

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 16:26:03 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > On 20/02/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > > On 20/02/2015, Bob Proulx wrote: > >> Bret Busby wrote: > >>> The Debian 7.60 LXDE LiveCD does not have an option to boot into > >>> rescue mode. > >> > >> You could always download the standard debian-i

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 16:07:56 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > So, now, this has evovled to the new question; what do I type in at > the GRUB prompt, to make it search for, and, offer as boot options, > the pre-existing, installed, Ubuntu and Debian installations? I found this: http://members.iinet.net/

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

On 20/02/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > On 20/02/2015, Bob Proulx wrote: >> Bret Busby wrote: >>> The Debian 7.60 LXDE LiveCD does not have an option to boot into rescue >>> mode. >> >> You could always download the standard debian-installer and use that >> to boot rescue mode. It is a very good opti

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

On 20/02/2015, Bob Proulx wrote: > Bret Busby wrote: >> The Debian 7.60 LXDE LiveCD does not have an option to boot into rescue >> mode. > > You could always download the standard debian-installer and use that > to boot rescue mode. It is a very good option. > > However if you have a livecd and y

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