On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 8:31 PM, walt wrote:
> On 06/29/2012 06:19 PM, walt wrote:
>> Just for future reference
>
> Oops, never mind. I misread your original post :(
It's okay, I think at some point I must have updated something grub
depends on, so it wasn't able to load the stages. My grub is b
Hello,
On Fri, 29 Jun 2012, walt wrote:
>On 06/29/2012 05:55 PM, walt wrote:
>> I didn't make myself clear. I wouldn't hesitate to convert this
>> machine to GPT (I like it) but I don't know if Windows would like
>> GPT.
>>
>> I guess I should get off my butt and go google it.
>>
>> Maybe tomor
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Peter Humphrey
wrote:
> On Friday 29 June 2012 21:46:20 Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> Things have been going steadily downhill since the days of V7 on a
>> PDP-11 with 256K words of RAM, a 20MB hard drive and uucp via dial-up
>> modems for "networking". Real programm
On Friday 29 June 2012 21:46:20 Grant Edwards wrote:
> Things have been going steadily downhill since the days of V7 on a
> PDP-11 with 256K words of RAM, a 20MB hard drive and uucp via dial-up
> modems for "networking". Real programmers didn't _need_ more that
> 64k of text and 64k data to get t
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 09:02:42PM -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> If they are serial ata drives, I thought newer kernels would use
> /dev/sda etc. Is this really a ide drive? Or do you have the BIOS
> pretend they are?
Please gve me a little credit. I can screw up lots of things and
for
On 06/29/2012 06:19 PM, walt wrote:
> Just for future reference
Oops, never mind. I misread your original post :(
On 06/29/2012 03:05 PM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 05:56:58PM -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
>>
>> fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
>>
>>> Got my two 4TB drives installed. Now I need to get stuff off /dev/hda
>>> so I can turn it into an LVM volumne. So I copied everything th
On 06/28/2012 10:14 PM, Paul Hartman wrote:
> After booting from gentoo minimal livecd, chrooting into my hard
> drive, re-emerging grub:0 (just in case it has to be built against my
> latest kernel) and then running grub and doing:
>
> root (hd0,0)
> setup (hd0)
>
> it booted normally again. I g
On 06/29/2012 05:55 PM, walt wrote:
> On 06/29/2012 01:35 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> GRUB and GPT are completely unrelated, I use GRUB2 on machines with
>> both DOS and GPT partition tables, you don't need to repartition
>> your drive to upgrade your bootloader.
>
> I didn't make myself clear. I
fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 05:56:58PM -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> >
> > fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
> >
> > > Got my two 4TB drives installed. Now I need to get stuff off /dev/hda
> > > so I can turn it into an LVM volumne. So I copied everything there to
> > > t
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 08:13:54PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
> ...I don't know, but I think you ought to burn in those drives before
> you move all of your data onto them. One good way might be to create,
> damage and rebuild a raid5 volume on them. They're at the high risk
> period of their lifet
On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 10:05:40AM +1000, Paul Colquhoun wrote:
> What active 'filter = ' lines do you currently have in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf?
>
> Does it have something like 'r|/dev/hd.*' in it to hide all the IDE devices
> from LVM?
Ah geez, yet more LVM lore I have long since forgotten from lac
On 06/29/2012 01:35 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> GRUB and GPT are completely unrelated, I use GRUB2 on machines with both
> DOS and GPT partition tables, you don't need to repartition your drive to
> upgrade your bootloader.
I didn't make myself clear. I wouldn't hesitate to convert this machine
to
On 06/29/2012 08:05 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
>
> http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2_Quick_Start
Thanks for the tip. /etc/make.conf strikes me as an odd
place to put settings that apply to only one package.
Any idea why that decision was made?
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 5:26 PM, wrote:
> Got my two 4TB drives installed. Now I need to get stuff off /dev/hda
> so I can turn it into an LVM volumne. So I copied everything there to
> the the 7.3TB LVM filesystem, then tried to create a new pv on
> /dev/hda1. No joy. I get
>
> Device /de
On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 14:26:51 fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
> Got my two 4TB drives installed. Now I need to get stuff off /dev/hda
> so I can turn it into an LVM volumne. So I copied everything there to
> the the 7.3TB LVM filesystem, then tried to create a new pv on
> /dev/hda1. No joy. I get
>
>
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 05:56:58PM -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
>
> fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
>
> > Got my two 4TB drives installed. Now I need to get stuff off /dev/hda
> > so I can turn it into an LVM volumne. So I copied everything there to
> > the the 7.3TB LVM filesystem, then tried
fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
> Got my two 4TB drives installed. Now I need to get stuff off /dev/hda
> so I can turn it into an LVM volumne. So I copied everything there to
> the the 7.3TB LVM filesystem, then tried to create a new pv on
> /dev/hda1. No joy. I get
>
> Device /dev/hda1 not fo
Got my two 4TB drives installed. Now I need to get stuff off /dev/hda
so I can turn it into an LVM volumne. So I copied everything there to
the the 7.3TB LVM filesystem, then tried to create a new pv on
/dev/hda1. No joy. I get
Device /dev/hda1 not found (or ignored by filtering).
/dev/hd
On Fri, Jun 29 2012, Todd Goodman wrote:
> * Allan Gottlieb [120629 14:53]:
>> Now that grub is slotted (slot:2 is grub2; slot:0 is legacy grub),
>> an update world will merge grub-2.00 along side my current
>> grub-0.97-r12.
>>
>> Am I correct in believing that, if I *do* the emerge but *not* d
On 2012-06-29, Alecks Gates wrote:
> I've never had a problem with Grub 2 + Windows (XP, Vista, 7, still
> haven't had the will to sacrifice myself for 8).
I've had problems with Ubuntu and Grub2. It seems you can't install
grub2 anywhere except the MBR, but I think that may be a bug in the
ins
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 10:45:27AM -0700, fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
> Aiieee! For some reason, my kernel has every SATA driver configured EXCEPT
> sata_mv.
>
> I'll report back in a while
That did it. I now have 8TB of new drive to play with. Thanks for the card
recommendation and all t
On Fri, Jun 29 2012, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote:
> On 29.06.2012 20:46, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
>> Now that grub is slotted (slot:2 is grub2; slot:0 is legacy grub),
>> an update world will merge grub-2.00 along side my current
>> grub-0.97-r12.
>>
>> Am I correct in believing that, if I *do* t
* Allan Gottlieb [120629 14:53]:
> Now that grub is slotted (slot:2 is grub2; slot:0 is legacy grub),
> an update world will merge grub-2.00 along side my current
> grub-0.97-r12.
>
> Am I correct in believing that, if I *do* the emerge but *not* do
> anything else with grub, I will continue to u
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On 29.06.2012 20:46, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> Now that grub is slotted (slot:2 is grub2; slot:0 is legacy grub),
> an update world will merge grub-2.00 along side my current
> grub-0.97-r12.
>
> Am I correct in believing that, if I *do* the emerge bu
On 29/06/12 07:22, David Haller wrote:
Hello,
On Fri, 29 Jun 2012, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
OK, I now have the new disk. Unfortunately, it turns out that GPT is
not an option, since Grub can't dual boot an UEFI/GPT installed
Windows 7 (you can't install Windows on a GPT disk if you don't
perfo
Now that grub is slotted (slot:2 is grub2; slot:0 is legacy grub),
an update world will merge grub-2.00 along side my current
grub-0.97-r12.
Am I correct in believing that, if I *do* the emerge but *not* do
anything else with grub, I will continue to use legacy grub (-0.97-r12)
whenever I boot?
I
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 12:45 PM, wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 09:57:20AM -0700, fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 06:05:30PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
>>
>> > I have a couple "MV88SX6081 8-port SATA II PCI-X Controller" devices I
>> > picked up from Newegg a couple years ba
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 09:57:20AM -0700, fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 06:05:30PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
>
> > I have a couple "MV88SX6081 8-port SATA II PCI-X Controller" devices I
> > picked up from Newegg a couple years back. They work beautifully.
>
> It came, I insta
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 06:05:30PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
> I have a couple "MV88SX6081 8-port SATA II PCI-X Controller" devices I
> picked up from Newegg a couple years back. They work beautifully.
It came, I installed it, it shows a BIOS page on reboot, and lspci
knows about it. However, th
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 1:05 AM, Dale wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> It appears that grub2 is coming soon. Thread on -dev said a couple
> months or so till it hits the tree, keyworded and/or masked I'm sure. I
> guess it is about time to jump off the cliff and give this a try. I
> installed Kubuntu on a s
On 06/29/12 10:57, Mike Gilbert wrote:
>>
>> No, handbook only discusses grub (not grub2) and lilo.
>>
>> Which is sad; I'd love to use stuff like grub2 and {ext,sys}linux.
>> It'd be sweet to make things more easily convertible to netboot or
>> cdrom-boot scenarios.
>
> We will add some instructi
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Michael Mol wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:
>> On 2012-06-25 1:05 AM, Dale wrote:
>>>
>>> Howdy,
>>>
>>> It appears that grub2 is coming soon.
>>
>>
>> Has the Handbook/Install docs been updated to provide for installing Grub2
>> with a
On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:12:54 -0700, walt wrote:
> I've heard a rumor that Windows doesn't like GUID partition tables, so
> I haven't yet installed grub2 on my one machine that still multiboots
> between operating systems. (That's my one remaining machine with a
> legal install of Windows.) I con
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