On Monday 11 Jun 2012 08:16:49 Alex Schuster wrote:
> Mick writes:
> > PS. [OT] what key am I supposed to press to be able to see some more
> > verbose output on the console while *ubuntu is booting?
>
> Press the shift key during startup, so the Grub menu will appear. Then E
> to edit, and remove
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 23:43:32 -0700, Keith Dart wrote:
> I use syslinux everywhere, and on my desktop. It is already well
> documented on their website and wiki.
At the time I really needed to know all about isolinux, on a tight
deadline, the wiki was down, and remained down for the next month's
Mick writes:
> PS. [OT] what key am I supposed to press to be able to see some more
> verbose output on the console while *ubuntu is booting?
Press the shift key during startup, so the Grub menu will appear. Then E
to edit, and remove the 'quiet' kernel parameter. The Grub menu still
does not app
Re
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Alan McKinnon said:
> syslinux/extlinux and friends are more suited for embedded devices,
> liveCDs and that sort of thing. They never found much traction for
> desktop use wh
On Sunday 10 Jun 2012 22:48:32 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 22:08:24 +0100
>
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:48:10 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > syslinux/extlinux and friends are more suited for embedded devices,
> > > liveCDs and that sort of thing. They never
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 22:08:24 +0100
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:48:10 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
> > syslinux/extlinux and friends are more suited for embedded devices,
> > liveCDs and that sort of thing. They never found much traction for
> > desktop use which explains why t
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:48:10 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> syslinux/extlinux and friends are more suited for embedded devices,
> liveCDs and that sort of thing. They never found much traction for
> desktop use which explains why the Handbook makes no real effort to
> document them.
One of the mai
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 18:41:37 +0200
Jarry wrote:
> On 10-Jun-12 12:47, Keith Dart wrote:
> >
> >> I use Lilo -- it's simple if you're not continually changing the
> >> set-up --
> >
> > LILO is ancient history. syslinux (extlinux) is a much better
> > solution these days.
>
> Honestly, never hear
On 10-Jun-12 12:47, Keith Dart wrote:
I use Lilo -- it's simple if you're not continually changing the
set-up --
LILO is ancient history. syslinux (extlinux) is a much better solution
these days.
Honestly, never heard of it. Gentoo Handbook lists only GRUB and
LILO as bootloaders. Is syslin
Re , Philip Webb said:
> I recently reorganised my HDD to avoid having to use initramfs .
> Having done so, I still have some spare space on the HDD,
> which seemed a good place to have a couple of other distros installed
> in case I want to use Flash (my Gentoo is 64-bit) or show Linux to
> frien
I recently reorganised my HDD to avoid having to use initramfs .
Having done so, I still have some spare space on the HDD,
which seemed a good place to have a couple of other distros installed
in case I want to use Flash (my Gentoo is 64-bit) or show Linux to friends.
Fedora 17 (Xfce) installs ea
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