On Sunday 20 July 2008, Ivan Alden wrote:
> When I reboot I can't
> see the grub splashscreen any more but if I press enter I does boot into
> my kernel. As the computer is booting the output looks all messed up
> (but you can make that its initializing devices) until it reaches around
> the netwo
On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 04:19 -0700, jalves wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 07:48:38PM -0600, Joseph wrote:
> > How hard is to install Gentoo from a USB stick? Is it officially supported
> > this type of installation?
> > I can find instruction here and there; and some notes that is not an easy
Ivan Alden schrieb:
Hi,
My laptop ran out of battery and shut off while I was using it and it
seems to have done some damage to the bootloader. When I reboot I can't
see the grub splashscreen any more but if I press enter I does boot into
my kernel. As the computer is booting the output looks al
Florian Philipp schrieb:
On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 10:08:29 +0100
Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Just in case, you may want to try this:
# grub <--Also use --no-floppy if it hangs probing a floppy drive
that doesn't exist-->
grub> root (hd2,0) <--If your /boot drive is e.g. in /dev/hdd1)-->
grub>
Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ locale
>> LANG=en_DK.UTF-8
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ locale -a
>> en_DK.utf8
>
> And you don't see the difference?
But...
przehyba ~ # cat /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED | grep en | grep DK
en_DK.UTF-8 UTF-8
en_DK ISO-8859-1
przehyba ~
Thanks its fixed. I guess it was coincidence I lost power at the same
time to this issue. I appreciate the help.
Ivan
On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 01:24 -0500, Dale wrote:
> Ivan Alden wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > My laptop ran out of battery and shut off while I was using it and it
> > seems to have done som
Ivan Alden wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My laptop ran out of battery and shut off while I was using it and it
> seems to have done some damage to the bootloader. When I reboot I can't
> see the grub splashscreen any more but if I press enter I does boot into
> my kernel. As the computer is booting the output
Ivan Alden wrote:
Thanks its fixed. I guess it was coincidence I lost power at the same
time to this issue. I appreciate the help.
Ivan
On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 01:24 -0500, Dale wrote:
Ivan Alden wrote:
Hi,
My laptop ran out of battery and shut off while I was using it and it
seems to
Oh sorry,
_very_ _important_ :
Mount your boot partition _before_ you emerge grub.
W. Canis
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On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 23:39 +0200, Sebastian Günther wrote:
> Maybe you have just what the Germans call "Ein Brett vorm Kopf"
Brett is a worm head? What have you got against Brett?
;)
--
Iain Buchanan
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
-- Bertol
Hi,
I was wandering what is taking away my hdd space. Now I found:
du -h .config/audacious/config
160G.config/audacious/config
What is this file good for? I don't think a config file should be that
big. Can I delete it without trouble?
KH
On Sunday 20 July 2008, Wolf Canis wrote:
> Oh sorry,
>
> _very_ _important_ :
>
> Mount your boot partition _before_ you emerge grub.
I believe that the grub ebuild mounts it for you, messes up your grub.conf and
carries on with its business . . .
--
Regards,
Mick
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KH schrieb:
Hi,
I was wandering what is taking away my hdd space. Now I found:
du -h .config/audacious/config
160G.config/audacious/config
What is this file good for? I don't think a config file should be that
big. Can I delete it without trouble?
KH
What's writen in the file? mine is
Justin schrieb:
KH schrieb:
Hi,
I was wandering what is taking away my hdd space. Now I found:
du -h .config/audacious/config
160G.config/audacious/config
What is this file good for? I don't think a config file should be
that big. Can I delete it without trouble?
KH
What's writen in
just for ever. Could someone mail a "normal" config to replace mine?
KH
[sndstretch]
volume_corr=FALSE
short_overlap=FALSE
speed=1.69349
pitch=0.775572
[echo_plugin]
enable_surround=FALSE
volume=50
feedback=50
delay=500
[statusicon]
ew_visib_prevstatus=FALSE
pw_visib_prevstatus=TRUE
mw_visi
Justin schrieb:
just for ever. Could someone mail a "normal" config to replace mine?
KH
Thanks. It's OK now.
KH
KH wrote:
Justin schrieb:
just for ever. Could someone mail a "normal" config to replace mine?
KH
Thanks. It's OK now.
I recommend doing a full fsck at this point. The problem might have
been due to a filesystem error rather than application bug or user
error. If you have a separat
same here with the latest grub update on x86.
setting the console font restores normal operation during the boot process.
t
Ivan Alden wrote:
Hi,
My laptop ran out of battery and shut off while I was using it and it
seems to have done some damage to the bootloader. When I reboot I can't
see th
Mick wrote:
> On Sunday 20 July 2008, Wolf Canis wrote:
>> Oh sorry,
>>
>> _very_ _important_ :
>>
>> Mount your boot partition _before_ you emerge grub.
>
> I believe that the grub ebuild mounts it for you, messes up your grub.conf
> and
> carries on with its business . . .
So far I that now,
I'm using emacs.22.1 and it's having trouble displaying asian
languages, specifically chinese and korean.
From the menus, using Options//Mule//ShowMultiLingualText, displays
Japanese correctly but shows boxes for Chinese and Korean characters.
Similarly, I've got a HelloWorld.java program that di
Am Sonntag, 20. Juli 2008 schrieb Miernik:
> Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ locale
> >> LANG=en_DK.UTF-8
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ locale -a
> >> en_DK.utf8
> >
> > And you don't see the difference?
>
> But...
>
> przehyba ~ # cat /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED | g
On Sunday 20 July 2008, Wolf Canis wrote:
> Mick wrote:
> > On Sunday 20 July 2008, Wolf Canis wrote:
> >> Oh sorry,
> >>
> >> _very_ _important_ :
> >>
> >> Mount your boot partition _before_ you emerge grub.
> >
> > I believe that the grub ebuild mounts it for you, messes up your
> > grub.conf an
Hi,
I just downloaded install-amd64-minimal-2008.0.iso, burned
it, and tried to boot&install. But during boot-up, a message
comes:
>> Determining root device...
!! Could not find the root block device in .
Please specify another value or: press Enter for the
On Saturday 19 July 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> >> The default in new kernels is to only use /dev/sd*.
> >
> > I'm totally confused. Doesn't "sd*" mean "SCSI disk drive"? When I was
> > installing Gentoo from the CD, I had to mount my main hard drive as
> > /dev/sdb5.
Mick wrote:
> On Sunday 20 July 2008, Wolf Canis wrote:
>> Mick wrote:
>>> On Sunday 20 July 2008, Wolf Canis wrote:
Oh sorry,
_very_ _important_ :
Mount your boot partition _before_ you emerge grub.
>>> I believe that the grub ebuild mounts it for you, messes up your
>>> g
Hi, Nikos!
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 12:29:19AM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> >>The default in new kernels is to only use /dev/sd*.
> >I'm totally confused. Doesn't "sd*" mean "SCSI disk drive"? When I was
> >installing Gentoo from the CD, I had to mount my main hard d
=== On Saturday 19 July 2008, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: ===
..
> At first, I frustrated with situation when I can not manage such things
> :-) Then, I don't understand the reason of the problem. And yet don't
> know is rtc_cmos the most appropriate choice.
In accordance with http://bugs.gent
Jarry wrote:
Hi,
I just downloaded install-amd64-minimal-2008.0.iso, burned
it, and tried to boot&install. But during boot-up, a message
comes:
>> Determining root device...
!! Could not find the root block device in .
Please specify another value or: pres
On Monday 14 July 2008, Harry Putnam wrote:
> I've had a problem with being able to ping out to the internet from my
> gentoo box, while at the same time I'm able to ping outbound from
> several windows boxes on same home lan.
>
> I don't run a firewall at all from linux but do have a Netgear
> swi
Eric Martin wrote:
Jarry wrote:
Hi,
I just downloaded install-amd64-minimal-2008.0.iso, burned
it, and tried to boot&install. But during boot-up, a message
comes:
>> Determining root device...
!! Could not find the root block device in .
Please specify an
Dirk Uys wrote:
Other than that there is also the added complexity to the
installation. You have to create a user in the database, create the
database and grant the user all the needed permission to that specific
database.
And what if one app prefers mySQL and another one postgreSQL? Now I
need
Dale wrote:
Eric Martin wrote:
Jarry wrote:
Hi,
I just downloaded install-amd64-minimal-2008.0.iso, burned
it, and tried to boot&install. But during boot-up, a message
comes:
>> Determining root device...
!! Could not find the root block device in .
Plea
Jarry schrieb:
Hi,
I just downloaded install-amd64-minimal-2008.0.iso, burned
it, and tried to boot&install. But during boot-up, a message
comes:
>> Determining root device...
!! Could not find the root block device in .
Please specify another value or: pre
On Monday 14 July 2008, Willie Wong wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 07:11:05PM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon
squawked:
> > On Sunday 13 July 2008, Mick wrote:
> > > Anyway, as others asked - how long is too long for this purpose?
> >
> > for obvious reasons, anything longer than 80 character
On Wednesday 16 July 2008, Steven Lembark wrote:
> > Uwe Thiem [Gentoo User 080119] : "He hit the nail on the finger".
>
> Suggest adding that to fortune.
The least we could do in his memory. May he rest in peace.
--
Regards,
Mick
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Justin wrote:
>> Determining root device...
!! Could not find the root block device in .
Please specify another value or: press Enter for the same,
type "shell" for a shell, or "q" to skip...
root block device() :: _
Jarry schrieb:
Justin wrote:
>> Determining root device...
!! Could not find the root block device in .
Please specify another value or: press Enter for the same,
type "shell" for a shell, or "q" to skip...
root block device() :: _
_
On Sunday 20 July 2008, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> So the kernel guys have decided that nobody would ever want more than 15
> partitions on a drive.
From memory I recall that this has always been the limit for SATA/SCSI drives.
For ATA drives I think it is 63?
Not sure if this is a Linux OS ker
On the two systems I've updated to python-2.5, boost, vte, and
gnumeric appear as python-updater emerges no matter how many times I
emerge them. Does anyone know why this happens?
- Grant
Grant schrieb:
On the two systems I've updated to python-2.5, boost, vte, and
gnumeric appear as python-updater emerges no matter how many times I
emerge them. Does anyone know why this happens?
- Grant
I've noticed the same.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=232467
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>> I am following this guide to setup my wireless access point.
>>
>> http://gentoo-wiki.com/Wireless/Access_point#Bridging_the_wired_.26_wireless_segments
>>
>> I have my network up and running with WPA.
>>
>> When I configured my kernel to use bridging (compiled into the kernel,
>> not
>> as a mo
Grant wrote:
On the two systems I've updated to python-2.5, boost, vte, and
gnumeric appear as python-updater emerges no matter how many times I
emerge them. Does anyone know why this happens?
- Grant
I'm not sure if this is related but may be worth a try. Quoted from
another email:
Hi All,
I am trying to find out if the pedestrian download speeds that I have been
getting over the last couple of months when using tor and privoxy are related
to my UK ISP DSLMax throttling, or if it is something you have observed too.
Tor was usually slower than direct browsing, but the last
On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:05:10 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> So the kernel guys have decided that nobody would ever want more than 15
> partitions on a drive. It's a bit like the old MS-DOS restriction to
> 512 MB all over again. Hey, guys, hard drives nowadays are like 200
> gig, not 512meg. Wh
Hi, Mick,
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 06:22:23PM +0100, Mick wrote:
> On Sunday 20 July 2008, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > So the kernel guys have decided that nobody would ever want more than 15
> > partitions on a drive.
> From memory I recall that this has always been the limit for SATA/SCSI
> dri
Hi, everybody,
I've got the problem fixed. In my kernel config, I'd forgotten to
include a driver for my VIA "low speed" IDE controller. I've put that
in, and I can now read CDs/DVDs (and probably burn them too).
I've stuck with the traditional /dev/hd[a-z] drivers for all the reasons
I've rant
Mick wrote:
[...]
What would be the recommended way of upgrading from the /dev/hd to /dev/sd
then? I have held back doing this because I didn't have the time to mess
about with it. If I were to configure a new kernel without legacy ATA
drivers, how would I know what my devices will be seen a
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Mick wrote:
[...]
What would be the recommended way of upgrading from the /dev/hd to
/dev/sd then? I have held back doing this because I didn't have the
time to mess about with it. If I were to configure a new kernel
without legacy ATA drivers, how would I know what
Dale wrote:
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Mick wrote:
[...]
What would be the recommended way of upgrading from the /dev/hd to
/dev/sd then? I have held back doing this because I didn't have the
time to mess about with it. If I were to configure a new kernel
without legacy ATA drivers, how woul
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Dale wrote:
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Mick wrote:
[...]
What would be the recommended way of upgrading from the /dev/hd to
/dev/sd then? I have held back doing this because I didn't have
the time to mess about with it. If I were to configure a new
kernel without le
Alan Mackenzie wrote:
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 12:29:19AM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
The CD/DVD-ROM can show up as /dev/sd* even with the old legacy drivers
if you have enable "SCSI Emulation" for it.
In any event, try to build a new kernel using the new drivers. The old
legacy driver yo
On Sunday 20 July 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Dale wrote:
> > Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> >> Mick wrote:
> >>> [...]
> >>> What would be the recommended way of upgrading from the /dev/hd to
> >>> /dev/sd then? I have held back doing this because I didn't have the
> >>> time to mess about with
Citerar "David Relson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I'm using emacs.22.1 and it's having trouble displaying asian
languages, specifically chinese and korean.
From the menus, using Options//Mule//ShowMultiLingualText, displays
Japanese correctly but shows boxes for Chinese and Korean characters.
Simila
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 12:08:45AM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote
> On Samstag, 19. Juli 2008, Walter Dnes wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 10:08:03PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote
> >
> > > How about: not using screensavers at all?
> >
> > Now for a stupid-sounding question... what is t
Dale wrote:
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Dale wrote:
[...]
Question, if I were to label mine and then boot from a Gentoo or any
other bootable CD, would those labels still be there?
The labels are part of the file system; they're always there. For
example, when booting the 2007.0 LiveDVD (whic
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Dale wrote:
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Dale wrote:
[...]
Question, if I were to label mine and then boot from a Gentoo or
any other bootable CD, would those labels still be there?
The labels are part of the file system; they're always there. For
example, when bootin
Dale wrote:
True but I have trouble remembering which partition is home and which
is portage, until I mount them anyway. It's obvious then.
I guess according to another reply that I will have to use something
else for resierfs. I guess it can't hurt to much. Worst thing is to
have to boot
On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:29:15 +0200
David Sveningsson wrote:
> Citerar "David Relson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > I'm using emacs.22.1 and it's having trouble displaying asian
> > languages, specifically chinese and korean.
> >
> > From the menus, using Options//Mule//ShowMultiLingualText, displays
On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:29:15 +0200
David Sveningsson wrote:
> Citerar "David Relson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > I'm using emacs.22.1 and it's having trouble displaying asian
> > languages, specifically chinese and korean.
> >
> > From the menus, using Options//Mule//ShowMultiLingualText, displays
David Relson skrev:
On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:29:15 +0200
David Sveningsson wrote:
This sounds like a font issue to me. Can you see the characters
correctly if you cat the files?
Hi David,
Using a Gnome terminal and the default character set "Current Local
Ansi_X3.4-1968" all the asian characte
On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:28:09 +0100, Mick wrote:
> I believe that the grub ebuild mounts it for you, messes up your
> grub.conf and carries on with its business
It doesn't touch grub.conf, that would be unacceptable. What is does do
is it no longer installs the default splash image to /boot, so th
Dale wrote:
Dale wrote:
True but I have trouble remembering which partition is home and which
is portage, until I mount them anyway. It's obvious then.
I guess according to another reply that I will have to use something
else for resierfs. I guess it can't hurt to much. Worst thing is to
ha
Mick wrote:
On Sunday 20 July 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
The labels are part of the file system; they're always there. For
example, when booting the 2007.0 LiveDVD (which uses the legacy drivers,
meaning /dev/hd* instead of /dev/sd*) the labels are there and I can
mount /dev/disk/by-label/G
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:34:29 +0200
David Sveningsson wrote:
> David Relson skrev:
> > On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:29:15 +0200
> > David Sveningsson wrote:
> >> This sounds like a font issue to me. Can you see the characters
> >> correctly if you cat the files?
> >
> > Hi David,
> >
> > Using a Gnom
Dale wrote:
Eric Martin wrote:
Jarry wrote:
Hi,
I just downloaded install-amd64-minimal-2008.0.iso, burned
it, and tried to boot&install. But during boot-up, a message
comes:
>> Determining root device...
!! Could not find the root block device in .
Plea
Never mind. Here's one for the books. I have 2 computers. d530 is
the "production" machine and d531 is the "hot backup". I only have one
24" LCD, which has 1 DVI plug and 1 VGA plug. So I hooked up the DVI to
d530, and the VGA to d530. My former production machine died recently,
and I moved
Harry Putnam wrote:
David Blamire-Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I did this a while back and I got it working by tunnelling via SSH
(using putty on windows). But I can't remember the exact details
off the top of my head. It may be worth googling that set-up. I seem
to remember thinking it f
Having been (mostly happily) using Ubuntu for a number of months I
yearn to install Gentoo again. Tried a beta release of Gentoo 2008.0,
and was pleased, at least to be able to boot and not have the
confusion about naming HDDs, and using Grub was simpler. Now, as I
approach the Live CD installer
Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Are you sure these files are really utf8 files? What does the "file"
> command tell you about those files. Maybe you need to run iconv on
> them, first.
>
>> , and starting an xterm still shows "Warning: locale not supported by
>> Xlib, locale set to C".
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:35:44 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Anyway, you don't need to add something to remind you
> of the partition's position; /etc/mtab will use regular device names,
> so you can see what's going on with 'cat /etc/mtab' or simply 'mount'
> without parameters.
cfdisk also
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