Re: [gentoo-user] Grub fails. I missed something.

2025-03-16 Thread Dale
William Kenworthy wrote: > > On 16/3/25 13:04, Dale wrote: >> eric wrote: >>> On 3/15/25 13:42, Dale wrote: The biggest thing that slows that system is that the CPU doesn't have AES support for my encryption on the drives.  Still, I wanted to play with it and see if it would go any f

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation and reinstallation of the same binary packages

2025-03-16 Thread Jacques Montier
Le sam. 15 mars 2025 à 16:45, Peter Humphrey a écrit : > On Saturday, 15 March 2025 13:53:20 Greenwich Mean Time Jacques Montier > wrote: > > > It's a real mess. > > Some day, it's ok, another day 160 sourced packages to compile and so > on... > > So i give up and go back to my classical mixed so

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub fails. I missed something.

2025-03-16 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: > > Well, this got interesting.  I booted the spinning rust drive again and > redone the /boot from the old system.  I rebuilt the init thingy because > the one that was there was for the old drive.  I then ran the usual grub > commands to generate the config file and even reinstalled g

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub fails. I missed something.

2025-03-16 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 16 March 2025 09:58:42 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote: > Dale wrote: > > Well, this got interesting. I booted the spinning rust drive again and > > redone the /boot from the old system. I rebuilt the init thingy because > > the one that was there was for the old drive. I then ran the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub fails. I missed something.

2025-03-16 Thread Dale
Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2025-03-16, Michael wrote: > >> Ugh! I didn't provide a comprehensive answer - sorry. All this MBR >> nostalgia >> I've been trying to forget. LOL! >> >> If you are installing GRUB on a GPT disk, which is meant to boot on >> a legacy BIOS MoBo, you *must* create a BI

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub fails. I missed something.

2025-03-16 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2025-03-16, Michael wrote: > Ugh! I didn't provide a comprehensive answer - sorry. All this MBR > nostalgia > I've been trying to forget. LOL! > > If you are installing GRUB on a GPT disk, which is meant to boot on > a legacy BIOS MoBo, you *must* create a BIOS Boot Partition (gdisk > cod

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub fails. I missed something.

2025-03-16 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 16 March 2025 11:40:14 Greenwich Mean Time you wrote: > On Sunday, 16 March 2025 09:58:42 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote: > > Dale wrote: > > > Well, this got interesting. I booted the spinning rust drive again and > > > redone the /boot from the old system. I rebuilt the init thingy b

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub fails. I missed something.

2025-03-16 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > New problem.  As I mentioned in another reply, I booted the NAS box to update my backups.  The thing won't let me login.  I type in root, it sits there for 20 or 30 seconds then returns to a login prompt.  I also tried the user dale but no joy there either.  I'm back to s