Re: Have I bricked a PC?

2020-11-09 Thread Robert Nichols
On 11/9/20 4:56 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: BTW for doing a cksum of your burned optical disk, the device is probably /dev/sr0 (maybe /dev/sr1 if you have a pair of optical drives). Whereever you downloaded the .iso from should provide a "shaXXXsum" value. You can run "sha???sum " and "sha???sum /de

Re: Have I bricked a PC? -- Hooray. -- Partitioning?

2020-11-09 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/9/20 12:44 PM, Beartooth wrote: On Sun, 08 Nov 2020 21:07:29 +, I Beartooth wrote: When I told it to reboot, it pulled in the drawer and immediately booted F 32 Live. I told it to install to hard drive -- and got another surprise. This machine has TWO drives, sda with 112 GB, a

Re: Have I bricked a PC?

2020-11-09 Thread George N. White III
On Mon, 9 Nov 2020 at 14:29, Beartooth wrote: > If only I could get into the BIOS, I think I'd be home free, or > almost, provided I could also get it to automount media > > https://support.system76.com/articles/boot-menu/; To enter BIOS for desktops (besides the Meerkat), hold down the

Re: Have I bricked a PC?

2020-11-09 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Nov 09, 2020 at 10:54:26AM -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 2020-11-09 10:28, Beartooth wrote: > > > 3) did you go into BIOS and set the DVD drive to be > > > first in the boot order? > > > If only I could get into the BIOS, I think I'd be home free, or > > almost, provid

Re: Oh God! More helpful software :-).

2020-11-09 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 09Nov2020 22:47, Tom H wrote: >On Sat, Nov 7, 2020 at 10:22 PM Cameron Simpson >wrote: >> Dunno, but maybe you can disable what it measures. Do your xterms >> make entries in wtmp (listed by "w" and "who")? Is so, ISTR that >> xterm has an option to not do that (look for "wtmp" in the manual >

Re: Oh God! More helpful software :-).

2020-11-09 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Nov 7, 2020 at 10:22 PM Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 06Nov2020 21:50, Tom Horsley wrote: >> >> For as long as I can remember I've run dnf update in a root >> xterm and when all the akmod activity and wot-not is finished, >> I've run reboot from another terminal. >> >> Now, it won't reboot

Re: newbie question

2020-11-09 Thread Ian Laurie
Take a look here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1895569 It wasn't just you. I'm not seeing any problems with F32-Mate or F33-Mate. Not sure if it was an update (unlikely) or something I did (very likely) to trash my Rawhide-Mate install, but I just reinstalled the latest nightl

Re: Have I bricked a PC? -- Hooray. -- Partitioning?

2020-11-09 Thread Beartooth
> On Sun, 08 Nov 2020 21:07:29 +, I Beartooth wrote: [...] > When I told it to reboot, it pulled in the drawer and immediately > booted F 32 Live. I told it to install to hard drive -- and got another > surprise. This machine has TWO drives, sda with 112 GB, and

Re: Have I bricked a PC? -- Surprise!

2020-11-09 Thread Beartooth
On Sun, 08 Nov 2020 21:07:29 +, I Beartooth wrote: > I have a DVD with F 33 Live, in the drawer of an oldish machine. > I can't get it to boot from the DVD. [] > This is the machine, discussed here in a thread beginning October > 30, about a transaction test error. The conclu

Re: Have I bricked a PC?

2020-11-09 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 2020-11-09 09:25, Beartooth wrote: On Sun, 08 Nov 2020 17:57:41 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 2020-11-08 13:07, Beartooth wrote: I have a DVD with F 33 Live, in the drawer of an oldish machine. I can't get it to boot from the DVD. How to test for a 64 bit CPU: $ lscpu

Re: Have I bricked a PC?

2020-11-09 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 2020-11-09 10:28, Beartooth wrote: 6) what was the error message? Error message? Error message?? Whence? Do you boot back into the original OS? What is on the screen? Does the initial selection to test the disk or run the disk ever pop up? Is it a black screen with a flashing cur

Re: Have I bricked a PC?

2020-11-09 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 2020-11-09 10:28, Beartooth wrote: 3) did you go into BIOS and set the DVD drive to be first in the boot order? If only I could get into the BIOS, I think I'd be home free, or almost, provided I could also get it to automount media When I can not figure out what the magic key

Re: Have I bricked a PC?

2020-11-09 Thread Beartooth
On Sun, 08 Nov 2020 16:24:25 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 2020-11-08 13:07, I Beartooth wrote: >> >> I have a DVD with F 33 Live, in the drawer of an oldish machine. >> I can't get it to boot from the DVD. [...] >> This is the machine, discussed here in a thread beg

Re: Have I bricked a PC?

2020-11-09 Thread Beartooth
On Mon, 09 Nov 2020 11:42:01 -0500, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: >> On 2020-11-08 13:07, I Beartooth wrote: >>> >>> I have a DVD with F 33 Live, in the drawer of an oldish >>> machine. I can't get it to boot from the DVD. >>> >>> It was originally a System 76, which came with Ubuntu. I

Re: Have I bricked a PC?

2020-11-09 Thread Terry Polzin
Also the last 32 bit release of Fedora seems to be 30. On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 1:08 PM Terry Polzin wrote: > Perhaps the optical drive has failed or lost its connection to the scsi > bus. > > ls -l sr? > or > dmesg | less should tell you if you have a dev/sr0 > > > On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 12:25 P

Re: Have I bricked a PC?

2020-11-09 Thread Terry Polzin
Perhaps the optical drive has failed or lost its connection to the scsi bus. ls -l sr? or dmesg | less should tell you if you have a dev/sr0 On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 12:25 PM Beartooth wrote: > On Sun, 08 Nov 2020 17:57:41 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > > On 2020-11-08 13:07, Beartooth

Re: Have I bricked a PC?

2020-11-09 Thread Beartooth
On Sun, 08 Nov 2020 17:57:41 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 2020-11-08 13:07, Beartooth wrote: >> >> I have a DVD with F 33 Live, in the drawer of an oldish machine. >> I can't get it to boot from the DVD. > How to test for a 64 bit CPU: > > $ lscpu | grep -i bit CPU op-mode(s):

Re: Have I bricked a PC?

2020-11-09 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
On 11/8/20 8:57 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 2020-11-08 13:07, Beartooth wrote: I have a DVD with F 33 Live, in the drawer of an oldish machine. I can't get it to boot from the DVD. It was originally a System 76, which came with Ubuntu. I had to get help to switch it to Fedora,

Re: newbie question

2020-11-09 Thread Steven Usdansky via users
I'm not seeing any problems with F32-Mate or F33-Mate. Not sure if it was an update (unlikely) or something I did (very likely) to trash my Rawhide-Mate install, but I just reinstalled the latest nightly, and so far, so good. ___ users mailing list --

Re: New parallel port card won't work

2020-11-09 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 2020-11-09 00:58, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/9/20 12:54 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 2020-11-09 00:19, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/9/20 12:16 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 2020-11-08 23:07, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/8/20 11:04 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 2020-11-08 22:22

Re: New parallel port card won't work

2020-11-09 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/9/20 12:54 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 2020-11-09 00:19, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/9/20 12:16 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 2020-11-08 23:07, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/8/20 11:04 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 2020-11-08 22:22, Samuel Sieb wrote: Don't follow the re

Re: New parallel port card won't work

2020-11-09 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 2020-11-09 00:19, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/9/20 12:16 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 2020-11-08 23:07, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/8/20 11:04 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 2020-11-08 22:22, Samuel Sieb wrote: Don't follow the readme.  I gave you the command to run: make -C /lib/m

Re: New parallel port card won't work

2020-11-09 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/9/20 12:16 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 2020-11-08 23:07, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/8/20 11:04 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 2020-11-08 22:22, Samuel Sieb wrote: Don't follow the readme.  I gave you the command to run: make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=$PWD $  cd MC

Re: New parallel port card won't work

2020-11-09 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 2020-11-08 23:07, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/8/20 11:04 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 2020-11-08 22:22, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/8/20 8:01 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 2020-11-02 17:04, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/2/20 3:25 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 2020-11-02 14:33,