You might consider getting an mgff M.2 ssd and appropriate USB converter
box. I have booted to one to do my e-mail here and it is the only way I do
e-mail. It makes me feel a bit more secure as the browsers and all are
likely less contaminated by other than e-mail use. Same for Facebook and
bank
In general I find that "secure" flash drives do not boot as their firmware
will not allow them to. Many simple data flash drives do however. I have
had good "luck" shrinking the partition on the drive from the back leaving
the "available" space on the top of the drive intact. Then I install
what
I think I can only offer a possible approach to finding the problem.
I would alternate web search the term: ansible.errors.AnsibleError
I would search for the specific file on your drive: molecule_from_yaml
Results from the term search should provide a bit of an understanding of
what is generati
This seems a sort of "middle of the stack" question. I can tell you that I
boot from M.2, mSATA, and other USB interfaced devices regularly using
distributions using grub. I use SSD drives in all my laptops and desktop.
On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 4:36 AM, lejeczek via users <
users@lists.fedoraproj
Are you saying that Clonezilla will not bare metal backup Fedora? Do tell.
On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 8:55 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote:
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>
>
> *Sent:* Monday, July 24, 2017 at 4:02 AM
> *From:* "Tod Merley"
> *To:* "Community support for Fedora users"
&g
Clonezilla?
On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 4:56 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote:
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> >
> > On Mon, 2017-07-24 at 01:38 +0200, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> > >
> > >
> ===
> > > Patrick DUPRÉ | | email:
> pdu...@
Well I think that the beauty of GPT is simply profoundly large disks are
now possible to effectively use.
I think that the beauty of EFI is in its ability to use a much broader base
of hardware and software possibilities.
Grub2 is one way to manage multibooting on a single disk.
Basically it is
I have had some luck with using flash drives as bootable disks by doing the
following:
1. Choose a disk NOT designed for security. The reason is if you want
security then the boot sector you want secure, that is NOT usable to boot
anything. You want a standard storage device.
2. You need at lea
There are reasons why most of the old e-mail list forums are now locked
down and managed. Simply too much of the advise is hostile.
On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 2:06 PM, jd1008 wrote:
>
>
> On 11/22/2016 10:35 AM, Pete Travis wrote:
>
>>
>> On Nov 20, 2016 4:55 PM, "jd1008" > jd1...@gmail.com>> wrot
The grub command line shell affords you the opportunity to find out what
has happened. But you need to take the time to learn how to use it. I
think it would be well worth your time for you and for us. Then we know
what happened.
You are booting to grub.
Q1: Is this in a secure boot environme
You might look for a BIOS update.
I am just beginning to learn about all of this M.2 stuff.
But here is my suspicion at this point. PCI-E lane complication.
See: https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Overview-of-M-2-SSDs-586/
And scroll down to "PCI-E lane complications".
On Thu, Sep 8,
I do use separate pictures in each desktop for ease of identification.
It would probably be helpful to use partitian names.
[note: uuid's scrambled for security]
so here is a simple way to find the disk in use and it's unambiguous UUID
tod@tod-1204:~$
.. so what mods are loaded to handle wifi and bluetooth ...
On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 10:59 AM, jd1008 wrote:
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>
> On 07/22/2016 11:54 AM, Rick Stevens wrote:
>
>> On 07/22/2016 10:39 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 9:46 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Wild thou
.. perhaps .. google "M.2 PCIE adapter"? ...
On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Chris Murphy
wrote:
> Try a search for both errors, I'd put the salient portion in quotes.
>
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FWIW on my "big box" the "sub-optimal boot entries" generated by Ubuntu
15.10 to select between it and updated CentOS and W7 and others works fine
for me.
But I have no doubt that it could be improved.
On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 12:59 PM, Chris Murphy
wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 1
p to avoid trying to install W8 and
Linux on the same drive. It worked out fine.
On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 10:38 AM, Tod Merley wrote:
> Ok, I meant to say "Google is our friend". I consider myself your friend
> but the time to put together tutorials on procedures where many alr
.. sounds like something to solve with Linux ownership of files, being part
of groups, and permissions. Perhaps start here? -
https://www.linux.com/learn/understanding-linux-file-permissions
On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 10:13 AM, bruce wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I have two (2) users cat - dog
>
> user cat has
Ok, I meant to say "Google is our friend". I consider myself your friend
but the time to put together tutorials on procedures where many already
exist is not what I plan to do today.
On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 10:36 AM, Tod Merley wrote:
> It sounds like your "most recent"
d on that machine. I believe there should be another way to do
> it with the old grub without installing another OK on the same
> machine,
>
> Regards,
> Kevin
>
> On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 9:40 PM, Tod Merley wrote:
> > I mean run "update-grub" from the Ubuntu distrib
I mean run "update-grub" from the Ubuntu distribution. It is the control.
On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 11:38 AM, Tod Merley wrote:
> On a multi-boot machine the big question is “who controls the boot
> process”.
>
>
> My “big box” has two SSD (Ubuntu, CentOS) a 1T HDD (ei
On a multi-boot machine the big question is “who controls the boot process”.
My “big box” has two SSD (Ubuntu, CentOS) a 1T HDD (eight Linux partitions
if memory serves) and a small clunky HDD with W7.
In this case I choose Ubuntu to control the boot process and understand
that if I update the
ey wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 7 Jul 2016 23:52:18 -0700
>> Tod Merley wrote:
>>
>> > I am suspicious that the approach here may not handle kernel updates
>> well.
>>
>> Kernel updates utterly ignore /etc/default/grub
>> and just copy the new kernel'
Well I only glanced at the replies and all - which take an approach which
seems kinda strange - but I am not much into Fedora at this time.
I am suspicious that the approach here may not handle kernel updates well.
Well perhaps a few things I learned during my short quest to make a kind of
“backu
Well if I were you I would start by Googling “usb hot plugging linux Fedora
23” then for “24” and possibly look into how UEFI secure might affect what
systems/modules are signed and therefor loaded.
On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 5:58 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 05/15/16 19:22, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>
potential issues: mbr uefi - many ways to solve none easy.
On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 7:44 PM, Kevin Cummings wrote:
> On 01/14/16 22:19, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
> > My Classroom Lab at the College has Lenovo I7 computers that came with
> > Windows 7 about 2 years ago. I changed them to dual bo
Possibly related .. http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=306465
On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 4:00 AM, Kari Koskinen wrote:
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>
> 2015-12-29 13:33 GMT+02:00 Earl A Ramirez :
>>
>> Here is where it is stuck; I am using the Fedora 23 x86_64 workstation;
>> are there any kernel argument that I
If this were my box I think I would do the following:
1.
If possible take a “snapshot” of your working directories by booting
into the box from a live CD or flashdrive and copying the user data (e.g.
Desktop, Documents, Pictures, etc...) to a separate drive to preserve them.
2.
First of all not all flash drives boot – and even if you get one that does
the next lot might not. This has to do with the firmware between the data
on the drive and the USB interface. Often there is a firmware virtual CD
involved.
If you look on the drive with such as gparted you will likely see
If that is true then updating grub should find and enable you to boot
windows I believe.
I have not looked into this since W7 but if you wanted to the Windows boot
loader can be used to boot other operating systems such as Linux.
On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 4:28 AM, Junayeed Ahnaf wrote:
> .. are yo
.. are you booting Linux UEFI .. is the windows disk locked .. could you
boot to Linux from windows ..
On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 8:30 AM, Junayeed Ahnaf wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My Linux is installed in a 24gb SSD and my windows is installed in another
> hard disk. So my grub doesn't detect the other OS
rives. Not at all free from concern about firmware
but in general cleaner to use and close to price point for a similar size
flash drive. OTOH – not as tiny and easy to carry as a flash drive.
Performance is also much better than a flash drive.
On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 6:33 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
&
What of the device firmware, boot capability contained therein, performance
optimization contained in the section between the front of the drive and
the start of the provided partition, and and crazy often auto-mount
firmware “CD-ROM” provided as a method of device software availability and
possibl
perhaps the drive firmware presents the drive as bootable when first
awakened .. to load driver like software .. or perhaps malware ...
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 7:35 PM, jd1008 wrote:
>
>
> On 06/26/2015 06:09 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
>
>> On 06/26/2015 04:42 PM, jd1008 wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 06
Nice screens!!!
The update issues (new Kernal - must get the current bootloader to look at
the updated grub.cfg ...) have me using more disks and cmos to switch much
more often.
I am working on a project[1] I hope to use to share more Linux later but
right now I am not ready to help you with you
cmos battery
On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Dave Stevens wrote:
> On Sat, 23 May 2015 11:03:31 -0600
> jd1008 wrote:
>
> > I have an HP laptop with
> > AMD Turion II X2 mobile processor RM-72 / 2.1 GHz CPU, Socket S1.
> > It is now causing blue screens in windows and freezes
> > linux (pclin
I do believe we all appreciate your efforts very much Kevin and all!!!
I often see “trying another mirror” for various reasons as I do “sudo yum
update” when I boot to the F20 drives (most often flash or mSATA SSD
converted to USB). My thinking has been that mirror management is a slow
and ongoi
Same problem here - results in no working mirrors apparently found so reads
no updates needed (for many days on one machine). I hope it is a mirror
management glitch they fix soon but if otherwise may they let us know.
On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 6:49 AM, M. Fioretti wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I have,
time to make friends with journalctl -
http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/journalctl.html
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_Xorg_problems -- the Xorg log
file may have a clue.
probably enough to get you started.
Frankly I spend most of my time simply using Ubuntu so debuggi
I tend to think HW rather than SW. If it were me I would remove the key
board, shake it upside down and work the keys in that position while
puffing with dust off periodically from various angles.
Probably good to shoot some dust off into the USB connectors - perhaps
change the connector used in
My tendency would be to boot the boxes from Flash or DVD and test with
badblocks or fsck nondestructively obtaining a list of problems to then
help decide how to proceed with each box. You could make a Flash drive
with the basic tools and scripts and then clone it to work with several
drives at o
USB drives tend to have firmware in front of what may wish to boot.
What I like to do is use Gparted to make room in the end of the drive (say
move the end of the drive up so that enstead of having a 16gb fat partition
I have a 1 gb fat partition and 15 gb unallocated. I do not bother the
front o
From:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/20/html/Release_Notes/sect-Release_Notes-Welcome_to_Fedora_.html
Low memory installations
Fedora 20 can be installed and used on systems with limited resources for
some applications. Text, vnc, or kickstart installations are advised over
graphical
Some basic tools to learn to find the problem (man pages for each but
search for tutorials):
journalctl
dmesg
top
Then an interesting article I recently ran across:
http://debloper.blogspot.com/2013/12/optimizing-fedora-startup-performance.html
Have fun!
On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 6:51 AM, Walt
Thanks for the spoof response Heinz!
So lets say I do see a wrong fingerprint. As in "ghost busting" who am I
gonna call!?
On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote:
> On 01.09.2014, jd1008 wrote:
>
> > As I said, the caveat of all add-on is that they are just as mysterious
> > with
07 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 08/31/2014 09:56 PM, Tod Merley wrote:
>
>>
>> cmos battery
>>
>
> That's an easy one to check for, especially on a laptop that's not on
> 24/7: go into your CMOS settings after it's been turned off for several
> hours (ov
Jd1008 - java - life without it! Possible? Better.
Remember - transactions only on the build.
On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 9:17 PM, jd1008 wrote:
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> On 08/31/2014 09:45 PM, Tim wrote:
>
>> Tim:
>>
>>> Be prepared for various things to fail, you cannot force HTTPS with
sites that are HTTP-on
first silly thoughts:
disk going
cmos battery
oh the joys!
On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 7:49 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> Tod,
>
>
> Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 15:36:41 -0700
>> From: Tod Merley
>> To: Community support for Fedora users
>> Subject: Re: F20 + Old b
distrowatch.com search "old computers"
I like Puppy linux as a place to start. Probably Wary.
On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Chris Murphy
wrote:
>
> On Aug 30, 2014, at 10:12 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote:
>
> > It sort of looks like a RAM problem to me but ALL the SIMMS can't be
> faulty . .
>
Flash drives tend to have firmware ahead of the "drive" access and
sometimes that means that they simply will not work as a boot device.
I am having good luck with Kingston DataTraveler G4 series drives. What I
do to load a Linux (Ubuntu 12 and Fedora 20 tried so far) is to first work
with Gparte
Heinz thanks for reminding me about looking at certificates by clicking the
padlock. I also note that they have the ability to export and so I suppose
a comparison could be made through that as well.
General question - can one spoof a certificate? I suppose "man in the
middle" is simply nasty.
Yes, I think a HW list along with the SW being tried would likely prove
helpful here.
On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 1:48 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 08/31/2014 06:12 AM, Philip Rhoades wrote:
>
>> People,
>>
>> I have been trying to build a usable PC out of old - but previously
>> unused hardware
Thank you Heinz for the good suggestions regarding checking certificates
and all. As I think about it I would indeed really like to see a little
program for myself (perhaps a script can do if I can find the right tools)
which examines the entire log in procedure - perhaps "from which IP(s) -
using
I tend to use sha256sum to check file integrity and then as far into gpg
(see: https://www.gnupg.org/ ) as is practical in the situation.
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Robert Moskowitz
wrote:
>
> On 08/28/2014 04:47 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 15:29:58 -0400,
>>
g on using the browser (and install) only to do the
occasional internet transaction how is flushing cache and cookies likely to
help?
On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 7:37 PM, Tim wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-08-30 at 18:44 -0700, Tod Merley wrote:
> > The most suspicious things that ever happened while
Thanks for your response Tim!
Tim said:
It's well worth going through your browser settings, and setting them
sensibly, rather than hoping some third-party add-on will sort things out
for you.
. . .
Ok - considering that this Fedora 20 install and FireFox browser will only
be used for Internet tr
Thanks for responding jd1008 and Joe,
Jd1008 as you point out add-ons are unknowns. I find unknowns kinda scary
when it comes to security. I really do try to do things to limit the sites
I actually go to and very much stay away from e-mail use in the transaction
process if at all possible.
In t
Hi all!
I have been using Windows monitored by Norton used almost exclusively to do
on line transactions and banking. The strategy is simply that I do not use
it otherwise. Transactions only.
But then the W8 laptop Norton would not update or scan!! First attempts at
fix failed and refresh and rel
Hi Angelo!
Most of the time that I have ever had problems with passwords it turned out
to actually be problems with my keyboard. So now, from time to time, with
the power off I invert the keyboard and while tilting it in several
directions operate the keys (sort of tapping from underneath) and the
2014 at 10:55 AM, jd1008 wrote:
>
> On 08/25/2014 09:54 PM, Tod Merley wrote:
>
>> My card is a Samsung 32 EVO Micro SD HC I held in an SD adapter and used
>> and formatted by my Nikon camera.
>>
>> [tmerley@localhost ~]$ journalctl -f
>> -- Logs begin at M
not getting to you - and - the particular device in your box
seems to be well talked about in the linux problem sphere.
I will try to get some time to look at the rest of the "fail" problems in
the journalctl -f results later today or tomorrow.
Have a lot of fun!!!
On Tue, Aug 26, 20
Well just in case you get a hankering to get inside the box (yes always a
risk):
Google search string " thinkpad t420 manual pdf "
Link chosen from results:
http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles_pdf/t420_t420i_hmm.pdf
Result: very usable full manual on the box.
Procedure for re
uld become a
problem.
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 9:45 PM, Tim wrote:
> Tod Merley wrote:
> >> my first guess
> >> write protect switch (tab)
>
>
> jd1008:
> > I tried with the switch in the up and the down position and tried to
> > mount.
> > In both c
For me three years is about the time I consider doing two major service
things to laptops.
1. Replace the CMOS battery. One thing you might consider doing right now
is to reset all the CMOS variables to their default values. If a battery
is low the values can change on their own and create stran
if you can sort out the specifics of your adapter (lspci -v -v) and
which driver (lsmod) is being used you are probably pretty close to having
enough info to either find a real solution by a Google search or to file a
very precise bug report.
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 9:14 PM, Tod Merley wrot
Ed I simply wanted to show the process. I know - I knew - I thought it was
obvious - indeed it is.
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 8:57 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 08/26/14 11:54, Tod Merley wrote:
> > /dev/mmcblk0p1 on /run/media/tmerley/NO_NAME type vfat
> (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1
as you like in your affected Fedora machine. A
theme I seem to see is that not all cards work with all readers in all
computers running all OS's. Oh - how could this be?!?
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 8:54 PM, Tod Merley wrote:
> My card is a Samsung 32 EVO Micro SD HC I held in an SD adap
My card is a Samsung 32 EVO Micro SD HC I held in an SD adapter and used
and formatted by my Nikon camera.
[tmerley@localhost ~]$ journalctl -f
-- Logs begin at Mon 2014-08-25 06:16:28 PDT. --
Aug 25 20:28:07 localhost.localdomain dhclient[1015]: ...
... ... [starting line just before SD card plug
ditional hints (or other hints
from the dmesg or search results).
Also a Google search on your very specific card and F-20, include your card
reader, look for "keys" along the way.
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 6:55 PM, jd1008 wrote:
>
> On 08/25/2014 05:58 PM, Tod Merley wr
Assuming drive cache: write through
[42624.440864] sdd: sdd1
Also it would be interesting to see what happens in a terminal tab where a
"journalctl -f" has been opened and is following what happens as the card
is mounted.
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 3:41 PM, jd1008 wrote:
>
> On 0
my first guess:
write protect switch (tab):
http://static.commentcamarche.net/en.kioskea.net/faq/images/0-hXBUyBSB-t555-1122-callout-s-.png
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 12:15 PM, jd1008 wrote:
>
> My flash card slot in the laptop is (per lspci):
> 03:01.2 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 S
gedly, on or about 24 August 2014, Tod Merley sent several major
> syntax errors:
> > tail dmesg #prints the last ten lines of dmesg
>
> You mean:
>
> dmesg|tail
>
> You have to pipe the output of dmesg through the tail command, to do
> what you want to do.
>
So the following might well prove themselves useful to find the source of a
problem which resulted in a resucue mode:
$ journalctl | grep fail
$ journalctl | grep error
$ journalctl | grep disk
$ dmesg | tail -n 30
$ dmesg | less
of course the outputs of the fail, error, disk line
If in a terminal you type "man fsck" you get a simple manual for the fsck
command. "fsck tutorial" at the Google search prompt should yield good info
soon.
If you open a terminal and do a "cd /var/log" and then an "ls -l" you will
see the system log files.
A good place to poke around for hints
You might try disabling the UEFI security in bios
getting everything specifically signed and approved withing the UEFI
security environment sounds complicated.
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Joe Feely wrote:
> Trying to install Fedora 20 to a replacement Kingston SSDNOW300V 120 GB
> SSD, fr
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Tod Thomas wrote:
> I had an old Epox mobo running with an old Athlon XP chip so I decided
> to upgrade. Before I made this decision I decided to upgrade from fc10
> to fc11 using yum. Upgrade went well, rebooted, everything fine.
>
> After upgrading my Mobo and
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