| Mjolinor | can anyone tell me what hte restricted drivers manager is called so that I can install it? | 07:53 |
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| Mjolinor | jockey :) | 08:05 |
| ev | I wonder if there's any value in doing some caching in the ubiquity build, specifically the keyboard maps generation. | 10:07 |
| Mjolinor | I have / as /dev/sda1, is this set root=(hd0,1) | 11:03 |
| Mjolinor | I cant make any sense at all out of the fiels in /etc/grub.d | 11:03 |
| Mjolinor | according to http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/grub-2.html#mozTocId706228 that page | 11:04 |
| cjwatson | probably, but with multiple disks there's no guarantee that grub's disk ordering (hd0, hd1) corresponds to Linux's (sda, sdb), which is why there are also 'search' commands with UUIDs in there | 11:05 |
| Mjolinor | I should hav ea line saying "set root=(hdX,Y) but there are nonoe in that file | 11:05 |
| cjwatson | if you have an existing grub.cfg stanza referring to sda1, then copy bits out of that ... | 11:05 |
| cjwatson | http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html <- official manual including a configuration reference | 11:05 |
| Mjolinor | I have messed with this new grub before and always gone back to the old one , it was so easy | 11:05 |
| Mjolinor | its really complicated now | 11:06 |
| cjwatson | that's not very motivating for me to help | 11:06 |
| Mjolinor | its getting much windows like with bloat and all is ubuntu | 11:06 |
| cjwatson | that's even less motivating | 11:06 |
| Mjolinor | :) | 11:06 |
| Mjolinor | sorry | 11:06 |
| Mjolinor | crabby | 11:06 |
| Mjolinor | main problem is that I got the instal;l on last night adn started adding things like firefox etc but synaptic crashed installing firefox | 11:07 |
| Mjolinor | and since then nothign will run in a stable mamnner at all, it jsut crashes randomly so if I start a command window it will jsut disappear at random and I have to open another | 11:07 |
| Mjolinor | really frustrating | 11:07 |
| Mjolinor | so I thought I will start again, now that my new disk boots I will stick mini.iso on that and point grub at it | 11:08 |
| cjwatson | I don't know what that would be - we only really deal with initial installation here, although as it happens I also do bootloader work so I ought to be able to help with that | 11:08 |
| Mjolinor | I am jsut trying to get | 11:09 |
| Mjolinor | #!/bin/sh -e | 11:09 |
| Mjolinor | echo "newgrub" | 11:09 |
| Mjolinor | cat << EOF | 11:09 |
| Mjolinor | menuentry "Tinstaller" { | 11:09 |
| Mjolinor | set root=(hd0,1) | 11:09 |
| Mjolinor | linux /mini/linux | 11:09 |
| Mjolinor | initrd /mini/initrd.gz | 11:09 |
| cjwatson | do you only have one disk in the machine right now, or do you still have the IDE disk there? | 11:09 |
| Mjolinor | } | 11:09 |
| Mjolinor | EOF | 11:09 |
| Mjolinor | that into the menus, as far as I have read that is correct but when I run grub update I dont get hte newgrub message | 11:09 |
| Mjolinor | I disconnected the ide disk | 11:09 |
| cjwatson | you probably forgot to make that script executable. chmod +x | 11:09 |
| Mjolinor | no | 11:09 |
| Mjolinor | it is executable | 11:10 |
| cjwatson | where are you expecting that message to appear? | 11:10 |
| Mjolinor | either my set root is wrong or there is soemthign else wrong with that file but I cant see anything | 11:10 |
| cjwatson | the way you've written it, it will go into the configuration file | 11:10 |
| Mjolinor | when I run update-grub | 11:10 |
| cjwatson | try echo "newgrub" >&2 | 11:10 |
| cjwatson | also, what did you call the file in /etc/grub.d/ ? | 11:10 |
| Mjolinor | 15_installer | 11:10 |
| cjwatson | ok | 11:10 |
| cjwatson | also you know that you'll only get one shot at running the installer if you do it this way? since once you partition it'll overwrite the installer | 11:11 |
| Mjolinor | ? | 11:11 |
| Mjolinor | if I reboot you mean | 11:12 |
| cjwatson | you have the installer on a disk that you're planning to repartition and overwrite, as I understand it ... | 11:12 |
| cjwatson | I meant what I said :-) | 11:12 |
| Mjolinor | I wont reboot until I see that message when I run update_grub | 11:12 |
| Mjolinor | no | 11:12 |
| Mjolinor | I am not planning to repartition, I am planning to overwrite on the same partition because I htink that some packages ahve not installed coorectly in the early days | 11:12 |
| cjwatson | well, same thing, the installation will reformat that partition which will remove /mini/linux and /mini/initrd.gz | 11:13 |
| cjwatson | so you only get one shot | 11:13 |
| Mjolinor | and that is why things are crashing out in X | 11:13 |
| Mjolinor | no particular thing, jsut anythign I run is not stable | 11:13 |
| Mjolinor | it will not refpormat if I tell it not to | 11:13 |
| cjwatson | true, if you take special care in the partitioner then you can manage it | 11:13 |
| Mjolinor | it woudlnt format anyway last time, I had to preapre the aprtition before I ran the instlaler | 11:14 |
| cjwatson | as long as you're aware that you need to | 11:14 |
| cjwatson | anyway: try the change I suggested to your grub.d script | 11:14 |
| Mjolinor | and I ended up not using the amd64 as it woudlnt work, it get bombing out so I went back tot he normal 32 bit one, that installed first time | 11:14 |
| Mjolinor | thats an ikmprovement, at least it is reading the file for sure | 11:15 |
| Mjolinor | syntax error :) | 11:15 |
| cjwatson | ? | 11:16 |
| Mjolinor | #!/bin/sh -e | 11:16 |
| Mjolinor | echo "newgrub" > &2 | 11:16 |
| Mjolinor | cat << EOF | 11:16 |
| Mjolinor | menuentry "installer" { | 11:16 |
| Mjolinor | set root=(hd0,1) | 11:16 |
| Mjolinor | linux /mini/linux | 11:16 |
| Mjolinor | initrd /mini/initrd.gz | 11:16 |
| Mjolinor | } | 11:16 |
| Mjolinor | EOF | 11:16 |
| cjwatson | >&2 | 11:16 |
| cjwatson | not > &2 | 11:16 |
| cjwatson | important to copy exactly | 11:16 |
| Mjolinor | :) | 11:17 |
| Mjolinor | I copied it from the web page, not your text | 11:17 |
| Mjolinor | http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/grub-2.html#mozTocId706228 | 11:17 |
| Mjolinor | that web page | 11:17 |
| Mjolinor | anyway, it worked so reboot time | 11:17 |
| cjwatson | BTW, you could just have added to the end of /etc/grub.d/40_custom and saved the effort of writing a script | 11:17 |
| Mjolinor | back in a bit, hopefully, thanks | 11:17 |
| cjwatson | I'm afraid I can't control what third-party web pages advise - sometimes their advice isn't ideal | 11:18 |
| Mjolinor | I thought that but I dont like to mess with the ones that are on if I dont know what I am doing | 11:18 |
| Mjolinor | which I usually dont | 11:18 |
| cjwatson | 40_custom is explicitly there for you to edit | 11:18 |
| Mjolinor | fingers crooseed :) | 11:18 |
| Mjolinor | bye | 11:18 |
| cjwatson | precisely because it's easier than writing a new script | 11:18 |
| Mjolinor | that worked :) | 11:23 |
| Mjolinor | now I will try to fix the crashing without re installing :) | 11:23 |
| CIA-4 | grub-installer: cjwatson * r855 lucid-proposed/ (debian/changelog grub-installer): | 13:14 |
| CIA-4 | grub-installer: Install GRUB to the SATA RAID or multipath device when /boot is on such | 13:14 |
| CIA-4 | grub-installer: a device, rather than installing to the first hard disk (LP: #603854). | 13:14 |
| CIA-4 | grub-installer: cjwatson * r856 lucid-proposed/debian/changelog: releasing version 1.49ubuntu11.1 | 13:32 |
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