| rackkin | big thumbs up on the new release...just got samba share working with a win 7 machine in less than a minute....way way kewl :-) | 05:40 |
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| valorie | rackkin: good to hear | 05:41 |
| valorie | I've not tried to get my machines < samba > windows machine to work for many a year | 05:42 |
| valorie | because every time I got it working, a windows update would kill it | 05:42 |
| rackkin | just redid the whole pc....win 7 was buggin....installed win 10 yesterday....nvidia driver failed to install....kubuntu picked it right up though....go figure MS dropped the ball :-) | 05:44 |
| rackkin | dual boot win10 and kubuntu | 05:44 |
| rackkin | ne good recommendations on video editor like adobe premier for kubuntu? | 05:47 |
| valorie | rackkin: Kdenlive gets a lot of good press, even outside of KDE circles | 05:52 |
| valorie | no idea if it is like the adobe product you mention, however | 05:52 |
| rackkin | valorie: thanx...i'll check it out | 05:54 |
| valorie | I've never used it but have met some of the programmers | 05:55 |
| valorie | who are awesome | 05:55 |
| lolmaus_ | Help! My Kubuntu 15.10 logs me out immediately after login! I tried renaming .Xauthority, .bashrc and .bash_profile, it didn't help. And I didn't find and anything suspicious in the logs. | 07:36 |
| valorie | lolmaus_: have you tried a new user? | 07:42 |
| valorie | it is perhaps something in ~/.local or ~/.config | 07:44 |
| hateball | lolmaus_: did you check ~/.xsession-errors | 07:47 |
| lolmaus_ | hateball: there are lots of various errors. The earliest ones are "cannot connect to X server :0", "Could not connect to display :0" and then "The X11 connection broke (error 1). Did the X server die?" | 07:54 |
| hateball | lolmaus_: What has changed between being able to login, and now? | 07:55 |
| hateball | lolmaus_: Changed any GPU drivers or similar? | 07:56 |
| lolmaus_ | hateball: I don't recall doing anything major. Maybe switched renderer in System Settings between XRender and OpenGL | 07:57 |
| lolmaus_ | hateball: renaming ~/.config does help | 07:58 |
| lolmaus_ | But then I lose everything... | 07:58 |
| hateball | Yeah, that's not great fun. It has to be in some rc file somewhere, that setting | 08:00 |
| hateball | lolmaus_: I dont recall where it is in 15.10, but can you find the file kwinrc ? | 08:02 |
| hateball | in 14.04 it is ~/.kde/share/config/kwinrc | 08:02 |
| hateball | There you should be able to change the value to Backend=OpenGL, from whatever you have now | 08:04 |
| lolmaus | hateball: I resolved by renaming `.config`, logging in, rebooting, renaming `.config` back. | 08:10 |
| lolmaus | This makes no sense. :( | 08:10 |
| valorie | lolmaus: it really is worthwhile to login from a test user | 08:15 |
| lolmaus | valorie: it would work fine, so what? I could also login with main user with `~/.config` renamed, but it doesn't help to identify the source of the problem. | 08:17 |
| valorie | then you know it is indeed a config | 08:18 |
| lordievader | Good morning. | 08:50 |
| Smurphy | Morning girls ... | 09:35 |
| === jack is now known as Guest45725 | ||
| juboxi | G'morning and thanks for the awesomest desktop OS | 11:21 |
| === juboxi is now known as jubo2 | ||
| jubo2 | I removed an unnecessary old /-partition and expanded my home partition. | 11:21 |
| hateball | :) | 11:22 |
| jubo2 | Now I get "grub rescue" shell. It compains starts off with saying "error: no such partition" | 11:22 |
| jubo2 | it wasn't the "bootable"-flagged partition | 11:22 |
| jubo2 | so I thought it wouldn't matter if I remove it | 11:22 |
| hateball | jubo2: are you using UUID in /etc/fstab ? | 11:22 |
| jubo2 | Halp plos | 11:22 |
| jubo2 | hateball: I dunno | 11:22 |
| jubo2 | Should I boot live CD | 11:23 |
| hateball | Yes | 11:23 |
| jubo2 | I boot | 11:23 |
| hateball | jubo2: If you were using old way of /dev/sdaX and removed a partition, the numbers will be wrong | 11:23 |
| jubo2 | hateball: they are wrong | 11:23 |
| jubo2 | I removed partition #5 | 11:24 |
| hateball | jubo2: Anyway, look in your /etc/fstab if it is wrong. Find out UUID using blkid, and enter that | 11:24 |
| jubo2 | hateball so I mount my /-patition temporarily using the LiveCD and do that | 11:25 |
| hateball | jubo2: Yes | 11:26 |
| jubo2 | mounted | 11:29 |
| jubo2 | hateball: it has UUIDs | 11:30 |
| hateball | jubo2: Check that they are correct | 11:30 |
| jubo2 | I compare the entries with blkid output | 11:31 |
| jubo2 | hateball: they seem to match | 11:35 |
| hateball | !fixgrub |jubo2, suppose you could try to: | 11:36 |
| ubottu | jubo2, suppose you could try to:: GRUB2 is the default Ubuntu boot manager. Lost GRUB after installing Windows? See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestoreGrub - For more information and troubleshooting for GRUB2 please refer to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 | 11:36 |
| jubo2 | hateball: in the LiveCD ? | 11:37 |
| === bonzo is now known as maauso | ||
| jubo2 | 'ls -l /dev/disk/by-label/' shows only sdb2 and sr0 | 11:39 |
| jubo2 | I follow the instructions to recover the grub | 11:40 |
| jubo2 | hateball: neither option there worked.. #1 installing the GUI program.. I didn't find it with apt | 11:44 |
| KayEss | I've just re-installed my laptop using the latest kubuntu installer and the regional settings are all screwy. I can't work out how to get the keyboard working properly and the time and date to be readable | 11:45 |
| jubo2 | and #2.. running 'sudo grub-install /dev/XXX' says "Installing for i386-pc platform" followe by "grub-install: error: failed toget canonical path of '/cow'" | 11:45 |
| jubo2 | canonical path of '/cow' .. I have no clue | 11:45 |
| jubo2 | I follow instructions to install the GUI program now | 11:48 |
| KayEss | What happened to the alternate installers for ubuntu? | 11:51 |
| lordievader | jubo2: Did you notify grub of the change? | 11:54 |
| jubo2 | lordievader: change of what? | 11:56 |
| jubo2 | now the system is booting to normal OS | 11:56 |
| jubo2 | Thanks hateball. The graphical grub fixer worked | 11:57 |
| lordievader | jubo2: Of the change in partitions. | 11:57 |
| jubo2 | lordievader: not really | 11:57 |
| jubo2 | lordievader: how do I do that | 11:57 |
| lordievader | I suppose the grub fixer already did it for you. | 11:57 |
| jubo2 | I change to another irc | 11:57 |
| === jubo2 is now known as juboxi | ||
| lordievader | Anyhow the likely reason it couldn't boot was that grub was trying to find the old partition. | 11:58 |
| jubo2 | I recovered 20GB for my /home partition | 11:58 |
| jubo2 | it will keep me going for a while | 11:58 |
| jubo2 | really would need to remove /dev/sda1 but I dunno how | 11:58 |
| jubo2 | coz it is flagged "bootable" | 11:58 |
| jubo2 | so if I remove it the system will stop booting | 11:59 |
| jubo2 | I'm looking at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MovingLinuxPartition | 12:05 |
| jubo2 | the instructions are made for Ubuntu | 12:07 |
| KayEss | Where are the default regional settings controlled from? I don't mean the per-user ones from the system settings, but the ones used for things like the log in screen? | 12:09 |
| lordievader | jubo2: So? | 12:12 |
| jubo2 | some things in it are GNOME specific? | 12:13 |
| lordievader | Quickly looking through it shows me very little Ubuntu specifics. Kubunt and Ubuntu are apart from the DE the same. | 12:14 |
| jubo2 | I think I want to do this with Gparted instead of hitting myself in the head with 'dd' | 12:14 |
| lordievader | Gparted cannot do that. Gparted is a partition manager. | 12:15 |
| jubo2 | https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MovingPartition seems to indicate it can | 12:15 |
| lordievader | That is moving a partition on the disk, not from disk to another disk. | 12:16 |
| jubo2 | ok | 12:17 |
| jubo2 | I need to move also a Windows partition to the new disk | 12:18 |
| jubo2 | I guess I should just clean my flat untill I find that Kingston-supplied partition moved CD | 12:18 |
| jubo2 | stupid me to not to put it back to some rational place after using it | 12:19 |
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| * kubuntu_newbie slaps kubuntu_newbie around a bit with a large fishbot | 12:52 | |
| === jmpiloq is now known as jdoh | ||
| olavgg | Hi. What videocard should use for Plasma5? I have a Nvidia 9800GT at the moment, and while it mostly works I have issues when starting/closing full screen applications or when I change the monitor layout | 13:44 |
| Smurphy | olavgg: using a regular HD 4000 here _> CPU integrated. Works nice. | 13:45 |
| hateball | olavgg: are you using nvidia blob or noeuvaeu ? | 13:49 |
| hateball | I can never spell the latter, terrible name. | 13:49 |
| Yossarianuk | jubo2: if you want to move your windows partition have you tried clonezilla? | 14:11 |
| jubo2 | update: found the Kingston provided partition mover and bunch of other stuff | 14:12 |
| jubo2 | Like 30x 15mg Oxatzepam FTW | 14:12 |
| jubo2 | So I need an MBR from some disk, a bootable partition from some disk that I set the MBR to point to and GRUB there? Did I get this right? | 14:13 |
| jubo2 | The 0.5TB I'm intending to move mu OSes to should prlly be formatted first | 14:14 |
| === root is now known as Guest84986 | ||
| adrianalves | hello guys | 14:17 |
| adrianalves | any workaround for oldsystray in plasma5? | 14:17 |
| adrianalves | pidgin and xchat wont work | 14:18 |
| adrianalves | in plasma5 | 14:18 |
| === mhall119|fossetc is now known as mhall119 | ||
| BluesKaj | Hiyas all | 14:30 |
| mparillo | adrianalves: It looks as if Restored Legacy Icons in System Tray Support is coming in Plasma 5.5. There are a lot of work-arounds until then, but I have not tried any of them. I do know that the Dropbox sys tray icon returned recently, so others may also. | 14:32 |
| adrianalves | mparillo, i just care about pidgin and xchat do you know if those works in plasma 5.5? | 14:35 |
| adrianalves | mparillo, also do you know if plasma 5.5 is available in kubuntu-ppa? | 14:36 |
| olavgg | hateball: I'm using the nvidia blob of couse | 14:37 |
| olavgg | 340.96 | 14:38 |
| olavgg | should I try the legacy driver perhaps? | 14:38 |
| mparillo | No Plasma 5.5 is not available. The beta (5.4.95) was just released, and it is unclear if it will be packaged, but when 5.5 is released, it will probably be the signature item for Kubuntu 16.04. The source is linked from http://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/xembed_back and you can look at the screenshot to see the legacy systray icons he tested. | 14:39 |
| hateball | olavgg: is 340 the latest that will support your card? it is quite an old driver, is why I am asking | 14:39 |
| olavgg | it's what is included for Kubuntu 15.10 :P | 14:39 |
| hateball | olavgg: you should be able to get pick at least 346 iirc | 14:40 |
| olavgg | I have 352.63 in my repository | 14:41 |
| olavgg | but I'm not gonna try it...because I'm afraid to break the current setup(even if its slightly broken) | 14:41 |
| hateball | How so? | 14:42 |
| hateball | I am using 355 from ppa and it works wonderfully | 14:42 |
| BluesKaj | yeah hateball until you next kernel module upgrade | 14:46 |
| BluesKaj | yuor | 14:46 |
| BluesKaj | :-) | 14:47 |
| BluesKaj | olavgg, the 340 driver works fine if that's what's recommended in the driver manager for your gpu, the issue you have may have more to do with plasma 5 than the gpu driver | 14:49 |
| hateball | BluesKaj: How so? | 14:50 |
| jubo2 | I reboot to the hard drive cloning CD | 14:50 |
| jubo2 | bbaiaw | 14:50 |
| hateball | BluesKaj: dkms takes care of that, iirc it even does if you install manually from nvidia these days | 14:50 |
| jubo2 | I gonna see if it has maker and model | 14:50 |
| BluesKaj | does the ppa track kernel module upgrades? | 14:50 |
| hateball | BluesKaj: dkms rebuilds modules on kernel upgrades | 14:53 |
| hateball | !dkms | 14:53 |
| ubottu | DKMS is Dynamic Kernel Module Support. See https://launchpad.net/dkms for more. | 14:53 |
| === thrace_ is now known as thrace | ||
| BluesKaj | yes hateball , but not the versions that are ppa dependent afaik | 14:56 |
| hateball | My install must work using magic then | 14:56 |
| Kwaadpepper | Just saying, nvidia driver with graphic ppa does not reinstall on manual kernel upgrade, i can confirm this | 14:58 |
| BluesKaj | maybe your ppa version ended up in the backports | 14:58 |
| BluesKaj | hateball,^ | 14:58 |
| hateball | I am using https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa and I dist-upgrade | 14:59 |
| regedit | hateball: your nick makes me feel much fuzzy feelings of love and tolerance inside, and strong desires to not burn everything in sight at all | 14:59 |
| hateball | Things work as expected | 14:59 |
| hateball | regedit: That's nice | 14:59 |
| regedit | :D | 14:59 |
| hateball | I even upgraded from 15.04 to 15.10 without any breakage, so I dunno | 15:01 |
| BluesKaj | hateball, I'm checking out the ppa you posted to see if it gives me a newer driver | 15:05 |
| BluesKaj | but it doesn't | 15:06 |
| hateball | The 358 driver is broken btw, if anyone else attempts to use it | 15:10 |
| jubo2 | The disk-mover utility is something called Acronis True Image HD | 15:36 |
| jubo2 | gonna ixquick.com that now | 15:37 |
| jubo2 | I boot to the Acronis and see what it says about my EXT3 partitions | 15:40 |
| jubo2 | hold on EXT4 | 15:40 |
| jubo2 | I gotta figure out in which order I should do what so I can bring Windows7 from a 120GB SSD and this Kubuntu15.10 from a 180GB disk | 15:41 |
| jonah | Hi can anyone please help. my network printer has suddenly dissappeared! Now I can't add it from KDE printers | 16:12 |
| jonah | tried putting https://192.168.0.100:631, then click the driver and next but the printer doesn't respond | 16:13 |
| jonah | what is the correct path or way to enter this in KDE? | 16:13 |
| BluesKaj | jonah, did you try the printer manager/printers in system settings? | 16:14 |
| jonah | BluesKaj: hi yes that's the one I'm trying but can't get it to work | 16:15 |
| jonah | BluesKaj: I add new printer, then choose manual or one of the others, put 192.168.0.100:631 | 16:15 |
| jonah | BluesKaj: but can't print... | 16:16 |
| BluesKaj | don't use the 631 on the IP | 16:16 |
| jonah | BluesKaj: not sure what the proper path and protocol should be, but it's just a normal cups network shared printer on my server | 16:16 |
| jonah | BluesKaj: do I choose Manual URI, or Internet Printing Protocol etc? | 16:16 |
| BluesKaj | jonah, is it a network printer connected to a different pc or connected to your p? | 16:18 |
| BluesKaj | pc? | 16:18 |
| jonah | BluesKaj: when I put Manual, then 192.168.0.100 then press the magnifying lens/search it appears at the bottom of the list, I click on that and it does have the right printer there but wants a "conneciton" and in that box it just says :// - I've trie putting all sorts in there as well as leaving it how it is but it won't work | 16:18 |
| jonah | BluesKaj: to a different PC on my local network. I've got the cups web interface open on that other PC and it shows up there etc | 16:18 |
| BluesKaj | which brand printer ? | 16:19 |
| jonah | BluesKaj: Canon MX390 - the driver is listed when I click next, AND it was working yesterday but now has just vanished from the PC that used to use it... | 16:20 |
| jonah | BluesKaj: just ran dmesg on other PC the printer is on and it says: "[91361.129256] audit: type=1400 audit(1448295322.129:306): apparmor="ALLOWED" operation="open" profile="/usr/sbin/cupsd" name="/var/cache/samba/gencache.tdb" pid=28519 comm="cupsd" requested_mask="wrc" denied_mask="wrc" fsuid=0 ouid=0" | 16:21 |
| jonah | BluesKaj: so not sure if that is something to do with it... | 16:21 |
| BluesKaj | is the printer listed when choosing Man URl | 16:23 |
| jonah | BluesKaj: yes if i put https it is in front of ip, but then as I say it wants a "connection" | 16:25 |
| jubo2 | Ok. | 16:43 |
| jubo2 | The Acronis True Image HD sees the EXT3 partitions nice and fine | 16:43 |
| jubo2 | but the disk in the external USB-to-SATA enclosure is (Mac) GUID and the Acronis does not support | 16:44 |
| jubo2 | so I figure I need to format the drive.. | 16:44 |
| jubo2 | and choose a filesystem to format it to? | 16:44 |
| jubo2 | or is that filesystem choosing for the partitions | 16:45 |
| jubo2 | all this disk vs. partition stuff is not intuitively clear to me | 16:45 |
| jubo2 | and "logical volume" | 16:46 |
| jubo2 | fdisk? | 16:49 |
| jubo2 | to format it | 16:49 |
| jubo2 | then move the Partitions with the Acronis and it says it will make one of them bootable | 16:49 |
| jubo2 | and then have GRUB-reloader detect the OS in the partitions. | 16:50 |
| jubo2 | Does that soud like a plan or am I getting this all wrong? | 16:51 |
| BluesKaj | jubo2, I'm copying W7 from an old hdd to a new one using dd ..I'll let you know if it works | 16:56 |
| jubo2 | Am I supposed to create an empty partition on it or not | 16:56 |
| jubo2 | no.. I just want my /-partition my /home partition and the Windows7 NTFS | 16:57 |
| BluesKaj | dunno anything about Acronis | 16:57 |
| jubo2 | so I'ma let Acronis True Image do the heavy lifting for me | 16:57 |
| jubo2 | BluesKaj: It doesn't make any sense that you can move and resize partitions in Gparted but not move them disk-to-disk | 16:58 |
| jubo2 | or maybe they just wanted people use dd instead | 16:58 |
| BluesKaj | dd will | 16:58 |
| jubo2 | Do I want / or C:\ to be the #1st partition ( it is a spinner ) | 16:59 |
| jubo2 | and then C:\ last or /home the last with / in between them? | 16:59 |
| BluesKaj | doisn't matter where / goes as long as it's on the same disk | 17:00 |
| BluesKaj | doesn't | 17:00 |
| BluesKaj | but C:\ likes to be on sda | 17:01 |
| jubo2 | it wanting sda does not matter coz it will not be running when the partitions are moved.. and they are all going to be booted as /dev/sda | 17:02 |
| jubo2 | I put /-partition first 20GB | 17:04 |
| jubo2 | Gparted can resize NTFS disksw? | 17:04 |
| jubo2 | *disks | 17:04 |
| BluesKaj | a bit big but it doen't matter if you have a large hdd | 17:05 |
| jubo2 | doh.. howcha figure the installation process by-the-side-of-current OS would work if Gparted didn't know how to do that. | 17:05 |
| BluesKaj | yes gparted can resize ntfs | 17:05 |
| jubo2 | then /home I need to grow to 280GB and the remaining 150-200GB goes to the Windows | 17:06 |
| jubo2 | none of this matters very much because I am getting a clean 3rd generation chip system in just a little while | 17:07 |
| jubo2 | I gonna go move them with the Kingston-provided software | 17:08 |
| jubo2 | it looks like a GNU/Linukka, maybe, when it boots | 17:08 |
| jubo2 | nothing will be lost if it doesn't work like I imagine it is | 17:09 |
| jubo2 | taa-daa piippöls | 17:09 |
| === juboxi is now known as jubo2 | ||
| jubo2 | having power supplies for both computer has its obvious upsides | 17:12 |
| jubo2 | my /-partition and /home-partition are on a logical volume instead of directly on the drive | 17:18 |
| jubo2 | I'm starting to think to put Windows first | 17:22 |
| jubo2 | popped in the Windows7 containing drive | 17:23 |
| BluesKaj | prefer primaries and I use 3 different drives for linux. windows and media storage | 17:24 |
| BluesKaj | that depends which sata connection you use | 17:25 |
| jubo2 | Yes. | 17:27 |
| jubo2 | I am looking to get a used business portable | 17:27 |
| jubo2 | 3rd gen i5 | 17:28 |
| jubo2 | instead of this 1st gen i5 | 17:28 |
| jubo2 | handles 3 displays | 17:28 |
| jubo2 | handles 32GB max memory the chipset | 17:28 |
| jubo2 | It'd be really really really stupid to put ceilint like Samshit | 17:29 |
| jubo2 | This netbook by the aforementioned (sry, no cussing) Sam.. .. .. crap | 17:29 |
| jubo2 | does not take 4GB combs | 17:29 |
| jubo2 | and it has space for only one | 17:30 |
| jubo2 | Time remaining 1 hour 8 minutes | 17:30 |
| jubo2 | it's growing the NTFS to 428GB | 17:31 |
| jubo2 | gotta shring to make way for the /-partition and the /home | 17:31 |
| jubo2 | shrink it _a lot_ | 17:31 |
| jubo2 | It was gonna be either way. First grow and then shrink or keep as is and then grow by Gparted | 17:32 |
| jubo2 | I wish I didn't need windows but there is no Eli Ted Angerous for GNU/Linukka | 17:34 |
| jubo2 | Kingston provided software seems to be running rock solid if HDD activity indicator led and the "Remaining time"-estimate over time | 17:35 |
| jubo2 | then shrink it with Gparted in Kubuntu to desired size and then dd the GNU/Linukka partitions from the other drive. | 17:39 |
| jubo2 | then copy and modify the MBR to bypass the windows loader | 17:39 |
| jubo2 | and instead point to the GRUB | 17:39 |
| jubo2 | or this is my theory. Prost. | 17:39 |
| jubo2 | 54 minutes remaining | 17:44 |
| Luser-ru | чуваки - какие шрифты для инфиналити юзаете | 17:52 |
| jubo2 | bah. didn't work | 18:49 |
| jubo2 | I guess the MBR was not transferred or reconstructed | 18:50 |
| lordievader | Does. whatever you've used, copy the first 2048 sectors? | 18:51 |
| jubo2 | with dd? | 18:51 |
| jubo2 | using the bs=1 and 2048 as the.. the.. I don't recall what that was called | 18:51 |
| jubo2 | I thought the MBR is 512 bytes | 18:53 |
| === jubo2 is now known as juboxi | ||
| lordievader | Sectors is not bytes ;) Are you talking about grub or the partition table by the way? | 18:54 |
| juboxi | lordievader: I dunno. The shit is complicated for my small mind | 18:54 |
| jubo2 | My current career options are studying for a studio technician, a computer technician or a cook | 18:55 |
| lordievader | What are you trying to accomplish? | 18:56 |
| jubo2 | lordievader: to move C:\ and /-partition and /home-partition from 2 distinct disks to a 3rd one and have the thing to boot both | 19:16 |
| lordievader | Ah, in that case it is easier to recreate the bootloaders. | 19:18 |
| valsdav | Hi all! | 19:23 |
| === root is now known as Guest86405 | ||
| BluesKaj | well jubo2, dd copied my W7 paritition/IDE hdd perfectly to a newer and faster Sata hdd | 19:51 |
| jubo2 | BluesKaj: I gots to try that next | 19:51 |
| jubo2 | got any good links? I got one https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MovingLinuxPartition | 19:52 |
| jubo2 | BluesKaj: I'm thinking of buying 10-pack of these USB3-to-SATA3 HDD enclosures | 19:52 |
| BluesKaj | sudo dd if=/devsda bs=1M of=/dev/sdb bs=1m | 19:52 |
| BluesKaj | oops /dev/sda | 19:53 |
| jubo2 | If you wanna buy the stuff cheap, where you buy. That's right, China | 19:53 |
| BluesKaj | took about 45mins for 160G | 19:53 |
| jubo2 | I gots mi China connection that gets me stuff cheap | 19:53 |
| jubo2 | BluesKaj: why are you replicating the block size specification? | 19:54 |
| BluesKaj | according to the forums it's best to be specific about block size on both input and output files | 19:55 |
| BluesKaj | dunno why tho, didn't really seem to make any speed difference | 19:56 |
| jubo2 | can I somehow machine-generate the MBR or whatevs is missing that it gives me the white cursor that will not echo anything? | 19:58 |
| jubo2 | I have the source disk still available. | 19:59 |
| BluesKaj | best to drop to a VT/TTY and update-grub ? | 19:59 |
| jubo2 | maybe the MBR was pointing to the Kubuntu14.04 I no longer I need | 19:59 |
| jubo2 | and that's why the NTFS partition copy-and-expand gives me the black screen and a white cursor that won't echo | 20:00 |
| === _dv_ is now known as dv_ | ||
| lordievader | Well if you extend the filesystem without telling the partition table, trouble happens. | 20:01 |
| lordievader | The other way around ain't good too, changing the partition table without telling the filesystem. | 20:02 |
| BluesKaj | always update grub after resizing partitions | 20:02 |
| BluesKaj | fooling with partition table on an existing install, say goodbye to existing OS | 20:03 |
| Yaiyan | That's been the story of my life when partitioning in vm's :/ | 20:04 |
| BluesKaj | vms have never worked 100% IME, dual boot is best\ | 20:05 |
| Yaiyan | I have Kubuntu installed natively too now tbf | 20:25 |
| Yaiyan | It crashes more than in the vm though, but maybe that's just because I'm using it more | 20:25 |
| jubo2 | Looks like I need to look up on 'pedia or other literature what that MBR contains to make it point to booting the NTFS I wanna boot from | 20:42 |
| BluesKaj | jubo2, UEFI or BIOS? | 20:43 |
| jubo2 | Uhh.. wut? | 20:43 |
| jubo2 | /dev/sda should contain the 512 first bytes the MBR | 20:43 |
| jubo2 | ... for the system to be bootable? | 20:44 |
| BluesKaj | boot partition is UEFI boot on newer machines since 2010, there's no mbr | 20:44 |
| jubo2 | UEFI you say | 20:44 |
| jubo2 | I think I nuked that | 20:44 |
| BluesKaj | ok | 20:44 |
| jubo2 | not sure though | 20:44 |
| jubo2 | I can repeat the steps no probs | 20:45 |
| BluesKaj | justr checking | 20:45 |
| jubo2 | UEFI boot | 20:45 |
| jubo2 | how do I make a new one? | 20:45 |
| jubo2 | And this documentation hasn't been flagged as 'dated' | 20:47 |
| jubo2 | https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MovingLinuxPartition | 20:47 |
| jubo2 | I almost followed it | 20:47 |
| jubo2 | re: UEFI boot vs. MBR | 20:48 |
| BluesKaj | dunno, it's complicated, ask Eric^ ^ over at #ubuntu , think he knows how to set it up | 20:48 |
| jubo2 | Eric^ | 20:48 |
| jubo2 | I do that tomorrow | 20:48 |
| jubo2 | I'm on my Nth beer right now | 20:48 |
| BluesKaj | maybe you should leave partitioning alone then | 20:49 |
| jubo2 | also some dank stuff so all the more reason | 20:52 |
| jubo2 | I'm just blasting mah non-warezed medias and enjoying the beer buzz | 20:54 |
| jubo2 | 'k 'k.. offtopic.. Thanks BluesKaj, I'll ask Eric^ at #ubuntu tomorrow for "How to make UEFI boot" | 20:55 |
| lordievader | jubo2: I'd grab a windows cd and let it restore the bootloader. | 20:59 |
| jubo2 | lordievader: otherwise a good idea but the bordel they call http://lenovorecovery.com has sent me the wrong disks three times | 21:00 |
| jubo2 | I like the laptop, sorta but that Hungaro-Austria-Serbian cluster-swearword for outsourcing result is not family-friendly channel content | 21:01 |
| lordievader | jubo2: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows7 | 21:02 |
| jubo2 | ctrl-d'd | 21:03 |
| jubo2 | the product key is in the bottom of this machine (stuck to the docking station) | 21:06 |
| jubo2 | I'm just so happy my system didn't crash during yesterday when I expanded the /home-partition 20GB by recovering space from old broken OS | 21:07 |
| jubo2 | and that I got helpe today, here, for the 'grub-rescue>"-situation | 21:08 |
| jubo2 | that resulted from deleting permanently an unused /-partition | 21:08 |
| BluesKaj | time for other things ... later | 21:09 |
| jubo2 | see ya and thanks again | 21:09 |
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