I tried to install Fedora as an alternative OS. Fedora changed my
existing options to substitute its own swap partition for the ones
specified in fstab. (Shows its parentage from M$.) That made Cauldron unbootable, for one.
Fedora uses LVM. Whenever I booted into a different flavor of Linux, Fedora's swap partition became active. That was enough to prevent me from uninstalling Fedora. I could start Cauldron in Grub's rescue mode if I tried the oldest kernel still installed, but not otherwise. I
tried rebuilding the initramfs, but it did nothing.
I needed to make sure that no partition in the LVM set was mounted. I
did that by booting the System Rescue CD that Bits always recommends. It
is an essential tool in my toolkit.
In the System Rescue environment, no partitions were mounted, and I was
able to use gparted to deactivate the Fedora LVM, making it invisible to
the kernel. I then tried to delete the partition, but the CD told me
that if I did, I would have an unholy mess, and to "do it properly."
That means first removing all the drives it contains, one by one.
OpenSUSE uses LVM as well, but didn't give me all this trouble. From memory, it gave me the option to choose a sane filesystem. But OpenSUSE had its own drawbacks. Mageia is still the best!
[The spellchecker suggested "Marriage" as an alternative for unknown "Mageia." Seriously?]
Doug.
This may be a fallout from Fedora, maybe not. Since uninstalling
Fedora, updating Mageia from the Rescue CD and reinstalling Mageia
twice, I still can't boot Mageia 7 normally;
I see a grub> prompt.
The rEFInd CD gave me two installation links, and I have my desktop
thanks to one of them.
Ubuntu mentions a bootfix CD at SourceForge. It is
claimed to work for any distro, RPM or Debian based. It is called "boot-repair-disk."
I need to know more about troubleshooting. The Linux Cookbook I have is
very out of date, and is useful only for using the command line.
Is there a book that is a bit better than that, but stillsufficiently non-technical to be useful at my level of knowledge?
On 2/5/20 4:26 pm, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
I tried to install Fedora as an alternative OS. Fedora changed my
existing options to substitute its own swap partition for the ones
specified in fstab. (Shows its parentage from M$.) That made
Cauldron unbootable, for one.
Fedora uses LVM. Whenever I booted into a different flavor of Linux,
Fedora's swap partition became active. That was enough to prevent me
from uninstalling Fedora. I could start Cauldron in Grub's rescue
mode if I tried the oldest kernel still installed, but not otherwise.
I tried rebuilding the initramfs, but it did nothing.
I needed to make sure that no partition in the LVM set was mounted. I
did that by booting the System Rescue CD that Bits always recommends.
It is an essential tool in my toolkit.
In the System Rescue environment, no partitions were mounted, and I
was able to use gparted to deactivate the Fedora LVM, making it
invisible to the kernel. I then tried to delete the partition, but
the CD told me that if I did, I would have an unholy mess, and to "do
it properly." That means first removing all the drives it contains,
one by one.
OpenSUSE uses LVM as well, but didn't give me all this trouble. From
memory, it gave me the option to choose a sane filesystem. But
OpenSUSE had its own drawbacks. Mageia is still the best!
[The spellchecker suggested "Marriage" as an alternative for unknown
"Mageia." Seriously?]
Doug.
This may be a fallout from Fedora, maybe not. Since uninstalling
Fedora, updating Mageia from the Rescue CD and reinstalling Mageia
twice, I still can't boot Mageia 7 normally; I see a grub> prompt. The rEFInd CD gave me two installation links, and I have my desktop thanks
to one of them. Ubuntu mentions a bootfix CD at SourceForge. It is claimed to work for any distro, RPM or Debian based. It is called "boot-repair-disk."
I need to know more about troubleshooting. The Linux Cookbook I have is very out of date, and is useful only for using the command line. Is
there a book that is a bit better than that, but still sufficiently non-technical to be useful at my level of knowledge?
I just got thru with moving my test machine to an SSD to speed
up that VB and will be running Mageia 7.1 on the VB. It was not easy
and under the built in graphical partitioning tool I could not seem to
catch a break. Finally I used my PartEd Magic to do the partitioning
and my next and final install worked a treat.
On Sat, 2 May 2020 08:24:17 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
I just got thru with moving my test machine to an SSD to speed
up that VB and will be running Mageia 7.1 on the VB. It was not easy
and under the built in graphical partitioning tool I could not seem to
catch a break. Finally I used my PartEd Magic to do the partitioning
and my next and final install worked a treat.
Never tried the Mageia partitioning tool. I use gparted from a 676M systemrescuecd.iso from http://www.system-rescue-cd.org/. Site has the instructions for getting the iso on a bootable usb drive if desired.
I defiantly want a rescue cd with all the tools I might need to repair
or recover files.
On Sat, 2 May 2020 08:24:17 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
I just got thru with moving my test machine to an SSD to speed
up that VB and will be running Mageia 7.1 on the VB. It was not easy
and under the built in graphical partitioning tool I could not seem to
catch a break. Finally I used my PartEd Magic to do the partitioning
and my next and final install worked a treat.
Never tried the Mageia partitioning tool. I use gparted from a 676M systemrescuecd.iso from http://www.system-rescue-cd.org/. Site has the instructions for getting the iso on a bootable usb drive if desired.
I defiantly want a rescue cd with all the tools I might need to repair
or recover files.
bliss - I have an athletic nose, it runs in all weathers...
On 3/5/20 1:53 am, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
An oldie but a goodie and I still laughed :-)
bliss - I have an athletic nose, it runs in all weathers...
"It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
It is by the beans of cocoa that the thoughts acquire speed,
the thighs acquire girth, the girth become a warning.
It is by theobromine alone I set my mind in motion."
--from Someone else's Dune spoof ripped to my taste.
P.S.
And now in the plague year my favorite Chocolate Shop and
News Stand has been closed. Non-essential to whomever? I will
On 3/5/20 1:04 pm, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
"It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
It is by the beans of cocoa that the thoughts acquire speed,
the thighs acquire girth, the girth become a warning.
It is by theobromine alone I set my mind in motion."
--from Someone else's Dune spoof ripped to my taste.
I remember reading Dune many many many... years ago, in my early years, maybe too early. I found it a bit tedious toward the end, I think, or
maybe I was starting to becoming more disillusioned with things in general.
Still, the movie did not do it justice.
I didn't read the sequels
P.S.
And now in the plague year my favorite Chocolate Shop and
News Stand has been closed. Non-essential to whomever? I will
Chocolate: I can empathize with. Currently I have a taste for rum and
raisin block. Or are you referring to drinking chocolate?
With you on that also.
regards
On 5/3/20 5:25 AM, faeychild wrote:
On 3/5/20 1:04 pm, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
"It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
It is by the beans of cocoa that the thoughts acquire speed,
the thighs acquire girth, the girth become a warning.
It is by theobromine alone I set my mind in motion."
--from Someone else's Dune spoof ripped to my taste.
I remember reading Dune many many many... years ago, in my early
years, maybe too early. I found it a bit tedious toward the end, I
think, or maybe I was starting to becoming more disillusioned with
things in general.
Well it is an ecological story. Dune is a desert planet with only Sandworms producing a valuable anti-agathic spice. But the Fremen
want it to rain on Dune which will kill the Sandworms.
So there is some ecological conflict with the Empire and with
the Navigators Guild, both of which have the motto "the Spice Must
Flow!" The Empire and the Guild both depend on the powers to move
thru SpaceTime that the Spice confers.
Still, the movie did not do it justice.
Very typical of SF movies. But the problems in Production
were very great.
I didn't read the sequels
I read some of them but they were not great stories.
Paul Atrides the godlike hero becomes a Sandworm.
I found a less expensive Fair Trade cocoa at Trader Joe's the
other day and shortly will begin a trial of it as to whether it can
replace the Ghiradelli powder. In case you haven't heard a lot of
child labor is used in cacao production. Fair Trade is supposed to
be less exploitative.
My cheap backup is the Pound Plus Bittersweet 72% bar from
Trader Joe's which I formerly used to make Gluten Free cup cakes/muffins
but due to reduced activity I have given up baking for several years.
It costs no more than the 80 gram bar from Guittard but the Guittard
company spends more time on conching the chocolate I believe which
results in a much smoother product.
Before I got sensitive to milk I ate Hershey bars and I
liked them. But this Guittard and Ghiradelli chocolate is much
better.
On 4/5/20 2:24 am, Bobbie Sellers wrote:rader Joe's the
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We get Aldi stores here - quite a few European chocolates slip in so
I should keep an eye peeled for the french chocolate
On 04.05.2020 at 08:59, faeychild scribbled:
On 4/5/20 2:24 am, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
I found a less expensive Fair Trade cocoa at Trader Joe's the
other day and shortly will begin a trial of it as to whether it can
replace the Ghiradelli powder. In case you haven't heard a lot of
child labor is used in cacao production. Fair Trade is supposed to
be less exploitative.
We get Aldi stores here - quite a few European chocolates slip in so
I should keep an eye peeled for the french chocolate
You haven't tasted any real chocolate until you've tried Belgian
chocolate. :p
On 04.05.2020 at 08:59, faeychild scribbled:
On 4/5/20 2:24 am, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
I found a less expensive Fair Trade cocoa at Trader Joe's the
other day and shortly will begin a trial of it as to whether it can
replace the Ghiradelli powder. In case you haven't heard a lot of
child labor is used in cacao production. Fair Trade is supposed to
be less exploitative.
We get Aldi stores here - quite a few European chocolates slip in so
I should keep an eye peeled for the french chocolate
You haven't tasted any real chocolate until you've tried Belgian
chocolate. :p
On Sat, 02 May 2020 11:40:54 -0400, Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
On Sat, 2 May 2020 08:24:17 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
I just got thru with moving my test machine to an SSD to speed
up that VB and will be running Mageia 7.1 on the VB. It was not easy
and under the built in graphical partitioning tool I could not seem to
catch a break. Finally I used my PartEd Magic to do the partitioning
and my next and final install worked a treat.
Never tried the Mageia partitioning tool. I use gparted from a 676M
systemrescuecd.iso from http://www.system-rescue-cd.org/. Site has the
instructions for getting the iso on a bootable usb drive if desired.
I defiantly want a rescue cd with all the tools I might need to repair
or recover files.
Use the command "swapon -s" to see which swap partitions are in use (aka mounted).
Use "swapoff /dev/????" to deactivate the swap partition. Many distros, Mageia
included, will normally activate all available swap partitions during boot.
Regards, Dave Hodgins
On 3/5/20 2:16 am, David W. Hodgins wrote:
Use the command "swapon -s" to see which swap partitions are in use (aka
mounted).
Use "swapoff /dev/????" to deactivate the swap partition. Many distros,
Mageia
included, will normally activate all available swap partitions during boot.
Thanks, David. since I uninstalled Fedora, the Fedora swap partition no longer exists, but other distros look for it.rEFInd, the only reliable bootloader at the moment, shows 3 entries for Mageia, only one of which works. I have a lot more cleaning up to do. Usually, I need to
reinstall everything else. This is normal for any fundamental change,
such as installing or uninstalling a second OS.
On 4/5/20 9:25 am, Aragorn wrote:
On 04.05.2020 at 08:59, faeychild scribbled:
On 4/5/20 2:24 am, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
I found a less expensive Fair Trade cocoa at Trader Joe's the >>>> other day and shortly will begin a trial of it as to whether it can
replace the Ghiradelli powder. In case you haven't heard a lot of
child labor is used in cacao production. Fair Trade is supposed to
be less exploitative.
We get Aldi stores here - quite a few European chocolates slip in so
I should keep an eye peeled for the french chocolate
You haven't tasted any real chocolate until you've tried Belgian
chocolate. :p
I have tasted Belgian chocolate - bought it in Bruges - and I agree totally.
regards
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