| djph | systemdlete: mine's blurry till I'm awake enough to put in contacts | 00:21 |
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| djph | ... oops, this isn't -ot :| | 00:21 |
| sanitar | gnarface: the link didn't work | 00:30 |
| sanitar | i changed a couple of things in the boot config file | 00:30 |
| sanitar | https://bin.nixnet.services/?a841fd13d80c1a39#7ci18uwEhZxks6hd2rCHFAJHdXMWt7YGhLrE3oLQybvS | 00:30 |
| sanitar | when i boot it up it couldn't find vmlinuz and gave me a "load kernel" type error. | 00:33 |
| gnarface | sanitar: you wouldn't have been able to follow the grub entry contents verbatim, you know that, right? you would have had to edit paths and file and version #'s to match what you actually have, some interpretation would have been necessary. did you do such things? | 00:34 |
| gnarface | i'll look at your grub config if you paste it to paste.debian.net instead | 00:35 |
| sanitar | gnarface: https://paste.debian.net/hidden/bb1bac64/ | 00:36 |
| gnarface | sanitar: first couple things i see, ext2 might be the wrong one, "msdos3" might be the wrong one or just having the "msdos" prefix might be the wrong thing, and i note you've added /iso/, which isn't in the example | 00:40 |
| gnarface | if it can't find vmlinuz that's a pretty clear indicator that one of the things you've provided to tell it where to find it is wrong | 00:40 |
| gnarface | i'm not sure if they're insmodding ext2 here because it needs that to read the contents of the iso, or if the partition itself is ext2 in their case, in which case you'd need to insmod something else if you didn't use ext2 | 00:41 |
| gnarface | a pity fsmithred isn't around, he knows how to do this i think | 00:41 |
| gnarface | all i can say is it looks like you've almost got it, just verify these things | 00:41 |
| gnarface | and it might help to remove "quiet quiet splash" from the kernel commandline if you do get it booting, just so you can see what's actually happening after that, in case something else goes wrong | 00:42 |
| gnarface | this had just come up some days or weeks ago i think, and they got it working then. you might be able to find a hint in the channel logs. | 00:43 |
| sanitar | gnarface: i added the "msdos" line since my computer's partitioning scheme is mbr, and i found another vmlinuz but i didn't want the iso's vmlinuz to clash with the system's so i added a folder | 00:46 |
| sanitar | ^the system is a distro i installed half a year ago | 00:47 |
| gnarface | you sure #3 is the right partition? grub should be able to give you a prompt you can use to check by typing commands into | 00:49 |
| gnarface | you can literally type this boot entry in one line at a time and figure out where the first error is | 00:50 |
| sanitar | gnarface: what is the command to check if it is right? | 00:51 |
| joerg | http://reisenweber.net/irclogs/libera/_devuan/search?q=splash | 00:51 |
| sanitar | joerg: i'll check it out | 00:52 |
| sanitar | ah, sorry for the inconvenience | 00:53 |
| joerg | http://reisenweber.net/irclogs/libera/_devuan/_devuan.2024-06-18.log.html#t2024-06-18T10:13:28 | 00:53 |
| joerg | gnarface: 6 weeks ago :-) | 00:54 |
| gnarface | joerg: wait, is that the one with the working grub boot entry for booting a live iso? | 00:54 |
| joerg | no idea | 00:55 |
| gnarface | oh | 00:55 |
| * gnarface sighs | 00:55 | |
| gnarface | i wish he wouldn't disconnect while we're still figuring it out | 00:56 |
| joerg | maybe just rebooting | 00:56 |
| gnarface | the issue he's actually having, is he has an old dell with one harddrive, no removable disks, and is too paranoid to use a network installer | 00:58 |
| gnarface | so understandably he just wants to boot the live iso from the harddrive | 00:58 |
| gnarface | but unfortunately i don't remember what the trick is, so we're working off a Debian forum post | 00:58 |
| gnarface | and every time he gets a new idea to try he disappears for 24 hours | 00:59 |
| joerg | ohmy | 01:00 |
| joerg | how about... an USB stick? | 01:00 |
| gnarface | he has stated he has no other options, no optical disks, no usb disks, no extra harddrives | 01:01 |
| gnarface | that does beg the question of how he got the live iso onto the harddrive in the first place but i honestly didn't want to know | 01:01 |
| joerg | no memstick? they're three a tenner | 01:01 |
| gnarface | i can only assume there's some or another logistical issue | 01:03 |
| gnarface | i didn't want to pry | 01:03 |
| gnarface | i did suggest usb or optical very early in this process | 01:03 |
| gnarface | it seemed to be something he'd already considered | 01:03 |
| joerg | prolly failed and went right into the "Z" of XY-problem | 01:04 |
| gnarface | i dunno, but i know what it's like to try to get something done with no resources and enemies around every corner, so i didn't press the issue | 01:05 |
| joerg | :nod: | 01:05 |
| joerg | just ask them to stay longer next time | 01:05 |
| freem | <gnarface> that does beg the question of how he got the live iso onto the harddrive in the first place but i honestly didn't want to know | 16:44 |
| freem | network booting? | 16:44 |
| gnarface | freem: doubt it | 19:26 |
| fsmithred | gnarface, here are some examples of menuentries to boot live iso from hard drive: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=2334 https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=1710 https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=5397 | 21:48 |
| gnarface | fsmithred: thanks | 21:49 |
| gnarface | ah, i bet he was just missing "insmod part_msdos" | 21:49 |
| gnarface | i'll make sure to show him if he makes it back | 21:49 |
| fsmithred | cool, thanks. I'll be offline again in a few seconds. | 21:50 |
| fsmithred | maybe back later. | 21:50 |
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