libera/#devuan/ Sunday, 2025-05-18

paculinoI'm not familiar with CUPS. Did it recently change or something?02:11
debdogit probably did. stable or testing? any more precise follow up question?02:14
paculinoOh, I just popped in an saw tjat usl purged it02:15
debdogok02:20
UsLno, I just purged it because I don't use printers, and avahi and cups made a lot of noise on the network, and I dislike running unnecessary services on a client. That was all. I don't run an ssh daemon either. Or dns sever. And so on.. : )02:25
paculinoWow, how low is your resource use?03:38
Guest67G'day every1!I am having major difficulties installing Devuan. i have a dual BIOS/UEFI Gigabyte MOBO. Wont boot? Bootloader > /dev/sda1.Help!23:08
jjSuper1Do you have more details? What happened before? Did you run linux before? Grub?23:13
Guest67JSuper1 yes i have been using devuan 4 a while, but i did sumthin wrong, & had to do a fresh install... Yes, i ws using Grub.23:23
Guest67Srry 2 B so slow - am using tvr23:25
fsmithredwhich iso are you using?23:25
Guest67Dadaelus23:26
fsmithredinstaller iso or live iso?23:26
fsmithredi.e. debian-installer or refractainstaller?23:26
Guest67Live23:27
fsmithredit should boot legacy or uefi23:27
Guest67Refracta23:27
fsmithredyeah23:27
fsmithredthe iso won't boot or did you install and the installation won't boot?23:28
Guest67Installation23:29
fsmithredsometimes grub doesn't install. Are you familiar with using chroot?23:29
Guest67NO!23:30
fsmithredor... do you have an installer iso laying around -23:30
fsmithredthat has a grub-reinstall feature23:30
Guest67Hmmm... not sure23:31
fsmithrednetinstall iso23:31
Guest67Is the grub-reinstall easy to use?23:34
fsmithredyes23:38
fsmithredat the boot menu, go to Advanced... then I think it's in the next menu Reinstall grub23:39
fsmithredThat's wrong23:40
fsmithredON first boot menu select Rescue mode23:40
fsmithredthen you have to go through some language and keyboard selections23:41
Guest67OK IWILL DWNLD netinstall & give it a go. TKU Fred! 'b'ye 4 now...23:44
fsmithredyw23:46
fsmithredenter Rescue mode, select the root partition and it will ask if you want to mount the efi partition. Say yes.23:51
fsmithredthen reinstall grub bootloader23:51

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