Subj : it's too easy
To : Alan Ianson
From : Benny Pedersen
Date : Sat Feb 25 2023 09:26 pm
Hello Alan!
15 Feb 2023 18:25, Alan Ianson wrote to Maurice Kinal:
>> No kidding. Just ran into a glitch with grub on both uefi and legacy
>> with kv-6.1.12 so rather than downgrade the kernel I opted out for taking
>> a grub-git out for a cruise. It worked!!! I just got it working about
>> half an hour ago and am currently bringing everything back into sync on
>> this overpriced toy.
AI> kv-6.1.12? I'll have to go grab it.
that was yesterday :=)
AI> At the moment LFS has the boot but if I run into trouble I'll boot
AI> with slackware.
so slack does work sometimes ? :)
>> What a pain but I think it'll be worth it.
AI> Yep, I am just working on some depenencies for the desktop. I'm going
AI> to have a go at getting xorg and friends installed tonight. If I
AI> succeed I'll be building an xfce desktop tomorrow.
+1
>>> I just updated the kernel to 6.1.9 earlier today and I see
>>> penguins here on my bios boot machine.
>> No love here yet but closing in on it. I currently have two legacy
>> machines I can try it out on. I figure by the weekend I *should* have a
>> working legacy boot but no promises on boot penguins as both are i915. I
>> may switch one to a uefi later.
AI> I don't see the penguins until the screen goes blank (kernel
AI> modesetting I think) and then they show up after that. I never saw
AI> them until I added the nouveau module.
let the penguins live in south pole :)
AI> I have the boot logo selected in ..
AI> make menuconfig -> Device Drivers -> Graphics support
AI> It's right at the bottom.
zgrep LOGO /proc/config.gz
Regards Benny
... too late to die young :)
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