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June 05th, 2019
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On Monday (June 3) I decided to switch from OpenSUSE to Alpine Linux :)
I REALLY appreciate the lack of systemd (and pulseaudio, and Avahi)...
Bonus points are I use a lot less GNU software on Alpine too, and my RPM-
hating friends are cheering me on too...
While making the switch, I hit a small snag, my machine was set to not
boot from removable media or netboot (and I was feeling too lazy to put
the Alpine installer on an internal HDD)... To enter the CMOS/BIOS setup
on that box, I am supposed to hit the 'delete' key on the keyboard,
easy, right? Wrong, I tried to do it from both a PS/2 keyboard and a
USB keyboard, no response at all... I don't know if the machine is one
of those weird ones that has its PS/2 ports running on the USB bus, so I
thought it could be related to the so-called 'legacy USB' setting that
most USB-equipped machines seem to have... Since I couldn't get into the
setup screen, I found the CMOS battery on the mobo and pulled it, and
then I used the reset jumper on the mobo... Short story is that the
machine will not turn on at all now. No biggie, I have a spare box.
So basically I have gone from this:
openSUSE Leap 15.1 (kernel 4.12.14)
AMD 1.6 GHz Athlon 64 2650e (Lima) (15 watt TDP)
3999MB RAM Non-ECC
To this:
Alpine Linux v3.9 (kernel 4.19.41)
Intel 2 GHz Pentium Dual Core E2180 (Conroe/Allendale) (65 watt TDP)
3013 MB RAM Non-ECC
Fun.
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