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  1. New Funtoo LiveCD UEFI bootable?

    in Installation Help

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    On 11/2/2019 at 3:39 AM, nrc said:

    Ok, I'll create a ticket on this but I wanted to close the loop on this thread.   I confirmed that following the install instruction creates a USB drive that won't boot on my UEFI boot Alienware Alpha or BIOS boot Latitude 13.  These are older systems (2015 and 2010) so maybe that's part of it.

    The problem is that following the install instructions creates a device that is a bootable ISO 9660 CD-ROM image with no partitioning.  Maybe newer systems are smart enough to treat that as a USB CDROM but no settings on my systems would boot with it.  Copying the sysrescueCD ISO file, by comparison, creates a partitioned device which includes an EFI boot partition and boots on both systems with no problem.

    The problem is that the Funtoo Live CD image is not a hybrid mode ISO.   The solution is to convert it to hybrid mode with isohybrid: 

    
isohybrid -u funtoo-livecd-area31-5.1-beta.iso

    This is actually mentioned on the Funtoo LiveCD page here:  https://www.funtoo.org/LiveUSB

     

    Man, @nrc, I sure wish I would have paid more attention to your reports when I started my latest installs . . . I thought the Inspiron 650 was looking to get a few more grey hairs out of me <smile>

    Once I hybridized the latest hackerspace iso, booting to efi was smooth as silk.

    Thank you.

    Regards, splifingate

  4. Errors syncing and compiling gnome-kit ( failed )

    in Portage Help

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    On 11/22/2019 at 12:23 PM, freefog said:

    Should I post a bug report or am I the only one affected?.

    You are not the only one.

    Fresh 1.4-release install prods this error, as well as a subsequent retrograde-nuke-re-install...

    ...I don't use (or intend to use) Gnome, so I'm not that concerned, but...

    ...multiple searches o/in the interwebs showed multiple bugs with multiple ('resolved') scenarios.

    I do not currently have the where-with-all to appropriately file reports on this bug.

    Just wanted to let you know that you are not alone.

    Regards, splifingate

  5. Xorg - Screen not found

    in Portage Help

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    On 2/18/2018 at 5:58 AM, Oleg Vinichenko said:

    it is mentioned in install guide

     

    On 2/18/2018 at 5:58 AM, Oleg Vinichenko said:

    it is mentioned in install guide

    Since I failed to complete this step (and have since come to the fail-point while trying to install Xorg with a Radeon HD 7950 (after many detailed/tedious customisations)), I was {almost} bereft at the prospect of having to "start-from-scratch" ;(

    Finding that I had not installed 'sys-kernel/linux-firmware', I re-compiled the d-s-lts-4.9.168_p1 kernel "after-the-fact", did a 'ego boot update' and rebooted.

    Apart from the fact that the 'ego boot update' re-set my Dell P2715Q to rendering tiny-text in the console, "startx" finally brought me to a successful TWM session ;)

    Heartening to realise that I did not have to [entirely] Start-From-Scratch.

    Regards, splifingate

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