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[217.169.3.230]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id e12-v6sm1763158wru.89.2018.07.26.07.30.02 for (version=TLS1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 26 Jul 2018 07:30:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: scanner problem : latest Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 15:30:01 +0100 Message-ID: <1661867.4YMr1VpF1z@dell_xps> In-Reply-To: <2621760.4p9lDnPvMA@dell_xps> References: <20180717063853.GA1944@ca.inter.net> <20180724141432.GE1955@ca.inter.net> <2621760.4p9lDnPvMA@dell_xps> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart90158833.KcYN6V28Mi"; micalg="pgp-sha256"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: fe822e6f-222e-4090-80fc-f2363c120667 X-Archives-Hash: 76b38250e1de71efee5de76fa9d39d7a --nextPart90158833.KcYN6V28Mi Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" On Tuesday, 24 July 2018 15:38:35 BST Mick wrote: > On Tuesday, 24 July 2018 15:14:32 BST Philip Webb wrote: > > 180723 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > On Fri, 20 Jul 2018 09:04:26 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > > >> Linux Mint 19 leads you along to a point where you've told it > > >> where to install, you click 'proceed' & it chugs along nicely, > > >> then it says it's trying to install a bootloader > > >> without asking whether you want it to or where to do it. > > > > > > For future reference, start the Mint installer with "ubiquity -b", > > > then it doesn't install a boot loader at all > > > and you can add it to your Gentoo bootloader after rebooting. > > > > I started the Mint installer by clicking on its desktop button. > > What is 'ubiquity' & how would I use it ? > > > > > WinErr 018: Unrecoverable error - System has been destroyed. > > > Buy a new one. Old Windows licence is not valid anymore. > > > > That's how I felt for 30 min after Mint played its dirty trick above > > (grin). > > See attached screenshot. > > Meanwhile I'm still at a loss why on a BIOS with GPT system GRUB installed > fine without any mishaps, but upon a GRUB update some days later it refused > to install without me creating a new protective MBR partition marked as > ef02. > :-/ I just noticed when I start the VM using the aqemu GUI, the system identifies its virtual hard drives as /dev/sda, while when I start it with qemu-system- x86_64 on the CLI it identifies the hard drives as /dev/vda. This is the reason of GRUB refusing to update itself ... I installed with aqemu, then some days later I tried to update GRUB running the VM via the CLI. So much for thinking aqemu is a just a simple GUI for running qemu VMs. It evidently does its own tha'ng. -- Regards, Mick --nextPart90158833.KcYN6V28Mi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. 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