From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub: for the love of almighty Zardoz the magniicent....
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2020 09:15:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200701091510.0220a9cc@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <350580129.474665.1593567654500@mail.yahoo.com>
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On Wed, 1 Jul 2020 01:40:54 +0000 (UTC), Alan Grimes wrote:
> I RMA'd my normal mobo as previously discussed.
> I went to grab my previous motherboard and it turns out that it had
> actually released a goodly chunk of it's Magic Smoke (tm) while I
> hadn't been looking. So I went down to the Quickie Mart and grabbed a
> motherboard that was still compatible with the rusty old 1800x... The
> error was Unable to load "/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod" I had to buy some
> more USB sticks (my optical drive seems functional but will not boot
> the machine...) and used gparted to get into the partition, .........
> =((( All my .mod files were in x86_64-efi
> >>> AND IT WAS WORKING ON THE OTHER MOTHERBOARD!!! <<<
> =~((((((((
> Dear beloved Zardoz, what have I done to deserve your wrath???
Is the replacement motherboard UEFI and is t set that way in the firmware
menus?
I think Zardoz would ask why you are subjecting yourself to GRUB when you
have much simpler options with UEFI hardware.
--
Neil Bothwick
I backed up my hard drive and ran into a bus.
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-19 21:19 [gentoo-user] Gentoo chroot with old glibc Hervé Guillemet
2020-06-21 17:06 ` Michael
2020-06-21 19:43 ` Hervé Guillemet
2020-06-21 20:03 ` Michael
2020-06-21 22:52 ` Hervé Guillemet
2020-06-30 8:26 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2020-06-30 16:29 ` Laurence Perkins
2020-07-01 1:40 ` [gentoo-user] Grub: for the love of almighty Zardoz the magniicent Alan Grimes
2020-07-01 8:15 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2020-07-01 8:45 ` Michael
2020-07-02 4:20 ` Alan Grimes
2020-07-01 1:30 ` [gentoo-user] Gentoo chroot with old glibc Thomas Mueller
[not found] ` <20200701013122.CE9C8E08AE@pigeon.gentoo.org>
2020-07-01 14:47 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2021-01-04 11:57 ` Thomas Mueller
[not found] ` <20210104115748.50A5EE0930@pigeon.gentoo.org>
2021-01-08 23:37 ` Andreas K. Hüttel
2020-06-21 21:08 ` Rich Freeman
2020-06-21 22:34 ` Hervé Guillemet
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