From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F07AD1381FA for ; Mon, 5 May 2014 06:53:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B1F29E0B1A; Mon, 5 May 2014 06:52:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.42.165]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAF2CE0B12 for ; Mon, 5 May 2014 06:52:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.42.134] (helo=smtp3.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WhCll-0003Yt-4X for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 05 May 2014 08:52:57 +0200 Received: from 53579160.cm-6-8c.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([83.87.145.96] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp3.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WhClk-0000gt-QT for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 05 May 2014 08:52:57 +0200 Received: from andromeda.localnet (unknown [10.20.13.150]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3FA634C for ; Mon, 5 May 2014 08:52:23 +0200 (CEST) From: "J. Roeleveld" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems Date: Mon, 05 May 2014 08:52:08 +0200 Message-ID: <2560293.AAjodFatl3@andromeda> User-Agent: KMail/4.11.5 (Linux/3.10.25-gentoo; KDE/4.11.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <53672B6F.3020505@xunil.at> References: <5364C0F9.3000906@xunil.at> <3077184.ESb4oPm3p1@andromeda> <53672B6F.3020505@xunil.at> 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Ziggo-spambar: --- X-Ziggo-spamscore: -3.6 X-Ziggo-spamreport: ALL_TRUSTED=-1,PROLO_TRUST_RDNS=-3,RDNS_DYNAMIC=0.363,TW_QE=0.077 X-Ziggo-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Flag: No X-Archives-Salt: 60f92f7d-5cae-49ba-861f-85b65ee17f7f X-Archives-Hash: 56c3d3bfaf036359ec9a888daa8ed51c On Monday, May 05, 2014 08:10:55 AM Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 04.05.2014 21:22, schrieb J. Roeleveld: > > On Sunday, May 04, 2014 09:03:08 PM Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > >> People run KVM-hosts with storage on ZFS ... nice with the > >> snapshots etc ... > > > > Does KVM support running snapshots? Eg. also storing the memory and > > registers? I have not found any indication that KVM supports that. > > > > Without that, KVM is useless to me. > > KVM != ZFS ... you could use ZFS with other hypervisors. I know, comment was about KVM. ZFS is on my list, but I don't want to use files for the VMs. > AFAI understand you can take snapshots using libvirt (which in turn > controls the underlying qemu-kvm etc). And I found no evidence on memory taken along with the snapshot. Only disk. (unfortunately) I will start a new thread about this with the KVM mailing lists later today. > > I thought the MBR info that's possible with GPT would make it > > possible with any BIOS? Provided the /boot partition is early enough > > on the disk. > > I had no separate /boot ... just sda1 as "BIOS boot partition", > unformatted and with partition type ef02 (and sda2 as my gentoo-root). I have 8300 for my /boot. If I would have that on " / ", I would give that 8300 as type. > >>> booting works from BIOS/MBR. > >> > >> ... if your BIOS isn't crappy ;-) > > > > Try updating? :) > > Never found an update for this box. > > -> DMI: Hewlett-Packard HP Elite 7300 Series MT/2AB5, BIOS 7.12 10/12/2011 > > hints welcome ;-) I use seperate components for the desktops and a " local " (30 - 40 minute drive) supplier for server hardware. I find that cheaper then using the big boys like HP or Dell. > > Also, the /boot partition needs to have the mbr-boot flag (or > > whatever it's called) enabled. > > Thanks, but I had that as well ... I will skip that stuff and try going > the UEFI-way later this day, if my customers allow ... Good luck (with your customers) -- Joost