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Tag: GRUB
A new Archlinux upgrade, a new unbootable system
It's that time again...
First my grub broke. So I had to type my config manually:
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinux26 root=/dev/mapper/lvmopraid-root
initrd /kernel26.img
boot
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Fixing a Xen DomU’s grub config
When you use xen-create-image to bootstrap an ubuntu, it sets up a grub config file menu.lst. However, this boot config is not kept up-to-date with newer ubuntu's because they use grub2 (which uses grub.cfg and not menu.lst). And Xen's pygrub first looks at menu.lst, so if you have a stale file, it will always boot an old kernel.
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Gentoo auto-login and startx
I don't believe in system passwords if they're not backup by some type of disk encryption. It's simply too easy to circumvent by changing a few boot parameters or by inserting a good boot disk. For performance reasons, I've decided against using full-disk encryption for my laptop and even against encryption for my home folder. This makes typing in a password to login a mere annoyance. Admittedly, my laptop features a fingerprint reader, but at the time I couldn't get it to work and it still requires me to type in my username, which I find just as superfluous. Also, fingerprints aren't that secure either. Read More »
Installing grub on RAID1
When you have your kernel image and grub boot stages on a Linux software RAID1 partition, installing grub needs a bit of trickery.
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