Re: [gentoo-user] gru2-mkconfig tries to read the extended partition ??

[Mick]

On Sunday 26 Jul 2015 17:06:11 Jc García wrote:
> 2015-07-26 9:33 GMT-06:00 Todd Goodman <tsg@×××××××××.net>:
> > I like and use VirtualBox a lot (and agree it's easy to use.)
> >
> > But the performance and USB handling mean that I need Windows or other
> > OS' on bare metal most of the time.  I don't know how well Dell's crap^W
> > support stuff runs in a VM.
>
> The contrary experience here, USB has been the thing that got me to
> use VirtualBox many times, I have put usb drivers, printers, 3g
> modems, even adb trough the pass-trough feature of virtualbox, with no
> problems, in fact for some years for printing purposes I had to use a
> VM, and Virtualbox was the fastest to get working(click conect usb
> printer, install the windows drivers, print). I'm suspecting you also
> didn't run it with a very new computer, a server 2012 could run fine
> for testing some stuff, with 1 core limit and 512M RAM over here,
> using the virtualization capabilities of the processor. but I haven't
> dealt with DELL hardware.
>
> BTW, to Alan, I have never had to call to support for any laptop, but
> do they really have someone that could know more than you to help? I
> would seriously suspect most cases you are just talking to a call
> center agent whom clearly isn't doing a job that requires much
> knowledge about computers, that may be just reading some general
> 'reboot your pc' type instructions, and would likely suggest you to go
> to a professional technician at the arise of the slightest seemingly
> serious problem. But I might be wrong, and dell support could be
> awesome(I hardly think so, I know a lot of people who give support at
> call centers).

Dell support are *very* good at selling you extended warranty, which is not 
worth what you're paying for.  Unless you are majorly unlucky - i.e. MoBo 
blows up.

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Regards,
Mick