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Ouch..... |
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Yesterday I made the dubious decision to go ahead and mobo swap my aging |
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1800x to [nondisclosed]. |
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Ok... The new mobo is EFI only... |
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Back in the good old days, the BIOS would just load the first sector off |
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your floppy drive, check for a basic sanity check pattern to make sure |
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the floppy cable was connected, working, and not cross-circuited, and |
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then it would work. |
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DOS provided a single command for making a bootable floppy and it |
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**NEVER FAILED**. |
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This thing does not boot off the motorized cupholder, and setting it up |
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is like the twelve labors of Herculese and you have to get them all |
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exactly correct or it doesn't work at all and it doesn't tell you why it |
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doesn't work. =| I don't even know how it's working. |
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I had intended it to be a UEFI drive from the start but my old mobo was |
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very forgiving and I think the thing was actually booting in BIOS mode. |
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Turns out the missing ingredient was "efibootmgr"... =\ |
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The designers of the UEFI standard cared about nothing but their own job |
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security. |
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So I got to see my GRUB menu. YAY.... (lasted about 5 seconds...) |
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Machine appeared to stall at kernel loading. |
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>>> YOU KNOW SOMETHING WAS DESIGNED BY PENGUINS WHEN IT MAKES THE WORST |
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POSSIBLE DESIGN DECISIONS AND THEN BLAMES THE USER FOR NOT MAKING IT |
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WORK... <<< |
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Case in point, EFI framebuffer. I could end the post there.... |
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Why is this not a forced-on setting for any machine with UEFI enabled? I |
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can't imagine that this would be unacceptable for more than 0.001% of |
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the install base. |
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So therefore it is disabled by default and you have to enable it in at |
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least three different deeply burried settings otherwise the kernel |
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appears to hang. |
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In the good old days the BIOS did the following: |
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Is there something resembling a CPU in the socket? Good! |
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Where's the goddamn video card so I can post error messages? |
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Does this machine even have RAM? |
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So obviously linux is doing this profoundly wrong.... |
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Ok, so it's time to emptytree world my system: |
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I don't feel comfortable manually yanking any of these packages... What |
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is the cannonical solution to this CF? |
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Total: 1701 packages (628 upgrades, 16 new, 2 in new slots, 1055 |
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reinstalls, 1 uninstall), Size of downloads: 10,521 KiB |
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Conflict: 4 blocks (2 unsatisfied) |
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* Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be |
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* installed at the same time on the same system. |
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(sys-apps/shadow-4.8.1-r2:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) |
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pulled in by |
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sys-apps/shadow required by @system |
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sys-apps/shadow required by (net-misc/openssh-8.2_p1-r6:0/0::gentoo, |
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ebuild scheduled for merge) USE="X pam pie ssl -X509 -audit -bindist |
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-debug -hpn -kerberos -ldns -libedit -libressl -livecd -sctp |
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-security-key (-selinux) -static -test -xmss" ABI_X86="(64)" |
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(sys-apps/util-linux-2.35.1-r2:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for |
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merge) pulled in by |
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sys-apps/util-linux required by |
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(app-text/build-docbook-catalog-1.21:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for |
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merge) USE="" ABI_X86="(64)" |
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The vaccine is a LIE. |
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