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[~]$ sdcv linux Found 1 items, similar to linux. -->wikt-en-ALL-2018-05-15 -->Linux
n. 1 An open-source computer operating system kernel. 2 Any operating system that uses this kernel.
Lincoln Fisher
hello /fglt/ I am dualbooting ubuntu and W10 how could I make it boot GRUB (or greb or whatever the ubuntu dual boot screen looks like) where i can choose from there (I am currently spamming F11 on bootup to choose in the bios boot options)
what I mean is it by default boots w10 without asking
Carson Flores
XUbuntus giving me slower internet speeds of 18Mbps while Windows 7 is getting me 80Mbps. I dont feel like fixing whatever is wrong with it so instead im going to try a different distro.
What version of Ubuntu should I go with next that does not have shit internet speeds?
Cameron Rogers
>im going to try a different distro. >What version of Ubuntu should I go with That's not how it works. Try Fedora, plain ol' Debian, Gentoo or OpenSuse instead
Jonathan Wood
$ echo "l'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as $(uname --kernel-name), is in fact, $(uname --operating-system)." l'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, Android.
Nicholas Stewart
(1/2)
So I've been trying to install LFS on an SD card. I can get as far as the graphical GRUB shell -- I installed GRUB on the SD card, rather than following the part of the workbook that said to install it on the host disk, but it still seems to work -- but when I hit enter to boot my LFS menu option, my computer hangs at a black screen. Just a black screen, no blinking cursor. It won't respond to Ctrl+Alt+Del, so I can only shut it down by holding down the power button. I've checked the contents of /var/log on the SD card to try to find out if the kernel is loading and crashing, but there are no logs in that directory at all. Can anyone help me?
* Before the GRUB build, I installed the packages listed in the UEFI hint -- making sure, of course, to first install the prerequisite packages out of BLFS.
* Before the kernel build, I made sure the kernel config options listed in the UEFI hint were set to the values required.
* I installed GRUB using the instructions in the UEFI hint instead of the usual instructions.
Aiden Cox
(2/2)
Here's my /boot/grub/grub.cfg:
# Begin /boot/grub/grub.cfg set default=0 set timeout=5
insmod gzio insmod part_gpt insmod ext2 set root=(hd2,gpt2) # hd[x] is the drive of the LFS partion and gpt[y] is the partition
insmod efi_gop insmod efi_uga insmod font if loadfont /boot/grub/fonts/unicode.pf2; then loadfont /boot/grub/fonts/unicode.pf2 #set gfxmode=auto #insmod gfxterm #set gfxpayload=keep #terminal_output gfxterm terminal_output console fi
menuentry "GNU/Linux, Linux 4.20.12-lfs-8.4" { linux /boot/vmlinuz-4.20.12-lfs-8.4 root=PARTUUID=5E9106C7-519F-4233-B1C3-E65EB8703371 ro } EOF
I didn't notice until just now that there's a stray word 'EOF' in there at the end for some reason. Oops, that's embarrassing.
