@rl_dane
Every #boot is an #adventure
Maybe #debian is lagging behind.
Couldn't you replace your machine soon?
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#Ventoy is a tool that allows you to #boot an #iso file directly from a #USB drive. Many people recommend it online, but most people are unaware that Ventoy modifies the installation ISO and injects #binary_blobs.
There is probably no acceptable reason to use it. I recommend that you consider all installations made with Ventoy as #tampered_with and #untrusted.
Im #Bartolomeo gab es daneben auch eine #Marina mit der Möglichkeit ein #Boot zu mieten. Wir sind hier häufiger Mal zum Essen gewesen, unter anderem zu meinem Geburtstag im Januar 2019. Dieses Bild stammt vom August 2021, als wir dort unseren #Hochzeitstag gefeiert haben, mit Übernachtung./4 #Dnipro #Heimat #Heimatland #Ukraine #angriffskrieg
grub question: when grub fails normal booting and drops to a grub> commandline prompt, and it's only 80x25 , is there any way to set a pager variable or something so the screenfuls of help or set output don't just whizz by uselessly? (note: I have neither serial cable or serial port on this box, if it matters.)
edit: answere by Joe W:
set pager=1
https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/html_node/pager.html#pager
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This is the massive list of GRUB sub commands that I have to wade through
I have taken a Higher Grade Android to make this photograph and luckily this camera system knows how to capture the Light of the IPS LED panel in Total Darkness.
Compliments of Open Camera Android version
I'm going to include another photograph to give you an indication of how complex GRUB is in comparison to Legacy Lilo
When I press tab twice in Rapid Succession, the whole screen is filled with commands that I can execute within the GRUB sh {command environment}
I literally have to read all the man pages of those GRUB sub commands which give me an indication that they can do what I want, just so I can pass the parameters to the kernel
GRUB has made the distance between the command prompt and the kernel much bigger!
The camera of the Android is utterly failing to focus on the dimly lit IPS Led flat panel screen, but I have still captured a photograph of the command shell of GRUB
I have found the way to add parameters to the kernel at both time from GRUB
I'll make a photograph in a number of minutes
I dived into the disappearance of Lilo on all distro's. It turns out that Lilo was only usuable on BIOS, it did not evolve to UEFI systems.
I wanted to easily pass commands to the kernel pre-boot. Before I dive into the workings of grub, can anyone tell me where i Need to go to parse pre boot parameters through grub to the kernel?
Jumping in deep immediately
OS Linux
Kernel 6.x
found workaround for hardware errors on critical timer tsc
snippet from dmesg
[ 0.000000] tsc: Fast TSC calibration using PIT
[ 0.000000] tsc: Detected 1796.607 MHz processor
snippet two
[ 0.068905] AMD-Vi: Using global IVHD EFR:0x206d73ef22254ade, EFR2:0x0
[ 0.069804] ..TIMER: vector=0x30 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
[ 0.074120] clocksource: tsc-early: mask: 0xffffffffffffffff max_cycles: 0x19e5a467a58, max_idle_ns: 440795257552 ns
[ 0.074127] Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 3593.21 BogoMIPS (lpj=1796607)
[ 0.074141] Zenbleed: please update your microcode for the most optimal fix
line [ 0.074141] clearly states that my microcode is not updated (not related to tsc)
[ 0.210124] TSC synchronization [CPU#0 -> CPU#8]:
[ 0.210124] Measured 2808 cycles TSC warp between CPUs, turning off TSC clock.
[ 0.210126] tsc: Marking TSC unstable due to check_tsc_sync_source failed
[ 0.210176] #1 #3 #5 #7 #9 #11 #13 #15
I added tsc=unstable to the boot options in grub, so from what I read here the parameter was passed to the kernel? Can someone please verify for me if this output states that?
The warning I get is that the BIOS of this machine is broken! and that the option tsc=unstable will work around that massive bug