it's just... failing outright

I wonder what I missed

I doubt sevenforums is gonna solve it but this guy ran into that trying to boot a mac os x in vmware sevenforums.com/virtualization/… says remove firmware = "efi" from the vmx file. Though maybe you want that line. I don't know.

"Thanks for registering! Your username is: ____ and your password is: _____"

Cool email guys...

help

a folder has dissapeared from my desktop

I have NOT clicked delete

and it would be in the recycle bin if I somehow did which I didnt

I need a good recovery tool

it was full of photos I did

@snipe so did you check the recycling bin?

Is it in another folder by accident?

@allquixotic turns out efibootmgr defaults to /dev/sda and I need to specify a disk -_-

Have you tried using Search to find it?

ive checked the bin and search yes

IDK wtf its done

Im pissed

@Bob :P

@allquixotic in india? yeah

Huh... The only reason I know about Airtel is because I listened to the Upvoted podcast last week.

why are computers so FUCKING ANNOYING

@snipe Anything is annoying when it's not working how you expect it to.

@allquixotic ^ :D

@Bob congrats!

@bob what solved the "efi unsuccessful" error?

@allquixotic Now i just hope this works with SuperMicro! :P

And I also need to decide on that other guy's advice...

separate root pool or not? hmm

@allquixotic how big is your host?

(i.e. how much disk space used)

@Bob probably about 20 GB after a while, but that's with /root and /home mapped into the data part

@allquixotic is that with a fresh install, or what you expect after updates?

should pretty much just be clean install + lxc/lxd + kvm

everything else should go in a VM/container

@Bob after updates

@allquixotic how much is it currently?

@Bob right now is a bad metric because I'm currently in the process of upheaval; I'm putting Ubuntu 14.04 back on as the host os because lxd seems to be giving me trouble on Debian -_-

not that it's insurmountable

just more than I'm willing to deal with now

some bit of config that I'm missing probably

plus then I get to use kernelcare

@allquixotic urk

that's not gonna be fun :(

so happy I got zfs working that I completely forgot about lxd

fffff

ubuntu's packages seem to take care of the config for you, or 99% of it

with debian you're on your own

hmm ... I decided to calculate how much did I actually spend on my gaming PC .. I didn't think it would add up to so much, jeez

damn

I wonder if it would be hard to port the ubuntu packages

probably deserves being posted to the lxc-users ML

especially the systemd ones should be largely compatible...

get stefan or tycho to care about running lxd on debian

@Bob ya -- the Vivid packages should work because 15.04 uses systemd like jessie

probably just unzip them and extract them :P

heh

only problem is if they end up relying on new kernel features not available in stable debian

debian stable and ubuntu 14.04.2 have the same base kernel

lxd hasn't depended on any new kernel features since 3.10 or so

in theory your kernel can support it as of RHEL7, let alone one of the newer distros

so next up is testing lxd

probably leave it for another day

I'm just so happy this is working :P

but also kinda annoyed... I wasted several days going off on a GRUB tangent

woof ;p

when all I needed to do was remove a damn quiet param

and it wouldn't even have affected the real system... just some incompatibility with vmware apparently

and it wasn't even a zfs-related issue!

and then I ended up almost doing the same thing again by leaving out the disk arg -_-

learning from my mistakes? bah! apparently not

0_0

@Bob: This is why... while I futz around with nmcli and fedora... I'm running ext4 ;p

ext4 eats your data, and doesn't do checksums to be self-aware of that horrible fact

I hate ext* with a fiery passion

@JourneymanGeek eh, your loss (literally) :P

@Bob nice retort

@allquixotic: On the other hand, I've personally not had an ext system shit itself, or stop booting cause of an incompatible kernel version.....

I guess I could/might have gone xfs like work did

ext4 eats your data and doesn't know it; xfs just doesn't eat your data (ever); btrfs eats your data and knows it (and is proud of it); and zfs doesn't eat your data and would know it if it did :D

lol proud of it

anyway, focus now is to build and document a base build. At worst, I can rebuild.

@allquixotic unfortunately, that makes some assumptions on the stability and correctness of zol

which I'm not quite sure about

@JourneymanGeek ...yea, I should prooooobably document all this

true - it's probably not as rock-solid as ZFS on Solaris

before I forget

but a lot of the code is ported directly or borrowed

again

big pieces that are POSIX compliant are literally lifted

@Bob: Yes you should.

Especially where you're doing it over a few days

@JourneymanGeek I already started a OneNote page on it, it's just filling it in that's a problem :P

@Bob: That's why I *predocument&

on the plus side, I can now close the 150-odd tabs I opened while fiddling with this

man, installing Ubuntu Server from the "gui" textmode CLI is crazy

enter... wait... enter... wait... enter... wait.. enter... wait

I already have a notepad document on what I do

@allquixotic: there's another way to?

@JourneymanGeek what, plain notepad?

I've never seen a non cursed installer for cli

that sounds dangerous :P

@Bob: or sublime text ;p

@JourneymanGeek debootstrap

@JourneymanGeek I actually started the document before fiddling, but neglected to update it step-by-step

probably a good thing for my sanity considering just how many branches there would be

I tried pretty much every possibility at several points

journeymangeek.com/index.php/…

That's basically what I did yesterday, fixed up

Added the stuff I had to change, fixed up a few things, added the dangerous bits

I'm probably going to rewrite/merge all that into a single 'master' guide tho, once I have KVM working as well