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Bob

23:00

it's just... failing outright

I wonder what I missed

barlop

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.

Michael Frank

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

Cool email guys...

snipe

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

Michael Frank

23:18

@snipe so did you check the recycling bin?

Is it in another folder by accident?

Bob

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

Michael Frank

Have you tried using Search to find it?

snipe

ive checked the bin and search yes

IDK wtf its done

Im pissed

allquixotic

@Bob :P

Bob

yay it works :D

Journeyman Geek

23:20

@allquixotic in india? yeah

Michael Frank

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

snipe

why are computers so FUCKING ANNOYING

Michael Frank

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

Bob

@allquixotic ^ :D

allquixotic

@Bob congrats!

barlop

23:27

@bob what solved the "efi unsuccessful" error?

Bob

13 mins ago, by Bob

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

@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)

allquixotic

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

Bob

@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

allquixotic

@Bob after updates

Bob

23:43

@allquixotic how much is it currently?

allquixotic

@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

Bob

@allquixotic urk

that's not gonna be fun :(

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

fffff

allquixotic

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

with debian you're on your own

tereško

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

Bob

damn

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

allquixotic

23:46

probably deserves being posted to the lxc-users ML

Bob

especially the systemd ones should be largely compatible...

allquixotic

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

Bob

heh

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

allquixotic

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

Bob

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

Journeyman Geek

23:49

woof ;p

Bob

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

Journeyman Geek

0_0

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

allquixotic

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

I hate ext* with a fiery passion

Bob

@JourneymanGeek eh, your loss (literally) :P

allquixotic

@Bob nice retort

Journeyman Geek

23:52

@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

allquixotic

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

Bob

lol proud of it

Journeyman Geek

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

Bob

@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

allquixotic

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

Bob

23:54

before I forget

allquixotic

but a lot of the code is ported directly or borrowed

Bob

again

allquixotic

big pieces that are POSIX compliant are literally lifted

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: Yes you should.

Especially where you're doing it over a few days

Bob

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

Journeyman Geek

23:55

@Bob: That's why I *predocument&

Bob

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

allquixotic

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

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

Journeyman Geek

I already have a notepad document on what I do

@allquixotic: there's another way to?

Bob

@JourneymanGeek what, plain notepad?

Journeyman Geek

I've never seen a non cursed installer for cli

Bob

23:56

that sounds dangerous :P

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: or sublime text ;p

Bob

@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

Journeyman Geek

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

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