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Adding a UEFI boot disk to Grub
by Patrick O'Callaghan 08 Sep '19

08 Sep '19

I have an old-style MBR Grub configuration for F30. Converting the system to UEFI seems like a hassle and doesn't provide an obvious benefit for now (maybe next time I do a full install I'll go for it). However I also run Windows 10 in a KVM/QEMU virtual machine. This has its own dedicated drive and uses UEFI (OVMF). My BIOS supports UEFI and I've managed to dual-boot a few times by fiddling with the BIOS settings, but switching back and forth is clunky and error-prone, and Windows always wants to "fix" itself before working. My question is: how can I add this as an option to my Grub configuration to enable dual-boot directly from the Grub menu (i.e. running on metal, not a VM)? In other words, BIOS boots using MBR, invokes Grub, which then (optionally) invokes UEFI to boot Windows. Or is this not possible? poc

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raspberry pi 4
by Amadeus WM 08 Sep '19

08 Sep '19

Has anyone tried Fedora on an RPi 4 (arm 8 architecture)? Does it work? How about RPi3?

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How do I zero out my swap space?
by ToddAndMargo 07 Sep '19

07 Sep '19

Hi All, I have a fedora 30 bootable flash drive. /dev/sda5 is my "Linux Swap". To zero out my swap space to make it more friendly with gzip? I would try just dd'ing /dev/zero across it, but I am afraid I might break some file structure or some other stuff. Many thanks, -T

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Hey, I know your password is
by Patrick Dupre 06 Sep '19

06 Sep '19

Hello, Today, I got a message, staring: Hey, I know your password is ........ and asking for money. The password is one of the password that I use. It is not one giving access to important accounts, but I am a bit wondering about other account. I am careful with my accounts and passwords. How can I prevent sort of password steal? Thanks. =========================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com Laboratoire interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne 9 Avenue Alain Savary, BP 47870, 21078 DIJON Cedex FRANCE Tel: +33 (0)380395988 ===========================================================================

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fing?
by ToddAndMargo 06 Sep '19

06 Sep '19

Hi All, The Fing App https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fing-network-scanner/id430921107 works really nicely on an iPad. We got anything like that? Many thanks, -T

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How do I generate grub for legacy?
by ToddAndMargo 06 Sep '19

06 Sep '19

Hi All, I have a Fedora 30 flash drive set up for dual booting from Legacy or UEFI. It boots beautifully from UEFI. (It also have a bios_grub partition). It booted perfectly from both under Fedora 29. Now when booting from legacy, it go into "System Setup". If you press system Setup, I get a "/grub/core-system" type error Remaking grub.cfg, I get # grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg Generating grub configuration file ... Adding boot menu entry for EFI firmware configuration done Uhhhhh.. I wanted legacy, not EFI. What am I missing? Many thanks, -T My procedure: UEFI.BIOS.Dual.Boot.txt: References that stink: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=223015 https://bl.ocks.org/gdamjan/05b799162e4b3e97a30d37a89fed0fa8 https://forum.level1techs.com/t/configure-grub-to-boot-legacy-and-uefi/1293… Requirements: Fedora 29 Before installing, gparted: Wipe the target disk create a partition table as GPT create a first partition as 1 Meg unformatted set the partition flag to "bios_grub" Install Fedora 29 from a UEFI machine: "/home" was removed at installation and moved into "/" --->>> PRESUMED !!! <<<--- The machine was install and booted from UEFI The machine is mounted as /dev/sda Install the legacy BIOS boot loader: Boot into fedora on UEFI only installs 3 files # dnf reinstall grub2-pc create the BIOS .cfg file # grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg Note: if this complains, you forgot to create the partition above # grub2-install --removable --recheck --target=i386-pc --boot-directory=/boot /dev/sda

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kernel module can't link to static lib.a on fedora 30.
by zhichen.Wang 06 Sep '19

06 Sep '19

Same to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56926632/how-do-i-link-a-static-library… lib.a is create by "3.5 Library file goals - lib-y" see "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/tree/Docum…". Kernel version:5.0.9-301.fc30.x86_64 My makefile: c-objs := b.o a.o libxxx.a libxx.a obj-m := c.o

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[OT] Password Manager
by das 06 Sep '19

06 Sep '19

Advanced apology here at first -- even before I start -- for my immense stupidity. I installed a Password Manager and was using it for some days. Now, can it be deinstalled? I have even forgot the name. I have set Password for the account and all. But, every time I go to login, it pushes up a window with two buttons 'OK' and 'Cancel'. I have to cancel it every time. I know nothing about the Manager, except only this that I got the name from the Net and installed it on Fedora 30. Can I be saved? -- দাশ das http://ddts.randomink.org/

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Setting resolution to 4K kills nouveau ... but how do I recover?
by Richard W.M. Jones 06 Sep '19

06 Sep '19

I've got a new machine with an nVidia card and an external 4K display. For whatever reason selecting 4K in the graphical display resolution tool causes the Nouveau driver to crash. After this I can no longer log in because even after a reboot it tries to select 4K again. How can I (from ssh) change the display resolution back to something lower? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html

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F30 KVM: Can't create bootable guest with UEFI and Virtio-SCSI
by Kevin White 05 Sep '19

05 Sep '19

I've used CentOS 7 as a host for KVM guests for several years now. I'm using the CentOS Virtualization SIG's version of qemu specifically because I was anxious/curious to try making VMs with UEFI (OVMF). I also transitioned to using Virtio-SCSI a few years ago, so when I started experimenting with OVMF, I used Virtio-SCSI for the block devices, as usual. In that environment (more details below), everything Just Worked. I'm now experimenting with using Fedora 30 to host guests using KVM. I have successfully create a guest using Q35/OVMF. I used a VirtIO-SCSI block device, as I've done on CentOS in the past. The guest (Fedora 30 Server) PXE network booted in UEFI mode, and correctly installed F30 Server to the block device, creating a UEFI System Partition and a GPT disk. However, it wouldn't boot. I poked around, comparing the guest made on the F30 host to the guest made on the C7 host, pressing "F2" when the guest booted to get into OVMF's UI. It was there that I realized that OVMF didn't "see" the VirtIO-SCSI block device at all. It didn't list the entire drive it as a boot option, and it (obviously) didn't show the UEFI boot entry stored on its UEFI System Partition. I switched the device to a VirtIO device, and it booted right up. So, now I'm wondering if I've missed something. Should OVMF be able to recognize a VirtIO-SCSI block device on a Fedora 30 KVM host? Did something change between what I've been using on CentOS 7 and here to remove that? Or was I maybe just getting lucky on C7 all along, successfully doing something that shouldn't be working? Below are some of the packages I have installed on my two VM hosts. The Fedora 30 host is very standard. The C7 host has packages from C7's virt SIG, so they're newer than the KVM offered in C7's base install. The base packages don't support Q35/OVMF at all. (Always made me wonder why RHEL 7 included OVMF, but no way to use it.) I noticed that the guest created on CentOS is using this as the UEFI: /usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_CODE.secboot.fd but the one created on F30 used /usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_CODE.fd instead. I edited the VM to use OVMF_CODE.secboot.fd on the F30's VM, but it still didn't work (the disk was still not recognized when I used F2 to enter OVMF's interface). Fedora 30: qemu-3.1.1-2.fc30.x86_64 qemu-img-3.1.1-2.fc30.x86_64 qemu-kvm-3.1.1-2.fc30.x86_64 qemu-kvm-core-3.1.1-2.fc30.x86_64 ... edk2-ovmf-20190501stable-2.fc30.noarch CentOS 7.6: From CentOS Virt SIG repo: qemu-img-ev-2.12.0-18.el7_6.7.1.x86_64 qemu-kvm-common-ev-2.12.0-18.el7_6.7.1.x86_64 From CentOS repo: OVMF-20180508-3.gitee3198e672e2.el7_6.1.noarch

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