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[tom22251]

Hi Jürg,

Let'say you have an internal drive with 3 partitions.
They are called sda1, sda2, sda3 and we want to
install EASY-2.1.6 on an external USB drive.

1) UEFI
Take 1 anything USB: memorystick or external drive just
large enough to fit 3-or 4 times the easy.img's size.
8GB is more than plenty. This will be the sdb drive.

2) GParted
Make a fat32 partition, set the bootflag on.
Give it a label like LINUX or EASY or anything.This will
make it easier to write the configuration files, using
this instead a UUID number. This drive is now sdb1.
Make a second partition ext3, this will be sdb2.

3) Make a new folder in the fat32 partition with
a simple name like E-126.
From now on you'll do everything manually. That is clicking
on the easy.img file and drag easy.sfs, initrd and vmlinuz
into this E-126 folder.
You also drag the EFI folder onto the fat32 drive, where
you'll have only these 2 folders: EFI and E-216.

4) editing the configuration file inside EFI => BOOT
named: refind.conf (it's a simple text file)
Erase everything and paste in just this text:

[Terry H]

[tom22251]

In my last post I left out 2 lines.
The correct code is:

[belham2]

[lp-dolittle]

@ tom22251

Hi Tom,

your ongoing support proves to be very helpful. Despite being slow on the uptake, amply lacking basic knowledge (I'm just a layman who is willing to learn more about IT-technology), I begin to understand the details.

I will follow your instructions, step by step, as soon as possible; and you will get feedback.

If I'm right, you actually are speaking of 2 variants, the 'fat-partition plus save-partition' method and the 'ext3-partition only' alternative. Firstly, I have in mind to focus on the former which seems to work without an "extlinux" boot loader.

thank you very much, your help is highly appreciated!!

kind regards

Jürg

[rooftop]

I had a quick look at the battery app last night. It appears that the problem is that the Update() function does not explicitly return a value, and in some cases it is returning FALSE (or 0) which causes the function to never be called again.

The easy fix is to replace all 'return' statements in the Update function with 'return(TRUE)' and add a 'return(TRUE)' as the last line of the function. This has the added bonus of getting rid of all the compiler warnings

It might also be worth while replacing gtk_timeout_add() with g_timeout_add_seconds() as the former has been depreciated and the later is claimed to be more efficient. If using g_timeout_add_seconds() the interval needs to be changed from 15000 to 15 as is is given in seconds rather than milliseconds.

I've attached my modified version of powerapplet_tray.c (with all the above modifications) in case anyone is interested...

-- Neal

[Leon]

[rooftop]

I've made another small change to the battery app so that the icon will update immediately (well, within 15 seconds anyway) when the charging status changes rather than waiting until the battery percantage changes.

I've also added more comments as requested by Barry

[scsijon]

Doing some pyro testing:

I notice that libnotify and the GDBUS are erroring at startup.

Errors appearing are:

(nm-applet:2938): libnotify-WARNING **: Failed to connect to proxy

(nm-applet:2938): nm-applet-WARNING **: Failed to show notification: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Notifications was not provided by any .service files

The second error also re-appears in a slightly different form against ModemManager rather than GDBUS when shutting down.

And a little note to anyone using Firefox, it's now up to 70.0, please update as soon as possible, there's quite a number of fixes and things that make it worthwhile.

[BarryK]

[BarryK]

[BarryK]

A report on the updated xorg intel driver in Pyro 1.2.7.

I have Pyro installed to the hard drive of my laptop, Acer Aspire1 model A114-31-C014, completely removed Win10.

I did the upgrade thing, replacing the files vmlinuz, easy.sfs and initrd, and no problem with the upgrade.

However, I did notice one thing. I think, though not 100% certain if my memory is correct, that Xorg chose the 'modesetting' driver before. Now it is choosing the 'intel' driver.

The 'intel' driver is the very latest from github. The last official release of the xorg intel driver was 2014, so it is recommended to use a later one from github. But, it is still considered to be flakey, and some distros no longer use the intel driver, instead use the modestting driver for intel graphics GPU.

Right, so my laptop... yesterday was compiling seamonkey, 2.49.5 again, and the desktop froze. Did a hard reboot, attempted compile again, after sometime, froze again.

Hard reboot, exited from X to the commandline, ran "xorgwizard", and it stated the using "sna" acceleration for the intel driver, which can be troublesome, and can change to the older "uxa" acceleration ...which I did, and was able to compile seamonkey.

So, if anyone else has this issue, that might be your fix.

Or, you can run xorgwizard and change to the modesetting driver.

Instead of running xorgwizard, if you go to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d, you will see file '20-intel-uxa.condDISABLED' that you can rename to enable it, then restart X.

[lp-dolittle]

@ tom22251

Hi Tom,

unfortunately, all my attempts at configuring an external drive (hard drive) according to your detailed instructions failed so far. The drive has a fat32 partition (sdb1; larger than 1 GB, labelled LINUX, boot-flag set) apart from sdb2 (ext3; containing the Folders E-216 and SAVE).
I replaced the 1. 'code' by your corrected variant, and all coding sections were copied to sakura where they were executed automatically.
Alas, booting does not work. I also tried to leave out the last step, assuming that I possibly had created and applied the 'updt.sh' script in a mistaken manner and that the drive without that step would boot into the original, pristine version, but booting failed with the same error message.

I will continue rethinking my procedure ... and I would not like to waste your time overly. As soon as I will succeed - if at all -, you will get feedback.

kind regards, and thank you very much for all your support

Jürg

[illiapoplawski]

[scsijon]