Boner (noX, amd64) Release News

[machinebacon]

don't think so, gurtid. I haven't tested all different variants of installation (with and without formatting, with/without swap, separated home etc.) so it is possible that there's a glitch somewhere. For luck we have an alternative for everything.

[gurtid]

bbqinstaller worked fine.

I tried again with the cli-installer with the same result.

The config file generated looked fine to me so unsure quite what the problem was. I attempted to copy the config file to one of my partitions on sda to load it up here so you could have a look . . . unfortunately boner kinda locked up when executing 'ls -a' on the target partition (to check that the file got there) and shafted the partition well and proper - gparted displays 'unknown file system'. Even more unfortunately this happened to be my Kielbasa Ekstra root partition and also the OS with grub loaded to MBR :D

Anyways - this is great cause il'll see if i can recover the fubared partition. Any tips appreciated . . . :D ;)

[machinebacon]

Hm, first try to sudo grub-install /dev/sdX (where X is a letter, not a number)

Can you post fdisk -l so we can take a look first.

[machinebacon]

Update: Please use the bbqinstaller to install this release.

[gurtid]

i tried 'sudo grub-install /dev/sda' unsuccessfully - can't remember what the specific error message was.

fdisk -l

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Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders, total 156301488 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0005fcb1

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *        2048    19531775     9764864   83  Linux
/dev/sda2        19535870   156301311    68382721    5  Extended
/dev/sda5        19535872    41965567    11214848   83  Linux
/dev/sda6       152184832   156301311     2058240   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7        41967616    68444159    13238272   83  Linux
/dev/sda8        68446208    84375551     7964672   83  Linux
/dev/sda9        84377600   100835327     8228864   83  Linux
/dev/sda10      100837376   121331711    10247168   83  Linux
/dev/sda11      121333760   133427199     6046720   83  Linux
/dev/sda12      133429248   152182783     9376768   83  Linux

sda7 is the corrupted partition. Displays file system unknown in gparted.

I don't want to waste too much of your time mb. This isn't hugely important as there's nothing important on this partition - for me it's just an exercise to see if i can recover it.

Have chrooted to OS on sda11 in the meantime . . .

[machinebacon]

Try to boot into another partition than the one that is affected (or from a Live USB where you have access to the net so you can copy-paste from here)

then create a file:

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#!/bin/bash

 
GRUB_TARGET="/mnt/repairs"
  
setup () {
if [[ ! -d "$GRUB_TARGET" ]]; then
mkdir -p "$GRUB_TARGET"
fi
}
   
bind_it () {
mount --bind $1 $2
}
    
blkid -o list 
     
read -p "Please enter the device you wish to install grub to (MBR): "
DEVICE_INST="$REPLY"
read -p "Please enter the partition device node on which your installation exists (Your linux install): "
PARTITION_INST="$REPLY"
setup
      
# Attempt mount
mount "$PARTITION_INST" "$GRUB_TARGET"
if [[ $? != 0 ]]; then
echo "Could not mount the device. Aborting"
exit 1
fi
       
for mountpoint in "/dev/" "/dev/pts" "/dev/shm" "/proc" "/sys"; do
bind_it "$mountpoint" "$GRUB_TARGET$mountpoint"
done
        
# run teh commands
chroot "$GRUB_TARGET" "grub-install" "$DEVICE_INST"
chroot "$GRUB_TARGET" "update-grub"
         
for mountpoint in "/dev/pts" "/dev/shm" "/dev" "/proc" "/sys"; do
umount "$GRUB_TARGET$mountpoint"
done
          
umount "$GRUB_TARGET"

like this and save it, and execute it as root. This will bring the thing back, hopefully :)

(Courtesy of Ikey @solus)

[gurtid]

I can't get the script to run. Maybe I'm doing it wrong?

Here's what i did.

Copy and paste above to a file i named restore.sh to usr/bin
In terminal 'sudo sh restore.sh'

output from terminal

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:not found 2: restore.sh :
:not found 3: restore.sh :
:not found 5: restore.sh :
restore.sh :31: restore.sh :Syntax error: word expected (expecting 'do')

I don't hold out much hope for that script. Isn't it just trying to mount the partition? I can't manually mount sda7

Output from dmesg|tail, when i try manually mounting it, states

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EXT4-fs (SDA7) : VFS: Can't find ext4 filesystem

[gurtid]

nevermind mb. All fixed.

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sudo fsck /dev/sda7 

sorted the b*stard ;)

[edit] keilbasa ekstra is running again :)
[edit2] i wonder if that config file is there? :D
[edit3] bugger!! no it isn't!! . . . but hey! i see a 256mb swapfile in / dated some time in 2008. What's that for? That can be deleted can't it?

[machinebacon]

^ Well roasted! Yep, the swapfile is a left-over from bbqinstaller, you can kick it.

[rhowaldt]

i installed my Boner today. aptosid is so bloated it was making me sick.

- my Fn keys worked out of the box. tried brightness and volume, both working fine. the rest of them i never use.
- my ECO key (special key next to Wifi, which i'm not gonna try to see if it works) also works.
- wifi works with a simple ceni config (static, in my case)
- i was greeted by a 800x600 terminal or something, big letters. saw that, figured ceni would go and complain about it, and sure 'nuff yes it did. so did the fix, 8x8 wasn't in the font-options for me, so just set it to the smallest possible option (which said 'framebuffer only' but i figured 'hey, this is framebuffer, right? i heard pidsley say that word in this thread somewhere' so went with it and it is dogdamned beautiful (oh yes and took the opportunity to change the font as well)
- tried to check the Cookbook to see if there was any useful advice in it for me, but it told me elinks2 was missing. so that is, i think, a small bug.
- since i used the bbqinstaller, my user and password were both still 'bbq'. it said to use the 'change-user' script to change it, so i did. however, the script wasn't there. so, went online (in lynx, and i cannot seem to get used to a text-browser, mehhh) , saw bacon linking to the code for it in a thread somewhere over here, copy-pasted that shit, chmod +x'ed the bastard, and executed it. however, i was (of course, silly) still logged in. script asks me to log user bbq out, Yes please, but that stops the script. if i want to start the script again i need to log in but i only got the bbq user! catch 22! but then i remember our dear friend mr Root, logged in as him, did the thing, and BAM! it worked. great.
- update & dist-upgrade, then i wanted to install Openbox. however, i needed Xorg for that and wasn't sure what version was right for me (xorg-server-radeon of course, duh, but okay i didn't know), so ran sxmi which is, conveniently, installed by default. went through the motions and installed Xorg. typed 'startx', it told me i didn't have the permissions. read some manpages and did some Google, made myself a nice .xinitrc just like the Arch Wiki told me, tried again, fail again. now, i am not sure if this is normal. i am not a no-X experienced person. so i don't know if my solution is the 'right one'. but i did 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure X11-common', and told it that all users should be able to start the xserver ('all console logins' didn't work for some reason). tried again, bingo.

those were the most important points. all in all, i think it went pretty smooth and i had fun doing it and learning a little bit more about how things work when you're outside X. plus, i now got a system where i hesitate to install urxvt because it is so many Kb. hahaha, truly bloat-free, finally! cue 'i want to break free' music and curtains closed.

[machinebacon]

duly noted! thanks for the report ;)

[dura]

As you may already tell, I love Boner, and have roasted it on two machines.

I have one suggestion: allow users to change username during installation, which is allowed in the gui installation of other releases. Other than that "I'm lovin' it" (Not a McDonalds fan, but it seemed to fit :( )

Oh and my special windows key doesn't work for some stuff, but I guess that is something weirdy at my end. I have remapped things that don't work to alt so all is working great.

I will probably write up a wiki tutorial tonight on roasting boner, combining the roasting documentation we already have into it. Useful for myself if no one else.

Cheers for this great release Bacon.

Everybody loves a

tasty

scrot:



@rho and the startx permissions thingy: I've been first adding my user to sudoers, and then going into /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config and changing:

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allowed_users=console 

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allowed_users=anybody

I'll write it all up on the wiki anyway. :)

[rhowaldt]

i think the reason why users cannot change usernames on the install is because currently the bbqinstaller needs to be used to do the install, which wasn't meant to be used for installation but for roasting. if you think about it this way, it makes more sense to have the 'bbq' user and pass as default.
correct me if i'm wrong.

[dura]

Ah, cool. The only reason I say is because the change-username script has not been working for me, and I've mucked things up a bit on one roast adding users, changing users, modifying permissions, etc. Now I know how to allow users to startx and understand the roasting process maybe it isn't an issue. I will try and add a new user tonight on one boner roast and see if there is any problem- previously, users were being added without home folder and somehow occupying root, which was confusing and creating problems.

Anyhow- confusion is critical potential! :)

[machinebacon]

It's quite easy: simply add a new user and remove bbq. The new user's stuff will automagically copied from /etc/skel - the GUI installer does the same, plus a simple adduser -a -G sudo,netdev,audio

[dura]

Cheers. I don't know I found it so difficult and confusing the other day. I guess it's just no-X angst.

[machinebacon]

^ I'll make a videocast of a full installation starting with virgin from USB when I have time.

[dura]

Oooh, maybe I should try. I have written down instructions for how I roasted my boner. How to screencast from tmux?
You can vet it to see if the one I do is crap.

[machinebacon]

I better shut up.

[dura]

Ha. Ok, you can make it then. Better not coming from a

pleb

such as myself.