PXE booting is pretty neat, but it’s a lot to setup for home use.
I did a lab where we configured an immutable distro to boot using an encrypted RAM drive as storage (using TSME). The machine had no storage other than RAM (and NFS mounts). We were trying to harden a machine against coldboot/evil maid attacks. It was a neat project but a bit too clunky for daily driving and also, a RAM drive in this economy?
What I don’t understand is why super critical errors are hidden away in a log instead of being shoved in my face once they happen.
That’s a choice you make when you’re setting up your bootloader, you pass a kernel parameter that tells the kernel what to show on the screen.
https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.html
If you’re using grub, look in /etc/default/grub. There will be a line: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=“<kernel parameters>” you can set the log level to something (like loglevel=3) and it will write the errors to the console on boot. The higher the number the more information is written to the console.
That was 2 hours-ish that could have been just 5 minutes if the system had actually told me it was having problems with connecting to a drive.
It did, it almost certainly wrote the error into the system log. That’s generally the first thing you should check if you’re having such low-level problems, like a failure to boot.
Going forward some good advice is: Get a USB stick, install Ventoy and put a system rescue image on it: https://www.system-rescue.org/
This way, if you’re ever having issues booting you can boot into a live environment and read the logs.
If you mount your system drive on /sysroot, you can read the system log with
journalctl --root=/sysroot
Add a -b flag to see just the log from the latest boot (and -b -1 from the previous, -b -2 from the one before, etc)
And, surprisingly, it wasn’t DNS
Yeah, probably a .bashrc difference between users.
It could also be ~/.inputrc (or /etc/inputrc if not in the user’s home directory.) https://man.archlinux.org/man/readline.3
That’s one small step for linux users, a giant leap for nerdkind
On this topic, there is apparently only salt
literally never once put any genuine information in there. Who does? Why would anyone?
(That’s the joke) - 1mo ago
Edit: and if you don’t put in your full name, how will people know who they’re fingering?!
Asking the important questions
Finally!
I was getting depressed that nobody would get the joke, what has the Internet become…
But you got so mad you had to make a meme about it.
Some of you have never been trolled before, and it shows.
You see, the real_name field has been part of the GECOS field since the 70s. Anyone who has any actual experience with Linux knows this.
There is some bit of drama about adding birth_date to systemd. The person that I’m responding to appears to subscribe to this drama due to the fact that they’re recommending distros who either don’t use systemd or, even more stupid, ‘fork’ the project to remove that field.
So, I made a meme from the point of view of one of these people, expressing outrage that Debian is asking for a user’s Real Name… when only a newbie doesn’t know these things.
And lest you think I’m doing the “I was caught being dumb so I’m claiming to be trolling” here’s a comment of mine from over a month ago making this exact same joke, but more explicitly.
Next you’re going to tell me that you can ignore this optional field in systemd.
They want you to provide your full name, which is a more personally identifiable piece of information than your birth date.
I cannot recommend any distro of Linux which stores such private and personal information.
Just don’t go to Debian
next day edit: Some of you have never been trolled before, and it shows.
You see, the real_name field has been part of the GECOS field since the 70s. Anyone who has any actual experience with Linux knows this.
There is some bit of drama about adding birth_date to systemd. The person that I’m responding to appears to subscribe to this drama due to the fact that they’re recommending distros who either don’t use systemd or, even more stupid, ‘fork’ the project to remove that field.
So, I made a meme from the point of view of one of these people, expressing outrage that Debian is asking for a user’s Real Name… when only a newbie doesn’t know these things.
And lest you think I’m doing the “I was caught being dumb so I’m claiming to be trolling” here’s a comment of mine from over a month ago making this exact same joke, but more explicitly.
Congrats to the 3 people who got the joke.
Sir, this is social media nuance has no place here.
A thing is either all bad and anybody who says anything about it is probably a nazi or it is good and nothing you say in support of it can ever be wrong no matter how irrational or toxic those beliefs.
AI is bad and so it can’t be useful because only one thing can be true at once. No you can’t change my mind, yes I did my own research.
TL;DR: Stop jumping between Linux tools and setups.
Pick something simple, stick with it, and actually learn it before moving on. A deep knowledge of one toolset is more useful than a shallow understanding of many different ways of solving the same problem.
An alternative is throwing shade on social media by trying to prompt inject them.
Just block them and their community and move on, you’re not going to have a good faith conversation with them and their presence in comment threads is just rage baiting.
It’s a gimmick account of a troll, don’t feed them.