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mardi, février 12 2008

Testing out GRUB 2

Par jd le mardi, février 12 2008, 08:13 - Debian

After reading Jordi post about GRUB 2, I decided to give it a try on my EeePC.

I've just installed the grub-pc package, answered the questions, and that was it. I tested it with the chainload method from GRUB legacy, and it worked. I just had to rerun grub-install to replace the legacy with the new one. And I've a nice Debian background in the menu now!

What seems amazing is that GRUB now see my... LVM logical volumes! So this seems to be really cool, because this means no more /boot-without-lvm-ext3-formatted partitions because my-boot-loader-sucks-a-bit.

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lundi, janvier 21 2008

New laptop: EeePC!

Par jd le lundi, janvier 21 2008, 14:56 - Hardware

This morning, the snail mail brought me a new toy! A brand new EeePC!

Kawoosh!

It's a very very nice device. I did not test the Xandros system more than 5 minutes, but it looks fine for dummy users. I've plugged an USB key into it, booted on the Debian installer (provided on the Debian wiki) and installed it in a few minutes.

The hardest part was adding wifi support, since I needed to grab madwifi svn version, added a patch, and compiled it. It was not so hard after all, just don't expect to use Debian packages for now.

It even boot in less than one minute! The hardest part is to type on a such tiny keyboard.

Keyboard Plectrum as reference size

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