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Booting Fedora 36 on default btrfs partition structure from the grub prompt
Hey I ran into an issue where I had an unpopulated grub menu on a Fedora 36 Workstation installation. It ended up only booting to the empty menu, but at least I could drop to a prompt to try and figure out how to get through it. The usual booting with a live USB, mounting…
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VMware Upgrade renders Workstation 16.2.1 useless, thanks to Houdini-like disappearance of DLLs
Hey, I just came across an issue many people have been experiencing after upgrading VMware Workstation to 16.2.1 in Windows. It looks like the installer has a bug that deletes two necessary files by accident, and their absence prevents the programs from running, beginning with vmware-tray.exe, which is the precursor to all things Workstation. The…
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Mount Ubuntu 22.04 ZFS partitions using live ISO for disaster recovery
My system runs ZFS and lately has been dropping to the initramfs / busybox prompt on boot. I had a hard time finding a fleshed-out guide on how to mount ZFS in a live environment for performing disaster recovery tasks like chroot and grub repair, so I thought I’d write something up. My system was…
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dpdk 22.03 rpm packages for Fedora 36: a dependency of openvswitch
I meant to post this over a month ago, but got sidetracked, so I’m coming in a little late. Unfortunately, it looks like even though Fedora 36 has officially been released, the dpdk 22.03 rpms still aren’t available. Back when I compiled these, I realized there were no official dpdk 22.03 rpms available in the…