Unix Greybeard

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…

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…

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…

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…

I am building a dedicated TV viewing VM for HDHomeRun View using Windows IoT 2021 LTSC, so I can watch TV while using a computer running Linux with the smallest possible KVM-QEMU VM I can possibly put together. That’s because, unfortunately, the app I have to use is only available in Windows, and only through…

I haven’t had time to write lately, but I have made a few notable posts on message boards I thought I’d include here for reference: https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/adding-slog-freenas-will-not-boot-with-m-2-optane-800p-passthrough-in-esxi-6-7-vm.79206/#post-674140 https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/Convert-hard-drive-into-VMWare-virtual-machine/m-p/2885130#M173194

If so, wouldn’t you like both their keyboard shortcuts to be consistent? I personally am using both Visual Studio Code and Sublime Text 3 on my main dev laptop. Once I got used to all the nice features in a pseudo-IDE text editor like VS Code, it became hard to go back to editing things…

Note: This article has some interesting WSL-centric material, like how to: Set up bridge networking without Hyper-V Find the UWP Ubuntu executable to run Linux commands outside of a WSL terminal Create automatic startup tasks without systemd init system Expose your (domain-enabled) dev environment to certbot/letsencrypt for automatic issuance of SSL certificates Use nginx proxy…

I am testing certbot locally with Create-React-App, but I’m using WSL2. Little did I know, the networking for Ubuntu in WSL2 is a little strange when coming from your typical systemd-network, NetworkManager, ifupdown, <insert your favorite networking API> Apparently, the networking is taken care of in the lxssManager service (you can reveal it / restart…

I thought this was neat, but I got the info from a site that presented it in a way that was a bit difficult to decipher, so I wanted to pass it on in a presentation that is easier to understand. If you’re not using CloneZilla, you’re definitely missing out. It’s a super easy way…