Category Archives: Reminder

Grub Embedding, blocklists and bios_grub partitions

Posted on August 16, 2011 by richo

This has tripped me up so many times, and the parted invocation needed to fix it is hard to find on google. The issue is that with GPT, grub won’t have room to embed all of it’s needed files, leading … Continue reading →

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aptitude forbid-version

Posted on August 7, 2011 by richo

A quick one as a note to anyone who stumbles upon a counterintuitive part of aptitude that tripped me up- You can stop aptitude from every installing a version of a package with aptitude forbid-version package=version And the docs mention … Continue reading →

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Mental note on Windows 7 under ESXi 4.0

Posted on June 4, 2011 by samurai

For the last year or so I’ve been running windows 7 under ESXi and due to a few issues I’ve had to re-install more than once.  Each time I go through the install process I seem to bump into a … Continue reading →

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