Recent content by Jack Freeman

Always handy to have wriggle room when delving into an unknown new software, fortunately I only lost a windont install which I keep to remind myself occassionally 'why linux' and am filled with the urge to shower after booting into, suffice to say, I had nothing of any value data wise on there...

oh and btw, if you enjoy a little distro hopping for fun and have not yet delved into the world of antix, the latest mx18(.3 i think?) is simply stupendous, very much the pick of the distro crop for '19 and looking to enjoy a long vintage of ripening maturation as it has simply got better and...

Equal noob here but have experience of this issue (and lost the data to boot!) short answer is yes it works perfectly, if you plan of using zfs I would caution against keeping your other drives conected during installation, I think this may have been how I corrupted a couple of existing...

Thanks for that confirmation of my findings, despite my working assumptions as to 'why' it was wrong. I had at least correctly ascertained that the problem was being caused by the 'universal usb installers' the good old basic 'dd' works a treat. I am incredibly impressed with just how simple and...

Had same issues using unetbootin in linux and lili under windows, as you correctly say, DD works so looks to be the way the former handle boot loader creation, using dd I only see the standard usb boot option where the installer works but have an additional uefi option when created using unet or...

*bump finished fully reinstalling/updating all nodes having converted to assorted zfs formats. So far it looks likely this should be a resolvable problem and I will ensure to document the process and repost here as a tutorial if a solution can be found. If any of the devs could glance over the...

Am a fellow noob here but best guess going on details provided is that you don't have a dedicated management vlan setup and manager and data traffic are cramming the pipes? Can't say I have needed to look into this just yet because I have yet to try sending large files over the same vlan, will...

Found this using lspci -v command, Output from one of the s'micro twins; 00:0a.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a3) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, NUMA node 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0...

ok, output from dmsg on dl380 g7 16g ddr3 is thus; root@dl380:~# dmesg | grep -e DMAR -e IOMMU [ 0.000000] ACPI: DMAR 0x00000000CF62FE80 000172 (v01 HP ProLiant 00000001 \xffffffd2? 0000162E) [ 0.000000] DMAR-IR: This system BIOS has enabled interrupt remapping [ 1.093329] DMAR...

found this post covering dl380's here on the forum, will have a delve later this evening; https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/tutorial-compile-proxmox-ve-5-with-patched-intel-iommu-driver-to-remove-rmrr-check.36374/

ok so output from; dmesg | grep -e DMAR -e IOMMU supermicro amd opteron 32g ddr2 ecc root@superone:~# dmesg | grep -e DMAR -e IOMMU [ 0.000000] DMAR: IOMMU enabled [ 1.486111] PCI-DMA: using GART IOMMU. [ 1.486122] PCI-DMA: Reserving 1024MB of IOMMU area in the AGP aperture...

usb audio dongles are cheap as chips and would allow easier audio passthrough for linux and allow audio without remote desktop again because linux, rem desk has always been a stumbling block between linux and windows, always end up resorting to teamviwer but that doesn't do audio either!! As to...

bingo, last comment answers all my questions, both are '09 era legacy only sadly! ho hum, am here to learn so is all good info, if a little deflating for my ultimate goals, do you think I might have better success with usb passthrough on older hardware?? am only really looking for audio over...

Hi folks, I rtfm'd till i'm going blind, added the required lines to grub, updated, added the req modules, ran dmsg, got output, try to allow pci audio and one machine shows as iommu working in setup but refuses to boot with pci on any setting (tried them all) and the other simply shows as iommu...

Thanks for your sage guidance lhorace, I realise you may not know wtf you did to guide me but it was your advice on adopting zfs over basic lvm, I did so, took a fat minute or 10 but I now have a 250g 4 drive zfs pool with a win 10 vm running so far happily, thanks fella, appreciated.