Todays current Hardware Bios uses a new Software Interface to boot. Thats called “UEFI” Newer Linux Versions Support this Hardware Setup by default! BUT these settings makes users (Newbies/Office Users) mostly impossible to setup the System on older Hardware, cause the “Setup Routines” does not detect the older Bios! Here the User must interact manual to force the Setup! Cause the Setup tries to create a Harddrive Partition with a seperated UEFI Partition! See “parted” output on Console! Now if your Setup is made and you Reboot a older Non-UEFI PC you run into “Black Screen”! Especiallly if you setup […]
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Linux: Translate Boot message of cryptsetup “Enter passphrase to unlock the disk”
Problem: If you setup a full encrypted Laptop with the Linux Installer the first Boot Message of cryptsetup is always in English Speech shown “Enter passphrase to unlock the disk” /dev/sda Solution: edit the /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/cryptroot ,with nano, find and change the text to your Language edit the /lib/cryptsetup/cryptdisks.functions ,with nano ,find and change the text to your Language update the initramfs of the current kernel withupdate-initramfs -u -k all reboot and test the translated login
Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04: Disable IPv6 (dmesg = no IPv6 routers present)
Problem: on default ubuntu lucid lynx setup ipv6 is enabled, dmesg shows boot.log= wlan0: no IPv6 routers present to speed up on a ipv4 network you should disable it. Solution: – run #sudo nano /etc/sysctl.conf add lines: #disable ipv6 net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1 net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1 net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6 = 1 -quit save and reboot.. -to test system open terminal and enter #dmesg -the message = wlan0: no IPv6 routers present should not be seen!
Clean Linux Console tty1 after boot or logout
Problem: At a server everybody can see messages at tty1 Solution: Open a console as root or with “sudo” and insert. # sudo echo -e '\e[H\e[2JUbuntu 8.04 \\n \\l\n' | sudo tee /etc/issue > /dev/null