From: dave@dave123royal.com   
      
   bad sector  Wrote in message:   
      
   > On 7/26/24 02:49, Dave Royal wrote:   
   >> bad sector  Wrote in message:   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>> does this exist at all, like artix-chroot?   
   >>>   
   >>> You just issue the command from an artix installer or rescue and you're   
   >>> working in the (artix) installation of choice. Pretty cool.   
   >>   
   >> I don't know about artix, but I've used chroot a few times to   
   >>   recover the boot files after I've screwed them up. Starting from   
   >>   a rescue dvd or grub - I forget.   
   >   
   > Yeh, you can do a chroot but if you don't do it often enough it's easy   
   > to screw up. What the Artix devs wrote is a script that takes care of   
   > the elbow grease. Say you nuke an Artix installation, boot any oyther   
   > one including live or installer or rescue and do 'chroot-artix dev/sdx'   
   > and you're in the toasted system ready to make repairs. Every installer,   
   > live or rescue should have suh a utility.   
   >   
   > My desktop is having issues and it's been all traced to a bad AMD video   
   > card I had bought used not long ago. The card before that was nvidia   
   > which I had promised myself never to buy again. So I've bought a new AMD   
   > but am using the nvidia 'interim' waiting for delivery of the new card.   
   > When I booted TW with the nvidia plugged in and there was no login,   
   > would be nice to boot a live DVD and just install the nvidia drivers for   
   > the time being.   
   >   
   > Actually, TW should just load the drivers for the existing hardware and   
   > get on with it. I think my Devuan installation did just that.   
      
   In Leap 15.6 - maybe also TW - nvidia (or SUSE - I don't know who   
    decided) have dropped the drivers (designated G04 = v390) for a   
    group of old cards from the non-free nvidia repo. I had to remove   
    the old G04 pkgs (from Leap 15.5) to it to work with the nouveau   
    driver. When I tried the G05 driver pkg it failed to start X.   
      
      
   I bought a more recent card (£25 at CeX) expecting to have to   
    configure X to use the nvidia driver, but it did it   
    automatically. (Though I already had the G05 pkgs   
    installed.)   
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