Tag Archives: GRUB

Adding a New Boot Disk in Fedora 23 with UEFI

Posted on November 10, 2016 by The Civilized Cynic

Well THAT was a hell of a learning experience.  You know, I spent all this time learning about GRUB 2, the MBR, and bootloader operation in general, and just when I thought I really had the bootloader stuff down, I … Continue reading →

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Fedora 22 KDE Plasma Desktop Spin and the Open Source radeon Driver

Posted on June 1, 2015 by The Civilized Cynic

I’m not sure if everyone will experience this or if it was something I did incorrectly during installation, but I noticed the following error in the kernel ring buffer: [drm:radeon_init [radeon]] *ERROR* No UMS support in radeon module! And I … Continue reading →

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Handling a Boot Failure Caused by the Proprietary AMD Catalyst 14.4 (fglrx) Driver in Fedora 20

Posted on May 20, 2014 by The Civilized Cynic

Public Service Announcement When updating your Fedora 20 kernel version while running the proprietary AMD Catalyst 14.4 (fglrx) driver, be sure to follow the below procedure: Execute sudo aticonfig –uninstall Reboot Update the kernel (sudo yum update). Reboot. Assuming you … Continue reading →

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