Goal Get Debian Bullseye and VirtualBox running on an older (2012) Mac Mini.| neilzone.co.uk
I had to smile today that, when reading Ofcom’s website about its enforcement activities under the Online Safety Act 2023, I learned about a few porn sites of which I was not previously aware. Given the nature of Ofcom’s investigations, some of these sites are probably not enforcing age assurance for users in the UK. Ofcom’s website is not (of course; it has no reason to be) behind age assurance, so I wonder at what point it becomes a destination of choice for anyone who does not want t...| Neil's blog
My laptop’s fan kept kicking in, despite me not (knowingly) doing anything too burdensome.| neilzone.co.uk
I don’t hear about “Internet radio” that often, and that surprises me.| neilzone.co.uk
I want to be able to browse to a folder in Thunderbird, and, when I open it, view the email in that folder filtered by date order (newest at the top), by thread (oldest at the end of the chain), with threads expanded.| neilzone.co.uk
A quick reminder for me, as much as anything. Occasionally - for example, when I am helping an organisation with a GDPR subject access request - I need to open files in Outlook’s .| neilzone.co.uk
The Law Society - the official representative body for solicitors in England and Wales - runs a publication called “The Law Society Gazette”.| neilzone.co.uk
This is not a proper blogpost, but rather some hastily-scribbled thoughts in response to a question on Twitter, which would be better held in one place than in a series of tweets.| neilzone.co.uk
I played my third Airsoft game day today, at Red Alert, near Thatcham, again. It was great fun, and, for the first time, I felt that I might be getting the hang of Airsoft. Sure, it is just running around and shooting toy guns at each other, but the first couple of times, I really had no clue what was going on, or what to do. This time was a lot better. Dealing with the heat I did have to fight a bit with my safety glasses sweating up today, and I spent part of one of the games with less than...| Neil's blog
“NSFW” is an initialism for “Not Safe For Work”. It is, IMHO, a lazy, unhelpful, even stigmatising, shorthand. Using more specific descriptions makes more sense to me. Whose workplace and safety? “NSFW” disregards, even stigmatises, people’s work Some people’s work involves pornography, or dealing with photographs of graphic injuries, or whatever it might be. “NSFW” asserts that the tagged content is Not Safe For Work even if it is, in fact, someone’s work. It is disinge...| Neil's blog
If you are the kind of person who has bothered to click the link to read this, this may already be obvious. But it stumped me for a bit, so I’m putting it here in case it helps others. I run an instance of LiberaForms. I like it very much. I was keen to upgrade to v4.2.0 in particular, because of its support for conditional form fields. When I followed the upgrade process in the blog post, I ran: git fetch origin tag v4.2.0 --no-tags and got the error fatal: couldn't find remote ref refs/ta...| Neil's blog
I have a Pixel 6 phone, running GrapheneOS. It is a few years old but, other than being a bit short on storage, it does pretty much everything I need. I am not in a hurry to upgrade it, because, well, there’s no need for me to do so. But, for the last few months, I’ve noticed that the USB port is a bit iffy. Not absolutely broken, since I can charge and sync using it, but problematic enough that charging is unreliable. Initially, I thought that it was lint in the socket, so I cleaned it o...| Neil's blog
Outside the confines of my professional work, I try not to give advice, or tell people what they should do.| neilzone.co.uk
I have been hankering after a properly portable computer for a while.| neilzone.co.uk
For the last month, I’ve been using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and chat between me and my wife Sandra, at least.| neilzone.co.uk
edent has written another thought-provoking blogpost, “We’ve got to stop sending files to each other”.| neilzone.co.uk
Tonight, I went for my first cycle ride through a Tier 4 Newbury.| neilzone.co.uk
Yesterday - one of the hottest days of the year so far - I had a very enjoyable day playing my first ever Airsoft skirmish.| neilzone.co.uk
Before going away for a couple of days, I downloaded some videos from my Jellyfin server onto an Android tablet running GrapheneOS, so that I could watch them offline.| neilzone.co.uk
I have dkim (and dmarc and spf) enabled for my email domains, to aid with deliverability and to lessen the risk of spoofing.| neilzone.co.uk
A few months back, I played laser tag with some friends. Laser tag has got better! I had not played laser tag in years and, when I last played it, it was in a dark, hot, sticky room above a bowling alley in Thatcham. Or a dark, hot, sticky room in a building at the top end of London Street in Reading. It had a sci-fi type theme, with chunky body armour and a laser tagger connected via a thick curly cable. Don’t get me wrong, the laser quest of my youth was fun - I used to really like it - b...| Neil's blog
FOSS projects sometimes need legal advice, and the nature of that advice can vary significantly. (I’m saying “FOSS project” here, but the same is likely true for all number of community-centred projects. I’m going to stick with “FOSS project” here.) I’ve seen FOSS projects needing advice on data protection, company formation, copyright and software licensing, trade marks, Internet law / intermediary liability, litigation, terms of service, trust and safety legal issues, dealing ...| Neil's blog
I am using freeradius to authenticate users to a particular SSID, to steer them onto the right VLAN.| neilzone.co.uk
This is another post which is as much for me as for anyone else.| neilzone.co.uk
I’ve been a fan of RSS for many, many years now, but it was only quite recently that I realised just how much web “browsing” I do via RSS.| neilzone.co.uk
If you are using Firefox or a derivative on a tablet or a device with a similar sized screen, and you are annoyed with it selecting “Desktop mode” each time, try unsetting Settings / Site Settings / Always request desktop site.| Neil's blog
mastodon.social - one of the larger fediverse servers - has updated terms of service. I was a bit bored, so I read them through. I have not looked specifically at what has changed, and what has been here for a while. My feeling is that there is some scope for improvement. I’m not being mean or unkind here, and I’m certainly not suggesting malice, but were I drafting these, I would approach them differently. First, I do not find them easy to read. Even leaving aside the issue of “who act...| Neil's blog
I broke one of my rules of speaking at conferences this week, and I am annoyed with myself about it. I ended up sitting on a panel with three other male speakers, chaired by another man. The most annoying part was that this could have been avoided had I paid more attention to the agenda earlier (i.e. before the actual day of the event). As it was, I turned up at the event, knowing that I was speaking and what I was speaking about (although, okay, I wrote my slides on the train on the way ther...| Neil's blog
For a small project, I wanted to set up another fediverse server snac. This is not going to be a detailed write-up, as setting it up was very easy. I used a combination of the main readme and the administrator manual. In additional to normal Linux setup stuff, it boiled down to: install some components (incluing ‘build-essential’) add a snac system user clone the code compile it create and enable a systemd unit file for the resulting binary create a snac user stick a reverse proxy in fron...| Neil's blog
I had a fascinating day at University College London today, exploring the Online Safety Act 2023 with a range of smart and interesting people. One of the things currently on my mind is the discussion that we had about freedom of expression and, in particular, s22(2) Online Safety Act 2023. That provision says When deciding on, and implementing, safety measures and policies, [all providers of regulated user-to-user services have] a duty to have particular regard to the importance of protecting...| Neil's blog
I am enjoying using vdirsyncer, khal, and khard for syncing, and interacting with, CalDAV and CardDAV accounts from a terminal. I wanted to run vdirsyncer automatically, on a schedule. There are lots of ways that I could do this, but I went with an approach of simple systemd unit files, based on the vdirsyncer documentation, but adjusted for a pipx installation of vdirsyncer. This runs the vdirsyncer sync command every 15 minutes, starting 5 minutes after boot. It runs irrespective of whether...| Neil's blog
I like Markdown as a simple way of formatting text. I use it for my presentations using reveal.js, for writing blogposts, and for writing advice notes. One of the main reasons that I switched to the glitch-soc fork of Mastodon was its support for Markdown. glitch enables me to create toots in Markdown, in whatever client I want, and converts my Markdown-formatted toots to html, for others to view. This is very basic html. For instance, I often use bold text, italics, quotes, and bulleted list...| Neil's blog
I bought a Colmi R09 “smart” ring from AliExpress, and I’ve been giving it a try for the last couple of weeks. For £18 (being AliExpress, the price fluctuates a bit), I didn’t have particularly high expectations, and I have been pleasantly surprised. The ring The ring is slightly concave, and black. It does not stand out / look unusual, although when it takes some measurements, the LEDs pulse on the underside of your finger, which I guess could be visible. This one has no screen or o...| Neil's blog
After a long time using screen, I started using tmux last November.| neilzone.co.uk
I wrote up my approach for getting vanilla Debian 11 running on a Raspberry Pi 4.| neilzone.co.uk
Yesterday, I wrote about getting Debian 11 running on an old Mac Mini.| neilzone.co.uk
I am booting Debian 11 on my Surface Pro 6 from a LUKS-encrypted volume.| neilzone.co.uk
I’m documenting this for myself as much as anyone else, but if it helps, great.| neilzone.co.uk
The problem As part of my project of using Linux on my GPD Pocket 2, I wanted to get LibreOffice set up in much the same way I have Pages and Keynote set up for macOS.| neilzone.co.uk
This blogpost is about running the server-side components for the jitsi video conferencing system on a Raspberry Pi.| neilzone.co.uk
tl;dr: I’m impressed with wireguard, and I’m impressed with algo, but using wireguard with the macOS and iOS clients makes things slower than I had hoped.| neilzone.co.uk
Background In the next couple of weeks, I am sitting on panels at two events about the UK’s Online Safety Act 2023. I don’t know what each of those panels will discuss, or what questions I might be asked, so these are some notes I made as part of my preparation. I doubt I’ll get to cover all of this, or perhaps even want to, but I wanted to get some thoughts down anyway. I want people to be safe and online One can want people to be safe online, and also think that the OSA doesn’t get ...| Neil's blog
I’ve used GrapheneOS on my phone - a Pixel 6 - for coming on three years now. I’ve been incredibly pleased with it, giving me an Android phone without the bloat and clutter with which so many ship. I’ve also been exploring postmarketOS, but I’m not ready to use it as my main phone OS at the moment. I’ve been keeping my eye out for a Pixel Tablet for a while, so that I can have a reasonably powerful tablet running GrapheneOS. I don’t use a tablet that much - a bit of document readi...| Neil's blog
I like to be busy, and I like to be helpful, and that leads me to volunteer for a lot of things.| neilzone.co.uk
I was pleased to take part in a meeting co-hosted by DCMS and the Home Office today, as part of the government’s “Safety Tech challenge fund”.| neilzone.co.uk
Hello! We’re here to make some upgrades to your home.| neilzone.co.uk
Emily Overton — @RMGirl on Twitter; follow her — asked an interesting question:| neilzone.co.uk
Jennifer’s question Jennifer Cobbe asked this question on Twitter:| neilzone.co.uk
I’ve run my own mailserver for years now, with a catch-all on some domains.| neilzone.co.uk
I’ve been having fun fixing Kobo ereaders for a while now. I recently learned about tolino ereaders, which seem to be aimed mainly at the German market. I was keen to give them a try, so I kept my eye out on eBay for devices which were cheap because they needed a bit of love and care. I picked up two - a Shine 2 and a Page - for £15 inc postage and package. This is significantly less than their normal secondhand price, because they were sold as faulty. They had the same problem: they were ...| Neil's blog
Probably like many of you reading this, I spend a lot of my working life on video calls. Anything from a couple of hours a day to basically a full day, depending on how (un)lucky I am. This blogpost documents briefly my newly-upgraded video conferencing setup. What I had For years, I’ve been using a Logitech C920 webcam, with a Jabra headset. The Logitech webcam is really rather impressive. Not terribly expensive (aside from the early days of the pandemic, when prices went sky high), and go...| Neil's blog
I’ve written before about how I hate online advertising. And why I don’t have comments on my blogs. And why I use RSS as my default web browser for some stuff. Sadly, my experiment of using (only) a Linux terminal for my personal computing didn’t really work out - web browsing, in particular, was quite a pain, although I still use links quite a lot. So it is probably no surprise that I’ve come to realise is that, in the vast majority of case, I want my web browsing to be silent. I don...| Neil's blog
I’ve been trying to eat less meat, and to exercise some more. Not eating meat Not eating meat has been easier than I had thought, and I’ve now reached four weeks without meat, not feeling at any point like I am going without. As well as being meat-free, I’m also being careful with calories and portion size, as part of trying to eat a healthier diet. So when I walked through the local market and some delicious vegetarian samosas, I passed them by, even though they smelled amazing… I’...| Neil's blog
tl;dr: I installed postmarketOS, an “alternative” Linux-based operating system, on a OnePlus 6 phone, and it rocks. What is postmarketOS postmarketOS is a fantastic, much-needed, project. One one level, postmarketOS is a Linux-based replacement for the default operating system on some phones. (Note: unlike LineageOS, and other similar alternative Android installations, postmarketOS is not Android.) But, more importantly, postmarketOS is a way of reducing eWaste, and giving new life to dev...| Neil's blog
I have a couple of DNS servers running Pi-hole and unbound.| neilzone.co.uk
Update: since writing this, I’ve also tested it on Debian 11 RC2.| neilzone.co.uk
Why bother with DNS-over-https? I have run a DNS-over-https proxy for a while now, to experiment with it.| neilzone.co.uk
A little over 12 hours ago - yesterday evening, at around 20:07 UTC +1, I tooted: How far can a toot travel in the fediverse? I chatted recently with someone who complained that the fediverse lacked “reach”. So I’m curious: if you are up for it, could you please reply to this toot (which started life on single user instance on a tiny computer in a garage in the United Kingdom) saying which country you are in? 536571 74 countries! I received a lot of replies (approximately 1000), from lo...| Neil's blog
I upgraded one of my Pi-hole instances (pihole -up), getting v6.0.6. I knew that here had been a lot of changes, so I had waited until I had a few spare moments to deal with any of the fallout. One of the changes is that Pi-hole now has its own web server… which is fine, but I want it behind nginx. Fortunately, if Pi-hole detects that ports 80/443 are unavailable, it listens on 8080 instead (which you can check with netstat -tunlp). I needed to make a small tweak to my nginx config to deal ...| Neil's blog
So this is a weird blogpost, in the sense that, yes, of course is it fine not to watch popular programmes, listen to popular music, and so on. But sometimes I have to tell myself that. I’ve heard of Taylor Swift (although I had to look up the spelling of her name), and it is entirely plausible that I’ve heard some of their music when someone else has played it, but I certainly couldn’t name any of her songs. I’ve never really understood the idea of being a “superfan” of someone. I...| Neil's blog
I run my business on Free software. I make money from my business. Because I do so, I can afford to do free (pro bono) work for Free software projects, and donate to developers and maintainers. And so it goes round.| Neil's blog
I wrote this in November 2024 but, for some reason, I didn’t publish it. Oops. Stirling-PDF offers a suite of useful, self-hosted, PDF-related tools, with support for dark mode. Genuinely, this is an amazing bundle of tools, all in one place. You can try a demo here. The only tool that I have tried but not managed to get working is signing a PDF with a .p12 certificate, and it does say that this is a work in progress. You can get view the project on Github. I found this part of the project...| Neil's blog
I had an old Fire Stick sitting in a drawer. I wanted to see if I could install a different operating system on it - Lineage OS - and get Jellyfin running. And… I did! (Not that I can take the credit; others did all the hard work.) It’s not great, but it works. Unlocking the Fire Stick bootloader / rooting the Fire Stick To unlock the Fire Stick bootloader and root it, I followed the instructions on XDA. The gist is: download, and create a bootable image of, a specific Arch Linux .iso boo...| Neil's blog
I’m writing this not because I’ve just been to the UK’s The National Museum of Computing, but rather because I’ve been a couple of times now, and I’ve not written about it. The older code-breaking galleries, Colossus and Tunny, are impressive, and are brought alive by the knowledgeable curators and excellent presentations. For me, the most enjoyable room is the Large Systems Gallery. These late 1950s onwards mainframes are fascinating. Many of the machines are running (or, at least,...| Neil's blog
I went to Reading Museum’s new exhibition, “Reading’s DIGITAL Revolution”. I didn’t know much about DEC - Digital Equipment Corporation - or its links to Reading, so it was a very enjoyable visit. The exhibition is not big - it is smaller than the Swindon Museum of Computing, and much smaller than The National Museum of Computing - but it has plenty to see, with lots of text around the walls, in a time line, and succinct but informative descriptions of the exhibits. I liked the narr...| Neil's blog
There was an interesting discussion on the fediverse last night about DRM (digital restrictions management, a form of copy protection designed to limit how you can read the books you buy) and ebooks.| neilzone.co.uk
I am experimenting with proxmox, as a way of getting to learn more about containers. At the moment, I have a fleet of aging Intel NUCs running most of my services, with a few Raspbery Pis picking up some of the load. I’ve brought an older HP Microserver back into commission, and I’m experimenting with proxmox on that. And, so far, so good. I’ve still got plenty to learn, since at the moment I’ve basically done a lift-and-shift of what I would do on a NUC to each container. I’m not s...| Neil's blog
I’m experimenting with eating less meat. I am trying to eat more healthily, as part of trying to lose weight be slimmer and hopefully happier with my body.| neilzone.co.uk
Here’s a dull blogpost: I replaced the battery in our Dyson vacuum cleaner, and now it powers the machine for longer. We have a Dyson V8 vacuum cleaner, which we bought six or so years ago. Not unexpectedly, the battery started to hold less and less charge, until it was capable of running the machine for about three minutes at most. I bought this battery for about £35 (including a 10% off promotion). It took about five minutes to swap the old battery for the new one, following the included...| Neil's blog
edent asked: All my DVD and CD rips are sat on a plain filesystem with an NFS share.| neilzone.co.uk
I genuinely thought that the days of men jumping on women’s, non-binary people’s, and enby’s blogposts and toots, mansplaining their own points back to them, or assuming that they are ignorant and in need of basic instruction, was in the past. Boy was I wrong. I’ve seen it myriad times this week, particularly in the context of the Online Safety Act. Women explaining what position they have reached after careful thought - in some cases, with a detailed post explaining their position - ...| Neil's blog
Last year, I started to use LiberaForms for forms. They replaced a combination of CryptPad (which offered end-to-end encrypted forms, but with an interface with which quite a few people struggled), and my own hand-crafted php forms (which worked, but were clumsy). The LiberaForms experience is so much better, but - until recently - it lacked end-to-end encryption. This arrived with release v4.0.0, and I was keen to give it a go as soon as I could. Installing and using it The upgrade was seaml...| Neil's blog
I currently use Firefox as one of my main browsers.| neilzone.co.uk
I am gradually weaning myself off Apple’s products. I’ve switched from a MacBook Pro to a Microsoft Surface Pro running Debian (which I really like), and I’ve moved from an iPhone and Apple Watch to a OnePlus 6T running /e/ (which is okay; I’d prefer Linux to Android but I’m not there yet) and a PineTime watch (which has impressed me no end).| neilzone.co.uk
Update November 2021: the best solution I’ve found so far is to run it in-browser, in either Brave or Chrome.| neilzone.co.uk
In case the title is not enough, I am trying to drive two 4k monitors, at 60Hz each, from my Surface Pro 6 running Debian 11 Bullseye, with Gnome 3 as the desktop environment, using Wayland.| neilzone.co.uk
I’ve been fighting for a while with emulating a right-click using the Microsoft Type Cover under Debian 11 with GNOME 3.| neilzone.co.uk
Update: I’ve tested this on Debian 10 and Debian 11, and on a Surface Pro 6, a SurfaceBook 2, and a Surface Go.| neilzone.co.uk
The charging / multi-port cable for my Surface Pro 6 has rather a flimsy cable, and I am slightly worried about it breaking.| neilzone.co.uk
I’m enjoying using GNOME 3, but I don’t need the 15 or so games which came bundled with it.| neilzone.co.uk
I have been on the hunt for a portable, travel-friendly, not-too-expensive, computer running Debian for a while now, and it has led me to Microsoft’s Surface Pro.| neilzone.co.uk
I do not often take handwritten notes, as (a) my handwriting is not great, and (b) my typing is quick and accurate.| neilzone.co.uk
I’ve used iOS and macOS for many years now for my mobile and desktop computing needs and, while I’ve run Linux (mostly Debian) on servers, I have not used it for desktop computing for well over 10 years.| neilzone.co.uk
Identifiably me When I am online, I am identifiably me. By which I mean that, whenever and wherever I post, I am, obviously and clearly, me, Neil Brown. My personal domain is “NeilZone”. My blog is “Neil’s Blog”. My fedi handle is mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil. And so on. Authentically me I am also authentically me. By which I mean that I don’t play a character or a role. Me online is the same as me offline. I share my thoughts, my jokes, my, well, whatever’s on my mind. At leas...| Neil's blog
In my spare time, I’ve been trying to looking at the UK’s Online Safety Act 2023. This is a broad-reaching piece of legislation, which impacts some of the hosted services that I run. While I am broadly content that many of my services will be out of scope, I am less convinced about my Mastodon instance. I’ve written up why I think this, but that’s not really the scope of this post. I already use the tools provided by Mastodon to lock my server, and my account on it, down: Registration...| Neil's blog
I recently bought a used ThinkPad X1 Yoga Gen 6 on eBay. One of the risks of buying a used machine is that one never knows in what state the battery will be. And, on this machine, while it was not dreadful - it had about 75% of its capacity - it was not ideal either. But, it is a ThinkPad, so replacing the battery is easy. Fortunately, when I fitted the skin, I made sure that the screws remained accessible. I would have preferred to have bought a replacement battery from iFixit, but they were...| Neil's blog
I had a Phillips beard trimmer for years, but it has finally got to the point where the battery does not hold charge.| neilzone.co.uk
One of the joys of being an Internet lawyer is the opportunity of getting involved in the shaping of legislation which impacts the every day lives of all number of people.| neilzone.co.uk
I was tagged into an interesting thread on Twitter, in which someone wanted to put CCTV/IP cameras to record a public place, because of ongoing criminal activity in that area.| neilzone.co.uk
I have been on LinkedIn for ages. More years than I can remember.| neilzone.co.uk
I thought that it might be a good idea to have a local (well, on my local network) copy of Wikipedia, and some other bits. The go-to tool for this seems to be kiwix, and that’s what I used, running on a Raspberry Pi. The gist was: add a fresh 1TB SSD to the Raspberry Pi add some content for kiwix install kiwix and create a library file put an nginx proxy in front of it (for TLS termination) Adding a 1TB SSD to the Raspberry Pi I created a mount point: mkdir -p /media/1TB Using lsblk -f to g...| Neil's blog
A couple of years ago, I wrote about using NetworkManager’s dispatcher.| neilzone.co.uk
I bought a PinePhone on eBay. Not the shiny new PinePhone Pro, but the original “convergence” model.| neilzone.co.uk
Do you have a phone, tablet, or laptop (or, well, any device…) which will only take a physical SIM, but with which you’d like to use eSIMs?| neilzone.co.uk
(This one is a reminder for me!) vidir is in Debian’s moreutils package: sudo apt install moreutils -y Add the following to ~/.bashrc: export VISUAL=vim export EDITOR="$VISUAL" Then re-source .bashrc: source ~/.bashrc| Neil's blog
I’m not a music lover. I listen to music, sure, but that’s about it. I have never been to a “gig”, although I have been to a handful (and only a handful - perhaps three or four) of concerts. I’ve never really been into “albums” or listening to tracks in order. If I listen to music stored on my phone / server, I’ll typically have it on shuffle mode. Long albums by popular, mainstream artists have often seemed like a way in which they (or their label) could sell a handful of goo...| Neil's blog
For my work, I write a lot of advice notes. I like to write in markdown (just as I do for presentations, with reveal.js), and then convert that markdown to PDF. An easy option for doing this is GNOME’s “Apostrophe”. You can have real-time preview, and the PDF export that it produces is fine. But one cannot (easily, at least) change the look of that output, or add in a logo, or anything like that. I’ve previously tinkered with pandoc, and exporting to PDF using different PDF engines, b...| Neil's blog
I am sad that RadioFreeFedi has gone away. I loved it. So when Andy Piper mentioned the existence of The Indie Beat Radio FM (run by MizKirsten), as another fedi, independent, streaming radio project, I was keen to give it a try. It currently has an impressive 1058 tracks, and four streams (ambient, electronic, jazz, and everything). I am sure that this will grow further in time. The website too is nice: clear, simple, and uncluttered. Personally, I prefer to listen to radio either through mp...| Neil's blog
I recently found a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga Gen 6 for a very good price on eBay.| neilzone.co.uk
For $reasons, I needed to run VirtualBox on my laptop, to make some changes to a .vdi disk image. I installed VirtualBox but, when I tried to run it, I got an error message saying Cannot operate in vmx boot mode Or something like that. (I couldn’t find a way of copying the error message to the clipboard.) To make this go away, I edited my grub config (/etc/default/grub) to add kvm.enable_virt_at_load=0: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet kvm.enable_virt_at_load=0" I then ran sudo update-grub...| Neil's blog