(superseeded) Linuxcnc on Linux Mint 19.3 quick and easy installation

dvn4life1972 wrote: We had some storms roll through and lost power. I'll try probably tomorrow when we have power again. Thanks.

Are you in Kosovo ? We had hail storms yesterday, the roads were full of water that driving at 20 KMH was hard !

Ok now I tried cntrl+shift 3 times on reboot and it doesn't go to grub at all. It just boots into the desktop as normal.

tommylight wrote:

dvn4life1972 wrote: We had some storms roll through and lost power. I'll try probably tomorrow when we have power again. Thanks.

Are you in Kosovo ? We had hail storms yesterday, the roads were full of water that driving at 20 KMH was hard !

I'm in the US, in Texas. There was a hurricane coming inland about 3 hours to the south, pushing some storms up here where I'm at.

dvn4life1972 wrote: Ok now I tried cntrl+shift 3 times on reboot and it doesn't go to grub at all. It just boots into the desktop as normal.

Did you try both sides of the keyboard ? I have two PCS that require that on a USB keyboard.
so both CTRL and both Shifts

tommylight wrote:

dvn4life1972 wrote: Ok now I tried cntrl+shift 3 times on reboot and it doesn't go to grub at all. It just boots into the desktop as normal.

Did you try both sides of the keyboard ? I have two PCS that require that on a USB keyboard.
so both CTRL and both Shifts

Just tried it twice, then a 3rd with the wireless keyboard removed and an old-school good wired keyboard instead. Just boots normal into the Mint desktop.

Go to Menu > Administration > Grub Customizer > select the kernel with RT in the name > click the up arrow untill that is the top most choice > Save and close, reboot.

tommylight wrote:

Code:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:danielrichter2007/grub-customizer sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install grub-customizer

Go to Menu > Administration > Grub Customizer > select the kernel with RT in the name > click the up arrow untill that is the top most choice > Save and close, reboot.

Did that. The only option with RT was recovery mode, booted to that and ran uname -a and its RT but only in recovery mode.

Went back to the Grub thing again and this time the non-recovery one was there. Moved it to the top and rebooted, and now after uname -a it's showing RT. Thanks Tommy.

Here goes this thing again...says I'm in simulation.

Nevermind that, make the config and save it, you can tune things later from LinuxCNC using the calibration thingy.
What does uname -a say now ?