Re: Reinstall to a NSLU2?

[Martin Michlmayr]

* Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-11-12 22:55]:
> The power died midway through a kernel update to an NSLU2, and now
> it's stalling partway through the boot, without much of a clue that
> I've seen in the /var/log files.  I can either up the number of things
> being logged, which might take a bit, or just take this shiny new 16
> GB flash drive and do a clean install to it.
> 
> Simple question, I think; can you re-flash the device with Debian etch
> after Debian etch has already been installed?

Yes, you can simply use upslug2 or the Windows tool (but *not*
EraseAll) to upload the installer and then do an installation to your
new flash drive.

BTW, release candidate 1 of the installer for Debian 5.0 (lenny) is
available now.  I suggest you install that instead of etch.  See
http://www.cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/

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Bug#505516: lilo-installer: XFS on / doesn't boot properly on amd64

[Christian Perrier]

Package: lilo-installer
Severity: important

Originally sent by Walte Landry in debian-boot..

Please note that this problem does not happen on x86...

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Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:50:38 -0800 (PST)
To: debian-boot@lists.debian.org
Subject: Lenny RC1: no XFS on /
From: Walter Landry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Greetings,

I just tried installing Lenny RC1 amd64 (business card and kde) on a
Lenovo Thinkpad W500.  I made all of the filesystems XFS, including
"/" (I do not have a separate /boot partition).  Upon rebooting, I got
the message:

  RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0.
  List of all partitions:
  No filesystem could mount root, tried:
  Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,1)

When I reinstalled and made "/" ext3, it worked fine.

I have also been fiddling around with Lenny Beta2 and daily snapshots.
Lenny Beta2 can not detect my ethernet card (Intel Corporation 82567LM
Gigabit Network Connection).  The amd64 daily snapshot (Nov 6) has the
same issue with XFS on "/".  The i386 daily snapshot (Nov 10) does
not.  However, the i386 daily snapshot gui install gave me a strange
warning

  Uhhuh.  NMI received for unknown reason 91 on CPU 0.
  You have some hardware problem, likely on the PCI bus.
  Dazed and confused, but trying to continue.

Besides that message, the gui install seemed to work fine.

In the course of all this, I noticed a few oddities about
repartitioning.  There was a partition that I wanted to expand to the
rest of the disk.  That would make the partition 178.49 GB.  But the
partitioner displayed 178.5.  If I tried to make it 178.5, then it
complained that I was going off of the end of the disk.  Even if I
just specified "max", it still said I was trying to go past the end of
the disk.

At one point, I managed to get into an infinite loop where it would
tell me about an error, but clicking "go back" or "continue" kept
bringing up the same errors.  I do not know how I got into that
situation, but I thought I should mention it.

The Thinkpad W500 has switchable ATI graphics (FireGL v5700).  In the
BIOS, I can set it to integrated, discrete, or switchable.  For the
"ati" and "radeon" drivers, I have to set it to discrete or the
drivers will not find the card.  This seems to be well known to
google, so I only mention it here for completeness.

As an aside, I never could get the fglrx drivers to work in 32 or 64
bit.  It would just blank the screen.

All in all, the experience was not so bad.  Much easier than last time
[1].  I still do not have wireless working (Intel 5300).  I have to
compile a 2.6.27 kernel for that.  The only real bug that I have to
report is that running with XFS on the boot partition on amd64 does
not work.

As a wishlist item, it would be nice if the partitioner handles ntfs
partitions better.  I wanted to move my original windows partition to
the end.  I could create a new partition, but I could not make it
ntfs.  I tried to copy all of the data from the partition, but it did
not comply.  So I ended up just deleting windows off of this machine.
So maybe it is not a bug after all ;)

If you have any questions, please let me know.  I am not subscribed to
this list.

Cheers,
Walter Landry
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Re: Reinstall to a NSLU2?

[Matthew Palmer]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:55:13PM -0500, Dean wrote:
> The power died midway through a kernel update to an NSLU2, and now
> it's stalling partway through the boot, without much of a clue that
> I've seen in the /var/log files.  I can either up the number of things
> being logged, which might take a bit, or just take this shiny new 16
> GB flash drive and do a clean install to it.
> 
> Simple question, I think; can you re-flash the device with Debian etch
> after Debian etch has already been installed?

Yes, as long as you can flash the installer firmware, you're golden.  I may
be getting my embedded bootloaders mixed up, but I think the slug has a
boot time firmware load capability.  If not, you may need a serial console
to talk to the boot loader and convince it to take a new firmware, if the
initrd has corrupted due to the partial write.

- Matt


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Re: Reinstall to a NSLU2?

[Martin Michlmayr]

* Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-11-13 15:55]:
> Yes, as long as you can flash the installer firmware, you're golden.
> I may be getting my embedded bootloaders mixed up, but I think the
> slug has a boot time firmware load capability.

The NSLU2 can be flashed via the network (e.g. with upslug2).
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Bug#309223: Serial console support for PXE boot

[Bjørn Mork]

I know the timing is bad and that this probably have to be delayed until
after lenny is released, but I just haven't been able to find the answer
to this question:

Why isn't
  serial 0 9600 0
included in debian-installer/*/boot-screens/menu.cfg?

Is this known to cause problems on any system?  The advantage should be
obvious:  It will enable installation using either serial or VGA console
(or even both).  You will still need to edit the kernel command line to
do a serial install, but at least you will be able to do so without a
VGA console.

The only reason I've found for dropping serial support is this comment
in the changelog:


debian-installer (20080522)
[..]
   * Note that the pxelinux config file for serial terminals has been dropped,
 at least for now, since the split config files made it too difficult to
 set up.


This does not explain why the config couldn't be merged.  It seems to me
that something like this should work, just adding a separate sub menu
for serial console:

--- debian-installer/amd64/boot-screens/menu.cfg.orig	2008-10-29 13:09:04.0 +0100
+++ debian-installer/amd64/boot-screens/menu.cfg	2008-11-13 11:55:11.0 +0100
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+serial 0 9600 0
+
 menu hshift 13
 menu width 49
 
@@ -18,6 +20,15 @@
 	include debian-installer/amd64/boot-screens/adgtk.cfg
 	include debian-installer/amd64/boot-screens/adamdgtk.cfg
 menu end
+menu begin serial
+	menu title Serial console 
+	label mainmenu
+		menu label ^Back..
+		menu exit
+	include debian-installer/amd64/boot-screens/stdmenu.cfg
+	include debian-installer/amd64/boot-screens/sadtext.cfg
+	include debian-installer/amd64/boot-screens/adamdtext.cfg
+menu end
 label help
 	menu label ^Help
 	config debian-installer/amd64/boot-screens/prompt.cfg
--- /dev/null	2008-10-17 17:20:56.736525434 +0200
+++ debian-installer/amd64/boot-screens/sadtext.cfg	2008-11-13 12:29:01.0 +0100
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+default sinstall
+label sinstall
+menu label ^Install
+menu default
+kernel debian-installer/amd64/linux
+append vga=normal initrd=debian-installer/amd64/initrd.gz -- console=ttyS0,9600n8 quiet
+label expert
+	menu label ^Expert install
+	kernel debian-installer/amd64/linux
+	append priority=low vga=normal initrd=debian-installer/amd64/initrd.gz -- console=ttyS0,9600n8
+label rescue
+	menu label ^Rescue mode
+	kernel debian-installer/amd64/linux
+	append debian-installer/serial-console vga=normal initrd=debian-installer/amd64/initrd.gz rescue/enable=true -- console=ttyS0,9600n8 quiet 
+label auto
+	menu label ^Automated install
+	kernel debian-installer/amd64/linux
+	append auto=true priority=critical vga=normal initrd=debian-installer/amd64/initrd.gz -- console=ttyS0,9600n8 quiet 


At least it seems to work for me.  But it will of course need to be
tested on more systems, and I realise that adding it at this stage is
not an option.  I just want to understand why it hasn't been done
before.  Just lack of interest?  I can take some blame for that...

FWIW, my experiments showed that a minor adjustment to prompt.cfg may be
necessary to display the help menu on a serial console:

--- debian-installer/amd64/boot-screens/prompt.cfg.orig	2008-10-29 13:09:04.0 +0100
+++ debian-installer/amd64/boot-screens/prompt.cfg	2008-11-13 13:07:06.0 +0100
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
+include debian-installer/amd64/boot-screens/menu.cfg
 prompt 1
 display debian-installer/amd64/boot-screens/f1.txt
 timeout 0
-include debian-installer/amd64/boot-screens/menu.cfg
 
 f1 debian-installer/amd64/boot-screens/f1.txt
 f2 debian-installer/amd64/boot-screens/f2.txt


Without this, the main menu be shown instead of f1.txt.  

f1.txt may also be updated with instructions on how to use ctrl+digit
instead of F-keys on a serial console, like the etch installer did, but
I think this may be omitted to avoid confusing things too much for most
users.  Those installing on a serial console may be expected to look up
this information in the manual.


Bjørn

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Bug#505548: installation-reports: Blank Screen using Graphical & Normal Installer

[James Robertson]

Package: installation-reports
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system

When booting the Lenny RC1 installer from the normal install or graphical 
installer the screen goes blank and the PC becomes unresponsive.
Cannot CTRL-ALT-DEL to reboot and have to reset the PC.  Tried vga=788 as 
suggested to use vesa but that does not work.  The Video Card is a
ATI Radeon 4850 so perhaps that has an affect on it although Beta2 installed OK 
but I think I had to use noapic at boot.

-- Package-specific info:

Boot method: CD
Image version: 
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/lenny_di_rc1/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso
Date: Fri Nov 14 00:13:49 EST 2008

Machine: Asus M2N-MX AMD AM2 4800+ Generic PC
Partitions: This is from the currently running system installed via Beta 2 not 
sure if its even useful?
FilesystemType   1K-blocks  Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1 ext3 7874528   1177380   6297132  16% /
tmpfstmpfs 2074296 0   2074296   0% /lib/init/rw
udev tmpfs   10240   108 10132   2% /dev
tmpfstmpfs 2074296 0   2074296   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb3 ext365117128   1458728  60350620   3% /home


Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot:   [E]
Detect network card:[ ]
Configure network:  [ ]
Detect CD:  [ ]
Load installer modules: [ ]
Detect hard drives: [ ]
Partition hard drives:  [ ]
Install base system:[ ]
Clock/timezone setup:   [ ]
User/password setup:[ ]
Install tasks:  [ ]
Install boot loader:[ ]
Overall install:[ ]

Comments/Problems:

Besides what is written above I had to use Vesa or install the latest ReadonHD 
or ATI graphics drivers to get video to work at all.
The details below are from the currently running system.

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==
Installer lsb-release:
==
DISTRIB_ID=Debian
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Debian GNU/Linux installer"
DISTRIB_RELEASE="5.0 (lenny) - installer build 20080522"
X_INSTALLATION_MEDIUM=cdrom

==
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Controller [10de:03ea] (rev a1)
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[10de:03e0] (rev a2)
lspci -knn: 00:01.1 SMBus [0c05]: nVidia Corporation MCP61 SMBus [10de:03eb] 
(rev a2)
lspci -knn: 00:01.2 RAM memory [0500]: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Memory 
Controller [10de:03f5] (rev a2)
lspci -knn: 00:02.0 USB Controller [0c03]: nVidia Corporation MCP61 USB 
Controller [10de:03f1] (rev a2)
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
lspci -knn: Kernel modules: ohci-hcd
lspci -knn: 00:02.1 USB Controller [0c03]: nVidia Corporation MCP61 USB 
Controller [10de:03f2] (rev a2)
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
lspci -knn: Kernel modules: ehci-hcd
lspci -knn: 00:04.0 PCI bridge [0604]: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI bridge 
[10de:03f3] (rev a1)
lspci -knn: 00:05.0 Audio device [0403]: nVidia Corporation MCP61 High 
Definition Audio [10de:03f0] (rev a2)
lspci -knn: 00:06.0 IDE interface [0101]: nVidia Corporation MCP61 IDE 
[10de:03ec] (rev a2)
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lspci -knn: Kernel modules: amd74xx
lspci -knn: 00:07.0 Bridge [0680]: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Ethernet 
[10de:03ef] (rev a2)
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: forcedeth
lspci -knn: Kernel modules: forcedeth
lspci -knn: 00:08.0 IDE interface [0101]: nVidia Corporation MCP61 SATA 
Controller [10de:03f6] (rev a2)
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: sata_nv
lspci -knn: Kernel modules: sata_nv
lspci -knn: 00:08.1 IDE interface [0101]: nVidia Corporation MCP61 SATA 
Controller [10de:03f6] (rev a2)
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: sata_nv
lspci -knn: Kernel modules: sata_nv
lspci -knn: 00:09.0 PCI bridge [0604]: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI Express 
bridge [10de:03e8] (rev a2)
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
lspci -knn: 00:0b.0 PCI bridge [0604]: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI Express 
bridge [10de:03e9] (rev a2)
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
lspci -knn: 00:0c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI Express 
bridge [10de:03e9] (rev a2)
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
lspci -knn: 00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 
[Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration [1022:1100]
lspci -knn: 00:18.1 Host

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Bug#501175: marked as done ([installation-guide] 6.2: please improve iso-scan component description)

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Package: installation-guide
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

In section 6.2, iso-scan is described as

Looks for ISO file systems, which may be on a CD-ROM or on the hard drive.

This sounded to me as if iso-scan would only look on the [primary] hard drive, 
but it looks on any hard drive (including external hard drives connected via 
USB). Also, there should be no distinction between CD-ROM-s and other optical 
disks. So I suggest

Looks for ISO images, which may be on an optical disk or on a hard drive.


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Source: installation-guide
Source-Version: 20081113

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Bug#490287: marked as done (No root file system)

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Package: installation-guide-i386
Version: 2008-07-11 Alioth website


Hello,

On an automated install I get this fatal warning:

[!!] Partition disks
 No root file system
   No root file system is defined.


The preseed file that is used is an unmodified one from
 http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/example-preseed.txt

I assume it is an out-dated example.

If the error is in partman, then is this bugreport about the partman
version that is in netboot.tar.gz with version.info
Debian version:  5.0 (lenny)
Installer build: 20080710-09:06


What is needed to get an working example-preseed.txt again?



Cheers
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Bug#493845: marked as done (Missing content in preconfiguration file (check for firmware))

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Package: debian-installer
Version: 20080522
Severity: minor

After update of debian-installer from beta2 to the daily build version
from 2008-08-03, d-i asks for firmware for my WLAN IPW2200BG.
Because i have an automatic installation with preseed file, i would
suppress this question.
The answer for this question should be always "No" in my installation.
In manual from
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/
there is no description of this installation step.

Please add description of variable for automatic installation with
preseed file to auto-answer the firmware check.
I think, the variable name should be "check-firmware" or
"check-missing-firmware".

If you have further question, let me know.

Regards
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Bug#500283: marked as done ([installation-guide] Please clarify which Optional kernel modules should be used to create a flexible USB Memory Stick (4.4.2.1))

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4.4.2.1. USB stick partitioning on Intel x86
contains:

copy the following files from the Debian archives to the stick:
[...]
Optional kernel modules

Although the "from the Debian archives" is quite vague, the file name helps to 
find the first files. Finding "Optional kernel modules" seems to be harder. 
Unless I'm missing something obvious, this pretty much makes the section 
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Bug#502773: marked as done (installation-guide: tasksel uses aptitude)

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Subject: installation-guide: tasksel uses aptitude
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Dear DDs,


[1] 6.3.5.2. Selecting and Installing Software says

> Each package you selected with tasksel is downloaded, unpacked and
> then installed in turn by the apt-get and dpkg programs.

But I think it is using aptitude. So please do s/apt-get/aptitude/ in
this sentence.


Thanks,

Paul


[1]  
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch06s03.html#di-install-software

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Bug#275565: marked as done (Corrections for the installation manual (netboot PPC). Missing yaboot-netboot.conf)

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Subject: Corrections for the installation manual (netboot PPC). Missing 
yaboot-netboot.conf
Date: Friday 08 October 2004 22:27
From: Niklaus Giger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-boot@lists.debian.org

Hi

I just tried a netboot installation with a PowerMac G3 and found the
 following inconsistencies in the manual
(http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.powerpc/ch04s05.html)

"For net booting, use the yaboot-netboot.conf. Just rename this to
 yaboot.conf in the TFTP directory. "

I did not found a file  yaboot-netboot.conf on the PPC-cdrom (30.09.04) nor
 in the d-i tree. However the following yaboot.conf works fine for me:
---
timeout=100
device=enet:
partition=0
init-message="Debian GNU/Linux Network boot for Debian-Installer (Sarge)"'
default=linux
label=linux
image=/tftpboot/vmlinux
initrd=/tftpboot/initrd.gz
append="devfs=mount,dall init=/linuxrc --"
initrd-size=10240
---

Please add to 'Next, place the TFTP boot image you need, as found in Section
4.2.1, “Where to Find Installation Images",
a sentence like:
"Verify that you selected a netbootable kernel. Kernel to boot from a CD will
fail."

Best regards

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Bug#500206: marked as done ([installation-guide] "4.4.1. Copying the files the easy way" needs greater care to avoid data loss)

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Section 4.4.1. Copying the files — the easy way contains:

You only have to extract it directly to your USB stick: 
# zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sda

Sounds simple and easy, doesn't it? Granted, there's a bold Warning just 
below:
Using this method will destroy anything already on the device. Make sure that 
you use the correct device name for your USB stick.

The fact that the device can be something else than /dev/sda is mentioned in 
the introduction of 4.4:
try to find out which SCSI device the USB stick has been mapped to (in this 
example /dev/sda is used)

This needs to be more clear. Users *need* to find out which device their USB 
stick is mapped to, and the fact that /dev/sda is only an example shouldn't 
be mentioned *in parentheses*. Also, the sentence introducing the command 
should be more like

"If and only if your USB stick is mapped to /dev/sda, you can extract 
boot.img.gz directly with the following command:"

I also suggest obscuring the command by replacing /dev/sda with a variable, 
say $DEVICE, so that the reader has to take the time to stop and read a bit. 
The device suggested could be /dev/sdb, so that a laptop user with 1 SATA 
hard drive won't lose his primary disk with that command.

Furthermore, since the warning starts with "Using this method will destroy 
anything already on the device.", one may think "Oh OK, that warning is just 
going to tell me to save the data on my USB key elsewhere, but I have nothing 
of value on the key, so let's skip the second sentence and run the command."
It should be clear from the first sentence, that running this may corrupt your 
primary hard drive.


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Bug#297536: marked as done (howto netboot powerpc)

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Hello,

While I went through my backlog of the debian-boot mailinglist
I found this message below. It didn't had any follow up according my
threaded E-mail reader, so I'm worried that this information
is "lost in the archive".

Please include it in the manual.


Cheers
Geert Stappers

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From: Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-boot@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: howto netboot powerpc
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 16:26:44 +0100
Organization: The Debian Project, http://www.debian.org/
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i

On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 01:58:05PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Sven Luther wrote:
> > On which kind of powerpc ? It is different on each one, but i will try to
> > contribute some stuff for the pegasos case which is of interest to you i
> > think.
> 
> I'm specifically trying to get pegasos to work, but generally interested
> in making sure that most or all powerpc users have the info in the
> manual or a pointer to a place that it is documented.

I just broke my NewWorld mac laptop and had to netboot it to get it to
work again. So it's still fresh in my memory ;-)

What you need is indeed yaboot in a tftp area. I ran 

dpkg -x yaboot_1.3.13-3_powerpc.deb .

and copied usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot to /tftpboot, together with the vmlinux
and the initrd.gz that I copied from an archive mirror. Then, I created
a /tftpboot/yaboot.conf that looks like this (information extracted from
the list archives, but slightly modified to make it work in my case): 

timeout=100
device=enet:
partition=0
init-message="Debian GNU/Linux Network boot for Debian-Installer (Sarge)"
default=vmlinux
label=vmlinux
image=vmlinux
initrd=initrd.gz
append="devfs=mount,dall init=/linuxrc --"
initrd-size=10240

Now, you need to set up a DHCP server. Nothing special there; making
sure next-server is set as usual and that filename contains "yaboot"
should do it. If it doesn't, it's still possible to boot in a more
explicit way (see below)

Next, boot the Mac and make sure you get an OpenFirmware prompt (hold
Command+Option+O+F during boot). At the OpenFirmware prompt, enter

boot enet:

or, if that doesn't work, the more explicit way:

boot enet:,yaboot

e.g.,

boot enet:192.168.0.1,yaboot

Now, all one needs to do is sit back and relax while the system boots
:-)

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Bug#493720: marked as done (kbd-chooser: unable to preseed with non-canonical keymap name)

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Package: installation-reports

Boot method: network PXE
Image version: Daily build image 2008-08-03
Date: 2008-08-04

Machine: Notebook ASUS M6Ne
Processor: Pemtium M 1,6GHz
Memory: 512MB
Partitions:

RBG-NB:/home/bernhard# df -Tl
Dateisystem   Typ1K‐Blöcke   Benutzt Verfügbar Ben% Eingehängt auf
/dev/hda7 ext310317828   3854124   5939588  40% /
tmpfstmpfs  257868 0257868   0% /lib/init/rw
udev tmpfs   10240   120 10120   2% /dev
tmpfstmpfs  257868 0257868   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda8 ext330961664182372  29206532   1% /home
/dev/hda6  fuseblk 1052224  7818   1044406   1% /share

Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn):

RBG-NB:/home/bernhard# lspci -knn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O 
Controller [8086:3340] (rev 21)
Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel
Kernel modules: intel-agp
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP 
Controller [8086:3341] (rev 21)
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM 
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:24c2] (rev 03)
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM 
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:24c4] (rev 03)
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM 
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:24c7] (rev 03)
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 
EHCI Controller [8086:24cd] (rev 03)
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
Kernel modules: ehci-hcd
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge 
[8086:2448] (rev 83)
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface 
Bridge [8086:24cc] (rev 03)
Kernel modules: iTCO_wdt, intel-rng
00:1f.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE 
Controller [8086:24ca] (rev 03)
Kernel driver in use: PIIX_IDE
Kernel modules: piix
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) 
SMBus Controller [8086:24c3] (rev 03)
Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus
Kernel modules: i2c-i801
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM 
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller [8086:24c5] (rev 03)
Kernel driver in use: Intel ICH
Kernel modules: snd-intel8x0
00:1f.6 Modem [0703]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) 
AC'97 Modem Controller [8086:24c6] (rev 03)
Kernel driver in use: Intel ICH Modem
Kernel modules: snd-intel8x0m
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility 
Radeon 9600 M10] [1002:4e50]
Kernel modules: radeonfb
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5788 
Gigabit Ethernet [14e4:169c] (rev 03)
Kernel driver in use: tg3
Kernel modules: tg3
02:01.0 CardBus bridge [0607]: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II [1180:0476] (rev ac)
Kernel driver in use: yenta_cardbus
Kernel modules: yenta_socket
02:01.1 CardBus bridge [0607]: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II [1180:0476] (rev ac)
Kernel driver in use: yenta_cardbus
Kernel modules: yenta_socket
02:01.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller 
[1180:0552] (rev 04)
Kernel driver in use: firewire_ohci
Kernel modules: firewire-ohci
02:02.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG 
Network Connection [8086:4220] (rev 05)
Kernel driver in use: ipw2200
Kernel modules: ipw2200

Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot:   [O]
Detect network card:[O]
Configure network:  [O]
Detect CD: 

Bug#505548: Resolved using noapic

[James Robertson]

This is to let you know that booting with noapic fixes the issue



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Support lxde-desktop properly in lenny D-I RC2?

[Andrew Lee]

Dear debian-boot folks and tasksel maintainer,

Thanks for the hard work on lenny D-I RC1.
I just tested the lenny D-I RC1 with 'tasks=lxde-desktop'. After the
installation it gives me a LXDE desktop out of box!! Wonderful!! :)

Seems only in tasksel isn't enough to make it work properly with D-I,
cause I found the gnome-desktop task also installed with lxde-desktop
task. :D

I'd like to know what kind of/how much work should be done for make it
supported in RC2(if we have planned)? And I'd like to help on that.

Thanks again for the hard work on D-I.

Cheers,

-Andrew


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Bug#505564: Please document the braille support

[Simon Bienlein]

Package: installation-guide
Severity: wishlist

Hello Debian-Team,

You can use the Debian Installer very good with a braille display. 
Please document how to install Lenny with a braille display.




Thank you very much in advance for the further documentation.

Simon Bienlein



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Bug#505567: installation-report: troublefree install on aged Dell server

[Justin B Rye]

Package: installation-reports

*** Please type your report below this line ***

Executive summary: nothing to report.

-- Package-specific info:

Boot method: CD (required temporary drive transplant)
Image version: 20081029 build downloaded (on 2008/11/10) from

http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/.lenny_rc1/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso
Date: 2008/11/12, around teatime

Machine: Dell Precision 610MT (dual-Xeon, all-SCSI, ultra-noisy)
Partitions: (sfdisk -l)

Disk /dev/sda: 1106 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

   Device Boot Start End   #cyls#blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *  0+ 29  30-240943+  83  Linux
/dev/sda2 30  60  31 249007+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 61 303 2431951897+  83  Linux
/dev/sda43041105 8026442065   83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 2231 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

   Device Boot Start End   #cyls#blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1  0+   22302231-  17920476   83  Linux
/dev/sdb2  0   -   0  00  Empty
/dev/sdb3  0   -   0  00  Empty
/dev/sdb4  0   -   0  00  Empty

Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot:   [O]
Detect network card:[O] (antique 10base2 card)
Configure network:  [O] (manual)
Detect CD:  [O] (/dev/hda replacing unbootable /dev/scd)
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives:  [O] (manual)
Install base system:[O]
Clock/timezone setup:   [O]
User/password setup:[O]
Install tasks:  [ ] (base system only)
Install boot loader:[O]
Overall install:[O]

Comments/Problems:

This is, what, the fifth or sixth time I've installed Debian on this
old monster, and it went exactly as expected (or better; usually I
have to work around the onboard network card).  The standard kernel
takes a long time to find the root filesystem, but then again this
machine takes over a minute to get through its BIOS, so I don't
blame it.  Now all I need to do is find a use for this machine.

==
Installer lsb-release:
==
DISTRIB_ID=Debian
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Debian GNU/Linux installer"
DISTRIB_RELEASE="5.0 (lenny) - installer build 20081029"
X_INSTALLATION_MEDIUM=cdrom

==
Installer hardware-summary:
==
umame -a: Linux zipacna 2.6.26-1-486 #1 Thu Oct 9 14:22:52 UTC 2008 i686 unknown
lspci -knn: 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 440GX - 82443GX Host 
bridge [8086:71a0]
lspci -knn: 00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 440GX - 82443GX AGP 
bridge [8086:71a1]
lspci -knn: 00:07.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 
ISA [8086:7110] (rev 02)
lspci -knn: 00:07.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 
IDE [8086:7111] (rev 01)
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: PIIX_IDE
lspci -knn: Kernel modules: piix
lspci -knn: 00:07.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB 
PIIX4 USB [8086:7112] (rev 01)
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
lspci -knn: Kernel modules: uhci-hcd
lspci -knn: 00:07.3 Bridge [0680]: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI 
[8086:7113] (rev 02)
lspci -knn: 00:10.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 
[RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] [10de:002d] (rev 15)
lspci -knn: 00:11.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 
100BaseTX [Cyclone] [10b7:9055] (rev 24)
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: 3c59x
lspci -knn: Kernel modules: 3c59x
lspci -knn: 00:13.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 
21152 [1011:0024] (rev 03)
lspci -knn: 02:0a.0 SCSI storage controller [0100]: Adaptec AHA-2940U2/U2W / 
7890/7891 [9005:001f]
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: aic7xxx
lspci -knn: Kernel modules: aic7xxx
lsmod: Module  Size  Used by
lsmod: ufs63620  0 
lsmod: qnx47684  0 
lsmod: ntfs  180416  0 
lsmod: dm_mod 45384  0 
lsmod: md_mod 65940  0 
lsmod: xfs   446836  0 
lsmod: reiserfs  187008  0 
lsmod: jfs   148060  0 
lsmod: ext3  103432  4 
lsmod: jbd35092  1 ext3
lsmod: vfat8832  0 
lsmod: fat39964  1 vfat
lsmod: ext2   52616  0 
lsmod: mbcache 6656  2 ext3,ext2
lsmod: 3c509  12756  0 
lsmod: 3c59x  36136  0 
lsmod: mii 4864  1 3c59x
lsmod: nls

Re: Lenny RC1: no XFS on /

[Otavio Salvador]

Walter Landry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Could you take a look on the installed system and check if lilo.conf
>> has 'large-memory' option?
>> 
>> This issue looks to be a reincarnation of #479607. Mind to take a
>> look?
>
> lilo.conf does not have that option.  I booted a rescue disk, added
> the option, reran lilo, and now it works.  Yay!

It looks like it has been broken in a later NMU. Could you report a
bug against LILO and tag it RC?

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Bug#505564: Please document the braille support

[Frans Pop]

On Thursday 13 November 2008, Frans Pop wrote:
> Please find people familiar enough with the support, the hardware and
> required setup to provide patches, or at least a proposed text.
> Such things have to come from the community, not the D-I developers.

Patches should preferably cover both braille and speakup support, and also 
the special "dark" themes we have.


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Bug#505564: Please document the braille support

[Frans Pop]

tags 505564 + help
thanks

On Thursday 13 November 2008, Simon Bienlein wrote:
> You can use the Debian Installer very good with a braille display.
> Please document how to install Lenny with a braille display.
>
> Thank you very much in advance for the further documentation.

Please find people familiar enough with the support, the hardware and 
required setup to provide patches, or at least a proposed text.
Such things have to come from the community, not the D-I developers.

Guess the best place to start looking is the d-accessibility list.

Cheers,
FJP


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Bug#505548: Resolved using noapic

[Otavio Salvador]

James Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> This is to let you know that booting with noapic fixes the issue

Did you test it with RC1 and sid kernels?

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Inquiry

[Adrian Hager]

Hello Debian coders.
I would like to apologize for my bad english!
I use Google to translate.
I come from Switzerland and have a question. I unfortunately do not
know exactly where I aimed it.

it is so that I have this year become the father on 27.05.2008 am. My
son called Lenny! :-)
I am 8 years linux fan! I have now read the new version of Debian
called Lenny and I'm thrilled!
but unfortunately I am only user and not Developer, I am too dumb.
I would be happy if my son gets lenny a monument in the new version of
Debian lenny.
I am thinking of a small text somewhere in the install screen or in a
readme or so.
would be very nice if write:

Lenny Hager would be Born on 27 May 2008 and weighed 2,950 grams at 15:14

I can not make them, but I would give everything to contemplated when
the would!!!
I really am so happy. that would be something unique!
they can help me?
I ask my place at the right time?

Please Please let me know what I can do so this happens?
Please excuse my English again :-)

I'm asking for achievable ad.hager @ gmail.com

and here are the link to the site of the hospital with the image of lenny

http://www.sro.ch/a/fk/Unsere_718.asp
http://www.sro.ch/a/fk/bilder/baby/HagerLenny.JPG


Many many thanks

Adrian Hager


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Re: Lenny RC1: no XFS on /

[Walter Landry]

Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Walter Landry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Could you take a look on the installed system and check if lilo.conf
> >> has 'large-memory' option?
> >> 
> >> This issue looks to be a reincarnation of #479607. Mind to take a
> >> look?
> >
> > lilo.conf does not have that option.  I booted a rescue disk, added
> > the option, reran lilo, and now it works.  Yay!
> 
> It looks like it has been broken in a later NMU. Could you report a
> bug against LILO and tag it RC?

Christian Perrier already filed a bug against lilo-installer.  Should
I close that bug and open a new bug against lilo?

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Re: Support lxde-desktop properly in lenny D-I RC2?

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting Andrew Lee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Dear debian-boot folks and tasksel maintainer,
> 
> Thanks for the hard work on lenny D-I RC1.
> I just tested the lenny D-I RC1 with 'tasks=lxde-desktop'. After the
> installation it gives me a LXDE desktop out of box!! Wonderful!! :)
> 
> Seems only in tasksel isn't enough to make it work properly with D-I,
> cause I found the gnome-desktop task also installed with lxde-desktop
> task. :D
> 
> I'd like to know what kind of/how much work should be done for make it
> supported in RC2(if we have planned)? And I'd like to help on that.


Given that RC2 is supposed to be a "no additionnal feature" release,
I'd say that what you got is probably the most reasonable target to
have.




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Re: Lenny RC1: no XFS on /

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting Otavio Salvador ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > lilo.conf does not have that option.  I booted a rescue disk, added
> > the option, reran lilo, and now it works.  Yay!
> 
> It looks like it has been broken in a later NMU. Could you report a
> bug against LILO and tag it RC?

#505516

Maybe reassign it to lilo if you think this is something that more
pertains to it.





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Bug#505567: marked as done (installation-report: troublefree install on aged Dell server)

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Package: installation-reports

*** Please type your report below this line ***

Executive summary: nothing to report.

-- Package-specific info:

Boot method: CD (required temporary drive transplant)
Image version: 20081029 build downloaded (on 2008/11/10) from

http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/.lenny_rc1/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso
Date: 2008/11/12, around teatime

Machine: Dell Precision 610MT (dual-Xeon, all-SCSI, ultra-noisy)
Partitions: (sfdisk -l)

Disk /dev/sda: 1106 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

   Device Boot Start End   #cyls#blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *  0+ 29  30-240943+  83  Linux
/dev/sda2 30  60  31 249007+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 61 303 2431951897+  83  Linux
/dev/sda43041105 8026442065   83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 2231 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

   Device Boot Start End   #cyls#blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1  0+   22302231-  17920476   83  Linux
/dev/sdb2  0   -   0  00  Empty
/dev/sdb3  0   -   0  00  Empty
/dev/sdb4  0   -   0  00  Empty

Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot:   [O]
Detect network card:[O] (antique 10base2 card)
Configure network:  [O] (manual)
Detect CD:  [O] (/dev/hda replacing unbootable /dev/scd)
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives:  [O] (manual)
Install base system:[O]
Clock/timezone setup:   [O]
User/password setup:[O]
Install tasks:  [ ] (base system only)
Install boot loader:[O]
Overall install:[O]

Comments/Problems:

This is, what, the fifth or sixth time I've installed Debian on this
old monster, and it went exactly as expected (or better; usually I
have to work around the onboard network card).  The standard kernel
takes a long time to find the root filesystem, but then again this
machine takes over a minute to get through its BIOS, so I don't
blame it.  Now all I need to do is find a use for this machine.

==
Installer lsb-release:
==
DISTRIB_ID=Debian
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Debian GNU/Linux installer"
DISTRIB_RELEASE="5.0 (lenny) - installer build 20081029"
X_INSTALLATION_MEDIUM=cdrom

==
Installer hardware-summary:
==
umame -a: Linux zipacna 2.6.26-1-486 #1 Thu Oct 9 14:22:52 UTC 2008 i686 unknown
lspci -knn: 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 440GX - 82443GX Host 
bridge [8086:71a0]
lspci -knn: 00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 440GX - 82443GX AGP 
bridge [8086:71a1]
lspci -knn: 00:07.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 
ISA [8086:7110] (rev 02)
lspci -knn: 00:07.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 
IDE [8086:7111] (rev 01)
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: PIIX_IDE
lspci -knn: Kernel modules: piix
lspci -knn: 00:07.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB 
PIIX4 USB [8086:7112] (rev 01)
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
lspci -knn: Kernel modules: uhci-hcd
lspci -knn: 00:07.3 Bridge [0680]: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI 
[8086:7113] (rev 02)
lspci -knn: 00:10.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 
[RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] [10de:002d] (rev 15)
lspci -knn: 00:11.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 
100BaseTX [Cyclone] [10b7:9055] (rev 24)
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: 3c59x
lspci -knn: Kernel modules: 3c59x
lspci -knn: 00:13.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 
21152 [1011:0024] (rev 03)
lspci -knn: 02:0a.0 SCSI storage controller [0100]: Adaptec AHA-29

Bug#505548: marked as done (installation-reports: Blank Screen using Graphical & Normal Installer)

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Package: installation-reports
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system

When booting the Lenny RC1 installer from the normal install or graphical 
installer the screen goes blank and the PC becomes unresponsive.
Cannot CTRL-ALT-DEL to reboot and have to reset the PC.  Tried vga=788 as 
suggested to use vesa but that does not work.  The Video Card is a
ATI Radeon 4850 so perhaps that has an affect on it although Beta2 installed OK 
but I think I had to use noapic at boot.

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Boot method: CD
Image version: 
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/lenny_di_rc1/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso
Date: Fri Nov 14 00:13:49 EST 2008

Machine: Asus M2N-MX AMD AM2 4800+ Generic PC
Partitions: This is from the currently running system installed via Beta 2 not 
sure if its even useful?
FilesystemType   1K-blocks  Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1 ext3 7874528   1177380   6297132  16% /
tmpfstmpfs 2074296 0   2074296   0% /lib/init/rw
udev tmpfs   10240   108 10132   2% /dev
tmpfstmpfs 2074296 0   2074296   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb3 ext365117128   1458728  60350620   3% /home


Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot:   [E]
Detect network card:[ ]
Configure network:  [ ]
Detect CD:  [ ]
Load installer modules: [ ]
Detect hard drives: [ ]
Partition hard drives:  [ ]
Install base system:[ ]
Clock/timezone setup:   [ ]
User/password setup:[ ]
Install tasks:  [ ]
Install boot loader:[ ]
Overall install:[ ]

Comments/Problems:

Besides what is written above I had to use Vesa or install the latest ReadonHD 
or ATI graphics drivers to get video to work at all.
The details below are from the currently running system.

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==
Installer lsb-release:
==
DISTRIB_ID=Debian
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Debian GNU/Linux installer"
DISTRIB_RELEASE="5.0 (lenny) - installer build 20080522"
X_INSTALLATION_MEDIUM=cdrom

==
Installer hardware-summary:
==
umame -a: Linux bertie 2.6.24-1-486 #1 Thu May 8 01:29:10 UTC 2008 i686 unknown
lspci -knn: 00:00.0 RAM memory [0500]: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Memory 
Controller [10de:03ea] (rev a1)
lspci -knn: 00:01.0 ISA bridge [0601]: nVidia Corporation MCP61 LPC Bridge 
[10de:03e0] (rev a2)
lspci -knn: 00:01.1 SMBus [0c05]: nVidia Corporation MCP61 SMBus [10de:03eb] 
(rev a2)
lspci -knn: 00:01.2 RAM memory [0500]: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Memory 
Controller [10de:03f5] (rev a2)
lspci -knn: 00:02.0 USB Controller [0c03]: nVidia Corporation MCP61 USB 
Controller [10de:03f1] (rev a2)
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
lspci -knn: Kernel modules: ohci-hcd
lspci -knn: 00:02.1 USB Controller [0c03]: nVidia Corporation MCP61 USB 
Controller [10de:03f2] (rev a2)
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
lspci -knn: Kernel modules: ehci-hcd
lspci -knn: 00:04.0 PCI bridge [0604]: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI bridge 
[10de:03f3] (rev a1)
lspci -knn: 00:05.0 Audio device [0403]: nVidia Corporation MCP61 High 
Definition Audio [10de:03f0] (rev a2)
lspci -knn: 00:06.0 IDE interface [0101]: nVidia Corporation MCP61 IDE 
[10de:03ec] (rev a2)
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: AMD_IDE
lspci -knn: Kernel modules: amd74xx
lspci -knn: 00:07.0 Bridge [0680]: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Ethernet 
[10de:03ef] (rev a2)
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: forcedeth
lspci -knn: Kernel modules: forcedeth
lspci -knn: 00:08.0 IDE interface [0101]: nVidia Corporation MCP61 SATA 
Controller [10de:03f6] (rev a2)
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: sata_nv
lspci -knn: Kernel modules

Bug#505548: installation-reports: Blank Screen using Graphical & Normal Installer

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting James Robertson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Package: installation-reports
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks the whole system
> 
> When booting the Lenny RC1 installer from the normal install or graphical 
> installer the screen goes blank and the PC becomes unresponsive.
> Cannot CTRL-ALT-DEL to reboot and have to reset the PC.  Tried vga=788 as 
> suggested to use vesa but that does not work.  The Video Card is a
> ATI Radeon 4850 so perhaps that has an affect on it although Beta2 installed 
> OK but I think I had to use noapic at boot.


Before going blank, does the system display something?




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Re: Lenny RC1: no XFS on /

[Otavio Salvador]

Walter Landry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>> It looks like it has been broken in a later NMU. Could you report a
>> bug against LILO and tag it RC?
>
> Christian Perrier already filed a bug against lilo-installer.  Should
> I close that bug and open a new bug against lilo?

Two things:

 Please do: dpkg-reconfigure -plow lilo

Does it shows the memory option to be enabled?

If it does, we might need to change the lilo default to enable it. If
it does not it has been lose in previous NMU.

>From my POV the right place to fix it is at LILO, not
lilo-installer. Do someone disagree?

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Bug#505580: Package: installation-reports

[John Talbut]

Package: installation-reports

This is mainly to report that I had some trouble installing the software
on the USB.  Generally available versions of boot.img.gz screwed up the
USB drive, after doing:
zcat /data/Downloads/Debian/boot.img.gz > /dev/sda
the drive became unreadable.  However, the daily image listed below
worked OK.

The other problem I had was knowing which iso image to install.
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch04s03.html just says "copy
a Debian netinst or businesscard ISO image to it."  which I did not find
particularly helpful.  Also I understand that it is important to get the
iso image from the same source as the boot.img.gz file.

Boot method: USB

On another Linux computer I:
Downloaded
http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/hd-media/boot.img.gz
and
Image version:
http://gensho.acc.umu.se/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso

Inserted a usb flash memory and in a user terminal did
zcat /data/Downloads/Debian/boot.img.gz > /dev/sda

Then in a root terminal did:
mount /dev/sda /mnt
cp /data/Downloads/Debian/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso /mnt
umount /mnt

(see http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch04s03.html)

Date: 3/11/08

Machine: MSI Wind U90

The rest of the installation was fairly straightforward though I have
not got around to getting the wireless to work yet.




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Re: Lenny RC1: no XFS on /

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting Otavio Salvador ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

> Two things:
> 
>  Please do: dpkg-reconfigure -plow lilo
> 
> Does it shows the memory option to be enabled?
> 
> If it does, we might need to change the lilo default to enable it. If
> it does not it has been lose in previous NMU.
> 
> >From my POV the right place to fix it is at LILO, not
> lilo-installer. Do someone disagree?


Well, the problem *is* probably an incarnation of #479607 but the fix
for it hasn't reached testing yet.

It should by tomorrow.

If we agree this is #479607, I think that we can close the bug report
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Re: Lenny RC1: no XFS on /

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Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Well, the problem *is* probably an incarnation of #479607 but the fix
> for it hasn't reached testing yet.
>
> It should by tomorrow.
>
> If we agree this is #479607, I think that we can close the bug report
> that I opened, then.

Yep; I fully agree. It would be nice to test it again once it has
migrated.

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Re: Support lxde-desktop properly in lenny D-I RC2?

[Andrew Lee]

Christian Perrier wrote:
> Given that RC2 is supposed to be a "no additionnal feature" release,
> I'd say that what you got is probably the most reasonable target to
> have.

Could we please make a exception? LXDE is a quite lightweight desktop
environment that is designed with the netbooks in mind and also
recommends by debian-eeepc team.

We have lxde packaged and lxde-desktop task created already. I think it
would be really nice if Lenny could gives our user one more alternative
desktop choice for their netbooks.

Cheers,

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Re: Lenny RC1: no XFS on /

[Walter Landry]

Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Two things:
> 
>  Please do: dpkg-reconfigure -plow lilo
> 
> Does it shows the memory option to be enabled?
> 
> If it does, we might need to change the lilo default to enable it. If
> it does not it has been lose in previous NMU.

Running that gives no output and does not modify /etc/lilo.conf.

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Re: Support lxde-desktop properly in lenny D-I RC2?

[Frans Pop]

On Thursday 13 November 2008, Andrew Lee wrote:
> Thanks for the hard work on lenny D-I RC1.
> I just tested the lenny D-I RC1 with 'tasks=lxde-desktop'. After the
> installation it gives me a LXDE desktop out of box!! Wonderful!! :)
>
> Seems only in tasksel isn't enough to make it work properly with D-I,
> cause I found the gnome-desktop task also installed with lxde-desktop
> task. :D

Eh, this is very simply just user error...
You used the "etch" invocation to select the desktop, instead of 
the "lenny" invocation. Try 'desktop=lxde' instead (and read the correct 
version of the installation guide in future ;-).

> I'd like to know what kind of/how much work should be done for make it
> supported in RC2(if we have planned)? And I'd like to help on that.

AFAICT nothing further is strictly required either in tasksel or in D-I. 

In D-I you could possibly add something like support for "sudo installs" 
(target system with root account disabled and sudo configured for regular 
user), as we have for GNOME and KDE. But that is definitely for sqeeze.

win32-loader should gain support for LXDE, but that is also likely to be 
post-lenny.


What we could possibly still do for Lenny is create an LXDE installation 
CD or, maybe better, change the current Xfce CD to support LXDE in 
addition to Xfce. As both are "lightweight", I would expect both of them 
to fit on a single CD.
Main problem with the last option would be the selection of the desired 
desktop as we can only default to one and there is currently no support 
for interactive selection. So users who want LXDE would still have to 
boot with desktop=lxde, but would still have the advantage of having all 
packages on CD.
That is, *unless* we were to hack the syslinux menus at CD build time to 
offer separate boot options for both.

The needed changes would be limited to debian-cd and IMO should all be 
doable. First action would have to be a check of space requirements.

Adding debian-cd list for discussion.

Cheers,
FJP


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Re: D-I Manual - New version uploaded -- string freeze ended, but...

[Frans Pop]

The new version of the Installation Guide was built and uploaded earlier 
today. The version on the Debian website [1] should get updated some time 
tomorrow.

Thanks, as always, to all translators for their hard work. I'm very happy 
to see that we now have almost the same number of translations as we had 
for Etch. The main missing translations are Spanish and Vietnamese, but 
we gained Greek.

To the Spanish translation team: please contact me if you would still like 
to give it a shot. There are various ways in which we could do that.
The same goes for Clytie for the Vietnamese translation of course.


The string freeze for the manual is ended, but with the following 
comments:
* I would like to keep the option open to do an extra upload for Lenny
  in case important errata are discovered or in case there are late
  changes in D-I or CDs
* so please do not commit any major changes or unnecessary changes yet
* changes describing post-lenny functionality should be committed using
  the  and similar syntax we've also used for
  Etch and Lenny; feel free to ping me for help
* patches for post-Lenny functionality can also be sent to me, in which
  case I will queue them up and commit them at some later time

Translators: please continue to keep an eye out for updates in the final 
run up to Lenny. And if you have time for reviews of your translation, 
then please do so.

Cheers,
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Bug#505642: Installation report

[Koichi Rikitake]

Package: installation-reports

Boot method: via nfs

Image version: 

http://www.gfd-dennou.org/debian/dists/stable/main/installer-mipsel/current/images/cobalt/nfsroot.tar.
gz

Date: 2008-11-14

Machine: 

Cobalt Qube2

Partitions: 

FilesystemType   1K-blocks  Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 ext378510308   1011732  73510440   2% /
tmpfstmpfs   30896 0 30896   0% /lib/init/rw
udev tmpfs   1024028 10212   1% /dev
tmpfstmpfs   30896 0 30896   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1 ext2   93295  4101 84377   5% /boot

Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot:   [O]
Detect network card:[O]
Configure network:  [O]
Detect CD:  [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives:  [O]
Install base system:[O]
Clock/timezone setup:   [O]
User/password setup:[O]
Install tasks:  [O]
Install boot loader:[O]
Overall install:[O]

Comments/Problems:




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Bug#505642: marked as done (Installation report)

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Package: installation-reports

Boot method: via nfs

Image version: 

http://www.gfd-dennou.org/debian/dists/stable/main/installer-mipsel/current/images/cobalt/nfsroot.tar.
gz

Date: 2008-11-14

Machine: 

Cobalt Qube2

Partitions: 

FilesystemType   1K-blocks  Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 ext378510308   1011732  73510440   2% /
tmpfstmpfs   30896 0 30896   0% /lib/init/rw
udev tmpfs   1024028 10212   1% /dev
tmpfstmpfs   30896 0 30896   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1 ext2   93295  4101 84377   5% /boot

Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot:   [O]
Detect network card:[O]
Configure network:  [O]
Detect CD:  [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives:  [O]
Install base system:[O]
Clock/timezone setup:   [O]
User/password setup:[O]
Install tasks:  [O]
Install boot loader:[O]
Overall install:[O]

Comments/Problems:




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installation logs that you think would be useful are attached to this
report. Please compress large files using gzip.

Once you have filled out this report, mail it to [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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* Koichi Rikitake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-11-14 12:35]:
> Cobalt Qube2

Thanks for your report.  Closing since there's nothing to fix.
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/

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