Re: Users of testing (lenny) - do not upgrade!

2008-04-29 Thread Rod Whitby
Simon Voortman wrote: I did a fresh install with the latest release from http://www.slug-firmware.net/ because it says: Latest release Debian/NSLU2 Experimental 5.0beta1 (Unreleased Beta) Old releases These releases are obsolete and no longer supported. Please use the latest release.

RE: Thecus N299

2008-04-29 Thread Bill Gatliff
How does "solder onto the RedBoot UART" count as a "remote exploit"? ;) -Original Message- From: "Michael Goetze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-arm@lists.debian.org Sent: 4/29/08 3:42 PM Subject: Thecus N299 Hi, aparently Thecus has released a new, incredibly cheap, 2-Bay NAS, the N2

Thecus N299

2008-04-29 Thread Michael Goetze
Hi, aparently Thecus has released a new, incredibly cheap, 2-Bay NAS, the N299. It seems to run on the Gemini SL3516[1] which seems to have all the necessary code already available under the GPL [2]. Now, since I'm a cheapo, and the N2100 costs twice as much, I'm quite interested. I wonde

Re: Users of testing (lenny) - do not upgrade!

2008-04-29 Thread Simon Voortman
Martin Michlmayr schreef: Kevin Price reported that the new initramfs-tools in testing (version 0.92) generates a ramdisk that does not boot correctly on the NSLU2 - it makes your system unbootable (see bug #478236). Note that this bug only affects users of testing - users of Debian 4.0 are not

Users of testing (lenny) - do not upgrade!

2008-04-29 Thread Martin Michlmayr
Kevin Price reported that the new initramfs-tools in testing (version 0.92) generates a ramdisk that does not boot correctly on the NSLU2 - it makes your system unbootable (see bug #478236). Note that this bug only affects users of testing - users of Debian 4.0 are not affected. If you run Debian

Re: Bug#478236: initramfs 0.92 makes slug unbootable (armel/lenny)

2008-04-29 Thread Martin Michlmayr
I can confirm this bug. Do not upgrade your nslu2 in case you're running testing (lenny) rather than stable (etch)! The initramfs-tools maintainer will upload a fixed package later today. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: 2 Disks (by label/UUID)

2008-04-29 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Stuart Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-04-27 23:23]: > Reading package lists... Error! > E: Malformed 3rd word in the Status line > E: Error occurred while processing initramfs-tools (UsePackage2) > E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status > E: The package lists or status file could not be p

Re: Bug#478236: initramfs 0.92 makes slug unbootable (armel/lenny)

2008-04-29 Thread maximilian attems
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Kevin Price wrote: > maximilian attems schrieb: > > is it reproducible? > > Yes. I updated a bunch of packages, making the slug unbootable. Then I > flashed the backup. After a normal boot, I installed initramfs-tools > 0.91e, flashed again, which made it boot OK. Then I upda

Re: Progress on Bug#444271 / N2100 disk performance

2008-04-29 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Martin Michlmayr schrieb: * Tomasz Chmielewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-04-29 14:56]: Odd, they definitely sped up things here (on N2100). Could you send me your .config for N2100? I've attached a config file, but basically, you just need to enable the DMA engine and the options that the pat

Re: Progress on Bug#444271 / N2100 disk performance

2008-04-29 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Tomasz Chmielewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-04-29 14:56]: >> Odd, they definitely sped up things here (on N2100). > Could you send me your .config for N2100? I've attached a config file, but basically, you just need to enable the DMA engine and the options that the patches add. -- Martin Mich

Re: Progress on Bug#444271 / N2100 disk performance

2008-04-29 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Martin Michlmayr schrieb: * Tomasz Chmielewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-04-29 14:36]: Last time I tried those patches on N4100, which should be similar, (2.6.23-iop series, and every earlier release) disk performance was still very poor. Odd, they definitely sped up things here (on N2100).

Re: Progress on Bug#444271 / N2100 disk performance

2008-04-29 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Tomasz Chmielewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-04-29 14:36]: > Last time I tried those patches on N4100, which should be similar, > (2.6.23-iop series, and every earlier release) disk performance was > still very poor. Odd, they definitely sped up things here (on N2100). -- Martin Michlmayr http

Re: Progress on Bug#444271 / N2100 disk performance

2008-04-29 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Martin Michlmayr schrieb: * Tomasz Chmielewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-04-24 13:23]: Are these patches the same as those on http://sf.net/projects/xscaleiop or is it something different? Yeah, the patches are in there. Also look for Dan William's mail to linux-arm-kernel a few weeks ago whe