Re: Test images for Debian lenny rc2 available

2009-03-11 Thread Marc Singer
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 09:21:52PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Martin Michlmayr [2009-03-05 08:44]: > > Can you run > > sh -x oldsys-preseed > > and send the output to me in private mail. > > For the record, we identified the problem (with the help of John > Bowler) and the problem is fi

Re: Test images for Debian lenny rc2 available

2009-03-10 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Martin Michlmayr [2009-03-05 08:44]: > Can you run > sh -x oldsys-preseed > and send the output to me in private mail. For the record, we identified the problem (with the help of John Bowler) and the problem is fixed in oldsys-preseed 3.5. There was a problem parsing the empty SysConf partit

Re: Test images for Debian lenny rc2 available

2009-03-08 Thread Marc Singer
On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 07:04:02AM +, Bob Cox wrote: > On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 22:32:14 -0800, Marc Singer (e...@buici.com) wrote: > > > In testing another Debian install on a slug, I found a host that won't > > set the clock. During installation, there was a step where it tried > > to set t

Re: Test images for Debian lenny rc2 available

2009-03-07 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Marc Singer [2009-03-07 22:32]: > Setting the system clock. > > Eventually it gives up and continues to boot. > > Is the cause of this kind of failure known? I don't know, but I'm being told that there's a patch for util-linux that will fix it (see #494817). I cannot verify this myself s

Re: Test images for Debian lenny rc2 available

2009-03-07 Thread Bob Cox
On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 22:32:14 -0800, Marc Singer (e...@buici.com) wrote: > In testing another Debian install on a slug, I found a host that won't > set the clock. During installation, there was a step where it tried > to set the clock and the installer asked if I wanted to continue > waiting

Re: Test images for Debian lenny rc2 available

2009-03-07 Thread Marc Singer
In testing another Debian install on a slug, I found a host that won't set the clock. During installation, there was a step where it tried to set the clock and the installer asked if I wanted to continue waiting while it tried to set the clock. Once it rebooted the host, the system hung while att

Re: Test images for Debian lenny rc2 available

2009-03-07 Thread Bob Cox
On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 03:51:19 -0500, Rick Thomas (rbthoma...@pobox.com) wrote: > > On Mar 7, 2009, at 3:25 AM, Bob Cox wrote: > >> In your original post you indicated that you had the slug setup to use >> DHCP. Would it be possible for you to reflash with the Linksys >> firmware, then set a

Re: Test images for Debian lenny rc2 available

2009-03-07 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 7, 2009, at 3:25 AM, Bob Cox wrote: In your original post you indicated that you had the slug setup to use DHCP. Would it be possible for you to reflash with the Linksys firmware, then set a hostname, static IP address, netmask, default gateway and nameserver and try again with the lenn

Re: Test images for Debian lenny rc2 available

2009-03-07 Thread Bob Cox
On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 09:27:53 +0100, Martin Michlmayr (t...@cyrius.com) wrote: > * Bob Cox [2009-03-07 08:25]: > > I only suggest this because I have never had a failure with an install > > with all of these parameters specified, but ISTR my only problem intall > > was with trying to use DHC

Re: Test images for Debian lenny rc2 available

2009-03-07 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Bob Cox [2009-03-07 08:25]: > I only suggest this because I have never had a failure with an install > with all of these parameters specified, but ISTR my only problem intall > was with trying to use DHCP. What problem did you have? DHCP should work fine, but it's possible that something is br

Re: Test images for Debian lenny rc2 available

2009-03-07 Thread Bob Cox
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 14:42:36 -0800, Marc Singer (e...@buici.com) wrote: > On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 08:14:15PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > * Martin Michlmayr [2009-03-04 16:37]: > > > * Marc Singer [2009-03-04 07:31]: > > > > I'm not sure why I expected the installer to configure the n

Re: Test images for Debian lenny rc2 available

2009-03-04 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Marc Singer [2009-03-04 14:41]: > The syslog is attached. I forgot that this wouldn't contain the information I'm looking for because lowmem removes the initial log files to save space. Can you run sh -x oldsys-preseed and send the output to me in private mail. -- Martin Michlmayr http://w

Re: Test images for Debian lenny rc2 available

2009-03-04 Thread Marc Singer
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 08:14:15PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Martin Michlmayr [2009-03-04 16:37]: > > * Marc Singer [2009-03-04 07:31]: > > > I'm not sure why I expected the installer to configure the network > > > interface and setup SSH without intervention. Neither of the two > > > i

Re: Test images for Debian lenny rc2 available

2009-03-04 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Martin Michlmayr [2009-03-04 16:37]: > * Marc Singer [2009-03-04 07:31]: > > I'm not sure why I expected the installer to configure the network > > interface and setup SSH without intervention. Neither of the two > > installer images I tried would. > > Which image do you use exactly? And do

Re: Test images for Debian lenny rc2 available

2009-03-04 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Marc Singer [2009-03-04 07:31]: > I'm not sure why I expected the installer to configure the network > interface and setup SSH without intervention. Neither of the two > installer images I tried would. Which image do you use exactly? And do you use a USB stick or the built-in Ethernet? Can y

Re: Test images for Debian lenny rc2 available

2009-03-04 Thread Marc Singer
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 06:12:52PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Marc Singer [2009-03-02 20:21]: > > An older firmware image failed as well, but in that case the red LED > > is on as is the network LINK LED. I don't have a console cable here, > > so I cannot tell what is failing. I'll take

Re: Test images for Debian lenny rc2 available

2009-03-04 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Marc Singer [2009-03-02 20:21]: > An older firmware image failed as well, but in that case the red LED > is on as is the network LINK LED. I don't have a console cable here, > so I cannot tell what is failing. I'll take it to work tomorrow and > do more diagnosis. That'd be great! -- Martin

Re: Test images for Debian lenny rc2 available

2009-03-03 Thread Marc Singer
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 08:21:05PM -0800, Marc Singer wrote: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 05:27:56PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > Just to let you know that test images of the second release candidate > > (rc2) of the installer for Debian 5.0 (lenny) are now available. You > > can download the i

Re: Test images for Debian lenny rc2 available

2009-03-02 Thread Marc Singer
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 05:27:56PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Just to let you know that test images of the second release candidate > (rc2) of the installer for Debian 5.0 (lenny) are now available. You > can download the images from > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/installer-ar

Re: Test images for Debian lenny rc2 available

2009-02-08 Thread Gordon Farquharson
Hi Loïc On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 08:13, Gordon Farquharson wrote: > I should really try this out :-) I forgot that you need to prepend a shim [1] to the kernel image [2]. I tested the method I described with a prebuilt shim that was built with the kernel command line: init=/linuxrc root=/dev/mtd

Re: Test images for Debian lenny rc2 available

2009-02-08 Thread Gordon Farquharson
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 04:33, Loïc Minier wrote: > Interesting, didn't think of that! Debian and Ubuntu armel are both > targetting armel only, so while an interesting stunt I don't think I'll > aim at providing armeb kernels; instead I guess I'll try to load an > APEX image as d-i does. Yo

Re: Test images for Debian lenny rc2 available

2009-02-08 Thread Loïc Minier
On Sat, Feb 07, 2009, Gordon Farquharson wrote: > I haven't tested this idea out, but could this problem be due to the > Endianess of the kernel image you loaded? That is, the kernel image at > ftp.debian.org is little Endian, but RedBoot expects to load a big > Endian image. Interesting, didn't

Re: Test images for Debian lenny rc2 available

2009-02-07 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Loïc Minier [2009-02-07 14:52]: > However, I also flashed the released Debian firmware image and it > worked fine! One weird thing is that the SSH key generation remained > at 0% until it was complete (no progress feedback), but that's ok. Yes, this is expected. The progress bar is not update

Re: Test images for Debian lenny rc2 available

2009-02-07 Thread Loïc Minier
Hey On Sat, Jan 24, 2009, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Just to let you know that test images of the second release candidate > (rc2) of the installer for Debian 5.0 (lenny) are now available. You > can download the images from > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/installer-armel/cur

Re: Test images for Debian lenny rc2 available

2009-01-28 Thread packetfish
non-stock firmware. -Jeff -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Test-images-for-Debian-lenny-rc2-available-tp21642373p21711293.html Sent from the debian-arm mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &quo

Re: Test images for Debian lenny rc2 available

2009-01-28 Thread Gordon Farquharson
Hi Martin On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 09:27, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Unless there are major problems with rc2, these installer images will > become the official installer for lenny. So if you have a spare ARM > machine or want to reinstall your machine for some reason (for example > to move from

Re: Test images for Debian lenny rc2 available

2009-01-27 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Oystein Viggen [2009-01-27 21:38]: > > They relaxed their policies a bit, which is why we have the microcode > > in non-free now. I don't have any IXP contacts at Intel, so I cannot > > ask whether they could completely open source it. > > Does redistributable microcode mean we might see offic

Re: Test images for Debian lenny rc2 available

2009-01-27 Thread Oystein Viggen
* [Martin Michlmayr] > They relaxed their policies a bit, which is why we have the microcode > in non-free now. I don't have any IXP contacts at Intel, so I cannot > ask whether they could completely open source it. Does redistributable microcode mean we might see official nslu2 install images

Re: Test images for Debian lenny rc2 available

2009-01-26 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Andrew M.A. Cater [2009-01-25 16:17]: > Works for me on an NSLU2 - given Intel's recent openness about their > code, is there any scope to ask them to release the IXP4xx microcode > - or Marvell or whoever finally got the IXP* licences? They relaxed their policies a bit, which is why we have th

Re: Test images for Debian lenny rc2 available

2009-01-25 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 05:27:56PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Just to let you know that test images of the second release candidate > (rc2) of the installer for Debian 5.0 (lenny) are now available. You > can download the images from > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/installer-ar

Re: Test images for Debian lenny rc2 available

2009-01-24 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Bengt Bolinder [2009-01-24 19:51]: > When i ssh into the NSLU2 and want to set the archive, I get this error: > > [!!] Choose a mirror of the Debian archive > The specified Debian archive mirror is either not available, or does > not have a valid Release file on it. Please try a different mir

Re: Test images for Debian lenny rc2 available

2009-01-24 Thread Bengt Bolinder
Hi Martin. I have a NSLU2 I want to use with a webcam. I have just uploaded the di-nslu2.bin debian-armel-5.0rc2-test1.zip. Upload works fine. When i ssh into the NSLU2 and want to set the archive, I get this error: [!!] Choose a mirror of the Debian archive The specified Debian archive mirror i

Test images for Debian lenny rc2 available

2009-01-24 Thread Martin Michlmayr
Just to let you know that test images of the second release candidate (rc2) of the installer for Debian 5.0 (lenny) are now available. You can download the images from http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/installer-armel/current/images/ NSLU2 users: firmware images with the IXP4xx microcod