Bug#130893: boot-floppies: new boot disk made at end of installation takes forever to load

2002-01-25 Thread Andrew T . Young
Package: boot-floppies Version: N/A Severity: wishlist At the end of the installation process, a new "custom boot floppy" is made that mounts the newly-installed root filesystem. This disk is first formatted (apparently by superformat) with interleave 1. Unfortunately, if you try to boot from t

Re: cannot mount root fs - 2.2r4 on compaq 1850R

2002-01-25 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 06:24:59PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello. I'm trying to boot a Debian 2.2r4 cd on a Compaq 1850R. Everything > goes fine until: Do you mean it installs fine, and the system doesn't come up after the reboot? > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 02:00

Urgent Investment

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Fix problem report, in progress on hard disk install problems

2002-01-25 Thread Chris Tillman
I started in on getting the hard disk installation to work again. For the first effort, I logically encapsulated the problem report directory entry into its own function (getting a directory is really a little different from getting a mountpoint). I also prevented the partition from getting umount

Re: netinst asks for basedebs.tar ?

2002-01-25 Thread Chris Tillman
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 04:08:22AM +0100, Manuel Clos wrote: > Hi all, > > where should I get the basedebs.tar that the netinst CD ask for when I > select "Install Base System" ? > > Thanks. If you are selecting a network install and have a working network, you don't need basedebs. At this tim

cannot mount root fs - 2.2r4 on compaq 1850R

2002-01-25 Thread debian
Hello. I'm trying to boot a Debian 2.2r4 cd on a Compaq 1850R. Everything goes fine until: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 02:00 I also downloaded disk images from http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/compact/ Same result with both sets

Re: WTF is with dhcp?

2002-01-25 Thread Matt Kraai
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 09:28:11AM +0100, Jerome Petazzoni wrote: > > [udhcpc in boot floppies] > > Another problem is the lack of integration with ifupdown. This > > means we'll need to use a different client after rebooting. > > I use udhcpc on some machines here, because it is the only > cl

Re: Bug#130482: 3.0.19 show-stoppers

2002-01-25 Thread Stefan Gybas
Anthony Towns wrote: > Uh. You didn't file bugs for the things you fixed, nor did you send a > patch to the BTS. That is incredibly poor form. I just sent the patch to the BTS, I simply wanted to wait until the package actually got installed. Sorry, I wasn't sitting at my PC yesterday evening (

Re: 3.0.19 show-stoppers

2002-01-25 Thread Richard Hirst
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 04:21:28PM +0100, Stefan Gybas wrote: > I'd like to disable this section for the boot-floppies, it's not > necessary there: > > if [ -n "$USE_BOOTFLOPPIES_INTERACTION" ]; then > mknod -m 600 $TARGET/dev/initctl p > cat <$TARGET/dev/initctl >/dev/null &

Bug#129479: scsi disk not detected

2002-01-25 Thread Manuel Quesada
Chris Tillman wrote: > > Well, certainly, you do not have a scsi disk that mac-fdisk can > find. Is it by chance a pc-formatted scsi? mac-fdisk would try to read > the partition table at the beginning of the disk, which is an Apple > format. > No, it's a Mac formated hard disk (in fact, I use

Re: WTF is with dhcp?

2002-01-25 Thread Jerome Petazzoni
[udhcpc in boot floppies] > Another problem is the lack of integration with ifupdown. This > means we'll need to use a different client after rebooting. I use udhcpc on some machines here, because it is the only client which will allow me to have eth0 statically configured and eth0:0 configure