vesa framebuffer

2008-11-12 Thread Salvatore De Paolis
Hi all, i'm new here and i'm learning about debian-installer. At this time there's one behavior i still did not figure out. I did this couple of tests: 1) make build_hd-media_gtk 2) make build_netboot_gtk With the first i'm not able to enable the VESA framebuffer. I tried in different ways but i

Re: Lenny RC1: no XFS on /

2008-11-12 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Otavio Salvador ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Walter Landry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Walter, maybe you (just doing a simple install, with the "standard > >> system" task only > > > > Sorry if I did not make it clear. I did test the i386 installer, and > > XFS on "/" did work. It i

Re: Lenny RC1: no XFS on /

2008-11-12 Thread Walter Landry
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 opti

Reinstall to a NSLU2?

2008-11-12 Thread Dean
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

Re: Lenny RC1: no XFS on /

2008-11-12 Thread Otavio Salvador
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? Cheers, -- O T A V I OS A L V A D O R - E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Debian Installer lenny release candidate 1

2008-11-12 Thread Otavio Salvador
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Debian Installer lenny release candidate 1 ~~ The Debian Installer team[1] is proud to announce the first release candidate of the installer for Debian GNU/Linux Lenny. Improvements in this release of the insta

Bug#505496: syslinux: default64 doesn't work after after reloading "config" file.

2008-11-12 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Package: syslinux Version: 2:3.71+dfsg-5 Severity: normal In the attached example (built with the script below), the idea is to automatically load vesamenu from isolinux.cfg. Then it is possible to quit the vesa menu (to use the F1 and F2 help screen. If one press "Enter", default or default64 s

Bug#505494: syslinux: ifcpu64.c32 doesn't work under virtualbox (always run 64bit thing)

2008-11-12 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Package: syslinux Version: 2:3.71+dfsg-5 Severity: normal The module ifcpu64.c32 doesn't work as expected under virtualbox. If we build a simple test image with the script below. * virtualbox will always try to run the entry "a64", where as qemu and qemu-system-x86_64 works as expected. * defa

Re: Lenny RC1: no XFS on /

2008-11-12 Thread Walter Landry
Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Walter Landry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Walter, maybe you (just doing a simple install, with the "standard > >> system" task only > > > > Sorry if I did not make it clear. I did test the i386 installer, and > > XFS on "/" did work. It is

Re: Lenny RC1: no XFS on /

2008-11-12 Thread Otavio Salvador
Walter Landry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Walter, maybe you (just doing a simple install, with the "standard >> system" task only > > Sorry if I did not make it clear. I did test the i386 installer, and > XFS on "/" did work. It is only on amd64 that it does not. I tried > again with jus

Bug#505477: partman hangs if you press "Go Back" after warning message

2008-11-12 Thread Knut Auvor Grythe
Package: partman-base Severity: important This might be a partman-lvm issue instead, I'm not quite sure. When doing manual partitioning, selecting a physical lvm partition and pressing Enter the following message is displayed with a red background: "Partition in use No modifications can be mad

Re: [PROPOSAL] Identify tasks in the D-I team and "assign" them

2008-11-12 Thread Miguel Figueiredo
Reorganized in 3 main topics: - d-i Release Management - 'product' Development - Documentation Added a few topics marked with "+". - Mensagem Original- De: Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Para: debian-boot@lists.debian.org Assunto: [PROPOSAL] Identify tasks in the D-I team and "as

Re: Lenny RC1: no XFS on /

2008-11-12 Thread Walter Landry
Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting Walter Landry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > 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 part

Bug#498789: Pleas include dmraid=true in Special boot parameters help

2008-11-12 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 12 November 2008, Giuseppe Iuculano wrote: > Christian Perrier ha scritto: > > I think we can now safely assume that this is delayed for squeeze and > > to be moved in the "wished features" list (and probably the release > > goals list). > > My first request was to add a simple line in

Re: Lenny RC1: no XFS on /

2008-11-12 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Walter Landry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > 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: > > RAMD

Bug#498789: Pleas include dmraid=true in Special boot parameters help

2008-11-12 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
Christian Perrier ha scritto: > I think we can now safely assume that this is delayed for squeeze and > to be moved in the "wished features" list (and probably the release > goals list). My first request was to add a simple line in build/boot/x86/f8.txt. Is this possible? Giuseppe. signature

Bug#505243: Multiarch CD directly boots in the amd64 installer

2008-11-12 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 16:23 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Tuesday 11 November 2008, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > Here's a proper patch against SVN repository: > > > > I'll try to build a CD, and test it tomorrow on some computers at work. > > I'm afraid that IMO this patch is not a very good idea. >

Bug#505408: cdebconf-gtk: Display problems with italic font in Dzongkha installs

2008-11-12 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Martin Michlmayr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > * Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-11-12 07:58]: > > Package: cdebconf-gtk > > There's no such package? Oh, bleh, sorry for the time you lost on that. I hastily write this bug report in my morning bus ride and my stop was approaching..:-

Bug#498789: Pleas include dmraid=true in Special boot parameters help

2008-11-12 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Giuseppe Iuculano ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Frans Pop ha scritto: > > > Note that I'm working on a "settings" option for the installer that will > > make it a lot easier for users to select options such as dmraid and > > multipath (without requiring a boot parameter). > > Hi, > > is there

[PROPOSAL] Identify tasks in the D-I team and "assign" them

2008-11-12 Thread Christian Perrier
Recent discussions around the release as well as during the release preparation meetings we had these days lead to realize that our team suffers from some misunderstandings/disagreements/whatever about the "Who does what" topic. We also suffer from low resources but sometimes have hard time tellin

Bug#505454: tasksel: [PATCH] Add a few useful Telugu tasks

2008-11-12 Thread Y Giridhar Appaji Nag
On 08/10/26 07:52 +0100, Christian Perrier said ... > Quoting Y Giridhar Appaji Nag ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > Attached patch for Telugu translation of tasksel. The patch also adds > > tasks for setting up a Telugu environment and KDE/GNOME desktop variants. > > Hmmm, could you please split th

Bug#503417: tasksel: [PATCH] New te_IN translation

2008-11-12 Thread Y Giridhar Appaji Nag
On 08/10/26 07:52 +0100, Christian Perrier said ... > Quoting Y Giridhar Appaji Nag ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Attached patch for Telugu translation of tasksel. The patch also adds > > tasks for setting up a Telugu environment and KDE/GNOME desktop variants. > > Hmmm, could you please split this in

Bug#505243: Multiarch CD directly boots in the amd64 installer

2008-11-12 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 11 November 2008, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > Here's a proper patch against SVN repository: > > I'll try to build a CD, and test it tomorrow on some computers at work. I'm afraid that IMO this patch is not a very good idea. First of all, as it is, it is incomplete and breaks other installa

Processed: split translation and tasks to different bugs

2008-11-12 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > clone 503417 -1 Bug#503417: tasksel: [PATCH] New te_IN translation + Add a few useful Telugu tasks Bug 503417 cloned as bug 505454. > retitle 503417 tasksel: [PATCH] New te_IN translation Bug#503417: tasksel: [PATCH] New te_IN translation + Add a few

Bug#498789: Pleas include dmraid=true in Special boot parameters help

2008-11-12 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
Frans Pop ha scritto: > Note that I'm working on a "settings" option for the installer that will > make it a lot easier for users to select options such as dmraid and > multipath (without requiring a boot parameter). Hi, is there any status update regarding dmraid=true boot parameters or your