Bug#994234: installation-reports: Would be nice if debbootstrap could recognize a link is already ok instead of failing

2021-09-14 Thread Hermann Lauer
Package: installation-reports Severity: wishlist Tags: d-i Boot method: network Image version: https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/bullseye/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/netboot.tar.gz 20210731 Date: Machine: Fujitsu Esprimo Partitions: Base System Installation Checklist: [O]

Bug#980478: installation-reports: [armv7l] bullseye installation on BananaPro

2021-01-19 Thread Hermann Lauer
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Tags: patch upstream Dear Maintainer, overall installation went after an unsucessfull try end of last year rather fine, so thanks a lot for work on arm bullseye netinstall! The SoC and my setup specialities are described in https://bugs.debian.org/c

Bug#934294: installation-reports: [armv7l] buster installation on BananaPro

2019-08-09 Thread Hermann Lauer
Package: installation-reports Severity: minor Tags: d-i Dear Maintainer, overall installation went rather fine, thanks a lot for work on arm buster! U-Boot SPL 2016.11+dfsg1-4 (Mar 27 2017 - 18:39:51) DRAM: 1024 MiB CPU: 91200Hz, AXI/AHB/APB: 3/2/2 => dhcp => setenv installer-path "/bapro/d

Bug#884779: [armv7l] HOWTO get Banana M2 Ultra running

2018-02-05 Thread Hermann Lauer
Updated list of patches: r40-sata.patchl r40-usb.patchl v2-4-5-ARM-sun8i-r40-enable-USB-host-for-Banana-Pi-M2-Ultra.patch 1-2-clk-sunxi-ng-r40-rewrite-init-code-to-a-platform-driver.patch 2-2-clk-sunxi-ng-r40-export-a-regmap-to-access-the-GMAC-register.patch r40-gmac.patchl r40-gmac-dt.patchl Now

Re: How to install a stable system with a backport kernel

2018-01-25 Thread Hermann Lauer
Helle Alex, On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 01:20:16PM +1300, Alex King wrote: > I need to install a stable system, but with a kernel from backports (or > testing).  I am using netboot. > > The system needs drivers from a more modern kernel than what's in stable to > access its disks. ... > Here are some

Re: Fwd: Headless installer boot

2018-01-17 Thread Hermann Lauer
Hello Mike, On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 10:22:14PM +1300, Mike Hosken wrote: > Also implement the serial console as primary console after installation. ... > > Just a quick question I wish to use serial port as console to install > > servers. I’m not familiar with grub etc as I’ve only ever used pal

Re: Re: Help building debian-installer for arm64

2018-01-09 Thread Hermann Lauer
Hello, On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 09:43:32AM +0100, Loys Ollivier wrote: > > If you only want debian on one (or a few) special system ... there are > > other ways to get debian > > on such a system up. The way I used sometimes as describe above is to build > > the normal > > kernel package (needed

Re: Re: Help building debian-installer for arm64

2018-01-08 Thread Hermann Lauer
Hello Richard, On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 06:52:20AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > I would like to build a custom debian-installer. The reason being, this > > > > arm64 platform has a custom PHY that I need to enable in the kernel to > > > > get > > > > network access. > I've been follow

Re: Re: Help building debian-installer for arm64

2018-01-08 Thread Hermann Lauer
Hello, > On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 05:13:26PM +0100, Loys Ollivier wrote: > > > I would like to build a custom debian-installer. The reason being, this > > arm64 platform has a custom PHY that I need to enable in the kernel to get > > network access. > > > > I built the kernel and version is: > >

Bug#884779: installation-reports: [armv7l] HOWTO get Banana M2 Ultra running

2017-12-19 Thread Hermann Lauer
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Tags: upstream patch Dear Maintainer, more a status report for others trying to get debian on that ~50EUR devices running: u-boot build on a Banana Pro (stretch): $ make Bananapi_M2_Ultra_defconfig $ make -j 2 U-Boot 2017.11-rc2 (Oct 20 2017 - 22:

Re: Re: Changing di-netboot-assistants directory within the TFTP-root

2017-12-19 Thread Hermann Lauer
Hello Andi, On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 04:21:05PM +0300, Andreas B. Mundt wrote: > > > Right now, '$TFTP_ROOT/debian-installer/' is used to set up and serve > > > the netboot-images. If you also serve preseedings from the canonical > > > > just wondering if this is the default location or the only s

Re: Changing di-netboot-assistants directory within the TFTP-root

2017-12-18 Thread Hermann Lauer
Hello Andy, On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 05:22:57PM +0300, Andreas B. Mundt wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I plan to move di-netboot-assistant's directory within the TFTP-root. > > Right now, '$TFTP_ROOT/debian-installer/' is used to set up and serve > the netboot-images. If you also serve preseedings f

Bug#883580: debian-installer: arm64: please ship dtb files

2017-12-06 Thread Hermann Lauer
Hello All, On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 10:47:12PM +0100, Karsten Merker wrote: > > Please don't ship dtb files at all, including the kernel images. ... > it appears to me that this argument assumes a situation that we > simply don't have for many devices. A lot of the ARM-based > devices that Debian

UEFI install netboot grub path

2017-11-30 Thread Hermann Lauer
Hi All, when doing network installation with the files from debian/dists/stretch/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/netboot.tar.gz grub didn't find it's files if using a nonstandard tftp server layout: RRQ from 129.206.106.247 filename /debian/amd64_stretch/debian-installer/amd64/bootne

Bug#771209: netboot: recommended jessie beta2 fails due to kernel mismatch

2014-11-27 Thread Hermann Lauer
Package: installation-reports Severity: important Tags: d-i Dear Maintainer, there seems to be no checks on the debian ftp servers which hinders disapearing of udeb kernel modules while still referenced from current netboot images. So the "recommended jessie beta2" (debian.org testing) netboot

Bug#749991: both installer betas suffer from this

2014-10-14 Thread Hermann Lauer
On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 02:24:45PM +0200, Hermann Lauer wrote: > both Jessie beta 1 amd64 images (20140316 and 20140802) suffer from this. fixed with Jessie beta 2 netboot here. And serial console works with: append initrd=debian-installer/amd64/initrd.gz auto priority=critical url=h

Bug#749991: both installer betas suffer from this

2014-10-02 Thread Hermann Lauer
just to note: both Jessie beta 1 amd64 images (20140316 and 20140802) suffer from this. As a workaround I use at the moment http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd64/daily/, which starts the installer (serial console is broken) at least. In the last months I noticed the missing kernel modules bes

Bug#757787: installation-reports: sparc netboot install wheezy works only with boot.img from 2013

2014-08-11 Thread Hermann Lauer
Package: installation-reports Severity: important Dear Maintainer, the modules on the debian mirrors for the sparc architecture (wheezy) did not match the kernel in the current wheezy netboot image. Finaly found that http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/main/installer-sparc/20130430/im

Bug#595733: #595733 [sparc] sym53c8xx is not autodetected

2011-01-17 Thread Hermann Lauer
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:17:20AM +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > Hermann Lauer writes: > > > On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 08:47:40PM +, Miguel Figueiredo wrote: > > > >> sym53c8xx is included in the linux-kernel-di-sparc-2.6 so i guess it > >> should be dete

Bug#595733: #595733 [sparc] sym53c8xx is not autodetected

2011-01-17 Thread Hermann Lauer
Hello, On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 08:47:40PM +, Miguel Figueiredo wrote: > Hi, > > sym53c8xx is included in the linux-kernel-di-sparc-2.6 so i guess it > should be detected. > Can you try with a recent image and give feedback? You are right, it is detected now (9699532 2010-12-15 17:09 boot_bet

Bug#595733: installation-reports: [sparc][squeeze beta2] Sun Ultrasparc 60

2010-12-16 Thread Hermann Lauer
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal -- Package-specific info: Boot method: network Image version: http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-sparc/current/images/netboot/boot.img (01-12-10) Date: 16.12.2010 Machine: Sun Ultrasparc 60 Partitions: Base System In

Bug#595733: installation-reports: [sparc] Sun Enterprise 450 installs with minor problems

2010-09-06 Thread Hermann Lauer
Package: installation-reports Severity: minor Tags: d-i -- Package-specific info: Boot method: network Image version: http://people.debian.org/~stappers/d-i/sparc/daily/netboot/boot.img Date: 12-Jul-2010 11:27 Machine: Sun Enterprise 450 Partitions: Base System Installation Checklist: [O]

Bug#531818: installation-reports: [sparc][netboot][20090603] kernel hangs on a V480

2009-06-04 Thread Hermann Lauer
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Kernel 2.6.26 from daily netboot hangs at boot time -- Package-specific info: Boot method: network Image version: http://people.debian.org/~stappers/d-i/sparc/daily/netboot/boot.img Date: 20090604 Machine: Sun Fire 480R Partitions: na Base Sys

Bug#495216: installation-reports: sparc64 V480 lenny: installer/kernel hangs after "exec busybox init"

2008-09-17 Thread Hermann Lauer
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 04:49:34PM +0200, Jrmy Bobbio wrote: > Could you try again with one of the daily built images? Sparc kernels > for d-i have been updated and should boot properly now. Nope, Sun Fire 480R seems to hang hard in or after the cassini gigabit network driver now. Note, that this

Bug#495216: kernel 2.6.26.5 SMP boots and stable executing the installer so far

2008-09-10 Thread Hermann Lauer
little script to extract the installer initramfs from the netboot images: #!/usr/bin/python # (C) Hermann Lauer 2008 # can be distibuted under GPLv3 or later import sys f=file(sys.argv[1]) GZIPSIG='\037\213\010' x=f.read() #print x.count('\037\213\010'),x.count('\037\236&

Bug#495216: installation-reports: sparc64 V480 lenny: installer/kernel hangs after "exec busybox init"

2008-08-15 Thread Hermann Lauer
Package: installation-reports Version: lenny Severity: important -- Package-specific info: Boot method: network Image version: http://people.debian.org/~stappers/d-i/sparc/daily/netboot/boot.img 15-Aug-2008 05:14 Date: 20080815 Machine: Sun Fire V480, ultrasparc Partitions: Base System In

Bug#341380: lilo-installer cannot handle image in /boot

2006-03-28 Thread Hermann Lauer
Hi all, will this issue be fixed in an installer update for sarge ? At the moment I'm generating two links from my preseed file with the following kludge to get lilo-installer running: d-i preseed/early_command string echo "ln -s boot/initrd.img /target/initrd.img; ln -s boot/vmli