Bug#839894: installation-report: Jessie installer fails to install GRUB on a large JBOD system

2016-10-11 Thread Jonathan Quick
Hi Len On Thu, October 6, 2016 8:24 pm, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 07:45:36AM +0000, Jonathan Quick wrote: >> Whilst installing from a (Jessie) 8.6 netboot installer the GRUB >> installation step failed, leaving the system unbootable. > > Sounds like t

Bug#511683: Latest auto-install does not respect DHCP preseeding

2009-01-16 Thread Jonathan Quick
On Fri, January 16, 2009 6:57 pm, Frans Pop wrote: > On Tuesday 13 January 2009, Jonathan Quick wrote: >> While playing with the DHCP preseeding method for the installer in >> 'auto' mode, I discovered that the 20090112-20:05 daily i386 netboot >> image now asks for

Bug#511683: Latest auto-install does not respect DHCP preseeding

2009-01-13 Thread Jonathan Quick
Package: auto-install Version: 1.3 Severity: important While playing with the DHCP preseeding method for the installer in 'auto' mode, I discovered that the 20090112-20:05 daily i386 netboot image now asks for a preseed/url despite it being specified by the DHCP server - presumeably the check for

Re: Bug#509400: installation-reports: optical drive not detected (Lite-On 20X LightScribe)

2008-12-22 Thread Jonathan Quick
In-Reply-To: <1229903525.14242.43.ca...@lapdog2> Hi Jim Jim McCloskey wrote: >03:00.0 IDE interface [0101]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE6121 SATA II Controller [11ab:6121] (rev b2) > Kernel driver in use: ahci > Kernel modules: ahci, pata_marvell There is problem with support

Re: %20Bug#497212: installation-reports: booting the lenny installer via pxe leeds to a black screen

2008-09-08 Thread Jonathan Quick
Hi Jérémy On Thu, September 4, 2008 12:00 pm, Jérémy Bobbio said: > On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 09:37:31AM +0200, Jonathan Quick wrote: >> I am also seeing blank (white) screens whilst PXE netbooting both the >> text >> and graphical amd64/i386 dailies from 20080902-1 (

Re: %20Bug#497212: installation-reports: booting the lenny installer via pxe leeds to a black screen

2008-09-04 Thread Jonathan Quick
Hi Jérémy On Thu, September 4, 2008 12:00 pm, Jérémy Bobbio said: > On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 09:37:31AM +0200, Jonathan Quick wrote: >> I am also seeing blank (white) screens whilst PXE netbooting both the >> text >> and graphical amd64/i386 dailies from 20080902-1 (

Re:%20Bug#497212: installation-reports: booting the lenny installer via pxe leeds to a black screen

2008-09-03 Thread Jonathan Quick
In-Reply-To=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 8:59:09PM +0200, Master wrote: >On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Jérémy Bobbio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> tags 497212 - patch >> thanks >> >> On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 12:13:00AM +0200, Master wrote: >>> It seems that debian-installer/i386/pxe

(Weekly) Multi-arch netinst CD has incorrect initrd.gz for amd64 gtk installer

2007-03-14 Thread Jonathan Quick
Hi I've just downloaded and tested the weekly testing multi-arch netinst CD: Debian GNU/Linux testing "Etch" - Official Snapshot Multi-architecture i386/amd64/powerpc NETINST #1 20070312-12:06 and discovered that all the amd64 gtk installer targets loop endlessly on startup (the corresponding

Bug#378817: NForce chipset - Debian Sarge Installer

2006-07-19 Thread Jonathan Quick
Hi Phillip Just noticed your post to the debian-boot mailing list. I ran into the same issue, which is that 'forecdeth' in the 2.4 kernel does not include patches from NVidia to support 1Gbps NForce chipsets. However the version in the 2.6 kernel does support these chipsets. So at the bootloa

Why are Sarge debian-installer Packages files not updating

2004-02-25 Thread Jonathan Quick
Hi Does anyone know why the debian/dists/sarge/main/debian-installer/binary-*/Packages[.gz] are no longer updating? The latest versions include debootstrap-udeb_0.2.26 which installs lilo but not libdevmapper1.00, thus breaking d-i from the archive. Regards Jonathan Quick PS

Woody boot-floppies use flawed kernels

2003-04-02 Thread Jonathan Quick
be available too. Perhaps a critical or grave bug should be filed against the boot-floppies & debian-cd to ensure this issue receives attention ? Regards Jonathan Quick Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Boot system can talk to SCSI tapes

2001-04-24 Thread Jonathan Quick
a root filesystem elsewhere and that doesn't fit on a 1.44MB floppy anymore :-( Any suggestions ?? Jonathan Quick Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory, South Africa PS: Please cc. me on the replies as I'm not subscribed to this mailing list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM