Re: New request for Review: Errata page

2009-01-27 Thread Mike Grice
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Christian Perrier (bubu...@debian.org): >> The errata page hasn't changed since December, when I cooked it and >> asked for a review. > > > I commented the Sparc issues (Jurij Smakov confirmed both of them being > fixed) and the P

Re: Pre-bug-raising questions

2009-01-23 Thread Mike Grice
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 19:46 +0000, Mike Grice wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Ian Campbell wrote: >> > On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 16:43 +, Mike Grice wrote: >> >> 2009/1/19 Mike Grice : >> >&

Re: Pre-bug-raising questions

2009-01-19 Thread Mike Grice
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Frans Pop wrote: > On Monday 19 January 2009, Mike Grice wrote: >> So I guess the salient points from all the above are: >> >> 1) the debian-installer is not detecting the correct modules for the >> hdd and net even though theyre presen

Re: Pre-bug-raising questions

2009-01-19 Thread Mike Grice
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 16:43 +0000, Mike Grice wrote: >> 2009/1/19 Mike Grice : >> > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Ian Campbell wrote: >> >> On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 14:12 +, Mike Grice wrote: >> &

Re: Pre-bug-raising questions

2009-01-19 Thread Mike Grice
2009/1/19 Mike Grice : > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Ian Campbell wrote: >> On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 14:12 +0000, Mike Grice wrote: >>> >>> Select a language: English >>> Choose Language: default >>> Detect Network Hardware: >>> "No Eth

Re: Pre-bug-raising questions

2009-01-19 Thread Mike Grice
2009/1/19 Mike Grice : > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Bastian Blank wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:52:59AM +0000, Mike Grice wrote: >>> I'm pleased to say that this gets further than ever before: >>> - it fails to detect the network device but i'

Re: Pre-bug-raising questions

2009-01-19 Thread Mike Grice
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:52:59AM +0000, Mike Grice wrote: >> I'm pleased to say that this gets further than ever before: >> - it fails to detect the network device but i'm able to select the >> correct one

Pre-bug-raising questions

2009-01-19 Thread Mike Grice
Hi guys, Many thanks for your closure of my recent bug to get the Sun LDOM modules included into the Debian-installer (and the associated kernel work). To further the process, I tried to do an install using the daily netboot image at http://people.debian.org/~stappers/d-i/sparc/daily/netboot/boot

Bug#504702: Status update on blocking bug

2008-12-15 Thread Mike Grice
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Frans Pop wrote: > On Monday 15 December 2008, Mike Grice wrote: >> SVN update of kernel will resolve the blocking bug 501651. > > No, it won't. Only an actual upload of the kernel with that fix included > will do that. My bad, I'm

Bug#504702: Status update on blocking bug

2008-12-15 Thread Mike Grice
SVN update of kernel will resolve the blocking bug 501651. >From the kernel changelog: linux-2.6 (2.6.26-12) UNRELEASED; urgency=low [ Bastian Blank ] * [sparc] Enable Sun Logical Domains support. (closes: #501684) Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

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

2008-11-19 Thread Mike Grice
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 6:38 AM, Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -snipped- > - Porting > - powerpc > - alpha > - m68k > - mips/mipsel > - arm > - ia64 > - x86 > - amd64 -snipped- > Testing: > > - Manual non regression tests > - Automated D-I tests > - Usability and in

Re: Installing Debian on late 2008 MacBook Pro

2008-11-18 Thread Mike Grice
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 6:24 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > (This is both an install report and a help request, so I'm cross-posting on > debian-boot and debian-user.) > > I'm trying to install Debian on a late 2008 MacBook Pro. > > I had no luck with Debian Etch 4.0r5 (AMD64): the

Re: Sparc d-i terminal weirdness?

2008-11-06 Thread Mike Grice
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 06 November 2008, Mike Grice wrote: >> Ok, I got a little further. I started running the wrapper scripts the >> same way init calls them (via reopen-console). The first part of the >&

Bug#504721: Console broken on debian-installer on Sparc LDOM

2008-11-06 Thread Mike Grice
Package: rootskel Version: 1.69 Severity: important Hi rootskel maintainers :) I've been trying to get debian-installer (lenny) working on a Sun LDOM (i.e., SPARC, sun4v). I'm having some trouble, though. When the installer boots, you get a mono console, and the arrow keys, tab, and enter don't

Re: Sparc d-i terminal weirdness?

2008-11-06 Thread Mike Grice
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 03 November 2008, Mike Grice wrote: >> > Does the Etch version of the installer work? >> >> No. I'm actually doing a netboot into a SUN LDOM. This shouldn't be >> any

Bug#504702: Enable sunvnet and sunvdc modules in the installer kernel

2008-11-06 Thread Mike Grice
Package: linux-kernel-di-sparc-2.6 Version: 1.37 Severity: wishlist This refers to bug 501651, a wishlist bug to enable these modules and the kernel option CONFIG_SUN_LDOMS in the kernel. Discussion on this took place on debian-boot here: Please enable the two modules: sunvdc (block) sunvnet (n

Re: Sparc d-i terminal weirdness?

2008-11-03 Thread Mike Grice
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:41 AM, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 16 October 2008, Mike Grice wrote: >> > Does the current daily built image for sparc have the same problem? >> >> I couldn't find this until just now (I think the link was a 4

Re: Sparc d-i terminal weirdness?

2008-10-16 Thread Mike Grice
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Mike Grice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thursday 16 October 2008, Mike Grice wrote: >>> debian-installer_20080522.dsc >> >> This is anci

Re: Sparc d-i terminal weirdness?

2008-10-16 Thread Mike Grice
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 16 October 2008, Mike Grice wrote: >> debian-installer_20080522.dsc > > This is ancient. > Suggest you try current subversion repository instead: > svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/d-i

Sparc d-i terminal weirdness?

2008-10-16 Thread Mike Grice
Hi there, I just built a netboot image from lenny using the source from these packages: linux-2.6_2.6.26-5.dsc debian-installer_20080522.dsc linux-kernel-di-sparc-2.6_1.37.dsc and kernel-wedge version 2.52. I retrieved my kernel config from here: http://merkel.debian.org/~jurij/2.6.26-8/sparc/c

Bug#501651: debian-installer: Unable to install lenny onto a Sun logical domain

2008-10-09 Thread Mike Grice
Package: debian-installer Version: 20080522 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Please note the system I'm reporting this bug on does not match the one I am having a problem with. I am unable to install Debian GNU/Linux "Lenny" onto a Sun LDOM via the netinstall (boot.img

Re: [ANN] Debian Installer Timeline - Release Candidate 1

2008-10-07 Thread Mike Grice
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 1:39 AM, Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 08:33:00PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: >>>Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> By now, we'll wait until libdebian-installer is ready

Re: Lenny install onto a Sun LDOM?

2008-10-07 Thread Mike Grice
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Mike Grice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm having some great difficulty getting Debian installed onto a Sun > LDOM (virtual machine). For all intents and purposes, it behaves like > SPARC, but network and disk are presente

Lenny install onto a Sun LDOM?

2008-10-07 Thread Mike Grice
Hi there, I'm having some great difficulty getting Debian installed onto a Sun LDOM (virtual machine). For all intents and purposes, it behaves like SPARC, but network and disk are presented through specific drivers (sunvnet and sunvdc). Has anyone got this working, as these drivers are not in t