Re: DI 7.0 Beta4: fails to mount and find non-free firmware?

2013-01-02 Thread Shyamal Prasad
>>>>> "Cyril" == Cyril Brulebois writes: Cyril> Hello, Shyamal Prasad (02/01/2013): >> >> This was apparently fixed here >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=694082 >> >> I'm presuming this

DI 7.0 Beta4: fails to mount and find non-free firmware?

2013-01-02 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Hi, While trying to install Wheezy on a Dell XPS 13 Laptop (no ethernet, USB boot, only iwlwifi based WLAN) I ran into a problem where DI would not find the non-free firmware on a second USB until I manually mounted the second device on /media Basically, it seems to be the problem reported in ht

Bug#359164: [powerpc64] d-i fails, base-installer/initramfs/no-generator

2006-03-26 Thread Shyamal Prasad
fjp> This is not an initramfs-tools problem, but the result of fjp> powerpc daily d-i builds, for which Sven himself is fjp> responsible, failing for the last fjp> few days. Just for the record, I tried d-i rc2 and it worked like a charm (except for a constant set of error windows

Re: d-i daily build fails when building initrd (PowerMac7,3)

2006-03-26 Thread Shyamal Prasad
> "Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sven> Please file an installation report, CCed to Sven> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sure thing: #359164 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=359164 I am presuming some one with a better understanding of the issue can reassign it

Bug#359164: [powerpc64] d-i fails, base-installer/initramfs/no-generator

2006-03-26 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Package: installation-reports Severity: important (X-Debbugs-CC to debian-kernel at Sven Luther's request, perhaps this should have been filed against initramfs-tools directly) INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: powerpc net-inst daily build (March 26, 2006) uname -a: (normally I run

d-i daily build fails when building initrd (PowerMac7,3)

2006-03-26 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Hi folks, I've been away from my computer for a few months, but decided to give the latest d-i netinstall daily build a spin today (March 26). Besides the obvious known problem (default mirror) I find that a powerpc64 install on a PowerMac7,3 (Dual 2Ghz G5) fails when trying to install the kerne

Bug#291163: [powerpc][20050117] Flawless install on Dual G5 Apple PowerMac7,3

2005-01-18 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Package: installation-reports This is purely for the record - no problems to report on a straightforward installation. Until this daily build one thing or the other always broke ;-) INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: Netinst daily build 20050117 uname -a: Linux test 2.6.8-power4 #1 Sat

Bug#290993: [powerpc] LVM installation is not directly supported on pmac

2005-01-17 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Package: debian-installer-manual Version: 20050117 Tags: patch Currently there is no standard way to identify partitions on Apple PowerMac hardware (i.e. a method accepted by all Linux distributions). There was a discussion on debian-boot about this, see the thread at http://lists.debian.org/debi

Bug#290702: [powerpc] Default kernel installed for reboot is wrong, G5 PowerMac7,3

2005-01-17 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Colin> On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 04:14:35PM -0800, Shyamal Prasad Colin> wrote: >> Also, the test case kernel/tests/powerpc/g5.cpuinfo is for a >> PowerMac7,2 (970). There is not test f

Bug#290702: [powerpc] Default kernel installed for reboot is wrong, G5 PowerMac7,3

2005-01-16 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sven> Strange. Do we need to fix base-installer, which may Sven> recognize the powermac as a pmac, and thus chose a powerpc Sven> kernel ? I don't think so, i suppose Colin Watson did the Sven> right thing about this. Well, I

Bug#290702: [powerpc] Default kernel installed for reboot is wrong, G5 PowerMac7,3

2005-01-15 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Package: installation-reports Severity: important INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: 20010114 Netinst Daily Build uname -a: Default install fails (see below), expert mode requires 2.6.8-power4 Date: January 15, 2005 1700 PST Method: Boot off CD, used install-power4 kernel, used mirror

Bug#260763: [powerpc] Problems with logical volume setup during installation

2005-01-11 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sven> On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 08:50:48PM -0800, Shyamal Prasad Sven> wrote: >> I created a partition with type Linux_LVM and name LVM_Test >> using mac-fdisk. I put an ext3 file system on th

Re: Bug#260763: [powerpc] Problems with logical volume setup during installation

2005-01-10 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Michael" == Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> s/MockOS/MacOS/g Michael> to anything but Apple_Bootstrap, Apple_HFS, Michael> Apple_UNIX_SVR2 or Apple_Free. If you're sure (or just Michael> reasonably confident) Linux_LVM will be ignored by Michae

Re: [powerpc] Problems with logical volume setup during installation

2005-01-10 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sven> On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 09:54:14PM -0800, Shyamal Prasad Sven> wrote: >> >> 1) PowerMac does not currently have Partition types for >> Linux. Today we are just using an Ap

Re: [powerpc] Problems with logical volume setup during installation

2005-01-09 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sven> On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 12:21:35PM -0800, Shyamal Prasad Sven> wrote: >> Okay. I suppose this (powermac lvm for d-i) might not happen >> by the time Sarge releases. I'd be happy t

Bug#260763: [powerpc] Problems with logical volume setup during installation

2005-01-07 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sven> No, lvm could be added to partman in no time, but Colin Sven> Watson voted against this, and rightly so, since he claimed Sven> that we should not use a quick hack, but come to a consensus Sven> on the way of doing this wi

Bug#260763: [powerpc] Problems with logical volume setup during installation

2005-01-06 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Hi, I was using d-i daily build for powerpc (Jan 4, 2005) to install on an Apple Dual G5 (PowerMac7,3). I find that the LVM menu items in the installer do not work in a manner very similar to what is described in this bug report (though this report is for a x86 machine). Basically I cannot cre

Bug#286761: kernel-image-2.6.8-power4-di: fails to boot a Dual CPU G5 Power Mac

2004-12-21 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-power4-di Version: 0.73 Severity: important The d-i installer (both rc2 and the Dec 19, 2004 daily build of the busines card ISO) does not boot a Dual CPU (2.0 Ghz) G5 Power Macintosh. I was advised to file a bug against the kernel-image (on asking on debian-powerpc),

Re: Please test this woody cd image

2002-04-12 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Shyamal> The issue I wanted to highlight was that a bf 3.0.19 Shyamal> based netinst ISO works great on this Shyamal> machine(http://people.debian.org/~ieure/netinst) with all Shyamal> the syslinux features (I can choose a kernel, hit F3 for Shyamal> help, etc.). Ummm...I may

Re: Please test this woody cd image

2002-04-12 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Mike> On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 08:38:00AM -0500, Shyamal Prasad Mike> wrote: >> It failed to boot an IBM Aptiva 2161-C8E desktop with a >> 1/19/1997 BIOS. This 166Mhz Pentium box has been my trusty >> machine for 5 years, and boots the potato r3 CD

Re: Please test this woody cd image

2002-04-12 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Anthony" == Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Anthony> Seriously: everyone reading this mail, burn a copy of Anthony> Raphael's test image on a CD and try booting it in any Anthony> computers you have handy. If it doesn't work on a machine Anthony> where a potato CD d