Re: non-free firmware and d-i

2006-09-05 Thread p2
on, rather than have them assume that the driver disk image is > something very special which it isn't. I know I thought so before you > just told me on IRC that they only contained udebs...) cpio or tar archives would be prefereable to udebs as they don't require magic to crea

Re: OldWorld Mac-specific problems; perhaps drop?

2006-07-13 Thread p2
s). > I agree that quick seems the worthier solution compared to miboot, but i > haven't looked at the code of both. > It should even be possible to make a unified loader which replaces both yaboot and quik. Cheers, Peter (p2). -- Goa is a state of mind -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OldWorld Mac-specific problems; perhaps drop?

2006-07-13 Thread p2
Network Server http://www.shiner.info/). So for me miboot is a dead end path. L & L p2. -- Goa is a state of mind -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: please test new quik with initrd-support

2004-11-29 Thread Peter 'p2' De Schrijver
On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 11:40:36AM +0100, Simon Vallet wrote: > On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 10:58:48 +0100 > Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > and, better not to forget, the new quik.deb is available at > > http://www.ulyssis.org/~p2/debjes/ > > It doesn&#x

Bug#276944: installation-reports: d-i segfaults at startup

2004-10-17 Thread Peter &#x27;p2' De Schrijver
Package: installation-reports Severity: important Debian-installer-version: 2004-09-20. URL of installer image: http://people.debian.org/~joshk/d-i/images/2004-09-29/sparc64/netboot/boot.img uname -a: Linux 2.4.26-sparc64 #1 Fri Jun 18 02:04:50 PDT 2004 sparc64 unknown (done on another image. Usin

Bug#276942: installation-reports: d-i uses wrong graphics card on ultra 10 with creator 3D

2004-10-17 Thread Peter &#x27;p2' De Schrijver
Package: installation-reports Severity: important Debian-installer-version: 2004-09-29. URL of installer image: http://people.debian.org/~joshk/d-i/images/2004-09-29/sparc64/netboot/2.6/boot.img uname -a: Linux 2.4.26-sparc64 #1 Fri Jun 18 02:04:50 PDT 2004 sparc64 unknown (done on another image

Re: Default bootloader

2003-11-18 Thread Peter &#x27;p2' De Schrijver
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 12:25:15AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > Hi there! > > Time to talk a bit about which is going to be the default bootloader for i386 > in next Debian release. > > I (as GRUB co-maintainer) have discussed with Jason the possibility of GRUB > being the default bootloader

Re: USB support

2003-10-17 Thread Peter &#x27;p2' De Schrijver
> > note that a usb floppy is not usb mass storage - your bios must have > > support for usb mass storage to boot from the key chain, and this > > is more rare than supporting usb floppy boot. > > Most usb floppy disks have support for a legacy mode, in which the USB > and the floppy disk together

Re: USB support

2003-10-10 Thread Peter &#x27;p2' De Schrijver
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 09:16:53PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 09:05:34PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > > I've been working on d-i usb support today. Current status is that it > > > works (boots) her

Re: USB support

2003-10-10 Thread Peter &#x27;p2' De Schrijver
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 09:05:34PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > I've been working on d-i usb support today. Current status is that it > works (boots) here, and it will work in the archive once we get a new > busybox and kernel-modules. > > I have only tested booting from a floppy, as none of the 6 o

Re: Initial d-i success on alpha

2003-09-18 Thread Peter &#x27;p2' De Schrijver
Hi, On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 11:40:47PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > 3PI'm pleased to report that, thanks to the help of Santiago Garcia > Mantinan, a bootable d-i netinst CD is now available for linux-alpha at > http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/alpha/ alongside the > existing i386

Re: aboot

2003-08-03 Thread Peter &#x27;p2' De Schrijver
On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 11:14:40PM +0200, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote: > Hi, > > Attached you will find a patch for aboot which fixes the following > problems : > Oops. I forgot 1 file in the patch. Note that I will be away from my alpha hw coming 2 weeks. Cheers,

aboot

2003-08-03 Thread Peter &#x27;p2' De Schrijver
terminated) only first 255 chars are actually used due to kernel limitations gzipped kernel image gzipped initrd image Note that the kernel image has to be linked at 0xfc81 or higher otherwise the aboot stack will be overwritten by the kernel image. Cheers, p2

Bug#203852: llseek bug

2003-08-03 Thread Peter &#x27;p2' De Schrijver
tag 203852 + patch This patch fixes the compile problem of fdisk.c diff -ur -x '*.o' -x '*.a' busybox-cvs-0.60.99.cvs20030426/util-linux/fdisk.c my-busybox-cvs-0.60.99.cvs20030426/util-linux/fdisk.c --- busybox-cvs-0.60.99.cvs20030426/util-linux/fdisk.c 2003-08-03 16:20:21.0 +0200 +++

Bug#203852: busybox-cvs: FTBFS on alpha

2003-08-02 Thread Peter &#x27;p2' De Schrijver
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 08:07:53AM +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > Package: busybox-cvs > Version: 0.60.99.cvs20030426 (not installed) > Severity: serious > > > Fails to build from source on Alpha: > > > gcc -I./include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE > -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -Wall

non IA32 d-i

2003-07-22 Thread Peter &#x27;p2' De Schrijver
Hi, Andreas suggested me I could help in getting d-i to work on non-IA32 architectures. I was wondering which arch you need the most help on. I have access to most of the debian supported archs except for sparc64 and real s390 hardware. Thanks, Peter. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC