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 +, 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 : >> >> > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Ian C

Re: Pre-bug-raising questions

2009-01-19 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 19:46 +, 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 : > >> > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Ian Campbell > >> > wrote: > >> >> On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 14:12

Re: Pre-bug-raising questions

2009-01-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 19 January 2009, Mike Grice wrote: > Having found that it's the weird behaviour of LDOM changing the device > from one type to another, That would indeed be very weird. Are you sure that that is what happens? It seems more likely to me that maybe the _installer_ treats the device a bit

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 present in the udebs >> >> 2) the i

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 +, 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: >> >>> >> >>> Select a language: English >> >>

Re: Pre-bug-raising questions

2009-01-19 Thread Frans Pop
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 present in the udebs > > 2) the initramfs-tools config on the installed system doesn't load

Re: Pre-bug-raising questions

2009-01-19 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 16:43 +, 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: > >>> > >>> Select a language: English > >>> Choose Language: default > >>> Detect Network Hardware: > >>

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 +, Mike Grice wrote: >>> >>> Select a language: English >>> Choose Language: default >>> Detect Network Hardware: >>> "No Ethernet card was detected. If you know the name of the driver

Re: Pre-bug-raising questions

2009-01-19 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 14:12 +, Mike Grice wrote: > > Select a language: English > Choose Language: default > Detect Network Hardware: > "No Ethernet card was detected. If you know the name of the driver > │ > │ needed by your Ethernet card, you can select it from the list." Do you have some

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 +, 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 fro

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 +, 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 from a list. >> - it fails to d

Re: Pre-bug-raising questions

2009-01-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 19 January 2009, Bastian Blank wrote: > > The problem I get now is that the > > kernel the installer installs as part of the setup is the etch-n-half > > kernel, which doesn't have the required drivers installed. So I'm > > stuck at 'waiting for root f

Re: Pre-bug-raising questions

2009-01-19 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:52:59AM +, 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 from a list. > - it fails to detect the disk 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