Bug#706112: [PATCH 0/4] grub-installer: Support menu selection of grub boot disk

2013-06-08 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 01:47:36AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Vincent McIntyre (30/04/2013): > > gah. The patch was not ok. My apologies for such a gross error. > > I caught this by testing with 1.86 as downloaded from the archive. > > Thanks, Vincent. > > Applied locally. I'll try and play

Bug#706112: [PATCH v2] grub-installer: Support menu selection of grub boot disk

2013-06-08 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 01:47:36AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Vincent McIntyre (30/04/2013): > > gah. The patch was not ok. My apologies for such a gross error. > > I caught this by testing with 1.86 as downloaded from the archive. > > Thanks, Vincent. > > Applied locally. I'll try and play

Bug#706112: [PATCH v2] grub-installer: Support menu selection of grub boot disk

2013-06-08 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Vincent McIntyre (30/04/2013): > gah. The patch was not ok. My apologies for such a gross error. > I caught this by testing with 1.86 as downloaded from the archive. Thanks, Vincent. Applied locally. I'll try and play with it, and see when that can be pushed to unstable, and maybe into {the next

Processed: Re: Bug#706112: [PATCH v2] grub-installer: Support menu selection of grub boot disk

2013-04-30 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > user release.debian@packages.debian.org Setting user to release.debian@packages.debian.org (was a...@adam-barratt.org.uk). > usertags 706112 + wheezy-can-defer There were no usertags set. Usertags are now: wheezy-can-defer. > tags 706112

Bug#706112: [PATCH v2] grub-installer: Support menu selection of grub boot disk

2013-04-30 Thread Adam D. Barratt
user release.debian@packages.debian.org usertags 706112 + wheezy-can-defer tags 706112 + wheezy-ignore thanks On Tue, 2013-04-30 at 00:34 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > I suggest we work towards having a suitable grub-installer for > inclusion into r1 (which will possibly be released roughly

Bug#706112: [PATCH v2] grub-installer: Support menu selection of grub boot disk

2013-04-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Vincent McIntyre (30/04/2013): > gah. The patch was not ok. My apologies for such a gross error. > I caught this by testing with 1.86 as downloaded from the archive. > > [PATCH] Actually set bootdev. > > After taking all the trouble to get the right value into > the $bootdev shell variable, ensu

Bug#706112: [PATCH v2] grub-installer: Support menu selection of grub boot disk

2013-04-29 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 07:16:42PM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org): > > Cyril Brulebois (29/04/2013): > > > While I haven't reviewed the patch yet, having the l10n bits in sync > > > was a point I had in mind this very morning, so I'm glad you did > > >

Bug#706112: [PATCH v2] grub-installer: Support menu selection of grub boot disk

2013-04-29 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org): > Cyril Brulebois (29/04/2013): > > While I haven't reviewed the patch yet, having the l10n bits in sync > > was a point I had in mind this very morning, so I'm glad you did > > that. And indeed, some feedback ASAP would be nice. I'll try to look > > into

Bug#706112: [PATCH v2] grub-installer: Support menu selection of grub boot disk

2013-04-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Cyril Brulebois (29/04/2013): > While I haven't reviewed the patch yet, having the l10n bits in sync > was a point I had in mind this very morning, so I'm glad you did > that. And indeed, some feedback ASAP would be nice. I'll try to look > into this patch in a few hours at most. Uploaded in time

Bug#706112: [PATCH v2] grub-installer: Support menu selection of grub boot disk

2013-04-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Christian PERRIER (29/04/2013): > I applied and pushed your patch. The maint point is that PO files > get updated by the daily l10n-sync script. > > Then, I propose we upload 1.86 immediately to unstable so that it's > tested at least by those people who install unstable with D-I. > > Cyril, oth

Bug#706112: [PATCH v2] grub-installer: Support menu selection of grub boot disk

2013-04-28 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Vincent McIntyre (vincent.mcint...@csiro.au): > Hi, > Thanks for the comments I've received on this patch. > I did some reading to see how other packages handle the issues raised. > I found grub-pc and iso-scan particularly helpful. > Hopefully this attempt is better. Less than a week from

Bug#706112: [PATCH v2] grub-installer: Support menu selection of grub boot disk

2013-04-28 Thread Vincent McIntyre
ps it could be considered for r1. Kind regards Vince --- Support user selection of grub boot disk from a list of disks via a new question, grub-installer/choose_bootdev. Check for a mismatch between a preseeded value of grub-inst

Re: [PATCH] grub-installer: Support menu selection of grub boot disk

2013-04-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 10:48:40AM +1000, Vincent McIntyre wrote: > Support user selection of grub boot disk from a list of disks > via a new question, grub-installer/choose_bootdev. > Check for a mismatch between a preseeded value of grub-installer/bootdev > and the guess at the defau

[PATCH] grub-installer: Support menu selection of grub boot disk

2013-04-23 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Support user selection of grub boot disk from a list of disks via a new question, grub-installer/choose_bootdev. Check for a mismatch between a preseeded value of grub-installer/bootdev and the guess at the default boot disk made by grub-installer, and prompt the user to choose the correct disk

Re: suggestion for reliable boot: disk-by-id

2011-01-15 Thread Floris Bos
Hi, On Sunday, January 16, 2011 01:24:15 am Andre Felipe Machado wrote: > Regarding problem nr 3, we decided to use XenServer, that also uses disk by > id, afaik. But for who uses kvm it could be an issue. With "virtual KVM rescue systems" I mean setups like: Hetzner's vKVM: http://wiki.hetzner.

Re: suggestion for reliable boot: disk-by-id

2011-01-15 Thread Andre Felipe Machado
Hello, The cited problems could have solutions / workarounds documented. In our data center, the problem nr 1 was not heard of for years. It was alerted at the article [0] that changing hw changes the id. Regarding problem nr. 2, we already decided to not directly convert linux physical machines to

Re: suggestion for reliable boot: disk-by-id

2011-01-15 Thread Floris Bos
Hi, On Saturday, January 15, 2011 12:50:14 am Andre Felipe Machado wrote: > Given the recent d-i RC announcemen snippet > "use of unique filesystem identifiers and labels for more reliable > booting." I suggest to use disk-by-id instead of disk-label, because they > give even more reliable boots a

suggestion for reliable boot: disk-by-id

2011-01-14 Thread Andre Felipe Machado
Hello, Given the recent d-i RC announcemen snippet "use of unique filesystem identifiers and labels for more reliable booting." I suggest to use disk-by-id instead of disk-label, because they give even more reliable boots at high end machines with high end storages, as explained reasons on [0]. I h

Bug#327287: marked as done (Cannot boot Sarge boot disk on Proliant 1500)

2010-09-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:58:04 + with message-id and subject line Closing old installation report #327287 has caused the Debian Bug report #327287, regarding Cannot boot Sarge boot disk on Proliant 1500 to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been

Bug#486541: Grub fails after changing boot disk order in BIOS

2009-05-23 Thread Felix Zielcke
grub2 uses UUIDs by default so that problem won't exist anymore if you finally switch to it. -- Felix Zielcke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Installation with boot disk

2007-09-01 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 12:50:12PM -0700, AlexM wrote: > > Hi, > I have a Debian distro (4.0) on a DVD that I'd like to install on a > machine with XP on it. The machine is not that new and does not boot from > the DVD. How can I make a boot disk so that the start up will in

Installation with boot disk

2007-09-01 Thread AlexM
Hi, I have a Debian distro (4.0) on a DVD that I'd like to install on a machine with XP on it. The machine is not that new and does not boot from the DVD. How can I make a boot disk so that the start up will install from the DVD which should take over? Many Thanks, Alex -- View this me

Bug#280951: Sarge RC1 Boot disk won't work without noapic

2004-11-12 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
Thanks for you prompt reply, Joey. > It is documented already. I think reassigning to the kernel might be the > right thing to do. Are you using 2.4 or 2.6? Could you try a newer > version of the installer, such as a daily build to make sure the problem > is still there? The problem exists in all

Bug#280951: Sarge RC1 Boot disk won't work without noapic

2004-11-12 Thread Joey Hess
Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > I'm not quite sure what package to file this against, please reassign > it if this is not correct. > > The Sarge RC1 boot disk doesn't see the IDE in a Presario 711 EA (AMD > Duron) unless I mention ``noapic'' on the boot line. The

Bug#280951: Sarge RC1 Boot disk won't work without noapic

2004-11-12 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
Package: debian-installer-manual Version: 20041027 I'm not quite sure what package to file this against, please reassign it if this is not correct. The Sarge RC1 boot disk doesn't see the IDE in a Presario 711 EA (AMD Duron) unless I mention ``noapic'' on the boot line. T

Bug#224398: marked as done (boot loader installed on disk with /, not boot disk)

2004-04-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Tue, 13 Apr 2004 12:39:20 -0700 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Close these bugs has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to

Re: 1.44 meg boot disk problem

2003-12-08 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 10:07:55AM -0500, James Caballero wrote: > I downloaded all 20 of the files from the following link: > > http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/base-images-3.0 > .23-2002-07-18/images-1.44/ > > The installation proceeds fine until I put the Base-18.bi

1.44 meg boot disk problem

2003-12-08 Thread James Caballero
I downloaded all 20 of the files from the following link: http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/base-images-3.0 .23-2002-07-18/images-1.44/ The installation proceeds fine until I put the Base-18.bin disk in. The installation software informs me that I have put the Base-17.b

Re: Custom boot disk creation help

2003-03-28 Thread Geert Stappers
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 07:13:49AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 05:25:10PM -0700, Craig Coles wrote: > > I am trying to create a custom boot disk for a PXE style network boot. > > I can take an image of a rescue boot floppy (1.44MB or 2.88MB) and place >

Re: Custom boot disk creation help

2003-03-26 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 05:25:10PM -0700, Craig Coles wrote: > I am trying to create a custom boot disk for a PXE style network boot. > I can take an image of a rescue boot floppy (1.44MB or 2.88MB) and place > this on the PXE server and the PXE client will boot the image, so I know >

Custom boot disk creation help

2003-03-25 Thread Craig Coles
I am trying to create a custom boot disk for a PXE style network boot. I can take an image of a rescue boot floppy (1.44MB or 2.88MB) and place this on the PXE server and the PXE client will boot the image, so I know the server is working... I am using the following procedure to create the boot

Bug#130893: boot-floppies: new boot disk made at end of installation takes forever to load

2002-01-25 Thread Andrew T . Young
Package: boot-floppies Version: N/A Severity: wishlist At the end of the installation process, a new "custom boot floppy" is made that mounts the newly-installed root filesystem. This disk is first formatted (apparently by superformat) with interleave 1. Unfortunately, if you try to boot from t

boot disk

2002-01-08 Thread 96-ali-a
can you get me a ps2 bootdisk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#121065: marked as done (powerpc,powermac - missing boot floppy hfs-boot-disk from documentation)

2001-12-21 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Nov 2001 02:24:14 -0800 From: Grant Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: powerpc,powermac - missing boot floppy hfs-boot-disk from documentation Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inli

Re: alpha boot disk report, plus q: where is base tarball?

2001-12-12 Thread Chris Tillman
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 09:45:29PM -0600, Mike Coleman wrote: > I tried installing on a DS10 just now with the latest testing boot floppies. > It went fine up to trying to access the archive via ftp. The machine is > behind a NAT firewall that blocks port 80 access. There's a web proxy, but it >

alpha boot disk report, plus q: where is base tarball?

2001-12-12 Thread Mike Coleman
I tried installing on a DS10 just now with the latest testing boot floppies. It went fine up to trying to access the archive via ftp. The machine is behind a NAT firewall that blocks port 80 access. There's a web proxy, but it requires authentication, which the boot floppies seem not to support.

Bug#62672: marked as done ([alpha] problems with norika boot disk)

2001-12-05 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Wed, 5 Dec 2001 20:42:28 -0700 with message-id <20011205204227.A950@Obsession> and subject line Alpha boot diskette issues has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now

Processed: ARGH. [alpha] problems with norika boot disk

2001-11-25 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > tags 62672 potato Bug#62672: [alpha] problems with norika boot disk Tags added: potato > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs da

Processed: [alpha] problems with norika boot disk

2001-11-25 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > tags 62672 +potato Unknown tag/s: +potato. Recognized are: patch wontfix moreinfo unreproducible fixed potato woody sid help security upstream pending. Bug#62672: [alpha] problems with norika boot disk Tags added: > thanks Stopping processin

Bug#121065: powerpc,powermac - missing boot floppy hfs-boot-disk from documentation

2001-11-25 Thread Grant Bowman
Package: boot-floppies Version: 3.0.17 The main floppy that needs to be booted (along with root.bin) to install powermac at all is hfs-boot-disk. It is mentioned nowhere in the documentation. -- -- Grant Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Boot disk doesn't recognize Compaq DL360's RAID controller

2001-06-29 Thread Adam Shand
okay the boot disks work fine but the cd will not. i've talked to two other people who've reported similar problems (the floppies work but the cd doesn't). is it posssible there is a bug in the cd? i got another older potato cd from home last night and i'll try that in a bit. adam. > > Parti

Re: Boot disk doesn't recognize Compaq DL360's RAID controller

2001-06-28 Thread Adam Shand
> I toasted the DOS partition, but every time I've seen transaction > block size errors, I had a bad root disk (floppy or image). hrm, i'm installing off the floppies now and it's working. so if what you're saying is right (and it sounds reasonable to me) then i have a bad cdrom, i'll try it on

Re: Boot disk doesn't recognize Compaq DL360's RAID controller

2001-06-28 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 06:50:46PM -0700, Adam Shand wrote: > i eventually figured out that if you boot off the second cd you get the > compact kernel (doh ... been usign debian 5 years and never needed this > before). so it now recognises the controller, but if still fails with a > kernel panic

Re: Boot disk doesn't recognize Compaq DL360's RAID controller

2001-06-28 Thread Adam Shand
> You need to be using the compact flavor boot-floppies. Download the > root.bin and rescue.bin images from the following. > > > i'll try this, thanks. > The integrated smart raid controller and the eep

Re: Boot disk doesn't recognize Compaq DL360's RAID controller

2001-06-28 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 03:59:25PM -0700, Adam Shand wrote: > > I'm trying to install Debian on a Compaq Proliant DL360 with the > integrated smart raid controller. > > The error message I get is on boot up: > > scsi : 0 hosts. > scsi : detaected total. > Partition check: > apm: BIOS not found.

Boot disk doesn't recognize Compaq DL360's RAID controller

2001-06-28 Thread Adam Shand
I'm trying to install Debian on a Compaq Proliant DL360 with the integrated smart raid controller. The error message I get is on boot up: scsi : 0 hosts. scsi : detaected total. Partition check: apm: BIOS not found. VFS: Cannot open root device 00:00 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs o

Processed: Re: Bug#99926: Rescue boot disk error

2001-06-12 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > severity 99926 important Bug#99926: rawrite2.exe writes bad blocks onto floppies Severity set to `important'. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Darren Benham (administrator, Debian Bugs database) -- To U

Bug#99926: Rescue boot disk error

2001-06-12 Thread Adam Di Carlo
severity 99926 important thanks Greg Leppert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I did try a new floppy, several times. What I found out eventually was > that rawrite2.exe was writing bad blocks onto my floppies, and all the > data wasnt written. It also destroyed the floppy sector, making the disk >

Bug#99926: Rescue boot disk error

2001-06-08 Thread Greg Leppert
I did try a new floppy, several times. What I found out eventually was that rawrite2.exe was writing bad blocks onto my floppies, and all the data wasnt written. It also destroyed the floppy sector, making the disk unusable for the images. I switched to the older version of rawrite, and it worked

Bug#99926: Rescue boot disk error

2001-06-07 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Greg Leppert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When trying to uncompress the kernel image from the Rescue floppy to boot > and install a new Debian installation, I get a "Invalid compressed format > (err=2)" and the system halts. I still have my HD formatted for a FAT32 > with WinME installed, which

Bug#99926: Rescue boot disk error

2001-06-07 Thread Greg Leppert
Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.2r3 flavor: vanilla architecture: i386 model: Dell Dimension XPS D266 (Pentium II 440LX chipset) memory: 192 MB scsi: [none] cd-rom: Kenwood ATAPI network card: LNE100TX pcmcia: none When trying to uncompres

Re: where are uptodate boot disk images for woody

2001-06-06 Thread Matt Kraai
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 11:54:08PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Matt Kraai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > No. I tried the 2.3.4 set earlier today, and a BusyBox bug > > prevented the permissions from being set correctly. Please see > > http://bugs.debian.org/99627 for a description of the p

Re: where are uptodate boot disk images for woody

2001-06-04 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 11:54:08PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > I wish a lot that we could kill the dbootstrap timezone stuff -- what > do you think... couldn't this move into base-config or libc6 or > something? Yes please put it into base-config. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: where are uptodate boot disk images for woody

2001-06-04 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Matt Kraai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No. I tried the 2.3.4 set earlier today, and a BusyBox bug > prevented the permissions from being set correctly. Please see > http://bugs.debian.org/99627 for a description of the problem and > a fix. We'll need another BusyBox revision. Erik, may I su

Re: where are uptodate boot disk images for woody

2001-06-04 Thread Erik Andersen
On Fri Jun 01, 2001 at 09:00:24PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 01:44:05PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 07:44:03PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > > Current 2.3.4 i386 boot-floppies for woody testing (qualified testers > > > only please) are availabl

Re: where are uptodate boot disk images for woody

2001-06-01 Thread Matt Kraai
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 01:44:05PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 07:44:03PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > Current 2.3.4 i386 boot-floppies for woody testing (qualified testers > > only please) are available at > > http://people.debian.org/~aph/debian/dists/woody/main/d

Re: where are uptodate boot disk images for woody

2001-06-01 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 07:44:03PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Current 2.3.4 i386 boot-floppies for woody testing (qualified testers > only please) are available at > http://people.debian.org/~aph/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/ > Good luck. Results to debian-boot or against the

Re: where are uptodate boot disk images for woody

2001-05-29 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Current 2.3.4 i386 boot-floppies for woody testing (qualified testers only please) are available at http://people.debian.org/~aph/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/ Good luck. Results to debian-boot or against the boot-floppies (or base-config, or debootstrap, or whatever package)

Re: where are uptodate boot disk images for woody

2001-05-29 Thread Matt Kraai
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 05:35:28PM +0200, Oliver Landsmann wrote: > I was looking for up to date boot disk images for woody. Unfortunatly that ones > in the dists/woody/... tree are pretty outdated compared to the cvs tree. > > I can remember that at that time when potato was comin

where are uptodate boot disk images for woody

2001-05-29 Thread Oliver Landsmann
I was looking for up to date boot disk images for woody. Unfortunatly that ones in the dists/woody/... tree are pretty outdated compared to the cvs tree. I can remember that at that time when potato was coming up someone supplied new bootdisk images every other week/day for testing. Is

Re: boot-disk for updatet "potato"-debian?

2001-04-30 Thread David Whedon
Looks to me like you are trying to replace the kernel on the rescue disk. In structions can be found here: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-boot-floppy-techinfo.en.html#s-rescue-replace-kernel I hope that helps, David Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 09:42:45PM +0200 wrote: > hi, > > i am

boot-disk for updatet "potato"-debian?

2001-04-30 Thread je_stromf.set
hi,   i am new here (and as a debian-user too) and i have a problem to make a bootdisk for potato-debian 2.2. i have updated the new kernel 2.4.1 and some nescessary packets. i have tried to make a bootdisk with:   in  /boot:   dd if=vmlinuz-2.4.1 of=/dev/fd0 1440 rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hda11 rdev

Winmodem boot disk tester

2001-01-08 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
As a short term measure, I've modified slightly and tested the current rescue boot disk with kernel-2.4.0, to serve for insmod /mnt/ltmodem.o driver insertion, whose success is a 1st indicator that the modem hardware is compatible with the ltmodem.o, before a User should download all so

Re: PowerPC boot disk with USB support????

2000-12-23 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 09:45:23AM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > Hi all. > Does anyone know where I can find a rescue and > root disk in hfs format with USB support? > I have a friend who is trying to install Debian > on his PowerPC from the PowerPC CD-ROM dist. He > downloaded the boot-floppy-hfs.img an

PowerPC boot disk with USB support????

2000-12-22 Thread Xucaen
Hi all. Does anyone know where I can find a rescue and root disk in hfs format with USB support? I have a friend who is trying to install Debian on his PowerPC from the PowerPC CD-ROM dist. He downloaded the boot-floppy-hfs.img and created the rescue disk from that. It boots up fine but when he ge

Re: Problem using boot disk to install

2000-09-15 Thread Adam Di Carlo
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, I have tried booting from the CD. I get the EXACT same results. I'm sorry -- I have lost track of the original problem report. It would be easier for us to track it if you would file a bug report. The install manual has some instructions on

Re: Problem using boot disk to install

2000-09-11 Thread Glenn McGrath
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: > > I need help getting Debian installed. > > First of all, let me say that I am aware by looking at the 2.2 > architecture support that debian MAY not support my system. However, > I am very new to this so ... Here's the situation ... > > I AM INSTALLING 2.1 DEBIAN,

RE: RE: Problem using boot disk to install

2000-09-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes, I have tried booting from the CD. I get the EXACT same results. Bob >--- Original Message --- >From: "Anderson, TimTL33E" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: 9/11/00 5:40:52 PM > >Bob, have you tried booting from the CD instead? I don't know if it

Problem using boot disk to install

2000-09-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
t;learning Debian/GNU Linux" by McCarty (O'Reilly Pub.) which included a CD with debian. In the instructions it told me to create a boot disk. I followed the instructions and created a boot disk. I booted the computer using the boot disk and it recognizes all 3 of my hard drives and my CD Rom

Problem using boot disk to install

2000-09-11 Thread Rosa Edwards
t;learning Debian/GNU Linux" by McCarty (O'Reilly Pub.) which included a CD with debian. In the instructions it told me to create a boot disk. I followed the instructions and created a boot disk. I booted the computer using the boot disk and it recognizes all 3 of my hard drives and my CD Rom

Re: kernel 2.2.17 boot disk prob!

2000-07-05 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Forgive me for sending this mail in a cross-posting fashion, but I > really need some help here. This is what I posted previously to > debian-user: > > Thanks in advance for any replies! Well, you could check whether the rescue disk works and thereby c

Re: kernel 2.2.17 boot disk prob! (HELP!)

2000-07-04 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 00:12, Sven Burgener wrote: > On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 02:41:40PM -0700, Pann McCuaig wrote: > > > What I'm looking for is a way of creating a boot disk like the one I > > > created when installing debian initially. > > > Do you still

Re: kernel 2.2.17 boot disk prob! (HELP!)

2000-07-04 Thread Sven Burgener
On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 02:41:40PM -0700, Pann McCuaig wrote: > > What I'm looking for is a way of creating a boot disk like the one I > > created when installing debian initially. > Do you still have that disk? There is a file on there named linux. > Delete it and re

Re: kernel 2.2.17 boot disk prob! (HELP!)

2000-07-04 Thread Sven Burgener
Hi all # file /boot/vmlinuz-*; /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.15: Linux kernel x86 boot executable bzImage, version 2.2.15 (herbert@gondor) #1 Tue , RO-rootFS, Normal VGA /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17: Linux kernel x86 boot executable bzImage, version 2.2.17 (herbert@arnor) #1 Sun J, RO-rootFS, root_dev=0x302, Norma

kernel 2.2.17 boot disk prob!

2000-07-04 Thread Sven Burgener
te a boot disk for my potato box. I just apt-got > kernel-image-2.2.17. :) > > Then, in the process of installing the kernel-image deb file, I said > "yes" to take /etc/lilo.conf for setting up the boot disk. I also > chose to format the boot disk. > > Here in

Re: RESENT :: Boot Disk (IDE RAID(0) + Reiserfs) == :(

2000-06-15 Thread Erik Andersen
On Thu Jun 15, 2000 at 06:34:46PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Do the words "god send" mean anything? I just need a way of getting my > ide-raid up. Have been keeping active tracking of new ac kernel patches and > reiserfs releases. Now that reiserfs3.6.9 is out I feel Safe(sm) trying to > bu

Re: RESENT :: Boot Disk (IDE RAID(0) + Reiserfs) == :(

2000-06-15 Thread Erik Andersen
On Thu Jun 15, 2000 at 04:49:21PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi new to the list. Trying to get the Linux-2.4.0-test1-ac18 + Reiserfs 3.6.9 >(patched) kernel rescue disk to work, but get a "Unable to find swap-space signature" >and "Sorry, your computer does not have enough memory." after

RESENT :: Boot Disk (IDE RAID(0) + Reiserfs) == :(

2000-06-15 Thread winmutt
Hi new to the list. Trying to get the Linux-2.4.0-test1-ac18 + Reiserfs 3.6.9 (patched) kernel rescue disk to work, but get a "Unable to find swap-space signature" and "Sorry, your computer does not have enough memory." after the root disk is loaded. Anyone know a fix? -Rolf IDE RAID(0) + Re