Bug#661620: marked as done (Recent hd-media initrd lacks ext4 support; d-i cannot find iso on such fs)

2012-03-27 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:19:28 + with message-id and subject line Bug#661620: fixed in debian-installer 20120327 has caused the Debian Bug report #661620, regarding Recent hd-media initrd lacks ext4 support; d-i cannot find iso on such fs to be marked as done. This means that

Bug#661620: Recent hd-media initrd lacks ext4 support; d-i cannot find iso on such fs

2012-02-28 Thread Daniel
Package: debian-installer Version: testing I just tried to install Debian the hd-media way, with recent initrd.gz and vmlinuz from /debian/dists/squeeze/main/installer-i386/current/images/hd-media/ This initrd lacks ext4 support, and d-i is thus unable to find its installation media, in my case

Re: Results of the second run of research about ext4 support in bootloaders

2009-07-03 Thread Guido Günther
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 06:58:14PM +0200, Stefano Canepa wrote: > Hi all, > I continued my research about ext4 support in bootloaders and this is > the result till now: > ext4 support > > * grub: amd64, i386, powerpc w/ ubuntu patch > * grub2: amd64, i386,

Re: Results of the second run of research about ext4 support in bootloaders

2009-06-23 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
2009/6/2 Stefano Canepa : > Looks without ext4 support > >    * yaboot: powerpc BTW, while I am at it: yaboot's second stage uses libext2fs to access ext2/ext3 filesystems, so I guess (since modern e2fsprogs seem to include ext4 support) it should be okay with ext4. I didn't

Re: Results of the second run of research about ext4 support in bootloaders

2009-06-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:17:04AM +, Etienne Lorrain wrote: > > Hello, > > May I ask what would it take to have the Gujin bootloader added to > this list, URL: http://gujin.sourceforge.net. It is a "newer" > bootloader, but there isn't any Debian package for it, That would be a first s

Re: Results of the second run of research about ext4 support in bootloaders

2009-06-22 Thread Etienne Lorrain
Hello, May I ask what would it take to have the Gujin bootloader added to this list, URL: http://gujin.sourceforge.net. It is a "newer" bootloader, but there isn't any Debian package for it, I have never made a Debian package before. Just fetching the source code and typing "make" will produ

Re: Results of the second run of research about ext4 support in bootloaders

2009-06-03 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello, 2009/6/2 Stefano Canepa : [...] > Looks without ext4 support > >    * aboot: alpha >    * yaboot: powerpc >    * arcboot: mips >    * silo: sparc >    * delo: mipsel >    * sibyl: mips, mipsel >    * prep: powerpc >    * palo: hppa What people think we ough

Re: Results of the second run of research about ext4 support in bootloaders

2009-06-02 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Stefano Canepa [2009-06-02 18:58]: > Looks without ext4 support colo (mipsel) is probably missing from that list. > * delo: mipsel delo is not used in d-i anymore (the devices supported by delo are no longer supported by d-i or the Debian kernel). -- Martin Michlmay

Results of the second run of research about ext4 support in bootloaders

2009-06-02 Thread Stefano Canepa
Hi all, I continued my research about ext4 support in bootloaders and this is the result till now: ext4 support * grub: amd64, i386, powerpc w/ ubuntu patch * grub2: amd64, i386, powerpc * lilo-installer: amd64 i386 Looks without ext4 support * aboot: alpha * yaboot

Re: ext4 support

2009-01-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 02:29:14PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Christian Perrier writes: > > If the ext4 support is a quite long term work, shouldn't it be > > listed in the wiki > > (http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/SqueezeGoals...which is > > currentl

Re: ext4 support

2009-01-21 Thread Colin Watson
e/modules/ext3-modules, by analogy with the way I added ext4 > > support to partman-ext3? Although again it perhaps feels a little odd, > > it would involve the smallest source change, would avoid a pass through > > NEW for kernel udebs on all architectures when we get round to >

Re: ext4 support

2009-01-10 Thread Otavio Salvador
> as long as not all blockers are fixed, i.e. not yet list it in >> valid_filesystems (IIRC). That will allow us to upload partman-ext3 if >> needed without having to worry about confusing users. > > If the ext4 support is a quite long term work, shouldn't it be lis

Re: ext4 support

2009-01-09 Thread Christian Perrier
yet list it in > valid_filesystems (IIRC). That will allow us to upload partman-ext3 if > needed without having to worry about confusing users. If the ext4 support is a quite long term work, shouldn't it be listed in the wiki (http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/SqueezeGoals...which is cur

Re: ext4 support

2009-01-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 10 January 2009, Colin Watson wrote: > I realised I'd forgotten about the kernel udebs (we do those > differently in Ubuntu so it slipped my mind). Should I just add ext4 to > kernel-wedge/modules/ext3-modules, by analogy with the way I added ext4 > support to partm

Re: ext4 support

2009-01-09 Thread Colin Watson
kernel udebs (we do those differently in Ubuntu so it slipped my mind). Should I just add ext4 to kernel-wedge/modules/ext3-modules, by analogy with the way I added ext4 support to partman-ext3? Although again it perhaps feels a little odd, it would involve the smallest source change, would avoid a p

Re: ext4 support

2009-01-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 04:42:36PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > I've attached the necessary d-i patches (against current Ubuntu, but > I'll do any necessary work to merge into Debian) to this mail. I actually revised the patches to be against d-i trunk before sending this mail, but forgot to rewri

Re: ext4 support

2009-01-09 Thread Otavio Salvador
Colin Watson writes: > On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 09:00:41PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: >> Colin Watson writes: >> > parted: >> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=511224 >> > (fairly basic support but enough to get the job done) >> <...> >> > Comments? >> >> Parted has the d

Re: ext4 support

2009-01-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 10:54:36AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 09:00:41PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > Parted has the detection code support in master branch. I could take > > a look and port it to stable. That way we could have it as upstream > > and avoid diverting f

Re: ext4 support

2009-01-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 09:00:41PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Colin Watson writes: > > parted: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=511224 > > (fairly basic support but enough to get the job done) > <...> > > Comments? > > Parted has the detection code support in master b

Re: ext4 support

2009-01-08 Thread Otavio Salvador
Colin Watson writes: > parted: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=511224 > (fairly basic support but enough to get the job done) <...> > Comments? Parted has the detection code support in master branch. I could take a look and port it to stable. That way we could have it as u

ext4 support

2009-01-08 Thread Colin Watson
I've been working on adding ext4 support to d-i for Ubuntu. It's dependent on the following bugs external to d-i: e2fsprogs: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=511207 (missing mkfs.ext4 symlink in e2fsprogs-udeb) grub: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?