Re: Summary / new quik available (was Re: please test new quik with initrd-support (was: Re: getting quik into sarge?

2004-12-03 Thread simon
Ce jour Fri, 03 Dec 2004, Holger Levsen a dit: i'd appreciate not having it hijacked from under me. i don't mind getting help, and i do appreciate that, but i get the feeling it's being hijacked from me. you could at least tell me WTF is going on. eric (the current quik maintainer) -- Microsoft

Re: please test new quik with initrd-support (was: Re: getting quik into sarge?

2004-12-03 Thread simon
Ce jour Sun, 28 Nov 2004, Colin Watson a dit: > On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 10:58:48AM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > > and, better not to forget, the new quik.deb is available at > > http://www.ulyssis.org/~p2/debjes/ > > Could the quik.conf(5) man page also be modified to include > documentation of

Re: please test new quik with initrd-support

2004-12-03 Thread simon
Ce jour Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Simon Vallet a dit: > On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 23:05:03 +0100 > Peter 'p2' De Schrijver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The quik.conf should be : > > > > image=/boot/vmlinux-2.6.9-powerpc > > append="root=/dev/ram video=radeonfb:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > initrd=/boot/initrd.im

Re: please test new quik with initrd-support

2004-12-03 Thread simon
Ce jour Sun, 28 Nov 2004, Simon Vallet a dit: > On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 10:58:48 +0100 > Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > kernel-image-2.6.9-powerpc and initrd : I get stuck at > VFS : Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (1,0), > which is what I experienced with previous quik versio

Re: please test new quik with initrd-support (was: Re: getting quik into sarge?

2004-12-03 Thread simon
Ce jour Sun, 28 Nov 2004, Christian Leimer a dit: > Hi! > > Can someone please post a sample quik.conf? > > Do you use the ramdisk option or the append string one, any other settings? > > I have an Umax S900 and it does not work here. > Says something about can not find the root device. > > I

Summary / new quik available (was Re: please test new quik with initrd-support (was: Re: getting quik into sarge?

2004-12-03 Thread Holger Levsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver has made some new updates to the quik - you can get it (.deb and source) at the http://www.ulyssis.org/~p2/debjes/ changes include: - manpage tells about initrd - compiles with gcc3 - sprintf bug fixed - ANS raid supp

Re: please test new quik with initrd-support

2004-11-30 Thread Simon Vallet
On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 23:05:03 +0100 Peter 'p2' De Schrijver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The quik.conf should be : > > image=/boot/vmlinux-2.6.9-powerpc > append="root=/dev/ram video=radeonfb:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.9-powerpc > Label=test this works indeed *much* better :

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't seem to help on a Beige G3 Rev II,

Re: please test new quik with initrd-support (was: Re: getting quik into sarge?

2004-11-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 10:58:48AM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > and, better not to forget, the new quik.deb is available at > http://www.ulyssis.org/~p2/debjes/ Could the quik.conf(5) man page also be modified to include documentation of the initrd option? I'd be more comfortable with modifying

Re: please test new quik with initrd-support (was: Re: getting quik into sarge?

2004-11-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 10:58:48AM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > and, better not to forget, the new quik.deb is available at > http://www.ulyssis.org/~p2/debjes/ This seems to be inappropriately built as a native package. If it were built non-native then it would be easier for me to look over the

Re: please test new quik with initrd-support

2004-11-28 Thread Simon Vallet
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't seem to help on a Beige G3 Rev II, using kernel-image-2.6.9-powerpc and initrd : I get stuck at VFS : Unable

Re: please test new quik with initrd-support (was: Re: getting quik into sarge?

2004-11-26 Thread simon
Ce jour Fri, 26 Nov 2004, Sven Luther a dit: > Mmm, i could test it on the umax apus 2000 and on the pmac 8200/120 i have > here, need to test that this weekend. quik didn't work yet on the umax, and i > have never really used it, so some kind of help would be welcome in order to > set it up. ca

Re: please test new quik with initrd-support (was: Re: getting quik into sarge?

2004-11-26 Thread Romain Francoise
Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > no, but as far as i know the initrd code has "only" been tested on > three machines: ANS, pmac 4400 and pmac 7200. If you got access to > another oldworld machine please test and report it. Tested on a Power Mac 6500/250 installed about two hours ago us

Re: please test new quik with initrd-support (was: Re: getting quik into sarge?

2004-11-26 Thread Clive Menzies
On (26/11/04 18:04), Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 10:58:48AM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Hi, > > > > cc:s added to gain more attention, reply-to: set. > > > > On Friday 26 November 2004 10:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: please test new quik with initrd-support (was: Re: getting quik into sarge?

2004-11-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 10:58:48AM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > cc:s added to gain more attention, reply-to: set. > > On Friday 26 November 2004 10:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > i'm the current maintainer of quik, the oldworld PPC b

Re: please test new quik with initrd-support (was: Re: getting quik into sarge?

2004-11-26 Thread Jaakko Niemi
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, Holger Levsen wrote: > > since it's in Section: base, and Priority: important, and there are many > > positive changes to it, i thought it should go into > > sarge-proposed-updates. is there any objection to this? > > no, but as far as i know the initrd code has "only" been te

please test new quik with initrd-support (was: Re: getting quik into sarge?

2004-11-26 Thread Holger Levsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, cc:s added to gain more attention, reply-to: set. On Friday 26 November 2004 10:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i'm the current maintainer of quik, the oldworld PPC bootloader. i'm > currently sponsored by Jakko Niemi. there have been many code ch

Re: please test new quik with initrd-support (was: Re: getting quik into sarge?

2004-11-26 Thread simon
Ce jour Fri, 26 Nov 2004, Holger Levsen a dit: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > cc:s added to gain more attention, reply-to: set. > > On Friday 26 November 2004 10:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > i'm the current maintainer of quik, the oldworld PPC bootloader. i'm