Re: working on the Alpha port

2002-12-13 Thread Alexander Kotelnikov
> On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 15:11:44 +1100 > "HX" == Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: HX> HX> Sorry, that patch is broken. Please try this one instead. Not sure I will have a chance soon :( Could not be said, this is completely your fault, though. -- Alexander Kotelnikov Saint-Petersbu

Re: working on the Alpha port

2002-12-13 Thread Herbert Xu
On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 06:56:54AM +0300, Alexander Kotelnikov wrote: > > And it (patch) did not helped me to load initrd image from a second > floppy. The boot process looks like > > aboot: loading compressed boot/vmlinuz... > aboot: zero-filling 499656 bytes at 0xfca32ba8 > Please inser

Re: working on the Alpha port

2002-12-13 Thread Alexander Kotelnikov
> On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 22:47:15 +1100 > "HX" == Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: HX> HX> On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 12:58:31AM +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote: >> >> Hmm, it looks like aboot doesn't support loading the initrd from a >> different floppy than the kernel. (I've only looked at th

Re: working on the Alpha port

2002-12-13 Thread Herbert Xu
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 12:58:31AM +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote: > > Hmm, it looks like aboot doesn't support loading the initrd from a > different floppy than the kernel. (I've only looked at the source, > though, not really tried it.) So we could either hack aboot, or get > back to load_ramdisk. W

Re: working on the Alpha port

2002-12-13 Thread Herbert Xu
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 11:32:17PM +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote: > > > > ML> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=m > > > ML> > > > ML> I guess that is the problem. > > > > > > Ah.. almost sure it is. > > > > What boot loader are you using? It should be loading the initrd, not > > the kernel. > > Shouldn't it be co

Re: working on the Alpha port

2002-12-13 Thread Mario Lang
Falk Hueffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > ML> Alexander Kotelnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > >> I have faced a problem with booting from two disks. The trouble seems >> > >> to be in Herbert's kernel, since mine boots and loads debian-installe

Re: working on the Alpha port

2002-12-12 Thread Alexander Kotelnikov
> On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 02:09:16 +0100 > "DW" == David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: DW> DW> I think there's quite a lot of things that can be done to a standard DW> 2.4-kernel to decrease its size. Now, I don't have an alpha, so I can't DW> test my changes directly, but I'll have a l

Re: working on the Alpha port

2002-12-12 Thread David Weinehall
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 05:06:05PM +0300, Alexander Kotelnikov wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 22:58:01 -0500 > > "NLM" == Noah L Meyerhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > NLM> > NLM> On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 09:04:57PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > >> I don't know how far over alpha is, but fittin

Re: working on the Alpha port

2002-12-12 Thread Falk Hueffner
Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 05:12:06PM +0300, Alexander Kotelnikov wrote: > > > On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 11:24:25 +0100 > > > "ML" == Mario Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ML> > > ML> Alexander Kotelnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> I have faced

Re: working on the Alpha port

2002-12-12 Thread Alexander Kotelnikov
> On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 07:23:27 +1100 > "HX" == Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: HX> HX> On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 05:12:06PM +0300, Alexander Kotelnikov wrote: >> > On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 11:24:25 +0100 >> > "ML" == Mario Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ML> ML> Alexander Kotelniko

Re: working on the Alpha port

2002-12-12 Thread Falk Hueffner
Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 05:12:06PM +0300, Alexander Kotelnikov wrote: > > > On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 11:24:25 +0100 > > > "ML" == Mario Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ML> > > ML> Alexander Kotelnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> I have faced

Re: working on the Alpha port

2002-12-12 Thread Herbert Xu
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 05:12:06PM +0300, Alexander Kotelnikov wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 11:24:25 +0100 > > "ML" == Mario Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ML> > ML> Alexander Kotelnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I have faced a problem with booting from two disks. The trouble s

Re: working on the Alpha port

2002-12-12 Thread Alexander Kotelnikov
> On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 11:24:25 +0100 > "ML" == Mario Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ML> ML> Alexander Kotelnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I have faced a problem with booting from two disks. The trouble seems >> to be in Herbert's kernel, since mine boots and loads debian-installer >

Re: working on the Alpha port

2002-12-12 Thread Alexander Kotelnikov
> On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 09:34:36 + > "RH" == Richard Hirst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: RH> RH> On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 09:52:18AM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 05:31:41AM +0300, Alexander Kotelnikov wrote: >> [...] >> > Dec 12 02:19:35 (none) user.info init: Start

Re: working on the Alpha port

2002-12-12 Thread Alexander Kotelnikov
> On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 22:58:01 -0500 > "NLM" == Noah L Meyerhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: NLM> NLM> On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 09:04:57PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: >> I don't know how far over alpha is, but fitting on a PC floppy might be >> too much to ask of architectures with 64 bit code.

Re: working on the Alpha port

2002-12-12 Thread Mario Lang
Alexander Kotelnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have faced a problem with booting from two disks. The trouble seems > to be in Herbert's kernel, since mine boots and loads debian-installer > initrd image. CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=m I guess that is the problem. -- CYa, Mario -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: working on the Alpha port

2002-12-12 Thread Denis Barbier
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 10:54:14AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * (Denis Barbier) > > | These files are created by debconf-loadtemplate, see build/Makefile > | to know how to call it. > > Actually, they are created by rfc822db. I am going to change that > into «Warning: Can't open %, creatin

Re: working on the Alpha port

2002-12-12 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* (Denis Barbier) | These files are created by debconf-loadtemplate, see build/Makefile | to know how to call it. Actually, they are created by rfc822db. I am going to change that into «Warning: Can't open %, creating», since so many think it is an error, while it is not. (Or I might lower the

Re: working on the Alpha port

2002-12-12 Thread Richard Hirst
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 09:52:18AM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 05:31:41AM +0300, Alexander Kotelnikov wrote: > [...] > > Dec 12 02:19:35 (none) user.info init: Starting pid 882, console /dev/console: >'/sbin/debian-installer' > > Cannot open template file /var/lib/cdebco

Re: working on the Alpha port

2002-12-12 Thread Denis Barbier
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 05:31:41AM +0300, Alexander Kotelnikov wrote: [...] > Dec 12 02:19:35 (none) user.info init: Starting pid 882, console /dev/console: >'/sbin/debian-installer' > Cannot open template file /var/lib/cdebconf/templates.dat > Cannot open template file /var/lib/cdebconf/template

Re: working on the Alpha port

2002-12-11 Thread Alexander Kotelnikov
> On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 18:12:32 -0500 > "NLM" == Noah L Meyerhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: NLM> NLM> Since I don't know of anybody else doing such a thing, I've begun work I have started my efforts about two weeks ago. NLM> on the port of debian-installer to the Alpha platform. I've go

Re: working on the Alpha port

2002-12-10 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 09:04:57PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > I don't know how far over alpha is, but fitting on a PC floppy might be > too much to ask of architectures with 64 bit code. You can always go the > two floppy route if you need to.. The i386 kernel from the recent alpha snapshot is roug

Re: working on the Alpha port

2002-12-10 Thread Joey Hess
Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > Since I don't know of anybody else doing such a thing, I've begun work > on the port of debian-installer to the Alpha platform. I've got most > things built, but at the moment I'm struggling to get the kernel+initrd > pruned down to a small enough size to fit on a floppy

working on the Alpha port

2002-12-10 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
Since I don't know of anybody else doing such a thing, I've begun work on the port of debian-installer to the Alpha platform. I've got most things built, but at the moment I'm struggling to get the kernel+initrd pruned down to a small enough size to fit on a floppy. What is expected to be availab