Bug#277901: fails to detect root on lvm

Package: os-prober Severity: normal os-prober fails to detect linux installs that have their root on lvm (but /boot not), which will surely only become more frequent. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel:

Bug#277904: Debian Installation Report Template

Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: 22-10-2004 uname -a: Linux debian 2.6.8-1-386 #1 Thu Oct 7 02:21:16 EDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Date: 22-10-2004 16.37.57 Method: netinst CD image Machine: Acer Ferrari 3200 Processor: mobile AMD Athlon 64 2800+ Memory: 512 Root Devi

Bug#268580: GRUB hangs on first boot after base install

I have played a bit with Debian Installer and GRUB, and I've realized the problem is probably not related at all with GRUB or grub-install. In fact, the problem arises even if I don't install GRUB at all in the hard disk! That is, the system becomes unbootable and the only solution is dd'ing th

Bug#268580: GRUB hangs on first boot after base install

Salvo Isaja wrote: I would tend to accuse the Debian Installer partition editor. As a proof, I repeated the installation process, but instead of using the Debian Installer partition editor, I ran a shell and used fdisk. Next I resumed Debian Installer and used the partition editor only for parti

Bug#276901: d-i on Thinkpad R40e unresponsive/hangs

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Do you have an option in the BIOS for "legacy USB (keyboard) support"? If you do, it might be worth trying to change that setting. We have had an other report (#276780) where disabling this solved a similar keyboard issue. Cheers, FJP -BEGIN PGP

Bug#276780: marked as done (Installation report)

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Processed: Re: Bug#268580: GRUB hangs on first boot after base install

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Bug#268580: GRUB hangs on first boot after base install

reassign 268580 partman retitle 268580 Changes disk geometry; hangs on reboot after base install severity 268580 critical tags 268580 d-i moreinfo merge 268580 263208 thanks On Saturday 23 October 2004 13:15, Salvo Isaja wrote: > As a proof, I repeated the installation process, but instead of usin

Bug#277904: marked as done (Debian Installation Report Template)

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Bug#270225: marked as done (Minor error in 'No partitionable media' dialog)

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Bug#275075: successful install

Hi. This mail is to let you know that the fix for this bug has finally made it to the daily build of the access floppies from http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/floppy/access dated on Oct 22. I was able to do a successful install without needing to use expert mode. Thanks for all

Bug#277935:

Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: 23.10.2004, ISO image: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/sparc/pre-rc2/sarge-sp arc-netinst.iso uname -a: N/A Date: 23.10.2004 Method: CDROM boot Machine: SUN Netra 105 Processor: SUN Sparc IIi 440Mhz Memory: 256MB Root D

Bug#277936: installation-reports: don't force people to use partman if they've already installed everything BUT the bootloader

Package: installation-reports Version: daily snapshot 23 october Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable d-i sucks. officially. i spent 6 hours trying to install stuff. in-between the kernel oopsing and partman driving me fucking nuts, i had errors from various mirrors until i gre

Bug#277939: Installation reports

Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: <> 10/23/2004 http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/alpha/current/ uname -a: Not possible failed to boot Date: 10/23/2004 10:30 est Method: install, from where? Proxied?> IDE cdrom - netinst.iso Machine: Alpha Ts

Processed: Re: Bug#277936: installation-reports: don't force people to use partman if they've already installed everything BUT the bootloader

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Bug#277936: installation-reports: don't force people to use partman if they've already installed everything BUT the bootloader

severity 277936 normal thanks Quoting simon raven ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: installation-reports > Version: daily snapshot 23 october > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable > > > d-i sucks. officially. i spent 6 hours trying to install stuff. Such consideration towar

Re: LVM on software RAID - LILO

On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 21:16 +0300, Fabian Fagerholm wrote: > I tried the following (3 x HDD): > > In partman, set up the three disks to have identical partition tables: > > * A small primary partition with boot flag set. > * A large logical partition. > * A small logical partiti

Re: Dropping 386 support

On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 11:34:50AM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: > On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 00:31 +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > > Has the current image compiled the patch in? (I haven't checked > > that yet) > > Yes, it does. > > > If yes, there should be no problem at all to implement this solut

Bug#277177: installer hangs in "detecting filesystems"

Yesterday exchanged hdb for another older one. Result: installer hangs in "loading components debian installer" and on retry in "detecting filesystems" both with linux26. When booting default, all aok. Hugo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Bug#277949: base-installer: progress bar goes backward

Package: base-installer Severity: minor Tags: d-i During base-system install step of d-i it displays "Preparing to install the Debian base system..." and fills progress bar to about 1/10. Then progress bar is set to 0. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT poli

Bug#277950: debian-installer: www.mirror.ac.uk broken or too unreliable ?

Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Picking www.mirror.ac.uk never seems to work when I pick it from the list of UK mirrors in any of the 3 or 4 installs I've done in the last few months. I used to use this site for all my machines and it was always nice and fast (unlike the official UK de

Bug#277936: installation-reports: don't force people to use partman if they've already installed everything BUT the bootloader

> In the meantime, lowering the severity of this bug report. Even considering closing it.I see no really useful information in that report except maybe some "quik-installer should allow using a /boot partition" wishlist bug against quik-installer. Leaving this to the powerpc people if they'r

Bug#277951: Bug report for installation-reports

Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: installer RC2 for x86 (not a daily build) uname -a: Linux twiki 2.6.8-1-386 #1 Thu Oct 7 02:21:16 EDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Date: Sat Oct 23 12:50:26 EDT 2004 Method: installed from cdrom, then network, without proxy deb http

Bug#277954: Install report (Successful)

Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/pre-rc2/netboot/netboot.tar.gz uname -a: Linux leka 2.6.8-1-686 #1 Thu Oct 7 03:15:25 EDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Date: 2004-OCT-13 Method: PXE boot from my woody running host, Package m

Processed: tagging 277901

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Processed: reassign 277950 to www.debian.org, tagging 277950

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Bug#277949: base-installer: progress bar goes backward

Eugeniy Meshcheryakov wrote: > Package: base-installer > Severity: minor > Tags: d-i > > During base-system install step of d-i it displays "Preparing to > install the Debian base system..." and fills progress bar to about 1/10. > Then progress bar is set to 0. What version of the installer are

Bug#277951: Bug report for installation-reports

Carl T. Miller wrote: > On my first several attempts, I partitioned two hard drives and > consistently got this error. The base install failed saying that > it could not umount several filesystems, including /dev/shm and > something for usb (I don't recall the details). The message you describe i

Bug#277954: Install report (Successful)

Martin Samuelsson wrote: > :00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics > Device (rev 02) > :00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device > (rev 02) > > The colors where all fucked up with the pre-rc2 image I used (red

Processed: retitle 277935 to does not find cd drive of sun Netra 105

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Processed: reassign 277491 to syslinux, retitle 277491 to scrambled isolinux boot screen

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Processed: reassign 277954 to bogl-bterm, merging 277954 276433, retitle 276433 to red screen with IBM Thinkpad ...

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Bug#277491: FWD: Re: Bug#277491: installation report

- Forwarded message from David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 13:07:32 +0200 To: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Bug#277491: installation report User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 01:51:18PM -0400, Joey

Bug#268580: GRUB hangs on first boot after base install

Frans Pop wrote: > On Saturday 23 October 2004 13:15, Salvo Isaja wrote: > > As a proof, I repeated the installation process, but instead of using > > the Debian Installer partition editor, I ran a shell and used fdisk. > > Next I resumed Debian Installer and used the partition editor only for > >

Bug#242338: marked as done ([i386] [beta3] [floppy] success, some problems)

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Re: Bug#253320: about your Debian installation report

Marvin Renich wrote: > Okay, I have finally tried the install again using the daily build from > 20041018. The short answer is that I was able to get past the point > where partman was previously failing to run due to mounted swap > partitions (which could not be turned off due to memory usage).

2.6.9 kernel?

Hi, Is there any plan to include 2.6.9 kernel soon? According to Serial ATA (SATA) Linux status report , I think I need 2.6.9 to install debian on my ICH6 powered SATA hard drive. Or if I am wrong, please tell me. I can't wait to intall linux. I accid

Processed: Complete merging of bugs

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Re: Bug#260139: more info needed

--- Joshua Kwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > need the output of 'lspci -n' ('lspci', too, if your PCI [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lspci -n :f0:0b.0 0600: 106b:004b :f0:10.0 0300: 1002:4150 0001:00:01.0 0604: 1022:7450 (rev 12) 0001:00:02.0 0604: 1022:7450 (rev 12) 0001:00:03.0 0604: 106b:0045 00

Re: 2.6.9 kernel?

Yang Zhao wrote: > Is there any plan to include 2.6.9 kernel soon? No, AFAIK the current plan is to ship sarge with 2.6.8. It generally takes us a full month to fully update the installer to use a new kernel. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#277951: Bug report for installation-reports

Joey Hess said: > Carl T. Miller wrote: >> On my first several attempts, I partitioned two hard drives and >> consistently got this error. The base install failed saying that >> it could not umount several filesystems, including /dev/shm and >> something for usb (I don't recall the details). > > T

Bug#277951: Bug report for installation-reports

Carl T. Miller wrote: > I can say that I have tried on three different computers with two or > three hard drives, and every time I've had errors of one sort or > another, unless I only install on the partitions of one hard drive. > If I do this again and have errors, what log do you need to see? /

Bug#245393: about your Debian installation report

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 09:49:31 +0200, Peter Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joey Hess) writes: > > > If you're unable to do this test for whatever reason, please send a mail to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and let us know, and we will try to look at your report > > in more detail. >

Processed: explain problem in title

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Bug#277936: installation-reports: don't force people to use partman if they've already installed everything BUT the bootloader

Ce jour Sat, 23 Oct 2004, Christian Perrier a dit: > > In the meantime, lowering the severity of this bug report. > > > Even considering closing it.I see no really useful information in > that report except maybe some "quik-installer should allow using a > /boot partition" wishlist bug again

Bug#277936: installation-reports: don't force people to use partman if they've already installed everything BUT the bootloader

Ce jour Sat, 23 Oct 2004, Christian Perrier a dit: > severity 277936 normal > thanks > > > Quoting simon raven ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Package: installation-reports > > Version: daily snapshot 23 october > > Severity: grave > > Justification: renders package unusable > > > > > > d-i sucks. of

Bug#245393: about your Debian installation report

On Sunday 24 October 2004 01:21, Panquekas wrote: > Oh... and my USB Keyboard have one problem too.. the discover1-data > detect's my usb keyboard and work's fine, but I can't in the installer > put the "Portuguese" keyboard because gives me and error message: This is a known error. See http://bug

Bug#277999: installation-reports

Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: <2004/09/15 www.debian.org> uname -a: Date: Method: Machine: Processor:P4 Memory:640MB RDRAM Root Device: Root Size/partition table: Output of lspci and lspci -n: Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elab

[D-I Manual] Build log for en (24 Oct 2004)

A build of the Debian Installer Manual was triggered by an update to SVN. There were no errors during the build process. The new version of the manual has been uploaded successfully. A log of the build is available at: - http://home.tiscali.nl/isildur/d-i/log/en.log === If you would prefer this

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Re: LVM on software RAID - LILO

On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 07:00:47PM +0300, Fabian Fagerholm wrote: > On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 21:16 +0300, Fabian Fagerholm wrote: > > I tried the following (3 x HDD): > > > > In partman, set up the three disks to have identical partition tables: > > > > * A small primary partition with boot fl

Re: lvm on raid

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 01:30:38PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Andrew Pollock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > That's a shame. I would have thought it'd be relatively easy to implement, > > but I haven't given the innards of what's involved close inspection... > > Well, the non easiest th