Bug#770231: Amd64-efi installer becomes unresponsive on x86 bios

2014-11-30 Thread Ian Campbell
/cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/bt-cd/debian-7.7.0-amd64-CD-1.iso.torrent and booted with: qemu-system-i386 -M isapc -cdrom debian-7.7.0-amd64-CD-1.iso and I get a hang after selecting "Install" from the bootloader menu. They I downloaded this: http://d-i.debian.org

Bug#770231: Amd64-efi installer becomes unresponsive on x86 bios

2014-11-30 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2014-11-30 at 10:38 +, Ian Campbell wrote: > [...] > In $subject you mention EFI. Is this old system really EFI based? [...] > If not then I think mystery is resolved and Jessie is fixed, so I won't > plan to spend any longer investigating. The "If not" here referred to that question,

Bug#771465: i386 hd-media image does not boot on Macbooks with 32-bit EFI

2014-11-30 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
[ CCing debian-ker...@lists.debian.org for some more insights ] Teemu Ikonen writes: > Package: debian-installer > Severity: important > > Hi, > > I recently installed jessie on a 2007 intel Macbook by booting d-i > from a USB drive. Getting the installer to start required quite a bit > of hand

Bug#771465: i386 hd-media image does not boot on Macbooks with 32-bit EFI

2014-11-30 Thread Teemu Ikonen
On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > Teemu Ikonen writes: >> The Macbook versions Macbook1,1 and Macbook2,1 from 2006-2007 require >> a 32-bit EFI bootloader and thus do not work with amd64 version of >> d-i. On the other hand, the i386 hd-media/boot.img.gz image only works

Bug#771465: i386 hd-media image does not boot on Macbooks with 32-bit EFI

2014-11-30 Thread Teemu Ikonen
On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 8:48 PM, Teemu Ikonen wrote: > I made a USB stick with 32-bit EFI grub and kernel and initrd copied from > amd64 > netboot ISO. Grub naturally works ok, and interestingly, even the kernel boots > but it does not find a working init. Ah, of course I mixed the kernel from a

Bug#771576: tasksel: tasks=mate still also installs gnome

2014-11-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: tasksel Version: 3.29 Severity: important Hello, I wanted to make brltty and speakup auto-preseed tasks=mate so as to automatically install the most accessible desktop by default, but while doing so indeed enables installation of the mate desktop, the gnome desktop also gets installed: w

Bug#769616: tasksel: fails to preseed desktop on kfreebsd, hurd

2014-11-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Sat 22 Nov 2014 23:19:24 +0100, a écrit : > I however fail to preseed this and still let the user choose. Ok, forget what I wrote: I made various mistakes. tasksel tasksel/desktop multiselect mate does work, except bug #771576. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bo

Bug#771465: i386 hd-media image does not boot on Macbooks with 32-bit EFI

2014-11-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 09:05:47PM +0100, Teemu Ikonen wrote: >On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 8:48 PM, Teemu Ikonen wrote: >> I made a USB stick with 32-bit EFI grub and kernel and initrd copied from >> amd64 >> netboot ISO. Grub naturally works ok, and interestingly, even the kernel >> boots >> but it

Bug#771617: installer beta 2: jessie parted_server segfault on AMD Athlon64

2014-11-30 Thread Gordon Morehouse
Package: installation-reports Severity: important Tags: d-i Dear Maintainer, Please ignore the system information, this is being submitted from a different system. I am attempting to install jessie on an Athlon64 3000+. This is the jessie DI netinst beta 2 amd64 iso installer. I was in the par

Bug#771617:

2014-11-30 Thread Gordon Morehouse
This has happened to me again. It appears to happen any time the installer, in 'expert mode' (haven't tried normal mode), gets to "Starting up the partitioner" after making certain kinds of changes to encrypted volumes. I don't know what the set of those changes is, though. Again the same couple m

Bug#770231: Amd64-efi installer becomes unresponsive on x86 bios

2014-11-30 Thread Samuel Comeau
The bios is EFI capable, but I was booting in legacy mode. This old system was built by a very able tech, and it does run two P4s on the motherboard. It's an old server. In any case, since the EFI capabilities of the bios were not in use, I think you've found the problem. Also, "efi" was part of

Bug#771623: installation-reports: expert installer 'targeted' initrd does not contain modules for USB keyboard on intended system

2014-11-30 Thread Gordon Morehouse
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Tags: d-i Dear Maintainer, Please ignore the system information, this is an attempt to install jessie beta 2 from netinst. I used 'expert mode' to install for various reasons, and when presented with the choice between generic and targeted initrd im