Bug#960626: Solution

Hi,   I've received help from some nice guy on #debian-boot   The problem is in all likelihood linked to this strange partition layout shown by parted.   Anyway, here's the trick I used to solve my issue:   1- format my USB stick using a GPT partition table 2- create a single vfat partitio

Bug#939862: installation-guide-amd64: "Windows 8 fast boot" is now "Windows 10 fast startup"

Control: tags -1 + pending Lou Poppler wrote: > Package: installation-guide-amd64 > Severity: minor > Tags: d-i > > Dear Maintainer, > > Buster installation guide section 3.6.4. documents the dangers of the Windows > 8 > "fast boot" feature.  Most users now have Windows 10, where this feature

Processed: Re: Bug#939862: installation-guide-amd64: "Windows 8 fast boot" is now "Windows 10 fast startup"

Processing control commands: > tags -1 + pending Bug #939862 [installation-guide-amd64] installation-guide-amd64: "Windows 8 fast boot" is now "Windows 10 fast startup" Added tag(s) pending. -- 939862: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=939862 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact

Re: Bug#459357: installation-guide-i386: 8.6.1. Kernel Image Management -- too few prerquisits

Michael Junker wrote: > The statement > To compile a kernel the Debian way, you need some packages: fakeroot, > kernel-package, linux-source-2.6 and a few others which are probably > already installed (see /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz for > the complete list). > > appeared to

Bug#459357: marked as done (installation-guide-i386: 8.6.1. Kernel Image Management -- too few prerquisits)

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[installation-guide] Closing powerpc bugreports

Closing bugs which are no longer relevant because content is no longer existing in the installation-guide (due to no longer supported powerpc archs/machines): #233864 [powerpc] document need for BootX on oldworld #273994 provide download-url for MacOS 7.5 as bootloader on oldworld #717657 Bug#71

Bug#515249: marked as done (installation-reports: Various issues on IBM Power5 (lvm, multipath, yaboot.conf))

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Bug#377017: marked as done (please include the bits from this wikipage in the manual)

Your message dated Sun, 17 May 2020 14:13:23 +0200 with message-id <20200517141323.d26d6e23dd67379e768a4...@mailbox.org> and subject line [installation-guide] Closing powerpc bugreports has caused the Debian Bug report #233864, regarding please include the bits from this wikipage in the manual to b

Bug#273994: marked as done (provide download-url for MacOS 7.5 as bootloader on oldworld)

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Bug#717657: marked as done (Bug#717511: installation-guide-powerpc: describe boot partiton layout constraints for Pegasos machines)

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Bug#233864: marked as done ([powerpc] document need for BootX on oldworld)

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Bug#903393: [initramfs-tools] update-initramfs -u warns: Unknown X keysym "dead_belowmacron"

Dear Maintainer, On Debian 9 (with console-setup 1.164) running "sudo update-initramfs -u" produces: update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.9.0-12-amd64 WARNING: Unknown X keysym "dead_belowbreve" WARNING: Unknown X keysym "dead_belowbreve" WARNING: Unknown X keysym "dead_belowmacron"

Bug#924290: [rfc] information about EFI partitions

Hi, wrote: > Package: installation-guide > Version: 20180930 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > > Hi > > recently I was learning about presseding UEFI installs and > I think the install guide could use a small addition to make > that journey easier. I also sent a patch to partman-auto-recipe.

Bug#233864: marked as done ([powerpc] document need for BootX on oldworld)

On 5/17/20 2:15 PM, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > Initial boot: doesn't work on oldworld PPC. BootX works. Yeah, it's a known > problem. What about providing BootX in the cdrom and adding this hint to > debian-installer documentation? That's actually a good point. I can look adding OldWorl

Bug#515249: marked as done (installation-reports: Various issues on IBM Power5 (lvm, multipath, yaboot.conf))

Hello Holger! Closing the bug report in this case is okay, but the actual reason why this can be closed is that I have switched the powerpc and ppc64 ports over from Yaboot to GRUB meaning that Yaboot-specific installation issues should no longer be relevant. Thanks, Adrian On 5/17/20 2:15 PM, D

Re: Emulate 'vga=none' by gfxpayload as kernel boot parameter

On 5/15/2020 6:31 PM, john doe wrote: Debians-boot, I'm trying to troubleshoot what I'm doing rong when trying to install Debian through serial console. If I start a Qemu VM like so: qemu-system-x86_64 -cdrom debian-bullseye-DI-alpha2-amd64-netinst.iso -nographic -vga none -m 1024 At the Debi