Bug#803115: flash-kernel: please provide an option to disable creation of backup files

2015-10-26 Thread Eric Cooper
Package: flash-kernel Version: 3.46 Severity: wishlist I'd like an option (configurable in /etc/default/flash-kernel ideally) to prevent flash-kernel from creating .bak files for uImage, uInitrd, and dtb, in order to same space on my system. I'm willing to live dangerously and keep a serial and J

Bug#804359: flash-kernel: Little-endianness is tested incorrectly for NSLU2

2015-11-07 Thread Eric Cooper
om: Eric Cooper Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 12:58:04 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Test $little_endian correctly in nslu2_swap() Signed-off-by: Eric Cooper --- functions | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/functions b/functions index ea69df7..35d872b 100644 --- a/functions +++ b/f

Bug#803115: flash-kernel: please provide an option to disable creation of backup files

2015-11-07 Thread Eric Cooper
pping backup of dtb. Installing new dtb. >From e111d107a0e9453d0af0eb0ed4708a1aea1f901e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Cooper Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 13:15:39 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Add NO_BACKUP_FILES option to /etc/default/flash-kernel. If set, no backups of kernel, initrd, and dtb files

Bug#759657: console-setup w/ systemd forgets font setting

2015-11-19 Thread Eric Cooper
Package: console-setup Version: 1.134 Followup-For: Bug #759657 I see the same problem on every reboot. While booting, it looks like the font switches from VGA to Terminus during the boot messages. But then the screen is cleared and the getty login prompts are back in VGA. If I run "setupcon" m

Bug#759657: console-setup w/ systemd forgets font setting

2015-12-12 Thread Eric Cooper
On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 01:52:29PM +, Brian Potkin wrote: > On Thu 10 Dec 2015 at 03:47:24 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > > > Am 10.12.2015 um 00:55 schrieb Samuel Thibault: > > > Eric Cooper, on Thu 19 Nov 2015 13:31:57 -0500, wrote: > > >> While booting, it

Re: Debian has failed us

2007-01-11 Thread Eric Cooper
ated. On the contrary, he attacked nobody personally, and his tone was not inflammatory. Your response made an unfortunate situation worse. It's you who should apologize. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Bug#408408: installation-guide-i386: possible typo in "Submitting Installation Reports"

2007-01-25 Thread Eric Cooper
Package: installation-guide-i386 Version: http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386 Severity: normal Section ch05s03.html#submit-bug says: run the command reportbug installation-report Shouldn't this be run the command reportbug installation-reports i.e., against the installation-report

Bug#297536: installation-guide-powerpc: netbooting from open firmware

2007-02-04 Thread Eric Cooper
Package: installation-guide-powerpc Version: http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.powerpc/ch05s01.html Followup-For: Bug #297536 On my gray & white G4, I had to use the OF command boot enet:0,yaboot instead of just "boot enet:0" as specified in the manual. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Bug#547218: debootstrap: cannot create squeeze chroot

2009-09-17 Thread Eric Cooper
Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.15 Severity: important Tags: patch debootstrap currently fails to create a squeeze chroot. The log output shows that readline-common depends either on dpkg >= 1.15.4 (which is not yet in squeeze) or on install-init (which isn't being installed), so it fails. If

Bug#509937: installation-guide-i386: suggested image for memory-stick booting does not contain network drivers

2009-02-16 Thread Eric Cooper
Package: installation-guide-i386 Version: lenny Followup-For: Bug #509937 Section 4.3.1 ("Copying the files -- the easy way") says: There is an all-in-one file hd-media/boot.img.gz which contains all the installer files (including the kernel) as well as syslinux and its configuration f

Re: Bug#509937: installation-guide-i386: suggested image for memory-stick booting does not contain network drivers

2009-02-16 Thread Eric Cooper
rectly. If there was something else I was supposed to do, it certainly wasn't obvious. By comparison, I wiped that memory stick and recreated it the "hard way" using syslinux and the linux and initrd images from the netboot/debian-installer directory. That worked fine. -- E

Re: Bug#509937: installation-guide-i386: suggested image for memory-stick booting does not contain network drivers

2009-02-16 Thread Eric Cooper
quot;first". And perhaps the paragraph beginning "After that, mount the USB memory stick " could be emphasized somehow (bold face or whatever). Anyway, sorry for the noise, and thanks and congratulations for the lenny release. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -

Re: Emdebian sprint / runtime device fingerprinting in bootloader

2011-02-23 Thread Eric Cooper
, but has a different amount of SDRAM, different GPIOs, UART, etc. Many of the other systems based on this chip ("plug computers") would be similarly difficult to distinguish at runtime. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@li

Re: Emdebian sprint / runtime device fingerprinting in bootloader

2011-02-24 Thread Eric Cooper
an when it is the "same > Kirkwood SoC"? (Note that I didn't say what you quoted.) But it was a brain slip; I was just remembering a difference in the physical connectors for the serial ports. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#572013: bashism in /usr/share/udhcpc/default.script causes network setup to fail

2010-05-20 Thread Eric Cooper
Package: udhcpc Version: 1:1.15.3-1 Severity: normal The proposed fix -- $((metric += 1)) -- doesn't have the same semantics. The routing table metric will start at 1 rather than 0. You need to increment $metric in a separate command, after using it in the route command: for i in $router; d

Bug#591436: busybox-syslogd: initscript prints many error messages

2010-08-02 Thread Eric Cooper
Package: busybox-syslogd Version: 1:1.15.3-1 Severity: normal The busybox-syslogd and -klogd initscripts generate lots of error messages like this: cut: /proc/447/stat: No such file or directory cut: /proc/452/stat: No such file or directory cut: /proc/453/stat: No such file or direct

Bug#594616: busybox-syslogd: typos in initscript messages

2010-08-27 Thread Eric Cooper
Package: busybox-syslogd Version: 1:1.17.1-2 Severity: minor "busybox' syslogd implementation" should be either "busybox's syslogd implementation" if you want the correct possessive form, or just "busybox syslogd implmentation" if you want to use busybox as just an adjective modifying syslogd. I

Bug#684596: udhcpc avoid default.script dependency on net-tools

2012-08-11 Thread Eric Cooper
Package: udhcpc Version: 1:1.20.0-6 Severity: normal Tags: patch If I remove net-tools from my system, udhcpc breaks because its default.script relies on ifconfig and route, but udhcpc doesn't depend on net-tools. Since versions of these are built into busybox, the attached quick-and-dirty patch