Bug#604245: [syslinux] Debian bug#604245: Syslinux fails (does not receive key presses on Sony vaio Z12C5E)

2010-11-24 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Gyorgy Jeney writes: > On 24 November 2010 20:25, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> György, could you please make sure that it's a keyboard issue only, for >> example by introducing a short timeout by replacing "timeout 0" with >> "timeout 50" in sys

Bug#604560: Isn't this the same as #604245?

2010-11-25 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Hi, Please try the following: instead of extracting boot.img.gz straight into your pendrive (zcat boot.img.gz >/dev/sdX), create a DOS partition table on the pendrive with an at least 250MB large first partition, make the partition active (bootable), and extract boot.img.gz into that partition (zc

Bug#604245: [syslinux] Debian bug#604245: Syslinux fails (does not receive key presses on Sony vaio Z12C5E)

2010-11-25 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Gyorgy Jeney writes: > On 24 November 2010 21:54, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> Gyorgy Jeney writes: >> >>> On 24 November 2010 20:25, Ferenc Wagner wrote: >>> >>>> # sed -i '/^timeout/s/0/50/' /mnt/syslinux.cfg >>>> # umou

Bug#605983: installation-report: PXE installation of HP Mini fails in partman step because network setup is lost

2010-12-06 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Petter Reinholdtsen writes: > [Joey Hess] > >> Attached patch implements that. Please test. > > I am unable to test. The Debian Edu developer gathering is over, and > the test machines have been placed back into their storage boxes. :( I've got access to Dell PE2650 machines with Tigon3 cards,

Bug#605983: installation-report: PXE installation of HP Mini fails in partman step because network setup is lost

2010-12-06 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Joey Hess writes: > Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> I've got access to Dell PE2650 machines with Tigon3 cards, which also >> work without the TSO firmware. I could probably seize one for testing >> if needed. > > I'd appreciate that. Ping me if you need a b

udhcpc timeout with tg3

2010-12-06 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Hi, Testing the squuze beta1 installer I ran into a networking problem. Primary network interface: 1. eth0: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5701 Gigabit Ethernet [*] 2. eth1: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5701 Gigabit Ethernet Prompt: '?' for help, default=1>

Bug#606496: debian squeeze installer halts at boot menu

2010-12-09 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Dimitri Timofeev writes: > Installer displays boot menu, beeps and halts. Another laptop (Dell > Vostro 1310) boots ok and starts installer when using the same USB > stick. This may be the same as #604245 and #604560. Could you please try the workaround detailed in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bi

Bug#606654: Busybox should include arping applet

2010-12-10 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Floris Bos writes: > I think the arping applet should be enabled in the Busybox build. > It helps a great deal in debugging general network issues and could be > helpful to create a solution for some other bugs like: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=537271 (network may not be

Bug#606636: Reverse DNS takes precedence over netcfg/get_hostname

2010-12-10 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Floris Bos writes: > The value specified using "netcfg/get_hostname" seems to be ignored, if a > reverse DNS entry is present for the IP-address of the server being installed. > [...] > I think netcfg/get_hostname should take precendence over everything else. Half of the current behaviour is do

Re: boot parameter interface=auto can't adaptation the correct NIC

2010-12-10 Thread Ferenc Wagner
lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) writes: > On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 05:45:30PM +0800, Qin Bo wrote: >> Dec 10 10:49:14 netcfg[3916]: INFO: eth0 is disconnected. (MII) >> Dec 10 10:49:14 netcfg[3916]: INFO: eth0 is not a wireless interface. >> Continuing. >> Dec 10 10:49:14 netcfg[391

Bug#606654: Busybox should include arping applet

2010-12-10 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Floris Bos writes: > On Friday, December 10, 2010 05:12:39 pm Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> Floris Bos writes: >> >>> I think the arping applet should be enabled in the Busybox build. >>> It helps a great deal in debugging general network issues and could be

Bug#606636: Reverse DNS takes precedence over netcfg/get_hostname

2010-12-10 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Floris Bos writes: > On Friday, December 10, 2010 05:17:15 pm Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> Floris Bos writes: >> >>> The value specified using "netcfg/get_hostname" seems to be ignored, if a >>> reverse DNS entry is present for the IP-address of the

Bug#603960: Same problem occurs with amd64 iso image

2010-12-14 Thread Ferenc Wagner
tag 603960 +moreinfo thanks Eric Wayman writes: > This bug also occurs when using the amd64 iso image > (http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_di_beta2/amd64/iso-cd/debian-squeeze-di-beta2-amd64-netinst.iso), > downloaded 2010-12-10. Exactly the same behavior is exhibited: I get > to the spl

Bug#606976: Kernel panic with Squeeze (AMD64) d-i beta 2

2010-12-16 Thread Ferenc Wagner
tag 606976 +moreinfo thanks Taro Sato writes: > I've tried d-i beta 2 on Dell XPS 630i. I first tried creating a USB > memory stick with the installer .iso on it (following a standard > procedure); the install USB stick works on my other computer (Lenovo > T410s). However, on 630i it always fa

Bug#605759: [s390/hercules] disk partitioning failed: no /dev/dsda1

2010-12-16 Thread Ferenc Wagner
tag 605759 +moreinfo thanks Niko Tyni writes: > Hercules s390 emulator installation failed at disk partitioning; > new partitions don't seem to show up in /dev. Hi, Thanks for the detailed but to-the-point report. This may be a kernel, a udev or a partman issue. Could you please try backing

Bug#605562: installation-report: Installation from usb stick lead to unbootable system (und unbootable usb stick)

2010-12-17 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Alexander Reichle-Schmehl writes: > Am 02.12.2010 11:36, schrieb Alexander Reichle-Schmehl: > >> I saved the contents of /var/log/installer after the installation, but >> need to recover mu original system for now to do some work. > > Ähh... Sorry. It seems it wasn't a good idea to tar /var/log/

Bug#605759: [s390/hercules] disk partitioning failed: no /dev/dsda1

2010-12-17 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Niko Tyni writes: > On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 05:37:55PM +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> Niko Tyni writes: >> >>> Hercules s390 emulator installation failed at disk partitioning; >>> new partitions don't seem to show up in /dev. >> >> Thank

Re: GTK

2010-12-22 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Michal Filka writes: > how can I remove GTK support from debian-installer? By removing the appropriate initrd file. -- Regards, Feri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http:/

Re: How to build a cdrom debian-installer with preseed.cfg

2010-12-22 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Jose Luis Zabalza writes: > Is there a smart way to build a d-i initrd with pressed.cfg inside? > Now I uncompress, copy preseed.cfg and compress again the initrd.gz file. > is this the only one way to get a initrd.gz with preseed? No, but this is the most general way. The other is using multip

Bug#607906: debian-installer: oops and panic after hardware detection

2010-12-23 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Package: debian-installer Version: squeeze beta2 netinst started from HDD by grub Severity: normal Hi, On an IBM x345 I reliably get a longish hang during "Detecting disks and all other hardware", then a BUG and a resulting panic. The BUG isn't always the same, as the two attached console logs s

Bug#603960: Same problem occurs with amd64 iso image

2010-12-24 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Eric Wayman writes: > I just tested the ISO you linked me to; sorry for the long delay in my > response. Hi Eric, No problem, thanks for testing! > Basically, everything works. [...] > I think I see what the issue is. When I entered "test" and "test-788", > it took about 30 seconds to complete

Bug#603960: Same problem occurs with amd64 iso image

2010-12-25 Thread Ferenc Wagner
unmerge 603960 retitle 603960 Linux 2.6.32 EDD probe takes 30 seconds when booted from CD-ROM thanks Eric Wayman writes: > I just tested the original beta2 squeeze installer. Selecting > "Install" from the splash screen menu exhibited the same behavior as > with the special ISO you had linked me

Bug#362029: Patch to attach

2010-12-30 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Matthew Palmer writes: > Index: netcfg/dhcp.c > === > --- netcfg/dhcp.c (revision 66154) > +++ netcfg/dhcp.c (working copy) > @@ -521,6 +521,7 @@ (after udhcpc exited with a lease) > } > >

[PATCH 3/3] Silence a compiler warning.

2011-01-06 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Signed-off-by: Ferenc Wagner --- packages/netcfg/dhcp.c |7 --- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/packages/netcfg/dhcp.c b/packages/netcfg/dhcp.c index 385799b..ce93b26 100644 --- a/packages/netcfg/dhcp.c +++ b/packages/netcfg/dhcp.c @@ -133,8 +133,7

[PATCH 2/3] Make udhcpc continuously retry getting a lease until dhcp_timeout.

2011-01-06 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Signed-off-by: Ferenc Wagner --- packages/netcfg/dhcp.c | 10 -- 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/packages/netcfg/dhcp.c b/packages/netcfg/dhcp.c index f706c5c..385799b 100644 --- a/packages/netcfg/dhcp.c +++ b/packages/netcfg/dhcp.c @@ -138,6 +138,7

[PATCH 0/3] Make udhcpc continuously retry getting a lease until dhcp_timeout

2011-01-06 Thread Ferenc Wagner
me of the slow link-up problems which recently emerged (at least when DHCP is used). Thanks, Feri. Ferenc Wagner (3): Fix the type of the option array element. Make udhcpc continuously retry getting a lease until dhcp_timeout. Silence a compiler warning. packages/netcfg/dhcp.c |

[PATCH 1/3] Fix the type of the option array element.

2011-01-06 Thread Ferenc Wagner
As long as all pointers are of the same size (as usual), this doesn't make a difference. Signed-off-by: Ferenc Wagner --- packages/netcfg/dhcp.c |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/packages/netcfg/dhcp.c b/packages/netcfg/dhcp.c index f7ffa00..f7

Re: [PATCH 3/3] Silence a compiler warning.

2011-01-06 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Ferenc Wagner writes: > -execvp("udhcpc", arguments); > +/* execvp doesn't like const strings for no reason, so we can > + cast away the const to suppress the compiler warning */ > +execvp("udhcpc", (char *

Re: [PATCH 2/3] Make udhcpc continuously retry getting a lease until dhcp_timeout.

2011-01-07 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Matthew Palmer writes: > On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 09:32:02PM +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> Signed-off-by: Ferenc Wagner >> --- >> packages/netcfg/dhcp.c | 10 -- >> 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/packa

Re: [PATCH 3/3] Silence a compiler warning.

2011-01-07 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Julien Cristau writes: > On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 00:31:07 +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> Ferenc Wagner writes: >> >>> -execvp("udhcpc", arguments); >>> +/* execvp doesn't like const strings for no reason, so we can

Re: installation manual patch for isohybrid

2011-01-08 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Christian PERRIER writes: > Quoting Joey Hess (jo...@debian.org): > >> I would like to apply this to the manual so that it does not fall out of >> sync with what is released. I hope translations will be maneagable; I >> tried to keep the new text small. > > > Seems fine to me. Late for translatio

Bug#609339: Unable to specify routes when installing

2011-01-08 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Christian PERRIER writes: > Quoting Philippe Villiers (kissif...@gmail.com): > >> I'm using Mac failovers on a virtual machine where i'm trying to >> install Debian Squeze. >> The problem is when I try to specify my IP adress and such, I have a >> gateway unreachable error. >> >> In fact I would

Bug#606976: Kernel panic with Squeeze (AMD64) d-i beta 2

2011-01-09 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Taro Sato writes: > On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> Taro Sato writes: >> >>> I've tried d-i beta 2 on Dell XPS 630i.  I first tried creating a USB >>> memory stick with the installer .iso on it (following a standard >>

Bug#603441: #603441 cdrom: serial console on Belkin f5u103 unsupported in Lenny AMD64 netinst

2011-01-10 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Gregory Nowak writes: > reboot with the cd in the drive, and get the beep from the pc speaker. > I hit , , and get no serial output. Are you sure that your USB-serial driver and the USB core is compiled into the installer kernel? The standard 8250 serial stuff is... -- Regards, Feri. -- T

Bug#607906: oops and panic after hardware detection

2011-01-10 Thread Ferenc Wagner
reassign 607906 linux-2.6 thanks I reproduced the panic with the daily installer (first attachment). By stopping before disk-detect and using a shell I could narrow this down to the "modprobe mptspi" command (second attachment). It takes quite some time to hit the BUG, which is then sooner or la

Bug#574683: marked as done (Kernel panic on install)

2011-01-10 Thread Ferenc Wagner
ow...@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) writes: > The system can boot from CD but when I go ahead with "Install" at the > initial screen, kernel panics. The message I get is: > > [ 0.596893] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs > on unknown-block(8,3) > >

Bug#595733: #595733 [sparc] sym53c8xx is not autodetected

2011-01-17 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Hermann Lauer writes: > On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 08:47:40PM +, Miguel Figueiredo wrote: > >> sym53c8xx is included in the linux-kernel-di-sparc-2.6 so i guess it >> should be detected. >> Can you try with a recent image and give feedback? > > You are right, it is detected now (9699532 2010-12

Re: UUID in fstab for device mapper devices?

2009-08-08 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Guido Günther writes: > On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 04:28:46PM +0200, Max Vozeler wrote: > >> we recently changed d-i (partman-target, to be precise) to use >> UUIDs in fstab in order to get stable device naming. [...] >> Since then, we concluded that it is preferable to go back to plain >> /dev/ma

Re: UUID in fstab for device mapper devices?

2009-08-09 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Guido Günther writes: > On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 11:12:37PM +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> Guido Günther writes: >> >>> On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 04:28:46PM +0200, Max Vozeler wrote: >>> >>>> we recently changed d-i (partman-target, to be prec

Re: UUID in fstab for device mapper devices?

2009-08-09 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Guido Günther writes: > On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 04:57:28PM +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> OK, so the problem is identifying multipath devices in d-i. So that >> option would be better called d-i_friendly_names, because from the >> user PoV losing name persistence -- w

Re: UUID in fstab for device mapper devices?

2009-08-10 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Guido Günther writes: > On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 09:31:48PM +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> Guido Günther writes: >> >>> Dropping user_friendly_names won't give you name persistence with >>> and without mp all by itself. You'll either have to use

Re: Bug#381351: initramfs-tools: This also happens when SCSI is not settled yet, patch included which works around the problem.

2009-08-16 Thread Ferenc Wagner
m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes: > I am ready to apply this change but I am unsure about a detail: is > there any reason to run udevadm settle a second time before > scsi_wait_scan is loaded? You told me it was racy to check for /sys/bus/scsi otherwise, see http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot

Re: Not sure about recent change in tzsetup

2009-11-16 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Frans Pop writes: > However, it would then be even better to just drop the > tzsetup/selected question and just ask time/zone of everybody, as I > did in my UTC patch. Users in countries with one timezone would then > simply get e.g: > Europe/Amsterdam >

Bug#560348: xen: racy temporary files for kernel and initrd

2009-12-10 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Package: debian-installer Version: 20090123lenny4 Severity: normal Hi, I encountered this while testing daily snapshots under Xen 3.2 with long extra command lines (you may consider this sort of preseeding stupid, but that's not the point now): $ sudo xm create -c xm-debian.cfg install=true ins

Bug#560348: xen: racy temporary files for kernel and initrd

2009-12-11 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Ian Campbell writes: > On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 17:46 +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> The current code in xm-debian.cfg uses Python-managed temporary files, >> which are unlinked too early (in parallel with the RPC call). I can't >> recommend a good solution, and ma

Bug#560348: xen: racy temporary files for kernel and initrd

2009-12-21 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Ian Campbell writes: > On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 11:30 +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> The guest is the Debian Installer daily image, you surely know it much >> better than I do. :) The host is a Lenny system with the Etch kernel: > > I think the issue is with the host

Bug#560348: xen: racy temporary files for kernel and initrd

2009-12-21 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Ian Campbell writes: > On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 11:56 +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> Ian Campbell writes: >> >>> For Lenny you could workaround by downloading the kernel and ramdisk >>> locally and use the install-kernel= and install-ramdisk= options to >&

Bug#563130: installation-reports 5.0.3 failure

2010-01-01 Thread Ferenc Wagner
steven writes: > Took a working Debian 4.0 system and did a fresh install of Debian > 5.0.3 via netinstall cd. Attempted to install to PERC3 raid PCI > device, this worked on Debian 4.0 but wont detect on 5.0.3. attempted > to install the megaraid_mbox module manually, no success. Is this the

Re: Bootable USB images (Re: using d-i to install kfreebsd-i386 from usb)

2010-01-01 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Aurelien Jarno writes: > On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 03:12:37PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 09:39:11PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: >>> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:37:28PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 01:48:10PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: >

Bug#563861: localechooser: Maybe ask preferred locale in more cases?

2010-01-07 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Frans Pop writes: > On Wednesday 06 January 2010, Christian PERRIER wrote: > >> +1 for me. Nice catch, again. That specific example would have raised >> suggestions at some time so it's much better if we can anticipate >> them. > > Current text is: >There is no locale defined for the combinat

Bug#433568: VLANs during install are important

2010-01-09 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Robert LeBlanc writes: > I too have been bitten by this. For as flexible as the Debian Installer is > and everything you can do, it's pretty disappointing that it can't do VLANs. > A lot of enterprises use VLANs, and it seems it would be important to have > VLAN support to install Debian. It's no

Bug#570273: debian-installer: netboot stops after loading pxelinux.cfg/default

2010-02-24 Thread Ferenc Wagner
"Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe" writes: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 01:18:01AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: >> Problem is: it works perfectly here for me using the daily image you linked >> to on two systems: in VirtualBox and my (oldish) Toshiba laptop. > > All right, I think I got it... syslinux/pxelinux.t

Re: Switching g-i from DirectFB to X11 -- image size; library reduction

2010-02-24 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Frans Pop writes: > Why image size is important > [...] > 2) makes loading the image for netboot installs slower While I'm in Syslinux mood: version 3.85 has a full-featured gPXELinux component, boasting HTTP support (among others). Image loading over HTTP is *much* faster than over TFTP. On t

Bug#571136: please remove useless devices from devices.tar.gz

2010-02-24 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Marco d'Itri writes: > FYI, the only devices needed by udev to start are null and console. Aren't those created by devtmpfs? Or will Debian not use that? -- Thanks, Feri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact list

Re: Switching g-i from DirectFB to X11 -- image size; library reduction

2010-02-26 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Frans Pop writes: > On Wednesday 24 February 2010, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> While I'm in Syslinux mood: version 3.85 has a full-featured gPXELinux >> component, boasting HTTP support (among others). Image loading over >> HTTP is *much* faster than over TFTP. On t

Re: Debian installer with RAID of 6TB

2010-03-03 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Chris Moules writes: > It seems to me that, maybe, libparted, partman or something related in > the d-i does not work with more than 4TB. All 6TB are shown but cannot > be used. As nothing seems to have a 4TB limit I am not sure what it > could be. A year ago there was a limit in parted, at leas

Bug#515695: installation-reports: USB Install fails when too many ISOs are found

2009-02-17 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Frans Pop writes: > On Tuesday 17 February 2009, Rohan Dhruva wrote: > >> My /dev/hda5 is a vfat partition having many (upwards of 15) ISOs. They >> are all present in a single directory in the root, so debian installer >> did check them. > > Possibly there are ways to improve this issues, but I'

Re: Lenny 5.0 i386 Install with LVM Cannot Reboot

2009-02-19 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Peter McGill writes: > Appears to install fine, but boot after install fails. > > Volume group "debian" not found. > The above line repeats after a time. This repeat is somewhat strange, but anyway... > Then a while later the following is reported. > ALERT! /dev/mapper/debian-root does not exis

Bug#516213: vg not found at the boot

2009-02-19 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Jan Čípa writes: > On the first boot after installing debian-500-hppa-DVD-1.iso on HP > A500 PA-RISC, booting halts on > ALERT! /dev/mapper/hp--server-root does not exist. Dropping to a shell! > > Setup with guided LVM option, kept recommended defaults. No complaints > during installation. > > Ma

Bug#516213: vg not found at the boot

2009-02-21 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Jan Čípa writes: > 2009/2/20 Ferenc Wagner > >> Jan Čípa writes: >> >>> On the first boot after installing debian-500-hppa-DVD-1.iso on HP >>> A500 PA-RISC, booting halts on >>> ALERT! /dev/mapper/hp--server-root does not exist. Dropping to a shel

Bug#512934: installation-reports: no sound at all; worked in Etch, works with Knoppix

2009-02-24 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Seb writes: >>> My only problem, but a very significant one, is that I have absolutely no >>> sound. >>> [...] >>> My sound card is a very common (and oldish) SoundBlaster PCI 128. >>> The correct kernel driver, snd_ens1371, is loaded (lsmod | grep snd). >>> >>> Sound does not work either when I

Bug#512934: installation-reports: no sound at all; worked in Etch, works with Knoppix

2009-02-24 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Seb writes: > My only problem, but a very significant one, is that I have absolutely no > sound. > [...] > My sound card is a very common (and oldish) SoundBlaster PCI 128. > The correct kernel driver, snd_ens1371, is loaded (lsmod | grep snd). > Sound does not work either

wait for the boot device (was: please test udev 0.140)

2009-03-22 Thread Ferenc Wagner
m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes: > It changed a lot, so I wonder if it breaks d-i. Speaking of this, maybe we could try to get rid of a good bunch of rootdelay issues with your help. I talked about this with maks on #debian-kernel, and he suggested that udev should load scsi_wait_scan in /us

Re: wait for the boot device

2009-03-22 Thread Ferenc Wagner
m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes: > On Mar 22, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> devices, btw. How do you feel about including something like this? > > I am not aware of this issue. Do you have a patch? This is what I usually employ: $ cat /etc/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-

Re: wait for the boot device

2009-03-22 Thread Ferenc Wagner
m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes: > On Mar 22, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> necessary devices to appear. Of course not all systems have a SCSI >> bus, so some extra cleverness would also be required. But this is a > > So submit a proper, tested and comple

Re: wait for the boot device

2009-03-22 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Ian McDonald writes: > Have you seen bug 501969? Yes, superficially, but the issue isn't specific to LILO. And it won't be solved by changing what you wait for, unless your root device is a bare partition, because RAID and LVM activation isn't periodically rerun while polling for the root devic

Re: wait for the boot device

2009-03-22 Thread Ferenc Wagner
m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes: > On Mar 22, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> I really hoped you'd provide some pointers how to attack this best, or > > I have never used this feature. If you are not totally sure about what > you are doing please refrain fro

Re: d-i kernel sound drivers selection in kernel-wedge

2009-03-31 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Samuel Thibault writes: > That said, activation of accessibility could be done by a special > hotkey that the bootloader recognizes for booting a particular image I don't think syslinux has a feature like this... Apart from the ESC a11y Enter combination, of course. -- Feri. -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: d-i kernel sound drivers selection in kernel-wedge

2009-03-31 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Frans Pop writes: > However, having a 2MB _incremental_ initrd that is chainloaded only if a > specific boot option is selected would be acceptable, especially if other > accessibility additions were moved there as well. Syslinux can load multiple initramfs images all right. The later images

Re: d-i kernel sound drivers selection in kernel-wedge

2009-03-31 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Samuel Thibault writes: > Ferenc Wagner, le Tue 31 Mar 2009 10:57:58 +0200, a écrit : >> Samuel Thibault writes: >> >> > That said, activation of accessibility could be done by a special >> > hotkey that the bootloader recognizes for booting a particular image

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-09 Thread Ferenc Wagner
"Giacomo A. Catenazzi" writes: > Does grub use the unallocated disk space near the MBR? Yes. As far as I know, even grub2 does so, but pls. correct me. > there was a discussion about poor performance if partitions/ > filesystem was not aligned to the "physical" block sectors. I also heard hpa

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-11 Thread Ferenc Wagner
"Giacomo A. Catenazzi" writes: > Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" writes: >> >>> Does grub use the unallocated disk space near the MBR? >> >> Yes. As far as I know, even grub2 does so, but pls. correct me. > > So

Re: wait for the boot device

2009-06-04 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Ferenc Wagner writes: > m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes: > >> On Mar 22, Ferenc Wagner wrote: >> >>> I really hoped you'd provide some pointers how to attack this best, or >> >> I have never used this feature. If you are not totally sur

Re: wait for the boot device

2009-06-25 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Ferenc Wagner writes: > So I'm back again, with the below patch running fine on a couple of > our production machines for a couple of months now. Please consider > incorporating it in some form. > > --- /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-premount/udev 2009-04-15

Re: wait for the boot device

2009-07-19 Thread Ferenc Wagner
maximilian attems writes: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 01:55:40PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > >> On Jun 25, Ferenc Wagner wrote: >> >>> Any word on this? >> >> I'd like to get an explanation from the kernel maintainers about why >> thi

Re: wait for the boot device

2009-07-19 Thread Ferenc Wagner
m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes: > On Jul 19, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> Now that a kernel (and initramfs-tools) maintainer gave the >> explanation you requested, how do you think we could proceed with >> this? > > As I explained, I will consider this

Bug#399840: Do we want an ssh-server task? vs. Bug#452388: "standard" system

2009-07-28 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Christian Perrier writes: > I'd very much appreciate to have more input about this. I think that > an SSH server deserves to be put in light in some way. On the other > hand, having a task for only one package is kind of overkill Why not put the ssh server (and client) into the "standard" ta

Bug#452388: Back on "'standard system' is confusing" bug report

2009-07-29 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Christian Perrier writes: > My understanding of your point is that having this: > > [ ] Desktop environment > [ ] Foo > [ ] Bar > [ ] Standard (non-graphical) environment > > does not make it clear that standard+desktop will end up in a GUI. > > If we go back to "Standard environment", I

Bug#539744: chroot to lenny /target in debootstrap segfaults

2009-08-03 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Frans Pop writes: > And if I choose to install stable I *can* reproduce the issue, both on > s390 and i386. And I can confirm that it is a segfault in mount when > mounting /proc (this is after extracting "required" packages). > > But it is indeed very strange that only the first mount attempt

Bug#539744: chroot to lenny /target in debootstrap segfaults

2009-08-03 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Frans Pop writes: > On Monday 03 August 2009, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> I can't see anything strange in it now, but it would be interesting to >> know whether it depends on the contents of /target/etc/mtab (what if >> you delete it before the mount?). Having an stra

Re: About using static config with pxeboot/preseed

2011-10-14 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Julien Escario writes: > Hello, > I'm trying to configure full automated install. > The server is booting over pxe, get his dhcp lease and retrieve the preseed > file > over http. > > Preseeding is working well but not for the net config : ip address, hostname, > ... > > After reboot, dhcp is s

Re: preseeding vs lvm

2012-01-16 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Patryk Ściborek writes: > But to my surprise it creates much bigger PV than I want: > [...] > And LV root takes all available space: Last time I checked it was impossible to preseed an LVM setup where not all the space was allocated. I had to resort to custom scripts invoked by custom partman m

Bug#591756: udeb size increase for vconfig support in busybox

2011-01-21 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Matthew Palmer writes: > Just for the record, the difference between the size of the binary in > busybox-udeb 1.17.1-9 (as is currently in git) when built on i386 with and > without vconfig is 384 bytes. I wonder if you really need this after all. vconfig is deprecated, and even the current squ

Bug#591756: udeb size increase for vconfig support in busybox

2011-01-21 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Martin Zobel-Helas writes: > On Fri Jan 21, 2011 at 15:02:30 +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> Matthew Palmer writes: >> >>> Just for the record, the difference between the size of the binary in >>> busybox-udeb 1.17.1-9 (as is currently in git) when built

Bug#611250: please support network bonding

2011-01-27 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Martin Zobel-Helas writes: > it would be nice if the debian-installer could support network bonding > on several interfaces. Why do you think it's worth the effort? Installation isn't performance critical, nor does it require high availability. And you can easily configure bonding after instal

Bug#611250: please support network bonding

2011-01-27 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Martin Zobel-Helas writes: > On Thu Jan 27, 2011 at 13:19:49 +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> Martin Zobel-Helas writes: >> >>> it would be nice if the debian-installer could support network bonding >>> on several interfaces. >> >> Why do you

Bug#571958: could someone in the d-i team could at least acknowledge the existance of this bug?

2011-02-07 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Costin writes: > I can't believe this bug has gone one whole year unnoticed and > unfixed... and still counting. You certainly have a point. Anyway, xfs is automatically present in my tests, and I could get ntfs by downloading the ntfs-modules-2.6.32-5-686-bigmem-di installer component (you hav

Re: differences in busybox configurations, part1 (longish)

2011-02-14 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Otavio Salvador writes: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 22:06, Michael Tokarev wrote: > >> FEATURE_SHADOWPASSWDS >> support for getspent() and friends. >> Current: deb n  static y  udeb n >> Proposed action: enable for deb >> Discussion: It is quite unexpected that busybox can't >> use shadow password

Re: Preparation of fixes to 6.0.1

2011-02-19 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Julien Cristau writes: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 21:52:53 +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: > >> In short, I know that "volatile" is now named "squeeze-updates"...but >> how is it called more generically? > > 'Urgent bug fixes', or something to that effect? Timely updates, or (world-)tracking upda

Bug#613796: partman-partitioning: Put swap at begin of disk instead of at end

2011-02-19 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Olaf van der Spek writes: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Lennart Sorensen > wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:18:33PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: >> >>> Is it? I thought it was the default. More doesn't make sense. >> >> If you have 8GB ram, 256MB swap is useless.  4 or 8GB might

Re: Where to put the script to custom some environment in debian installer?

2011-02-24 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Magicloud Magiclouds writes: > When using debian installer cd, there are many options to set. And I > could modify some parts, for example localechooser, to make some > customizing. > What if I just want to make some options fixed, so the user do not > have to use localechooser at all? I cann

Bug#615074: installation-reports: LVM partitions unusable during lenny->squeeze upgrade

2011-02-25 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Hilmar Preusse writes: > During the lenny->squeeze upgrade I noticed that right after the first > reboot (item 4.4.5 in the squeeze release notes) my logical volumes were not > found any more. > I have the LVM set up on IDE disks. Before the reboot the PV's were on > /dev/hda11, /dev/hda14 etc. R

Bug#615074: installation-reports: LVM partitions unusable during lenny->squeeze upgrade

2011-02-26 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Hilmar Preusse writes: > On 25.02.11 Ferenc Wagner (wf...@niif.hu) wrote: > >> Hilmar Preusse writes: >> >>> During the upgrade of lvm by calling "apt-get dist-upgrade" >>> everything has been fixed, but until then these file systems were >&g

Bug#615600: Bug#504753: Bug#615600: BOOTIF= kernel commandline option does not work

2011-02-28 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Marc Haber writes: > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 06:39:48AM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: > >> Quoting Thomas Mieslinger (thomas.mieslin...@1und1.de): >> >>> To get my job done all those 5000 Machines must comply to some very >>> very basic guidelines. After the installation, the inner interface >>

Bug#615599: debian-installer prefers usb Blockdevices over "real" harddrives

2011-02-28 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Marc Haber writes: > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 06:33:55AM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: > >> Quoting Thomas Mieslinger (tho...@mieslinger.de): >> >>> Package: debian-installer >>> Version: 20110106+b1 >>> >>> Tried to autoinstall squeeze on dell poweredge hardware with drac5 >>> or idrac6 KVM. T

Re: Fw: Re: Starting Debian installer from Grub2 on Flash

2011-03-01 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Wookey writes: > [Forwarded from Debian-arm list to somewherre where the answers might > be better known. ] Please forward this back if it's really arm-related. > From: Jean-Michel Pouré - GOOZE > Subject: Re: Starting Debian installer from Grub2 on Flash > To: debian-embed...@lists.debian.org

Re: squeeze boot failure

2011-03-01 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Miguel Figueiredo writes: > A Quinta 24 Fevereiro 2011 15:29:41 Dieter Faulbaum você escreveu: > >> Miguel Figueiredo writes: >> >>> A Terça 22 Fevereiro 2011 17:27:47 Dieter Faulbaum você escreveu: >>> >>> Please take a look on the installer log at /var/log/installer/syslog or >>> if 'installe

Bug#615600: BOOTIF= kernel commandline option does not work

2011-03-01 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Marc Haber writes: > On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 04:28:16PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >> I guess the following changes do kind of a job: >> etc/udev/rules.d/69-bootif.rules (inside the installer's initrd) >> ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="net", IMPORT{program}="bootif $attr{address}" >> >> Unfortunately,

Re: Fw: Re: Starting Debian installer from Grub2 on Flash

2011-03-02 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Jean-Michel Pouré - GOOZE writes: > Le mardi 01 mars 2011 à 22:09 +0100, Ferenc Wagner a écrit : > >> Then you'll get the equivalent of a PXE installation, but started >> from flash. > > This is great. Do I also need the mini.iso, right? No, nothing is need

Bug#615600: BOOTIF= kernel commandline option does not work

2011-03-02 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Marc Haber writes: > On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 01:41:58AM +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> Marc Haber writes: >> >>> On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 04:28:16PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >>> >>>> I guess the following changes do kind of a job: >>>&

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