Bug#211128: Installer doesn't autoload eepro100

2003-10-15 Thread Herbert Xu
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 11:47:06PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > The e100 module is included, AFAIK this is an alternate driver for the > same card (intel EtherExpress Pro/100). I'm not sure why Herbert Xu > chose one over the other; I have heard of the eepro100 driver not > wo

Re: dependency checking in copy-modules (linux-kernel-di)

2003-10-18 Thread Herbert Xu
ine out the advantages of this > dependency checking and how it works and how it can be ported to > non-i386? The dependency checking is meant to prevent shipping modules which can't be loaded because of a missing dependency. Cheers, -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.

Bug#218870: needs to install kernel-pcmcia-modules-xxx for i386

2003-11-03 Thread Herbert Xu
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: installation report

2003-11-06 Thread Herbert Xu
s prior to 2.4.21, this was the only way to do it since all IDE drivers resided in the same module. Cheers, -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.

Re: Bug#221227: pump-udeb: Depends: libpopt0 (>= 1.7) but it is not installable

2003-11-17 Thread Herbert Xu
ld build a libpopt0 udeb. Last I heard debian-boot is now converging on dhcp-client/udhcp so I presume pump-udeb isn't needed anymore. So unless I hear otherwise, pump-udeb will be removed in the next release. Cheers, -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: H

Re: Bug#221227: pump-udeb: Depends: libpopt0 (>= 1.7) but it is not installable

2003-11-17 Thread Herbert Xu
age them and drop > pump-udeb from the cd list too. OK, I will remove it in the next release. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana

Bug#222374: d-i melts screen on sis 630 laptop

2003-12-26 Thread Herbert Xu
h driver got loaded and make sure that there is a way to not load it. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -

Bug#221504: Install on HP ZE5155

2003-12-27 Thread Herbert Xu
. > > Then I can type username and password, and log in normally. If I > > let debian load without repeatedly pushing a button, I can't use the > > keyboard at all. > > Sounds like a kernel bug. Herbert? Are you using gpm or X? -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( ht

Re: Installation report: FAILED on i386

2004-01-18 Thread Herbert Xu
, no workaround. Since you have a workaround for the hang, please get the system installed so that you can test the kernel-image packages. Once you're there, please test 2.4.24-1-386 as well 2.4.18 to see if either one works. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email:

Re: goals for next release

2004-01-30 Thread Herbert Xu
already built in. > > I've CCed Herbert in this reply for his comments. I'm happy to include it in the next release which should come out in about a week. If there are other issues like this, it would be good to inform me as soon as possible. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www

Re: goals for next release

2004-01-30 Thread Herbert Xu
these ICH5 SATA issues. So far I've only got one response wrt to my query about their BIOS settings. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana

Re: Bug#224494: ICH5 + ide-detect == lockup

2004-02-13 Thread Herbert Xu
tags 224494 pending quit On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 07:05:58AM -0500, Steve Haavik wrote: > On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Herbert Xu wrote: > > > Could you all try installing kernel-image-2.4.24-1-686 and see if it > > works? If it does, please also try it with noapic, and "noapic acp

Re: Bug#224494: ICH5 + ide-detect == lockup

2004-02-13 Thread Herbert Xu
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 05:31:15PM -0800, Matt Kraai wrote: > On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 10:03:52AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > > In the next release, I will enable local and IO APIC in the 386 flavour. > > This should resolve the ICH5/SATA hang. > > Does this mean that 231211 i

Re: Processed: (no subject)

2004-02-22 Thread Herbert Xu
tely in kernel-image-2.4.24-1-386. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Processed: (no subject)

2004-02-23 Thread Herbert Xu
evfs. Magnus, please cc the maintainer that you're reassigning to in future. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey

Re: Bug#232415: mkinitrd trace

2004-03-03 Thread Herbert Xu
he device exists either by creating it or by mounting devfs. Therefore I'm reassigning this bug. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#232415: mkinitrd fails on cciss drive hardware

2004-03-03 Thread Herbert Xu
i called it with, but could not. Am posting what I did anyways, > though. Would like to continue to help if I can :) That's OK. It has been determined that this bug is actually in d-i itself so no further testing are needed here. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Ema

Bug#181975: di-utils-mkfs: failure with unpartitioned hard drive

2003-02-22 Thread Herbert Xu
ns as well as whole discs. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Bug#182045: No framebuffer?

2003-02-23 Thread Herbert Xu
ESA mode. You should load vga16 as a fall back if vesafb fails. I guess one package makes more sense... -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org

Bug#182464: anna: Extra package selection should not be at default priority level

2003-02-26 Thread Herbert Xu
#x27;s a bit late for me to influence that since the ftpmasters have alreay added the rules. You need to speak to them directly. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key:

Re: m68k, debian-installer, and DevFS

2003-03-01 Thread Herbert Xu
y be dropped. Since they aren't likely to work with 2.6 when it is released or any future kernel release. We cannot support old kernels indefinitely. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gond

Re: Build failure

2003-03-07 Thread Herbert Xu
Peter Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anyone disagree before I file bugs against various kernel udebs? Yes, as the next releases of kernel udebs will contain modules.dep. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} &l

Re: d-i TOTO wrong

2003-03-15 Thread Herbert Xu
I am actively maintaining pump regardless of what RedHat does. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUB

Re: d-i: depmod fails on Alpha

2003-03-15 Thread Herbert Xu
ng the depmod from module-init-tools. You need to check the existence of module-init-tools and always run the depmod from modutils for a 2.4 kernel. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondo

Bug#179000: Handling kernel modules of different kernel versions in anna & d-i

2003-03-21 Thread Herbert Xu
can't we simply use the package name for that? Every kernel modules package should carry the version number in its name. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Ke

Bug#179000: Handling kernel modules of different kernel versions in anna & d-i

2003-03-24 Thread Herbert Xu
t too unclear > for my taste :/ This seems pretty simple to me. Find "-modules-" in the string, and then keep going until you see "-udeb" at the end. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Pa

Re: kernel-image-2.4.20-udeb: please include e100 and e1000 nic drivers

2003-03-29 Thread Herbert Xu
Do you want the e1000 module to go into nic-modules or nic-modules-extra? -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: kernel-image-2.4.20-udeb: please include e100 and e1000 nic drivers

2003-04-04 Thread Herbert Xu
p://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Please make discover2 udebs available for testing

2003-06-01 Thread Herbert Xu
s can be easily extended to cover other PCI devices. I can work on this if this is of interest to you. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.or

Re: Please make discover2 udebs available for testing

2003-06-02 Thread Herbert Xu
Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Herbert Xu] >> FWIW, I posted a script ages ago to produce the data file containing >> network devices for discover v1 directly from a kernel-image >> package. This can be easily extended to cover other PCI devices. &g

Re: dpkg-scanpackages and udebs

2003-06-02 Thread Herbert Xu
e I don't know :) But you can use apt-move to build the Packages file instead and it will put the appropriate entry in the Packages file. For local packages you'll need to add an entry in the .binary.local file. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herber

Re: Can't mkinitrd on chroot system

2003-06-20 Thread Herbert Xu
ound this > problem? Is there any problem with mounting proc inside the chroot? -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pu

Re: kernel-image needs a rebuild with new kernel-package

2003-07-17 Thread Herbert Xu
the new > debian-installer this will be the case. > > Most probably all other arches need a rebuild, too. The next release of kernel-image on i386 and alpha will be built against kernel-package 8.042. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~

Re: Have Linux boot with eye-candy

2003-07-26 Thread Herbert Xu
t; 16 colour VGA one. The VESA driver has been modularised in the Debian kernels. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/p

Re: Bug#209229: Install report, laptop with USB CD-ROM

2003-09-09 Thread Herbert Xu
ld > it go into a separate usb-storage-udeb, to be included on the cdrom > floppy, but skipped on the smaller floppies? That should work. Unless I hear any opposing voices, this will be how it'll be done in 2.4.22-1. Cheers, -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ )

Re: new installer

2003-10-03 Thread Herbert Xu
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > well d-i is a bunch of little piles of crufty sh, rather then a couple > large piles of crufty C like boot-floppies. Which in turn was a rewrite of large pile of crufty sh :) -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ )

Re: Possible generation of damaged initrd / lilo problem

2004-03-12 Thread Herbert Xu
u have dash 0.4.24 and regenerate the initrd image. Please let me know If the problem persists. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/

Bug#237466: Can you have the root device on a logical volume?

2004-03-15 Thread Herbert Xu
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 05:13:26PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > > Does mkinitrd currently support having the root device on a logical volume? Yes. Both LVM/LVM2 and EVMS are supported. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMA

Re: Bug#239552: kernel-image-2.4.25-1-386: incompatibility with the cciss module ?

2004-03-23 Thread Herbert Xu
gt; dpkg : error processing kernel-image-2.4.25-1-386 (--configure) : > subprocess post-install. script returned error exit status 1. > ===== This is a bug in the installer. It needs to make sure that the above device exists. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ )

Re: Processed: reassign 238600 to kernel-image-2.4.24-1-generic

2004-03-23 Thread Herbert Xu
ssages. If you can get the system installed, I'd like you to try 2.6.4 as well. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/

Re: Processed: reassign 238341 to kernel-image-2.4.24-1-generic

2004-03-23 Thread Herbert Xu
ebian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Processed: Reassigning bug to kernel-image

2004-03-25 Thread Herbert Xu
. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Must debian-installer use iso-codes package when choosing country?

2004-04-04 Thread Herbert Xu
eeks won't agree to that ... Well for the same reason most of thel mainland Chinese people will disagree with showing just Taiwan instead of the longer version. In fact, you'll probably get Debian banned by the Chinese government should they get wind of this fact. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is

Re: Must debian-installer use iso-codes package when choosing country?

2004-04-04 Thread Herbert Xu
sing "Taiwan" > here. Even in many governmental newspapers, they also use "Taiwan" > directly sometimes. In the context of choosing the name of a country, you'll find that most of the mainland popluation are willing to go to war on this. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out!

Re: Must debian-installer use iso-codes package when choosing country?

2004-04-04 Thread Herbert Xu
an anymore. Who cares? It'd be much better if you didn't use Debian at all. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey

Re: About that Alpha kernel bug mentioned in beta3 errata

2004-04-04 Thread Herbert Xu
n/kernel/binary/2.4.25/alpha-generic/ and see if the problem goes away? If it does, then I'll turn stxncpy off until it's fixed. Cheers, -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.o

Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?

2004-04-07 Thread Herbert Xu
Katipo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But it doesn't stop there. After the Han, > which is the group that make up approx. 46% of the population, Han makes up 92% of the population, not 46%. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert X

Re: About that Alpha kernel bug mentioned in beta3 errata

2004-04-09 Thread Herbert Xu
e problem. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt Index: arch/a

Re: dhcp known problem?

2002-04-10 Thread Herbert Xu
ule is on the root disk. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Bug#156710: BOOT error on new install to Mac Performa 6360 PowerPC

2002-08-14 Thread Herbert Xu
t; > > __________ > Do You Yahoo!? > HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs > http://www.hotjobs.com > -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page:

Re: dhcp-client for debian-installer

2002-09-18 Thread Herbert Xu
PS Please CC me when replying on debian-boot. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: Trying out http://people.debian.org/~tfheen/d-i

2002-10-24 Thread Herbert Xu
the module system to autodetect (i.e., the hotplug approach). There is no point in duplicating all the information in another list when the modules themselves have it. To start with, just look at /lib/modules/2.4.19-386/modules.pcimap. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ )

Re: Trying out http://people.debian.org/~tfheen/d-i

2002-10-25 Thread Herbert Xu
Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > With PCI/USB devices, we really should be using the module system to > autodetect (i.e., the hotplug approach). There is no point in duplicating > all the information in another list when the modules themselves have > it. To sta

Re: anna menutest

2002-10-12 Thread Herbert Xu
Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You mean 2>&1 >/dev/null, surely? That would only redirect stdout to /dev/null, while stderr is redirected to the old stdout. What you want is > /dev/null 2>&1 -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.or

Re: codingstyle?

2002-11-03 Thread Herbert Xu
always adjust it using tabsize. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: socket-modules udeb

2002-11-09 Thread Herbert Xu
tp://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: building udebs

2002-11-19 Thread Herbert Xu
about how to > create a udeb? Have a look at the kernel-image-2.4.19-i386-udeb source package. It builds udebs out of a normal kernel-image package. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page:

Re: working on the Alpha port

2002-12-12 Thread Herbert Xu
Ah.. almost sure it is. What boot loader are you using? It should be loading the initrd, not the kernel. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apa

Re: working on the Alpha port

2002-12-13 Thread Herbert Xu
hould be loading the initrd, not > > the kernel. > > Shouldn't it be compiled in anyway? People might want to load > additional drivers/plugins/whatever from floppy. No, that's what floppy-udeb is for. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Her

Re: working on the Alpha port

2002-12-13 Thread Herbert Xu
> back to load_ramdisk. What do you think? It is trivial to get aboot to support it. See attached patch. > BTW, are you planning on creating any Alpha kernel images udebs? They're already in the archive. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{

Re: working on the Alpha port

2002-12-13 Thread Herbert Xu
000a32ba8 > Please insert the floppy disk with the INITRD image. > Press ENTER to continue... > halted CPU 0 > > halt code = 2 > kernel stack not valid halt > PC = 2 Sorry, that patch is broken. Please try this one instead. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http

Re: Bug#176881: kernel-image-2.4.20-586tsc: possibility to remove default kernel

2003-01-15 Thread Herbert Xu
e it is not listed with dpkg -l. Would be fine if the default kernel > the installer installs on the system could be listed as a "normal" package > as well. This is a boot-floppies problem. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~

Re: kernel 2.6.5 - ide-core boot parameters problem

2004-04-23 Thread Herbert Xu
the mirrors tomorrow. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: kernel 2.6.5 - ide-core boot parameters problem

2004-04-25 Thread Herbert Xu
hdg' Unfortunately the kernel package could only fix half of the bug, you still need a patched module-init-tools to make the option work. See http://bugs.debian.org/module-init-tools. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <

Bug#247213: Bug#247780: partman LV filesystem detection problem

2004-05-07 Thread Herbert Xu
ably not... doesn't strike me as the right solution since we don't > use devfs after reboot. Or does that not matter? Well as long as the devices exist mkinitrd will be happy. Whether that's done by devfs or mknod is up to you. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.

Bug#247213: installation-reports: doesn't install kernel if root is on LVM

2004-05-07 Thread Herbert Xu
gt; lvmtag are NOT consistent". > > Any idea? Not really. Perhaps some devices they need are missing? Try talking to the respective maintainers. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.

Bug#247213: installation-reports: doesn't install kernel if root is on LVM

2004-05-07 Thread Herbert Xu
On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 01:34:47PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-05-07 20:36]: > > Someone needs to make sure that /dev/rootvg/rootlv exists in the chroot. > > You can do this by either copying the device from the real root, or

Re: Resignation

2004-05-09 Thread Herbert Xu
s it is already too late for me to back out of this process. Cheers, -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt --

Re: Experimental countrychooser branch

2004-05-03 Thread Herbert Xu
can justify it by the Social Contract . You're basically trading the interest of 30 million people against that of 1 billion. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP

Re: Software RAID support

2004-05-06 Thread Herbert Xu
to pick up whatever disks are listed in the superblocks or raidtab. If that's not the case, please file a bug. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http

Re: Software RAID support

2004-05-06 Thread Herbert Xu
.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#247921: Installer reboot fails with mixed discs

2004-05-14 Thread Herbert Xu
ules, /etc/modutils.d and /etc/modprobe.d by d-i. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Sarge install -- still no ACPI

2004-05-14 Thread Herbert Xu
lly the same as #228461 although the specific cause might differ. So please test the vmlinuz image I provided there and boot with earlyprintk=vga. Please submit the result in a new bug report against the kernel package. Thanks, -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: H

Re: Sarge install -- still no ACPI

2004-05-14 Thread Herbert Xu
ade your BIOS or disable local APIC. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Sarge install -- still no ACPI

2004-05-14 Thread Herbert Xu
ld steer > by tuning the radio, but this is ridiculous.] These issues appear to be unrelated. -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pu

Bug#249311: (no subject)

2004-05-16 Thread Herbert Xu
Can you do an installation of unstable rather than testing > > >to see if it's fixed? > > > > I installed unstable and have initrd-tools_0.1.68_all.deb in apt-proxy > > cache. > > Herbert? (this was with root on LVM2 fwiw) Sorry, I stuffed up in 0.1.68.

Bug#249311: (no subject)

2004-05-17 Thread Herbert Xu
lease send me a copy of the initrd image in private so I can have a look at it. Thanks, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: initrd testing

2004-05-18 Thread Herbert Xu
ourse make sure that ext2 is actually compiled in as well. -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Processed: Re: Bug#249024: boot-floppy: cdrom SAMSUNG SC-140B not recognize by beta4

2004-05-18 Thread Herbert Xu
nel'. Disabling DMA on hdc should make it work. You can do that by echo using_dma:0 > /proc/ide/hdc/settings -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.a

Re: initrd testing

2004-05-19 Thread Herbert Xu
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 05:16:34PM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote: > On Tue, 18 May 2004 18:14:38 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > > Make sure that it has the same block size as cramfs (which is the same > > as the page size on your arch). Otherwise the cramfs probing will > > kil

Re: initrd testing

2004-05-19 Thread Herbert Xu
sing the Debian kernel-source package then it should be fine. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: debina installer beta2 on GA-8I875

2004-05-28 Thread Herbert Xu
The kernel should probably > not show this pci id if it is disabled (If that's possible after all). Sorry but parport_pc is not a PCI device. This looks like a d-i auto-detection problem to me. -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PRO

Re: 2.2r2 installs but hda busy

2001-02-16 Thread Herbert Xu
, you can turn it off with hdparm. We will probably turn DMA_AUTO off in future. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/p

Re: SOLVED: 2.2r2 installs but hda busy

2001-02-17 Thread Herbert Xu
dule, or turn net-pf-10 off. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: SOLVED: 2.2r2 installs but hda busy

2001-02-17 Thread Herbert Xu
e xconfig" menus. Edit /etc/modutils/aliases and run update-modules. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt --

Re: kernel-image-2.2.19pre13 for 2.2r3?

2001-02-18 Thread Herbert Xu
st stick with 2.2.18 ? (I gather not...) 2.2.19pre11 is OK for i386. 2.2.19pre13 solved compile problems on alpha. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http:/

Re: woody boot-floppies and flavors

2001-03-04 Thread Herbert Xu
w.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#88413: PATCH]: modconf broken with ash

2001-03-04 Thread Herbert Xu
115 > < tdir=${directory//\//_} > --- >> tdir=`eval echo \\${directory//\//_}` It still wouldn't work with ash. In fact, those two lines are exactly the same in any POSIX shell. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <

Bug#88413: PATCH]: modconf broken with ash

2001-03-04 Thread Herbert Xu
;t commit to CVS. Randolph commited the above to > cvs, I believe. Ash will parse the whole file so the conditional has no effect. We don't have a preprocessor here. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page:

Bug#88413: PATCH]: modconf broken with ash

2001-03-04 Thread Herbert Xu
echo \\${directory//\//_}`' eval: 1: Syntax error: Bad substitution -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt --

Bug#88413: PATCH]: modconf broken with ash

2001-03-04 Thread Herbert Xu
solution does prevent ash from parsing that substitution inside the conditional. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/p

Bug#88413: PATCH]: modconf broken with ash

2001-03-08 Thread Herbert Xu
y POSIX shell (make sure that the shell arguments are not needed later or save them): OIFS="$IFS" IFS=/ set -f set $directory set +f IFS=_ tdir="$*" IFS="$OIFS" -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAI

Re: Kernel for woody

2001-03-17 Thread Herbert Xu
-idepci flavors > for any kernel >= 2.2.18. Will they be made at some point or > won't we use flavors any more? Please talk to [EMAIL PROTECTED] since he maintains them. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Kernel for woody

2001-03-18 Thread Herbert Xu
n GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Headers please, Re: Kernel for woody

2001-03-19 Thread Herbert Xu
plans to do any for 2.2. Please note that I can only speak for the kernel images that I build. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/

Re: udma66 <-> ide

2001-03-20 Thread Herbert Xu
the only thing that the patch does. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: About on the fly compression/decompression of ext2 files

2001-03-23 Thread Herbert Xu
Thierry Laronde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anybody some experience with the possibility of using compressed files > on the fly with ext2 or iso9660 ? If it's readonly, why not try cramfs? -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~

Re: FW: help with DPT I2O SmartRAID V support

2001-03-24 Thread Herbert Xu
gt; That may have been fixed in 2.2.19pre11-1, but I show that only > affects aic7xxx chipsets. It looks like Adaptec never bothered to send this patch to the mainstream kernel maintainers so it'll just be another dodgy addon driver. I'm certainly not interested in maintaining it.

Re: Kernel for woody

2001-03-27 Thread Herbert Xu
that the module check sums are identical. It's not necessary to use it during the actual build. This is no longer a problem for 2.4 kernels where the kernel-header package contains all the info you need. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI

Re: Kernel for woody

2001-03-27 Thread Herbert Xu
//www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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