Bug#724891: [debian-installer] debian-installer: Build firmware for the DNS-320/DNS-325

2014-06-25 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2014-06-22 at 20:15 +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Mon, 2014-06-16 at 23:33 +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > >> Le 16 juin 2014 20:48, "Ian Campbell" a écrit : > >> > I understand wha

Bug#724891: [debian-installer] debian-installer: Build firmware for the DNS-320/DNS-325

2014-07-06 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2014-07-06 at 14:55 +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > Dlink firmware does not work from rs232 console I'm afraid I still don't really understand what you mean. Are you using "rs232 console" to mean "with Debian already installed"? If so then is the purpose of this ext2 image to be able t

Bug#751716: [debian-installer] Patch

2014-07-08 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2014-07-07 at 17:05 +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Bastien ROUCARIES [2014-07-06 22:10]: > > >> You combine the kernel and the DTB in $(TEMP)/dns-320/vmlinuz-dns320. > > >> But then > > >> instead of using this file to generate the kernel.uboot, you use the > > >> original > > >> ke

Bug#751716: [debian-installer] Patch

2014-07-09 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2014-07-08 at 23:28 +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 9:39 PM, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Mon, 2014-07-07 at 17:05 +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > >> * Bastien ROUCARIES [2014-07-06 22:10]: > >> > >> You combine the kernel an

Bug#751816: flash-kernel and dtb

2014-07-12 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2014-07-11 at 16:33 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > Control: tags 751816 patch > > On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 08:03:30PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > I think the patch below resolves the worst issue and it works for me on > > cubietruck. > > > > The m

Bug#751716: [debian-installer] Patch

2014-07-13 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2014-07-13 at 00:58 +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 12:14 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > * Bastien ROUCARIES [2014-07-12 19:05]: > >> Hi UImage is too big to get into mtd :S You said that it it is a > >> trimmed down version ? Any idea to trim more ? > > > > I b

Bug#751716: [debian-installer] Patch

2014-07-21 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2014-07-13 at 12:26 +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: Sorry the delay, I was procrastinating on responding because I'm wasn't really sure what to suggest. > On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Sun, 2014-07-13 at 00:58 +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES

Bug#758581: debian-installer: FTBFS on armhf/network-console: No library provides non-weak __aeabi_unwind_cpp_pr0

2014-08-21 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2014-08-19 at 00:34 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > | -Object: ./tmp/network-console/tree/lib/libgcc_s.so.1-so-stripped > […] > | +1170 symbols, 38 unresolved > | +Traceback (most recent call last): > | + File "/usr/bin/mklibs", line 560, in > | +raise Exception("No library provides

Bug#758581: debian-installer: FTBFS on armhf/network-console: No library provides non-weak __aeabi_unwind_cpp_pr0

2014-08-24 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2014-08-22 at 05:26 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Ian Campbell (2014-08-22): > > The Internet(tm) seems to think that __aeabi_unwind_cpp_pr0 comes from > > libunwind, but the wifi in this hotel is making it a rather slow job > > to figure out what might be dep

Bug#758581: debian-installer: FTBFS on armhf/network-console: No library provides non-weak __aeabi_unwind_cpp_pr0

2014-08-24 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2014-08-24 at 21:24 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > I've timed out for now, but I'll continue prodding as I have the > chance... I caught up with Adam Conrad a debconf and he pointed out that __aeabi_* are some weird internal ABI thing which doesn't actually indicate

Re: Alpha install ISOs

2014-08-26 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2014-08-25 at 21:26 -0700, Bill MacAllister wrote: > [...] > E: Couldn't find any package by regex > 'usb-storage-modules-3.10-3-alpha-generic-di' > Seems like I need to create those packages for Alpha. How do I do that? Those should all come from the kernel packaging. I expect alpha al

Re: Alpha install ISOs

2014-08-26 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2014-08-26 at 14:44 -0700, Bill MacAllister wrote: > > --On August 26, 2014 at 4:22:35 PM +0100 Ian Campbell > wrote: > > > On Mon, 2014-08-25 at 21:26 -0700, Bill MacAllister wrote: > >> [...] > >> E: Couldn't find any package by regex >

Re: Alpha install ISOs

2014-08-26 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2014-08-26 at 19:13 -0700, Bill MacAllister wrote: > > --On August 27, 2014 at 12:19:13 AM +0100 Ian Campbell > wrote: > > > On Tue, 2014-08-26 at 14:44 -0700, Bill MacAllister wrote: > >> > >> --On August 26, 2014 at 4:22:35 PM +0100 Ian Campbe

Re: Network Console - Where sshd is started

2014-09-03 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2014-09-03 at 01:34 -0300, Daniel Gaspary wrote: > Hi, sorry if my doubt is too "noobish". > > I have been searching through the installer sources for the reference > to TERM_TYPE environment variable, where it's tested to be "network". > It is set in network-console package. > > What I w

partman-auto: Differences between -efi and non-efi recipes

2014-09-04 Thread Ian Campbell
I was taking a look at EFI installer support for arm64 (reusing the recipes-amd64-efi) and came across something I'm not sure of. Part of the diff between recipes/atomic and recipes-amd64-efi/atomic is: -96 512 200% linux-swap +100% 512 200% linux-swap I expected the two to differ only in the pre

Bug#760904: installation-reports: no network on linkstation pro with jessie d-i

2014-09-10 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2014-09-08 at 22:35 -0700, Ryan Tandy wrote: > Booting a Wheezy image is successful and works. I installed Wheezy on > the Linkstation using the 7.6 netboot image and upgraded to Jessie > successfully, That includes having successfully booted the Jessie kernel judging from the dmesg bel

Bug#760904: installation-reports: no network on linkstation pro with jessie d-i

2014-09-10 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 08:56 -0700, Ryan Tandy wrote: > On 10/09/14 02:17 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: > > I'm suspicious of mvmdio which is a new module needed for networking > > on some platforms. I can see it in the kirkwood udebs (installer pkg) > > but not the orion5xs o

Bug#760904: installation-reports: no network on linkstation pro with jessie d-i

2014-09-11 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 14:14 -0700, Ryan Tandy wrote: > On 10/09/14 10:28 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: > > In the meantime if you could collect the lsmod with a Wheezy kernel for > > comparison we can check if there is anything else there which ought to > > be exposed to the inst

Re: Update on the daily builds

2014-09-12 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2014-09-12 at 17:14 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > - armhf fails because linux FTBFS there. Fixed in pkg-kernel svn. > - we don't have arm64 yet but I think Ian is actively working on having >the needed linux + debian-installer bits in shape, so having it built >daily isn't a b

Bug#761514: [armhf/sunxi] [d-i daily 20140914] Cubietruck installation report (installation to MMC)

2014-09-14 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2014-09-14 at 17:25 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi, > > Karsten Merker (2014-09-14): > > U-boot:u-boot 2014.10~rc2+dfsg1-1 from experimental > > [...] > > > Comments: > > - The installation was done in expert mode (debconf priority medium). > > - I selected Sid instead of Je

Bug#762007: Kernel command line handling change breaks d-i user-params functionality

2014-09-17 Thread Ian Campbell
Package: debian-installer-utils X-Debbugs-CC: debian-ker...@lists.debian.org (CCing debian-kernel just FYI, since I don't think this can/should be fixed with a kernel change, likewise filing against debian-installer-utils and not the kernel even though a kernel change introduced the breakage) A r

Re: [RFC] d-i hd-media support for armhf

2014-09-23 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2014-09-22 at 00:17 +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: (bit of an aside) > diff --git a/build/boot/arm/bootscr.mainline_common > b/build/boot/arm/bootscr.mainline_common > new file mode 100644 > index 000..268eeba > --- /dev/null > +++ b/build/boot/arm/bootscr.mainline_common This be a goo

Bug#762618: debian-installer: amd64/i386 netboot/mini.iso has empty grub.cfg for EFI boot

2014-09-23 Thread Ian Campbell
Source: debian-installer Version: 20130613+deb7u2 Severity: normal While looking for an example to crib for arm64 I noticed that the amd64 mini.iso has a grub cfg (used when booting on EFI) which doesn't contain any menu entries. Booting on non-EFI would use the isolinux menus in the usual way. Lo

Re: [RFC] d-i hd-media support for armhf

2014-09-23 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2014-09-23 at 12:02 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 07:31:32PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Mon, 2014-09-22 at 00:17 +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: > > > (bit of an aside) > > > diff --git a/build/boot/arm/bootscr.mainline_com

Bug#762907: base-installer: Kernel version selection does not exclucde -dbg packages

2014-09-26 Thread Ian Campbell
Source: base-installer Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I got asked this while working on the arm64 installer: Install the base system --- The list shows the available kernels. Please choose one of them in order to make the system bootable f

Bug#762007: Kernel command line handling change breaks d-i user-params functionality

2014-09-27 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2014-09-17 at 18:45 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > Not sure what we can do about this. Perhaps choose another separator > ("=="?) and make user-params support both? Reading the kernel source it seems it only checks for exactly "--". So I propose we su

Bug#762618: debian-installer: amd64/i386 netboot/mini.iso has empty grub.cfg for EFI boot

2014-09-27 Thread Ian Campbell
Control: tag -1 +patch On Tue, 2014-09-23 at 20:29 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > While looking for an example to crib for arm64 I noticed that the amd64 > mini.iso has a grub cfg (used when booting on EFI) which doesn't contain any > menu entries. Booting on non-EFI would use the iso

Bug#763127: UEFI corner case - installer booted in UEFI mode, existing system in BIOS mode

2014-09-28 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2014-09-28 at 10:26 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 08:48:11AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > >On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 02:28:06AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> If the user wants to continue, we could even suggest blanking the > >> partition table(s) and

Re: Time for Jessie Beta 2?

2014-09-28 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2014-09-26 at 21:05 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Cyril Brulebois (2014-09-10): > > as you might have seen, a number of uploads happened lately and the d-i > > BoF notes from DebConf kindly provided by Steve (thanks!) reminded me > > about uploading d-i more often. So I think I'll try an

Re: Time for Jessie Beta 2?

2014-09-28 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2014-09-28 at 15:47 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Ian Campbell (2014-09-28): > > Should we do anything about #762007 (user-params breakage due to > > kernel changes) or can it wait? > > I might be mistaken but I think it can wait a bit until we agree on a > sol

Bug#763127: UEFI corner case - installer booted in UEFI mode, existing system in BIOS mode

2014-09-28 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2014-09-28 at 18:54 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 10:26:20AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 08:48:11AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > >On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 02:28:06AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > >> If the user wants to cont

Bug#763127: UEFI corner case - installer booted in UEFI mode, existing system in BIOS mode

2014-09-28 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2014-09-28 at 18:14 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 06:02:12PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > >I was thinking more along the lines of a yes/no question which would > >either cause partman-efi.isinstallable to fail or not. Allowing > >selection

Re: getting wheezy installer code

2014-09-30 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2014-09-29 at 11:52 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > Assuming an already checked out copy of the installer > (https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/CheckOut), what's the best > way to switch to wheezy? > > mr git checkout -b wheezy origin/wheezy > ? I'm not sure that mr has branch management

Re: Bug#762634: initramfs-tools: [armhf] mounting rootfs on USB disk fails / some USB host controller drivers missing in initramfs

2014-09-30 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2014-09-26 at 00:08 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > However, at the moment initramfs-tools won't include PHY drivers even in > that configuration. I spent some time last week hunting for a sysfs link between a device and the phys which it is using, without success. Do you have any ideas? Ia

Re: getting wheezy installer code

2014-09-30 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2014-09-30 at 12:07 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > You might need to add a "deb-src $MIRROR wheezy > > main/debian-installer" line to sources.list though? > > But not that part: there's no udeb-specific Sources. :) So you only need > the main/debian-installer part in 'deb' lines to be a

Re: Are there packages for which NO upload is wished right now?

2014-10-03 Thread Ian Campbell
c u-boot boot.scr using the upstream config_distro_bootcmd.h > > infrastructure. > > * Add support for the Arndale board. > > * Install uImage and uRamdisk to /boot on Xgene platform and load dtb from > > the correct path. > > > > -- Ian Campbell Tue, 23 Sep 2014

Bug#764320: rsync in rescue mode

2014-10-07 Thread Ian Campbell
Control: reassign -1 rsync Control: forcemerge 729069 764320 Note that https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=729069 includes a link to http://lackof.org/taggart/hacking/d-i-tricks/ which may be helpful (but hacky!) to the original submitter (I've not tried the approach there myself).

Bug#762007: Kernel command line handling change breaks d-i user-params functionality

2014-10-09 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2014-09-27 at 14:01 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Wed, 2014-09-17 at 18:45 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > Not sure what we can do about this. Perhaps choose another separator > > ("=="?) and make user-params support both? > > Reading the kernel source it s

Bug#762007: Kernel command line handling change breaks d-i user-params functionality

2014-10-10 Thread Ian Campbell
rnel change broke the use of "--" on the kernel command line as a separator for d-i user-params purposes (i.e. the bit which affects the installer but is also propagated to the installed system). We now support "---" as well and should use that wherever we currently use "--&

Re: [PATCH V2] d-i hd-media support for armhf

2014-10-11 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 00:47 +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: > +.PHONY: hd-media_dtbs > +hd-media_dtbs: $(TEMP_DTBS) > + mkdir -p $(SOME_DEST)/$(EXTRANAME)dtbs > + set -ex ; for dtb in $(TEMP_DTBS)/*.dtb ; do \ > + tgt=$(SOME_DEST)/$(EXTRANAME)dtbs/$$(basename $$dtb); \ > +

Re: Bug#762634: initramfs-tools: [armhf] mounting rootfs on USB disk fails / some USB host controller drivers missing in initramfs

2014-10-11 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2014-09-26 at 00:08 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Thu, 2014-09-25 at 23:20 +0100, peter green wrote: > > Karsten Merker wrote: > > >> Browse online: > > >> > > >> http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/base-installer.git/tree/debian/templates-arch > > >> > > >> Adding -arm@ and -boot@ for

Bug#764968: Please add db entry for A20-OLinuXino-LIME

2014-10-12 Thread Ian Campbell
Control: tag -1 +pending On Sun, 2014-10-12 at 21:01 +0200, Christian Kastner wrote: > On 2014-10-12 20:51, Karsten Merker wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 06:35:33PM +0200, Christian Kastner wrote: > >> +Machine: Olimex A20-OLinuXino-LIME > >> +Kernel-Flavors: armmp > >> +Boot-Script-Path: /boo

Bug#749991: both installer betas suffer from this

2014-10-15 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2014-10-14 at 17:22 +0200, Hermann Lauer wrote: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 02:24:45PM +0200, Hermann Lauer wrote: > > both Jessie beta 1 amd64 images (20140316 and 20140802) suffer from this. > > fixed with Jessie beta 2 netboot here. And serial console works with: > > append initrd=debian

Bug#766400: installation-reports: [armhf] Netgear ReadyNAS104 report

2014-10-23 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2014-10-22 at 22:16 +0200, Uwe Kleine-Koenig wrote: > > One of the last messages from the installer is: > > You will need to boot manually with the /boot/vmlinuz kernel on > partition /dev/sda1 and root=/dev/sda1 passed as a kernel argument. Which bootloader does the syst

Re: [PATCH V2] d-i hd-media support for armhf

2014-10-24 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2014-10-11 at 08:47 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 00:47 +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: > > +.PHONY: hd-media_dtbs > > +hd-media_dtbs: $(TEMP_DTBS) > > + mkdir -p $(SOME_DEST)/$(EXTRANAME)dtbs > > + set -ex ; for dtb

Bug#767052: D-I : Sheevaplug : could not determine kernel flavour

2014-10-28 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2014-10-28 at 04:08 +0100, drEagle wrote: > The kernel flavour is not detected. > Sheevaplug now use a dtb file and no kernel are installed into the target > system. A dtb shouldn't be necessary for the Sheevaplug, I don't think. Did you manually supply one or did something do that for yo

Bug#767052: D-I : Sheevaplug : could not determine kernel flavour

2014-10-30 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2014-10-30 at 15:42 +0100, drEagle wrote: > Hi Ian, > > On 28/10/2014 20:38, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Tue, 2014-10-28 at 04:08 +0100, drEagle wrote: > >> The kernel flavour is not detected. > >> Sheevaplug now use a dtb file and no kernel are insta

Bug#767744: flash-kernel: There is no way to specify a custom dtb

2014-11-03 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2014-11-02 at 12:08 +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > Package: flash-kernel > Version: 3.28 > Severity: wishlist > > Hello, > > I want to use flash-kernel on a machine that uses a device tree blob that > isn't > included in the kernel package. So flash-kernel's assumption to find > /usr/l

Re: [PATCH V2] d-i hd-media support for armhf

2014-11-03 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2014-11-02 at 15:33 +0100, Karsten Merker wrote: > On Sat, Nov 01, 2014 at 12:06:55AM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > [d-i hd-media support for armhf, boot script] > > Overall, it appears to be working quite well. I've thought about > > creating a similar bootscript for the netboot ima

Bug#767744: flash-kernel: There is no way to specify a custom dtb

2014-11-04 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2014-11-03 at 19:10 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Ian Campbell (2014-11-03): > > On Sun, 2014-11-02 at 12:08 +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > > > Package: flash-kernel > > > Version: 3.28 > > > Severity: wishlist > > > > > > Hello

cloning 762007, reassign -1 to src:win32-loader ...

2014-11-06 Thread Ian Campbell
clone 762007 -1 reopen -1 reassign -1 src:win32-loader retitle -1 win32-loader: Please use "---" not "--" on installers kernel command line thanks Reassigned a clone as discussed on IRC: (16:31:31) KiBi: ijc: it looks like win32-loader might need an update as well for the -- thingy (16:32:17) K

Re: [PATCH V2] d-i hd-media support for armhf

2014-11-13 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2014-10-24 at 21:39 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Sat, 2014-10-11 at 08:47 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 00:47 +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: > > > +.PHONY: hd-media_dtbs > > > +hd-media_dtbs: $(TEMP_DTBS) > > > + mk

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

2014-11-22 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2014-11-21 at 15:40 -0500, Samuel Comeau wrote: > On November 21, 2014 03:30:13 PM Steve McIntyre wrote: > > [ Re-adding the CC to the bug report ] > > > > On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:49:42PM -0500, Samuel Comeau wrote: > > >Hello Steve, > > > > > >The intent of the report was that the inst

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

2014-11-25 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2014-11-24 at 16:26 -0500, Samuel Comeau wrote: > Hello Ian, > > > Well, it appears I have made a mistake about the type of processor > that's in here : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz. I think the P4 had 64-bit support in some variants, but it does sound likely that yours isn't one of

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

2014-11-25 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2014-11-25 at 14:31 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Ian - am I totally mis-remembering that there used to be a "can't > start on 32-bit " style message in the amd64 kernel? If so then it's a shared delusion, I was sure such a thing existed too. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bo

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

2014-11-25 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2014-11-25 at 15:42 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > which is likely what you were after? That's the badger. I wonder if isolinux's use of graphical mode is leaving things such that this very early code is unable to actually output anything. Is there an easy way to disable gfx, or to forc

Re: Debian-Installer support for riscv64

2019-06-02 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2019-06-02 at 22:25 +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: > Another thing that needs to be tackled in d-i is an annoying > property of qemu's riscv64 "virt" machine: The "virt" machine > emulates both a normal serial console (/dev/ttyS0) and a HVC > console (/dev/ttyhvc0). Unfortunately in qemu bot

Re: Grub, UEFI Secure Boot and netboot - help!

2019-06-10 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2019-06-10 at 03:37 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Any other suggestions on what we could do? Let me know what you > think... Is signing an extra, d-i specific, grubnetXX.efi image out of the question? Is the hard coded prefix a single prefix or is there a possibility of searching a list?

Bug#941300: finish-install: write random seed to correct location for chosen init system

2019-10-02 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2019-10-02 at 08:59 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, 2019-10-01 at 11:55 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > > Wouldn't it just be easier to write it one location and replace the > > other with a symlink to it? > > Looks like neither the urandom init script nor systemd-random-seed > unlink

Re: 8 more packages

2020-01-14 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2020-01-13 at 21:58 +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 07:51:34PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > > My guess would be that installing over WiFi causes 8 packages to > > be installed earlier than happens with a wired install. I could > > imagine that having e.g. wpasupplica

Bug#949626: busybox-static: Please include less and ftpput in busybox-udeb

2020-01-23 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2020-01-22 at 22:42 +, Witold Baryluk wrote: > > The age of FTP has long passed. > > You think you can fit the scp or ssh then? :D I doubt so. If you have a network to scp over then you can `anna-install` the ssh udebs on the fly first, no need to have them in the initrd. Soon you'll

Re: Remote Debian installation assistance for newbies using WireGuard VPN

2018-04-25 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2018-04-25 at 14:50 +0200, Philip Hands wrote: > Of course we then have to work out under what circumstances the user > should trust that person to be connected to their network, the > implications of which one cannot really expect a newbie to fully > grasp. I'm reminded of https://debug-m

Re: Salsa

2018-05-04 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2018-05-03 at 22:10 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > The outputs from this run > were a surprising amount bigger than my first test repo, as the > following bare clones from each will show: > > tack:/tmp$ du -s test* > 613888 test1-bare.git > 3653432 test2-bare.git > 714336 test2-manual-ba

Re: Salsa

2018-05-06 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2018-05-06 at 01:43 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > OK, so I've tried --aggressive too now, and wow does it make a big > difference. AIUI amongst other things --aggressive forces a full repack of the repo, which optimises the delta compression in the pack files. You could probably achieve m

Re: Archiving the attic folders from d-i for ports

2018-05-07 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2018-05-07 at 10:34 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 05/07/2018 04:29 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > > I was only talking about the still needed ones. linux-kernel-* > > > is > > > clearly not and I doubt it have any practical value to look at. > > > > My thoughts too. Adrian:

Re: Archiving the attic folders from d-i for ports

2018-05-07 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2018-05-07 at 17:01 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 05/07/2018 04:59 PM, Ian Campbell wrote: > > According to the mails[0] whatever remain on alioth is going to be > > archived: > > > > > 10.-13.05.18: darcs, bzr and mercurial repositories w

Re: d-i repo at dillon

2018-06-16 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2018-06-16 at 08:36 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: > > The original/final lines are a bit strange, though, instead of having: > > > > if $($git foo bar); then … fi > > > > I suppose it should only be: > > > > if $git foo bar; then … fi > > However, with this simplified variant it fail

Re: d-i repo at dillon

2018-06-16 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2018-06-16 at 10:17 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Sat, 2018-06-16 at 08:36 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: > > > The original/final lines are a bit strange, though, instead of > having: > > > > > > if $($git foo bar); then … fi > > > > >

Re: debootstrap/1.0.102 appears to break debuerreotype autopkgtest

2018-06-18 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2018-06-18 at 08:07 -0700, Tianon Gravi wrote: > IMO, that merge request needs some review and an upload and then this > bug will be fixed properly in debootstrap too. Seems like the RC bug against debootstrap which Paul mentioned should be opened (to be closed by some future upload of deb

Re: Bug#915880: lvm2: Dependency on liblz4-1 causes /sbin binaries to depend on /usr/lib libraries

2018-12-11 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2018-12-11 at 08:27 +0200, Per Lundberg wrote: > Hi Adrian, > > Quoting the page you linked to: > > > This section only applies to systems using a custom kernel, where > /usr is on a separate mount point from /. If you use the kernel > packages provided by Debian, you are unaffected by th

Re: Bug#915880: lvm2: Dependency on liblz4-1 causes /sbin binaries to depend on /usr/lib libraries

2018-12-11 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2018-12-12 at 09:04 +0200, Per Lundberg wrote: > Let's leave this closed for now; I might come back later but I'd need > to investigate this more on a clean Ubuntu 18.04 install and > potentially open an issue with them. Given the usrmerge coming up, the > difference between depending on /l

Re: [console-setup] udebs declared as Multi-Arch: foreign

2018-12-17 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2018-12-17 at 01:29 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > udpkg and the various package retrievers in d-i don't support multi- > arch. Until they do there's probably little point in adding that > information to udebs. It's also not terribly clear what the utility of a multiarchified installer ini

Re: [console-setup] udebs declared as Multi-Arch: foreign

2018-12-17 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2018-12-17 at 15:19 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2018-12-17 at 10:29 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Mon, 2018-12-17 at 01:29 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > udpkg and the various package retrievers in d-i don't support > > > multi- > > &

Re: [console-setup] udebs declared as Multi-Arch: foreign

2018-12-17 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2018-12-17 at 15:46 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > I mean both udebs (kernel-image-*.udeb and *-modules-*.udeb) and the > full linux-image-*.deb. Oh, of course! Thanks. Ian.

Re: Multiple console support in d-i

2019-01-19 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2019-01-19 at 11:08 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >So far I have done a proof-of-concept hack and demonstrated that > >running two instances does in fact work nicely without anything > >obvious breaking. The console selection still needs some work/checking > >(I've run out of time for that

Re: Multiple console support in d-i

2019-01-22 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2019-01-22 at 04:31 +, Wookey wrote: > On 2019-01-20 03:02 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Reading /proc/consoles is exactly what you should do. > > Checking this on a booted thunderx machine (with no explicit kernel cmdline > options) it lists > ttyAMA0 > > If I boot with explicit

Re: Multiple console support in d-i

2019-01-23 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2019-01-23 at 03:41 +, Wookey wrote: > You are right. I wasn't taking note of those: > > E=enabled > C=preferred console > p=used for printk buffer > a=safe to use when CPU is offline > > console=tty0 > tty0 -WU (EC p )4:7 > ttyAMA0 -W- (E p a) 204:

Re: Speed up installation: activate eatmydata-udeb by default and include eatmydata package in /pool

2021-04-16 Thread Ian Campbell
(just the list, other cc'd dropped) On Mon, 2021-04-12 at 19:35 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Petter Reinholdtsen, le lun. 12 avril 2021 07:34:38 +0200, a ecrit: > > Sad to hear the patch has been ignored for several years. > > Please do not confuse "ignore" with "terribly understaffed". I won

Bug#736373: using this patch with salsa & openqa

2021-05-19 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2021-05-19 at 00:03 +0200, Philip Hands wrote: Hi Ian, Thanks for the patch. It's proven very useful while seting up pipelines on salsa that can be run when a udeb's git repo is pushed, such that a mini.iso is produced that will make use of a repository containing that udeb. While gettin

Bug#786367: flash-kernel: support BeagleBone Black with u-boot 2015.04+

2015-05-25 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2015-05-25 at 03:37 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hello, > > Vagrant Cascadian (2015-05-20): > > Package: flash-kernel > > Version: 3.37 > > Severity: wishlist > > Tags: patch > > > > The version of u-boot in experimental, 2015.04+dfsg1-1 contains a > > patch to the u-boot environment

Bug#786882: debian-installer: FTBFS on arm64: can't find dtbs

2015-05-26 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2015-05-26 at 14:16 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: [...] > There seems to be some dtb dance here, and I think the src:linux's > having relocated the dtbs under subdirectories is responsible for the > FTBFS. Comparing some recent kernels: > | kibi@wodi:/tmp/linux-kernel$ debdiff > binary-ker

Re: UEFI PXE step by step instructions?

2015-05-26 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2015-05-26 at 09:30 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > I can't find any references for how to PXE boot UEFI: I find lots of > posts complaining that pxelinux.0 is not compatible with UEFI and not > much more. I've struggled a bit with this recently for work and am still figuring some stuff

Re: UEFI PXE step by step instructions?

2015-05-26 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2015-05-26 at 16:43 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Tue, 2015-05-26 at 09:30 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > I can't find any references for how to PXE boot UEFI: I find lots of > > posts complaining that pxelinux.0 is not compatible with UEFI and not > > much

Bug#786716: Debian on Allwinner A20 installation report (fail)

2015-05-30 Thread Ian Campbell
Control: reassign -1 src:linux 4.0.2-1 On Sun, 2015-05-24 at 19:08 +, Mitch Winkle wrote: > 1. Older versions detect ethernet network and begin installer download > which fails because of mis-matched kernel modules. > > 2. Newer version have no ethernet support for the Cubieboard2 > (sunxi-em

https:// based git clone from alioth not pulling latest code

2015-06-02 Thread Ian Campbell
tip commit: commit 852aede05821aad12dfde0f1611462fad8893e5b Author: Ian Campbell Date: Tue May 26 17:39:56 2015 +0100 Adjust build to handle DTBs in subdirectories on arm64 (Closes: #786882). Whereas "git clone git://alioth.debian.org/d-i/debian-in

Re: https:// based git clone from alioth not pulling latest code

2015-06-02 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2015-06-02 at 17:53 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: [...] > This is entirely my fault, ISTR having pushed using “git push” or “git > push origin”, noticed the many-lines warning about pushing without > parameters, and hit C-c. The push had already happened, as well as IRC > notifications, but

Bug#783074: flash-kernel: improvements to uboot-generic bootscript

2015-06-07 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2015-05-04 at 12:01 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > The changelog says "some imx systems", do you have a list I could drop > > in a comment or should I just say "#Workaround lack of console on > > someIMX systems"? > > I can confirm that wandboard, cubox-i and hummingboard all default

Bug#783074: flash-kernel: improvements to uboot-generic bootscript

2015-06-07 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2015-05-04 at 12:01 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > >> The kernel versioning its also make it possible to use a kernel without > >> relying on the various vmlinuz, initrd, dtb smlinks being valid, or for > >> troubleshooting an alternate version. > > > > What do you think about wrapping t

Bug#783074: flash-kernel: improvements to uboot-generic bootscript

2015-06-07 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2015-06-07 at 10:27 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Mon, 2015-05-04 at 12:01 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > > The changelog says "some imx systems", do you have a list I could drop > > > in a comment or should I just say "#Workaround lack

Bug#783074: flash-kernel: improvements to uboot-generic bootscript

2015-06-08 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2015-06-07 at 09:36 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2015-06-07, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Mon, 2015-05-04 at 12:01 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > >> I can confirm that wandboard, cubox-i and hummingboard all default to > >> console=ttymxc0, and sever

Bug#788221: flash-kernel: Cubietruck failed to boot with flash-kernel 3.41

2015-06-09 Thread Ian Campbell
Control: tag -1 +moreinfo On Tue, 2015-06-09 at 22:12 +0800, Zhang Jingqiang wrote: > I didn't connect to its serial port to find the error message as it is > not convenience, but if > you really need that, I will find some time to unpack the box and check that. I'm afraid that since this wo

Bug#788221: flash-kernel: Cubietruck failed to boot with flash-kernel 3.41

2015-06-10 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2015-06-09 at 23:35 +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: > if test -e ${device} ${partition} ${pathprefix}vmlinuz-${kvers} >^^ Ah yes, well spotted, thanks. I'd switched my system to use the generic script as an experiment (it wor

Bug#788221: flash-kernel: Cubietruck failed to boot with flash-kernel 3.41

2015-06-10 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 08:41 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > I tried the obvious change though and it doesn't seem to have helped :-( It looks like the && || construct from #78307 used to handle fallback for the DTB on platforms without ${fdtfile} doesn't work as expected.

Bug#788221: flash-kernel: Cubietruck failed to boot with flash-kernel 3.41

2015-06-10 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 09:07 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > I'll cook something up. I pushed to git which WFM with bootscr.sunxi on Cubietruck as well as bootscr.uboot-generic both with and without fdtfile being set on Jetson. Please take a look, I'll upload tonight unless one of you s

Bug#788782: Need to add DTB settings for non-DTB Freescale MX53 LOCO Board too

2015-06-15 Thread Ian Campbell
ies, they are the same thing and the +LOCO variant was missing DTB information. (Closes: #788782) + + -- Ian Campbell Mon, 15 Jun 2015 19:04:31 +0100 + flash-kernel (3.42) unstable; urgency=medium * Only install bootscripts relevant to the arch. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bo

Bug#789798: grub-installer: add option to _not_ install to UEFI boot order

2015-06-24 Thread Ian Campbell
GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) commit 3f74e51b6a10253d4fe598a1bf83a3d21783b0be Author: Ian Campbell Date: Fri Jun 19 15:17:40 2015 +0100 Add preseedable option to allow avoiding installation to NVRAM. (Closes: #xx

Re: U-Boot, d-i and selecting the console device

2015-06-26 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2015-06-21 at 19:01 +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: > > > What about adding support in debian-installer to dsisplay on both the > > serial console and framebuffer? > > My memory on that topic is unfortunately a bit shady, but IIRC > this was proposed some time ago already and was dismissed

Bug#789798: grub-installer: add option to _not_ install to UEFI boot order

2015-06-30 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2015-06-29 at 14:12 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >diff --git a/debian/grub-installer.templates > >b/debian/grub-installer.templates > >index e294afb..e5d090b 100644 > >--- a/debian/grub-installer.templates > >+++ b/debian/grub-installer.templates > >@@ -285,3 +285,15 @@ _Description: For

Bug#789798: [RFR] New grub-installer-template

2015-06-30 Thread Ian Campbell
Hello l10n-english, In http://bugs.debian.org/789798 I've proposed a new debconf question for grub-installer (part of d-i which handles installing grub on those platforms which use it as a bootloader). The question is low priority and I would normally expect it to be used via preseeding, nonethele

Bug#789798: [RFR] New grub-installer-template

2015-06-30 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2015-06-30 at 10:28 +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > Ian Campbell writes: > > > Hello l10n-english, > > > > In http://bugs.debian.org/789798 I've proposed a new debconf question > > for grub-installer (part of d-i which handles installing grub on th

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