On Sun, 23 May 2010 16:11:30 -0400 (EDT), William Pitcock wrote:
> "Stephen Powell" wrote:
>> (blah blah blah blah)
>
> Nobody cares if you are opposed to it. Unless you are offering to become
> lilo upstream, it's going away.
>
> William
I do understa
lower than 4096. I'm not sure
where that boundary is.
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Package: installation-reports
Boot method: CD-ROM
Image version: etch 4.0r1
Date: May 3, 2008
Machine: Dell Inspiron 4400
Processor: Intel Pentium 4
Memory: 512M
Partitions: 4 (1 Windows NTFS, 1 Linux swap, 1 root
(/), 1 home (/home))
Output of lspci -nn and lspci -vnn: N/A
Base System Installa
Package: partman-base
Version: 105
This bug applies only to the s390 and s390x architectures.
The single partition implicitly created on a z/VM minidisk by the CMS FORMAT
command (and optionally, the CMS RESERVE command) is not recognized by partman.
mke2fs, mkswap, etc. recognize such a parti
, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Bug#486549: The single partition present on a CMS minidisk is
> not supported (s390/s390x only)
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Monday, June 16, 2008, 3:39 P
> To be honest: that is not very likely. Especially not in
> this case.
> Suppose we push them all upstream and only one upstream
> actually picks it
> up and we implement that. That would still leave us
> nowhere...
I see what you mean. It's double or nothing. Without mke2fs support for
respe
> All the above is complete Greek too me because I don't
> have any context.
>
> And it sounds like you already did the hard part: you
> managed to get it
> working. That means you are the expert now. Tell us *in
> detail* what is
> missing and what manual steps were required to get it
> support
I need to correct an error in my previous e-mail. In my previous e-mail,
I said that the dasd_diag_mod driver could only be used with CMS
minidisks. As it turns out, that is not true. The dasd_diag_mod driver
can also be used with minidisks formatted with the Linux disk layout
(ldl). Such a for
I have just been informed by the current maintainer of zipl that CMS
minidisks are now supported by zipl as a /boot partition, provided that
the dasd_diag driver is not used for the /boot partition. This is a
minor technical correction to previous information stated in the problem
log. It does no
package: installation-guide
Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide
(etch, S/390 architecture, English)
Chapter 3, Before Installing Debian GNU/Linux
Section 3.3, Information You Will Need
Topic 3.3.1, Documentation
Subtopic 3.3.1.3 S/390 Hardware References
URL:
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: VM reader
Image version:
/dists/etch/main/installer-s390/20070308etch1/images/generic/*
Date: 2007-10-19
Machine: ESA/390-mode virtual machine under z/VM 5.2.0
Processor: 2086 (z/890) IFL (real processor)
Memory: 512M (virtual machine memory)
Partitions:
On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 11:44:35 -0500 (EST), Rick Thomas wrote:
> On Dec 19, 2010, at 8:09 AM, Stephen Powell wrote:
>> Caution: reformatting a swap partition with mkswap will change the
>> uuid unless the existing one is explicitly re-specified during
>> formatting.
>
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Package: console-setup
Version: 1.49
See Debian bug report 558414 against console-tools for more information.
The init script for console-setup, /etc/init.d/console-setup, when invoked
during boot-up, does not respect the video mode selected by the boot
loader or the font selected by console-tool
On 2009-12-24 at 12:32:18 -0500, Frans Pop wrote:
> The output of the following command would be useful as well:
> # parted /dev/ print
bash: parted: command not found
Of course, I wasn't running D-I at the time, I was running the
installed system. Do I have to run D-I? Or is there a package
th
On 2009-12-24 at 10:56:59 -0500, Frans Pop wrote:
> Please send the replies for these questions to the BR instead of the list!
Replying to the bug report, per your request.
On 2009-12-24 at 10:56:59 -0500, Frans Pop wrote:
> If you can provide me with *exact* info I need and if you can reply
> q
On 2009-12-24 at 14:34:26 -0500, Frans Pop wrote:
> I would really like to know *exactly* what devices exist in Debian
> Installer when you get to the partman stage. The /var/log/partman log file
> as it is at the point after partman has initialized itself would also be
> useful.
>
> I guess yo
Just for grins, I thought I'd give you the full mapping of the CMS volume label.
This is in s390 assembler language format:
ADTIDENT DSCL4LABEL IDENTIFIER ("CMS1")
ADTIDDSCL6VOLUME IDENTIFIER (VOLSER)
ADTVER DSCL2VERSION LEVEL
ADTDBSIZ DSF
On 2009-12-25 at 03:11:18 -0500, Frans Pop wrote:
> I've just taken a look at the source for parted (Debian unstable version),
> and the problem seems fairly obvious.
> In libparted/labels/dasd.c there's a function dasd_read() which very
> clearly only supports LDL and CDL formatted dasds.
> So
On 2010-01-03 at 10:30:34, Paul E Condon wrote:
> I haven't been following this thread, but your statement
> caught my eye.
This thread started on debian-user with the original title of "Install".
A new user asked for help in finding the right images to download to
boot the Debian installer from a
I am cross-posting this on both debian-s390 and debian-boot,
since I'm not really sure which list it belongs on. Those of
you who are subscribed to both lists, please excuse the duplicate
e-mails.
The "daily build" development Debian installer images
for the s390 architecture are on a server call
I just tried a new Lenny install from scratch on the s390 architecture,
with one of the disks pre-formatted
in ldl format. (Of course I told the Debian installer not to format it.)
When I got to the "partition disks" step, the implicit partition present on
that disk was recognized and I was able t
Package: installation-reports
Just completed a successful install of Squeeze using the "daily build"
development version of the Debian installer, s390 port.
Real hardware is an IBM z890 (2086). Processor is configured in
LPAR mode. The LPAR uses a dedicated IFL (Integrated Facility for
Linux) pr
Package: linux-kernel-di-s390-2.6
Version: 0.46
Severity: wishlist
I am requesting that three additional kernel modules be added to the
s390 version of the Debian Installer: vmcp, dasd_fba_mod, and dasd_diag_mod.
I am assuming that vmcp belongs in core-modules-* and the other two belong
in dasd-mo
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:02:46 -0500 (EST), Frans Pop wrote:
> On Friday 12 February 2010, Stephen Powell wrote:
>> dasd_fba_mod is essential to support FBA DASD.
>
> This module is already included in dasd-modules.
Well, shut my mouth! I could have sworn that I tried a
modpro
alternatives that I haven't thought of. What are your
thoughts?
P.S. For this initial post I have CC-ed debian-boot and debian-devel, as
there may be interested parties on that list that are not subscribed
to debian-kernel, but it is my intention that the discussion take place
on debian-ke
kers (the hammer) and farm workers (the sickle).
If the OP is talking about the "space fun" theme, I think he's off
base. I've been using it since it came out, and I never once thought
of communism.
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vmhalt=LOGOFF and vmpoff=LOGOFF kernel
boot parameters are used. For a Linux system running in a virtual machine
under z/VM, this causes the CP LOGOFF command to be issued during shutdown
when a "halt" or "power-off" signal is received. But this only works if
the vmcp kernel
added
bonus, it will include a bug fix for correctly calculating the
starting "sector" for an ldl formatted disk if the block size
is other than 4096.
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The bug report for the parted enhancement request is 578097.
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All I
can do is to appeal in the name of reason that it not be dropped.
Also, please excuse my ignorance, but what exactly is this
"payload size" to which you refer? Is that the same thing as the
size of the kernel? Or is it something else?
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On Sun, 23 May 2010 16:11:30 -0400 (EDT), William Pitcock wrote:
> "Stephen Powell" wrote:
>> (blah blah blah blah)
>
> Nobody cares if you are opposed to it. Unless you are offering to become
> lilo upstream, it's going away.
>
> William
I do understa
about Jordi Mallach and Colin Watson? The package page for grub-pc
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/grub-pc
lists them as maintainers too. Have they disappeared as well? Or are
they no longer maintainers for this package? In which case their names
should
On Mon, 24 May 2010 05:29:56 -0400 (EDT), Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> Stephen Powell writes:
>>
>> Both grub-legacy and grub-pc use sectors on the hard disk outside of
>> the master boot record [...] This breaks the design of the backup
>> software that my employer uses. Th
On Mon, 24 May 2010 13:01:30 -0400 (EDT), Edward Allcutt wrote:
> On Mon, 24 May 2010, Stephen Powell wrote:
>> To the best of my knowledge, lilo is the *only* bootloader which supports
>> setting an initial text video mode *and* does not use any sectors outside
>> the m
On Mon, 24 May 2010 13:38:55 -0400 (EDT), Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> Stephen Powell writes:
>> On Mon, 24 May 2010 05:29:56 -0400 (EDT), Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>>> Stephen Powell writes:
>>>> Both grub-legacy and grub-pc use sectors on the hard disk outside
Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> Stephen Powell writes:
>>
>> Both grub-legacy and grub-pc use sectors on the hard disk outside of
>> the master boot record and outside of a partition ...
>
> You may want to try extlinux, it works much like LILO in this respect.
Well, I tried ex
cause there is no maintainer to download
a new upstream version, is not a reasonable request in my humble
opinion. Get a maintainer for it, fix the known bugs, and *then*
ask the users to test it.
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On Mon, 24 May 2010 17:29:54 -0400 (EDT), Peter Easthope wrote:
> Stephen Powell wrote:
>> (3) The need for special backup requirements will be
>> used by the opponents of Linux at my place of employment
>> to oppose further deployments of Linux, ...
>
> What about th
On Tue, 25 May 2010 11:51:11 -0400 (EDT), Mark
> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Stephen Powell wrote:
>> On Mon, 24 May 2010 17:29:54 -0400 (EDT), Peter Easthope wrote:
>>> Stephen Powell wrote:
>>>> (3) The need for special backup requirements will be
>>>
On Tue, 25 May 2010 12:03:17 -0400 (EDT), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> Stephen Powell wrote:
>>
>> You're missing the point. The main selling point to management
>> is that Linux is free.
>
> No software is entirely without cost. Free Software is no except
On Tue, 25 May 2010 11:10:38 -0400 (EDT), Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> Stephen Powell wrote:
>> ... I installed the mbr package ...
>
> The extlinux package itself also contains an mbr.bin, which you can use
> (it's strong point is probably EBIOS support).
So it does. W
On Wed, 26 May 2010 00:23:04 -0400 (EDT), Daniel Baumann wrote:
> On 05/26/2010 03:36 AM, Stephen Powell wrote:
>> ...
>> That works for now; but if a package upgrade for extlinux is ever
>> downloaded, I'm afraid that new versions of the hook scripts will
>> be cop
On Tue, 25 May 2010 13:12:27 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote:
> Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
>> No software is entirely without cost ...
>> volunteers work on whatever they like ...
>> your specific requirements may differ from their goals ...
>> volunteers are ra
On Sat, 29 May 2010 14:40:41 -0400 (EDT), Andreas Barth wrote:
> Stephen Powell wrote:
>> On Sat, 22 May 2010 23:39:52 -0400 (EDT), William Pitcock wrote:
>>> After some discussion about lilo on #debian-devel in IRC, it has pretty
>>> much been determined that kernel
g the Lenny environment" will work in Squeeze or Sid also,
provided that you use only official stock Debian kernels. If you use
custom kernels in Squeeze or later, you *must* use hook scripts to ensure
that any post-installation activities, such as the creation of an initial
some way. We lilo users
are very grateful to you for your willingness to take over.
By the way, did anyone ever find out what happened to John Coffman?
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that's their call, as far as I am concerned. I just don't want to see
lilo removed from the distribution.
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if
you're going to drop support for it in Squeeze, then yes,
a warning message is necessary. Both the kernel maintainer scripts
*and* "update-initramfs -u" *must* issue a warning message if they
find "do_bootloader = yes" specified in /etc/kernel
ernel image.
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:16:58AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
>> Currently, hook scripts invoked by a stock kernel maintainer script
>> or a maintainer script from a kernel image package created by make-kpkg
>> pass these exact same arguments.
>
> no.
>Fr
of the / device. For example, if (3012,1)
was / and (3026,1) was /boot, it would have worked.
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h him, and with it the "daily build" installation images.
We need to get those back.
Anyway, if you will point me to the installation images that you
used, I will give it a go here and see if I can reproduce your
problem.
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sure that's right? What kind of DASD do you have?
I normally use 3390-3 volumes, but even a 3390-9 stops at
10017 cylinders. You're going past 31000 cylinders.
Can you use the CMS FORMAT command on these minidisks
successfully?
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done?" What,
ultimately, are you trying to do? And why do you think you need
a custom version of the Debian installer to do it?
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