Bug#270326: kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc: bad commandline default: root=/dev/sda2

2004-09-07 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Sven Luther writes: > Jens, i would greatly appreciate if you could investigate a bit (and > explain) what is going on on that box of yours, What is going on is quite simple. If I omit the root option from the kernel command line, the system panics. If I set the option correctly (/dev/sda2

Bug#270326: kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc: bad commandline default: root=/dev/sda2

2004-09-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 06:31:23AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Sven Luther writes: > > > Jens, i would greatly appreciate if you could investigate a bit (and > > explain) what is going on on that box of yours, > > What is going on is quite simple. If I omit the root option from the

Bug#261706: Still here

2004-09-07 Thread Matt Zimmerman
This bug is still present with 2.6.8.1, same symptoms. -- - mdz

Bug#270326: kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc: bad commandline default: root=/dev/sda2

2004-09-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 08:22:59PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Sven Luther writes: > > > if the kernel is able to figure out the correct root device, > > AFAICT, it isn't. Ok, this is your word against Hollis ones, i wonder which i should believe :) Now, is it possible that both yo

Bug#270326: kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc: bad commandline default: root=/dev/sda2

2004-09-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 09:04:40PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 08:22:59PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Sven Luther writes: > > > > > if the kernel is able to figure out the correct root device, > > > > AFAICT, it isn't. > > Ok, this is your word against

Bug#258088: marked as done (kernel-image-2.6.6-1-686: cpio error occurs during the install of this package)

2004-09-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Tue, 7 Sep 2004 20:47:53 +0200 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Bug#258088: #258088 kernel-image-2.6.6-1-686: cpio error occurs during the install of this packagey has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the pr

Bug#258088: #258088 kernel-image-2.6.6-1-686: cpio error occurs during the install of this packagey

2004-09-07 Thread Walter Tautz
On Sat, 4 Sep 2004, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 03:46:10PM -0400, Walter Tautz wrote: > > > > > > > > On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > > Adrian, which m-i-t release should have fixed this? > > > > > > Walter, is this still happening for you? > > > > >

Bug#270321: kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc: PReP boot failure

2004-09-07 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Hollis Blanchard writes: > Does this mean the ramdisk is bad? Could well be. You can check its contents with 'fsck.cramfs -v /initrd.img'. > Any way I can get some debug output from it? On the serial console? Put console=ttyS0 last in the kernel command line. Then /dev/console will poin

Bug#270518: initrd-tools: Only the module for the root filesystem type should be loaded at boot

2004-09-07 Thread Frank Murphy
Package: initrd-tools Version: 0.1.74 Severity: normal After upgrading to a 2.6 kernel, I found a lot more modules loaded, including what seemed to be every filesystem module. It seems that initrd-tools load every existing fs module, instead of only the one used by the root filesystem. Some of the

Bug#270326: kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc: bad commandline default: root=/dev/sda2

2004-09-07 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Sven Luther writes: > if the kernel is able to figure out the correct root device, AFAICT, it isn't. Regards, Jens. -- J'qbpbe, le m'en fquz pe j'qbpbe! Le veux aimeb et mqubib panz je pézqbpbe je djuz tqtaj!

Bug#270326: kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc: bad commandline default: root=/dev/sda2

2004-09-07 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Hollis Blanchard writes: > > perl -pi -e s+/dev/sda2+/dev/foo7+ vmlinuz > Sounds like that perl command being run by mkvmlinuz, supplying the > current partition mounted on / . That shouldn't be too hard right? As I said, it would be nicer to forward port the bootargs patch by Leigh Brown.

Bug#270321: kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc: PReP boot failure

2004-09-07 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Sep 6, 2004, at 5:51 PM, Jens Schmalzing wrote: What I meant is, can you install kernel-source-2.6.8, configure all drivers needed for bringing up your root filesystem into the kernel, build that kernel, and boot it. Works fine. Does this mean the ramdisk is bad? Any way I can get some debug out

Bug#270326: kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc: bad commandline default: root=/dev/sda2

2004-09-07 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Sep 6, 2004, at 4:47 PM, Jens Schmalzing wrote: Hollis Blanchard writes: The default kernel commandline in the PReP kernel includes "root=/dev/sda2". Please remove this. Well, this was selected because it is the default from arch/ppc/Kconfig. While it is not the ideal solution, I think it shou

Bug#270326: kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc: bad commandline default: root=/dev/sda2

2004-09-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 11:47:38PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Hollis Blanchard writes: > > > The default kernel commandline in the PReP kernel includes > > "root=/dev/sda2". Please remove this. > > Well, this was selected because it is the default from > arch/ppc/Kconfig. While it

Re: Processed: reassign 270385 to kernel-image-2.6.8-1-386

2004-09-07 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 09:03:08AM -0700, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.8.4 > > reassign 270385 kernel-image-2.6.8-1-386 > Bug#270385: [i386] [20040905] SCSI controller DDRS-39130W

Processed: reassign 270385 to kernel-image-2.6.8-1-386

2004-09-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.8.4 > reassign 270385 kernel-image-2.6.8-1-386 Bug#270385: [i386] [20040905] SCSI controller DDRS-39130W not recognized in 2.6 Bug reassigned from package `installation-reports' to `kernel-

Bug#270420: don't recognize SATA

2004-09-07 Thread Agustin Martin
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 10:56:40AM +0100, Joao Serrachinha wrote: > Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686-smp > Version: 2.6.8-1-686-smp > > I think this is the same as Bug#269784 > > thanks > > >Package: kernel-image-2.4.27-1-686-smp > >Version: 2.4.27-1-686-smp > > > >In the same box, i have kerne

Bug#270451: 3com 3c905x dhcp not working in kernel 2.6.x on debian sarge

2004-09-07 Thread Kelly, Mark
Package: kernel Version: 2.6.7 & 2.6.8 I cannot get 3com 3c905b or 3c905c network cards to detect dhcp when using any version of 2.6.x kernels available in sarge or unstable trees. Both cards are in the same machine and boot correctly into kernel 2.4.26. I am using Debian Sarge, kernel 2.6.7 an

Bug#268609: Bug#270198: Acknowledgement (kernel-image-2.6.7-1-686: does not detect ATA om Intel mobo)

2004-09-07 Thread John
As outlined in the original report, the Sarge system on my SCSI drive recognised both ATA and SCSI drives when in the Pentium II 233 system. When installed into the Pentium III system, it did not recognise the ATA drive. In the former, the IDE chipset is Intel LX, and the latter BX. In the lat

Bug#270437: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686: dvd+rw-tools in testing broken

2004-09-07 Thread Hendrik Naumann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686 Version: 2.6.8-2 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software With kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686 /usr/bin/growisofs from dvd+rw-tools packages does not work anymore with my dvd-burner. With kernel-image-2

Bug#270199: Performance prob applies to 2.4.27-1-686 too

2004-09-07 Thread John
Joshua Kwan wrote: firesong:/home/joshk# hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount= 16 (on) IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq= 0 (off) using_dma= 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead= 8 (on) geometry = 58140/16/63, sectors = 58605120,

Bug#270426: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686: ACPI poweroff stopped working (Dell Inspiron 8600)

2004-09-07 Thread Daniel Vollmer
Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686 Version: 2.6.8-2 Severity: normal The ACPI poweroff stopped working on my Dell Inspiron (Bios A10). It was working fine in 2.6.7. The last line I see on the console when shutting down, is "acpi_poweroff called". Rebooting still works as expected. -- System Inform

Bug#270423: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-386: Package failed to install

2004-09-07 Thread Yann Forget
Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-386 Version: 2.6.8-2 Severity: normal Hi, While trying to install this kernel, I got Setting up kernel-image-2.6.8-1-386 (2.6.8-2) ... /usr/sbin/mkinitrd: add_modules_dep_2_5: modprobe failed FATAL: Module ide_detect not found. FATAL: Module ext2 not found. Failed t

Bug#270199: Performance prob applies to 2.4.27-1-686 too

2004-09-07 Thread John
Joshua Kwan wrote: firesong:/home/joshk# hdparm -t /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffered disk reads: 62 MB in 3.03 seconds = 20.46 MB/sec I would expect to do better than that LX chipset. Pentium II 233 and I can get around 25 Mbytes/sec on drives from about three years go. using_dma= 1

Bug#270420: don't recognize SATA

2004-09-07 Thread Joao Serrachinha
Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686-smp Version: 2.6.8-1-686-smp I think this is the same as Bug#269784 thanks Package: kernel-image-2.4.27-1-686-smp Version: 2.4.27-1-686-smp In the same box, i have kernel-2.4.26-1-686-smp and works fine. I install the kernel-image-2.4.27-1-686-smp and don't recogni

Bug#270199: Performance prob applies to 2.4.27-1-686 too

2004-09-07 Thread Joshua Kwan
John wrote: Well, I've had a wee break and the computer came up okay. Here's the kernel I booted: ns:~# ls /boot/vmlinuz-2.4* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 872499 Sep 3 14:44 /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-1-686 ns:~# firesong:/home/joshk# ls -l /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-1-686 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 872499 2004-09-0

Bug#266621: marked as done (kernel-source-2.4.27: Problem with USB2 support (ehci-hcd module) with Intel ICH4 chipset)

2004-09-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Tue, 07 Sep 2004 02:25:21 -0700 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Bug#266621: kernel-source-2.4.27: bug closed by 2.4.27-5 versionof the package :-) has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has be

Bug#270199: Performance prob applies to 2.4.27-1-686 too

2004-09-07 Thread John
Joshua Kwan wrote: On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 03:13:24PM +0800, John wrote: Joshua When will this be in testing? If not soon, pls give me a direct URL to use with wget. I don't want to download lots of Sid through my modem. Through some act of ftpmaster it's actually in testing already. Good grief!

Bug#269953: blank display upon loading radeonfb - 9600XT too

2004-09-07 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 10:04:34PM +0100, Jonathan Lucas wrote: > OK, I've had a look at this bug report. It might be the same, it might > not. 268352 reports that radeonfb has never worked in 2.6.x. 269953 says > it worked up to 2.6.5 inclusive (I can still prove that it works in 2.6.5, > as I've

Re: Release update: lib transitions, toolchain fixes, buildd backlog

2004-09-07 Thread Steve Langasek
Peter, On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 01:28:19PM +0200, Mgr. Peter Tuharsky wrote: >I read here about strong commitment for new kernel 2.4.27 and 2.6.8.1 >Kernel 2.6.8.1 has some severe bugs defuncting USB and some other > devices, etc. It's maybe the most experimental and broken kernel since >

Bug#270199: Performance prob applies to 2.4.27-1-686 too

2004-09-07 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 03:13:24PM +0800, John wrote: > Joshua > When will this be in testing? > > If not soon, pls give me a direct URL to use with wget. I don't want to > download lots of Sid through my modem. Through some act of ftpmaster it's actually in testing already. -- Joshua Kwan s

Bug#270199: Performance prob applies to 2.4.27-1-686 too

2004-09-07 Thread John
Joshua Kwan wrote: John wrote: ns:~# uname -r 2.4.27-1-686 Please update to version 2.4.27-2 of kernel-image-2.4.27-1-686 and tell me what happens. This was definitely fixed already. Joshua When will this be in testing? If not soon, pls give me a direct URL to use with wget. I don't want to dow

Bug#270376: LSPCI Output

2004-09-07 Thread Jefferson Cowart
lspci -vvv under 2.6.5-1-386 :00:00.0 Host bridge: Cyrix Corporation PCI Master Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSE