Bug#573429: installation-reports: some characters screwed up in menus + windoze detected but omitted from grub menu
Otavio Salvador wrote:
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thanks
Hello,
I re-tested debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso as of today Aug 30, 2010.
1) characters meant for menu boundaries were corrupt, and printed
funny-looking ascii characters. Everything was usable, but certainly not
as intended by those who programmed the installer.
Please see if you can reproduce it using current daily images and
provide a screenshot or picture of it so we can see what you mean by
corrupt. In meanwhile I will assume it is working fine.
The problem is gone, menus look fine now.
2) the network detection seems a regression from the lenny installer I tried
several months ago. I do not use dhcp, so I specify the network manually.
The old lenny installer was happy with the network number, gateway, and
DNS. The installer then discovered the computer name and domain
automatically. This new squeeze installer needs all this info by hand.
Please in case you can reproduce it using latest dailies elaborate it
a bit more because I didn't figure out what you meant.
When you connect to a network using not DHCP but a static IP, it is
sufficient for the installer to know
1) the IP of the computer to be installed
2) the gateway to connect to the network
3) the DHCP to resolve hosts.
Everything else should be deduced by interrogating the network.
Indeed the lennny installer does not ask for any other information.
The new squeeze installer instead then proceeds to ask for:
4) computer name
5) domain name
These last 2 steps should be removed as unnecessary, and restore lenny
installer's name and domain resolution from the the network.
(I guess, by calling the host commandline program with
host $IP | awk '{print $NF}'
[where $IP holds the static IP just provided by the user],
or something equivalent in other scripting languages).
3) the installer detected correctly the windoze OS, and made me assume that
it would be included it in the grub initial menu. It wasn't.
Post installation I had to run update-grub manually, then the menu did
include windoze as expected.
I can confirm this issue. I am reassigning it to grub-installer since
it needs to be fixed there.
OK.
Thanks a lot by reporting it.
Not at all, I'm a proud debian user, and making debian better and more
friendly is an important task.
Thank you, who do the programming effort!
Best,
Nick
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Bug#573429: installation-reports: some characters screwed up in menus + windoze detected but omitted from grub menu
forcemerge 573429 567980 thanks Hello, 1) characters meant for menu boundaries were corrupt, and printed funny-looking ascii characters. Everything was usable, but certainly not as intended by those who programmed the installer. Please see if you can reproduce it using current daily images and provide a screenshot or picture of it so we can see what you mean by corrupt. In meanwhile I will assume it is working fine. 2) the network detection seems a regression from the lenny installer I tried several months ago. I do not use dhcp, so I specify the network manually. The old lenny installer was happy with the network number, gateway, and DNS. The installer then discovered the computer name and domain automatically. This new squeeze installer needs all this info by hand. Please in case you can reproduce it using latest dailies elaborate it a bit more because I didn't figure out what you meant. 3) the installer detected correctly the windoze OS, and made me assume that it would be included it in the grub initial menu. It wasn't. Post installation I had to run update-grub manually, then the menu did include windoze as expected. I can confirm this issue. I am reassigning it to grub-installer since it needs to be fixed there. Thanks a lot by reporting it. -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems E-mail: ota...@ossystems.com.br http://www.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854 http://projetos.ossystems.com.br -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#573429: installation-reports: some characters screwed up in menus + windoze detected but omitted from grub menu
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Squeeze_ - Official Snapshot i386 NETINST Binary-1 20100309-09:50]/ squeeze main Date: Mar 09 2010, afternoon Machine: laptop Dell Latitude E6500 Partitions: df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred df -Tl FilesystemType 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda6 ext4 180669448 4495340 166996580 3% / tmpfstmpfs 1811800 0 1811800 0% /lib/init/rw udev tmpfs 10240 272 9968 3% /dev tmpfstmpfs 1811800 0 1811800 0% /dev/shm fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xd000 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 38 305203+ de Dell Utility /dev/sda2 * 39 134 7680007 HPFS/NTFS Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda3 1347429585937507 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda47430 30401 1845225905 Extended /dev/sda574307550 971901 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda67551 30401 183550626 83 Linux Comments: - partitions /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 were factory-made: untouched - partition /dev/sda3 (windoze 7) resized from 250 to 60 GB by debian partitioner - partitions /dev/sda4 and /dev/sda5 created with debian partitioner Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot: [O] Detect network card:[O] Configure network: [O] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [O] Install base system:[O] Clock/timezone setup: [O] User/password setup:[O] Install tasks: [O] Install boot loader:[O] Overall install:[O] Comments/Problems: Everything went smoothly: thanx for the great job! Just minor problems: 1) characters meant for menu boundaries were corrupt, and printed funny-looking ascii characters. Everything was usable, but certainly not as intended by those who programmed the installer. 2) the network detection seems a regression from the lenny installer I tried several months ago. I do not use dhcp, so I specify the network manually. The old lenny installer was happy with the network number, gateway, and DNS. The installer then discovered the computer name and domain automatically. This new squeeze installer needs all this info by hand. 3) the installer detected correctly the windoze OS, and made me assume that it would be included it in the grub initial menu. It wasn't. Post installation I had to run update-grub manually, then the menu did include windoze as expected. Windoze 7 had to restart once in some protected mode, but after that it was happy enough. This bug could create serious trouble to non-experts. All hardware works fine out of the box, except for the wi-fi Network controller (for which I did as instructed at http://wiki.debian.org/iwlagn) the camera (i'll look after that next) and the audio capture (needs a few clicks to configure). All the best, Nick Manini -- Please make sure that the hardware-summary log file, and any other installation logs that you think would be useful are attached to this report. Please compress large files using gzip. Once you have filled out this report, mail it to sub...@bugs.debian.org. == Installer lsb-release: == DISTRIB_ID=Debian DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=Debian GNU/Linux installer DISTRIB_RELEASE=6.0 (squeeze) - installer build 20100309-04:52 X_INSTALLATION_MEDIUM=cdrom == Installer hardware-summary: == uname -a: Linux ciop 2.6.32-3-486 #1 Thu Feb 25 05:35:13 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux lspci -knn: 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub [8086:2a40] (rev 07) lspci -knn: Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:024f] lspci -knn: 00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Graphics Port [8086:2a41] (rev 07) lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: pcieport lspci -knn: 00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82567LM Gigabit Network Connection [8086:10f5] (rev 03) lspci -knn: Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:024f] lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: e1000e lspci -knn: 00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:2937] (rev 03) lspci -knn: Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:024f] lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd lspci -knn: 00:1a.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation
