Re: RFH - Debian/S390
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 12:13:03AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > - switch to 2.6 for installations > If I understand Bastian correctly this mainly requires automatic > configuration. I think he started that with his last s390-tools upload. > dasd configuration support is still missing in that IIUC. No, automatic configuration is not possible, that is why there needs to be something which configures them on request. The package currently sits in NEW. > - add full support for dasd in partman > So that at least partconf and partitioner can be dropped; not sure if > s390-dasd can be dropped. With the better integration in (lib)parted > this should probably not be too difficult. s390-dasd is needed for - disk format - configuration. Bastian -- "What terrible way to die." "There are no good ways." -- Sulu and Kirk, "That Which Survives", stardate unknown signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: RFH - Debian/S390
This looks good. Can you tell me what the problems are with using the 2.6 kernel? Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 07 February 2006 00:13, Frans Pop wrote: Parted seems to work fine again. It recognized my existing partitions and partitioning in the installer worked fine too. There are some issues that need to be looked into for the installation (I managed to finish it with some minor manual interventions, but the system failed to boot...). Done another installation test yesterday and there are only two issues to have s/390 installable again: - minor issue with kernel selection in base-installer; new version with fix already uploaded; - sysvinit installs incorrect /etc/inittab for installed system resulting in the problem on reboot; RC bug filed: #351871. So, if we get the sysvinit issue fixed in time for the D-I Beta2 release, it looks that S/390 will be installable again (using 2.4 kernel). Thanks to all who contributed. Cheers, FJP -- Stephen Frazier Information Technology Unit Oklahoma Department of Corrections 3400 Martin Luther King Oklahoma City, Ok, 73111-4298 Tel.: (405) 425-2549 Fax: (405) 425-2554 Pager: (405) 690-1828 email: stevef%doc.state.ok.us -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RFH - Debian/S390
On Tuesday 07 February 2006 00:13, Frans Pop wrote: > Parted seems to work fine again. It recognized my existing partitions > and partitioning in the installer worked fine too. > There are some issues that need to be looked into for the installation > (I managed to finish it with some minor manual interventions, but the > system failed to boot...). Done another installation test yesterday and there are only two issues to have s/390 installable again: - minor issue with kernel selection in base-installer; new version with fix already uploaded; - sysvinit installs incorrect /etc/inittab for installed system resulting in the problem on reboot; RC bug filed: #351871. So, if we get the sysvinit issue fixed in time for the D-I Beta2 release, it looks that S/390 will be installable again (using 2.4 kernel). Thanks to all who contributed. Cheers, FJP pgpLOMBbpxqXj.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: RFH - Debian/S390
On Feb 6, 2006, at 6:37 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-02-07 00:13]: failed to boot...). I'll give Otavio the green light to upload the new parted though. I just saw the upload. Great work, Adam! Actually all the credit belongs to Leland Lucius, who did all the work. I just put him into contact with Otavio and let things run their course. I was merely the middleman. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RFH - Debian/S390
* Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-02-07 00:13]: > failed to boot...). > > I'll give Otavio the green light to upload the new parted though. I just saw the upload. Great work, Adam! -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RFH - Debian/S390
On Feb 6, 2006, at 5:13 PM, Frans Pop wrote: I have gotten the patches from Otavio and have just finished testing them in D-I (building parted takes a while on Hercules :-) Parted seems to work fine again. It recognized my existing partitions and partitioning in the installer worked fine too. There are some issues that need to be looked into for the installation (I managed to finish it with some minor manual interventions, but the system failed to boot...). I'll give Otavio the green light to upload the new parted though. Sounds good. I don't know for sure if parted is going to work with preformatted (or even unformatted) FBA disks; I mainly want this so that I can run SWAPGEN in CMS before IPLling Linux and put a swap signature on a newly-created VDISK. Then when parted runs it will see that there's an already-initialized swap partition on an FBA (really virtual) disk, and just allow swapping to it. Leland added support for FBA, but I haven't tested it yet. This is a very minor problem in comparison; opening a shell to attach the swap disk manually is not a big deal. It would, however, be cool if it really worked in the installer. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RFH - Debian/S390
On Monday 06 February 2006 19:08, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Adam Thornton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-02-06 10:09]: > > The short answer, though, is that the parted problem seems to be > > basically done, pending rolling it in officially, which is Otavio's I have gotten the patches from Otavio and have just finished testing them in D-I (building parted takes a while on Hercules :-) Parted seems to work fine again. It recognized my existing partitions and partitioning in the installer worked fine too. There are some issues that need to be looked into for the installation (I managed to finish it with some minor manual interventions, but the system failed to boot...). I'll give Otavio the green light to upload the new parted though. > I'm not sure exactly what's missing, Frans or waldi will know. There are two things we should aim to do for the next D-I release: - switch to 2.6 for installations If I understand Bastian correctly this mainly requires automatic configuration. I think he started that with his last s390-tools upload. dasd configuration support is still missing in that IIUC. - add full support for dasd in partman So that at least partconf and partitioner can be dropped; not sure if s390-dasd can be dropped. With the better integration in (lib)parted this should probably not be too difficult. Cheers, FJP pgpx7BD1GYFxV.pgp Description: PGP signature
