Bug#778617: grub-install often breaks in UEFI mode

2015-02-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 09:32:56AM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote: Package: grub-installer Version: 1.110 I'm forwarding this patch from Ubuntu: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1303790 On EFI, the boot disk argument given to grub-install is a dummy and is often the wrong disk or a non existent disk.

Bug#777647: marked as done (partman-efi always complains when installing from usb)

2015-02-17 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Tue, 17 Feb 2015 23:02:12 + with message-id 20150217230212.gg12...@einval.com and subject line Re: Bug#777647: partman-efi always complains when installing from usb has caused the Debian Bug report #777647, regarding partman-efi always complains when installing from usb to

Bug#778614: D-I: Unable to load firmware from NTFS formated usb stick

2015-02-17 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Andrey, and thanks for your report. Andrey Tataranovich tataranov...@gmail.com (2015-02-17): Package: debian-installer Version: 8.0 beta Severity: important Tags: d-i Dear Maintainer, A few days ago I tried to install Debian Jessie using Debian GNU/Linux testing Jessie - Official

Bug#778617: grub-install often breaks in UEFI mode

2015-02-17 Thread Phillip Susi
Package: grub-installer Version: 1.110 I'm forwarding this patch from Ubuntu: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1303790 On EFI, the boot disk argument given to grub-install is a dummy and is often the wrong disk or a non existent disk. Grub is still installed to the correct place since it goes

Re: Bug#778366: unblock: kfreebsd-10/10.1~svn274115-2

2015-02-17 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Control: tag -1 confirmed Hi, Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org (2015-02-14): Michael Gilbert wrote: Please consider unblocking kfreebsd-10. It fixes 2 security issues: https://security-tracker.debian.org/kfreebsd-10 When I saw this request come in, I meant to ask one of the

Bug#778615: installation-reports: Lenovo T61 8889-B35 NVIDIA G86M Quadro NVS 140M

2015-02-17 Thread Jan Luca Naumann
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, installation, wethernet, wireless and brightness controll works without any problems. There is a problem with graphics when waking up from suspend, I will fill in a seperate bug report upstream. -- Package-specific info: Boot

Processed: Re: Bug#778614: D-I: Unable to load firmware from NTFS formated usb stick

2015-02-17 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: severity -1 wishlist Bug #778614 [debian-installer] D-I: Unable to load firmware from NTFS formated usb stick Severity set to 'wishlist' from 'important' -- 778614: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=778614 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact

Bug#778614: D-I: Unable to load firmware from NTFS formated usb stick

2015-02-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Andrey Tataranovich, le Tue 17 Feb 2015 16:55:47 +0300, a écrit : Why not to add support for NTFS for loading missing firmware? As I know kernel already have support for reading NTFS volumes. Just FTR (not implying anything, just giving the number), ntfs.ko weighs 326KiB on my 3.16 kernel.

Bug#778614: D-I: Unable to load firmware from NTFS formated usb stick

2015-02-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: severity -1 wishlist On Tue, 2015-02-17 at 16:55 +0300, Andrey Tataranovich wrote: Package: debian-installer Version: 8.0 beta Severity: important Tags: d-i Dear Maintainer, A few days ago I tried to install Debian Jessie using Debian GNU/Linux testing Jessie - Official

Bug#778614: D-I: Unable to load firmware from NTFS formated usb stick

2015-02-17 Thread Andrey Tataranovich
On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 14:13:30 + Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: Control: severity -1 wishlist On Tue, 2015-02-17 at 16:55 +0300, Andrey Tataranovich wrote: Package: debian-installer Version: 8.0 beta Severity: important Tags: d-i Dear Maintainer, A few days ago

Bug#778614: D-I: Unable to load firmware from NTFS formated usb stick

2015-02-17 Thread Andrey Tataranovich
Package: debian-installer Version: 8.0 beta Severity: important Tags: d-i Dear Maintainer, A few days ago I tried to install Debian Jessie using Debian GNU/Linux testing Jessie - Official Snapshot amd64 NETINST Binary-1 20150209-06:32 disk. Network card require non-free firmware to work (d-i

Processed: Re: Bug#778614: D-I: Unable to load firmware from NTFS formated usb stick

2015-02-17 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: severity -1 normal Bug #778614 [debian-installer] D-I: Unable to load firmware from NTFS formated usb stick Severity set to 'normal' from 'wishlist' -- 778614: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=778614 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact

Re: Debian install media issue

2015-02-17 Thread Geert Stappers
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 02:16:58PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 01:44:33PM -0500, rob wrote: Personally, I have a whole room full of servers like this that I can't install Debian on... but have a need to. Can this be a soon-to-be future option for Wheezy? It's

Debian install media issue

2015-02-17 Thread rob
Please forgive me if this is the incorrect area to forward my concerns to, I've been working on this issue for months and been told by many people they weren't the right person to speak to about it. If you know who can process this email, I'd appreciate you forwarding it! I'm writing about

Re: Debian install media issue

2015-02-17 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 01:44:33PM -0500, rob wrote: Please forgive me if this is the incorrect area to forward my concerns to, I've been working on this issue for months and been told by many people they weren't the right person to speak to about it. If you know who can process this email,

Bug#778614: D-I: Unable to load firmware from NTFS formated usb stick

2015-02-17 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 02:13:30PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: NTFS is special because it is not a user-space filesystem. And Windows does not allow formatting removable drives as NTFS, so this is not a normal filesystem to use on removable drives. Reducing the severity accordingly. Of

Re: Bug#778366: unblock: kfreebsd-10/10.1~svn274115-2

2015-02-17 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
Le 2015-02-17 18:14, Cyril Brulebois a écrit : Control: tag -1 confirmed Hi, Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org (2015-02-14): Michael Gilbert wrote: Please consider unblocking kfreebsd-10. It fixes 2 security issues: https://security-tracker.debian.org/kfreebsd-10 When I saw this

Bug#778614: D-I: Unable to load firmware from NTFS formated usb stick

2015-02-17 Thread Andrey Tataranovich
On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 12:44:56 -0500 Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 02:13:30PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: NTFS is special because it is not a user-space filesystem. And Windows does not allow formatting removable drives as NTFS, so this is

Bug#777647: partman-efi always complains when installing from usb

2015-02-17 Thread Phillip Susi
On 2/17/2015 1:37 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: Any futher clues on this at all? I have next to no knowledge about how the Ubuntu installer code uses the d-i packages, which makes it difficult for me to comment much more. I emailed a log with my attempt at analyzing it to Colin Watson the other

Bug#778614: D-I: Unable to load firmware from NTFS formated usb stick

2015-02-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: severity -1 normal On Tue, 2015-02-17 at 17:31 +0300, Andrey Tataranovich wrote: On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 14:13:30 + Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: Control: severity -1 wishlist On Tue, 2015-02-17 at 16:55 +0300, Andrey Tataranovich wrote: Package:

Bug#776519: No change in symptoms when Debian i386 rc1 installed over system C.

2015-02-17 Thread David Henderson
I installed Debian jessie i386 rc1 on top of system c, replacing jessie i386 DI-2 i386 system. After doing a option-poweron on the iMac, it still boots Debian wheezy system b. David P.S. - I did this hardwired, because I'm not able to load the Broadcom b43 wifi firmware off a flash

Re: Debian install media issue

2015-02-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 01:44:33PM -0500, rob wrote: Potential issues with UEFI booting on amd64...There have been some reports of issues booting the Debian Installer in UEFI mode on amd64 systems...As a workaround for now, try switching off UEFI and installing using Legacy BIOS or Fallback mode

Bug#777716: [jessie RC1] wireless LAN card not usable, problem with loading/using firmware

2015-02-17 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Holger Wansing li...@wansing-online.de wrote: Package: installation-reports I have a laptop here which needs firmware for the wireless LAN card Intel PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter (PCI-ID: 8086:1043). It seems the process of requesting, loading and using firmware is not