Re: migrating grub from BIOS to UEFI loses /etc/default/grub

2024-05-26 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Sonntag, dem 26.05.2024 um 16:08 +0200 schrieb Harald Dunkel: > On 2024-05-24 20:36:41, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > > > > It is a known bug. > > This is a highly destructive bug. You have UEFI boot finally working, > you just do some cleanup, and on the next reboot of your server 8 > weeks

removing grub-legacy from Debian

2024-03-03 Thread Felix Zielcke
Hi, we plan to totally remove GRUB Legacy from Debian. But grub-installer still has references to the old grub package. Especially if multipath is used. grub2 has long time ago gained support for the multipath devices. See #442382 [1] Anyone knows or could test changes to grub-installer if the

Re: reiserfsprogs udebs

2023-09-20 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Dienstag, dem 19.09.2023 um 14:55 +0100 schrieb Steve McIntyre: > On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 12:37:41PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > [...] > > While it can do that as well (to some extent), the installer's > > primary > > focus isn't to rescue systems but to install new ones; there are > >

Re: reiserfsprogs udebs

2023-09-19 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am 18.09.2023 22:23, schrieb Pascal Hambourg: On 18/09/2023 at 19:20, Cyril Brulebois wrote: I would think so, yes. If that's not too much of a hassle, maybe wait a few days in case someone can think of a clever case where keeping them would make sense; but seeing it unsupported upstream,

Re: reiserfsprogs udebs

2023-09-18 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Montag, dem 18.09.2023 um 18:48 +0200 schrieb Cyril Brulebois: > Hallo Felix, > > Felix Zielcke (2023-09-18): > > reiserfsprogs still provide 2 udebs: reiserfsprogs-udeb and > > mkreiserfs-udeb. > > > > > > > > ReiserFS has been now

reiserfsprogs udebs

2023-09-18 Thread Felix Zielcke
Hi, reiserfsprogs still provide 2 udebs: reiserfsprogs-udeb and mkreiserfs-udeb. ReiserFS has been now deprecated in linux upstream and is scheduled to be removed in 2025 [1] And there's now a patch and discussion[2] on going to have it removed fro m the defconfig profile. Are they actually

Re: [RFC] Degrading reiserfs to optional filesystem?

2010-02-01 Thread Felix Zielcke
. Reiserfs is now pretty much dead upstream. (I'll also drop the reiser4 udebs. When I took the packages over I already wondered why the previous maintainer added them, but kept them.) Cheers, FJP -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Obtaining UUID's to use for grub

2009-12-26 Thread Felix Zielcke
-probe -t fs_uuid /path' Doestn't matter what GRUB version gets used in that case, both depend on grub-common which provides grub-probe. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Bug#556738: grub-pc: Displays being upgraded dialog during new installations from D-I

2009-11-17 Thread Felix Zielcke
it should only happen if you tried GRUB Legacy first. But I try that now. Any suggestion so that wouldn't even asked inside d-i if GRUB Legacy was tried first? -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: splash img

2009-11-03 Thread Felix Zielcke
is foreground. Set to black and # white respecively pngtopnm $SPLASHPNG | ppmquant 16 | \ ppmtolss16 #ff=7 #00=0 boot$N/isolinux/splash.rle fi so the splash image define by the SPLASHPNG var is never used. bye -- Felix Zielcke

Bug#552409: grub-installer: Fix grub2 boot of gnumach

2009-10-26 Thread Felix Zielcke
to multiboot kernels, and has thus to be repeated in the module command. Samuel Thanks. Just applied it. But the grub-installer generated menuentrys now only get used if os-prober fails to install. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: grub2 error: grub loader is loaded not found

2009-10-18 Thread Felix Zielcke
-install with the right Liunx device where your BIOS boots from. This sounds like MBR + embed core.img is out of sync with /boot/grub/ which can only happen if you installed GRUB the second time to a different MBR then first. See also http://grub.enbug.org/Grub2LiveCdInstallGuide -- Felix Zielcke

Bug#550955: installation-reports: installer unable to use package repositories

2009-10-14 Thread Felix Zielcke
amd64 businesscard in VMware Workstation 7.0.0 build-197124 which worked fine. But I don't use bridged networking but NAT. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: debian-installer for GNU/kFreeBSD

2009-10-14 Thread Felix Zielcke
. Though maybe they use the udebs from testing. The normal set of CD/DVD images for the stable release are AFAIK made from the installer in stable and allow only to install stable. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ

Bug#549299: Installation with usb-stick via netboot fails at the beginning.

2009-10-02 Thread Felix Zielcke
. You need to add `nopat' to the boot options. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#548864: Package: installation-reports

2009-09-29 Thread Felix Zielcke
. When I select Install I (only) get the following: INFO: kbd-mode: setting console mode to Unicode (UTF8) Next the CD spins down and the installation comes to a halt. Known bug. Will be hopefully fixed soon in the dailys. Just add `nopat' to the boot options. -- Felix Zielcke Proud

Bug#548332: console-setup: [l10n] quoting issue with German debconf translation

2009-09-25 Thread Felix Zielcke
-(')Akzentzeichen -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#548156: grub-installer: No grub2 when using gpt partition schema

2009-09-24 Thread Felix Zielcke
for an ext4 / It installed fine, though grub-installer still used `grub-install (hd0)' instead of (md0) -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#548156: grub-installer: No grub2 when using gpt partition schema

2009-09-24 Thread Felix Zielcke
Select the partition, press return, select `Use as' and there you find the `Reserved BIOS boot area', just like also RAID and LVM. With parted I only know this, from the GRUB wiki: sudo parted /dev/sda set partition_number bios_grub on -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#548156: grub-installer: No grub2 when using gpt partition schema

2009-09-24 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Donnerstag, den 24.09.2009, 13:05 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke: Am Donnerstag, den 24.09.2009, 12:49 +0200 schrieb Marcel Koopmans: Hello Felix, I need some help here... How did you change the partition type in the debian installation? I don't see the option in Parted and fdisk

Bug#548156: grub-installer: No grub2 when using gpt partition schema

2009-09-24 Thread Felix Zielcke
] instead of partitions? In that case there might be a bug that GPT isn't detected, because then there's actually no point at all in having a partition table inside the MBR So it would be good if you could try with current daily: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer -- Felix Zielcke Proud

Bug#548156: grub-installer: No grub2 when using gpt partition schema

2009-09-24 Thread Felix Zielcke
should get an error from grub-install in VT4 or syslog. It shouldn't choose GRUB Legacy if you use GPT on all disks belonging to /root Oh and by the way /boot over LVM over RAID should work now with squeeze's GRUB 2 but it hasn't been yet that much tested. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer

Re: Debian 503

2009-09-24 Thread Felix Zielcke
for Intel Itaniums. They're not for the Core 2 Duo etc. processors which also have 64bit support. For them you have to use the amd64. IIRC Frans added now a warning somewhere in the manual/docs for that but that might be just for the dailies. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer

Bug#548156: grub-installer: No grub2 when using gpt partition schema

2009-09-24 Thread Felix Zielcke
/unstable By default (and so always with netinst) testing gets choosen. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Release preparation: errata file

2009-09-23 Thread Felix Zielcke
that supports it before mkfs.ext4 is ready for it. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Unable to install Debian from USB

2009-09-16 Thread Felix Zielcke
upstream and marked pending Just add `nopat' to the boot options -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Squeeze installer fails on Eee PC 1000HE

2009-09-12 Thread Felix Zielcke
for Debian. Add nopat to the boot options. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#476184: For the grub maintainers II

2009-09-07 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Montag, den 07.09.2009, 13:30 +0200 schrieb Vincent Danjean: Gabor Gombas wrote: On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 03:03:40PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: Robert filed already after the upload of grub-legacy a RC bug so it doestn't migrate after the usual 10 days to testing. Note that we

Bug#545282: debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso: installation hangs

2009-09-06 Thread Felix Zielcke
. See 538159 -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#545154: [Fwd: Re: Bug#545154: grub-pc: on upgrade other OS are not carried over, and os-prober does not work]

2009-09-05 Thread Felix Zielcke
Whoops forgot to send the mail to the bug. Weitergeleitete Nachricht Von: Felix Zielcke fziel...@z-51.de An: Norbert Preining prein...@logic.at Betreff: Re: Bug#545154: grub-pc: on upgrade other OS are not carried over, and os-prober does not work Datum: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14

Bug#545226: Grub didn't install because diff (cmp) is not installed

2009-09-05 Thread Felix Zielcke
The installer failed to install the boot loader GRUB cause it was failing with the grub-install script at line 390. Running chroot /target and apt-get install diff fixed the problem. Thanks for the analysis. Reassigning. Please see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=544478 -- Felix

Bug#477092: [PATCH] add support for setting a username + password in grub-installer for GRUB 2

2009-09-04 Thread Felix Zielcke
if no password has been given just like with grub-legacy. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer Index: debian/grub-installer.templates === --- debian/grub-installer.templates (revision 60631) +++ debian/grub-installer.templates

Bug#470894: grub-installer: user parameters are not added to grub.cfg for grub2

2009-09-01 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Dienstag, den 01.09.2009, 00:14 +0100 schrieb Colin Watson: On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 07:59:04AM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: Am Dienstag, den 04.08.2009, 11:45 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke: Here's now a patch which does it without a version check. I suggest to change the sed expression

Re: debian-installer for GNU/kFreeBSD

2009-09-01 Thread Felix Zielcke
of the box. Would be nice though if you could rebuild the images with GRUB 1.97~beta1 just for the version number :) (there are actually no important changes) -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: debian-installer for GNU/kFreeBSD

2009-09-01 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Dienstag, den 01.09.2009, 11:58 +0200 schrieb Aurelien Jarno: Felix Zielcke a écrit : Am Montag, den 31.08.2009, 14:42 +0200 schrieb Aurelien Jarno: Hi, Following the work of Luca Favetella [1] during the Google Summer of Code [2], I am happy to announce that a first version

Re: Bug#544381: grub-pc: The os_prober does not include all the systems and entries are also not complete.

2009-08-31 Thread Felix Zielcke
-prober gets all values from os-prober. It just makes a menu entry out of it. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#544114: installation-reports: No networking on Dell Vostro 1320

2009-08-29 Thread Felix Zielcke
): INFO: kbd-mode: setting console mode to Unicode (UTF-8). To be precise: caps lock toggles the keyboard light, but pressing Alt +F1-4 don't have any effect. Add `nopat' to the kernel options. This is a known bug and already fixed upstream. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer

Bug#543864: Lenovo S10e - Testing - Grub2

2009-08-27 Thread Felix Zielcke
installed unstable from yesterdays amd64 businesscard and grub2 installed fine when I choose a kernel. But failed without one. I just fixed that bug in grub-installer SVN. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: grub-installer/grub2_instead_of_grub_legacy template

2009-08-27 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Donnerstag, den 30.07.2009, 18:55 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke: Am Donnerstag, den 30.07.2009, 10:17 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke: Now that squeeze probable will freeze in December, I somehow have the feeling it won't use grub2 by default. So I suggest to change the grub2 instead of grub

Bug#477092: Bug #477092 grub-installer: does not support setting password for grub2

2009-08-27 Thread Felix Zielcke
that. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Problems booting installation CDs

2009-08-23 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Samstag, den 22.08.2009, 21:48 -0400 schrieb Isaac Freeman: [x-posted to debian-am...@lists.debian.org, debian-boot@lists.debian.org, debian-u...@lists.debian.org] All, sorry for the wide distribution, but I wasn't sure which list this belonged on; feel free to reply only to me, or to me

Bug#476184: os-prober: Mounted partitions after running update-grub

2009-08-18 Thread Felix Zielcke
it would be nice if you could prepare the patch and post on this bug report so we could review it. Here it is. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer Index: common.sh === --- common.sh (revision 60239) +++ common.sh (working

Bug#476184: os-prober: Mounted partitions after running update-grub

2009-08-18 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Dienstag, den 18.08.2009, 12:39 +0200 schrieb Frans Pop: On Tuesday 18 August 2009, Felix Zielcke wrote: Am Dienstag, den 18.08.2009, 06:27 -0300 schrieb Otavio Salvador: On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Felix Zielckefziel...@z-51.de wrote: Any chance that the Ubuntu patch gets

Re: [d-i on kfreebsd] quick status report

2009-08-09 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Samstag, den 08.08.2009, 21:06 +0200 schrieb Robert Millan: On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 08:53:06AM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: --- grub-installer (revision 60026) +++ grub-installer (working copy) @@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ convert () { tmp_disk=$(echo $1 | sed 's%\([sh]d[0-9

Bug#470894: grub-installer: user parameters are not added to grub.cfg for grub2

2009-08-07 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Dienstag, den 04.08.2009, 11:45 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke: bts tag 470894 patch thanks Am Freitag, den 31.07.2009, 10:25 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke: Am Donnerstag, den 11.06.2009, 15:03 +0100 schrieb Colin Watson: If you, and others on this list, agree with that claim, then we can

Re: [d-i on kfreebsd] quick status report

2009-08-07 Thread Felix Zielcke
under kfreebsd. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer Index: grub-installer === --- grub-installer (revision 60026) +++ grub-installer (working copy) @@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ convert () { tmp_disk=$(echo $1 | sed 's%\([sh]d[0-9

Bug#470894: grub-installer: user parameters are not added to grub.cfg for grub2

2009-08-04 Thread Felix Zielcke
bts tag 470894 patch thanks Am Freitag, den 31.07.2009, 10:25 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke: Am Donnerstag, den 11.06.2009, 15:03 +0100 schrieb Colin Watson: If you, and others on this list, agree with that claim, then we can simply go ahead and have grub-installer edit /etc/default/grub

Re: debian installer daily developmental build from 4.8.2009

2009-08-04 Thread Felix Zielcke
testing has still 2.6.26 So you would need to get a businesscard image where you can choose the suite to install and then choose unstable instead of testing if you want to have an installed system with 2.6.30 kernel. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot

Re: error with daily build net-installer: setting console to UTF-8

2009-08-02 Thread Felix Zielcke
console mode to Unicode (UTF-8) Last build i use: 02.08.2009, daily build net-installer Is this a known issue? Boot with nopat kernel options then it should work. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Bug#470894: grub-installer: user parameters are not added to grub.cfg for grub2

2009-07-31 Thread Felix Zielcke
? In that case the version would be 1.96+20090611-1. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#476184: os-prober: Mounted partitions after running update-grub

2009-07-31 Thread Felix Zielcke
Any chance that the Ubuntu patch gets included in Debian's os-prober? On Launchpad there aren't any reports open related to this. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

grub-installer/grub2_instead_of_grub_legacy template

2009-07-30 Thread Felix Zielcke
be left out, so the translations won't need to be updated if we implement it. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: grub-installer/grub2_instead_of_grub_legacy template

2009-07-30 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Donnerstag, den 30.07.2009, 10:29 +0200 schrieb Frans Pop: On Thursday 30 July 2009, Felix Zielcke wrote: Now that squeeze probable will freeze in December, I somehow have the feeling it won't use grub2 by default. So I suggest to change the grub2 instead of grub-legacy template

Re: grub-installer/grub2_instead_of_grub_legacy template

2009-07-30 Thread Felix Zielcke
grub2, did you? Cheers, FJP P.S. Please do not CC me on replies. It should be obvious that I read the list. See the Debian mailing list code of conduct. Sorry but why does the list has a stand reply to the sender instead of to the list? -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer

Re: grub-installer/grub2_instead_of_grub_legacy template

2009-07-30 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Donnerstag, den 30.07.2009, 11:42 +0200 schrieb Frans Pop: On Thursday 30 July 2009, Felix Zielcke wrote: Unfortunately I'm not a sed expert but that should be easy to fix. if [ $defopt_params ]; then sed -i s!^\(# defoptions=.*\)!\1 $defopt_params! $ROOT/boot/grub/$menu_file

Re: Fail to boot with debian-502-ia64-businesscard.iso

2009-07-30 Thread Felix Zielcke
with Opensuse64) 2793,17 Mhz 1.8 G Ram You want the amd64 images. IA64 is for Intel Itanium which isn't at all compatible with x86_64 (how amd64 is also named) or EM64T (how Intel calls it) -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: grub-installer/grub2_instead_of_grub_legacy template

2009-07-30 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Donnerstag, den 30.07.2009, 10:17 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke: Now that squeeze probable will freeze in December, I somehow have the feeling it won't use grub2 by default. So I suggest to change the grub2 instead of grub-legacy template. It shouldn't say anymore that grub2 is experimental

should popcon be enabled by default?

2009-07-27 Thread Felix Zielcke
Hi, on IRC I just asked why popcon defaults to no instead of yes. Otavio at least said that it ought to be to yes, but Luca said that a no would be better from a user POV IMO it should default like Otavio also said it's more intersting for the project. What do others think about it? -- Felix

Bug#532572: installation-report: graphical interface crashed and generating targeted initramfs failed

2009-07-27 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Mittwoch, den 10.06.2009, 11:10 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke: Comments/Problems: I choosed to install unstable in graphical expert mode. I changed the vga=788 to vga=0x317, i.e. 1024x768x16 On the first try to install the base system, the graphical interface crashed in the middle

Bug#538898: Squeeze install hangs at Setting console to Unicode

2009-07-27 Thread Felix Zielcke
after the hanng. This is with an NVidia GTX 285 if that matters. I have the same problem with current daily amd64 and i386 with VMware Workstation Beta. The graphical installer works fine, just not text mode. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot

Bug#538898: Squeeze install hangs at Setting console to Unicode

2009-07-27 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Montag, den 27.07.2009, 22:11 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke: Am Montag, den 27.07.2009, 14:29 -0500 schrieb David A. Greene: Boot of any install method freezes after the message Setting console to Unicode appears. Immediately prior to the message the screen flashes and all previous

Bug#489006: debian-installer: After grub software raid installation, machine fails to boot with first drive removed or blanked.

2009-06-17 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Mittwoch, den 17.06.2009, 15:43 +0200 schrieb Raphael Hertzog: On Thu, 04 Jun 2009, Felix Zielcke wrote: I think this shouldn't anymore happen with grub2. It supports the Linux Software RAID. Could you please try it? (grub-pc package) How are we supposed to try it? grub-install

Re: cdebconf-entropy not buildable

2009-06-14 Thread Felix Zielcke
flags for GTK, overriding pkg-config But configure.ac has it. Maybe something went wrong when autoconf made a configure script out of it. This shouldn't be in a configure script. -- Felix Zielcke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Bug#532896: debian-installer: add support for using whole disk device instead of partitioning

2009-06-12 Thread Felix Zielcke
stores it's superblock right at the beginning of it. The first 4 bytes of an XFS filesystem contain the magic XFSB. -- Felix Zielcke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#470894: grub-installer: user parameters are not added to grub.cfg for grub2

2009-06-11 Thread Felix Zielcke
be upgraded. Would it maybe help if we'd switch to use ucf for them? -- Felix Zielcke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#470894: grub-installer: user parameters are not added to grub.cfg for grub2

2009-06-11 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Donnerstag, den 11.06.2009, 15:03 +0100 schrieb Colin Watson: On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 01:57:36PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 10.06.2009, 15:39 +0100 schrieb Colin Watson: On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:24:19PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: Currently no user parameters

Bug#470894: grub-installer: user parameters are not added to grub.cfg for grub2

2009-06-11 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Donnerstag, den 11.06.2009, 17:22 +0100 schrieb Colin Watson: On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 04:18:04PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 11.06.2009, 15:03 +0100 schrieb Colin Watson: On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 01:57:36PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: Though it says also `dpkg

[Fwd: installation-report: graphical interface crashed and generating targeted initramfs failed]

2009-06-10 Thread Felix Zielcke
Seems like my bug report didn't read the list, because of the attachments even though I compressed the syslog. Bug number is 532572 Weitergeleitete Nachricht Von: Felix Zielcke fziel...@z-51.de An: Debian Bug Tracking System sub...@bugs.debian.org Betreff: installation-report

Re: [PATCH] use drivemap and UUIDs in grub-installer

2009-06-10 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Mittwoch, den 10.06.2009, 16:23 +0100 schrieb Colin Watson: On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 05:44:43PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: Changelog: [ Felix Zielcke ] * Change the debhelper compat level to 7 and bump the build dependecy. * Replace deprecated `dh_clean -k' with `dh_prep

Re: [RFC] Packages that looks ready for uploading

2009-06-09 Thread Felix Zielcke
doestn't use them yet. -- Felix Zielcke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: partman-base deep recursion loop

2009-06-08 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Sonntag, den 07.06.2009, 23:09 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke: I was just biten by this bug too. But I could solve it. I didn't increment the version of grub-installer which I used as localudeb Weird error message if you don't do this on a package which doestn't have anything to do

[PATCH] use drivemap and UUIDs in grub-installer

2009-06-08 Thread Felix Zielcke
Changelog: [ Felix Zielcke ] * Change the debhelper compat level to 7 and bump the build dependecy. * Replace deprecated `dh_clean -k' with `dh_prep'. * Remove the lintian overrides, they're no longer needed. * Add drivemap in the grub2 generated menuentry for grub2 for Dos

Re: [PATCH] use drivemap and UUIDs in grub-installer

2009-06-08 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Montag, den 08.06.2009, 17:44 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke: Changelog: [ Felix Zielcke ] * Change the debhelper compat level to 7 and bump the build dependecy. * Replace deprecated `dh_clean -k' with `dh_prep'. * Remove the lintian overrides, they're no longer needed

Bug#285898: Bug #285898 Fails to install on root partition when another boot loader is used

2009-06-08 Thread Felix Zielcke
This report is now over 3 year old. Is this still a problem with the current images [0] and if it is could you please try with grub2 instead of grub-legacy? [0] http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ -- Felix Zielcke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#289831: Bug #289831 wrong grub config with additional linux installed/general feedback

2009-06-08 Thread Felix Zielcke
debian-installer still has this problem? -- Felix Zielcke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: partman-base deep recursion loop

2009-06-07 Thread Felix Zielcke
have anything to do with partman. So just run `dch -i' before building your udeb. -- Felix Zielcke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#531680: debootstrap: Should not use obsolete dpkg --print-installation-architecture

2009-06-03 Thread Felix Zielcke
Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.13 Tags: patch The new dpkg in sid warns now that --print-installation-architecture is obsolete: fz:~# debootstrap sid chroot http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian dpkg: warning: obsolete option '--print-installation-architecture', please use '--print-architecture'

Bug#265228: grub-installer: should be smart enough to guess that /dev/hdb is hd0 at boot time

2009-06-03 Thread Felix Zielcke
Hi, I think 265228 and 486541 could be merged. Both reports are because grub-legacy doestn't support UUIDs. So this will be solved if you finally switch to grub2 by default. -- Felix Zielcke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Bug#292513: debian-installer: grub doesn't update mbr on both disk

2009-06-03 Thread Felix Zielcke
With grub2 `grub-install (md0)' could just be used, to setup it automatically on all disks which are part of (md0). -- Felix Zielcke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#423109: grub-installer: Does not work with symlinks in fstab

2009-06-03 Thread Felix Zielcke
grub2 won't have that problem. It doestn't use at all fstab. -- Felix Zielcke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#489006: debian-installer: After grub software raid installation, machine fails to boot with first drive removed or blanked.

2009-06-03 Thread Felix Zielcke
I think this shouldn't anymore happen with grub2. It supports the Linux Software RAID. Could you please try it? (grub-pc package) -- Felix Zielcke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#486541: Grub fails after changing boot disk order in BIOS

2009-05-23 Thread Felix Zielcke
grub2 uses UUIDs by default so that problem won't exist anymore if you finally switch to it. -- Felix Zielcke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

reassign 517369 to grub-installer, merging 473401 517369

2009-03-10 Thread Felix Zielcke
reassign 517369 grub-installer merge 473401 517369 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

reassign 501942 to grub-installer, forcibly merging 473401 501942

2008-10-12 Thread Felix Zielcke
reassign 501942 grub-installer forcemerge 473401 501942 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

reassign 498439 to grub-installer, reassign 498441 to grub-installer ...

2008-09-10 Thread Felix Zielcke
# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.35 reassign 498439 grub-installer reassign 498441 grub-installer forcemerge 473401 498441 498439 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#492717: debian-installer: choosing grub2 created hd(0, 0) and not hd(0, 1) for windows chainload

2008-07-28 Thread Felix Zielcke
Package: debian-installer Severity: minor I have lenny installed with the weekly AMD64 DVD 1 in expert mode and PPPoE for the files not on the first DVD I choose too install grub2 and it put in grub.cfg set root(hd0,0) for chainloading Windows but with grub2 partitions start now with 1 and not