Bug#504095: installation-report: xen paravirt installation

2008-10-31 Thread Guido Guenther
Package: installation-reports Version: 2.38 Severity: normal Boot method: network Image version: http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/current/ Date: 20081031 Machine: Xen Paravirtual machine on a lenny Dom0 Partitions: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

Re: Status on mips and mipsel

2007-11-24 Thread Guido Guenther
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 08:14:10PM +0100, Florian Lohoff wrote: On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 04:54:05PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: - SGI Indy (IP22): the installer doesn't start. I get: tip22: IP22 Linux tftpboot loader 0.3.8.8 Loading program segment 1 at 0x0, size = 0xZeroing memory at

Re: Status on mips and mipsel

2007-11-24 Thread Guido Guenther
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 11:48:40PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Guido Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-11-24 20:35]: Arcboot 0.3.8.9 in experimental has this fixed - I didn't upload to unstable since my O2 has hardware problems an so I couldn't check that it doesn't break IP32 (although

Bug#440439: multipath support

2007-11-23 Thread Guido Guenther
Hi, can this patch be applied - it's unintrusive since in needs a disk-detect/multipath/enable=true to do anything. Cheers, -- Guido -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#442236: multipath support

2007-11-23 Thread Guido Guenther
Hi, can this patch be applied? It's unintrusive if the multipath binary isn't available (which in turn depends on disk-detect/multipath/enable=true) Cheers, -- Guido -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#442236: please add multipath support

2007-09-14 Thread Guido Guenther
Package: partman-base Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi, the attached patch against current d-i svn adds multipath support in an (hopefully) unintrusive way. Please apply. This together with the already posted patches to parted an hw-detect as well as the parted-multipath udeb will allow the

Re: Permission to provide a udeb for libaio

2007-09-05 Thread Guido Guenther
Hi, On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 09:34:22AM +0200, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: Guido, could you try to link libaio statically to the multipath-tools for the udeb? While doing this would be as easy as using LDFLAGS += -Wl,-Bstatic -laio -Wl,-Bdynamic it kind of defeats the purpose of a shared library

Bug#439410: More questions about multipath for d-i (was: Bug#439410: Updated patch)

2007-09-03 Thread Guido Guenther
Hi Jérémy, On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 03:55:32PM +0200, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: * Are you going to support this in the future? I am unsure if there is anyone having the necessary hardware to ensure that multipath is working correctly in the future. So I would feel a lot more comfortable

Bug#439410: More questions about multipath for d-i

2007-09-03 Thread Guido Guenther
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 01:39:28PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: Guido Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... Sure, but let me cleanup the rest of the patches and fix the grub-install part first, I'll then also put an image somewhere. I'm keeping track of the current status here: http

Bug#439410: Updated patch

2007-09-01 Thread Guido Guenther
Author: Guido Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri Aug 31 19:00:57 2007 +0200 add multipath-modules diff --git a/modules/multipath-modules b/modules/multipath-modules new file mode 100644 index 000..8f98bfb --- /dev/null +++ b/modules/multipath-modules @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +dm-multipath +dm

Bug#439410: Updated patch

2007-09-01 Thread Guido Guenther
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 02:50:08PM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote: things are now basically working. Attached is an updated patch. Patches ...and here's the patch -- Guido commit aa7f2dd167c67483fb01b89cb7fc6c2686cead27 Author: Guido Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri Aug 31 19:00:57 2007 +0200

Bug#440439: add multipath support

2007-09-01 Thread Guido Guenther
Package: hw-detect Version: 1.54 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi, the attached patch adds detection of I/O multipaths to disk-detect. This has to be enabled by using disk-detect/multipath/enable=true and is modeled after the dmraid code. If multipaths are found it pulls in the partman-multipath

Bug#440447: please add multipath modules

2007-09-01 Thread Guido Guenther
Package: linux-kernel-di-i386 Version: 1.53 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi, please add the necessary modules for multipath support. Patch attaced. Cheers, -- Guido diff --git a/modules/i386/multipath-modules b/modules/i386/multipath-modules new file mode 100644 index 000..d26a862 ---

Bug#440449: please add multipath modules

2007-09-01 Thread Guido Guenther
, -- Guido commit 5fcecfab1a38aaf9baece2da490053aeec1f4012 Author: Guido Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat Sep 1 17:01:40 2007 +0200 add multipath-modules diff --git a/modules/powerpc-powerpc64/multipath-modules b/modules/powerpc-powerpc64/multipath-modules new file mode 100644 index 000

partman-base and DM multipath

2007-08-29 Thread Guido Guenther
Hi, I'm currently adding multipath support to d-i. In the current setup multipath device nodes show up as /dev/mapper/mpath[0-9] and the device nodes on the partitions as /dev/mapper/mpath[0-9]-part[0-9]. Almost everything already works fine, except when it comes to createing the filesystem:

Re: partman-base and DM multipath

2007-08-29 Thread Guido Guenther
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 06:36:12PM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote: parted_server: OUT: 1 0-10737418239 10737418240 primary ext3 /dev/mapper/mpath0 It seems at least _device_get_part_path in arch/linux.c of libparted needs to be fixed...lets see what then breaks... Cheers, -- Guido

Bug#439410: please add a dm-multipath-modules udeb

2007-08-25 Thread Guido Guenther
Hi Otavio, Hello Guido, Are you planning to work at partman-md support for it or partman-multipath? I think a separate partman-multipath makes more sense (note that this isn't the (deprecated) md-multipath but the device mapper's multipath target). partman-multipath will have to run the

Bug#439410: please add a dm-multipath-modules udeb

2007-08-24 Thread Guido Guenther
Package: kernel-wedge Version: 2.38 Severity: wishlist Hi, in order to support multipathing (via multipath-tools) from the very beginning of the installation we need the necessary kernel modules in a udeb, namely: dm-multipath dm-round-robin dm-emc Can this udeb be added to the kernel-wedge,

Re: HOWTO install Debian from another distribution?

2003-10-24 Thread Guido Guenther
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 12:51:43PM +0200, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: I did build debootstrap from another powerpc and launched it. It installed some packages but I do not have 'ar'! nor a 'functionnal' Debian system! :( If you installed woody you can run 'base-config' which will guide

Re: Debian Install on mips (Woody)

2003-03-28 Thread Guido Guenther
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 08:30:11PM -0800, Mesker Jason wrote: I noticed that the fdisk within the installer does not have support for the SGI disklabels. This is required in order to configure the drive and make it bootable. I have another machine running woody which when I run fdisk from

Re: m68k 3.0.24 boot-floppies

2003-01-19 Thread Guido Guenther
Hi, as a related note: updated mips boot-floppies are available at: http://honk.physik.uni-konstanz.de/linux-mips/install/ I checked them myself and had success reports from others using them. Would be nice to see them in R2. Anything I can do to help with that? Regards, -- Guido

Re: Preparation of Boot-Floppies release 3.0.24

2002-12-22 Thread Guido Guenther
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 07:55:46PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: ( first semi-official call-for-helpers, see also: http://people.debian.org/~blade/bf3024/ ) Preparation of Boot-Floppies release 3.0.24 === A build of current CVS using kernel 2.4.19 for

Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/po by blade

2002-12-18 Thread Guido Guenther
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 09:46:09AM -0700, Debian Boot CVS Master wrote: - changelog finalisation begins... Does this mean we're having another bf release soon? I have a minor mips update pending but I'd like to rebuild and double check it first. When exactly are you planning to tag .24?

Bug#172828: mklibs: loops on mips

2002-12-12 Thread Guido Guenther
Package: mklibs Version: 0.1.8 Severity: normal Hi, after 56 passes mklibs still can't succesfully reduce the libraries on a 'make build' of debian-installer for mips: I: library reduction pass 56 Objects: busybox netcfg-dhcp.postinst netcfg-static.postinst libresolv.so.2-so-stripped

Bug#172828: mklibs: loops on mips

2002-12-12 Thread Guido Guenther
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 12:02:15AM +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote: Guido Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The man page doesn't mention an option to actually show the unresolved symbols. You can give -v twice. This should probably be a separate option. Thanks. That's the list of unresolved

Re: Default disk partition table type?

2002-12-11 Thread Guido Guenther
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 11:32:28PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Guido Guenther] I believe the available values are bsd, loop, mac, msdos, pc98 and sun. I got the values from the parted documentation. big endian mips currently only uses SGI disklabels. Which of the parted disk

Re: Default disk partition table type?

2002-12-11 Thread Guido Guenther
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 06:40:16AM +0100, Karsten Merker wrote: On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 11:34:12PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: All currently supported mipsel targets use msdos. OK. Which #ifdef should I use on these platforms. The output from 'echo | gcc -E -dM -' will give me

Re: Default disk partition table type?

2002-12-10 Thread Guido Guenther
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 12:41:23PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: The current autopartkit contains the following code: /* Need to define on a per arch basis */ #if defined(__i386__) #define DISK_LABEL msdos #else /* not __i386__ */ #error Default DISK_LABEL is not known on

Re: Segfaulting while building tftpimage on MIPS

2002-06-27 Thread Guido Guenther
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 11:10:27AM +0200, Jan-Hendrik Palic wrote: [..snip..] For your information: I get this error .. I: downloading kernel-image-2.4.18-r4k-ip22 I: Retrieving http://samosa-replacement.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/Release I: Validating

Re: Segfaulting while building tftpimage on MIPS

2002-06-24 Thread Guido Guenther
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 05:46:36PM +0200, Jan-Hendrik Palic wrote: I: building tftp image in tftpboot-r4k-ip22.img ./tftpboot.sh: line 78: 17920 Segmentation fault addinitrd $tftpimage $rootimage $tftpimage.tmp E: ./tftpboot.sh abort What kernel are you using? Addinitrd is not working

Re: Comment on install manual

2002-05-06 Thread Guido Guenther
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 12:55:55PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: [..snip..] The rest of the install went smoothly. There was a slight catch in that the indy would only use the BOOTP server as TFTP server and ignored the bootserver option, but some network sniffing revealed that pretty

Re: Comment on install manual

2002-05-03 Thread Guido Guenther
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 10:07:39PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Section 6.3.1 mentions you can create a SGI disk label from the fdisk expert menu, but when I had x in fdisk it tells me `Sorry, not experts menu for SPI partition tables available'. Somethings feels fishy here.. SPI has it's

Bug#142305: i386 - borders gone on vanilla flavor

2002-04-13 Thread Guido Guenther
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 07:46:19PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: [..snip..] What I want to know is: - is it a newt problem? slang? - is it an i386 build problems? Do other non-fb arches have this issue (not even sure if there are any)... Mips is non-fb and does not have this

Re: non-i18n'd arches

2002-03-07 Thread Guido Guenther
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 09:21:14PM +, Philip Blundell wrote: [..snip..] The only requirements I can think of are: - framebuffer support in your kernel (should be no problem for m68k) There's no fb support on mips ip22 and and it most likely won't be implemented in the near future. This

Re: non-i18n'd arches

2002-03-07 Thread Guido Guenther
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 03:19:50PM +, Phil Blundell wrote: On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 14:54, Guido Guenther wrote: On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 09:21:14PM +, Philip Blundell wrote: [..snip..] The only requirements I can think of are: - framebuffer support in your kernel (should

Re: success installing debian-mips (r4k-ip22)

2001-12-18 Thread Guido Guenther
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 02:24:39AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Florian Lohoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [..snip..] Pressing return on the Reboot the system also does not work. I guess this is a Kernel issue but probably Guido knows more - Just pressing reset in that case leads to Unclean

Re: 3.0.18 testing needed

2001-12-15 Thread Guido Guenther
On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 08:46:51PM +0100, Karsten Merker wrote: On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 01:32:44PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: - base installation actually works again (we got an unofficial busybox/wget for these builds) Where can I find this? I would like to do a test build for

Re: 3.0.18 testing needed

2001-12-15 Thread Guido Guenther
On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 10:40:01PM +0100, Karsten Merker wrote: On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 09:37:51PM +0100, Guido Guenther wrote: Karsten, what exactly are you working on? Is this related to: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=123895repeatmerged=yes Yes, I have stumbled

Re: dbootstrap broken on mips and mipsel

2001-12-11 Thread Guido Guenther
Hi Karsten, On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 10:00:27PM +0100, Karsten Merker wrote: due to changes in the upstream Linux/MIPS kernel (/proc/cpuinfo changes during the 2.4.15 merge) dbootstrap is currently broken on mips and mipsel with kernel 2.4.15 and newer. These kernels do not anymore provide

Re: success installing debian-mips (r4k-ip22)

2001-12-02 Thread Guido Guenther
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 11:03:26PM +0100, Florian Lohoff wrote: [..snip..] The installer asks for making the disk bootable which it can by putting the linux kernel into the volume header. Then it tells you to set some prom vars on reboot. After that it jumps back to the main menu but the

Re: sparc IPC

2001-11-28 Thread Guido Guenther
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 03:17:59PM +1100, Brian May wrote: 2. When installing via boot disks, it asks for the drivers 1 disk. However, it rejects the disk I insert because it says it is from the sun4cdm_drivers series (sorry I can't recall exact name; checking it would require me to

release.sh for mips

2001-08-07 Thread Guido Guenther
Hi, attached is a patch against release.sh so we can make a proper bf upload for mips. Can somebody(Henning?) make a upload for mips please. I'm on my way to Austria and don't want to upload/commit anything and then be out of touch with ml for over a week. Regards, -- Guido Index: release.sh

Re: Merge of mips+mipsel patches against boot-floppies 20010804

2001-08-05 Thread Guido Guenther
On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 08:59:32PM +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: Hallo everyone, I have tried to merge all the patches for mips and mipsel that were posted on debian-boot and get them to work with today's boot-floppies cvs. The result is appended to this mail. Guido, could you test the patch

[Patch] make mips/ip22 bootable form harddisk

2001-08-04 Thread Guido Guenther
The attached patch finally adds dvhtool support so we can make ip22 systems directly bootable from harddisk. This should make the mips specific part of the bootdisks basically feature complete. -- Guido Index: utilities/dbootstrap/bootconfig.c

[Patch] use fdisk not cfdisk on mips

2001-08-03 Thread Guido Guenther
Cfdisk can't create an sgi disklabel, so we use fdisk on mips/ip22 as default. Please apply. Regards, -- Guido Index: utilities/dbootstrap/partition_config.c === RCS file:

Re: Success bootstrapping mips

2001-08-03 Thread Guido Guenther
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 12:44:31PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote: On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 10:08:25AM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote: - configuring the network manually freezes the installer since it looses it's nfs mounted root-fs(but bootp works). Shouldnt the installer work from ramdisk

Success bootstrapping mips

2001-08-02 Thread Guido Guenther
With the patches posted to debian-boot recently and the patch from #103813 to stop dhcp-client from segfaulting I was able to completely bootstrap a R4000 Indigo2 (big endian) by installing from nfs-root. This includes configuring the network via bootp, copying over the kernel and modules from

Mips support patches

2001-08-01 Thread Guido Guenther
Hi, Attached are some more small patches for mips. This is all very r4k-ip22 centric but I tried to make adding other subarches as easy as possible. The patches against dbootstrap are for the upcoming dvhtool support mostly. -- Guido Index: Makefile

Re: Mips(ip22) bootstrap report

2001-07-30 Thread Guido Guenther
Some more details... On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 04:28:24PM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote: - debootstrap fetches the packages extracts them. Afterwards debootstrap fails with: Failure trying to run: dpkg --configure --pending --force-configure-any - This is caused by rc?.d files

small cleanups for mips(el)

2001-07-29 Thread Guido Guenther
The attached patch - disables the library reduction for mips(takes ages and is not really needed for nfs root installs(which is the only currently supported method) - adds dvhtool to the root.bin for mips since we want this around to make the system bootable from harddisk - marks

small cleanups for mipse(el) - patch

2001-07-29 Thread Guido Guenther
Here we go again...this time *with* the patch attached... The attached patch - disables the library reduction for mips(takes ages and is not really needed for nfs root installs(which is the only currently supported method) - adds dvhtool to the root.bin for mips since we want this

sgi dislabel support for libfdisk

2000-11-01 Thread Guido Guenther
Hi, the attached patch by Henning Heinold and me adds sgi disklabel support to libfdisk. He told me this is required to get working boot-disks for the mips-architecture. I've not been involved with the bootfloppies stuff before, but I hope this is the right place to post it. Regards, -- Guido

Re: sgi dislabel support for libfdisk

2000-11-01 Thread Guido Guenther
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 01:51:13AM +0100, H.Heinold wrote: sorry that i didnt posted the patch yet, but i wanted to tested a bit, I checked the patch with the testing program that came with libfdisk on two machines(that's all I have available :) and it seems o.k. but I discoverd that theres