Re: Results of the second run of research about ext4 support in bootloaders

2009-06-23 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
2009/6/2 Stefano Canepa s...@linux.it: Looks without ext4 support    * yaboot: powerpc BTW, while I am at it: yaboot's second stage uses libext2fs to access ext2/ext3 filesystems, so I guess (since modern e2fsprogs seem to include ext4 support) it should be okay with ext4. I didn't test it

Re: PowePC sid_d-i daily builds are not happening...

2009-06-03 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Christian Perrier bubu...@debian.org wrote: Installation on PS3 is a release goal for D-I for squeeze (see http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/SqueezeGoals), so it's not that unexpected that things don't work out of the box yet. This in fact is unexpected,

Bug#514055: [Cbe-oss-dev] Bug#514055: debian still not working on PS3

2009-05-29 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 09:39:31AM -0700, Geoff Levand wrote: Could someone familiar with D-I internals give a brief summary of what needs to be done to fix these two problems. Thanks. I'll fix them myself once I'll get past my summer exams. -- Regards, Vartan. Be different: conform. --

Re: powerpc dailies back

2009-04-26 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
2009/4/26 Rogério Brito rbr...@ime.usp.br: I am interested to know what is needed to contribute with the ppc side of things in Debian. I care about the oldworld machines (at least, as long as mine works). If you care about oldworld, I'd check if .29 works on them, and fix it if it doesn't.

Bug#520711: Bug still here?

2009-04-25 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
I personally haven't seen it with the images I built yesterday, so I guess all the necessary libc parts are in place now. On 4/25/09, Christian Perrier bubu...@debian.org wrote: Hello Rick, Do you still experience the Bad archive mirror problem you were experiencing with Debian Installer

Re: linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6_1.55_powerpc.changes REJECTED

2009-04-23 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Debian Installer instal...@ftp-master.debian.org wrote: Rejected: ext4-modules-2.6.29-1-powerpc-di_1.55_powerpc.udeb: Missing Description in binary package Rejected: ext4-modules-2.6.29-1-powerpc64-di_1.55_powerpc.udeb: Missing Description in binary package

ppc64 port

2009-04-21 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
Hi there. While digging through d-i, I've noticed some signs of ppc64 port (which was, as far as I remember, a heroic attempt to make a 64-bit userland Debian port). Do we actually need it and is anybody going to support/maintain it? -- Regards, Wartan. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: ppc64 port

2009-04-21 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Hector Oron hector.o...@gmail.com wrote: The problem on ppc 64 bit architecture was that Debian already has a 32 bit port and it is more efficient on 64 bit architectures, because it uses more efficiently L2 cache on non FP instructions. Yeah, I know :) I

Re: ppc64 port

2009-04-21 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Rick Thomas rbthoma...@pobox.com wrote: Isn't it needed to support the Apple G5 machines? No, it isn't. -- Regards, Wartan. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#514055: debian still not working on PS3

2009-04-21 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 01:23:35PM -0700, Geoff Levand wrote: Did these changes get committed? If not, could you please commit them, or post what you have so Wouter can do that? I have commited them a while ago. We've had problems with daily-built images, so the ones you tried were actually

Re: [POWERPC] Adding CHRP boot structure on ISO images

2009-04-20 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Luk Claes l...@debian.org wrote: ISO images [1]. Though when trying to build images, it doesn't find the bootinfo.txt, where should it come from? Just commited it. Wouter, should work on your machine too now :) -- Regards, Wartan. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#520442: amd64 netinst netcfg segfault daily build 03/19/2009

2009-03-30 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 06:49:33AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: This is the same bug as #520711 Right. Let's merge the bugs. I would say even more: this is the same bug as #517231. I can confirm that unpacking libnss-* 2.9 udebs manually in the booted installer removes the segfault. --

Bug#521443: segfaults on big-endian machines

2009-03-27 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
Package: busybox Version: 1:1.10.2-2 Severity: important Tags: patch Hello. Current busybox includes a broken implementation of usage messages compressor, which is not endian-neutral. This breaks all big-endian debian-installer images. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT

Bug#514055: [Cbe-oss-dev] Bug#514055: debian still not working on PS3

2009-03-24 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven Mar 20 21:57:32 kernel: [    7.727934] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 11428 That's ca. 22 MiB inside the image. How large is mini.iso? 22 megs, that's just the installer. -- Regards, Wartan. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#514055: debian still not working on PS3

2009-03-22 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 06:38:20PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: The correct installer is chosen based on a set of rules for the subsystem. I'm assuming that there's no rule for PS3 here. Similar things are true for the partitioner. Nope, there isn't. Hrm. Does the PS3 boot with yaboot? If

Bug#514055: debian still not working on PS3

2009-03-22 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Wouter Verhelst w...@uter.be wrote: (as Debian does not have kboot, and I presume hardly ever will). Why not? Non-free? Not distributable? Because ftp-masters wouldn't allow it :) It is basically a small OpenWRT-based system, and its building process includes

Commit rights

2009-03-21 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
Hi, Does the fact that I am listed in the alioth's project list mean that I've got a commit right? I have a couple of small powerpc-related patches but it looks like sending patches to this list isn't common :) -- Regards, Wartan. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Bug#411728: Bug#411203: Debian etch installer doesn't boot on IBM PPC64 CHRP systems, partitioner problem

2009-03-21 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 07:09:28PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: I checked one of the real CD images (businesscard, netinst, full CD/DVD) which are produced separately and which, AFAICT, do have a correct structure. That does not mean that this should not be corrected of course. Thanks for the

Bug#514055: debian still not working on PS3

2009-03-20 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 03:00:37PM +0300, Wartan Hachaturow wrote: The short answer is that there isn't really an active powerpc porter working on the installer. That's why your bug report is unanswered. I'm copying Wouter Verhelst who indicated some interest in helping with the powerpc

Bug#520119: Soft lockup detected on CPU#0 on Apple XServe G5

2009-03-17 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
On 3/17/09, Francis ho...@fdnet.ca wrote: I don't think it's an hardware issue. Mac OS X Server install and run without problem. Could you please provide at least a kernel trace? You could catch it through serial console. -- Regards, Wartan. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#514055: debian still not working on PS3

2009-03-02 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 07:53:33PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: The PS3 ps3_gelic network and PS3 ps3rom and ps3disk storage drivers are missing from the installer's initrd. I entered a bug report that went unanswered here: The short answer is that there isn't really an active

Re: Removal from Uploaders fields for Debian Installer

2008-03-29 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 11:08 PM, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As the other marked uploader on that package I know that Wartan hasn't contributed to aboot-installer since I became involved in d-i development, which has been more than a couple of years now; so I'm going to presume to

Re: another volunteer

2002-11-18 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 09:44:25PM +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote: As console-tools maintainer, I'm probably the person to help with the keyboard choice questions :-), or is that already being done? Wow, Alastair! Tollef should be happy now :) -- Regards, Wartan. Computers are not

Re: cvs commit to debian-installer/tools/grub-installer/debian by wart

2002-08-31 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 09:52:33PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: Heh...the poor grub-installer has been murdered twice now :) First by me, now you... That's what I call destiny :) -- Regards, Wartan. Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: cvs commit to debian-installer/tools/partkit by wart

2002-08-31 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 12:47:21AM -0700, Michael Cardenas wrote: Files: changed:partkit.c Did you include my patch, just upgraded to 1.6? Any hope of mentioning me in the changelog since I don't have an account to commit changes myself? Oh, sorry, I though it was already there. Ok,

Re: debian-installer patch followup #2

2002-08-28 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 12:27:40PM +0200, Martin Sj?gren wrote: Hmm. partkit seems to be using parted 1.4. The version in unstable is 1.6. Sucks to be me I suppose, the testing version is still 1.4, but who knows when 1.6 will move to testing. The API is very different, which I encountered

Re: debian-installer status -- 2002-08-26

2002-08-26 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 12:39:06AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: - - prebaseconfig needs to stop using grub directly and depend on {grub,lilo}-installer instead. Uhm. Shouldn't it depend on something like boot-installer, which would be provided by all boot loaders installer packages? Alpha

Re: problem with console-data 1999.08.29-23 ?

2002-01-07 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 10:45:32AM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: gr.kmap is broken anyway and should imho not be used. On my system, loading it results in | findfile(): timeout waiting for undead child(ren) ? There is a bug #50587 opened by Yann on that matter. -- Regards, Wartan. echo