On Sat, 2002-01-05 at 18:07, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
Oh, so everything works well w/o building the kernel on PowerPC? If
so, lets just kill it.
Killing bootprep.sh means that the PReP kernel won't be built.
Honestly, I have no idea if a PReP install even works...
What annoys me about
Package: boot-floppies
Installing on an Apple Quadra 950 (m68k), I found the first boot
hanging when trying to read the hardware clock, and more important,
hanging during shutdown, resulting in a fsck for the next boot. Found
out the hard way, that the hardware clock is broken on this machine
Package: boot-floppies
Version: 3.0.17
Severity: important
When installing from CD, and not configuring the network during
install, the loopback device is missing from /etc/network/interfaces
(giving lots of warnings and error messages after boot, and breaking
some server daemons), and
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 01:06:28AM +, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
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On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 01:50:11PM +, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
On 04/01/02, Colin Walters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 08:18, Rory
On 4/1/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Tillman) wrote:
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 01:50:11PM +, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
On 04/01/02, Colin Walters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 08:18, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
I am using a modified version of the kernel on the
I wonder if the messages I sent earlier will finally get to the list...
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On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 07:24:36AM +0100, J?r?me Marant wrote:
Junichi Uekawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
ermmm.. that makes this code unnecessarily large.
Why is it not enough to specify 'utf-8' in here ?
for lang in what:
if do_convert:
e = engine
As it seems that bf now depend on python-dev = 2.1, unicode support (and
character conversion) is certainly there. So the iconv module is no longer
required and needed at all.
The following patch seems to provide one of the possible solutions. I'd
appreciate if somebody could test it before I
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Bug#127955: PPC installer loses on iBook2
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Mikhail Sobolev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
As it seems that bf now depend on python-dev = 2.1, unicode support (and
character conversion) is certainly there. So the iconv module is no longer
required and needed at all.
The following patch seems to provide one of the possible solutions.
Repository: boot-floppies/debian
who:mss
time: Sat Jan 5 04:03:04 PST 2002
Log Message:
* fix the problem for bug #127405 (dumper.py)
* depend on the proper stuff (python2.1-xml = 0.7-1)
* removed the iconv module as python now supports conversions natively (iconv.c
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Matthias Klose write
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Installing on an Apple Quadra 950 (m68k), I found the first boot
hanging when trying to read the hardware clock, and more important,
hanging during shutdown, resulting in a fsck for the next boot. Found
out the hard way, that the hardware
Summary:
Does the same problem that were seen with Potato with regard to the
smc-ultra module are here again?
Some details:
I used rescue.bin, root.bin and drivers-{1,2,3,4}.bin from
/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44. Their Last
Modified date is 18-Dec-2001.
When trying
When using the latest root.bin that I could find (18-dec-2001) the
screen get flooded with messages about modprobe not being able to read
the modules.dep. Altough it is able to recover and continue the
installation process one should be patient in order for this to happen.
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* fix the problem for bug #127405 (dumper.py)
* depend on the proper stuff (python2.1-xml = 0.7-1)
* removed the iconv module as python now supports conversions
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Bug#127405: latest python2.1-xml breaks boot-floppies build system.
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Mikhail Sobolev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JFYI, engine is a wrapper over iconv interface. When all this was started, the
latest version of python was 1.5.2, and there was no way to work with iconv.
But python 2.1 neither provide a way to access iconv, IIRC.
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[Adam Di Carlo]
Can someone on the list followup on this? If it's true, that's a nasty bug.
It is true. I ran into this using boot-floopies v3.0.17. The lilo
configuration seem to work as it should, as I tried to run
'dpkg-reconfigure lilo' when the system was installed and it installed
into
On 05 Jan 2002 18:12:51 -0500
Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've got some problems in that I no longer have an i386 build machine
at home that works. The crappy laptop I was using for building doesn't
seem to exist on the network anymore. I have a machine at work I can
use but I
On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 08:13:45AM -0500, Michael Whitman wrote:
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/man-cfdisk -- this page is missing
I wish I could rebuild the potato install manual... sigh.
Adam, do you still have your potato build of boot-floppies/documentation
somewhere?
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who:aph
time: Sun Jan 6 10:49:10 PST 2002
Log Message:
rework the ignorables
Files:
changed:.cvsignore
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What's the situation with this bug now? If the problem still happens, I think
we need to see the exact error messages in order to make any headway.
p.
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In message E16NBzz-00072g-00@rakefet, Shaul Karl writes:
When trying to load the smc-ultra module I get an error.
What is the exact error message that you see?
The work around that seems to work for me is to feed the 4 drivers
diskettes as debootstrap suggests, let it be utared and then to
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Bug#127677: boot-floppies: problems with reinstalling base-system
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reassign 127634 base-config
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I'm pretty sure this isn't a boot-floppies issue as such. Maybe the real issue
is that nano ought to have a different set of default options, but let's try
reassigning it to base-config first.
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The gist of this report seems to be that booting the installer over the network
doesn't work at all on sun4u (or perhaps just on Ultra10 machines). Is
anybody
from the sparc camp able to confirm or refute this bug?
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Zitiere Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Ok, the partition is mounted read-only, but why is the problem report
written to that partition? It should be using the /target partition
if mounted...
I guess I would need to test this more, I'm not that familiar with
it...
Um - I don't have a
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Bug#127524: boot-floppies: divas.o/eicon.o have bad symbols?
Bug reassigned from package `boot-floppies' to `kernel-image-2.2.20'.
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Bug#127537: boot-floppies: please do better error reporting
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tags 127677 + wontfix
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Tomas Pospisek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
while trying to somehow find a basedebs.tgz
Why were you even looking for it? Why didn't you follow the normal
install the base system steps?
How would you install a
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Bug#127405: latest python2.1-xml breaks boot-floppies build system.
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Chris,
Can you please add a note to the documentation about booting from a
PCMCIA CD-ROM. While you can load the kernel just fine, you will
later have a problem since PCMCIA is not loaded and the rest cannot be
read from CD. There's an easy solution, though. When you pass
ide2=0x180,0x386 to
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On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 02:15:11PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
Colin Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What annoys me about bootprep.sh is that it builds a kernel as part of
the boot-floppies build process; I don't see why it can't just use a
kernel-image package like every other arch.
On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 14:15, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
Well, the only reason I could see is if it either needs a kernel
config option enabled, not provided by the kernel-image-*-prep
package, or else if it needs a file from the kernel build not normally
provided by the package. It should be
Repository: base-config/debian
who:joeyh
time: Sun Jan 6 12:57:52 PST 2002
Log Message:
* Removed the LANGUAGE stuff; LANGUAGE is not the correct variable for LANG.
Instead, export LANG if it's set after sourcing debootstrap_settings.
This will make it available
* Glenn McGrath
| I havent built boot-floppies for a fair while, but i have the i386
| machine (1.4Gb athlon) to do it, and i have no problems with bandwidth
| for uploading, so if nobody else wants to do it i will.
I've offered Adam an account on one of my boxen, including root access
if he
Package: boot-floppies
Version: 2.2r4
flavor: udma66
architecture: i386
model: kludge
memory: 80Meg
scsi: NCR 53c8xx (this works fine)
cd-rom:Antique Mitsumi? 4x (seems to work fine)
network card: Linksys LNE100TX (works with new Tulip driver)
pcmcia:None
Can't seem to access
On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 12:03:53PM +0100, J?r?me Marant wrote:
Mikhail Sobolev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JFYI, engine is a wrapper over iconv interface. When all this was started, the
latest version of python was 1.5.2, and there was no way to work with iconv.
But python 2.1 neither
Adam,
It was suggested that this very bug (127405) is the only one that keeps
python2.1-xml (0.7-1) to get through to the testing. I was said that it's just
a matter of days (a couple or so).
If you think that we should not be that strict, I can put a dirty hack which
would make the stuff
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 02:20:37PM +, Philip Blundell wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Matthias Klose write
s:
Installing on an Apple Quadra 950 (m68k), I found the first boot
hanging when trying to read the hardware clock, and more important,
hanging during shutdown, resulting in a
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Wookey writes:
Exactly the same problem still exists for RiscPCs with 2.2 kernels (I think
it was fixed in recent 2.4 kernels), so some scheme to avoid this
automatically would be nice. On riscPCs we added a 'if dpkg-platform =
riscpc don't run hwclock' to
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Adam Di Carlo writes:
Well, you're english is a little bit shakey, but I know the issue you
are taking about. These messages IIRC are caused by kmod (the kernel
module loader) not being happy. We try to force it to shut up and
work-around but ...
Could we just
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Bug#128054: installation hangs (fwd)
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retitle 128054 tulip driver fails with Linksys LNE100TX
Bug#128054: installation hangs (fwd)
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That when something breaks during install of the basesystem, as f.ex.
a disk error etc., a newby will *not* be able to finish the installation.
He will have to start from scratch (reformat partition!)
What stops the old base system from just
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Bug#127975: config option for calling hwclock
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In message E16NBzz-00072g-00@rakefet, Shaul Karl writes:
When trying to load the smc-ultra module I get an error.
What is the exact error message that you see?
I tried to reproduce it and failed. Now it works as expected, apart
from a few messages about not being able to create
Well, this didn't take long.
I'm trying to install Debian 2.2 on a 200Mhz Pentium.
I am booting off the CD-Rom (ATAPI)
I get the following error message
Uncompressing Linux.
invalid compressed format (err=1)
--System halted
What went wrong?
Thanks for your help,
Ed
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Hi,
does any of the 2.2 milos from http://www.suse.de/~stepan/ work? I
would like to use them by default, because 2.0 milos can't load
kernels from newer ext2 file systems; but if it just doesn't work,
I'll try to hardcode 2.0 milo for the release and document this.
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On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 09:05:32PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
Chris,
Can you please add a note to the documentation about booting from a
PCMCIA CD-ROM. While you can load the kernel just fine, you will
later have a problem since PCMCIA is not loaded and the rest cannot be
read from
On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 18:37:54 -0700
Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can you please add a note to the documentation about booting from a
PCMCIA CD-ROM. While you can load the kernel just fine, you will
later have a problem since PCMCIA is not loaded and the rest cannot
be read from
[Incidentally, I'm on both -boot and -powerpc, so CCs are not necessary]
On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 15:54, Tom Rini wrote:
Can someone post that? I'm sort-of curious what needs to be done
'special' for a prep box..
As far as I can tell, this script just builds a kernel at boot-floppies
build
Philip == Philip Blundell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Philip The gist of this report seems to be that booting the
Philip installer over the network doesn't work at all on sun4u
Philip (or perhaps just on Ultra10 machines). Is anybody from
Philip the sparc camp able to confirm or
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 08:23:05PM -0500, Ed Raskay wrote:
Well, this didn't take long.
I'm trying to install Debian 2.2 on a 200Mhz Pentium.
I am booting off the CD-Rom (ATAPI)
I get the following error message
Uncompressing Linux.
invalid compressed format (err=1)
On Sun Jan 06, 2002 at 01:54:12PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 02:15:11PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
Colin Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What annoys me about bootprep.sh is that it builds a kernel as part of
the boot-floppies build process; I don't see why it
It's not so mysterious. Actually read the part I left below :)
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 09:27:05PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
# Fix .config for ramdisk rooting and kernel ip autoconfiguration.
# This image is 1440 KB and is suitable for CD/net booting.
sed 's:# CONFIG_CMDLINE_BOOL is not
Falk Hueffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
does any of the 2.2 milos from http://www.suse.de/~stepan/ work? I
would like to use them by default, because 2.0 milos can't load
kernels from newer ext2 file systems; but if it just doesn't work,
I'll try to hardcode 2.0 milo for the release and
tag 127955 moreinfo
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Hello Erik,
I believe the mac-fdisk problems are fixed in the CVS version of the
debian installer. As for the problems with the boot process hanging,
what exactly do you mean? At which point does it hang?
Also, if you're installing on an ibook2, could you try the
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