Re: Bug#388159: missing lspci on a fresh install

2006-09-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 12:19:57PM +0200, Amaya wrote: I feel my previous email could be taken as harsh on my side, which it was not menat to be at all. I apologize to the reporter if he feels this way. :) Sven Luther wrote: it was Frans who suggested this, and doing ping-pong of bug

Bug#388296: nobootloader: Pegasos firmware older than 1.2.99 need to substract 1 from partitions.

2006-09-19 Thread Sven Luther
Package: nobootloader Version: 1.10 Severity: important Tags: d-i, patch Hi Colin, ... Can you please check the attached patch and commit it in both ubuntu and debian if it seems ok to you. I did some hand-testing only, not a full install with it, but it seems mostly ok. In any case, there is

Bug#388296: And with the patch this time.

2006-09-19 Thread Sven Luther
/changelog(revision 40788) +++ debian/changelog(working copy) @@ -1,9 +1,14 @@ nobootloader (1.11) UNRELEASED; urgency=low + [ Colin Watson ] * Mark Open Firmware commands as untranslatable. - -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed, 30 Aug 2006 10:12:20 +0100 + [ Sven Luther

Re: missing lspci on a fresh install

2006-09-19 Thread Sven Luther
all the info :) Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#388296: nobootloader: Pegasos firmware older than 1.2.99 need to substract 1 from partitions.

2006-09-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 08:46:09PM +0200, Niklaus Giger wrote: Sven Luther wrote: Package: nobootloader Version: 1.10 Severity: important Tags: d-i, patch .. The right behaviour is to check for the /proc/device-tree/openprom/firmware-version property, and discriminate depending

Bug#382129: Is now a good time to revisit installer not booting on OldWorld PowerMac beige G3?

2006-09-18 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 10:34:37PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 03:35:17PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: On Sep 16, 2006, at 3:05 PM, Sven Luther wrote: On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 09:50:03AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Saturday 16 September 2006 09:09, Rick Thomas wrote

Re: grub2 on powerpc

2006-09-18 Thread Sven Luther
Jochens has shown absolutely no interest to cooperate with the biarch or multi-arch effort, even though this won't happen anymore for etch anyway. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: missing lspci on a fresh install

2006-09-18 Thread Sven Luther
, but I strongly suggest you do not file a bug for this. You can't have it both ways, you can't argue on one side that you are not responsible for it, and then give such recomendations as above. Still hurting, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: grub2 on powerpc

2006-09-17 Thread Sven Luther
code, so this should be less an issue than you think. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: grub2 on powerpc

2006-09-17 Thread Sven Luther
on both a dual power3 IBM pseries/rs6k, as well as on a powermac, and on a pegasos. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: grub2 on powerpc

2006-09-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 12:48:32PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 08:10:35AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 12:15:12AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: Thanks. But as I said, I'm not a developer (for lack of time -- I have a day job, and I'd like

Re: grub2 on powerpc

2006-09-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 06:23:47PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 12:31:59PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 12:10:53PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: ofpathname is part of the ibm-powerpc-utils package (not the same as the package currently in debian

Bug#382129: Is now a good time to revisit installer not booting on OldWorld PowerMac beige G3?

2006-09-16 Thread Sven Luther
to be a Debian Installer issue, but rather a powerpc kernel or kernel configuration issue. Its actually a problem with the ramdisk generators and/or bootloaders, not the kernel proper. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Bladr GTK theme for g-i ready for packaging

2006-09-16 Thread Sven Luther
libpixmap.so on a X GTK target. I guess this issue has to be managed by the gtk-gnome-team, should we ask them to provide a .udeb containing the libpixmap.so engine only ? I suppose the only reason why we should not, would be if libpixmap would be a huge library, right ? Friendly, Sven Luther

Bug#382129: Is now a good time to revisit installer not booting on OldWorld PowerMac beige G3?

2006-09-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 03:35:17PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: On Sep 16, 2006, at 3:05 PM, Sven Luther wrote: On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 09:50:03AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Saturday 16 September 2006 09:09, Rick Thomas wrote: Is there someone out there who will work with me to get a kernel

Bug#382129: Is now a good time to revisit installer not booting on OldWorld PowerMac beige G3?

2006-09-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 03:35:17PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: On Sep 16, 2006, at 3:05 PM, Sven Luther wrote: On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 09:50:03AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Saturday 16 September 2006 09:09, Rick Thomas wrote: Is there someone out there who will work with me to get a kernel

Re: powerpc d-i daily ISOs are back but broken. (was: one week out of date. )

2006-09-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 10:52:19AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 14 September 2006 08:41, Sven Luther wrote: /me wonders who is in charge of this breakage right now ? Well, at first glance it seems to me that this could be caused by the change from cramfs to initramfs for which _you_

Re: powerpc d-i daily ISOs are back but broken. (was: one week out of date. )

2006-09-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 10:52:19AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 14 September 2006 08:41, Sven Luther wrote: /me wonders who is in charge of this breakage right now ? Well, at first glance it seems to me that this could be caused by the change from cramfs to initramfs for which _you_

Re: powerpc d-i daily ISOs are back but broken. (was: one week out of date. )

2006-09-14 Thread Sven Luther
in april is not waranted, and should be reverted ASAP. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#274649: finish-install: serial console on p510

2006-09-13 Thread Sven Luther
/securetty can also be modified accordingly. Sven Luther promised to provide patches for that when he added support for hvsi in rootskel. I have not seen these promised patches yet. Right now i was fighting with the yaboot stuff, and te fact that the ofpath that yaboot-installer relies on is too buggy

Re: powerpc d-i daily ISOs are one week out of date.

2006-09-12 Thread Sven Luther
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Re: Accessibility theme for the graphical installer

2006-09-10 Thread Sven Luther
, since it allows for easy custmoisation of the default theme. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: grub2 on powerpc

2006-09-08 Thread Sven Luther
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Bug#352914: fixed in yaboot-installer_1.1.7 ?

2006-09-08 Thread Sven Luther
or whatever, that the firmware/yaboot cannot boot from, then both yaboot and the /etc/yaboot.conf need to be copied to the /boot partition. Hope this helps, Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#386532: d-i: keyboard layout and language are not being installed in low memory mode

2006-09-08 Thread Sven Luther
-speaking system. I think this is actually a bug, even though the install goes on in english, is there really a reason why the *INSTALLED* system should not be localized ? I think we discussed this already once about serial consoles, no ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#386532: d-i: keyboard layout and language are not being installed in low memory mode

2006-09-08 Thread Sven Luther
probably later connect to the box using ssh, and thus be able to use the full UTF8 console, so this is the same case as above. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: non-free firmware and d-i

2006-09-07 Thread Sven Luther
, not the rest of it. Did you do an analysis of those modules concerned, and what their dependency situation is before making such claims ? Have you any info on how big those drivers and firmware actually are ? Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: non-free firmware and d-i

2006-09-07 Thread Sven Luther
granularity here, but then i will again be accused of following a personal agenda for just mentioning it, so ... Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: grub2 on powerpc

2006-09-07 Thread Sven Luther
before build the mini.iso. Burn it on a CD and test. Or netboot it. Maybe grub2 replacing yaboot will cause a stop to the trouble involved in using yaboot on IBM power hardware even. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: report install on a p510

2006-09-06 Thread Sven Luther
login. In order to work with the kernel I have to install ssh server. Does somebody what I need to change ? (I didn't found my answer in google...) See above. Could you also post your /proc/cpuinfo please ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#386265: base-installer: [powerpc] prep should use the -prep kernel flavour and not the -powerpc one in 2.6.1[678].

2006-09-06 Thread Sven Luther
-installer/kernel should be changed to use the -prep flavour on PReP. Notice that as of 2.6.17, there is currently no -prep flavour, but this will be fixed for 2.6.18, which is the intented etch kernel. Friendly, Sven Luther -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers

Re: report install on a p510

2006-09-06 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 02:13:22PM +0200, Xavier Grave wrote: Le mercredi 06 septembre 2006 à 13:17 +0200, Sven Luther a écrit : On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 10:58:10AM +0200, Xavier Grave wrote: Did you file the bug report ? I think filling it correctly to the debian BTS

Re: report install on a p510

2006-09-06 Thread Sven Luther
I get this following message : hvc_console tty open failed no vty associeted with tty Try : T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L hvsi0 9600 vt100 Actually, you can file an finish-install bug report about this issue. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#386281: base-installer: [powerpc] missing support for power5+ cpus in b-i/k/powerpc.sh.

2006-09-06 Thread Sven Luther
Package: base-installer Version: 1.67 Severity: important Tags: d-i patch As the subject says, kernel-installer doesn't know about power5+ cpus. The attached patch does fix this, and joins a cpuinfo for a pseries 710 machine. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers

Bug#386281: base-installer: [powerpc] missing support for power5+ cpus in b-i/k/powerpc.sh.

2006-09-06 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 04:03:45PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 02:57:44PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Package: base-installer Tags: d-i patch As the subject says, kernel-installer doesn't know about power5+ cpus. The attached patch does fix this, and joins

Bug#386332: yaboot-installer: should use ofpathname instead of ofpath on chrp boxes.

2006-09-06 Thread Sven Luther
failed to generate a working yaboot.conf in this case. Also, make sure to copy the yaboot.conf to the /boot partition if the root partition is some funny format not supported by yaboot (like the LVM-over-RAID1 i just tried), and set the device= and partition= fields accordyingly. Friendly, Sven

Re: report install on a p510

2006-09-05 Thread Sven Luther
And replied to debian-boot, let's see if this time it is not ignored like it was so many times in the past. On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 02:16:09PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 01:12:18PM +0200, Xavier Grave wrote: Hi, I hope these informations will be of some use

Re: libd-i ABI bump

2006-09-05 Thread Sven Luther
packages file. But implementing this in a correct way needs more modifications than I planned in this state. The other planned changes are useless for etch anyway. This clearly means that the non-free firmware/driver separation can't happen for etch, right ? Friendly, Sven Luther

Re: report install on a p510

2006-09-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 03:29:44PM +0200, Xavier Grave wrote: Le mardi 05 septembre 2006 à 14:16 +0200, Sven Luther a écrit : On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 01:12:18PM +0200, Xavier Grave wrote: Hi, I hope these informations will be of some use... I've downloaded the CD netinstall

Re: report install on a p510

2006-09-05 Thread Sven Luther
ftp server or something, and offers the logs for download. Did you file the bug report ? I think filling it correctly to the debian BTS is the more important thing to do here. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Supporting multiple udeb sources.... is it really this easy?

2006-08-31 Thread Sven Luther
be seen as more of me challenging the d-i leader team authority and dismissed out of hand. Oh well, Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Supporting multiple udeb sources.... is it really this easy?

2006-08-31 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 09:21:24AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Another idea that has crossed my mind the other day, would be to create separate initramfs images, one holding the main installer, the other holding the kernel modules (would allow

Re: Supporting multiple udeb sources.... is it really this easy?

2006-08-31 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 10:30:18AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 09:21:24AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Another idea that has crossed my mind the other day, would be to create

Bug#385179: debian-installer: [installation report : powerpc] IBM pseries p505 single CPU, no virtualization

2006-08-31 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 10:09:57PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 11:49:39PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 11:15:49PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: How knows the kernel which one to use? the kernel will output to all of those existing, while

Re: mipsel install failure in gxemul-ated decstation

2006-08-30 Thread Sven Luther
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Re: memtest before install?

2006-08-30 Thread Sven Luther
no change to the initrd, and be fully optional. Apart from that, this would just be a matter of someone working on the right additionnal udeb:-) /me wonders if the memtest package is written in C, and then we could just ask its maintainer to create a .udeb for it. Friendly, Sven Luther

Bug#385145: debian-installer: [powerpc] get ride of netboot64/cdrom64 for powerpc64 subarch.

2006-08-29 Thread Sven Luther
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Now use an optional hypervisor module inclusion and get ride of the netboot64/cdrom64. older *64.cfg files are still present, but can probably go too, once there was at least one daily build with this patch applied, even though it runs here locally.

Bug#385145: debian-installer: [powerpc] get ride of netboot64/cdrom64 for powerpc64 subarch.

2006-08-29 Thread Sven Luther
tags 385145 + patch d-i thanks On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 02:15:50PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Now use an optional hypervisor module inclusion and get ride of the netboot64/cdrom64. older *64.cfg files are still present, but can probably go too

Bug#385151: linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6: upgrade to 2.6.17 kernels.

2006-08-29 Thread Sven Luther
-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Index: debian/changelog === --- debian/changelog(revision 40294) +++ debian/changelog(working copy) @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6 (1.20) UNRELEASED; urgency=low + + [ Sven Luther ] + * Update

Bug#385164: debian-installer: [powerpc] upgrade to 2.6.17 kernel .udebs.

2006-08-29 Thread Sven Luther
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Tags: patch d-i Patch needed to upgrade the d-i daily builds to 2.6.17 .udebs. Needs an upload of the 2.6.17 .udebs (See Bug#385151 for details) -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500,

Bug#385151: [UPGRADED PATCH] linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6: upgrade to 2.6.17 kernels.

2006-08-29 Thread Sven Luther
Well, qlogicfc has been replaced by qla2xxx, so say so in the changelog. Updated patch. Friendly, Sven Luther Index: debian/changelog === --- debian/changelog(revision 40294) +++ debian/changelog(working copy) @@ -1,3 +1,11

Bug#385145: debian-installer: [powerpc] get ride of netboot64/cdrom64 for powerpc64 subarch.

2006-08-29 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 03:23:42PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: tags 385145 pending thanks On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 02:15:50PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Now use an optional hypervisor module inclusion and get ride of the netboot64/cdrom64. older *64.cfg files are still present, but can

Bug#385175: debian-installer: [powerpc] let's move powerpc d-i into the initramfs era ...

2006-08-29 Thread Sven Luther
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Tags: patch d-i Well, i believe there is no reason for any of the 2.6 arches to still use cramfs, not sure though. In any case, powerpc can handle initramfs just fine (and indeed, it is used by initramfs-tools for the real ramdisk), and i believe ubuntu

Bug#385179: debian-installer: [installation report : powerpc] IBM pseries p505 single CPU, no virtualization

2006-08-29 Thread Sven Luther
: unable to open an initial console. Attached is the full serial log. Friendly, Sven Luther IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM

Bug#385145: debian-installer: [powerpc] get ride of netboot64/cdrom64 for powerpc64 subarch.

2006-08-29 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 05:18:29PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 05:02:04PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 03:23:42PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: tags 385145 pending thanks On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 02:15:50PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Now

Bug#385145: debian-installer: [powerpc] get ride of netboot64/cdrom64 for powerpc64 subarch.

2006-08-29 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 07:57:26PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 06:25:52PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Have you had time to look at the other svn diff - BTS bugs i filled ? In particular, will you be able to build 2.6.17 kernel .udebs before dinstall ? Not before

Bug#385179: debian-installer: [installation report : powerpc] IBM pseries p505 single CPU, no virtualization

2006-08-29 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 11:15:49PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 05:58:17PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Package: debian-installer Severity: normal snip/ Attached is the full serial log. snip/ [boot]0015 Setup Done Built 1 zonelists Kernel command line

Bug#385145: debian-installer: [powerpc] get ride of netboot64/cdrom64 for powerpc64 subarch.

2006-08-29 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 09:10:56PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 09:48:27PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 07:57:26PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 06:25:52PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Have you had time to look at the other svn

Bug#382129: Beta3 won't boot on OldWorld PowerPC Mac

2006-08-27 Thread Sven Luther
you are named Sven Luther, right ? Hurt, Sven Luther -- see shy jo

Bug#380105: Show current hour in hardware clock question

2006-08-26 Thread Sven Luther
feel to develop these ideas more. Friendly, Sven Luther

Bug#380105: Show current hour in hardware clock question

2006-08-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 07:37:13AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 09:10:27PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 04:57:17PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: I am not sure, but in the graphical installer, we could add a clock widget somewhere from

Bug#380105: Show current hour in hardware clock question

2006-08-25 Thread Sven Luther
, is that it get rides of all those funny 'installation in the future' tar warnings. Not sure if they are interesting or not. The graphical version could be trigered by clicking on the menu at any time or something, this would be pretty cool. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#380105: Show current hour in hardware clock question

2006-08-25 Thread Sven Luther
harsh reply of this question only being 'noise'. So, if a method to set the clock is offerred, it has to work for all interfaces. Well, the .udeb could be common to everything, and the clock button could only be a shortcut to it. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#380105: Show current hour in hardware clock question

2006-08-24 Thread Sven Luther
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Re: )Request should be ignored, linux-2.6 update responsibility and new 2.6.17 plans

2006-08-20 Thread Sven Luther
is, as usual, very willing to get other people to do work he could as well do himself, but then, he would have nobody to bash on ... Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#382129: Beta3 won't boot on OldWorld PowerPC Mac

2006-08-19 Thread Sven Luther
already.) Yeah, but i was more important than Frans, and since i didn't show enough respect, ... Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#382129: Beta3 won't boot on OldWorld PowerPC Mac

2006-08-19 Thread Sven Luther
dislike, you sure used a very personal weapon to get ride of me, i don't think anyone before you in debian has resorted to basser and more indecent behaviour before you did. Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#382129: Beta3 won't boot on OldWorld PowerPC Mac

2006-08-18 Thread Sven Luther
out Sven without any concern for the PowerPC port well being. There is already an alternative installer planed once etch is released, which will contain fixes for all those issues the d-i team left dying on the road-side. Friendly, Sven Luther

Bug#382129: Beta3 won't boot on OldWorld PowerPC Mac

2006-08-18 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 12:18:23AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 11:58:07PM +0200, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:52:24PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: On Aug 18, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: What is PTBs? :) Powers that be... On Fri

Re: Kernel schedule proposal for Etch

2006-08-17 Thread Sven Luther
this. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Urgent : megaraid and qla2300 modules not found

2006-08-17 Thread Sven Luther
is the only solution until the non-free firmware issue is solved, which include support for more than one source of udebs in the installer, which you mentioned in the post beta3 topics. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Urgent : megaraid and qla2300 modules not found

2006-08-17 Thread Sven Luther
to be right, but look at : http://doolittle.icarus.com/~larry/fwinventory/2.6.17.html and at least the ql ones are non-free and will probably be removed in the near future, or at least for the etch release. The megaraid ones appear to be free though. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Mass kernel udeb building solution

2006-08-16 Thread Sven Luther
years before. So, until you learn some decency, and learn the meaning of the word 'discussion', please go away and don't address me anymore, ever. Hurt, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mass kernel udeb building solution

2006-08-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 10:51:11AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 02:12:07PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 09:42:57PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: This thread has also again shown that Sven is not really interested in discussing the issue, but only

Re: [G-I] Switch to GTK+ 2.8 libraries in daily builds done

2006-08-16 Thread Sven Luther
was not as bad as that. Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#382254: rootskel: /dev/hvsi* are serial consoles on non-virtualized IBM power machines.

2006-08-09 Thread Sven Luther
partitions), in which case the serial console is /dev/hvc*. but you can also run linux on them directly, and in this case, the serial console is /dev/hvsi*, at least on the p505 i tried this one. This patch adds support for that in rootskel. Friendly, Sven Luther -- System Information: Debian Release

Re: PowerPC miBoot floppy build is broken again

2006-08-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 01:09:48AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 10:08:15PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 02:18:44PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 02:02:15PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Thursday 03 August

Re: PowerPC miBoot floppy build is broken again

2006-08-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 10:55:22AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 07:59:09AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: That said, in all those months i maintained the buildds (and i still recent the way i was summarily dismissed by frans, thank you but we don't need you anymore, go

Re: PowerPC miBoot floppy build is broken again

2006-08-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 12:03:25PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 11:02:06AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Ah, so you don't use a chroot to build the daily builds, naturally, i was using a chroot which i so updated, not the running system, which was a stable system

Re: PowerPC miBoot floppy build is broken again

2006-08-04 Thread Sven Luther
Wouter I do have some script which auto-upgrades the packages to a point (doesn't work with things like the library abi changes, which is what ended up in Frans kicking me out, so beware), if it could be useful to you, i would be glade to provide it. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#373264: closed by Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bug#373264: fixed in debian-installer 20060726)

2006-07-26 Thread Sven Luther
Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Nice that my contibutions to the powerpc port are no more credited in the changelog. Hurt, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing Debian unstable to IBM pSeries LPAR - success

2006-07-25 Thread Sven Luther
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Re: which kernel version for etch

2006-07-19 Thread Sven Luther
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Re: which kernel version for etch

2006-07-19 Thread Sven Luther
your ass, any delay in d-i caused by a kernel ABI bump is your direct responsability, and you are solely responsible for getting it done in a timely fashion. Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OldWorld Mac-specific problems; perhaps drop?

2006-07-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 12:38:47AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 04:07:51PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 03:41:34PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, maybe, but floppy booting in quick is something we have been hearing about

Re: OldWorld Mac-specific problems; perhaps drop?

2006-07-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 06:31:39PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Tuesday 11 July 2006 12:48, Sven Luther wrote: dfsg-free means to boot the installer on old world, the fact that the only method available for sarge no longer works (BootX; which can't be used on new world machiens

Re: OldWorld Mac-specific problems; perhaps drop?

2006-07-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 10:20:19PM -0400, Daniel Dickinson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 12:48:57 +0200 Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 05:12:09AM -0400, Daniel Dickinson wrote: As you know I've been doing a fair

Re: OldWorld Mac-specific problems; perhaps drop?

2006-07-13 Thread Sven Luther
solution compared to miboot, but i haven't looked at the code of both. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OldWorld Mac-specific problems; perhaps drop?

2006-07-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 03:34:55AM -0400, Daniel Dickinson wrote: On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 09:01:50AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 10:20:19PM -0400, Daniel Dickinson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 12:48:57 +0200 Sven

Re: DI Kernel Config File

2006-07-13 Thread Sven Luther
there is no such a thing as a d-i kernel. The kernel team is in charge of those kernels, and d-i only repackages it (which is probably some kind of GPL violation if one is not careful about it), and you can find all the info you want in the debian kernel .debs, as well as in the kernel svn repo. Friendly, Sven Luther

Re: OldWorld Mac-specific problems; perhaps drop?

2006-07-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 11:42:23AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: On Jul 13, 2006, at 10:36 AM, Sven Luther wrote: Daniel wrote: Do you have any message numbers? Remember I've only started with powerpc debian recently, so I'm not one of the 'everyone' that 'should be aware of it'. Also

Re: OldWorld Mac-specific problems; perhaps drop?

2006-07-13 Thread Sven Luther
instead of initramfs-tools, and you will see this problem going away. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OldWorld Mac-specific problems; perhaps drop?

2006-07-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 06:46:02PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 13 July 2006 18:20, Sven Luther wrote: initrd-tools used to be knoweldgeable about the root device, while initramfs-tools doesn't and you have to give it explicitly. Try using yaird instead of initramfs-tools, and you

Re: OldWorld Mac-specific problems; perhaps drop?

2006-07-11 Thread Sven Luther
those boxes, which would be gully free, but nobody ever investigated this. So what would you gain by dropping support ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#288452: closed by Holger Levsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] (prep method is now there, as 301668 documents this (and another prep-breakage in partman but still))

2006-07-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 04:07:59PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Sunday 09 July 2006 09:02, Sven Luther wrote: #301668 documents that creating a prep partition still doesnt fully work (actually this needs to be checked if that bug is still open... oh well

Bug#288452: closed by Holger Levsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] (prep method is now there, as 301668 documents this (and another prep-breakage in partman but still))

2006-07-09 Thread Sven Luther
subtle than than what your simple comment above shows. Friedly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Debian Wiki] PowerPC tips and tricks

2006-07-08 Thread Sven Luther
remember well, those where fully missing for etch. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#301668: ping - can this be closed?

2006-07-05 Thread Sven Luther
in one form or another as the symptom of the breakness i experienced since earlier this year is exactly the same. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Plans for GTK+ - update

2006-07-04 Thread Sven Luther
-distant future, as the world goes forward. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GTK+ 2.8.18 experimental debs/udebs

2006-06-30 Thread Sven Luther
too ? I will tonight, but I fear there is something else here... Sven, could you try the image I made[1] and see if is working for you? [1] http://eddyp.homelinux.net:8080/eddy/g-i/gtk2.8-ppc/iso/miniiso2.8.18-powerpc/20060629mini.iso I will this evening. Friendly, Sven Luther

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