Bug#736373: using this patch with salsa & openqa

On Wed, 2021-05-19 at 00:03 +0200, Philip Hands wrote: Hi Ian, Thanks for the patch. It's proven very useful while seting up pipelines on salsa that can be run when a udeb's git repo is pushed, such that a mini.iso is produced that will make use of a repository containing that udeb. While

Re: Speed up installation: activate eatmydata-udeb by default and include eatmydata package in /pool

(just the list, other cc'd dropped) On Mon, 2021-04-12 at 19:35 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Petter Reinholdtsen, le lun. 12 avril 2021 07:34:38 +0200, a ecrit: > > Sad to hear the patch has been ignored for several years. > > Please do not confuse "ignore" with "terribly understaffed". I

Bug#949626: busybox-static: Please include less and ftpput in busybox-udeb

On Wed, 2020-01-22 at 22:42 +, Witold Baryluk wrote: > > The age of FTP has long passed. > > You think you can fit the scp or ssh then? :D I doubt so. If you have a network to scp over then you can `anna-install` the ssh udebs on the fly first, no need to have them in the initrd. Soon

Re: 8 more packages

On Mon, 2020-01-13 at 21:58 +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 07:51:34PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > > My guess would be that installing over WiFi causes 8 packages to > > be installed earlier than happens with a wired install. I could > > imagine that having e.g.

Bug#941300: finish-install: write random seed to correct location for chosen init system

On Wed, 2019-10-02 at 08:59 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, 2019-10-01 at 11:55 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > > Wouldn't it just be easier to write it one location and replace the > > other with a symlink to it? > > Looks like neither the urandom init script nor systemd-random-seed > unlink

Re: Grub, UEFI Secure Boot and netboot - help!

On Mon, 2019-06-10 at 03:37 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Any other suggestions on what we could do? Let me know what you > think... Is signing an extra, d-i specific, grubnetXX.efi image out of the question? Is the hard coded prefix a single prefix or is there a possibility of searching a

Re: Debian-Installer support for riscv64

On Sun, 2019-06-02 at 22:25 +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: > Another thing that needs to be tackled in d-i is an annoying > property of qemu's riscv64 "virt" machine: The "virt" machine > emulates both a normal serial console (/dev/ttyS0) and a HVC > console (/dev/ttyhvc0). Unfortunately in qemu

Re: Multiple console support in d-i

On Wed, 2019-01-23 at 03:41 +, Wookey wrote: > You are right. I wasn't taking note of those: > > E=enabled > C=preferred console > p=used for printk buffer > a=safe to use when CPU is offline > > console=tty0 > tty0 -WU (EC p )4:7 > ttyAMA0 -W- (E p a)

Re: Multiple console support in d-i

On Tue, 2019-01-22 at 04:31 +, Wookey wrote: > On 2019-01-20 03:02 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Reading /proc/consoles is exactly what you should do. > > Checking this on a booted thunderx machine (with no explicit kernel cmdline > options) it lists > ttyAMA0 > > If I boot with explicit

Re: Multiple console support in d-i

On Sat, 2019-01-19 at 11:08 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >So far I have done a proof-of-concept hack and demonstrated that > >running two instances does in fact work nicely without anything > >obvious breaking. The console selection still needs some work/checking > >(I've run out of time for

Re: [console-setup] udebs declared as Multi-Arch: foreign

On Mon, 2018-12-17 at 15:46 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > I mean both udebs (kernel-image-*.udeb and *-modules-*.udeb) and the > full linux-image-*.deb. Oh, of course! Thanks. Ian.

Re: [console-setup] udebs declared as Multi-Arch: foreign

On Mon, 2018-12-17 at 15:19 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2018-12-17 at 10:29 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Mon, 2018-12-17 at 01:29 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > udpkg and the various package retrievers in d-i don't support > > > multi- > > > a

Re: [console-setup] udebs declared as Multi-Arch: foreign

On Mon, 2018-12-17 at 01:29 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > udpkg and the various package retrievers in d-i don't support multi- > arch. Until they do there's probably little point in adding that > information to udebs. It's also not terribly clear what the utility of a multiarchified installer

Re: Bug#915880: lvm2: Dependency on liblz4-1 causes /sbin binaries to depend on /usr/lib libraries

On Wed, 2018-12-12 at 09:04 +0200, Per Lundberg wrote: > Let's leave this closed for now; I might come back later but I'd need > to investigate this more on a clean Ubuntu 18.04 install and > potentially open an issue with them. Given the usrmerge coming up, the > difference between depending on

Re: Bug#915880: lvm2: Dependency on liblz4-1 causes /sbin binaries to depend on /usr/lib libraries

On Tue, 2018-12-11 at 08:27 +0200, Per Lundberg wrote: > Hi Adrian, > > Quoting the page you linked to: > > > This section only applies to systems using a custom kernel, where > /usr is on a separate mount point from /. If you use the kernel > packages provided by Debian, you are unaffected by

Re: debootstrap/1.0.102 appears to break debuerreotype autopkgtest

On Mon, 2018-06-18 at 08:07 -0700, Tianon Gravi wrote: > IMO, that merge request needs some review and an upload and then this > bug will be fixed properly in debootstrap too. Seems like the RC bug against debootstrap which Paul mentioned should be opened (to be closed by some future upload of

Re: d-i repo at dillon

On Sat, 2018-06-16 at 10:17 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Sat, 2018-06-16 at 08:36 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: > > > The original/final lines are a bit strange, though, instead of > having: > > > > > > if $($git foo bar); then … fi >

Re: d-i repo at dillon

On Sat, 2018-06-16 at 08:36 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: > > The original/final lines are a bit strange, though, instead of having: > > > > if $($git foo bar); then … fi > > > > I suppose it should only be: > > > > if $git foo bar; then … fi > > However, with this simplified variant it

Re: Archiving the attic folders from d-i for ports

On Mon, 2018-05-07 at 17:01 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 05/07/2018 04:59 PM, Ian Campbell wrote: > > According to the mails[0] whatever remain on alioth is going to be > > archived: > > > > > 10.-13.05.18: darcs, bzr and mercurial repos

Re: Archiving the attic folders from d-i for ports

On Mon, 2018-05-07 at 10:34 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 05/07/2018 04:29 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > > I was only talking about the still needed ones. linux-kernel-* > > > is > > > clearly not and I doubt it have any practical value to look at. > > > > My thoughts too.

Re: Salsa

On Sun, 2018-05-06 at 01:43 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > OK, so I've tried --aggressive too now, and wow does it make a big > difference. AIUI amongst other things --aggressive forces a full repack of the repo, which optimises the delta compression in the pack files. You could probably achieve

Re: Salsa

On Thu, 2018-05-03 at 22:10 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > The outputs from this run > were a surprising amount bigger than my first test repo, as the > following bare clones from each will show: > > tack:/tmp$ du -s test* > 613888 test1-bare.git > 3653432 test2-bare.git > 714336

Re: Remote Debian installation assistance for newbies using WireGuard VPN

On Wed, 2018-04-25 at 14:50 +0200, Philip Hands wrote: > Of course we then have to work out under what circumstances the user > should trust that person to be connected to their network, the > implications of which one cannot really expect a newbie to fully > grasp. I'm reminded of

Re: Boot Order

On Wed, 2018-02-28 at 02:16 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 09:01:18PM -0500, Dan Norton wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 10:40:20 -0500 > > lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) wrote: > > > > > > With UEFI, adding an entry to the boot meny is what you do when > >

Re: Boot Order

On Mon, 2018-02-26 at 16:54 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > It seems Dan Norton has decided to selfishly make *his* spam problem > into everybody else's spam problem, and I've just had a bounce > message > in response to my mail below, saying I have to ask to be added to his > list of allowed

Re: Boot Order

On Sun, 2018-02-25 at 17:03 -0500, Dan Norton wrote: > On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 14:59:44 -0500 > Dan Norton wrote: > > > On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 18:37:02 +0100 > > Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 2018-02-23 at 22:18 -0500, Dan Norton wrote: > > > >

Re: Boot Order

On Sat, 2018-02-24 at 14:18 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 02/24/2018 01:59 PM, Dan Norton wrote: > > [snip] > > > > In my case, there are multiple debian installations and the > installer > > positions the last installation at the top of the *grub* menu. This > > makes sense. > > Not always.

Bug#774227: busybox-static: execs applets when chrooting

On Mon, 2018-02-05 at 12:17 +0100, Chris Boot wrote: > Control: tags -1 -confirmed -patch +wontfix > Control: retitle -1 busybox-static: always prefers applets when chrooting > > This is desired behaviour for the busybox-static package, and I can't > think of any documentation changes that could

Re: Beginner question - stable installer build fails - why?

On Sun, 2018-01-28 at 13:01 +1300, Alex King wrote: > * Follow https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2017/12/msg00375.html to build > with a backports kernel. > * Try to do the same with Jessie, which is what my customer actually wants. > * Make whatever changes necessary so the backport kernel is

Bug#883580: debian-installer: arm64: please ship dtb files

On Wed, 2017-12-06 at 07:53 +0100, Andre Heider wrote: > > I don't know what devices you work on, but I have a couple of different > consumer armhf and arm64 devices, spread out over different > architectures. All their device trees are updated every single kernel > release. Often it's for new

Bug#870430: linux-image-4.9.0-3-marvell: Couldn't find DTB in /usr/lib/linux-image-4.9.0-3-marvell or /etc/flash-kernel/dtbs

On Wed, 2017-08-02 at 21:29 +0200, noone never wrote: > Please find my answers inline. Thanks! In particular for... > [...] > > The message: > >     Couldn't find DTB  in /usr/lib/linux-image-4.9.0-3-marvell or > > /etc/flash-kernel/dtbs > > is interesting since the double space in "DTB  in" is

Re: Bug#870430: linux-image-4.9.0-3-marvell: Couldn't find DTB in /usr/lib/linux-image-4.9.0-3-marvell or /etc/flash-kernel/dtbs

Control: reassign -1 src:flash-kernel 3.79 On Tue, 2017-08-01 at 23:39 +0200, noone never wrote: > Package: src:linux > Version: 4.9.30-2+deb9u2 > Severity: important > Dear Maintainer, > > When I dist-upgrade my Sheevaplug from jessie to stretch, I get this error: > Couldn't find DTB  in

Bug#866971: debian-installer: live-installer should show Debian live in upper right or left corner so it's known from a glance to people nearby

On Mon, 2017-07-03 at 17:33 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 02:03:27PM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > Currently there doesn't seem to be any difference in the UI while > > > either using the regular D-I or Debian Live > > > > Outside of the context of reporting

Bug#864525: flash-kernel: fails on fat32

On Sat, 2017-06-10 at 02:41 +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: > On 06/10/2017 02:11 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Sat, 2017-06-10 at 00:59 +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: > >> On 06/10/2017 12:31 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > * Heinrich Schuchardt [2017-06-09 23:18]:

Bug#861263: debian-installer: zfs support

On Fri, 2017-05-05 at 22:52 +0100, Sam Kuper wrote: > If so, is there > any reason in principle why that installer could not in future be > distributed with the capability to (download and) compile and run ZFS, > and to provide the user with the option to install Debian onto a ZFS > root

Bug#749991: Wrong kernel in debian-installer package

On Mon, 2017-03-27 at 13:32 +0200, Philip Hands wrote: > > Alexander Sosedkin writes: > > > On Mon, 27 Mar 2017 12:43:40 +0200 > > > > Philipp Kern wrote: > > > > > Even if we'd leave the old kernel udebs in testing for a while, you'd  > > > still hit a

Bug#858308: flash-kernel: documentation for upgrading Odroid-U2/U3 to flash-kernel

On Tue, 2017-03-21 at 00:31 +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > Package: flash-kernel Not sure that this (or u-boot) is really the best place for it, it certainly wouldn't occur to look under either of those packages for such documentation. Perhaps a wiki page under wiki.debian.org/DebianOn might be

Bug#853855: (no subject)

On Fri, 2017-02-03 at 15:51 +0100, Emmanuel Kasper wrote: > Actually on further research, net.ifnames and most dot-containing > parameters are not here for the kernel, but to configure on boot > various systemd components, d-i doesn't use systemd, does it? Ian.

Bug#853855: di-utils: Kernel boot options containing a dot are not propagated to the installed system

On Fri, 2017-02-03 at 12:22 +0100, Emmanuel Kasper wrote: > > > A kernel boot param like net.ifnames=0 will be skipped when the > > > installer parses the boot option for setting the bootloader. > > > > > > Found in di-utils:  > > > > > > # Skip module-specific variables > > >    

Bug#853855: di-utils: Kernel boot options containing a dot are not propagated to the installed system

On Wed, 2017-02-01 at 15:30 +0100, Emmanuel Kasper wrote: > Package: di-utils > Version: 1.117 > Severity: minor > Tags: d-i > > A kernel boot param like net.ifnames=0 will be skipped when the > installer parses the boot option for setting the bootloader. > > Found in di-utils:  > >

Bug#851469: flash-kernel: ARM new boot.scr does not allow the device to boot

On Mon, 2017-01-16 at 20:11 +0100, permondes - sagen wrote: > no luck: > > > $ fw_printenv > > Cannot parse config file '/etc/fw_env.config': No such file or > > directory > > and indeed, the file does not exist. Yes, you would need to obtain or produce one suitable for your device, it's not

Bug#851469: flash-kernel: ARM new boot.scr does not allow the device to boot

On Mon, 2017-01-16 at 00:14 +0100, Karsten Merker wrote: > On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 08:24:37PM +0100, permondes - sagen wrote: > > Copying back the previous boot.scr made it boot again. The environment > > variables were the same as before. So I am back where I have been > > before. > > To make

Bug#836679: flash-kernel: cannot configure kernel 4.7 with new flash-kernel

On Sun, 2017-01-01 at 12:40 -0800, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > I investigated a bit more and > found > out that it relates to the use of "local".  See e.g. > http://superuser.com/questions/363444/how-do-i-get-the-output-and-exi > t-value-of-a-subshell-when-using-bash-e/1103711#1103711 > for an

Bug#836679: flash-kernel: cannot configure kernel 4.7 with new flash-kernel

On Sat, 2016-12-17 at 14:09 -0800, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > It seems the exit called from find_dtb_file() doesn't exit the whole > program.  I know this is normal because it's called in a subshell, > but > flash-kernel itself does a "set -e" so I thought any exit should > trigger the whole

Bug#789886: linux-image-3.2.0-4-kirkwood: Couldn't find /usr/lib/linux-image-3.2.0-4-kirkwood/kirkwood-sheevaplug.dtb

On Sat, 2016-12-17 at 12:59 -0800, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > It seems I never applied this patch because I was waiting for Ian to > review it. > > Ian, do you have some time to look at the proposed patch? I'm a bit jet-lagged, but your explanation does seem to make sense. I reckon go with the

Bug#836679: flash-kernel: cannot configure kernel 4.7 with new flash-kernel

On Fri, 2016-09-30 at 11:21 -0700, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Looking at the code, all uses of find_dtb_file() check for the result > and produce an error if the file doesn't exist, so maybe we should > just move the error messages into find_dtb_file().  Then we could > tell > the user where we

Re: All D-I's debconf templates in a single HTML page.

On Tue, 2016-09-06 at 21:18 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: >  > I would be very intereted to have some feedback on how useful this is, and if > > there would be a more relevant place or format to hold this information. Seems like it could be very useful, thanks! Might be worth filtering out the

Re: flash-kernel: handle DTBs in vendor subdir

On Sun, 2016-07-31 at 13:11 -0700, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > * Ian Campbell <i...@debian.org> [2016-07-31 10:20]: > > > > I've attached the two patches I had sitting in my branch here, they > > look sensible but I honestly can't remember what state they ar

Bug#833097: flash-kernel: should exist when DTB doesn't exist

On Sun, 2016-07-31 at 13:16 -0700, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Package: flash-kernel > Version: 3.68 > > At the moment, flash-kernel doesn't exit when the DTB doesn't exist. > It will print the DTB to be used but then not copy it.  That will > result in devices not being able to boot. > > Ian, is

Re: flash-kernel: handle DTBs in vendor subdir

1 From: Ian Campbell <i...@debian.org> Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 12:38:53 + Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Search for DTBs in parent directories If DTB-Id contains a subdirectory then as well as looking in the named location also look in the parent directories. This ensures that where DTBs hav

Re: flash-kernel: arm64 doesn't have bootz

On Sat, 2016-07-30 at 17:14 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >  > Are all arm64 boards only going to support booti and not bootz? bootz refers to the zImage which is only an ARM image type and not an ARM64 one, which is an Image and hence booti. That would only change if someone added a

Re: Bug#810301: merged /usr support for debootstrap

On Tue, 2016-07-05 at 16:04 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >  > >  first_stage_install () { > > + case $SUITE in > > + etch|etch-m68k|jessie|lenny|squeeze|wheezy) ;; > > + oldstable|stable) ;; > > + *) setup_merged_usr ;; I might be missing a part of the puzzle, but

Bug#818481: installation-reports: Xen PV drivers not present in 32-bit installer kernel (but present in installed kernel)

On Fri, 2016-03-18 at 06:50 +, John Dilley wrote: > Correct, I'm running the installer as a PVHVM domain (this is how > XenServer supports Jessie onwards). > > I tried running the xen netboot image, but although it booted it then > complained about a display issue, and didn't seem to bring up

Re: Install into subdirectory of existing file system?

On Sat, 2016-03-12 at 08:52 -0800, Jack Bates wrote: > How do I coax Debian-Installer into installing into a subdirectory of > an  > existing file system? > > /dev/sda1 is an existing ext4 file system and I want to install into an  > e.g. /stretch subdirectory of that file system. This is not

Re: flash-kernel has been blocked from entering testing for long

On Tue, 2016-02-23 at 01:30 +0900, Roger Shimizu wrote: > Dear Ian, Christian, > > flash-kernel has been blocked from entering testing for long time. > The QA page [0] says it's because serious bugs, which I think there's > only #813995 on the list. > #813995 affects since 3.35+deb8u2, which is

Bug#813023: flash-kernel: quoting error with bootargs in generic U-Boot boot script

On Sat, 2016-02-20 at 16:58 +0100, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > > Did you ever see an actual problem related to the lack of quoting this > > bug is about or did you just spot what looked like an error by > > inspection? > > I stumbled on it because I had put in /etc/default/flash-kernel: > >

Bug#813023: flash-kernel: quoting error with bootargs in generic U-Boot boot script

On Sat, 2016-02-20 at 14:41 +0100, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > Ian Campbell: > > On Sat, 2016-02-20 at 13:29 +0100, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > > > Ian Campbell: > > > > Lunar -- which platform did you see an issue on and what do the > > > > abo

Bug#813023: flash-kernel: quoting error with bootargs in generic U-Boot boot script

Control: tag -1 +moreinfo On Thu, 2016-01-28 at 16:36 +, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > having no quotes should not be a problem for the u-boot setenv command: > > > > => setenv foo a b c d e > > => printenv foo > > foo=a b c d e > > => setenv foo

Re: Bug report - ext4: Unknown symbol __getblk_gfp (err 0)

On Thu, 2016-02-18 at 13:18 +0100, Miroslav Svoboda wrote: > [...] > Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt7-1 (2015-03-01) x86_64 GNU/Linux > > [...] > Any idea what is the problem? Your local vmlinux and initrd binaries are out of sync with the kernel modules in the mirror network, due

Bug#814338: armhf-20150422: Format partitions error for ext4/fat/jfs : Unknown symbol __getblk_gfp

On Wed, 2016-02-10 at 15:31 +0100, Gaël Jobin wrote: > Package: installation-reports > Severity: grave > Tags: d-i > Justification: renders package unusable > > I'm trying to run Debian Jessie on ARMv7 using Qemu. I used the initrd.gz > and > vmlinuz available at

Bug#813995: flash-kernel: writes to nand without being aware of bad blocks

Control: reassign -1 mtd-utils So far I see no evidence for the claim that flashcp should not be used for writing to NAND devices in either its --help or its source (it has no man page AFAICS). Having a tool in Debian called "flashcp" which can (according to this report, I haven't checked this

Bug#813893: flash-kernel installs wrong dtb for Wandboard Quad Rev B1

Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Sat, 2016-02-06 at 12:55 +0100, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: > When it is accepted, please, update all.db. Ack, please drop this bug a line when it is accepted upstream. Ian.

Bug#813023: flash-kernel: quoting error with bootargs in generic U-Boot boot script

On Thu, 2016-01-28 at 16:36 +, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > While, I am at it, I wonder if it would not make more sense to > > > reverse the order when setting that variable so it reads: > > > > > > setenv bootargs "@@LINUX_KERNEL_CMDLINE@@ ${bootar

Bug#813023: flash-kernel: quoting error with bootargs in generic U-Boot boot script

On Thu, 2016-01-28 at 17:30 +0100, Karsten Merker wrote: > On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 04:19:27PM +0100, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > > Package: flash-kernel > > Version: 3.56 > > Tag: patch > > > > Hi! > > > > There's a small quoting mistake in the generic U-Boot script. It > > probably hasn't been

Bug#812105: partman-auto: should allow recipes to ask for head of new partitions to be erased

Package: partman-auto Version: 126 Severity: wishlist At work we have an automated test infrastructure based on Debian, which frequently (several times a day) automatically reinstalls the host OS, using preseeding. In the past we have found that d-i is often tripping over the LVM partitions from

Re: network-console on armhf

On Sun, 2016-01-03 at 14:41 -0800, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > I'm in the process of adding support for some NAS devices that use > armhf.  They will use network-console for the installation. > > I have 2 questions I wanted to discuss: > > 1) Preseeding the network: on armel, we use oldsys-preseed

Bug#808830: QNAP LCD support in installer

Package: flash-kernel-installer Tags: patch Severity: wishlist Control: submitter Martin Michlmayr On Tue, 2015-12-22 at 11:23 -0800, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > d-i doesn't show the IP address of the installer on the LCD at the > moment. I believe the attached patch should work.

Bug#808830: QNAP LCD support in installer

control: reassign -1 network-console control: owner -1 ! On Wed, 2015-12-23 at 08:22 -0800, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Ian Campbell <i...@debian.org> [2015-12-23 14:35]: > > Package: flash-kernel-installer > > Note that the patch is against network-console. Gah, of cou

Bug#807625: Include output from /proc/device-tree/model in installation report

On Fri, 2015-12-11 at 11:43 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Martin Michlmayr (2015-12-10): > > * Cyril Brulebois [2015-12-11 04:44]: > > > A cursory look suggests this file is made available through: > > > > drivers/of/base.c:

Bug#783081: installation-reports: Jessie daily installer installs kernel in flash without any further confirmation (QNAP TS-212)

BTW, my unofficial QNAP install guide mentions making a backup of MTD > partitions and says that the installer is written to flash. But I > know this isn't mentioned in the official d-i install guide and > that's > my fault. > > So I'm open for comments. I've also copied Ian Campb

Bug#807625: Include output from /proc/device-tree/model in installation report

On Thu, 2015-12-10 at 19:53 -0800, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Cyril Brulebois [2015-12-11 04:44]: > > A cursory look suggests this file is made available through: > > | drivers/of/base.c:proc_symlink("device-tree", > NULL, "/sys/firmware/devicetree/base"); > >

Bug#791794: UUID not found for root

On Tue, 2015-11-10 at 11:46 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Ian Campbell <i...@debian.org> (2015-11-10): > > On Tue, 2015-11-10 at 11:14 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > > (As usual: you can safely pretend I didn't follow or fully > understand f-k > > >

Bug#804351: installation-reports: Stretch installer-armel (2015-10-23) does not see storage devices on Dreamplug

On Thu, 2015-11-12 at 06:50 -0500, James Valleroy wrote: Hi James, I think this should be fixed in the latest dailies from http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/armel/daily/kirkwood/netboot/marvell/ or at least my dreamplug is OK in recovery mode with the one from 2 days ago. This will then

Bug#804359: flash-kernel: Little-endianness is tested incorrectly for NSLU2

On Sat, 2015-11-07 at 13:05 -0500, Eric Cooper wrote: > Package: flash-kernel > Version: 3.48 > Severity: normal > Tags: patch > > The nslu2_swap() function incorrectly tests $little_endian and will > always think it is true. > > Untested patch attached since I don't have a slug. I'd be rather

Re: network-console, netboot, authorized_keys

On Sun, 2015-11-15 at 12:04 +0100, Łukasz Stelmach wrote: > Q1. What is the difference between (the purpose of) network > -console.cfg and netboot.cfg? network-console images are the ones which run the installer as a ssh server for headless systems. netboot is just the regular installer which

Re: Bug#762634: initramfs-tools: [armhf] mounting rootfs on USB disk fails / some USB host controller drivers missing in initramfs

On Wed, 2015-11-11 at 18:46 -0600, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2014-09-30, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Tue, 2014-09-30 at 08:19 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > On Fri, 2014-09-26 at 00:08 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > However, at the moment initramfs-t

Bug#804351: installation-reports: Stretch installer-armel (2015-10-23) does not see storage devices on Dreamplug

On Wed, 2015-11-11 at 19:13 -0500, James Valleroy wrote: > On 11/11/2015 03:43 PM, Ian Campbell wrote: > > Perhaps you could drop to a shell and try manually loading those > > modules and see what, if anything, it says? > > Modules seem to load ok: Did lsusb (or mayb

Bug#804351: Kirkwood / Qnap HS-210, kernel 3.16->4.2/ udev 215->227 upgrade issue

On Wed, 2015-11-11 at 09:22 +1300, m...@wiimail.com wrote: > Thanks to all those that replied. > Due to lack of time to debug this properly I just reverted to a jessie > image via recovery mode: > http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/qnap/ts-219/recovery/ > All is fine again... > Cheers

Bug#804351: installation-reports: Stretch installer-armel (2015-10-23) does not see storage devices on Dreamplug

On Sat, 2015-11-07 at 12:12 -0500, James Valleroy wrote: > Package: installation-reports > Severity: important > > When I run Jessie installer, I can see the USB stick (which the > installer was loaded from), and the internal microSD. > > With current Stretch installer, neither storage device is

Bug#791794: UUID not found for root

On Tue, 2015-11-10 at 11:14 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Martin Michlmayr <t...@cyrius.com> (2015-11-09): > > * Ian Campbell <i...@debian.org> [2015-11-06 16:03]: > > > I've just pushed this change to flash-kenrel.git, so it will be in > > > the > >

Bug#804351: Kirkwood / Qnap HS-210, kernel 3.16->4.2/ udev 215->227 upgrade issue

On Tue, 2015-11-10 at 01:08 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2015-11-09 at 14:18 -0800, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > * Ian Campbell <i...@debian.org> [2015-11-09 08:37]: > > > It might be the same issue as this recent installation report: > > > https://bugs.deb

Bug#804351: Kirkwood / Qnap HS-210, kernel 3.16->4.2/ udev 215->227 upgrade issue

On Mon, 2015-11-09 at 15:38 +1300, m...@wiimail.com wrote: > Hi all. > > I have been happily running debian on a Qnap HS-210 for about a year > now. > > It was a sid install onto a USB drive, last updated just before the > jessie release. > So it was running on kernel 3.16+63 and udev 215-9

Bug#803115: flash-kernel: please provide an option to disable creation of backup files

On Mon, 2015-10-26 at 21:37 -0400, Eric Cooper wrote: > I'd like an option (configurable in /etc/default/flash-kernel ideally) > to prevent flash-kernel from creating .bak files for uImage, uInitrd, > and dtb, in order to same space on my system. I'm willing to live > dangerously and keep a

Bug#791794: UUID not found for root

On Fri, 2015-07-31 at 08:28 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > Unless someone has an alternative suggestion I think I'll make the > flash-kernel initramfs-hook gate its waiting for Ctrl-C on failure > behaviour on either DEBIAN_FRONTEND or DEBIAN_HAS_FRONTEND being non > -

Bug#794403: flash-kernel: command "update-initramfs -uk " result in boot images in false version

Control: severity -1 wishlist Control: tag -1 -patch On Tue, 2015-08-04 at 02:00 +0900, Roger Shimizu wrote: > Dear Ian, > > Thanks for your detailed comments! > > > I think your patch will break things by automatically installing > > (via > > the initramfs hook in the kernel postinst) whatever

Re: RFC: Handling backports for d-i components

On Tue, 2015-11-03 at 00:46 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi folks, > > You're receiving this mail because you're on debian-boot@ or you've got > something ACCEPTED into a backports suite; relevant packages seem to be > the following ones: debootstrap, di-netboot-assistant, and flash-kernel. >

Re: RFC: Handling backports for d-i components

On Tue, 2015-11-03 at 09:56 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Ian Campbell <i...@debian.org> (2015-11-03): > > For flash-kernel (and other bpo things I do outside of d-i) I generally > > push the tag but not the branch. > > > > This is because each bpo upload is

Bug#771465: Please add UEFI boot files to i386 and amd64 netboot images

Control: tags -1 -patch On Sun, 2015-09-13 at 11:45 +0200, Teemu Ikonen wrote: > I recently had to reinstall jessie to my MacBook2,1 and found that the > Debian 8.2 i386 netinst image now works out of the box even with the > strange EFI implementation in this box. Many thanks to Steve McIntyre >

Bug#771465: Please add UEFI boot files to i386 and amd64 netboot images

On Sun, 2015-09-13 at 12:36 +0200, Teemu Ikonen wrote: > On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 12:11 PM, Ian Campbell <i...@debian.org> > wrote: > > Do you mean mini.iso as in: > > http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/installer-amd64/c > urrent/images/netboot/mini.iso >

Bug#795231: fails on cubietruck with FAT /boot

Control: tags -1 wontfix On Tue, 2015-08-11 at 23:43 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Package: flash-kernel Version: 3.36 Severity: normal A few places in flash-kernel try to ln -s, and this fails if /boot is a FAT filesystem. It should be possible to fall back to cp in this case. I general /boot

Bug#794403: flash-kernel: command update-initramfs -uk kver result in boot images in false version

On Mon, 2015-08-03 at 01:27 +0900, Roger Shimizu wrote: Package: flash-kernel Version: 3.45 Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, Hook script initramfs-hook/flash-kernel will be called when update-initramfs is invoked. However flash-kernel only build the latest kernel version it

Re: Sparc removal

On Fri, 2015-07-31 at 04:34 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: I'm a bit unsure. If sparc ever comes back as sparc64, it might make sense to reuse some bits. They can always be recovered from the VCS history or the attic. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Bug#791794: UUID not found for root

On Thu, 2015-07-30 at 12:02 -0400, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Ian Campbell i...@debian.org [2015-07-22 09:10]: I think it is the DEBIAN_FRONTEND which is supposed to work for the installer case, which you added back in 2008. in-target appears to have set DEBIAN_FRONTEND=passthrough since 2005

Bug#793157: flash-kernel: syslinux-style boot configuration on recent u-boot versions

On Tue, 2015-07-21 at 23:09 +0200, Thibaut Girka wrote: On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 09:48:32PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: […] Long story short, I manually manually == with debootstrap from a host system or some other way? Yes, debootstrap from my amd64 laptop (second stage in a chroot

Bug#791794: UUID not found for root

On Wed, 2015-07-22 at 00:02 -0700, Martin Michlmayr wrote: Is $DEBIAN_HAS_FRONTEND supposed to be set when d-i runs in-target? in-target (via chroot-setup.sh in debian-installer-utils) unsets it and always has AFAICT from the git log. From #721485 that clause is there to handle failure when

Bug#793157: flash-kernel: syslinux-style boot configuration on recent u-boot versions

On Tue, 2015-07-21 at 22:02 +0200, Thibaut Girka wrote: Package: flash-kernel Severity: normal syslinux-style /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf superseed boot.scr in recent u-boot versions and seems to be the way forward for u-boot configuration, It's an alternative, but boot.scr remains a

Bug#789798: grub-installer: add option to _not_ install to UEFI boot order

Control: block 789798 by 792547 I've tested both of these patches (grub-installer [0] and grub2 [1] together but the grub-installer one doesn't do much without the grub2 one, since it appears that the installation of the grub-* packages also ends up running grub-install during installation. Ian.

Bug#789798: Bug#792547: Bug#789798: grub-installer: add option to _not_ install to UEFI boot order

On Thu, 2015-07-16 at 08:34 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: Control: block 789798 by 792547 I've tested both of these patches (grub-installer [0] and grub2 [1] together but the grub-installer one doesn't do much without the grub2 one, since it appears that the installation of the grub-* packages

Bug#789798: Updated patch to add option to _not_ install to UEFI boot order

Attached new patch inverts the sense of the option after review of the wording by debian-l10n-english and fixes the propagation of the setting to the installed grub2 package. Ian. From 4e038e33ea681dde7cccb05ba5a1a6b1e3ae8d6f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk Date

Re: newest boot effect

On Wed, 2015-07-15 at 11:01 +0200, w...@vienna.at wrote: Got it now? You seem to have missed the real message in KiBi's response: Please file a bug report separately and don't hijack threads: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch05s04.html.en#problem-report Ian. -- To

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