Bug#289756: installation-reports

2005-01-13 Thread Peter Karbaliotis
reallocate failed I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Peter Karbaliotis

Bug#289756: installation-reports

2005-01-10 Thread Peter Karbaliotis
Brian Steele wrote: ... Machine: Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe, w/Radeon 9200 AGP video card, USB keyboard and mouse. ... I also see this with the same motherboard (see Bug #280950). What can we do to help diagnose this problem? Peter

Bug#280950: Installation Report

2004-11-12 Thread Peter Karbaliotis
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: 2004/11/10 daily image from http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/i386/2004/sarge-i386-netinst.iso uname -a: The result of running uname -a on a shell prompt Date: 2004/11/10 Method: netinst + network, booted off CD-ROM,

Bug#242290: Updated attempt to install on Sun280R

2004-11-12 Thread Peter Karbaliotis
Latest daily businesscard, netinst and mini iso (2004/11/12) http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/sparc/current/sarge-sparc-netinst.iso http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/sparc/current/sarge-sparc-businesscard.iso

Re: initrd testing

2004-05-17 Thread Peter Karbaliotis
Sun Ultra 1 (uniprocessor UltraSPARC): Loading initital ramdisk (1477740 bytes at 0x2080 phys 0x40c0 virt) Sun Ultra Enterprise 2 (dual processor UltraSPARC): Loading initital ramdisk (1477740 bytes at 0x6080 phys 0x40c0 virt) Panics with the same message as before: NET4: Unix

Re: initrd testing

2004-05-14 Thread Peter Karbaliotis
Ben Collins wrote: Ultra1: On this one, I got (modulo any typos) Loading initial ramdisk (1477684 bytes at 0x01x phys 022340800 virt) ... [spinning \/] Remapping the kernel ... FP Disabled ok and I was back to the OpenBoot 'ok' prompt. This is strange. Ultra10: On this one, I got

Re: initrd testing

2004-05-14 Thread Peter Karbaliotis
Joshua Kwan wrote: On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 01:56:25PM -0600, Peter Karbaliotis wrote: I also saw this on a Sun Ultra 2. Sun Ultra 2 UPA/Sbus (2 x UltraSPARC 200 MHz) ... loaded kernel version 2.4.26 Loading initial ramdisk ( 1477684 bytes at 0x01x phys, 0x6080 virt) ... RAMDISK: Couldn't find

Bug#249082: Installation report for Sun Ultra Enterprise 2

2004-05-14 Thread Peter Karbaliotis
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: daily image 20040511 from http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/sparc/current/ uname -a: Linux pill 2.4.24-sparc64 #1 Fri Jan 30 18:32:22 EST 2004 sparc64 unknown Date: 20040514 Method: Network install from daily business

Bug#249092: Installation report for Sun Ultra 1

2004-05-14 Thread Peter Karbaliotis
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: daily image 20040511 from http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/sparc/current/ uname -a: Linux light 2.4.26-sparc64 #1 Sat Apr 24 01:43:10 EDT 2004 sparc64 GNU/Linux Date: 20040514 Method: Network install from daily business

FYI: new package for creating ppc OpenFirmware bootable kernel images

2004-05-12 Thread Peter Karbaliotis
Seen in Debian Weekly News: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/mkvmlinuz This little program takes a PowerPC Linux kernel as an uncompressed ELF image file (usually called vmlinux or somesuch) and adds boot code and possibly a ramdisk to create a compressed kernel image that can be

Bug#247743: SPARCstation 5 and 20040505 daily businesscard image

2004-05-06 Thread Peter Karbaliotis
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: daily businesscard iso 20040505 from http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/sparc/current/ uname -a: Linux opal 2.4.24-sparc32 #1 Fri Jan 30 16:04:55 EST 2004 sparc unknown Date: 20040506 Method: businesscard, external CD-RW,

Bug#247743: cpuinfo

2004-05-06 Thread Peter Karbaliotis
Sorry, forgot to include the contents of /proc/cpuinfo: cpu : Fujitsu MB86904 fpu : Lsi Login/Meiko L64804 or compatible promlib : Version 3 Revision 2 prom: 2.15 type: sun4m ncpus probed: 1 ncpus active: 1 BogoMips: 109.36

Bug#247743: SPARCstation 5 and 20040505 daily businesscard image

2004-05-06 Thread Peter Karbaliotis
Joey Hess wrote: Peter Karbaliotis wrote: Here is the contents of /proc/cpuinfo Erm, I hope it's not really empty. Can you try agin to include it? I'm confused. It's there in my Sent Mail and I can see it on the web in BTS. Here it is again cpu : Fujitsu MB86904 fpu : Lsi Login/Meiko L64804

Bug#247757: SPARCstation 5 and 20040505 daily netinst image

2004-05-06 Thread Peter Karbaliotis
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: daily netinst iso 20040505 from http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/sparc/current/ uname -a: Linux opal 2.4.24-sparc32 #1 Fri Jan 30 16:04:55 EST 2004 sparc unknown Date: 20040506 Method: netinst iso, external CD-RW,

Bug#247757: more information

2004-05-06 Thread Peter Karbaliotis
I went back and created a 50 MB /boot partition at the start of the disk and the install completed successfully. I am now in the 2nd stage install which does not seem to be using the framebuffer(?). The screen is now black text on a white background and it is not possible to tell where the

Re: Should base-config add added users to useful groups?

2004-04-14 Thread Peter Karbaliotis
Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Andrew Pollock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Bit of a mouthful of a subject. I'm wondering if it would be beneficial to automatically add the non-root user created by base-config to a few groups, e.g. cdrom, floppy, audio, video? s/by base-config/by shadow Let's

Re: Bug#243120: installation-reports: boot failure on sparc32 (Ultra1)

2004-04-13 Thread Peter Karbaliotis
Vincent McIntyre wrote: Package: installation-reports Version: 20040410 Severity: normal Debian-installer-version: http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/sparc/current/sarge-sparc-netinst.iso (2004-04-10) ( MD5=21e4902c4ece557fc192fe2e94fa3862 ) uname -a: Date: 2004-04-11 15:00

Bug#242779: busybox-cvs-udeb: wget fails with 'SIZE value is garbage' on unauthoritative file length

2004-04-08 Thread Peter Karbaliotis
Package: busybox-cvs-udeb Version: 20040402-1 Severity: normal Tags: sid /tmp/reportbug-busybox-cvs-udeb-5401-bhsxQd -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686)

Bug#242779: oops. used --body instead of --body-file

2004-04-08 Thread Peter Karbaliotis
Package: busybox-cvs-udeb Version: 20040402-1 Severity: normal Tags: sid In an install from the sparc businesscard iso I get a 'Bad archive mirror' message when trying to get the (testing) Release file. I opened up a shell and tried manually using the command wget

Re: who is the maintainer of the sparc netboot.img

2004-04-07 Thread Peter Karbaliotis
Gerald Leier wrote: hi folks, im still want to get my sparcs booted with a sarge netboot.img. does someone know how to look into such a boot.img ? how to lookpback mount, which fs if any. or if kernel+ramdisk.tgz where to find the offset ? has anyone a clou on who did the netboot image for

Bug#242290: Sun Fire 280R

2004-04-05 Thread Peter Karbaliotis
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: daily businesscard image from 2004/04/04 uname -a: n/a Date: 2004/04/05 Method: boot from businesscard image Machine: Sun Fire 280R Processor: UltraSparc III+ Memory: 2 GB Root Device: SCSI Root Size/partition table: n/a Output of lspci: n/a

Bug#240372: SPARCstation 5 installation report

2004-03-29 Thread Peter Karbaliotis
Joshua Kwan wrote: On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 17:03:00 -0700, Peter Karbaliotis wrote: WARNING: Your /etc/fstab does not contain the fsck passno field. I will kludge around things for you, but you should fix your /etc/fstab file as soon as you can. And then the boot hangs because the root filesystem

Bug#240372: SPARCstation 5 installation report

2004-03-26 Thread Peter Karbaliotis
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: 2004/03/26 daily sparc-sarge-businesscard.iso uname -a: Linux opal 2.4.24-sparc32 #1 Fri Jan 30 16:04:55 EST 2004 sparc unknown Date: 2004/03/04 Method: network installation, CD-ROM, mirror: sunsite.ualberta.ca, not proxied Machine: Sun

Sparc beta 3 CD images have the wrong silo.conf

2004-03-16 Thread Peter Karbaliotis
VFS: Cannot open root device or 00:00 Please append a correct root= boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00 Press L1-A to return to the boot prom Booting with linux root=/dev/rd/0 devfs=mount,dall rw works. The silo.conf on the beta 3 CD images does not have the boot

Bug#236364: SPARCstation 5 installation report

2004-03-09 Thread Peter Karbaliotis
Thomas Poindessous wrote: On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 03:13:00PM -0700, Peter Karbaliotis wrote: This time it actually got to the point of installing a kernel image. Unfortunately, the installer chose kernel-image-2.4.24-sparc64-smp when it should have chosen kernel-image-2.4.24-sparc32. I think

Re: release status

2004-03-06 Thread Peter Karbaliotis
Joey Hess wrote: Thomas Poindessous wrote: On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 05:34:09PM -0900, Joey Hess wrote: Thomas Poindessous wrote: demo must be disabled in config/sparc.cfg. I took the right to do it in CVS. Hmm, that must make the debian-installer-demo package rather useless. yes, I didn't

Bug#236364: SPARCstation 5 installation report

2004-03-05 Thread Peter Karbaliotis
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: 2004/03/04 daily image from http://people.debian.org/~jbailey/d-i/sparc/daily/ uname -a: Linux opal 2.4.24-sparc32 #1 Fri Jan 30 16:04:55 EST 2004 sparc unknown Date: 2004/03/04 Method: network installation, CD-ROM, mirror:

Bug#236364: SPARCstation 5 installation report

2004-03-05 Thread Peter Karbaliotis
I went back and set the install to use testing, copied /target/bin/sleep and /target/lib/librt.so.1 to /bin and /lib, respectively and wiped the prevous installation. This time it actually got to the point of installing a kernel image. Unfortunately, the installer chose