Re: Saying goodbye as D-I Release Manager, but not to D-I

2007-06-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 08:32:33PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Friday 01 June 2007 20:22, Sven Luther wrote: Sad to see you go, and sad that debian failed in mediating this in a way which allowed us both to have fun. Let this be a lection to the future, of the hurt that pride can cause

Re: floppies, a radical proposal

2007-06-01 Thread Sven Luther
as much as I can with the testing process (I'm not a developer) Make sure you grab a copy of the moiboot packages from http://people.debian.org/~luther/miboot, before they get erased. Sadly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Saying goodbye as D-I Release Manager, but not to D-I

2007-06-01 Thread Sven Luther
in mediating this in a way which allowed us both to have fun. Let this be a lection to the future, of the hurt that pride can cause to all involved and bystanders. Sadly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Powerpc netinst CD when selected install64 installs only powerpc not powerpc64 kernel image!

2007-05-24 Thread Sven Luther
preocuped with their witch-hunt, this kind of problems would not be happening. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Stop. Breathe. Walk away.

2007-05-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 06:09:16PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 03:31:46AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: You are wrong, this is an issue pertaining to the whole of debian, who chose to let the DAMs punish me, while knowing this was unfair, while everyone with the least

Re: Stop. Breathe. Walk away.

2007-05-23 Thread Sven Luther
sense, we would all happily be coding since over a year now. Sadened, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Stop. Breathe. Walk away.

2007-05-21 Thread Sven Luther
arrogance and stubborness ? You have forced debian to no more be something beautiful to be proud of, but something unfair and ugly, to be ashamed of. Shame on you, shame on the d-i team, Saddened, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Stop. Breathe. Walk away.

2007-05-21 Thread Sven Luther
punishment. Shame on Debian, Shame on what you have all done to it, Saddened, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Stop. Breathe. Walk away.

2007-05-20 Thread Sven Luther
? Saddened, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#420820: no console set IBM p5 server

2007-05-17 Thread Sven Luther
on CHRP for this kind of things, and is also said to be so in the CHRP spec. If you don't believe me, or otherwise ignore me, just ask someone with a clue on this and they will tell you so. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Bug#420820: no console set IBM p5 server

2007-05-17 Thread Sven Luther
and input information, altough i am not sure how this is supposed to work. Normally you could just ignore any of these choices, and simply have the chosen/stdin and cvhosen stdout used. Friendly, Sven Luther Let me know what I should use. I can either modify the script myself or if you prefer you can

Re: questions regarding debian gui installer cutomization.

2007-05-16 Thread Sven Luther
packages on one PC and then using apt-move created http/ ftp repo for updation for internal usage. is there any other option also i have to manually add the http and ftp details to each pc, is any workaround possible. you can use apt-proxy. see p.d.o/apt-proxy Or approx, Friendly, Sven

Bug#420820: no console set IBM p5 server

2007-05-15 Thread Sven Luther
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Bug#420820: no console set IBM p5 server

2007-05-15 Thread Sven Luther
/vdevice/[EMAIL PROTECTED] or does that file just not exist in that case? Frans, forget about those existential questions. /proc/device-tree/chosen is what you want. It will contain a copy of all the relevant information used during booting, provided to you by the underlying firmware. Friendly, Sven

Bug#394970: /420820: no console set IBM p5 server

2007-05-15 Thread Sven Luther
doing the OF path from linux path mapping. Not sure it supports the other way around, but that would be the right way to handle this. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Proposed release goal: Switch to GRUB2

2007-04-25 Thread Sven Luther
to follow. Thoughts? I wonder if we will also move from yaboot-installer to grub2-installer on powerpc, and if you have given any thought to that migration path ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Proposed release goal: Switch to GRUB2

2007-04-25 Thread Sven Luther
not be important here. Sun has decided to make grub2 the default for opensolaris, including their powerpc opensolaris port. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: d-i for ps3

2007-04-20 Thread Sven Luther
this lamentable dispute, rejecting even a RL meeting at FOSDEM, responding by an active role in the expulsion request, it is probably a bit hypocrit of you to ask about this, especially given the further punishing decision of the DAMs about this. Hurt, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: d-i for ps3

2007-04-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 01:36:52PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 03:09:37PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Hi guys. I wonder if you could update us on the current status of d-i for the ps3. Has there been any progress on the kernel

Bug#417871: debian-installer: On a system without ide disks and floppy, d-i takes forever in disk discovery.

2007-04-05 Thread Sven Luther
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal On an x86 system (actually two different boards, and older athlon 1.2Ghz based via board, and a newer tyan nforce based opteron board, when there are no ide disks (except the cdrom drive), nor floppy driver connected, but only scsi or sata disks, the

Re: D-I RC2 images available for testing

2007-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
e Attilio or Eddy can give you the link, it would be good to add your hardware there, and do a followup on those tests, and see why directfb/directfb-gtk is failing on this hardware. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Bug#414574: debian-installer web site is missing links to the non-iso d-i images.

2007-03-12 Thread Sven Luther
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal I wanted to test a d-i daily build netboot image on this tyan motherboard, which seems to have some sata driver troubles, but was unable to find the netboot images on the web site anymore. Only iso links remain, please fix this. Friendly, Sven Luther

problems with tyan thunder n3600B board, where are the netboot x86 images ?

2007-03-12 Thread Sven Luther
#debian-boot by fjp [fjp] Anyone has any kind of experience with those tyan boards and see this same problem ? And could it be possible to restore the non-iso images links to the web site ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: problems with tyan thunder n3600B board, where are the netboot x86 images ?

2007-03-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 06:32:32PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 12 March 2007 17:37, Sven Luther wrote: 17:19 -!- Irssi: Join to #debian-boot was synced in 1 secs 17:19 svenl ah, nice, i am no more banned :) 17:20 fjp svenl: Sorry, but that is a mistake then. Note that Sven

Re: previous unspoken words

2007-03-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 07:30:41PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: On 12-03-2007 at 17:37 wrote Sven Luther: under Subject: problems with tyan thunder n3600B board, where are the netboot x86 images ? Well, for those who care about debian, and not only for their own private feud : 17

Re: problems with tyan thunder n3600B board, where are the netboot x86 images ?

2007-03-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 12:09:29PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 05:37:31PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: for those who care about debian, and not only for their own private feud : 17:19 -!- Irssi: Join to #debian-boot was synced in 1 secs 17:19 svenl ah, nice, i am

Re: problems with tyan thunder n3600B board, where are the netboot x86 images ?

2007-03-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 12:09:29PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 05:37:31PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: for those who care about debian, and not only for their own private feud : 17:19 -!- Irssi: Join to #debian-boot was synced in 1 secs 17:19 svenl ah, nice, i am

Bug#411446: installation-reports

2007-03-01 Thread Sven Luther
/debian-powerpc/2007/01/msg00068.html Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#397973: Bug still present

2007-02-27 Thread Sven Luther
nothing in reproducing this which needs powermac hardware to test, and i am sure that i can even be reproduced in quemu or vmware. You just need to chose a mac partition table, and you will face this bug. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#412723: yaboot-installer: yaboot sets wrong partition number in LVM/RAID situations.

2007-02-27 Thread Sven Luther
partition, namely /dev/sd[ab]3. This leaves the system unbootable on a reboot, thus the severity of this bug report. Friendly, Sven Luther -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

XServe G5 has no hardware deffect, so this *IS* a udev bug :/

2007-01-26 Thread Sven Luther
if the machine is stable with yaird and without udev. More to this once i have the box back, and am back from the Solution Linux show in paris. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#403136: XServe G5 has no hardware deffect, so this *IS* a udev bug :/

2007-01-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 11:11:45AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Jan 26, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) write a program writing to stdout and dropping the actual error message somewhere. Just add something like this to the top of the affected scripts: exec /dev/xxx.log 21

Re: XServe G5 has no hardware deffect, so this *IS* a udev bug :/

2007-01-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 11:52:12AM +0100, David Härdeman wrote: On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 10:52:39AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Next step would be : 1) write a program writing to stdout and dropping the actual error message somewhere. How about this: #include stdio.h #include stdlib.h

Bug#392764: Can't reproduce on PowerStack, MAC partition issue only?

2007-01-22 Thread Sven Luther
*ERASES* the raid flag set by hand by parted, which is rather strange, and hints strongly at some problem in partman-md (but also possibly mirrored in partman-lvm, which has a similar flag setup). Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Bug#352914: reopen, until the issues mentioned in the Fri, 8 Sep 2006 11:13:59 +0200 mail have been checked.

2007-01-22 Thread Sven Luther
. I will investigate this first chance in february, and provide feedback in the bug report. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#392764: closed by Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#392764 partman: [powerpc] RAID support is broken on powermac hardware (64bit, XServe G5))

2007-01-12 Thread Sven Luther
reopen 392764 # Clueless closing of this bug, probably due to a confusion with another, # separate, but similar bug. thanks Frans, you know that i did open two bugs, because those where two separate issues, right ? Friendly, Sven Luther On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 07:03:46AM -0800, Debian Bug

Bug#397973: Processed: upping severity, as discussed with Steve ...

2007-01-12 Thread Sven Luther
Unrelated, this was, to the best of my knowledge, a separate bug, which i investigated and fixed, and colin had already fixed for ubuntu and commented on it later on. It is unrelated to this bug. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Bug#392764: closed by Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#392764 partman: [powerpc] RAID support is broken on powermac hardware (64bit, XServe G5))

2007-01-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 06:02:06PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Friday 12 January 2007 17:10, Sven Luther wrote: reopen 392764 # Clueless closing of this bug, probably due to a confusion with another, # separate, but similar bug. thanks Frans, you know that i did open two bugs, because

Bug#397973: #397973 [powerpci/mac] partman-md appears to not write back the raid flag to partitions.

2007-01-12 Thread Sven Luther
during base-install, but this should be enough to test this fix. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#397973: #397973 [powerpci/mac] partman-md appears to not write back the raid flag to partitions.

2007-01-12 Thread Sven Luther
). It would be really helpful if this could be reproduced on an x86 box, with a mac partition table (expert mode, chose pmac as partition table format for the disk). So, unless i made a mistake, i confirm that this bug is still present. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#405572: PowerPC, prep flavor: missing root= boot option after install

2007-01-06 Thread Sven Luther
initramfs-tools thingy should also work, i am not really familiar with initramfs-tools, so i may have missed this. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#403031: proposed patch to clean the finish-install serial console detection.

2006-12-26 Thread Sven Luther
reopen 403031 severity 403031 wishlist retitle 403031 Serial console detection should happen only once. thanks Sorry, this mail left due to a bad manipulation before i had time to finish it or even review it :/ On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 08:24:41AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Dec 25, 2006

Bug#403031: proposed patch to clean the finish-install serial console detection.

2006-12-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Dec 25, 2006 at 09:36:52PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 19 December 2006 23:07, Sven Luther wrote: Err, can you tell me the risk of regression. Please speak the issue with someone else, like Colin and Joey, or Bastian, and weigth the actual risk. OK. So let me tell you why

Bug#403778: installation-report: sudo password not specified

2006-12-21 Thread Sven Luther
password prompt, and then following the installation normally. /me knows, as i discovered this option in exactly this way :) Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Draft release notes and errata for RC1 - Efika support

2006-12-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 04:23:34PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: package: release-notes severity: wishlist On Friday 10 November 2006 17:16, Sven Luther wrote: We could also mention architecture support changes : - PowerPC: dropped support for powerpc/apus. - PowerPC: Added support

Bug#403084: debian-installer: [powerpc] mini-iso images are non-bootable on powerpc/pmac/chrp

2006-12-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 03:01:50PM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 03:45:29PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Since i am going to reinstalll the XServe G5 which went broken last week, i investigated why i couldn't boot from CD. It happens that the generated mini.iso files

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 07:05:46AM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: Hi Sven, On Dec 20, 2006, at 2:16 AM, Sven Luther wrote: What is really needed is for confirmation with the current kernels that : 1) miboot booting works (or not). 2) bootx booting works (or not). 3) quik

Re: Draft release notes and errata for RC1 - Efika support

2006-12-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 01:29:02PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The Efika (http://www.genesippc.com/efika.php) needs 2.6.19 based patches, so will not be supported, altough i have a d-i build using a modified base-installer, which will grab

Re: kde/gnome/xfce media other than full CDs

2006-12-20 Thread Sven Luther
people will not know about any such option, and when faced with the normal tasksel selections, will only be proposed a desktop or graphical task, which as far as i know will install only gnome. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Bug#403084: closed by Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Re: Bug#403084: debian-installer: [powerpc] mini-iso images are non-bootable on powerpc/pmac/chrp)

2006-12-19 Thread Sven Luther
the powerpc market. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#403031: proposed patch to clean the finish-install serial console detection.

2006-12-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 03:21:11PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Saturday 16 December 2006 00:30, Sven Luther wrote: Please find attached a patch which does the finish-install detection of a serial console, based on what was done in rootskel/detect-linux-console. Has this patch been tested

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-19 Thread Sven Luther
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further investigation shows the udev scripts are not even started ...

2006-12-18 Thread Sven Luther
of 1, but as said, running those scripts by hand is perfectly fine. Most baffling. Friendly, Sven Luther -- Package-specific info: -- /etc/udev/rules.d/: /etc/udev/rules.d/: total 8 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 2006-12-09 08:15 020_libgphoto2_generic-ptp_support.rules

Re: Scheduling linux-2.6 2.6.18-9

2006-12-17 Thread Sven Luther
quickly and rebuild them via normal sourceful uploads as well. Why is loop-aes not part of the official module packages ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#403136: udev bug ... (d-i fails to create /dev/sd* devices)

2006-12-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 02:48:24PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Dec 16, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, i never dealt with udev, i have not even the faintest idea where to start, and the initramfs-tools or d-i environment i have to play with is really not all that user

Bug#403299: (no subject)

2006-12-16 Thread Sven Luther
) and initramfs-tools. Not sure if this is a similar problem or not. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#403293: libdebian-installer: [powerpc] Add efika support.

2006-12-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 11:51:38AM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: Op 16-12-2006 om 00:21 schreef Sven Luther: --- src/system/subarch-powerpc-linux.c (révision 43393) +++ src/system/subarch-powerpc-linux.c (copie de travail) @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ static struct map map_machine

Bug#403295: nobootloader: [powerpc] Please add efika support.

2006-12-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 10:05:24AM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-12-16 00:26]: - powerpc/chrp_pegasos) + powerpc/chrp_pegasos|powerpc/chrp_efika) This conflicts with #403295 which defines EFIKA as powerpc/chrp_pegasos... Oh my, ... Sorry, you

Bug#403295: closed by Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Re: Bug#403295: nobootloader: [powerpc] Please add efika support.)

2006-12-16 Thread Sven Luther
] Subject: Re: Bug#403295: nobootloader: [powerpc] Please add efika support. Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 15:11:26 +0100 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Saturday 16 December 2006 13:28, Sven Luther wrote: That said, this patch doesn't conflict, it is just useless. In any case it doesn't hurt

Bug#403392: debian-installer: etch-sid sources transformation should remove security line ...

2006-12-16 Thread Sven Luther
for other non-official repositories too. Please consider removing the security line, which will be present on each etch install, or consider, after the etch-sid replacement, checking and removing each line which is not valid, instead of failing like it happens right now. Friendly, Sven Luther

Re: Newest powerpc install disks not booting

2006-12-15 Thread Sven Luther
, and replacing the official sarge miboot floppies by a note pointing to these unofficial images. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-15 Thread Sven Luther
you backport the little change from the sid branch, this should fix it. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#403293: libdebian-installer: [powerpc] Add efika support.

2006-12-15 Thread Sven Luther
Package: libdebian-installer Version: 0.47 Severity: normal Tags: patch Please add support for the efika board to libdebian-installer. Friendly, Sven Luther -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Shell: /bin

Bug#403031: proposed patch to clean the finish-install serial console detection.

2006-12-15 Thread Sven Luther
Package: finish-install Version: 2.6 Tags: patch Followup-For: Bug #403031 Please find attached a patch which does the finish-install detection of a serial console, based on what was done in rootskel/detect-linux-console. Friendly, Sven Luther -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT

Bug#403295: nobootloader: [powerpc] Please add efika support.

2006-12-15 Thread Sven Luther
=== --- debian/changelog(révision 42839) +++ debian/changelog(copie de travail) @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +nobootloader (1.16) UNRELEASED; urgency=low + + [ Sven Luther ] + * [powerpc] Add support for the Efika board. + + -- Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat, 16 Dec 2006 00:18:54 +0100

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 11:21:53PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Friday 15 December 2006 21:37, Sven Luther wrote: Notice that the 2.6 sarge d-i image had a bug which was later fixed in the etch/sid version. It has to do with calling mkvmlinuz i think, instead of simply gzipping

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 11:21:53PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Friday 15 December 2006 21:37, Sven Luther wrote: Notice that the 2.6 sarge d-i image had a bug which was later fixed in the etch/sid version. It has to do with calling mkvmlinuz i think, instead of simply gzipping

Re: partitioner seems confused

2006-12-14 Thread Sven Luther
] please), so i am early in the loop and can give you advice and fix those issues first which are important to you. I am working on the serial issues you are seeing too, but like said, i have gotten only second hand vague reports upto now. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#403031: finish-install: serial console detection is not matching what is done in rootskel/console-detect

2006-12-14 Thread Sven Luther
of the TERM_TYPE detection, in case of some new future serial console kind not catched by the above rootskel/console-detect code, i don't know if this is already possible, but this would be a separate bug report maybe. Friendly, Sven Luther -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers

Bug#403084: debian-installer: [powerpc] mini-iso images are non-bootable on powerpc/pmac/chrp

2006-12-14 Thread Sven Luther
to make them autoboot. At least on chrp boxes. I am nto fully sure, and i will try booting the image from disk, but i guess this is the problem. It used to work like a month ago, so i don't know what happened here. Colin, you are the expert on this, can you investigate ? Friendly, Sven Luther

Re: Newest powerpc install disks not booting

2006-12-13 Thread Sven Luther
/~luther/miboot 2) mget *.deb 3) dpkg -i *.deb 4) apt-get source debian-installer 5) cd debian-installer-version 6) apt-get build-dep debian-installer 7) dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc Not sure if this will do it, but should be a good start. Friendly, Sven Luther

Re: Newest powerpc install disks not booting

2006-12-12 Thread Sven Luther
it is best to cross post these questions to debian-powerpc debian-boot. Wouter, Frans and Holger are those more involved in those matters, and thus make sure they get involved. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Short ppc-prep install report

2006-12-11 Thread Sven Luther
on this kind of hardware? Like said, i was never able to boot from cdrom, but i didn't try much. The netboot vmlinuz-prep works fine, and this is what is the recomended installation method on prep. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Bug#386265 closed by Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bug#386265: fixed in base-installer 1.70)

2006-12-06 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 09:12:17AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 06 December 2006 08:30, Sven Luther wrote: Frans, notice that yaird is still the prefered option for prep machines, as initramfs-tools still is unable to detect the root partition per default. Setting yaird

Re: Bug#386265 closed by Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bug#386265: fixed in base-installer 1.70)

2006-12-05 Thread Sven Luther
with. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: No prep kernels in daily installer images?

2006-12-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 10:37:31AM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 10:56:36PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 09:47:26PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: So, some patience please. Hopefully this will be sorted out by early next week. Like i said

Re: No prep kernels in daily installer images?

2006-12-04 Thread Sven Luther
by it). Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#401264: partman-auto-lvm: [powerpc, prep] On PReP systems, no separate /boot is needed, since we have the prep partition

2006-12-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 10:51:33PM +0100, David Härdeman wrote: On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 09:37:18AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Package: partman-auto-lvm Version: 18 Severity: normal Hello, ... I am doing a prep install on my motorola powerstack II, and found that chosing a LVM

Bug#401264: partman-auto-lvm: [powerpc, prep] On PReP systems, no separate /boot is needed, since we have the prep partition

2006-12-02 Thread Sven Luther
, and this would cause a time-travel loop, since the choice of bootloader is done after the partitioning step. Friendly, Sven Luther -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Bug#386265: base-installer patch for prep support.

2006-12-02 Thread Sven Luther
includes a /proc/cpuinfo output of my powerstack II, for addition into the kernel choser testing infrastructure. Friendly, Sven Luther Index: powerpc.sh === --- powerpc.sh (revision 42783) +++ powerpc.sh (working copy) @@ -9,7 +9,8

Bug#401271: [powerpc,prep] Motorola Powerstack II installation report.

2006-12-02 Thread Sven Luther
-2.6.18-3-prep with dpkg -i. Reboot. Try simply rebooting, if initramfs-tools fails at the finding root stage, reboot, and at the kernel command line option prompt, add a propper root=/dev/... entry. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Regarding: Bug#401271: [powerpc,prep] Motorola Powerstack II installation report.

2006-12-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 12:45:30PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: Op 02-12-2006 om 11:42 schreef Frans Pop: On Saturday 02 December 2006 10:47, Sven Luther wrote: Now, about the workaround, currently you need to : 1) as soon as the base system is installed, when you

Bug#401271: [powerpc,prep] Motorola Powerstack II installation report.

2006-12-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 11:42:08AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: reassign 401271 partman-auto retitle 401271 Separate boot partition not needed for prep systems tags 401271 + pending thanks On Saturday 02 December 2006 10:47, Sven Luther wrote: Comments/Problems: 1) PReP machines need

Re: Bug#386265: base-installer patch for prep support.

2006-12-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 03:07:06PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: + if [ $1 = powerpc ] [ $SMP ]; then + # 2.4 only has powerpc-smp. + echo kernel-image-$KERNEL_MAJOR-$1$SMP

Re: Bug#386265: base-installer patch for prep support.

2006-12-02 Thread Sven Luther
will base-installer/kernel react if the user uses some random naming scheme for his custom kernels. Furthermore, i also had that understanding, but i remember vaguely having seen random cleanup happening for dropping 2.4 stuff. Has 2.4 compatibility installs been done recently ? Friendly, Sven

Re: Bug#401271: [powerpc,prep] Motorola Powerstack II installation report.

2006-12-02 Thread Sven Luther
you all for working together again peacefully. :) Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: No prep kernels in daily installer images?

2006-12-01 Thread Sven Luther
a powerstack II (in a beige housing) or a powerstack I (in a hifi radio like black housing) ? Also, note that you will need the -prep flavour, and no more the powerpc flavour, since prep did not yet migrate to ARCH=powerpc (together with apus, who is also disabled). Friendly, Sven Luther

Re: No prep kernels in daily installer images?

2006-12-01 Thread Sven Luther
. Actually, at a quick glance, it seems the daily builds are again present since november 29, and there are nov 30, and two dec 1 builds. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: No prep kernels in daily installer images?

2006-12-01 Thread Sven Luther
images should work just fine. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: No prep kernels in daily installer images?

2006-12-01 Thread Sven Luther
=powerpc (together with apus, who is also disabled). Yeah, I know, Cool, Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#394970: which serious bugs exactly? (Re: if you care about debian on powerpc, please react ...)

2006-11-30 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 12:17:07PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Sunday 26 November 2006 15:09, Sven Luther wrote: currently shiping powerpc hardware are : IBM pseries : not really supported, patch sitting without comment since months, early work lost because of svn commit

Re: g5 noise issue in RC1 - patch for the errata

2006-11-30 Thread Sven Luther
.. Ideally, a check for 64bitness could be added, altough i had some user suggest that some of those modules would be useful on ibooks also. I am not fully sure as i didn't investigate at the time. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Bug#394970: Please, add credits for patch while closing #394970

2006-11-30 Thread Sven Luther
, but the devil is in the detail. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Processing of linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6_1.24_powerpc.changes

2006-11-27 Thread Sven Luther
appreciated if you had credited me for the abi bump, since i was the one doing it, even though someone called debian-boot asked for a REJECT. Give credit where credit is due, please. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6_1.24_powerpc.changes REJECTED

2006-11-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 03:18:57PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: That does remind me of a person showing scrafs of self inflected wounds. It took me a few days that she was actually telling I'm now over it Right now I'm seeing Sven Luther raging in an ineffective way. Well, it seems like

Re: Developer wants to destroy

2006-11-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 04:41:38PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: Op 26-11-2006 om 15:44 schreef Sven Luther: ... it can only end with me being totally destroyed. Fine, just continue with what you are doing. And you would have played a strong role in this. But Fabio proposed to act

Re: Developer wants to destroy

2006-11-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 11:00:01PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: Op 26-11-2006 om 21:11 schreef Sven Luther: On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 04:41:38PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: Op 26-11-2006 om 15:44 schreef Sven Luther: ... it can only end with me being totally destroyed. Fine

Re: Bug#394971: [powerpc64] load the fan control modules

2006-11-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 10:38:04AM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Neither of I or Frans said that it need to be done until today or tomorrow. We just asked for the fix. You misunderstand it as I was forcing you to fix it ASAP and it's not true

Re: Bug#394971: [powerpc64] load the fan control modules

2006-11-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 01:42:48PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 10:38:04AM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Neither of I or Frans said that it need to be done until today or tomorrow

Re: linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6_1.24_powerpc.changes REJECTED

2006-11-25 Thread Sven Luther
be. Frans: My honest opinion of it: the biggest load of self-satisfied and self-centered crap I've ever seen FUCK YOU! Friendly, Sven Luther On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 07:42:11PM +, Archive Administrator wrote: reject as requested by debian-boot === If you don't understand why your

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