Bug#473364: installation-report: some install glitches (grub2, tasksel, serial mouse)

2008-04-22 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 04 April 2008, Paul Wise wrote: I couldn't see any obvious way to configure d-i to use my serial mouse, nor any way to find out what mouse it was currently using. This is now supported, though still not in an obvious way [1]. It would be great if you could test that it works using a

Bug#473364: installation-report: some install glitches (grub2, tasksel, serial mouse)

2008-04-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 20:02 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: choose en_AU as an additional language - seems that en_AU.iso88591 got preseeded from debian.exe? If that is true, it would IMO be a pretty serious bug in win32-loader as Debian is supposed to be installed using UTF-8 locales

Bug#473364: installation-report: some install glitches (grub2, tasksel, serial mouse)

2008-04-20 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 473364 win32-loader retitle 473364 Should not preseed legacy encodings severity 473364 important thanks (Omitting issues previously answered.) On Friday 04 April 2008, Paul Wise wrote: There are some other minor issues below though: goodbye-microsoft.com wait for grub2 (seems slower

Bug#473364: installation-report: some install glitches (grub2, tasksel, serial mouse)

2008-04-20 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 06:41:44PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Friday 04 April 2008, Paul Wise wrote: There are some other minor issues below though: goodbye-microsoft.com wait for grub2 (seems slower than grub1) Yes, I've seen that too in Virtualbox. It takes a huge amount of time and

Bug#473364: installation-report: some install glitches (grub2, tasksel, serial mouse)

2008-04-20 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 03:29:59PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: get to nice blue grub2 splash - shouldn't the bootloader and d-i use consistent themes? [...] hmm, no splashy gdm comes up - again theme consistency would be good [...] again the blue theme, perhaps d-i needs changing to use blue

Bug#473364: installation-report: some install glitches (grub2, tasksel, serial mouse)

2008-04-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 15:12 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Paul Wise wrote: The /etc/grub.d/30_otheros that was generated did not allow me to boot Windows. Simply changing (hd0,0) to (hd0,1) fixed this. Looks like grub2 uses 1-based partition indexes instead of 0-based ones like grub1 did.

Bug#473364: installation-report: some install glitches (grub2, tasksel, serial mouse)

2008-04-04 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 30 March 2008, Paul Wise wrote: Thirdly my mouse is a serial mouse and there didn't seem to be any obvious way to use it. The computer has a PS2 mouse port, but I don't have a PS2 mouse for this computer. It is on /dev/ttyS1 rather than S0 due to the positions of cables, usb sockets

Bug#473364: installation-report: some install glitches (grub2, tasksel, serial mouse)

2008-04-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 18:14 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: For the installation a serial mouse can probably be made working. Please try the following: - boot the installer with installgui BOOT_DEBUG=3 - in the debug shell, edit /etc/directfbrc and add the following line: mouse-source=device

Bug#473364: installation-report: some install glitches (grub2, tasksel, serial mouse)

2008-04-04 Thread Frans Pop
clone 473364 -1 reassign -1 cdebconf-gtk-udeb severity -1 minor retitle -1 cdebconf-gtk-udeb: segfaults after SIGTERM during reboot thanks On Friday 04 April 2008, Paul Wise wrote: reboot see debconf segfault on console just before the reboot happens I've noticed that as well, but so far not

Bug#473364: installation-report: some install glitches (grub2, tasksel, serial mouse)

2008-04-04 Thread Frans Pop
clone 473364 -1 reassign -1 rootskel-gtk retitle -1 Support configuring mouse port (serial) and protocol severity -1 wishlist thanks On Friday 04 April 2008, Paul Wise wrote: It worked when I added mouse-source=/dev/ttyS1 and mouse-protocol=MS to /etc/directfbrc since I have a 2 button

Bug#473364: installation-report: some install glitches (grub2, tasksel, serial mouse)

2008-04-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 21:00 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: Do you know if directfb can switch to a different mouse after g-i is already started? Well, we do a keymap switch, which is somewhat similar. Not sure if this will work, but could you try the following just to check: - boot the

Bug#473364: installation-report: some install glitches (grub2, tasksel, serial mouse)

2008-04-03 Thread Joey Hess
Paul Wise wrote: The /etc/grub.d/30_otheros that was generated did not allow me to boot Windows. Simply changing (hd0,0) to (hd0,1) fixed this. Looks like grub2 uses 1-based partition indexes instead of 0-based ones like grub1 did. AFAIK we're still not installing grub2 by default, are we? I