Bug#352914: AW: Bug#352914: yaboot-installer tries to search for apple partitions on ibm rs6k/pseries hardware

2007-01-22 Thread Nölle, Christian
Hi everybody, we performed a new attemp a couple of days ago and everything went well (I will file a report later on). I think, this bug can be closed at last. Thank you all for your help and your time. btw: If anyone of you would like to test on that particular machine, just contact us, we

Bug#352914: yaboot-installer tries to search for apple partitions on ibm rs6k/pseries hardware

2006-06-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 02:13:47PM +0200, Nölle, Christian wrote: Sven Luther wrote: On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 02:29:13PM +0100, Nölle, Christian wrote: Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 12:31:35PM +0100, Nölle, Christian wrote: Tried it today with the image from last night and the

Bug#352914: yaboot-installer tries to search for apple partitions on ibm rs6k/pseries hardware

2006-06-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 05:13:43PM +0200, Nölle, Christian wrote: Colin Watson wrote: Could you clarify that when you boot using expert64, you don't even see the installer main menu, but that it just goes straight into the language selector without giving you any opportunity for

Bug#352914: yaboot-installer tries to search for apple partitions on ibm rs6k/pseries hardware

2006-06-28 Thread Nölle, Christian
Colin Watson wrote: Judging from your description earlier in this bug, this is entirely unconnected to partman-prep or yaboot-installer; you say it's happening right at the start of the installer, long before partman starts. Yes, sorry for that, maybe I should have filed another bugreport

Bug#352914: yaboot-installer tries to search for apple partitions on ibm rs6k/pseries hardware

2006-06-28 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 05:13:43PM +0200, =?UTF-8?Q? N=C3=B6lle,?= Christian wrote: Colin Watson wrote: Judging from your description earlier in this bug, this is entirely unconnected to partman-prep or yaboot-installer; you say it's happening right at the start of the installer, long

Bug#352914: yaboot-installer tries to search for apple partitions on ibm rs6k/pseries hardware

2006-06-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 07:21:38PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 05:13:43PM +0200, =?UTF-8?Q? N=C3=B6lle,?= Christian wrote: Colin Watson wrote: Judging from your description earlier in this bug, this is entirely unconnected to partman-prep or yaboot-installer; you

Bug#352914: AW: Bug#352914: yaboot-installer tries to search for apple partitions on ibm rs6k/pseries hardware

2006-06-28 Thread Nölle, Christian
Title: AW: Bug#352914: yaboot-installer tries to search for apple partitions on ibm rs6k/pseries hardware Hi everybody, Yes, that is the case. System is booting up fine, entering the installer and autoselecting the first step in the d-i menu. And so forth, as described. Have you tried

Bug#352914: AW: Bug#352914: yaboot-installer tries to search for apple partitions on ibm rs6k/pseries hardware

2006-06-28 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 08:10:55PM +0200, =?UTF-8?Q? N=C3=B6lle,?= Christian wrote: Hi everybody, Yes, that is the case. System is booting up fine, entering the installer and autoselecting the first step in the d-i menu. And so forth, as described. Have you tried it on something

Bug#352914: yaboot-installer tries to search for apple partitions on ibm rs6k/pseries hardware

2006-06-22 Thread Nölle, Christian
Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 02:13:47PM +0200, Nölle, Christian wrote: After we had lots of things to do beside our testing on that PPC we finally managed to get back on this issue. We still encounter that problem with the endless loop in the installer. Still not fixed, which

Bug#352914: yaboot-installer tries to search for apple partitions on ibm rs6k/pseries hardware

2006-06-01 Thread Nölle, Christian
Sven Luther wrote: On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 02:29:13PM +0100, Nölle, Christian wrote: Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 12:31:35PM +0100, Nölle, Christian wrote: Tried it today with the image from last night and the problem still persists. Installer is completly unusable. Maybe I

Bug#352914: yaboot-installer tries to search for apple partitions on ibm rs6k/pseries hardware

2006-06-01 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 02:13:47PM +0200, Nölle, Christian wrote: Sven Luther wrote: On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 02:29:13PM +0100, Nölle, Christian wrote: Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 12:31:35PM +0100, Nölle, Christian wrote: Tried it today with the image from last night and the

Bug#352914: yaboot-installer tries to search for apple partitions on ibm rs6k/pseries hardware

2006-03-08 Thread Nölle, Christian
Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 12:31:35PM +0100, Nölle, Christian wrote: Tried it today with the image from last night and the problem still persists. Installer is completly unusable. Maybe I should file a new bug?! Nope, i am on it, but currently away at fosdem. I am

Bug#352914: yaboot-installer tries to search for apple partitions on ibm rs6k/pseries hardware

2006-03-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 02:29:13PM +0100, Nölle, Christian wrote: Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 12:31:35PM +0100, Nölle, Christian wrote: Tried it today with the image from last night and the problem still persists. Installer is completly unusable. Maybe I should file a new

Bug#352914: yaboot-installer tries to search for apple partitions on ibm rs6k/pseries hardware

2006-02-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 12:31:35PM +0100, Nölle, Christian wrote: Nölle, Christian wrote: Sven Luther wrote: I just downloaded the daily-build from tonight (Version from the 02/15/2006) and gave it a try. Unfortenately it is totally unusable for us. Entering the expert64 video=ofonly (or

Bug#352914: yaboot-installer tries to search for apple partitions on ibm rs6k/pseries hardware

2006-02-21 Thread Nölle, Christian
Nölle, Christian wrote: Sven Luther wrote: I just downloaded the daily-build from tonight (Version from the 02/15/2006) and gave it a try. Unfortenately it is totally unusable for us. Entering the expert64 video=ofonly (or alternativly expert64 - makes no difference) modus, the system boots

Bug#352914: yaboot-installer tries to search for apple partitions on ibm rs6k/pseries hardware

2006-02-16 Thread Nölle, Christian
Sven Luther wrote: We are trying to tackle these issues, and Colin will upload a new version of partman-prep today, which will be present in tomorrow's daily builds. It would be helpful if you could give those a try, and comment back on this bug report (just do a group-reply to this mail).

Bug#352914: yaboot-installer tries to search for apple partitions on ibm rs6k/pseries hardware

2006-02-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 03:29:42PM +0100, Nölle, Christian wrote: Sven Luther wrote: We are trying to tackle these issues, and Colin will upload a new version of partman-prep today, which will be present in tomorrow's daily builds. It would be helpful if you could give those a try, and

Bug#352914: yaboot-installer tries to search for apple partitions on ibm rs6k/pseries hardware

2006-02-16 Thread Nölle, Christian
Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 03:29:42PM +0100, Nölle, Christian wrote: Sven Luther wrote: We are trying to tackle these issues, and Colin will upload a new version of partman-prep today, which will be present in tomorrow's daily builds. It would be helpful if you could give

Bug#352914: yaboot-installer tries to search for apple partitions on ibm rs6k/pseries hardware

2006-02-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 08:25:59AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: I file this bug as a place-holder for discussion and solving this issue. I have now had various reports that installation on various IBM powerpc/power machines, ranging from the RS6K B50 which has a 32bit 604e processor upto modern

Bug#352914: yaboot-installer tries to search for apple partitions on ibm rs6k/pseries hardware

2006-02-15 Thread Sven Luther
Hi, ... We are trying to tackle these issues, and Colin will upload a new version of partman-prep today, which will be present in tomorrow's daily builds. It would be helpful if you could give those a try, and comment back on this bug report (just do a group-reply to this mail). Friendly, Sven

Bug#352914: yaboot-installer tries to search for apple partitions on ibm rs6k/pseries hardware

2006-02-14 Thread Sven Luther
Package: yaboot-installer Severity: important Hi, ... I file this bug as a place-holder for discussion and solving this issue. I have now had various reports that installation on various IBM powerpc/power machines, ranging from the RS6K B50 which has a 32bit 604e processor upto modern 64bit