Bug#697017: An improved patch over Jonathan's

2013-01-01 Thread Gabriel Klawitter
On 12/31/2012 10:08 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: > > Try the following at a shell prompt: > >a=$((0x)) >echo $a >a=$((0x)) >echo $a >a=$((0xcompute)) > > The first two assignment statements produce no errors, and the result > of the echo command is 65535 in both cases,

Bug#697017: An improved patch over Jonathan's

2012-12-31 Thread Gabriel Klawitter
Hello, thank you for the efforts to solve the problem. Maybe I missed something, but isn't the case that is to be sorted out (for major/minors) the one that has a colon surrounded by digits (like [0-9]*:[0-9]*) and the case where the root string contains at most 4 hex digits? Why do not match

Bug#697017: root=compute fails at parse_numeric() for lilo compatibility

2012-12-30 Thread Gabriel Klawitter
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.109 Dear Maintainer, I'm using your package to set up a netboot environment where I use a script at local-bottom to retrieve a image to extract it into a tmpfs. The kernel command line looks as follows: rw rootfstype=tmpfs root=compute imgurl=http://10.0.0.2