Re: Lenny installer hanging?

2009-01-09 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 03:06:04PM -0600, Adam Thornton wrote: So, is there something I'm doing wrong? Not that I spot anything. This is a perfectly normal (if slow) z/VM development system (yes, it's actually emulated, but for all that, IBM still

Re: Lenny installer hanging?

2009-01-09 Thread Dan Dart
It seems that 2.6.26-2.6.27 have a regression that hangs my machine during startup of the kernel, that has something to do with HPET. I can stop it by using hpet=disable. It seems other people have trouble with other chipsets, too. 2.6.28 seems to be fine. Maybe it's the same bug? Though my

Re: Lenny installer hanging?

2009-01-09 Thread Ivan Warren
Dan Dart wrote: It seems that 2.6.26-2.6.27 have a regression that hangs my machine during startup of the kernel, that has something to do with HPET. I can stop it by using hpet=disable. It seems other people have trouble with other chipsets, too. 2.6.28 seems to be fine. Maybe it's the same

Re: Lenny installer hanging?

2009-01-09 Thread Adam Thornton
On Jan 9, 2009, at 12:24 PM, Dan Dart wrote: It seems that 2.6.26-2.6.27 have a regression that hangs my machine during startup of the kernel, that has something to do with HPET. I can stop it by using hpet=disable. It seems other people have trouble with other chipsets, too. 2.6.28 seems to

Re: Lenny installer hanging, replace SUSE with Lenny

2009-01-09 Thread Dan Dart
booting/IPLing the s390 Lenny debian install from within IBM's z/VM) Whoops. Got the wrong end of the stick. I was thinking boot problems with the kernel... since we're using the same (ish) kernel and both having problems with freezing, I thought it might have some similarity. Never mind. Plus.

Re: Lenny installer hanging?

2009-01-09 Thread Frans Pop
Ivan Warren wrote: The question is : would it be possible to have a more recent DI build for s390 (more recent than October 27th 2008) - and especially with a newer kernel ? You could try a daily built image from [1], which uses 2.6.26-12 (current unstable/testing kernel based on upstream

Re: Lenny installer hanging

2009-01-09 Thread Adam Thornton
Lenny 2.6.26-1 fails identically to Lenny d-i. (after aptitude dist- upgrade). Frans Pop reassigned bug 511334 to the kernel, which seems right. Etchnhalf kernel is fine. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Lenny installer hanging, replace SUSE with Lenny

2009-01-09 Thread Dan Dart
Here's how I'd do it: Set up a new disk (this does require that you can get a new chunk of DASD; under z/VM, of course, this is usually really easy. LPAR, not so much.) Mount it from the SuSE system. Bind-mount /sys, /proc, /dev debootstrap into the new disk run mkinitrd/zipl on the new