Richard Hirst wrote: > Installing sarge didn't work, because it doesn't have the newest > debootstrap, so I used it to install sid. This is the first time I've > tried d-i for a few weeks, and some things have broken in the meantime. d-i is supposed to use debootstrap-udeb, which as a udeb is not in testing (but just symlined to it along with all the others). So I don't understand what you mean by the above. Is it possible debootstrap-udeb 0.2.21 has not yet been compiled for ia64? > Issues: > > Some char-set issue on language selection, top line has '?????', at > least. Didn't see this problem before. That's Arabic. I'm considering turning it off until it is fixed. > Failed to detect my cdrom (ide), because it never loaded ide-probe-mod.o > I have to manually modprobe that before d-i loaded the other kernel > modules for cdrom detection to work. If I modprobed it after d-i failed > to detect the cd, I then had to manually mknod /dev/cdrom b 3 0 and tell > d-i to use that. Didn't see this problem before. Hmm, we lost loading of ide-probe-mod some time ago. I have put it back for the next version of hw-detect. (Or I will when alioth returns to the net.) I don't know about this /dev problem. > dhcp network config got an ip address ok, but failed to fill in > /etc/resolv.conf, so it couldn't resolve names. Had to give ip addr for > my local mirror. Didn't see this problem before. That's fixed in the archive, awaiting a new CD build. > elilo failed to run because I didn't have a vaild boot partition with a > FAT filesystem on it already on the disk. Had to run elilo manually > with --format, or mkdosfs first (after chroot-ing to /target). The > right way to get round that is to use parted to make a fat32 filesystem > on the boot partition when creating it, but: > > parted seems to be broken. It doesn't seem able to create filesystems > anymore. Havn't looked in to this yet, but "mkpartfs pri ext2 1000 > 2000" just returns to the prompt without apparently doing anything. > Need to look in to this a bit more and file bug. I've been hearing murmerings about parted for a few days, is this a more widespread problem? There was a new version uploaded recently. > jbailey has hit problems on his box because the 2.4.20 kernel we boot > doesn't have include a module for the 53c1030. I understand that Bdale is in the process of fixing this. Of course it requires a kernel rebuild and, apparently, a marge. Sigh. > Now dannf has done the ia64 work of getting initrd based booting to > work, with everything modular, I think we really should switch to using > his 2.4.22 kernels for d-i, and installing that kernel. That might > require some elilo setup fixes. It would be good to transition it to linux-kernel-di udebs, so we don't have to rebuild the whole kernel when we find we've left a module out of a udeb. But probably after beta2, assuming we want ia64 to make beta2. -- see shy jo
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