Re: partman-efi
On Tuesday 20 July 2004 10:53, Joey Hess wrote:
> Jim Lieb wrote:
> > The strings in the template have already been "translated" for the
> > most part. I picked the strings from the hppa/palo boot and did an
> > s/palo/efi/g on them. The big translation part is patch set I made
> > for the manual.
>
> As far as I can tell, this string is not translated at all:
>
> +"In order to start your new Debian system, the firmware on your
> Itanium " +"system loads the boot loader from its private EFI
> partition on the hard " +"disk. The boot loader then loads the
> operating system from that same " +"partition. An EFI partition has
> a FAT16 filesystem formatted on it and the " +"bootable flag set.
> Most installations place the EFI partition on the first " +"primary
> partition of the same hard disk that holds the root filesystem."
>
> The "EFIboot" string is marked as fuzzy, so is "EFI boot partition
> (FAT16)". "EFI-fat16" is also untranslated.
>
I'm not sure what you mean by the details here but yes, there are some
untranslated strings, these probably being the biggest.
> > Given that without this patch, people will end up doing a complete
> > base install and *then* find out that elilo-installer can't find a
> > partition will make for bug reports like the one filed. I'm no
> > language expert but the strings are passable and the manual is
> > necessary to keep happy clients even if it is only in english at
> > present. I believe that is preferable to having bug reports from
> > users after they see a message that they should have seen 20 mins
> > earlier indicating that they have to repeat that 30 min exercise
> > with little enlightement as to what the problem entails.
>
> I could possibly pass on the translations, if the translation
> coordinators were ok with that, but it does seem to need a
> nonexistant efi-udeb too.
the efi udeb is in the patch set along with the partman-auto additions.
In fact, the strings are from partman-efi. You are probably referring
to some admin work wrt the package inventory lists for the kit. Yes,
whatever that is, it needs to be done...
As for motivation, IA64 installers are innocently lead down a blind
alley, only to find out at the end of the install that elilo can't be
installed, making all that work unusable. User frustration is
directly proportional to how late in the install you tell them to
start over. In this case, the partitioner changes catch the problem
in the very beginning whereas the existing state trips them up
at the very last step; not conducive to happy campers. We overcome
this in the Woody based HP distro by way of a step-by-step install
manual with lots of cautions. You see some of that reflected
in the changes I made to the manual. btw, I still boot the sarge
on my dev disk because I spent a lot some time in that blind alley
myself. Fortunately (for me) I get paid to wander around in alleys,
our Debian customers are not...
If there is any way we can expedite this, or, if unable, make sure it
gets in at the beginning of the next cycle we would appreciate it.
This is a show-stopper bug for the final release and I'd like to verify
that it is fixed so we can concentrate on to other issues.
Thanks,
Jim
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