Bug#866629: It seems to an issue with regular bootable non-free iso as well.
Hey Shirish,
On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 04:05:04PM +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote:
>On 03/07/2017, Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> wrote:
>> I've just tested locally using
>>
>> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/9.0.0+nonfree/amd64/iso-cd/firmware-9.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso
>>
>> and I see no such issue. Are you *sure* you weren't using a live image?
>
>I stand corrected. It is indeed the live image which is at fault.
>While doing so, I have also made a wishlist bug #866971 which probably
>needs some art inputs, although am not sure of the feasibility of the
>idea.
ACK, just seen that come through now. It's a good idea, and I'll see
what I can do there. I made a similar change ages ago to make it
obvious if people were booting the UEFI installer, for similar
reasons. :-)
>Sorry for the noise and hope the bug gets fixed soon.
No problem, thanks for clarifying.
>On another note, I do hope we can have some kind of intimation when we
>are close to a release, so we can have pre-release parties with the
>same pomp and show that we do for the post-release parties and have
>more people contribute to finding showstopper bugs such as these.
Regular BSPs already happen in Debian, I think it's safe to say that
regular testing parties wouldn't hurt either! :-)
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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
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