Re: Installing Debian amd64 on an asus P5W DH Deluxe + E6600 : kernel on installer broken + bugs in d-i when changing kernel + modules

2006-11-06 Thread dam
I am writing to you in emacs on a debian unstable install to an e6600/asusP5W-Deluxe... I tried several boot images, and I think the mini.iso of the unstable netboot was working, but I actually installed using the chroot method in the amd64 howto off of debian.org. ubuntu latest properly detects

Re: Re: Installing Debian amd64 on an asus P5W DH Deluxe + E6600 : kernel on installer broken + bugs in d-i when changing kernel + modules

2006-11-03 Thread Eric Valette
We have a P5W Delux at work which had various problems too. It is running windows XP, and after about a week of time it stops booting. It shows the splash screen of windows, and at the point it should change to a higher resolution you just get a black screen. Sometimes in the event log it

Re: Installing Debian amd64 on an asus P5W DH Deluxe + E6600 : kernel on installer broken + bugs in d-i when changing kernel + modules

2006-11-02 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 05:08:21PM +0100, Eric Valette wrote: Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 09:46:03AM +0100, Eric Valette wrote: 2) Downloaded ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/installer-amd64/20061022/images/gtk-miniiso burned it and booted it. Starts

Re: Installing Debian amd64 on an asus P5W DH Deluxe + E6600 : kernel on installer broken + bugs in d-i when changing kernel + modules

2006-11-01 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 09:46:03AM +0100, Eric Valette wrote: 2) Downloaded ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/installer-amd64/20061022/images/gtk-miniiso burned it and booted it. Starts well but hangs after a while because of spurious interrupts related to disk

Re: Installing Debian amd64 on an asus P5W DH Deluxe + E6600 : kernel on installer broken + bugs in d-i when changing kernel + modules

2006-10-31 Thread Eric Valette
Eric Valette wrote: Please CC me when anwsering: I'm not suscribed. 1) Did anybody else tried to replace a kernel with all drivers build in? Why did the modprobe -q evdev ||true fail? Has it anything to do with SMP support as the shell will probably spawn the two child on different proc but

Installing Debian amd64 on an asus P5W DH Deluxe + E6600 : kernel on installer broken + bugs in d-i when changing kernel + modules

2006-10-30 Thread Eric Valette
Please CC me when anwsering: I'm not suscribed. OK I knew this would be painful although I've installed debian on hundred of machines over the past ten years. No deception on this point. At least I will report the actual status and seek for advices for finishing. What I did so far: 1)