Re: newbie last try
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 09:22:01AM +0200, Thomas J. Zeeman wrote: > > Hi, > > > 1. I am unable to have windows in option for boot-up in GRUB. During > [snip] > > This is an old bug I reported several months ago already. It is still not > fixed. > >From what I remember the installer for AMD64 does not have the necessary > scripts to recognize a Windows partition on NTFS. The fix someone > mentioned then was to use the same scripts for AMD64 as i386 already uses. > > You can alter the grub menu.lst file once you have the system installed. > There is an example in the comments at the start. > > > 2. When I finish installing the base system and bootloader and > > reboot, I constantly have the same code consistently repeating in the > > shell: > > > > nv_sata: primary device added > > nv_sata: primary device removed > > nv_sata: secondary device added > > nv_sata: secondary device removed > > > > Thsi keeps going on throughout the rest of the install, when trying to > > get apt-get working, to the point where I can't choose options or type > > since this is continually running and bringing the screen down. > > Horribly frustrating and irritating. No other distributions I tried > > had this problem, x86 or amd64. > > I remember seeing a post about this a few weeks ago. IIRC the poster > finished the installation blind and set a few configs afterwards that > fixed this. Check the archives from september for how and what he did. You should be able to change the console log level, so even if the kernel is generating the messages, they don't show up on the screen. ALT+SYSRQ+0 should set the log level so that you don't see anything. Depending on what priority those messages are logged at, ALT+SYSRQ+2 or 3 might be enough, and still let critical messages show on the console. See also setterm(1). If the installer kernel doesn't have sysrq support turned on, there's some /proc stuff, I think. Also echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/printk_ratelimit might help. echoing into /proc is doable without any special tools, so you can do it from tty2 in the installer even. (And it tab-completes filenames :) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , des.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BC
Re: newbie last try
> On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 09:22:01AM +0200, Thomas J. Zeeman wrote: >> This is an old bug I reported several months ago already. It is still >> not fixed. > > What is the bug, exactly? I have grub booting into Windows XP on an > NTFS partition on a SATA drive without any problems. I used the > "other OS" entry in /usr/share/doc/grub/examples/menu.lst and it "just > worked" (once it worked at all; iirc I had to install grub manually at > the end of the install (a couple of months ago).) That's the bug I meant. The adm64 installer is still not capable of finding any NTFS-partition while the i386 can do that for ages now. It all works if you fix it by hand later, but it would be a lot nicer if it just worked. regards, Thomas
Re: newbie last try
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 09:22:01AM +0200, Thomas J. Zeeman wrote: > > 1. I am unable to have windows in option for boot-up in GRUB. During > [snip] > > This is an old bug I reported several months ago already. It is still not > fixed. What is the bug, exactly? I have grub booting into Windows XP on an NTFS partition on a SATA drive without any problems. I used the "other OS" entry in /usr/share/doc/grub/examples/menu.lst and it "just worked" (once it worked at all; iirc I had to install grub manually at the end of the install (a couple of months ago).) Which is not to say there aren't any problems, but there are setups that do what you're trying to do. --Pete
Re: Re: newbie last try
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 09:22:01AM +0200, Thomas J. Zeeman wrote: > > > 2. When I finish installing the base system and bootloader and > > reboot, I constantly have the same code consistently repeating in the > > shell: > > > > nv_sata: primary device added > > nv_sata: primary device removed > > nv_sata: secondary device added > > nv_sata: secondary device removed > > > > Thsi keeps going on throughout the rest of the install, when trying to > > get apt-get working, to the point where I can't choose options or type > > since this is continually running and bringing the screen down. > > Horribly frustrating and irritating. No other distributions I tried > > had this problem, x86 or amd64. > > I remember seeing a post about this a few weeks ago. IIRC the poster > finished the installation blind and set a few configs afterwards that > fixed this. Check the archives from september for how and what he did. More specifically, this message provides the workaround: http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2004/10/msg2.html -- Nils Nordman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: newbie last try
Hi, > 1. I am unable to have windows in option for boot-up in GRUB. During [snip] This is an old bug I reported several months ago already. It is still not fixed. >From what I remember the installer for AMD64 does not have the necessary scripts to recognize a Windows partition on NTFS. The fix someone mentioned then was to use the same scripts for AMD64 as i386 already uses
