Bug#138849: boot-floppies: syslinux screen on boot-floppies created boot-floppy has messed chars

[Junichi Uekawa]

David Kimdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit:

> This is probably a bug in syslinux.  If the bug isn't easy to fix in
> syslinux though, perhaps we should put in non-accented equivalents so
> the text is easier to read? As it is I can make it out, but it would
> definately be clearer if the garbled characters were removed.  Would
> we want to do that for every language?  I see that ko and ja are in
> English, presumably because syslinux has no chance of making anything
> like those characters.

Yes, something tells me that the french translation was done, and
no one really ever checked how it really looks on install :P

We've given up on trying to display Japanese text on
syslinux message, because it's almost impossible on most 
arches except maybe pc9800, which has hardware support 
for Japanese text.


regards,
junichi

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cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/it by aph

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Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/it
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time:   Sun Mar 17 22:59:18 PST 2002
Log Message:
  s/&man-mac-fdisk;/mac-fdisk.txt/
  

Files:
changed:partitioning.sgml


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cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/ca by aph

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Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/ca
who:aph
time:   Sun Mar 17 22:59:17 PST 2002
Log Message:
  s/&man-mac-fdisk;/mac-fdisk.txt/
  

Files:
changed:partitioning.sgml


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Bug#138849: boot-floppies: syslinux screen on boot-floppies created boot-floppy has messed chars

[David Kimdon]

Package: boot-floppies
Version: N/A; reported 2002-03-17
Severity: minor

Hi,

I installed in french and made a boot-floppy.  When I boot off that
floppy the message from syslinux is nicely in french for me.  However
every accented character is garbled, it looks very bad.  

This is probably a bug in syslinux.  If the bug isn't easy to fix in
syslinux though, perhaps we should put in non-accented equivalents so
the text is easier to read? As it is I can make it out, but it would
definately be clearer if the garbled characters were removed.  Would
we want to do that for every language?  I see that ko and ja are in
English, presumably because syslinux has no chance of making anything
like those characters.

-David

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Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux oink 2.4.18 #1 Thu Mar 14 20:07:41 PST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C



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Bug#105621: #105621: boot-floppies: Woody installer failes when pre-loading modules from a floppy

[David Kimdon]

Hi,

I took a look at the current b-f source wrt this bug.

If the the /tmp/mod-save-dir exists (the deleted dir in the bug
report) that indicates that the _("Preload essential modules from a
floppy") step was chosen. 

_("This step is only required if the hard disk controller, on which
you want to install Debian GNU/Linux, is not recognized. In most
cases, you can safely skip this.\n"

If it is the case that the modules were 'required', then deleting
/tmp/mod-save-dir will cause the initrd to not be created.  With no
initrd I would have expected the system to not mount the root
filesystem upon rebooting.  Am I missing something?

Even if the modules weren't actually required there is still the
question of 'not enough space in the mounted initrd'.  What leads you
to believe there was not enough space?  

FWIW, space is calculated in get_ramdisk_size().  Do we need to
increase the 30k fudge factor?:

  size += 30; /* trust no one */

I don't see anything obviously wrong with the code.  Did the machine
run out of RAM?

Thanks,

-David


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Wrong Disk message attempting to use base image floppies.

[R Allen Blowers]

http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/disks-i386/current/images
-1.44/
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/disks-i386/base-images-cu
rrent/images-1.44/

I downloaded floppy images from these two directories this evening.  The
install using these floppy images proceeded OK until it came time to load
the first of the 'base' image disks.  When I did so I received the following
error message:

WRONG DISK!
This is disk 1 of 19 in disks-i386/images-1.44/base series of 16Mar2002
22:29.
Wrong disk.  This is from series disks-i386/images-1.44/base.  You need disk
1 of series the base series.


Best Regards, Allen


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Bug#136328: 136328: b-f one-liner needs translating

[Junichi Uekawa]

David Kimdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit:

> japanese.src  date: 2002/03/02 00:36:26; 

What is broken ? I can't really find what is wrong with it.



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Re: Bug#134014: bterm causes split screen

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 11:37:59PM +, Philip Blundell wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-03-17 at 20:00, Chris Tillman wrote:
> > The patch works! Thanks Dan! 
> > 
> > It also helps the appearance because it's sized properly now.
> > 
> > Adam, we need a new bterm to come in for the next build to fix this.
> 
> If we're going to have a new bterm anyway, I would be inclined to put
> the patch from #138653 in too.  It does make the dialog boxes look quite
> a lot prettier.

Yeah, I intend to.  Thanks.

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Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/langs by cklin

[David Kimdon]

Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 06:19:57PM -0500 wrote:
> 
> > Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/langs
> > who:cklin
> > time:   Sun Mar 17 00:31:36 PST 2002
> > Log Message:
> >   Fixes #136328.
> 
> Please add changelog entries 
agreed

> and the 'closes: #136328' entry in
> debian/changelog

actually, AFAIK these all still need fixing before the bugs should be
closed:

chinese_s.src   date: 2001/08/27 11:21:56;
croatian.srcdate: 2001/09/08 23:11:15;
czech.src   date: 2001/08/27 11:21:56;
hungarian.src   date: 2002/02/28 18:59:25;
japanese.srcdate: 2002/03/02 00:36:26;
portuguese.src  date: 2001/12/26 16:04:27;
russian.src date: 2002/03/10 20:52:34;
spanish.src date: 2002/02/28 15:49:25;
swedish.src date: 2002/02/28 15:49:25;
turkish.src date: 2002/02/28 18:59:25;

-David
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Re: boot-floppies kernel version

[David Kimdon]

Hi,

Note that there is only one of 4 boot-floppy versions using kernel
2.4, the others use 2.2.20.   Does 2.2.20 have working plip?

We likely won't be using a -pre kernel on boot-floppies, but there is
still some time before woody is released for 2.4.19 to have a chance.

You also have the option of changing the kernel yourself on the
installation disk, please see:
http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/i386/ch-boot-floppy-techinfo.en.html#s-rescue-replace-kernel


-David

> Hi there!
> 
> I have one little objection against using
> kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4
> for the boot-floppies.
> 
> I wonder whether you know that the plip
> (Parallel Line IP) support in the 2.4.18 is
> totally broken.
> 
> It has been fixed in 2.4.19-pre2.
> (see
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/testing/patch-2.4.19.log
> )
> 
> So If you use 2.4.18 for boot-floppies,
> you make PLIP installation impossible.
> 
> Which is quite bad for me, since I want to do that.
> 
>best wishes
> 
>   Kristof Csillag
> 
> 


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Bug#138799: Initialize a Linux Partition" broken on powerpc/apus

[Chris Tillman]

On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 10:55:25PM +0100, Andreas W?st wrote:
> Package: boot-floppies
> Version: 3.0.21
> 
> Hi
> 
> I am trying to install woody on an Amiga4000 APUS box (architecture: powerpc,
> flavor: apus), using kernel 2.4.17 and boot-floppies 3.0.21. But, to be clear
> about it, this behaviour has already occured using boot-floppies 3.0.19.
> 
> After initializing the swap partition, it is not possible to execute the point 
>"Initialize a
> Linux Partition". After selecting this point in the menu, the screen goes
> black, and the installer system restarts!
> 
> On virtual console 3 I could read:
> 
> Mar 17 ... (none) user.info init: Process '/sbin/udbootstrap' (pid 140)
> exited. Scheduling it for restart
> 
> Mar 17 ... (none) user.info init: Starting pid 146, console /dev/console:
> '/sbin/udbootstrap'
> 
> But issuing the command mke2fs /dev/hda1 on vc 2 did the job without
> complaining. Also if I entered the same command on the installer screen after
> having it advised to "execute a shell".
> 
> I was told that this bug should have already been fixed after 3.0.19, but this
> doesn't seem to be case, at least not for apus flavor.
> 
> Interesting thing is that everything works normally with apus kernel 2.4.9.

Hmmm. I just had a look at the APUS notes at 

disks-powerpc/current/apus/install.txt

It looks like maybe Sven never got that part to work, he says use the AmigaOS 
partitioner. Are you still around here, Sven?

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Re: Still unable to 'Initialize a Linux Partition' with bf 3.0.21

[Michel Dänzer]

On Son, 2002-03-17 at 00:32, Andreas Wüst wrote:
> 
> I've already reported this problem with bf-3.0.19 to both of these lists. On
> linux-apus-devel I was told this would be a kernel issue,

Well, I said it seems to be a kernel issue, seeing as it works with one
kernel but not the other.


> I wonder about this, because the 'Initialize..' part worked perfectly well with an
> 2.4.9 apus kernel

I've compared the configs of the 2.4.{9,17} APUS kernels, and the only
changes even remotely related to the problem at hand are that ext3 and
the not-yet-working driver for the Cyberstorm SCSI are enabled.


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Bug#138653: boot-floppies: Language chooser '#' on right hand side looks funny

[Richard Hirst]

On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 02:56:57PM +, Philip Blundell wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-03-17 at 14:21, Philip Blundell wrote:
> > Well, it works if you do something like this.  (Obviously you need to
> > arrange for unifont-reduced.bgf to include the 25xx characters too.)
> 
> For anybody who wants to try this out, this patch should cause the
> appropriate stuff to be added to the font.  It makes unifont-reduced.bgf
> some 600 bytes larger so I haven't checked it in.

I've tried this on ia64, and it works fine.  The dialogs have the proper
graphic chars for borders again.  I don't know bogl-term at all, so I've
no idea whether there are any negative effects to the patch, but from a
b-f pov I'd vote to apply it.

Cheers,
  Richard



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Re: Bug#134014: bterm causes split screen

[Philip Blundell]

On Sun, 2002-03-17 at 20:00, Chris Tillman wrote:
> The patch works! Thanks Dan! 
> 
> It also helps the appearance because it's sized properly now.
> 
> Adam, we need a new bterm to come in for the next build to fix this.

If we're going to have a new bterm anyway, I would be inclined to put
the patch from #138653 in too.  It does make the dialog boxes look quite
a lot prettier.

It's also quite tempting to have rootdisk.sh nobble the "linux" terminfo
for LC-enabled builds so that it doesn't mention acsc.  I think that
will avoid the problem with borders disappearing altogether if fbcon
isn't available at run time (it'll give the ugly ASCII borders instead,
but that can't be helped).

p.


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Processed: Re: Bug#138800: Install hangs w. Supermicro 5011H w. AIC-7899 Ultra 160/m onboard SCSI controller

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Bug#138800: Install hangs w. Supermicro 5011H w. AIC-7899 Ultra 160/m onboard SCSI 
controller
Bug reassigned from package `boot-floppy' to `kernel-image-2.2.20'.

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Re: Bug#138679: boot-floppies: messages too long

[Junichi Uekawa]

David Kimdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit:

> It appears to be so. When I run the included program choice 2 isn't
> word-wrapped, rather it extends off the screen.  I tried putting some
> '\n''s in there and it didn't make it any better.  I glanced at
> newt/listbox.c and it doesn't look like it is trying to wrap anyway.

Yes. 
It is really better to "fix" it in newt ?
It will make a very different behavior.

I think the messages should be shortened for the time being, 
rather than trying to modify newt right now.


regards,
junichi


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Re: Still unable to 'Initialize a Linux Partition' with bf 3.0.21

[Chris Tillman]

On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 11:03:28PM +0100, Andreas W?st wrote:
> Hi Colin
> 
> > On Sun, 2002-03-17 at 14:09, Andreas W??st wrote:
> > 
> >>> Anyways, have you tried diffing the .configs between the 2.4.9 apus
> >>> kernel and your 2.4.17 kernel?
> >> 
> >> Nope! What should I be looking for?
> > 
> > I don't know; like important platform-specific config options that you
> > might have missed.
> 
> Having a look at it in the next days!
> 
> >> I am now going to file a bug against bf's, as Chris advised me.
> > 
> > OK, but as far as I know no one is actively working on and testing apus
> > support in the boot-floppies, so it is unlikely this bug will be fixed
> > (ever, since the b-f code base is being terminated after woody).
> 
> Testing? Well, I do!! Quite intensively unfortunately..
> 
> Well, if it doesn't get fixed, it would mean that a whole release would be
> uninstallable by network for all the x-surf users outthere without tricking
> around? (but to be fair: there doesn't seem to be too much users with a
> x-surf NIC, so I can understand your point!)
> 

If it really is a kernel issue, that's pretty easy to fix (for us). If it's 
a dbootstrap bug, that's where we'll have difficulty, with no developers 
on that architecture.

That's why I'm curious to see if you can mke2fs and mount from console 2;
if so, it's probably dbootstrap and hard, if not it's probably kernel and 
easy.
 
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cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by aph

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Repository: boot-floppies/debian
who:aph
time:   Sun Mar 17 15:09:03 PST 2002
Log Message:
  just cosmetic changes
  

Files:
changed:changelog


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cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/pt by aph

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Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/pt
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time:   Sun Mar 17 15:07:02 PST 2002
Log Message:
  m68k doesn't have non-merged-docs defined anymore, purge it,
  otherwise, the build breaks
  

Files:
changed:hardware.sgml


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cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/pl by aph

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Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/pl
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time:   Sun Mar 17 15:07:00 PST 2002
Log Message:
  m68k doesn't have non-merged-docs defined anymore, purge it,
  otherwise, the build breaks
  

Files:
changed:hardware.sgml


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cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/it by aph

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Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/it
who:aph
time:   Sun Mar 17 15:06:59 PST 2002
Log Message:
  m68k doesn't have non-merged-docs defined anymore, purge it,
  otherwise, the build breaks
  

Files:
changed:hardware.sgml


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cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/hr by aph

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Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/hr
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time:   Sun Mar 17 15:06:58 PST 2002
Log Message:
  m68k doesn't have non-merged-docs defined anymore, purge it,
  otherwise, the build breaks
  

Files:
changed:hardware.sgml


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Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/fr
who:aph
time:   Sun Mar 17 15:06:57 PST 2002
Log Message:
  m68k doesn't have non-merged-docs defined anymore, purge it,
  otherwise, the build breaks
  

Files:
changed:hardware.sgml


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Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/cs
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time:   Sun Mar 17 15:06:56 PST 2002
Log Message:
  m68k doesn't have non-merged-docs defined anymore, purge it,
  otherwise, the build breaks
  

Files:
changed:hardware.sgml


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cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/ca by aph

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Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/ca
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time:   Sun Mar 17 15:06:55 PST 2002
Log Message:
  m68k doesn't have non-merged-docs defined anymore, purge it,
  otherwise, the build breaks
  

Files:
changed:hardware.sgml


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Bug#83431: marked as done (TFTP Boot Failure)

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Package:boot-floppies
Version:2.2.20-2000-12-03
architecture:   sparc
model:  Sun SparcStation 2
memory: 32MB RAM
scsi:   default

I ran a RARP and TFTP server on an Intel box on the same subnet as the Sparc. 
 I can get the Sparc to boot from the net using the "boot net" command.  
tcpdump on the intel box shows the RARP transaction and the tftp transfer of 
the boot image.  The sparc counts the bytes received in hex, then prints 
"TILO" immediately and after about a 5 second delay it prints "Booting 
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This bug is being closed because it is muddled and does not have any
information we can use to actually fix the problem.

If folks are still having problems with TFTP/TILO/network install on
the sparc as of boot-floppies version 3.0.21, they need to report that
in a new bug, including hardware model, where the failure occured,
etc.

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Bug#103823: marked as done (Realtek 8139too NIC configuration hangs)

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Package: driver 8139too
version: ??

I understand what you mean, but it's not a package but a NIC driver
(8139too) that causes the problem. So I definitly can't fill the
pseudo-header with a package name. I guess you'll have to check this one
manually, I'm sorry..

- I downloaded the Debian 2.2r3 isos and burnt the 3 CD set.
- When installing, here comes a blue screen (remember you of something? ;=
) )
just after I set my network params. (I've got 2 DRN-32 TX using 8139too
(8139 Realtek chipset) driver in this computer).
- I've got another computer, with another NIC, from another brand, but st=
ill
using 8139 Realtek chipset. The same thing happens, at the very same mome=
nt.
- I downloaded the whole set of CDs 3 times, and the same thing happens o=
n
the two machines.
- Then I started from scratch, installing Debian bypassing the NICs/netwo=
rk
configuration this time and it worked.
- When Debian was finally installed, I loaded the 8139too module manually
and it worked. I didn't recompile the kernel though, I wrote a script tha=
t
loads my NICs on startup.


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Bug#136312: boot-floppies: Support list of languages to use like glibc LANGUAGE varialbe

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Matt Kraai]
> With your patch, if a message catalog for the language selected
> by the user isn't present, it can fall back to message catalogs
> from other, similar languages.  But the user should only allowed
> to choose a language whose catalog is present, so it should
> never need to fall back.
> 
> I presume I'm misunderstanding something.  Would you please
> enlighten me?

The part you understand is correct, but you forgot about the second
stage installer (base-config).  During this stage, there might be
programs missing the preferred translation, but with a more useful
translation than English available.  My patch would make sure this
information is passed into base-config.

And it would make it possible to have partly translated installation,
where the requested translation is used when possible, and the
alternative translations is used when the requested translation is
missing.  I believe this is a good thing, but it is not the important
part of my patch.

(I'm also working on a patch to base-config, passing LANG_INST and
LANGUAGE_INST on to the other programs if the locale is supported.)


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Re: Still unable to 'Initialize a Linux Partition' with bf 3.0.21

[Andreas Wüst]

Hi Colin

> On Sun, 2002-03-17 at 14:09, Andreas Wüst wrote:
> 
>>> Anyways, have you tried diffing the .configs between the 2.4.9 apus
>>> kernel and your 2.4.17 kernel?
>> 
>> Nope! What should I be looking for?
> 
> I don't know; like important platform-specific config options that you
> might have missed.

Having a look at it in the next days!

>> I am now going to file a bug against bf's, as Chris advised me.
> 
> OK, but as far as I know no one is actively working on and testing apus
> support in the boot-floppies, so it is unlikely this bug will be fixed
> (ever, since the b-f code base is being terminated after woody).

Testing? Well, I do!! Quite intensively unfortunately..

Well, if it doesn't get fixed, it would mean that a whole release would be
uninstallable by network for all the x-surf users outthere without tricking
around? (but to be fair: there doesn't seem to be too much users with a
x-surf NIC, so I can understand your point!)

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Bug#138800: Install hangs w. Supermicro 5011H w. AIC-7899 Ultra 160/m onboard SCSI controller

[Lindsay Haisley]

Package: boot-floppy
Version: 2.2r3, 3 (both)

The system locks up during the kernel load.  The bootup is apparently
choking on the aic7xxx driver and locks after downloading sequencer code
from both channels of the SCSI controller.  Only cycling power will recover. 
I note that a Red Hat (6.1) boot disk which I have on hand successfully
loads the aic7xxx driver as a module, and the hard drives can be accessed,
so this is apparently related to modules or other code included with the
Debian install, and probably isn't due to faulty hardware.

The server is a new Supermicro 5011H with an Intel PIII, 1G, using Intel's
815E chipset.  It has an Adaptec AIC-7899 Ultra 160/m onboard SCSI
controller with a SCA backplane between the onboard SCSI and the drives. 
The lockup occurs with both the potato install CD and with the compact
rescue disk from testing.

I have recompiled the 2.2.20 kernel without aic7xxx support, and the kernel
loads properly (sans access to the hard drives).  If I then try to load
aic7xxx support as a module I again get a system lockup requiring a
power-cycle to recover.

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Bug#138799: "Initialize a Linux Partition" broken on powerpc/apus

[Andreas Wüst]

Package: boot-floppies
Version: 3.0.21

Hi

I am trying to install woody on an Amiga4000 APUS box (architecture: powerpc,
flavor: apus), using kernel 2.4.17 and boot-floppies 3.0.21. But, to be clear
about it, this behaviour has already occured using boot-floppies 3.0.19.

After initializing the swap partition, it is not possible to execute the point 
"Initialize a
Linux Partition". After selecting this point in the menu, the screen goes
black, and the installer system restarts!

On virtual console 3 I could read:

Mar 17 ... (none) user.info init: Process '/sbin/udbootstrap' (pid 140)
exited. Scheduling it for restart

Mar 17 ... (none) user.info init: Starting pid 146, console /dev/console:
'/sbin/udbootstrap'

But issuing the command mke2fs /dev/hda1 on vc 2 did the job without
complaining. Also if I entered the same command on the installer screen after
having it advised to "execute a shell".

I was told that this bug should have already been fixed after 3.0.19, but this
doesn't seem to be case, at least not for apus flavor.

Interesting thing is that everything works normally with apus kernel 2.4.9.

Kind regards,
Andi



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Re: Isn't it alt-F3 to debug, not alt-F4?

[Chris Tillman]

On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 08:34:03PM +0100, Andr? Dahlqvist wrote:
> While I was testing the latest boot-floppies I noticed that the dialog
> boxes stated that you should press alt-F4 to debug and alt-F1 to return.
> At least for me the debug console was on tty3.
> 
> I looked, and it still says the same in the CVS version.

It was confusing folks, and has been removed yesterday or so.

vc4 is where debootstrap messages appear when packages are being unpacked.

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Re: Bug#134014: bterm causes split screen

[Chris Tillman]

On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 11:31:09AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 08:48:44PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> > "Chris Tillman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit:
> > 
> > > reassign 134014 bterm
> > > quit
> > > 
> > > I verified the problem also occurs with the same video monitor using 
> > > a different computer (9500). 
> > 
> > I haven't seen the split-screen effect directly so I do not exactly 
> > know, but it sounds most likely that the framebuffer driver is at 
> > fault. 
> 
> Maybe, maybe not.  Chris, two things: can you reproduce this without
> the boot-floppies (just running bterm, but booting that kernel with the
> same settings)?  And does this patch make a difference?  I think it
> should.
>

The patch works! Thanks Dan! 

It also helps the appearance because it's sized properly now.

Adam, we need a new bterm to come in for the next build to fix this.

> Index: bogl.c
> ===
> RCS file: /opt/local/cvs/bogl/bogl.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.3
> diff -u -p -r1.3 bogl.c
> --- bogl.c2001/12/01 17:14:20 1.3
> +++ bogl.c2002/03/17 16:30:30
> @@ -39,6 +39,11 @@
>  #include 
>  #include 
>  #include 
> +
> +/* Yes, I know, we shouldn't be including headers from the kernel.  But
> +   XFree86 also uses this one (to get PAGE_MASK) so it's probably safe.  */
> +#include 
> +
>  #include "bogl.h"
>  #include "boglP.h"
>  #if BOGL_VGA16_FB
> @@ -85,6 +90,9 @@ static __u16 saved_blue[16];
>  
>  static int gray; /* Convert colors to grayscale? */
>  
> +static char *bogl_frame_mapped;  /* Page aligned, while bogl_frame might
> +not be.  */
> +
>  /* Functions. */
>  
>  static size_t init_fb (void);
> @@ -101,6 +109,7 @@ static struct fb_fix_screeninfo fb_fix;
>  int
>  bogl_init (void)
>  {
> +  unsigned long bogl_frame_offset, bogl_frame_len;
>struct fb_var_screeninfo fb_var;
>struct vt_stat vts;
>  
> @@ -151,10 +160,17 @@ bogl_init (void)
>if (!init_fb())
>  return 0;
>  
> -  bogl_frame = mmap (NULL, fb_fix.smem_len, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fb, 
>0);
> -  if (bogl_frame == NULL || bogl_frame == (char *) -1)
> +  bogl_frame_offset = fb_fix.smem_start & ~PAGE_MASK;
> +  bogl_frame_len = ((bogl_frame_offset + fb_fix.smem_len + ~PAGE_MASK)
> + & PAGE_MASK);
> +
> +  bogl_frame_mapped
> += mmap (NULL, bogl_frame_len, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fb, 0);
> +  if (bogl_frame_mapped == NULL || bogl_frame_mapped == (char *) -1)
>   return bogl_fail ("mmaping /dev/fb0: %s", strerror (errno));
> -  
> +
> +  bogl_frame = bogl_frame_mapped + bogl_frame_offset;
> +
>kbd_init ();
>  
>if (visual == FB_VISUAL_PSEUDOCOLOR
> 
> 
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> 

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Re: Still unable to 'Initialize a Linux Partition' with bf 3.0.21

[Colin Walters]

On Sun, 2002-03-17 at 14:09, Andreas Wüst wrote:

> > Anyways, have you tried diffing the .configs between the 2.4.9 apus
> > kernel and your 2.4.17 kernel?
> 
> Nope! What should I be looking for?

I don't know; like important platform-specific config options that you
might have missed.

> I am now going to file a bug against bf's, as Chris advised me.

OK, but as far as I know no one is actively working on and testing apus
support in the boot-floppies, so it is unlikely this bug will be fixed
(ever, since the b-f code base is being terminated after woody).


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Isn't it alt-F3 to debug, not alt-F4?

[André Dahlqvist]

While I was testing the latest boot-floppies I noticed that the dialog
boxes stated that you should press alt-F4 to debug and alt-F1 to return.
At least for me the debug console was on tty3.

I looked, and it still says the same in the CVS version.
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Re: Still unable to 'Initialize a Linux Partition' with bf 3.0.21

[Andreas Wüst]

Hi Colin

> On Sat, 2002-03-16 at 18:32, Andreas Wüst wrote:
>> I wonder about this, because the 'Initialize..' part worked perfectly well
>> with an 2.4.9 apus kernel (but this isn't much use to me, as 2.4.9 doesn't
>> support dhcp, and so I can't install the rest of the system after the
>> reboot *snif*).
> 
> By "2.4.9 doesn't support dhcp", I'm assuming you mean it was compiled
> without CONFIG_FILTER or CONFIG_PACKET; I'll look into fixing that if
> so.

Yep, exactly. But Michel had already uploaded a dhcp enabled kernel, the
latest 2.4.17 kernel to say.

I just can't imagine that compiling those network options broke the ability to
initialize a partition..

Either it has something to do with the kernel itself (2.4.9 vs. 2.4.17), or
its surroundings (whatever that may be, kernel detection on installer system,
compiler options, etc.)

> Anyways, have you tried diffing the .configs between the 2.4.9 apus
> kernel and your 2.4.17 kernel?

Nope! What should I be looking for?

I am now going to file a bug against bf's, as Chris advised me.

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Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by dwhedon

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[David Kimdon]
> log should have been:
> 
> - fs_type_tab[] should be extern (closes: #137748)

You can use 'cvs admin -m: ' to change the message in
CVS.   would be the internal CVS version number.


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Re: Still unable to 'Initialize a Linux Partition' with bf 3.0.21

[Colin Walters]

On Sat, 2002-03-16 at 18:32, Andreas Wüst wrote:
> I wonder about this, because the 'Initialize..' part worked perfectly well with an
> 2.4.9 apus kernel (but this isn't much use to me, as 2.4.9 doesn't support dhcp, and 
>so I can't install
> the rest of the system after the reboot *snif*).

By "2.4.9 doesn't support dhcp", I'm assuming you mean it was compiled
without CONFIG_FILTER or CONFIG_PACKET; I'll look into fixing that if
so.

Anyways, have you tried diffing the .configs between the 2.4.9 apus
kernel and your 2.4.17 kernel?




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cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by merker

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Repository: boot-floppies/debian
who:merker
time:   Sun Mar 17 09:39:14 PST 2002
Log Message:
  
  
  remove garbage (side effect of the linux -> linux.bin transition)
  in $release for mipsel
  
  

Files:
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cvs commit to boot-floppies by merker

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Repository: boot-floppies
who:merker
time:   Sun Mar 17 09:39:14 PST 2002
Log Message:
  
  
  remove garbage (side effect of the linux -> linux.bin transition)
  in $release for mipsel
  
  

Files:
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cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/po by jtarrio

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Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/po
who:jtarrio
time:   Sun Mar 17 09:24:03 PST 2002
Log Message:
  Galician translation update
  

Files:
changed:gl.po


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Bug#136312: boot-floppies: Support list of languages to use like glibc LANGUAGE varialbe

[Matt Kraai]

On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 09:53:24PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> 
> [Phil Blundell]
> > Right, yeah, that's what I thought.  So that code looks to me like
> > it will print the error message if any catalog loading is
> > successful, rather than if they all fail.  Surely that's exactly the
> > opposite of what's wanted?
> 
> Right.  Fixed in the current version.
> 
> Here is a new patch, relative to the current CVS version.  This
> version do not reorganize the code, and should be easier to check.

With your patch, if a message catalog for the language selected
by the user isn't present, it can fall back to message catalogs
from other, similar languages.  But the user should only allowed
to choose a language whose catalog is present, so it should
never need to fall back.

I presume I'm misunderstanding something.  Would you please
enlighten me?

Matt



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cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/langs by jtarrio

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Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/langs
who:jtarrio
time:   Sun Mar 17 08:54:08 PST 2002
Log Message:
  One liner translated
  

Files:
changed:galician.src


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cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by claush

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Repository: boot-floppies/debian
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time:   Sun Mar 17 08:50:22 PST 2002
Log Message:
  Danish updates

Files:
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cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/da by claush

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Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/da
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time:   Sun Mar 17 08:50:22 PST 2002
Log Message:
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Repository: boot-floppies/documentation
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time:   Sun Mar 17 08:50:22 PST 2002
Log Message:
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Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by dwhedon

[David Kimdon]

log should have been:

- fs_type_tab[] should be extern (closes: #137748)
Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 10:12:37PM -0800 wrote:
> Repository: boot-floppies/debian
> who:dwhedon
> time:   Sat Mar 16 22:12:37 PST 2002
> Log Message:
>   
>   
>   
> 
> Files:
> changed:changelog
> 
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Re: Still unable to 'Initialize a Linux Partition' with bf 3.0.21

[Chris Tillman]

On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 01:07:50PM +0100, Andreas W?st wrote:
> Hi Chris
> 
> > On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 12:32:59AM +0100, Andreas W?st wrote:
> >> Hi
> >> 
> >> I've already reported this problem with bf-3.0.19 to both of these lists.
> >> On linux-apus-devel I was told this would be a kernel issue, but on
> >> debian-boot, Chris told me it would be a dbootsrap issue and should be
> >> fixed.
> >> 
> >> Today I've downloaded the root.bin from
> >> 
>http://people.debian.org/~aph/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/3.0.21-2002-03-13/apus/images-1.44/
> >> Adam built and replaced the 3.0.19 root.bin in the apus/images-1.44/ folder
> >> with the new one. Still using the 2.4.17 apus kernel.
> >> 
> > 
> > How about trying mke2fs /dev/whatever from the virtual console 2? 
> > Does that give an error message?
> > 
> > If that works, and you can mount it as root, at least you could go on
> > with the install.
> 
> Thanks for the input!
> 
> Yep, or I could first boot into the installer system using kernel 2.4.9, then
> 'Initialize...', reboot, start again with 2.4.17, mount the already
> initialized partition an then proceed normally.
> 
> But it was merely to report the bug that I posted here. I wouldn't like a
> newbie having to do such things.
> 
> Should I file a bug against the boot-floppies? Or is it enough to have it
> reported this way? I just did not want to file a bug yesterday because
> bf-3.0.21 haven't been officially released yet.

It's best to file a bug, else it will get lost. And it would still be 
good troubleshooting information to determine whether it does work from 
the console, or what errors it gives.

If reporting a bug, be sure to use reportbug or else take care to include 
your machine description, the fact you saw the same thing in different b-f 
revisions, etc.

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Re: verbose & quiet

[Junichi Uekawa]

"Chris Tillman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit:

> Now that you mention it, there is a place in the manual already that explains 
> quiet & verbose. The lists could just go in there, with maybe a disclaimer 
> 'this information accurate as of the time of insertion' - nah, but maybe 
> something that explains it probably won't be kept up to date?

Nah, Don't bother documenting the obvious, and trying to make 
every disclaimer.
We try our best, and when we release, we know things are at 
a quite fixed state, it should be possible to document the 
status at that point.


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cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/en by claush

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Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/en
who:claush
time:   Sun Mar 17 08:26:55 PST 2002
Log Message:
  Typo 'kernl'->'kernel'

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Re: verbose & quiet

[Chris Tillman]

On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 10:34:58AM +, Philip Blundell wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-03-17 at 02:11, Chris Tillman wrote:
> > Should this be documented somewhere? Or is it fairly useless info that 
> > will be difficult to keep up to date?
> 
> It's probably useful information for some.  If nothing else, the
> documentation should definitely mention the general principle that
> "quiet" reduces the amount of user interaction and "verbose" increases
> it.

Now that you mention it, there is a place in the manual already that explains 
quiet & verbose. The lists could just go in there, with maybe a disclaimer 
'this information accurate as of the time of insertion' - nah, but maybe 
something that explains it probably won't be kept up to date?

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Bug#138653: boot-floppies: Language chooser '#' on right hand side looks funny

[Philip Blundell]

On Sun, 2002-03-17 at 14:21, Philip Blundell wrote:
> Well, it works if you do something like this.  (Obviously you need to
> arrange for unifont-reduced.bgf to include the 25xx characters too.)

For anybody who wants to try this out, this patch should cause the
appropriate stuff to be added to the font.  It makes unifont-reduced.bgf
some 600 bytes larger so I haven't checked it in.

p.

RCS file:
/org/cvs.debian.org/cvs/debian-boot/boot-floppies/utilities/bogl/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.30
diff -u -r1.30 Makefile
--- Makefile2001/12/17 03:59:52 1.30
+++ Makefile2002/03/17 14:55:01
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 unifont-reduced.bdf: /usr/src/unifont.bdf all.utf
LC_ALL=en_IN.UTF-8 reduce-font $< < all.utf > $@
 
-all.utf: po.utf rn.utf $(xml_files)
+all.utf: po.utf rn.utf $(xml_files) graphic.utf
cat $^ > $@
 
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Bug#136328: 136328: b-f one-liner needs translating

[Marcin Owsiany]

On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 10:42:08PM -0800, David Kimdon wrote:
> These still need someone to fix the translation:
[...]
> polish.srcdate: 2001/08/27 11:21:56; 

Done

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cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/bogl by pb

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Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/bogl
who:pb
time:   Sun Mar 17 06:52:20 PST 2002
Log Message:
  some graphics characters that we want in the reduced font
  
  

Files:
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cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/langs by porridge

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Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/langs
who:porridge
time:   Sun Mar 17 06:46:54 PST 2002
Log Message:
  new-style description, managed to make it 66 chars

Files:
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Repository: boot-floppies
who:pb
time:   Sun Mar 17 06:43:27 PST 2002
Log Message:
  don't leave etc/terminfo.1 lying around in the root filesystem
  

Files:
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cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/po by blade

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Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/po
who:blade
time:   Sun Mar 17 06:43:19 PST 2002
Log Message:
  update-as-usual
  

Files:
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Bug#138653: boot-floppies: Language chooser '#' on right hand side looks funny

[Philip Blundell]

On Sun, 2002-03-17 at 12:48, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> Also, why does it seem to use graphical chars under uxterm,
> and not under b-f. It is terminfo related?

Well, it works if you do something like this.  (Obviously you need to
arrange for unifont-reduced.bgf to include the 25xx characters too.)

I dunno if this is an appropriate kind of change to be making to bterm,
what do people think?

p.

diff -ur bogl-0.1.7/bogl-term.c bogl-0.1.7-pb/bogl-term.c
--- bogl-0.1.7/bogl-term.c  Mon May 28 01:14:47 2001
+++ bogl-0.1.7-pb/bogl-term.c   Sun Mar 17 14:18:17 2002
@@ -262,6 +262,16 @@
 term->state = -1;
 continue;
 }
+   if (wc == 14)
+   {
+   term->acs = 1;
+   continue;
+   }
+   if (wc == 15)
+   {
+   term->acs = 0;
+   continue;
+   }
 
 if (term->state == -1)
 {
@@ -413,6 +423,40 @@
 
 if ((w = wcwidth (wc)) < 0)
 continue;
+
+   if (term->acs)
+   {
+   switch (wc) 
+   {
+   case 'q':
+ wc = 0x2500;
+ break;
+   case 'j':
+ wc = 0x2518;
+ break;
+   case 'x':
+ wc = 0x2502;
+ break;
+   case 'a':
+ wc = 0x2591;
+ break;
+   case 'm':
+ wc = 0x2514;
+ break;
+   case 'l':
+ wc = 0x250c;
+ break;
+   case 'k':
+ wc = 0x2510;
+ break;
+   case 'u':
+ wc = 0x2524;
+ break;
+   case 't':
+ wc = 0x251c;
+ break;
+   }
+   }
 
 wctomb (0, 0);
 kk = wctomb (buf, wc);
diff -ur bogl-0.1.7/bogl-term.h bogl-0.1.7-pb/bogl-term.h
--- bogl-0.1.7/bogl-term.h  Sat Feb 24 19:49:15 2001
+++ bogl-0.1.7-pb/bogl-term.h   Sun Mar 17 13:30:10 2002
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
   int *screenfg, *screenbg, *screenul; /* colours in cell */
   wchar_t **cchars; /* combining chars in cell, or 0 */
   int yorig; /* increment this to scroll */
+  int acs;
 };
 
 struct bogl_term *bogl_term_new(struct bogl_font *font);
diff -ur bogl-0.1.7/bterm.ti bogl-0.1.7-pb/bterm.ti
--- bogl-0.1.7/bterm.ti Mon May 28 01:35:31 2001
+++ bogl-0.1.7-pb/bterm.ti  Sun Mar 17 13:49:54 2002
@@ -13,3 +13,6 @@
   rev=\E[7m, sgr0=\E[0m,
   smso=\E[7m, rmso=\E[27m,
   sgr=\E[0m%?%p1%t\E[7m%;%?%p2%t\E[4m%;,
+  acsc=``aaffggiijjkkllmmnnooppqqrrssttuuvvwwxxyyzz{{||}}~~,
+  smacs=^N,
+  rmacs=^O,



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Re: verbose & quiet

[Eduard Bloch]

#include 
Philip Blundell wrote on Sun Mar 17, 2002 um 10:34:58AM:

> > For LiveCD, ask for the install media (should be livecd)
> > Always ask which mountpoint to mount volumes to
> > Warn that earlier kernels do not support newer filesystems
> > Warn that pre-2.4.1 kernels do not support ReiserFS 3.6
> 
> I don't think there is much point having "verbose" turn on extra stuff
> that is purely informational, like the latter two items.  It would be

Not warnings, these items are decissions. Though, IMHO >> 95 of users
would choose the default values, so I put them behind the verbose mode.

> > Suppress confirm before writing the aboot bootloader
> > Suppress confirm before overwriting master boot record
> > Suppress 'Important Information about installed MBR'
> > Don't ask for confirm if only one archive path was found
> 
> That last one sounds like something that should be suppressed by default
> and only enabled with "verbose".

The "Important Information..." is important, since this small MBR
program is not usual, even for users from other distributions. But the
path confirmation is really useless.

Index: choose_medium.c
===
RCS file: /cvs/debian-boot/boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/choose_medium.c,v
retrieving revision 1.148
diff -u -r1.148 choose_medium.c
--- choose_medium.c 2002/03/15 17:30:54 1.148
+++ choose_medium.c 2002/03/17 14:05:56
@@ -541,7 +541,7 @@
}
snprintf(prtbuf, sizeof(prtbuf),
 _("Please select the directory that you will use to install 
%s from."), descr);
-   if ( dirc == 1 && bootargs.isquiet )
+   if ( dirc == 1 && !bootargs.isverbose )
  status = 0;   /* quiet: use the only match automatically */
else 
  status = menuBox(prtbuf, _("Select Archive path"), nchoices,

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cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by blade

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Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap
who:blade
time:   Sun Mar 17 06:26:02 PST 2002
Log Message:
  Hint about loaded drivers. A am asked again and again where the driver for xyz
  NIC is, assuming that we do not support the hardware, but not realising that it
  is already loaded.
  

Files:
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Bug#138653: boot-floppies: Language chooser '#' on right hand side looks funny

[Junichi Uekawa]

Philip Blundell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit:

> To be honest the scroll bar as it stands is not very beneficial even if
> there are more languages than will fit on the screen.  It probably looks
> better if newt is able to use graphics characters, but at the moment
> they are not available for any LC-enabled build.  So I think we might
> just as well turn it off altogether.

Actually, it might be because we are using "#".
There are many alternative graphic-looking characters such as 
"o"... would it be an improvement?

Also, why does it seem to use graphical chars under uxterm,
and not under b-f. It is terminfo related?

regards,
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Bug#138653: boot-floppies: Language chooser '#' on right hand side looks funny

[Philip Blundell]

On Sun, 2002-03-17 at 11:37, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> This should probably be conditional depending on the
> number of languages (can we determine it at compile-time?)
> Apparently, NEWT_FLAG_SCROLL forces having a scroll bar.

You can put an upper bound on the number of languages at compile time,
but the exact set that will be offered is only known at runtime.  It
depends on the presence of a language pack on CD-ROM, the setting of
langs_root for your architecture.  And, on i386 at least, the 1.2MB root
disks have a different (smaller) set of core languages.

To be honest the scroll bar as it stands is not very beneficial even if
there are more languages than will fit on the screen.  It probably looks
better if newt is able to use graphics characters, but at the moment
they are not available for any LC-enabled build.  So I think we might
just as well turn it off altogether.

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Re: Still unable to 'Initialize a Linux Partition' with bf 3.0.21

[Andreas Wüst]

Hi Chris

> On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 12:32:59AM +0100, Andreas W?st wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> I've already reported this problem with bf-3.0.19 to both of these lists.
>> On linux-apus-devel I was told this would be a kernel issue, but on
>> debian-boot, Chris told me it would be a dbootsrap issue and should be
>> fixed.
>> 
>> Today I've downloaded the root.bin from
>> 
>http://people.debian.org/~aph/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/3.0.21-2002-03-13/apus/images-1.44/
>> Adam built and replaced the 3.0.19 root.bin in the apus/images-1.44/ folder
>> with the new one. Still using the 2.4.17 apus kernel.
>> 
>> But, unlucky me, nothings seems to have changed, the bug still appears,
>> and so I still can't Initialize a Linux partition.
>> 
>> I've quoted myself in the following lines just to give a short overview
>> over the problem itself:
>> 
>> [First thing is,] that it is not possible to execute the point "Initialize
>> a Linux Partition". After selecting this point in the menu, the screen
>> goes white, and the installer system restarts!
>> 
>> On console 3 I could read:
>> 
>>Mar 3 ... (none) user.info init: Process '/sbin/udbootstrap' (pid 140)
>> exited. Scheduling it for restart
>> 
>>Mar 3 ... (none) user.info init: Starting pid 146, console
>> /dev/console: '/sbin/udbootstrap'
>> 
>> Here I have to say that it now also didn't want to work with a virgin disk
>> without an already valid root partition (but of course already partitioned
>> from the AmigaOS side).
>> 
>> I wonder about this, because the 'Initialize..' part worked perfectly well
>> with an 2.4.9 apus kernel (but this isn't much use to me, as 2.4.9 doesn't
>> support dhcp, and so I can't install the rest of the system after the
>> reboot *snif*).
>> 
>> I hope you can see my dilemma: kernel 2.4.9 is the only one which supports
>> my NIC and I can 'Initialize...', but it doesn't support DHCP. 2.4.17 does
>> support my NIC and DHCP, but I can't 'Initialize...'..
>> 
>> ps: Why are the driver-1.bin and rescue.bin files in .../apus/images-1.44/
>> still built, although they doesn't seem to be needed?
>> 
>> pps: Does the new color of the selection bar really have to be red? It
>> gives a very bad contrast with the underlying text. Lucky me I've already
>> tried to install debian that much that I can recall the selection lines
>> from my mind.
>> 
>> And oh, concerning the ongoing 'malformed release file' discussion: I very
>> often got this message in the last few weeks (when I've been trying to
>> install with other kernels than 2.4.17, but, as I said, no success with
>> them, because of the lacking dhcp support..)!!
>> 
>> -- 
>> Thanks for any idea, kind regards,
>> Andi
> 
> How about trying mke2fs /dev/whatever from the virtual console 2? 
> Does that give an error message?
> 
> If that works, and you can mount it as root, at least you could go on
> with the install.

Thanks for the input!

Yep, or I could first boot into the installer system using kernel 2.4.9, then
'Initialize...', reboot, start again with 2.4.17, mount the already
initialized partition an then proceed normally.

But it was merely to report the bug that I posted here. I wouldn't like a
newbie having to do such things.

Should I file a bug against the boot-floppies? Or is it enough to have it
reported this way? I just did not want to file a bug yesterday because
bf-3.0.21 haven't been officially released yet.

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Bug#138653: boot-floppies: Language chooser '#' on right hand side looks funny

[Junichi Uekawa]

David Kimdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit:


> On the right hand side of the language chooser screen there are ':'s and
> and a '#' in a column.  It is as if the '#' is supposed to line up with
> the current choice, but it doesn't.  The '#' does move down as I move
> the selection down, but at the top it is one row below the current
> choice, and by the time we get to the bottom it is 5 rows below the
> current choice.

I've been browsing the code 
utilities/dbootstrap/langs/lc.c, which has the line:

lang_list = newtListbox (0, 0, 14, NEWT_FLAG_RETURNEXIT | NEWT_FLAG_SCROLL);

This should probably be conditional depending on the
number of languages (can we determine it at compile-time?)
Apparently, NEWT_FLAG_SCROLL forces having a scroll bar.


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Bug#138716: b-f sparc] enable fs other than ext2

[Richard Hirst]

On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 10:18:59AM +0100, Thomas J. Zeeman wrote:
> 
> Package: boot-floppies
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Could filesystems other than ext2 be enabled on sparc?

I think this is a feature of the kernel, not b-f.  On ia64 I recently
built b-f with a kernel that included ext3 support, and b-f offered me a
choice.  I didn't have to do anything to b-f source.

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Re: verbose & quiet

[Philip Blundell]

On Sun, 2002-03-17 at 02:11, Chris Tillman wrote:
> Here's a list of the effects verbose and quiet have on dbootstrap.
> 
> verbose:
> For LiveCD, ask for the install media (should be livecd)
> Always ask which mountpoint to mount volumes to
> Warn that earlier kernels do not support newer filesystems
> Warn that pre-2.4.1 kernels do not support ReiserFS 3.6

I don't think there is much point having "verbose" turn on extra stuff
that is purely informational, like the latter two items.  It would be
better to remove the messages from dbootstrap altogether and just
mention the issues in the manual.

> quiet:
> Suppress confirm before writing the aboot bootloader
> Suppress confirm before overwriting master boot record
> Suppress 'Important Information about installed MBR'
> Don't ask for confirm if only one archive path was found

That last one sounds like something that should be suppressed by default
and only enabled with "verbose".

> Should this be documented somewhere? Or is it fairly useless info that 
> will be difficult to keep up to date?

It's probably useful information for some.  If nothing else, the
documentation should definitely mention the general principle that
"quiet" reduces the amount of user interaction and "verbose" increases
it.

I doubt we will be making all that many more changes to this stuff
before woody is released, and even a slightly incomplete list would be
better than nothing.  So, I think it should be included.

p.


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cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/langs by blade

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Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/langs
who:blade
time:   Sun Mar 17 02:12:40 PST 2002
Log Message:
  Updated LC one-liner translation, patch from P.R.
  

Files:
changed:norwegian.src


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Repository: boot-floppies/debian
who:blade
time:   Sun Mar 17 02:12:40 PST 2002
Log Message:
  Updated LC one-liner translation, patch from P.R.
  

Files:
changed:changelog


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Bug#136328: 136328: b-f one-liner needs translating

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[David Kimdon]
> We're still hoping to get the one-line translated.  The reason I'm
> bugging y'all is this message is outside the .po files so it would be
> easy for it to slip through the cracks.
[...]
> These still need someone to fix the translation:
[...]
> norwegian.src date: 2001/10/17 03:30:12; 

Here is a patch for norwegian.

Index: norwegian.src
===
RCS file: /cvs/debian-boot/boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/langs/norwegian.src,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -u -3 -p -u -r1.1 norwegian.src
--- norwegian.src   2001/10/17 03:30:12 1.1
+++ norwegian.src   2002/03/17 09:51:09
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 
 Norsk
-no - Du har valgt norsk.  Trykk Enter for å fortsette
+no - Velg denne og trykk Enter for å fortsette på norsk
 
 Velg språkvariant
 



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Re: localising base-config - end game

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Petter Reinholdtsen]
> The following patch should do the job, assuming the debconf and
> locales package is available.

Here is a new one, without debconf.  If the CD is built using the
standard debian-cd package, the locales package will be available.  It
is in section base and priority standard.  Both are automatically
included on CD 1.  Of course, this might be a problem when using the
base tar.gz file.

Index: extract_base.c
===
RCS file: /cvs/debian-boot/boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/extract_base.c,v
retrieving revision 1.75
diff -u -3 -p -u -r1.75 extract_base.c
--- extract_base.c  2002/03/14 18:53:39 1.75
+++ extract_base.c  2002/03/17 09:33:10
@@ -249,11 +249,12 @@ exec_debootstrap(char **argv){
 int
 debootstrap_extract_base (void) {
   int rs=0;
-  char *argv[8];
+  char *argv[9];
   struct stat statbuf;
   char *source;
   char filename [512];
   int status;
+  int argnum;

   /* Sanity Check */
   if (NAME_ISREG ("/target/etc/debian_version", &statbuf)) {
@@ -323,17 +324,25 @@ debootstrap_extract_base (void) {
   snprintf(prtbuf, sizeof prtbuf, "file:%s", Archive_Dir);
   source = strdup(prtbuf);
   }
-  argv[0] = "/usr/sbin/debootstrap";
-  argv[1] = "--boot-floppies";
-  argv[2] = "--arch";
-  argv[3] = ARCHNAME;
-  argv[4] = "woody";
-  argv[5] = "/target";
-  argv[6] = source;
-  argv[7] = NULL;
+
+  argnum = 0;
+  argv[argnum++] = "/usr/sbin/debootstrap";
+  argv[argnum++] = "--boot-floppies";
+#ifdef USE_LANGUAGE_CHOOSER
+  /* Needed to generate locale data */
+  /* Hm, need to make sure these packages are available */
+  argv[argnum++] = "--include=locales";
+#endif /* USE_LANGUAGE_CHOOSER */
+  argv[argnum++] = "--arch";
+  argv[argnum++] = ARCHNAME;
+  argv[argnum++] = "woody";
+  argv[argnum++] = "/target";
+  argv[argnum++] = source;
+  argv[argnum++] = NULL;

-  INFOMSG("running '%s %s %s %s %s %s %s'",
-  argv[0], argv[1], argv[2], argv[3], argv[4], argv[5], argv[6]);
+  INFOMSG("running '%s %s %s %s %s %s %s %s'",
+  argv[0], argv[1], argv[2], argv[3], argv[4], argv[5], argv[6],
+  argv[7] ? argv[7] : "(null)");

   rs = exec_debootstrap(argv);


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Bug#138716: [b-f sparc] enable fs other than ext2

[Thomas J. Zeeman]

Package: boot-floppies
Severity: wishlist

Could filesystems other than ext2 be enabled on sparc?

The i386 floppies are capable of creating both ext2 and 3 since 3.0.16 and
since most user-land tools are the same for both filesystems it shouldn't
put much more data in the root-image.

Reiser would be nice too but that might mean too large a root-image to fit
on one floppy.

Other jfss are IIRC not yet in the kernel so I'll leave that for someone
to request in the future.

thnx
Thomas
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cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by blade

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Repository: boot-floppies/debian
who:blade
time:   Sun Mar 17 01:26:09 PST 2002
Log Message:
  Removed alt-f4-to-debug hint
  

Files:
changed:changelog


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cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by blade

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Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap
who:blade
time:   Sun Mar 17 01:26:08 PST 2002
Log Message:
  Removed alt-f4-to-debug hint
  

Files:
changed:extract_base.c


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Bug#138679: boot-floppies: messages too long

[Junichi Uekawa]

David Kimdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit:

> This could be fixed 2 ways:
> 
> 1. make the phrase shorter since there is enough information in the top
> of the box, there is much repitition on the screen (automatically
> detecting similarily truncated phrases sounds hard.)
> 
> 2. teach newt how to break lines properly.

Why is the line not broken in the first place?
Is it because it is in a list?

Are we asking for possibility of having multiple-line
entries in a list in newt ?

regarsd,
junichi


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Bug#138715: [b-f sparc] sun4u floppies freeze at boot

[Thomas J. Zeeman]

Package: boot-floppies
Version: 3.0.21
Severity: serious

Machine: Sun Ultra 1/170, openboot v. 3.25

The b-f floppy-images for sun4u do not work at all.
The rescue image manages to boot a kernel but at the end it shows this
message:

floppy0 WARNING disk change called too early

Then it asks to put in the root-disk and press enter.
The rescue-disk is already ejected automatically (as it should be after
this question).
Putting in the root-disk and then pressing enter results in a total
freeze. No stop-a, no keyboard whatsoever, only power-cycle works.

It does still show all the messages the kernel has spewed out at boot and
the only odd thing in there is the lack of RTC (which AFAIK a sun doesn't
have, hence it shouldn't even be in the kernel). NIC, HDDs, SCSI, etc all
recognised.

Version 3.0.16 and 3.0.20 didn't work either for some reason or another,
but I was able to install the machine with the floppy-images created by
BenC carrying a version tag of 3.0.18. These were created somewhere last
november and put up at his homepage on auric.d.o

This bug likely only targets the Ultra 1s and 2s. 5 and up appear to have
a firmware bug that prevents them from booting from floppy altogether.

regards,
Thomas
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cvs commit to boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk/messages/zh_TW by cklin

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Repository: boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk/messages/zh_TW
who:cklin
time:   Sun Mar 17 01:00:17 PST 2002
Log Message:
  Initial traditional Chinese translation.
  

Files:
added:  boot_message release_notes


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cvs commit to boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk/messages by cklin

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Repository: boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk/messages
who:cklin
time:   Sun Mar 17 01:00:16 PST 2002
Log Message:
  Initial traditional Chinese translation.
  

Files:
changed:languages


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cvs commit to boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk/messages/zh_TW by cklin

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Repository: boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk/messages/zh_TW
who:cklin
time:   Sun Mar 17 00:54:57 PST 2002
Log Message:
  Directory /cvs/debian-boot/boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk/messages/zh_TW added to 
the repository
  

Files:


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cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/langs by cklin

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Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/langs
who:cklin
time:   Sun Mar 17 00:31:36 PST 2002
Log Message:
  Fixes #136328.
  

Files:
changed:chinese_t.src


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