Re: Call for Release Candidate testing (again)
Wenzhuo Zhang wrote: Wenzhuo Zhang wrote: 3. The desktop has two hard drives. One is connected to the motherboard as primary master, and the other is connected to a Promise Ultra100 TX2 IDE controller card as tertiary master. The feisty live-cd recognizes the primary boot drive as /dev/sdb, and the tertiary master as /dev/sda. I am not sure if this could pose a problem when installing the Grub MBR. Let's see the result after the installer finishes its job later. Sad to say, the Grub MBR indeed got installed onto the tertiary master hard drive. I must say it's a bit discouraging that I had to reply to myself. I managed to boot into the new feisty installation using a grub floppy. Grub considers the tertiary master as (hd1), correctly as always. After chainloaded (hd1), I found that the grub recipie for feisty is also pointing the wrong drive. I installed it on the forth primary partition on the tertiary master drive, but the recipie points to (hd0,3). After changing the root partition to (hd1,3), Grub successfully loaded feisty. However, the running kernel of feisty now recognized the primary master drive as /dev/sda and the tertiary master as /dev/sdb. To obtain dmesg and lspci output for bug reporting, I booted up the feisty desktop-i386 live-cd again. To my surprise, it correctly recognized the two hard drives this time. To reconfirm, I rebooted the live-cd, and it recognized correctly again. Still, there must be a bug somewhere causing this problem. libata again? Relevant information: http://web.zhmail.com/dmesg.feisty-livecd.log http://web.zhmail.com/dmesg.feisty.log http://web.zhmail.com/lspci-vvn.feisty-livecd.log http://web.zhmail.com/lspci-vvn.feisty.log Wenzhuo -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Call for Release Candidate testing (again)
Wenzhuo Zhang wrote: To obtain dmesg and lspci output for bug reporting, I booted up the feisty desktop-i386 live-cd again. To my surprise, it correctly recognized the two hard drives this time. To reconfirm, I rebooted the live-cd, and it recognized correctly again. Still, there must be a bug somewhere causing this problem. libata again? Relevant information: http://web.zhmail.com/dmesg.feisty-livecd.log http://web.zhmail.com/dmesg.feisty.log http://web.zhmail.com/lspci-vvn.feisty-livecd.log http://web.zhmail.com/lspci-vvn.feisty.log Just tried booting the desktop-i386 CD again, and reproduced the problem. http://web.zhmail.com/dmesg.feisty-live-cd.wrong.drive.order.log http://web.zhmail.com/lspci-vnn.feisty-live-cd.wrong.drive.order.log Wenzhuo -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Call for Release Candidate testing (again)
However, the running kernel of feisty now recognized the primary master drive as /dev/sda and the tertiary master as /dev/sdb. Feisty uses SATA drivers even for IDE drives and so you will have every partition renamed from hd(x)(x) to sd(x)(x). But fstab works if you are using UUID for partitions. I am using Feisty for quite a long time, upgraded from Edgy. The fstab file is fine for me. I never use (hd1,x) whereas i use (hd0,0) still. Here is the fstab file which feisty updated for me when upgrade was over. title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.20-15-generic root(hd0,7) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-genericroot=UUID=b4456ccd-3ae9-44fd-9499-0a33fbae8683 ro quiet splash initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-15-generic quiet savedefault Hope this helps a bit to get why it is /dev/sda and /dev/sdb (if you are not using SATA and got confused) -- Regards, C.C.Chakkaradeep, http://chakkaradeep.wordpress.com -- Sometimes it's better not to ask - or to listen - when people tell you something can't be done. I didnt ask for permission or approval. I just went ahead and did it. - from Direct from Dell -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Call for Release Candidate testing (again)
I'v reported this Bug #89069 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/89069 Please confirm it ! Wenzhuo Zhang a écrit : Wenzhuo Zhang wrote: I am testing the desktop-i386 image on an old desktop machine right now. I've come across three problems so far: 1. The feisty installation on my laptop fails to burn the image using an external USB Combo drive (Model: TEAC DW-224E-B). Neither the Write to disc... context menu facility nor the cdrecord (now wodim) command line works with the external combo drive any more. It's a sad regression since the previous Ubuntu releases work well with this combo drive. 2. I chose the manual partition method. On the Edit a Partition window, the Mount Point drop-down menu was empty initially. Only after I typed in / and reopened the Edit a Partition window could it display a drop-down menu of possible choices. 3. The desktop has two hard drives. One is connected to the motherboard as primary master, and the other is connected to a Promise Ultra100 TX2 IDE controller card as tertiary master. The feisty live-cd recognizes the primary boot drive as /dev/sdb, and the tertiary master as /dev/sda. I am not sure if this could pose a problem when installing the Grub MBR. Let's see the result after the installer finishes its job later. Another problem: 4. I live in GMT +8 timezone. Upon the first boot, fsck complains that the superblock last mount time is in the future, and requires a reboot. Here are the relevant messages on the screen: --- * Checking root file system... fsck 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006) /dev/sdb4: Superblock last mount time is in the future. FIXED. /dev/sdb4: Superblock last write time is in the future. FIXED. /dev/sdb4 has gone 49710 days without being checked, check forced. /dev/sdb4: * REBOOT LINUX * /dev/sdb4: 98408/2064384 files (0.1% non-contiguous), 585723/4122680 blocks fsck died with exit status 3 * The file system check corrected errors on the root partition but requested that the system be restarted. * The system will be restarted in 5 seconds. --- This should be fixed in the installer so users in the GMT + timezones won't see the scary warning messages and an unnecessary reboot. Wenzhuo -- Patrice Vetsel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aka/Alias Kagou https://launchpad.net/people/vetsel-patrice gpg key: 0x15c094db -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: [RFC] ShipIt CD-RW
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:19:45 -0600 From: Conrad Knauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [RFC] ShipIt CD-RW I can think of a few reasons why this is a bad idea, not the least of which is that the alpha/beta versions have big disclaimers to NOT install them on production machines (e.g. including because the installer itself might do bad things). snipped CK Hi all, RFC I guess Request for Comments. (lol). I beg to digress with Conrad. I'm a big supporter of testing the Herd CD's but its the cost of the CD's which does turn me off. Hence my testing is only from the beta stage. I've got 1 80 GB HDD which is exclusive for testing. Now it would be cool on Canonical's part if we have some custom art RW CD's for those people who are ready to engage with the whole testing cycle making it easily distinguished. It would also go in a long way in making us feel a part of the community. I do agree however that there is a danger of it becoming a poor man's supply store but that can be easily corrected by looking at people's contribution in form on bugs filed, any specifications filed, activity on the channels, all of which could be automated to a certain extent. I've also been ordering few CDR's of the final build so as to give-away to friends or to be used to show-off the Live CD capabilities of Ubuntu. Lastly, from the shipit site Canonical does have a list of interested people who are supporters of the project can use that to harness good-will as well as engage the community from time to time but that's beside the point. Hope I got my point across, hoping for more healthy discussion on the subject. -- Shirish Agarwal This work is licensed under the Creative Commons NonCommercial Sampling Plus 1.0 License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/nc-sampling+/1.0/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Freedom Toaster (was: Re: [RFC] ShipIt CD-RW)
shirish agarwal wrote: Hi all, Couple of other things, it seems that freedomtoaster.org http://freedomtoaster.org is no longer being maintained. The whole place is a big big spam/ad place. Even the forums have degenerated into just spam. The last news is of 2k4 nothing beyond that. I've emailed canonical trying to get info on the status of the freedomtoaster project. I've long had ambitions to build one, but always found myself pushed for time. It's too good an idea to let drop. John -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: [RFC] ShipIt CD-RW
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 09:19:45PM -0600, Conrad Knauer wrote: RFC = ? Request For Comments, I presume. -Forest signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Freedom Toaster (was: Re: [RFC] ShipIt CD-RW)
On 4/18/07, john levin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: shirish agarwal wrote: Hi all, Couple of other things, it seems that freedomtoaster.org http://freedomtoaster.org is no longer being maintained. The whole place is a big big spam/ad place. Even the forums have degenerated into just spam. The last news is of 2k4 nothing beyond that. I've emailed canonical trying to get info on the status of the freedomtoaster project. I've long had ambitions to build one, but always found myself pushed for time. It's too good an idea to let drop. John The website appears up for me. Further, Freedom Toaster is a Shuttleworth Foundation project, not a Canonical one. Lastly, this is really a sounder topic, so please send replies there. Corey -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
