Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images

2022-03-20 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Ulrich! On 3/20/22 20:22, Ulrich Teichert wrote: > I tried the basic image on a miata with mixed success. I could boot it, > but the devices on the QLA1040 SCSI controler were not detected - which is > the build-in SCSI controler on that machine type, so I could not even mount > the CD from whi

Updated Debian Ports installation images

2022-03-18 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! I have created the first set of installation images in 2022, these are available at the usual location in [1]. The ISO image for sparc64 has been verified to work correctly, I don't know about the other architectures, however. I have also created the first images which include non-free fi

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-10-14 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Ulrich! On 10/13/21 13:04, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > It just got merged: > >> https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/commit/5c1572cf356ce31f1b8f9a3ffb26a8498617035e > > Will take some more days until I can provide new installation images, however. > > I will let you know, then

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-10-13 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Ulrich! On 10/11/21 20:44, Ulrich Teichert wrote: >> FWIW, the change to re-enable EISA on alpha in the Debian kernel config has >> not been >> merged yet due to bike-shedding over the proper changelog entry ... [1]. > > Oh well, eventually, it will get merged ;-? It just got merged: > http

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-10-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > https://salsa.debian.org/images-team/debian-cd/-/blob/master/tools/boot/bullseye/boot-alpha Ahum. Quite sparse set of options, compared with amd64. :)) That makes it easy to say that nothing suspicious is to see. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-10-11 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Thomas! On 10/11/21 22:17, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > @John Paul Adrian Glaubitz: > Where can i see the code with the xorriso run which produced the ISO ? mkisofs options are here: > https://salsa.debian.org/images-team/debian-cd/-/blob/master/tools/boot/bullseye/boot-alpha Adrian -- .''`.

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-10-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i'm not subscribed, please Cc: me with replies. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Also, let's pull Thomas Schmitt from libburnia upstream who might know more. I don't think that it is a problem with the structure of the ISO image. The error happens early, when the superblock shall be loaded

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-10-11 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Ulrich! On 10/11/21 20:44, Ulrich Teichert wrote: > That's why I used two different CD-ROM drives *and* burned two CD-ROMs on > different > types of blank CDs. I think that rules out hardware issues, as the error is > exactly > the same, even happens on the same sector, when I try to mount th

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-10-10 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Ulrich! On 10/10/21 19:38, Ulrich Teichert wrote: > Just tested on a Alphastation 400 4/233. Booting went smooth (serial > console) but the CDROM (in a DEC RRD45) could not be mounted: > > > Oct 10 19:20:19 kernel: [ 324.340654] sr 0:0:4:0: [sr0] tag#265 unaligned > transfer > Oct 10 19

Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-09-23 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! I have just built and uploaded updated Debian Ports installation images. These images contain an updated apt-setup package which fixes the APT problem that occurred during installation with the 2021-09-21 images. I have performed a successful test installation on sparc64 and will perform a

Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-21

2021-09-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! I just built a fresh set of Debian Ports installation images which are using the latest Debian unstable kernel 5.14.6. The images have not been tested as I currently cannot start my testvm on the SPARC server I usually use for testing, so testing is currently up to the users. Since kernel