Re: How to build a kernel which boots from SATA?

2004-08-04 Thread Michael Bienia
On 2004-07-22 22:25:39 +0200, Michael Bienia wrote: So I tried to build a new kernel (2.6.8-rc2) but I didn't get it to boot from my SATA disk. The installed kernel (2.6.7-5-amd64-k8-smp) boots fine (module is sata_via). I tried to compile all necessary drivers into the kernel but it didn't

Re: Installer problem

2004-08-04 Thread Peter Cordes
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 06:55:30PM +0200, Miham KEREKES wrote: Hi All, We're experiencing some problems regarding installing debian-amd64 on a dual-Opteron 244 machine w/ 8G RAM. Disk subsystem is SATA w/ 3ware Escalade 8506, the machine has 2TB HDD space. Is it on a PCI riser card in a

Re: [debian-amd64] Re: Installer problem

2004-08-04 Thread mike
I have a 3ware 9xxx card - you'll want to run kernel 2.6.8-rc1 or higher to get fully supported in-kernel or module support. the source code from their website is a pain to get working. i had them even examine my machine personally. just so you know - it might save you some hassle later on. their

Re: [debian-amd64] Re: Installer problem

2004-08-04 Thread Peter Cordes
On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 10:57:36AM -0700, mike wrote: I have a 3ware 9xxx card - you'll want to run kernel 2.6.8-rc1 or higher to get fully supported in-kernel or module support. the source code from their website is a pain to get working. i had them even examine my machine personally. just

Re: testing buildd gcc-3.4 transition

2004-08-04 Thread Andreas Jochens
On 04-Aug-04 15:21, Peter Cordes wrote: On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 02:14:59PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: deb http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/gcc-3.4 sid main contrib non-free I have a pure64 chroot that I set up based on John's tarball a long time ago. I've apt-get

Re: testing buildd gcc-3.4 transition

2004-08-04 Thread Frederik Schueler
Hi, On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 03:21:08PM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: I don't plan to boot pure64 on these machines soon, just use it as a chroot, so does it make sense to just change my sources.list and apt-get dist-upgrade from the gcc-3.4 archive, or should I re-install from scratch? (Or

Installation problem (Segmentation fault)

2004-08-04 Thread Felipe Rayel
Hi, I tried to install these two netinst iso: 2004-08-04 and 2004-06-16 Bot both stops in the base system installation at the same place. In the /var/log/messages it says that was a segmentation fault and don´t install the awk package. So the installer exitis due to dependency problem...

Re: New kernel flavour names

2004-08-04 Thread Frederik Schueler
Hello, On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 03:49:52PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: There will be PentiumM/P6 based 64bit Xeons from Intel a few years ahead, which are completely different from the nocona P4-core, I think xeon isn't a that good choice for the flavour name. I spent a lot of time

RFC: Adding minimal amd64/biarch support for sarge

2004-08-04 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
I've been discussing this with various people all week, and since I now have a working prototype, I would to propose it and see what feedback there is. First, what I'm suggesting: two new packages for sarge and one modified package. They would allow 64-bit applications using a small set of

Re: Debian on my Targa laptop, next steps

2004-08-04 Thread Alex Perry
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 09:45:02AM -0700, François Dreyfuerst wrote: 2) Since I only have a DSL Net connection through USB modem, and no floppy drive on this laptop anyway, I need to mount my USB memory stick. Evrey time I try to do it, I get something like that (hotplug is active,

Grub testers wanted

2004-08-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hi, everyone with 4GB or more or who had problems with grub in the past should test the lates grub with and inited kernel and send a short reply if it works or what the error is. Please include what motherboard, cpu, ram and kernel/initrd you use. Reports of it failing have been sketchy and the

Re: Debian on my Targa laptop, next steps

2004-08-04 Thread Christian Bjälevik
On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 16:10:35 -0700 Alex Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 09:45:02AM -0700, François Dreyfuerst wrote: 2) Since I only have a DSL Net connection through USB modem, and no floppy drive on this laptop anyway, I need to mount my USB memory stick. Evrey

Re: RFC: Adding minimal amd64/biarch support for sarge

2004-08-04 Thread Peter Cordes
On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 05:42:30PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: First, what I'm suggesting: two new packages for sarge and one modified package. They would allow 64-bit applications using a small set of standard libraries to run on an otherwise i386 installation, and allow 64-bit

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