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Re: Draft for lenny release announcement

On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > Okay, that's a bit tricky: Under normal circumstances you would reboot > need to check, if your bios allows to boot from CD/DVD/Blu-ray, and > could then boot from your optical drive continuing with the > installation. Aren't most

Re: Draft for lenny release announcement

[ readding debian-boot since the discussion is going to "their" topic ] Hi! Justin B Rye schrieb: [ several improvements ] Applied. > If that last sentence is trying to say "without having to boot from > it" (with the assumption that my BIOS wasn't set up to boot from > removable media by def

Re: Draft for lenny release announcement

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 22:45, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > Christian Perrier schrieb: > >> Given that it might be hard to explain what *exactly* win32-loader is >> doing, I think it could be safer to drop this new feature from the >> announcement. > > Did so when the discussion started wai

Bug#512546: Same problem on Dell Optiplex 760 with Intel Corporation 82567LM-3 Gigabit Network Connection [8086:10de] (rev 02)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christian Perrier wrote: > The only option could be adding something to an errata file. That would very be nice. While researching this problem a bit more, I found that support for the Intel 82567LM-3 NIC was added in kernel 2.6.28: commit f4187b56

Re: Draft for lenny release announcement

Hi! Christian Perrier schrieb: > Given that it might be hard to explain what *exactly* win32-loader is > doing, I think it could be safer to drop this new feature from the > announcement. Did so when the discussion started waiting for a consensus. Seems we reached it ;) Best regards, Alexa

Bug#512546: Same problem on Dell Optiplex 760 with Intel Corporation 82567LM-3 Gigabit Network Connection [8086:10de] (rev 02)

Quoting Sebastiaan Couwenberg (sebas...@xs4all.nl): > Hopefully the e1000e driver in D-I can be fixed before the official Lenny > release so I can reinstall my workstation using that. Or an addition to > the release notes documenting this issue if it cannot be fixed before the > official release

Re: Draft for lenny release announcement

Quoting Jérémy Bobbio (lu...@debian.org): > > That doesnt really have to do anything with Windows. Or if, it should be > > explained how/why. > > I wanted to highlight the inclusion of win32-loader. But maybe this > does not fit the release announcement and should just be dropped > completely.

Ramdisk: ran out of compressed data p550

> > Hi everybody, im having problem installing > debian-Lenny-DI-rc2-powerpc-DVD-1.isofrom > week 02-Feb-2009 on a p550 power5, model 9406-550 with HMC, when i boot > from de dvd the system the m

Bug#514826: Same problem here with another hardware configuration

It looks to me very similar to 501969, which if the lilo command line was fixed up, would go away too. -- ian Ferenc Wagner wrote: Emmanuel Lesouef writes: As suggested by Daniel, I can confirm that my system is booting after modifying the lilo command-line. It's probably the sam

Re: Draft for lenny release announcement

Richard Hartmann writes: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:25, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> That sounds fishy. As I understand it, win32-loader can start the >> installer from Windows, not needing a reboot (thus not needing BIOS >> boot order reconfiguration either). I doubt Windows stays running >> d

Re: Draft for lenny release announcement

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 13:45, Holger Levsen wrote: > "There is also a new tool for Windows users, win32-loader which can modifiy s/win32-loader/win32-loader,/ > the boot.ini from Windows, so it's possible to install Debian without > touching the BIOS." touching the BIOS to change the boot dev

Re: 40r6 locks up during boot

Ian Campbell wrote: On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 11:04 +0900, John wrote: John wrote: Frans Pop wrote: Ah, so. It's the DVD image. It's different, but not satisfactory. I'm copying by hand atm, I'll look at a serial cable (I think I can do that) later, so I will give a bare minimum for the moment.

Re: Draft for lenny release announcement

Hi, thanks Paul for the explaination! On Mittwoch, 11. Februar 2009, Holger Levsen wrote: > > For Microsoft Windows users, the installer can also be started > > without having to reconfigure the system BIOS. Maybe something like this is better: "There is also a new tool for Windows users, win32

Re: Draft for lenny release announcement

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:18:34PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Mittwoch, 11. Februar 2009, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > > >> For Microsoft Windows users, the installer can also be started > > >> without having to reconfigure the system BIOS. > > > What does that sentence mean? Why should (only) Wind

Re: Draft for lenny release announcement

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > That sounds fishy. As I understand it, win32-loader can start the > installer from Windows, not needing a reboot (thus not needing BIOS > boot order reconfiguration either). I doubt Windows stays running > during installation, rather it's

Re: Draft for lenny release announcement

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:25, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > That sounds fishy. As I understand it, win32-loader can start the > installer from Windows, not needing a reboot (thus not needing BIOS > boot order reconfiguration either). I doubt Windows stays running > during installation, rather it's re

Re: Draft for lenny release announcement

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:18, Holger Levsen wrote: > That doesnt really have to do anything with Windows. Or if, it should be > explained how/why. Because the installer carries executables for Windows only (well, and Linux). You are right though, it should be explained why. Why the confusion r

Re: Draft for lenny release announcement

As I understand, this may has a whole other meaning, when installing Debian on a HDD that has a Windows installation, I wanted to use grub to load linux, but didn`t like installing it to the MBR, so I installed it on the Debian root partition boot record, after the installation procedure, I ne

Bug#512546: Same problem on Dell Optiplex 760 with Intel Corporation 82567LM-3 Gigabit Network Connection [8086:10de] (rev 02)

Today I encountered this issue on a Dell Optiplex 760 while trying to setup my new workstation at work. Both the Etch and Etch 'N' Half D-I, which I initially tried, fail to detect the network card. The Lenny D-I RC2 and the daily build of 2009-02-09 also fail to detect the network card. Manually

Re: Draft for lenny release announcement

Richard Hartmann writes: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:50, Ferenc Wagner wrote: >> Holger Levsen writes: >> >>> On Dienstag, 10. Februar 2009, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: >>> For Microsoft Windows users, the installer can also be started without having to reconfigure the system BIOS. >>> >>>

Re: Draft for lenny release announcement

Hi, On Mittwoch, 11. Februar 2009, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> For Microsoft Windows users, the installer can also be started > >> without having to reconfigure the system BIOS. > > What does that sentence mean? Why should (only) Windows users need > > to reconfigure the bios? > To boot from CD inst

Re: Draft for lenny release announcement

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:50, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > Holger Levsen writes: > >> On Dienstag, 10. Februar 2009, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: >> >>> For Microsoft Windows users, the installer can also be started >>> without having to reconfigure the system BIOS. >> >> What does that sentence mean? Why sho

Bug#514826: Same problem here with another hardware configuration

Emmanuel Lesouef writes: > As suggested by Daniel, I can confirm that my system is booting after > modifying the lilo command-line. It's probably the same issue as #511447. Should we merge them? -- Feri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un

Re: Draft for lenny release announcement

Holger Levsen writes: > On Dienstag, 10. Februar 2009, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > >> For Microsoft Windows users, the installer can also be started >> without having to reconfigure the system BIOS. > > What does that sentence mean? Why should (only) Windows users need > to reconfigure the bios? To b

Bug#514826: Same problem here with another hardware configuration

I have the same problem here with a different hardware configuration. The hardware summary is attached. As suggested by Daniel, I can confirm that my system is booting after modifying the lilo command-line. -- Emmanuel Lesouef hardware-summary Description: Binary data

Bug#514826: installation-report: Unable to boot with /boot on LVM and lilo

Package: installation-reports Version: 2.38 Severity: normal -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: debian-Lenny-DI-rc2-amd64-netinst.iso Date: 10 Ferbuary 2009 Machine: KVM 72+dfsg-4 on debian sid Partitions: Disk /dev/hda: 10.7 GB, 10737418240 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/