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2010-05-25 Thread Archive Administrator
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Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-25 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 05/26/2010 03:36 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: > That works for now; but if a package upgrade for extlinux is ever > downloaded, I'm afraid that new versions of the hook scripts will > be copied into these directories which are marked executable, and > my hand-made configuration file will get wiped

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-25 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 25 May 2010 11:10:38 -0400 (EDT), Ferenc Wagner wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> ... I installed the mbr package ... > > The extlinux package itself also contains an mbr.bin, which you can use > (it's strong point is probably EBIOS support). So it does. Well, I've now installed extlinux

Re: Re (2): lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-25 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: zlinux...@wowway.com >To: debian-de...@lists.debian.org, debian-u...@lists.debian.org, >debian-boot@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: Re (2): lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test >grub2") >Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 13:00:45 -0400 (EDT) > >>On Tue, 25 May 2010

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-25 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Harald Braumann wrote on Tue, 25 May 2010: > > On simple standard system -- one disk, one kernel in /boot, no fancy > stuff -- it works quite well. This is enough to use grub2 for new installing of Debian. > On other systems it often breaks miserably. Updates leave my system > unbootable every

Re: Re (2): lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-25 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 25 May 2010 12:03:17 -0400 (EDT), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> You're missing the point. The main selling point to management >> is that Linux is free. > > No software is entirely without cost. Free Software is no exception. There > are usually no up-fro

Re: Re (2): lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-25 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 25 May 2010 11:51:11 -0400 (EDT), Mark > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: >> On Mon, 24 May 2010 17:29:54 -0400 (EDT), Peter Easthope wrote: >>> Stephen Powell wrote: (3) The need for special backup requirements will be used by the opponents of Linux at my p

Re: A notice to the Debian Installer team...

2010-05-25 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Nima Azarbayjany] > Hi Petter, Hi. > I have actually used the multi partman recipe.  My hard drive is 160G in > size.  The space allocated to /usr was more than enough under Lenny.  I used > to install both Gnome and KDE and lot more additional packages.  But now I > have only Gnome with a very

Re: Re (2): lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-25 Thread Mark
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Mon, 24 May 2010 17:29:54 -0400 (EDT), Peter Easthope wrote: > > Stephen Powell wrote: > >> (3) The need for special backup requirements will be > >> used by the opponents of Linux at my place of employment > >> to oppose further deployme

Re: Re (2): lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-25 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 24 May 2010 17:29:54 -0400 (EDT), Peter Easthope wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> (3) The need for special backup requirements will be >> used by the opponents of Linux at my place of employment >> to oppose further deployments of Linux, ... > > What about the carrot approach? Find an

partman-auto_91_i386.changes ACCEPTED

2010-05-25 Thread Archive Administrator
Accepted: partman-auto_91.dsc to main/p/partman-auto/partman-auto_91.dsc partman-auto_91.tar.gz to main/p/partman-auto/partman-auto_91.tar.gz partman-auto_91_i386.udeb to main/p/partman-auto/partman-auto_91_i386.udeb Override entries for your package: partman-auto_91.dsc - source debian-

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2010-05-25 Thread Archive Administrator
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Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-25 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Stephen Powell writes: > Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> Stephen Powell writes: >>> >>> Both grub-legacy and grub-pc use sectors on the hard disk outside of >>> the master boot record and outside of a partition ... >> >> You may want to try extlinux, it works much like LILO in this respect. > > It doe

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-25 Thread David Weinehall
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 09:22:13AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: [snip] > Speaking of documentation, that seems to be its main weakness. > Documentation is sketchy and spread out over a number of different files. > I would have had a hard time configuring it if it weren't for > correct guesses bas

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-25 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 25 May 2010 07:08:20 -0400 (EDT), Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > William Pitcock wrote: >> This bug *can* be fixed, but not without a significant rewrite of the >> way that lilo's stage2 loader code works. Given that there is no >> active upstream and that the Debian lilo package carrie

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-25 Thread Stephen Powell
Ferenc Wagner wrote: > Stephen Powell writes: >> >> Both grub-legacy and grub-pc use sectors on the hard disk outside of >> the master boot record and outside of a partition ... > > You may want to try extlinux, it works much like LILO in this respect. Well, I tried extlinux last night, and I am

Processed: reassigning to os-prober

2010-05-25 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > reassign 580736 os-prober Bug #580736 [grub-pc] grub is not able to configure Fedora in a dual boot setup Bug reassigned from package 'grub-pc' to 'os-prober'. Bug No longer marked as found in versions grub2/1.98-1. > -- Stopping processing here.

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-25 Thread Harald Braumann
Hi, On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 10:39:52PM -0500, William Pitcock wrote: > (4) Users need to test grub2 now. I've been using grub2 for quite some time now on several different systems with mixed success. On simple standard system -- one disk, one kernel in /boot, no fancy stuff -- it works quite wel

linux-kernel-di-armel-2.6_1.41_armel.changes ACCEPTED

2010-05-25 Thread Archive Administrator
Accepted: ata-modules-2.6.32-5-ixp4xx-di_1.41_armel.udeb to main/l/linux-kernel-di-armel-2.6/ata-modules-2.6.32-5-ixp4xx-di_1.41_armel.udeb cdrom-core-modules-2.6.32-5-iop32x-di_1.41_armel.udeb to main/l/linux-kernel-di-armel-2.6/cdrom-core-modules-2.6.32-5-iop32x-di_1.41_armel.udeb cdrom-

buisnesscard sid_d-i in "expert" mode asks different questions on amd64 vs powerpc

2010-05-25 Thread Rick Thomas
I recently installed an AMD64 box from a sid_d-i businesscard CD in "expert" mode. It asked me some questions that I didn't remember seeing on my PowerPC installations. In particular, it asked me to chose a distribution (Lenny, Squeeze, Sid) and whether I wanted to use non-free repositories. I