Re: extlinux

2010-05-27 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 05/27/2010 08:54 AM, Michael Tokarev wrote: Just one question: why /boot/extlinux/ ? Why can't it be placed directly to /boot, so that all kernel images may be referenced using relative paths? there's more than one file used for the config, so putting them into an own directory is better

Re: extlinux

2010-05-27 Thread Michael Tokarev
26.05.2010 22:32, Daniel Baumann wrote: [] how about adding your parameters to EXTLINUX_PARAMETERS in /etc/default/extlinux? then they will be used for all images in the config automatically. in case that's not what you were looking for: as stated in another mail, i've added

Re: Driver injection disk debconf templates in D-I

2010-05-27 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Justin B Rye (j...@edlug.org.uk): Latest attempt: _Description: Load drivers from internal drivers disk? Installing on this hardware may require some drivers provided by the manufacturer to be loaded from the built-in driver injection disk. Seems fair. The keyword here seems

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

2010-05-27 Thread Martin Buck
In gmane.linux.debian.devel.general Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: But like lilo it stays out of unallocated (and therefore not backed up) sectors. The boot block of extlinux is installed in the boot sector of a partition, and the second stage loader occupies a file within the

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

2010-05-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Stefan Monnier, le Thu 27 May 2010 00:58:14 -0400, a écrit : for much. But I am opposed to the removal of lilo. Both grub-legacy and grub-pc use sectors on the hard disk outside of the master boot record (cylinder 0, head 0, sector 1). In other words they use cylinder 0, head 0,

Re: extlinux

2010-05-27 Thread Bjørn Mork
Daniel Baumann dan...@debian.org writes: how about adding your parameters to EXTLINUX_PARAMETERS in /etc/default/extlinux? then they will be used for all images in the config automatically. Yes, I do that for the kernel console. But you also need to configure extlinux for serial console so

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

2010-05-27 Thread thib
Samuel Thibault wrote: [snip] Grub1 could because it was small enough to fit in a well-known usable area in the ext2fs filesystem, but grub2 can not any more. In the filesystem, you're sure? I'm curious, what part? [snip] -t -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

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

2010-05-27 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org writes: Paul Vojta, le Thu 27 May 2010 00:47:14 +, a écrit : In article enjn8-64s...@gated-at.bofh.it, Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu wrote: Sorry, I don't trust in the future of LILO myself. If there's anything which only LILO can do, I recommend you

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

2010-05-27 Thread Praveen A
2010/5/26 Joachim Wiedorn ad_deb...@joonet.de: Harald Braumann ha...@unheit.net 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

Bug#326658: hii

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Re: Getting d-i to find firmware on the CD generated by debian-cd

2010-05-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
that I've got all the firmware debs in /firmware in the ISO, but I don't see any feedback to suggest that the installer is picking up on them. Test images available at http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/20100527-7/i386/iso-cd/firmware-testing-i386-netinst.iso http