Bug#659116: debian-installer: GRUB fails to be installed on machine with IDE and SATA disk

2012-02-08 Thread Hans Streibel
Some additional information: Yesterday I started the rescue system from the installation DVD. Using this I was able to successfully install GRUB. The new Linux system came up after the next boot. However the Windows system on the hard disk did not boot. I repeated the installation procedere. Thi

Bug#659211: debian-installer: Saving the debug log failed

2012-02-08 Thread Hans Streibel
Package: debian-installer Version: 20110106+squeeze4 Severity: minor Tags: d-i I tried to install Debian/Testing from DVDs that I had made (jigdo) of the snapshot on 2012/02/06. I used the expert mode of the installer. When I tried to save the debug log (menu item within the installer) to a mount

Bug#659210: debian-installer: Installation from DVDs: Configuration of the Package Manager failed

2012-02-08 Thread Hans Streibel
Package: debian-installer Version: 20110106+squeeze4 Severity: important Tags: d-i I tried to install Debian/Testing from DVDs that I had made (jigdo) of the snapshot on 2012/02/06. I used the expert mode of the installer. The base system obviously was installed correctly but then the installatio

Re: armhf installer?

2012-02-08 Thread harish badrinath
Hello, You can (a)build your own udebs and build you d-i image. (b)Download the required udeb and place it in localudebs directory. Please see http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/doc/talks/debconf6/paper/index.html#id2536380. If both are not possible, I do not know how to proceed. Regards, Harish O

Bug#659089: os-prober changes: Linux and *BSD detection

2012-02-08 Thread Andrew Gavrilin
> I'd like to ask you to separate those changes. There is a little change for 50mounted-tests. I have removed one string.diff --git a/os-probes/common/50mounted-tests b/os-probes/common/50mounted-tests index 7865b51..9d878c0 100755 --- a/os-probes/common/50mounted-tests +++ b/os-probes/common/50mo

Bug#659208: os-prober changes: Linux and *BSD detection was separated

2012-02-08 Thread Gavrilin Andrey
Package: os-prober Version: 1.49ubuntu1 Severity: normal Tags: patch There is a little change for 50mounted-tests. I have removed one string. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers oneiric-updates APT policy: (500, 'oneiric-updates'), (500, 'oneiric-security'), (500,

armhf installer?

2012-02-08 Thread peter green
It seems there are some unofficial builds at http://people.debian.org/~zumbi/di-armhf/ but only for one particular peice of hardware (and it's not the one I have) I tried building d-i "mx5_netboot" following the instructioions on the wiki. However it failed with Reading package lists... Done

Debian installer build: failed or old builds

2012-02-08 Thread Daily build aggregator
Debian installer build overview --- Failed or old builds: * OLD BUILD:armel Jan 31 06:07 buildd@ancina build_iop32x_netboot http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/armel/daily/build_iop32x_netboot.log * FAILED BUILD: armel Jan 31 06:07 buildd@ancina b

Bug#651563: installation-reports: hybrid/switchable graphic card will prevent booting the system

2012-02-08 Thread descartavel . 1
sorry for the slow response. it crashed. no ctrl+alt+f1. no ctrl+alt+del. (machine has no numlock to test). no network (ssh or ping) just tried again, installed debian stable. again, no windows7 on the grub menu, but that is solved after a simple update-grub. wifi is not working with debian sta

Re: seeding debconf values

2012-02-08 Thread Joey Hess
"Marcus Möller" wrote: > Hi all. > > I stumbled about the following paragraph in the documenation [1]: > > 'For debconf variables (templates) used in the installer itself, the owner > should be set to “d-i”; to preseed variables used in the installed system, > the name of the package that conta

Bug#659131: installation-report: grub-install fails on btrfs filesystem

2012-02-08 Thread Philippe Vanhaesendonck
Package: installation-reports Version: 2.45 Severity: normal Tags: d-i -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: 7.0 (Wheezy) - installer build 20120206-00:09 Date: 08-Feb-2010 Machine: Virtual box (fails on bare metal as well) Partitions: Filesystem

Bug#659116: debian-installer: GRUB fails to be installed on machine with IDE and SATA disk

2012-02-08 Thread Hans Streibel
Package: debian-installer Version: 20110106+squeeze4 Severity: grave Tags: d-i Justification: renders package unusable I tried to re-install Debian/Testing on the same hard disk where it had been before. I installed from DVDs that I had made (jigdo) of the snapshot on 2012/02/06. I used the expert

Bug#659114: debian-installer-6.0-netboot-amd64: addsupport for netboot with vmware

2012-02-08 Thread Bas van den Dikkenberg
Package: debian-installer-6.0-netboot-amd64 Version: 20110106 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, Please consider adding drivers for SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1030 PCI-X Fusion-MPT Dual Ultra320 SCSI and for Ethernet controller: VMware VMXNET3 Ethernet Controller. Bo

Bug#659089: os-prober changes: Linux and *BSD detection

2012-02-08 Thread Otavio Salvador
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 07:03, Gavrilin Andrey wrote: > I have changed Linux detection and I have added *BSD detection. We > will use It for Mandriva/ROSA. > > 50mounted-tests: UFS partions > 90linux-distro: hierarchy > 90bsd-distro: FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD > I'd like to ask you to separate t

Bug#659089: os-prober changes: Linux and *BSD detection

2012-02-08 Thread Gavrilin Andrey
Package: os-prober Version: 1.49ubuntu1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hello. I have changed Linux detection and I have added *BSD detection. We will use It for Mandriva/ROSA. 50mounted-tests: UFS partions 90linux-distro: hierarchy 90bsd-distro: FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD -- System Information:

Bug#658968: debian-installer: permits install with out configuring root password

2012-02-08 Thread Sam Bingner
The option was definitely there... I just never visited it :( Sam On Feb 7, 2012, at 10:05 PM, "Christian PERRIER" wrote: > Quoting Sam Bingner (s...@bingner.com): > >> I did it again to test, and it was because I did expert to enable the >> network console installer component that I was able

Bug#658968: debian-installer: permits install with out configuring root password

2012-02-08 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Sam Bingner (s...@bingner.com): > I did it again to test, and it was because I did expert to enable the network > console installer component that I was able to bypass it. If I do not do an > expert install it does not give the selection menu. > > I suppose that is understandable, but