Bug#968391: Please support the Librem 5

2020-08-24 Thread Guido Günther
Hi, On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 11:24:25AM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > Control: tags 968391 pending > > On 2020-08-24, Guido Günther wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 11:36:50AM +0200, Guido Günther wrote: > >> To make it simpler to run plain Debian on the Librem 5 i

Bug#968391: Please support the Librem 5

2020-08-24 Thread Guido Günther
Hi, On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 11:36:50AM +0200, Guido Günther wrote: > Package: flash-kernel > Version: 3.102 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > > To make it simpler to run plain Debian on the Librem 5 it would be great > to have flash-kernel support. The device tree is in

Bug#968391: Please support the Librem 5

2020-08-14 Thread Guido Günther
Package: flash-kernel Version: 3.102 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch To make it simpler to run plain Debian on the Librem 5 it would be great to have flash-kernel support. The device tree is in the process of being upstreamed: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20200731082725.21878-1-ma

Bug#788062: tagging 788062

2016-01-10 Thread Guido Günther
Hi Thomas, On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 02:10:11PM +0200, Thomas Lange wrote: > tags 788062 + pending Is there any link to a discussion how this is going to be fixed, anything I can help with? I discussed with Nigel (cc:) if this needs to be fixed by using ro,noload when mounting the partition via gru

Bug#712907: grub-installer: No longer installs automatically on a normal machine with one hard drive

2015-08-13 Thread Guido Günther
Hi, On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 07:54:52PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi, > > and sorry for the lag. > > Sam McLeod (2015-03-07): > > Thanks Cyril, I did indeed miss that, that's great - I'll test it today. > > > > It looks like the example pressed hasn't been updated to include this > > featu

Bug#629146: installation-reports: netinst ISO from 6/3/2011 faulty: cdrom-retriever: error: No components listed in /cdrom/dists/stable/Release

2011-07-16 Thread Guido Günther
On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 11:53:29PM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: [..snip..] > Jun 3 21:33:09 anna[1861]: grep: /cdrom/dists/stable/Release: No such > file or directory > Jun 3 21:33:09 cdrom-retriever: error: No components listed in > /cdrom/dists/stable/Release. > Jun 3 21:33:4

Bug#630424: Maybe a Problem with "tip22"

2011-07-06 Thread Guido Günther
Hi Dann, On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 05:29:04PM -0600, dann frazier wrote: > On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 01:35:28PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 02:39:05AM -0700, Edwin Kwan wrote: > > > Hi Guido, > > > > > > Your package tested out OK. I

Bug#630424: Maybe a Problem with "tip22"

2011-06-19 Thread Guido Günther
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 02:39:05AM -0700, Edwin Kwan wrote: > Hi Guido, > > Your package tested out OK. I only have an Indy. So I only tried > "tip22". Thanks for testing! I've uploaded a new version to unstable. I'm not sure what's the correct procedure to get the installer images rebu

Bug#630424: Maybe a Problem with "tip22"

2011-06-16 Thread Guido Günther
tracted "kernel" and "initrd". I got to the installer > screen but I don't need to reinstall right now. :) Geat, could you also try to use http://honk.sigxcpu.org/linux-mips/arcboot/tip22_0.3.14_mips.deb to build that image? This should fix the issue. It a

Bug#630424: Maybe a Problem with "tip22"

2011-06-15 Thread Guido Günther
Hi, On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 02:22:17AM -0700, Edwin Kwan wrote: > Hi, > > The screen shot in Attilio's bug report was done by me on my Indy. > I am not experienced in this beginning of the universe kind of code. > But I found the following clues which may be useful. I can reproduce the probl

Re: Multipath support in Squeeze

2010-03-11 Thread Guido Günther
Hi Frans, On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 01:56:57AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > Hi Guido, > > What's the status of multipath support in Squeeze? Especially given the > switch to grub2. To be honset I don't know. I haven't had the time to check multipath d-i after squeeze. I'll try to find some time to lo

Re: UUID in fstab for device mapper devices?

2009-09-03 Thread Guido Günther
On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 08:13:09PM +0200, Max Vozeler wrote: > Hi Guido, > > On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 01:32:42PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote: > > What's the reasoning for using UUID= instead of /dev/disk/by-uuid/ in > > fstab? Non udev systems? > > I wanted to resea

Re: UUID in fstab for device mapper devices?

2009-08-10 Thread Guido Günther
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:20:30PM +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > Guido Günther writes: > > > On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 09:31:48PM +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > > > >> Guido Günther writes: > >> > >>> Dropping user_friendly_names won't give

Re: UUID in fstab for device mapper devices?

2009-08-10 Thread Guido Günther
Hi Ferenc, On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 09:31:48PM +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > Guido Günther writes: > > > On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 04:57:28PM +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > > > >> OK, so the problem is identifying multipath devices in d-i. So that > >

Re: UUID in fstab for device mapper devices?

2009-08-09 Thread Guido Günther
On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 04:57:28PM +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > OK, so the problem is identifying multipath devices in d-i. So that > option would be better called d-i_friendly_names, because from the > user PoV losing name persistence -- which this option implies --, > isn't friendly or useful,

Re: UUID in fstab for device mapper devices?

2009-08-09 Thread Guido Günther
On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 04:03:38PM +0200, Max Vozeler wrote: > Hi all, > > Attempt to summarize the discussion so far (please correct): > > 1) We should use /dev/mapper/ paths rather than UUID in the fstab > entries for all device mapper devices. > > 2) For some type of device mapper dev

Re: UUID in fstab for device mapper devices?

2009-08-09 Thread Guido Günther
On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 11:12:37PM +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > Guido Günther writes: > > > On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 04:28:46PM +0200, Max Vozeler wrote: > > > >> we recently changed d-i (partman-target, to be precise) to use > >> UUIDs in fstab

Re: UUID in fstab for device mapper devices?

2009-08-07 Thread Guido Günther
Hi Max, thanks for bringing this up! On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 04:28:46PM +0200, Max Vozeler wrote: > [Resend to @packages.debian.org] > > Hello fellow maintainers, > > we recently changed d-i (partman-target, to be precise) to use > UUIDs in fstab in order to get stable device naming. So you're

Re: Results of the second run of research about ext4 support in bootloaders

2009-07-03 Thread Guido Günther
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 06:58:14PM +0200, Stefano Canepa wrote: > Hi all, > I continued my research about ext4 support in bootloaders and this is > the result till now: > ext4 support > > * grub: amd64, i386, powerpc w/ ubuntu patch > * grub2: amd64, i386, powerpc > * lilo-instal

Re: Updated multipath patch for grub-legacy

2009-02-05 Thread Guido Günther
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 04:27:54PM +0100, Guido Günther wrote: > Hi, > Attached is an updated version of the multipath support patch for > grub-legacy. It applies cleanly to 0.97-47lenny2. It's the only > missing piece for getting multipath support to work in lenny's d-i: >

Re: Call for testing of RC2 images

2009-02-05 Thread Guido Günther
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 07:39:54PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Guido Günther writes: > > > Frans Pop schrieb: > >> On Friday 30 January 2009, Guido Günther wrote: > >>> The i386 businesscard iso lacks the libaio1-udeb so "multipath -l" > >

Re: Bug#442382: Updated multipath patch for grub-legacy

2009-02-01 Thread Guido Günther
tags 442382 + patch thanks On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 09:16:27PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > tags 442382 - patch > thanks > > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 04:27:54PM +0100, Guido Günther wrote: > > +--- a/lib/device.c.org 2009-01-29 13:31:54.0 +0100 > > b/lib/d

Re: Call for testing of RC2 images

2009-01-30 Thread Guido Günther
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 07:39:54PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Guido Günther writes: > > > Frans Pop schrieb: > >> On Friday 30 January 2009, Guido Günther wrote: > >>> The i386 businesscard iso lacks the libaio1-udeb so "multipath -l" > >

Re: Call for testing of RC2 images

2009-01-30 Thread Guido Günther
Frans Pop schrieb: > On Friday 30 January 2009, Guido Günther wrote: >> The i386 businesscard iso lacks the libaio1-udeb so "multipath -l" >> won't work due to lack of libaio.so.1 and the system fails to detect >> multipath. Can the libaio1-udeb be added? &g

Re: Call for testing of RC2 images

2009-01-30 Thread Guido Günther
Hi Otavio, On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:19:17AM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello, > > The Debian-CD Team has built the images based on RC2 installer and > I'd like to ask for some tests before we finally announce the release. > > The images

please unblock multipath-tools 0.4.18-4

2009-01-29 Thread Guido Günther
Hi, please allow multipath-tools 0.4.8-14 into lenny. It fixes partition handling on devices > 2TB and a failure to detect the necessary block device info from /sys with kernels >= 2.6.27. The rest is a documentation update and a new translation. The detailed list of changes with links to the comm

Updated multipath patch for grub-legacy

2009-01-29 Thread Guido Günther
Hi, Attached is an updated version of the multipath support patch for grub-legacy. It applies cleanly to 0.97-47lenny2. It's the only missing piece for getting multipath support to work in lenny's d-i: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/MultipathSupport Cheers, -- Guido diff --git a/debian/p

Bug#473401: grub-installer: grub2 config for Windows partition does not boot

2008-12-05 Thread Guido Günther
On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 12:12:42AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > For multipath, I'm not familiar with how it works, and speficically what > does grub-installer do to support it, so I don't know. Support for multipath in grub-installer is modeled straight after dmraid. It gets the relevant disk and

Bug#473401: grub-installer: grub2 config for Windows partition does not boot

2008-11-30 Thread Guido Günther
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 10:56:28PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: [..snip..] > Status update: > > - vdX and xvdX are supported > - ida is supported > - i2o is supported > - I don't know the status of multipath, except that GRUB never supported it. > I know grub-installer has some hack wh

Bug#504095: installation-report: xen paravirt installation

2008-11-21 Thread Guido Günther
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 03:31:42PM +, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 16:20 +0100, Guido Günther wrote: > > Hi Ian, > > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 04:32:16PM +, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 17:22 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > > >

Bug#504095: installation-report: xen paravirt installation

2008-11-21 Thread Guido Günther
Hi Ian, On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 04:32:16PM +, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 17:22 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 04:31:00PM +0100, Guido Günther wrote: > > > So to me it seems the workaround can be removed: > > > * remo

Bug#492878: lenny installer -dosen't detect Broadcom ethernet adapter

2008-11-08 Thread Guido Günther
On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 08:51:54PM +, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > I added the firmware from the firmware-bnx2 package into the initrd > (we pxeboot the servers) to fix this FWIW. > > You can't download it via udeb since it could be the network adapter > you are trying to use! http://lists.debian.

Bug#504753: debian-installer: autodetect correct network card [PATCH]

2008-11-08 Thread Guido Günther
On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 08:49:49PM +, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > Package: debian-installer > > using PXElinux, if you add "IPAPPEND=3" in the pxelinux.cfg, > /proc/cmdline will contain the boot adapter's MAC address. > > Using this we can automatically detect which card the box PXEbooted > from

Bug#504095: installation-report: xen paravirt installation

2008-10-31 Thread Guido Günther
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 03:52:43PM +, Ian Campbell wrote: [..snip..] > > > d-i should have installed the 686-bigmem image when running under Xen > > > due to the use of the 686-bigmem kernel for the Xen variant of the > > > installer. I'll investigate why this didn't happen. > > > > > > Could

Bug#504095: installation-report: xen paravirt installation

2008-10-31 Thread Guido Günther
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 03:46:22PM +, Ian Campbell wrote: > diff --git a/packages/base-installer/kernel/i386.sh > b/packages/base-installer/kernel/i386.sh > index cba6d9b..e8929ea 100644 > --- a/packages/base-installer/kernel/i386.sh > +++ b/packages/base-installer/kernel/i386.sh > @@ -36,10 +

Bug#504095: installation-report: xen paravirt installation

2008-10-31 Thread Guido Günther
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 03:38:30PM +, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 16:31 +0100, Guido Günther wrote: > > Hi Ian, > > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 01:26:08PM +, Ian Campbell wrote: > > [..snip..] > > > > d-i should have installed the 686-bi

Bug#504095: installation-report: xen paravirt installation

2008-10-31 Thread Guido Günther
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:56:48PM +, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 12:58 +0100, Guido Guenther wrote: > > Package: installation-reports > > Version: 2.38 > > Severity: normal > > > > Boot method: network > > Image version: http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/current/ > >

Bug#504095: installation-report: xen paravirt installation

2008-10-31 Thread Guido Günther
Hi Ian, On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 01:26:08PM +, Ian Campbell wrote: [..snip..] > > d-i should have installed the 686-bigmem image when running under Xen > > due to the use of the 686-bigmem kernel for the Xen variant of the > > installer. I'll investigate why this didn't happen. > > It seems to

Re: [RFR] D-I Manual: new section on how to load firmware during installs

2008-10-30 Thread Guido Günther
Hi Frans, On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 04:23:31PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > The procedure is exactly as described: you will be prompted to load the > firmware from removable media. Anything else requires modifying the > image, which is totally outside the scope of the manual. In datacenters folks migh

please allow multipath-tool 0.4.8-13 into Lenny

2008-10-06 Thread Guido Günther
Hi, the above release has these changes: * [5585feb] simplify udev dependency * [4cc8116] add a versioned dependency on dmsetup (Closes: #497686) * [9887760] blacklist cciss devices (Closes: #500991) 4cc8116 fixes an etch upgrade issue and 9887760 makes sure we don't try to run multipath on

please allow multipath-tool 0.4.8-13 into Lenny

2008-10-06 Thread Guido Günther
Hi, the above release has these changes: * [5585feb] simplify udev dependency * [4cc8116] add a versioned dependency on dmsetup (Closes: #497686) * [9887760] blacklist cciss devices (Closes: #500991) 4cc8116 fixes an etch upgrade issue and 9887760 makes sure we don't try to run multipath on

Re: unblocking partman-multipath

2008-09-18 Thread Guido Günther
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 07:31:57PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: [..snip..] > You still have some very basic misconceptions about what is needed to > install Lenny. Migrating partman-multipath has got exactly NOTHING to do > with the ability to install testing using partman-multipath. Maybe that was m

Re: unblocking partman-multipath

2008-09-18 Thread Guido Günther
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 08:17:32PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Guido Günther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi Otavio > > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 08:28:24AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > [..snip..] > >> I won't upload 1.9 for Debian now and

Re: unblocking partman-multipath

2008-09-17 Thread Guido Günther
Hi Otavio On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 08:28:24AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: [..snip..] > I won't upload 1.9 for Debian now and if we do it fast, after Parted > migrates to lenny, we might test it and try to get an > exception. However until that is done, I wouldn't like to have unused > udebs on le

Re: New partman-multipath udeb

2008-09-08 Thread Guido Günther
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 04:10:05PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Sunday 09 March 2008, Guido Günther wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 03:21:48AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > > However, /usr/lib/post-base-installer.d/ is perfect as that is run > > > after debootstrap but

Re: Status of multipath support in d-i

2008-09-07 Thread Guido Günther
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 02:24:45PM +0200, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 10:32:24AM +0200, Guido Günther wrote: > > Yes. This was the problem. It works as expected now. I think we should > > push partman-multipath into lenny now. > > Do you think that yo

Re: Status of multipath support in d-i

2008-09-04 Thread Guido Günther
Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 07:00:49PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote: >> [..snip..] >> > [1] the partitioning method dialog looks broken: >> > >> > http://honk.sigxcpu.org/projects/multipath-tools/d-i/part-method-borked.png >> > When going back to the main menu and selecting "Par

Re: Status of multipath support in d-i

2008-08-29 Thread Guido Günther
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 06:05:08PM +0200, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 07:00:49PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote: > > [..snip..] > > > [1] the partitioning method dialog looks broken: > > > > > > http://honk.sigxcpu.org/projects/multip

Re: Status of multipath support in d-i

2008-08-26 Thread Guido Günther
Hi, On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 12:09:45PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote: > Until this is fixed in order to get grub setup correctly either use the > patch in the BTS or flush the multipath map (multipath -F) and mount the > devices single path. I've updated the wiki page http://w

Status of multipath support in d-i

2008-08-16 Thread Guido Günther
Hi, just a short heads up on the status of multipath in d-i (built from unstable on 2008-08-14) [0]: Since the parted-udeb now contains the necessary patches from #440675 (thanks again Otavio!) things are in pretty good shape. Udev is still broken (#493075) and we could do a bit better on error h

Bug#495330: should filter out errors from /sbin/multipath

2008-08-16 Thread Guido Günther
Package: partman-multipath Version: 2 Severity: normal When the scsi_id callout fails it prints it's error message on stdout. This should be filtered out via: grep -v "error calling out" since it confuses mp device detection (the devices get detected properly but the underlying SCSI devices get

Re: unblocking partman-multipath

2008-08-08 Thread Guido Günther
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 02:17:14PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Any news on this one? I'll do some more d-i testing on multipath next > >> week and it would be great if I could do this from daily builds. > > > > Yes, you can do it, I'll manage th

Re: unblocking partman-multipath

2008-08-07 Thread Guido Günther
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 12:36:39PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Thursday 07 August 2008, Guido Günther wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 10:52:38AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > > On Thursday 07 August 2008, Guido Günther wrote: > > > > Any news on this one? I&

Re: unblocking partman-multipath

2008-08-07 Thread Guido Günther
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 10:52:38AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Thursday 07 August 2008, Guido Günther wrote: > > Any news on this one? I'll do some more d-i testing on multipath next > > week and it would be great if I could do this from daily builds. > > You *can* do

Re: unblocking partman-multipath

2008-08-07 Thread Guido Günther
Hi Otavio, On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 05:53:09PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > adeodato simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Mini transition of what? libparted1.8-9 -> libparted1.8-10? Since the > > 1.8 transition itself hasn't happened yet (any news about that, > > Otavio?), I guess we could squ

Re: List of last possible inclusions for Lenny

2008-08-02 Thread Guido Günther
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:25:04PM +0200, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > Here are various things that could be included in the installer for > Lenny: Multipath support? http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/MultipathSupport Cheers, -- Guido -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: unblocking partman-multipath

2008-08-01 Thread Guido Günther
On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 08:58:19AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > RT would be acceptable for you to have this mini transition now? That > is the last missing part to fully support multipath on d-i. Unfortunately that's not entirely true: we're also still lacking grub2 patches but Robert wanted to

Re: unblocking partman-multipath

2008-08-01 Thread Guido Günther
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 08:28:24AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Guido Günther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, > > please unblock partman-multipath. There's no version in lenny yet. This > >

Re: unblocking partman-multipath

2008-07-31 Thread Guido Günther
Hi Otavio, On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 09:03:39AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > * Otavio Salvador [Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:28:24 -0300]: > > > >> > Hi, > >> > please unblock partman-multipath. There's no version in lenny yet. This > >> > way folks building

Re: Please review announcement of upcoming release of Debian 4.0r4 "etch-and-a-half"

2008-07-26 Thread Guido Günther
(trimmed the cc: list a bit) On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 04:24:20PM +0200, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > Attached you'll find the current draft for the announcement of > "etch-and-a-half". Please review it; current schedule for it to be send > out is tomorrow. We should probably mention in the et

unblocking partman-multipath

2008-07-25 Thread Guido Günther
Hi, please unblock partman-multipath. There's no version in lenny yet. This way folks building custom installers (due to #440675) can pull from lenny instead of sid. Cheers, -- Guido -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Multipath on Debian (Boot from SAN )

2008-07-18 Thread Guido Günther
Hi Marco, On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 04:51:30PM +0200, Marco Curradi wrote: > Is possible to enable multipath during installation with Lenny or Etch ? > > I just installed Red Hat and CentOS with the option "boot linux mpath" > but I want to try with Debian the boot from san. No, unfortunately that's

Bug#488322: support labeled mounts

2008-06-27 Thread Guido Günther
Package: partman-ext3 Version: 52 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch This patch uses the "infrastructure" from #488321 to allow partitons to be mounted by label instead of device name. Note that $id/labeled_mount is currently only settable when doing auto partitioning but should this patch look useful

Bug#488321: Patch attached

2008-06-27 Thread Guido Günther
...forgot the patch. -- Guido >From 35a101a2cfe554631b4b80c8cdf9dc9b3817edee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guido Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:41:48 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] add support for labeled mounts --- .../partman-target/finish.d/fstab_hd_entries | 10 +

Bug#488321: support labeled mounts

2008-06-27 Thread Guido Günther
Package: partman-target Version: 55 Severity: wishlist Hi, since device names aren't always persistent between installation and target system, and since people want to create partimages that can be deployed without modification on sata as well as pata systems it would be nice if d-i would support

Re: [RFC] Debian Installer Lenny Beta2 - Pending stuff and timeline

2008-05-05 Thread Guido Günther
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 09:02:12PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Guido Günther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi Otavio, > > On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 06:06:23PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > [..snip..] > >> . parted update is likely to

Re: [RFC] Debian Installer Lenny Beta2 - Pending stuff and timeline

2008-05-04 Thread Guido Günther
Hi Otavio, On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 06:06:23PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: [..snip..] > . parted update is likely to happen before Lenny is release however >we're still working at s390 fixing to get it done. That's great news. Does this include fixing #440675 which is needed for multipath s

Bug#467324: Gnash in Desktop task?

2008-04-23 Thread Guido Günther
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 09:28:57PM +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > swfdec might be an option too. For what I know, Gnash supports more > Flash than swfdec, but swfdec is indeed stable and what it does, it > does good. swfdec is, AFAIK, more a one person's project, while Gnash Fedora picking swfdec for

Bug#476836: multipath: missing depmod call

2008-04-19 Thread Guido Günther
Package: disk-detect Version: 1.60 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi, when enabling multipath support multipath-udeb gets installed which pulls in the multipath-modules- udeb via a dependency. Afterwards these modules are immediately being loaded. This fails currently since we're missing a call to

partman-multipath upload

2008-03-25 Thread Guido Günther
Hi, can I upload partman-multipath? Since it's not being used by default atm this shouldn't cause any harm. Cheers, -- Guido -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#468832: multipath support

2008-03-10 Thread Guido Günther
On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 03:30:36PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Ack to commit them. Applied, thanks. -- Guido -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#468832: multipath support

2008-03-09 Thread Guido Günther
HI Otavio, On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 03:30:36PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > I'm ok with you pushing it for Beta2 but I'd like that you keep around > if any issues is discovery with your code changes. I hope we'll be > able to do a fast Beta2 release and want to avoid too risky changes. Sure. The

Re: New partman-multipath udeb

2008-03-09 Thread Guido Günther
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 03:21:48AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > However, /usr/lib/post-base-installer.d/ is perfect as that is run after > debootstrap but before kernel installation. It works the same as > finish-install.d: just dump a script in there and it'll get executed. > Because of when it is

Bug#468832: multipath support

2008-03-08 Thread Guido Günther
On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 05:04:28PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > It would be great if you could do grub2 support as that would also cover > dmraid support with grub2. I originally implemented it, but cannot test it > ATM (have a system that supports it, but no spare SATA disks to play with). Can you

Bug#468832: multipath support

2008-03-08 Thread Guido Günther
On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 08:10:46AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > Looks fine to me. Thanks for reviewing. Maybe we can move all things into place after beta1? I'll look into updating partman-multipath with your suggestions and hopefully grub2 support until then. -- Guido -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Bug#468832: multipath support

2008-03-08 Thread Guido Günther
On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 11:55:54AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > I don't exactly agree about "meaningless". Knowing that WWID means > "WorldWide IDentifier" helped me to understand that this seems to be a > generic way to name a multipath device, so expanding the acronym has > at least some tea

Re: Bug#468832: multipath support

2008-03-08 Thread Guido Günther
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 10:34:45PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > Of course, GRUB stuff comes pretty late, but it wouldn't really hurst > to put "WorldWide IDentifier" somewhere: I think it's fine to put this in the manual but people not knowing what a WWID is will have a hard time to even set u

Bug#468832: multipath support

2008-03-07 Thread Guido Günther
Hi Frans, On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 10:16:17PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > In general I'm not sure that this approach is correct. In the case of SATA > RAID, the BIOS actually knows what the RAID devices are and the RAID device > _is_ what you select in the BIOS as the "disk" to be booted from. In the

Re: installation failure with current lenny packages

2008-03-07 Thread Guido Günther
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 08:37:53PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Sunday 02 March 2008, Guido Günther wrote: > > It's d-i trunk revision 51621 with this sources.list.local: > > This is your problem: > Mar 2 18:48:08 main-menu[1192]: INFO: Menu item 'live-installer'

Re: installation failure with current lenny packages

2008-03-02 Thread Guido Günther
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 06:03:52PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Sunday 02 March 2008, Guido Günther wrote: > > while testing the multipath inststallation the current lenny installer + > > *Exactly* which installer image did you use? It's d-i trunk revision 51621 with this sour

installation failure with current lenny packages

2008-03-02 Thread Guido Günther
Hi, while testing the multipath inststallation the current lenny installer + the multipath patches posted to the bts fails like this during the "install system" step (it prints "running preseed..." in the progress bar dialog at this moment: Mar 2 13:12:12 apt-install: Queueing package e2fsprogs f

Bug#468832: multipath support

2008-03-02 Thread Guido Günther
On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 07:57:15PM +0100, Guido Günther wrote: > attached is a first version of multipath support for grub-install to get > some comments. It basically uses the sataraid code. The current code ...as Frans pointed out I forgot the attachment. -- Guido

Re: Documenting how to test multipath devices

2008-03-01 Thread Guido Günther
On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 07:10:30PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > Agreed. A wiki page for multipath would be very good to have, especially as > it is a feature that needs to be activated on the boot prompt. There's http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/MultipathSupport which I use to keep track of th

Bug#468832: multipath support

2008-03-01 Thread Guido Günther
Package: grub-installer Version: 1.29 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi, attached is a first version of multipath support for grub-install to get some comments. It basically uses the sataraid code. The current code has: - if ... [ $frgrubroot -gt 0 ] && [ -e $ROOT$frdev$frbootpart ]; then which

Bug#468799: add multipath support

2008-03-01 Thread Guido Günther
Package: partman-auto Version: 76 Severity: wishlist Depends: 442236 Hi, attached patch allows multipathed devices to be used for auto partitioning. Cheers, -- Guido >From 70c808621377cf27f248f772c32ed244465a3713 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guido Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2

Re: partman-base: extend regex to handle faked qemu multipath via hda

2008-02-29 Thread Guido Günther
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:50:29PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Friday 29 February 2008, Guido Günther wrote: > > The multipath output then looks like: > > ... > > \_ #:#:#:# hda 3:0 ... > > > > since there is no controller:bus:id:lun to read. O.k. to apply? Ease

partman-base: extend regex to handle faked qemu multipath via hda

2008-02-29 Thread Guido Günther
The multipath output then looks like: ... \_ #:#:#:# hda 3:0 ... since there is no controller:bus:id:lun to read. O.k. to apply? Eases testing with QEMU/KVM a lot. Cheers, -- Guido --- packages/partman/partman-base/init.d/parted |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff

partman-base: define variables as local in commit.sh

2008-02-29 Thread Guido Günther
Define variables as local. The partition numbers are still weird in the dialog, will fix this up at a later iteration. O.k. to apply? -- Guido --- packages/partman/partman-base/lib/commit.sh |6 -- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/packages/partman/partman-ba

partman-base: silence dmsetup

2008-02-29 Thread Guido Günther
Subject says it all. Otherwise dmsetup complains loudly when a device map doesn't exist. O.k. to apply? -- Guido --- packages/partman/partman-base/lib/base.sh |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/packages/partman/partman-base/lib/base.sh b/packages/partman/p

partman-base: fix part_of_multipath check

2008-02-29 Thread Guido Günther
Patch moved that hunk outside the actual for loop so $partdev was always empty. I didn't notice earlier since I expected the QEMU devices to showup anyway since they're not SCSI. O.k. to apply? -- Guido --- packages/partman/partman-base/init.d/parted |9 + 1 files changed, 5 insertio

Bug#440439: Updated patch

2008-02-29 Thread Guido Günther
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 01:50:34AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > P.S. I'm going to assume you're subscribed to the list from now on. No need > to CC me on replies either. Sure. But please do cc: me since I'm not reading debian-boot that frequently. Cheers, -- Guido -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Bug#442236: updated patch

2008-02-29 Thread Guido Günther
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 01:53:00AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Friday 29 February 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > Better: > > _Description: Multipath %s, partition #%s > > > > looks more logical and follows rest of templates. > > Agreed. Feel free to commit (with changelog entry) after that. Tha

Bug#440439: Updated patch

2008-02-29 Thread Guido Günther
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 08:47:56PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > But why you've change to grep instead checking the $? This way we fail when either: multipath -l returns an error or when the output doesn't contain any valid multipaths. -- Guido -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#442236: updated patch

2008-02-28 Thread Guido Günther
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 06:38:27PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Tuesday 26 February 2008, Guido Günther wrote: > > I've attached an updated patch. Thanks for the comments. > > Thanks for the update, but I'm afraid I have one more. > > Please define variables us

Bug#440439: Updated patch

2008-02-28 Thread Guido Günther
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 05:03:04PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > This line is way to cryptic to my taste: > [ -n "$(/sbin/multipath -l)" && $? ] && return 0 || return 1 > > Could you rewrite that to something that is a bit more intuitive? This one is simpler and much more robust against weird

Re: New partman-multipath udeb

2008-02-26 Thread Guido Günther
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 05:11:51PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > I saw that Otavio committed the multipath udeb. The indentation in various > scripts is a complete mess. The indentation used spaces instead of tabs in several spaces, I cleaned that up. > Also, it looks like the finish-install script s

Bug#442236: updated patch

2008-02-26 Thread Guido Günther
Hi Frans On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 04:53:52PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Tuesday 26 February 2008, Guido Günther wrote: > > attached is an updated patch against current partman-base. I attach an > > updated version for review since it contains a template which might be >

disk-detect template review

2008-02-26 Thread Guido Günther
Hi, Otavio asked me to put this template snippet out for review. It's been added to svn recently when we added multipath support to disk-detect: Template: disk-detect/multipath/enable Type: boolean Default: false Description: for internal use; can be preseeded Check for the presence of multipathe

Bug#442236: updated patch

2008-02-26 Thread Guido Günther
Hi, attached is an updated patch against current partman-base. I attach an updated version for review since it contains a template which might be interesting for translators Template: partman/text/multipath Type: text _Description: Multipath %s (WWID %s) Template: partman/text/multipath_partition

Bug#440439: Updated patch

2008-02-26 Thread Guido Günther
Hi, attached is an updated patch for multipath detection in hw-detect. The patch hasn't changed it's just rediffed against current SVN. Cheers, -- Guido >From 96b6e14bf63d4df4ec62d8838ecbdbf2c30a17ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guido Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:23:38

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