Bug#660734: release-notes: Please make sure firmware is installed or the user warned about its lack

2013-01-23 Thread Joost van Baal-Ilić
tags 660734 +help thanks A draft text, or a patch would be very much appreciated. Bye, Joost -- The universe is made of stories, not of atoms. -- Muriel Rukeyser in The Speed of Darkness, 1968 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Bug#509178: booting Debian installer kernel on SunBlade from CDROM is not really supported (was: Re: Bug#509178: installation-reports: sparc fails to boot 2.6.26: Memory Address not Aligned)

2008-12-23 Thread Joost van Baal
Hi, Op Sat 20 Dec 2008 om 10:43:17 +0100 schreef Joost van Baal: This might be the same bug as #509202. I'll try to setup cu or minicom to collect kernel messages on tuesday, while I am at the university again. FWIW, the boot fails in the same way with http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage

Bug#509178: installation-reports: sparc fails to boot 2.6.26: Memory Address not Aligned

2008-12-20 Thread Joost van Baal
on 20081104-23:58 : Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x4000 for kernel Loaded kernel version 2.6.26 Loading initial ramdisk (4284688 bytes at Memory Address not Aligned I'll try to get it to boot with the latest etch kernel on tuesday. Thanks, Bye, Joost -- Joost van Baal

Bug#509178: installation-reports: sparc fails to boot 2.6.26: Memory Address not Aligned

2008-12-19 Thread Joost van Baal
Package: installation-reports Severity: important -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/sparc/iso-cd/debian-testing-sparc-businesscard.iso built on 20081218-10:06 Date: vr dec 19 10:50:07 CET 2008 Machine:

Bug#385188: installation-report: Failed to determine the codename for the release (sparc, daily 20060828)

2006-08-29 Thread Joost van Baal
Continue │ │ │ └───┘ I've succesfully done a CD-ROM integrity test. (Perhaps this should be merged with Bug #374228 .) Thanks, Bye, Joost -- Joost van

Bug#384342: installation-report: doesn't boot kernel: Illegal Instruction (sparc)

2006-08-23 Thread Joost van Baal
Package: installation-reports Version: 2.18 Severity: important Boot method: CD Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/etch_di_beta3/sparc/iso-cd/debian-testing-sparc-businesscard.iso , 20060810 Date: 2006-08-23, 18:00 Machine: Sun Ultra Enterprise 450 Partitions: - Base System

Bug#276468: sparc64: does not configure network, no utf8 on console, can't find iso image on local harddisk

2004-10-14 Thread Joost van Baal
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: 2004-10-13 uname -a: Linux prefix1 2.4.27-1-sparc64 #1 Mon Aug 23 23:59:55 PDT 2004 sparc64 GNU/Linux Date: 2004-10-14 13:46 +0200 Method: boot from local disk, using installer's vmlinuz and initrd Machine: Sun Ultra 10 Processor: Sparc TI

Bug#276468: how to (fail to) test the installer on sparc64 without burning a cd or setting up tftp boot (was: Re: sparc64: ...)

2004-10-14 Thread Joost van Baal
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 02:25:24PM +0200, Joost van Baal wrote: Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: 2004-10-13 uname -a: Linux prefix1 2.4.27-1-sparc64 #1 Mon Aug 23 23:59:55 PDT 2004 sparc64 GNU/Linux Date: 2004-10-14 13:46 +0200 Method: boot from local disk, using

Bug#271951: debian-installer-manual: please document how to typeset manual in PDF using free tools

2004-09-25 Thread Joost van Baal
Hoi Frans, On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 09:01:06PM +0200, Joost van Baal wrote: On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 07:46:09PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 16 September 2004 13:30, Joost van Baal wrote: I've typeset the installer manual in PostScript and PDF, since I like to read big documents

Bug#271951: debian-installer-manual: please document how to typeset manual in PDF using free tools

2004-09-25 Thread Joost van Baal
Hoi Frans, On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 01:29:01PM +0200, Joost van Baal wrote: On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 09:01:06PM +0200, Joost van Baal wrote: On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 07:46:09PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 16 September 2004 13:30, Joost van Baal wrote: I've typeset the installer

Bug#271951: debian-installer-manual: please document how to typeset manual in PDF using free tools

2004-09-16 Thread Joost van Baal
Package: debian-installer-manual Version: 20040801 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi, I've typeset the installer manual in PostScript and PDF, since I like to read big documents like this one from paper. This required some hacking. It'd be cool if a note on how to do this (like this bugreport)

Bug#271951: debian-installer-manual: please document how to typeset manual in PDF using free tools

2004-09-16 Thread Joost van Baal
Hoi Frans, On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 07:46:09PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 16 September 2004 13:30, Joost van Baal wrote: I've typeset the installer manual in PostScript and PDF, since I like to read big documents like this one from paper. This required some hacking. It'd be cool

Bug#242385: won't boot on sparc64: illegal instruction

2004-04-06 Thread Joost van Baal
no experience in debugging this kind of problems. I might be able to give more data, if I'm told how to get them. BTW: I have just installed the box with the woody 3.0r2 installer, this works fine. Thanks for working on the Debian installer! Bye, Joost -- Joost van Baal