Bug#278645: Installed initrd loads wrong SCSI driver on Alphastation 400 4/233

2004-10-28 Thread Patrick Caulfield
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal I installed from the debian-installer CD-ROM downloaded today. It recognised the disks in this machine and installed fine. But when it came to reboot it failed in the initrd with the following error: sym53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 6, function 0 sym53c

Bug#252164: Package: installation-reports

2004-06-22 Thread Patrick Caulfield
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 01:46:53PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Patrick Caulfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-22 09:14]: > > I've not had a play with the installer for some time (to my shame) but I wonder > > if it's at all possible to notice that a

Bug#252164: Package: installation-reports

2004-06-22 Thread Patrick Caulfield
I've not had a play with the installer for some time (to my shame) but I wonder if it's at all possible to notice that a disk that was allocated to LVM (pvcreated) has now been allocated to a filesystem. In which case a pvremove could be done on the volume. This maybe totally impractical, of cours

Bug#252164: Package: installation-reports

2004-06-21 Thread Patrick Caulfield
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 03:58:37PM +0200, Matthias Murra wrote: > On Montag, 21. Juni 2004 14:24, Patrick Caulfield wrote: > > Hang on, there's an alarm bell that I've not been heeding. > > > > Looking in the code: "Incorrect metadata area header checksum"

Bug#252164: Package: installation-reports

2004-06-21 Thread Patrick Caulfield
Hang on, there's an alarm bell that I've not been heeding. Looking in the code: "Incorrect metadata area header checksum" is a fatal error. If that's is occurring on one of tour PVs then the VG should not activate.that leads me to think it might be another disk/device that is producing the error.

Bug#252164: Package: installation-reports

2004-06-20 Thread Patrick Caulfield
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 07:33:45PM +0200, Matthias Murra wrote: > On Freitag, 18. Juni 2004 18:12, Patrick Caulfield wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 05:54:38PM +0200, Matthias Murra wrote: > > > > You probably shouldn't need to reinstall. Upgrading the tool

Bug#254630: LVM names

2004-06-19 Thread Patrick Caulfield
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 02:16:40PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Patrick Caulfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-19 14:14]: > > Allowable characters are: alphanumerics and . _ - + > > What about stuff like umlauts? (e.g. รค) [sorry, cannot test right > now] > Ah

Bug#254630: LVM names

2004-06-19 Thread Patrick Caulfield
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 08:29:29PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > > If you type disallowed characters in a logical volume name when > > > configuring LVM, the installer doesn't notice and you get an > > > unhelpful error message when it tries to run lvcreate. I think the > > > dodgy character w

Bug#252164: Package: installation-reports

2004-06-18 Thread Patrick Caulfield
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 05:54:38PM +0200, Matthias Murra wrote: > > I have stumbled across this thread by googling for the "incorrect > metadata area header checksum" message mentioned above, because > that's the message I am seeing when booting my Debian Sid system that > I installed on my Tos

Bug#252164: Package: installation-reports

2004-06-14 Thread Patrick Caulfield
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 02:43:29PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Patrick Caulfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-11 17:25]: > > There was an odd bug in earlier lvm2 that used to cause checksum > > failures but I can't locate which version that was and I assume that &g

Bug#252164: Package: installation-reports

2004-06-11 Thread Patrick Caulfield
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 03:10:18PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > reassign 252164 lvm2 > thanks > > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-11 06:19]: > > > In any case, can you type: > > > vgchange -a y > > > and restart the partitioner; then they should show up. > > > > > Done. Fo

Re: Please move some udebs to testing for me

2004-06-01 Thread Patrick Caulfield
On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 01:59:33PM -0300, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Gleydson Mazioli da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-05-21 09:40]: > > If isn't not added yet, the LVM 2.0 installer need to check if the > > system has a OLD lvm system installed on it. Because the old > > snapshots don't work wi

Re: LVM and devfs (I'm intrigued)

2004-03-08 Thread Patrick Caulfield
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 08:01:16PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 09:42:38AM +0000, Patrick Caulfield wrote: > > [snip interesting stuff] > > > > > That's interesting. > > > > It was always the case that if you have devfs in the

Re: LVM and devfs (I'm intrigued)

2004-03-08 Thread Patrick Caulfield
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 07:25:02PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > Hi Patrick, > > I've just read #123069, and this is after I yesterday briefly had LVM up and > running on a stock Debian kernel without devfs mount or devfsd installed. > > I shortly afterwards hosed the install and now have LVM on