Re: 32-bit install kernel sleeps off during installation

2010-02-01 Thread Rainer Koenig
Frans Pop schrieb: make reallyclean; fakeroot make build_netboot At this point I fail. The build process wants to install packages like acpi-modules-2.6.26-2-686-di but they seem not to be in the scope of my Lenny based sources.list :-( Sorry, my mistake. The change in the config file

Re: 32-bit install kernel sleeps off during installation

2010-01-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 29 January 2010, Rainer Koenig wrote: Frans Pop schrieb: - install build dependencies - build a netboot image using: make reallyclean; fakeroot make build_netboot At this point I fail. The build process wants to install packages like acpi-modules-2.6.26-2-686-di but they

Re: 32-bit install kernel sleeps off during installation

2010-01-29 Thread Rainer Koenig
Frans Pop schrieb: - install build dependencies - build a netboot image using: make reallyclean; fakeroot make build_netboot At this point I fail. The build process wants to install packages like acpi-modules-2.6.26-2-686-di but they seem not to be in the scope of my Lenny based

32-bit install kernel sleeps off during installation

2010-01-28 Thread Rainer Koenig
Hi, I'm a linux hardware test engineer and I'm also testing Debian on new hardware from time to time. Actually I'm trying to figure out a strange problem: I have a system that sleeps of when I'm installing Debian/Lenny 32bit. The installation is done by booting the netboot kernel initrd.gz from

Re: 32-bit install kernel sleeps off during installation

2010-01-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 28 January 2010, Rainer Koenig wrote: Would be nice to figure out the why behind this problem. My guess at the moment is that it is related to a) the CPU which is a new AMD dual core athlon b) the 2.6.26-2-486 kernel that is used during the installation So I think there is a sort

Re: 32-bit install kernel sleeps off during installation

2010-01-28 Thread Rainer Koenig
Frans Pop schrieb: The first thing I would suggest to do is try if the Squeeze installer [1] (which currently uses a 2.6.30 kernel) still has the same problem. Tried this out and yes, it works with Squeeze 32bit installer from todays snapshot. You're in luck as the 686 kernel is already

Re: 32-bit install kernel sleeps off during installation

2010-01-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 28 January 2010, you wrote: a) can I build a 32bit install image on a Debian amd64 system? Only if you create an i386 chroot (using debootstrap). b) is there a bit of documentation for those things? Websites, books or whatever. Wouldn't mind reading some stuff to get deeper into

d-i documentation [was: 32-bit install kernel sleeps off during installation]

2010-01-28 Thread Douglas Guptill
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 08:58:41PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 28 January 2010, you wrote: b) is there a bit of documentation for those things? Websites, books or whatever. Wouldn't mind reading some stuff to get deeper into this. http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/doc/internals/ Great