Bug#495049: why is (fd0) hard-coded into the grub image?

2008-08-16 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Freitag, den 15.08.2008, 19:49 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2008-08/msg00442.html Just like raid, lvm needs to scan all device. I think this is caused when it try to open (fd0), and fails. The grub_errno is not cleared, it's carried out

Bug#495049: why is (fd0) hard-coded into the grub image?

2008-08-15 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Freitag, den 15.08.2008, 03:18 -0700 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I should point out that when grub drops into the rescue prompt, it coughs up the message error: unknown device fd0. Perhaps this is why it goes into rescue mode? Thanks for telling us. This is a bit different then: GRUB

Bug#495049: why is (fd0) hard-coded into the grub image?

2008-08-15 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Freitag, den 15.08.2008, 09:28 -0700 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I would have mentioned it before, except that it didn't seem relevant, because I don't have a floppy disk, and neither device.map nor grub.cfg refer to it. Aha, it doestn't seem relevant because you don't have a floppy drive

Bug#495049: why is (fd0) hard-coded into the grub image?

2008-08-15 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Freitag, den 15.08.2008, 10:51 -0700 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Forget it, I'll fix it myself, and send the patch to upstream. Great, why didn't you do that first if you know everything better? This does nothing to explain why grub is worried about (fd0), when none of its inputs

Bug#495049: grub-pc: does not boot because module normal is not loaded

2008-08-14 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Mittwoch, den 13.08.2008, 19:13 -0700 schrieb Ian Bruce: I installed grub because lilo wouldn't boot any more. My root fs is on lvm; I don't know if this is related. After running grub-install and rebooting, grub drops into the grub rescue prompt. The pc, lvm, and ext2 modules are

Bug#427492: grub-efi: method to 'bless' ?

2008-08-14 Thread Felix Zielcke
Hello, unfortunately neither Robert and me don't know how important this really is. On IRC we talked with Bean (one of upstream developers) Unfortunately he didn't reply yet to the report, as I suggested. He discovered that Debian has efibootmgr [0] and wanted even to look if GRUB can include

Bug#492964: grub-pc: cross install Windows: invalid identifier

2008-08-13 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Mittwoch, den 30.07.2008, 11:20 +0200 schrieb Sladan: I did grub-install sda and selecting Windows in the Grub2 menu returns invalid identifier. I really don't know what I should do with your report. Maybe you can reproduce this and tell us when exactly that is shown? In the console it

Bug#494662: description of unifont package is a bit wrong now

2008-08-11 Thread Felix Zielcke
Package: unifont Version: 1:5.1.20080808-2 Severity: minor Hello, It's really great that you found a solution with Robert for our unifont.hex problem. I just noticed that the first line of it is now a bit wrong: `This metapackage is a convenient way to install both the PCF bitmap version and

Bug#494589: grub-pc: grub-install fails on GPT volume

2008-08-11 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Montag, den 11.08.2008, 10:09 -0400 schrieb Edward Allcutt: grub-setup fails in exactly the same way, however grub-fstest seems to have no problem at all with the new core.img: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# grub-fstest -vvv /dev/sda1 cmp /grub/core.img \ /boot/grub/core.img; echo $? 0 Am I

Bug#494460: grub-pc: update-grub unable to generate a graphical gfxterm menu

2008-08-10 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Sonntag, den 10.08.2008, 13:10 +0100 schrieb Adeodato Simó: * Felix Zielcke [Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:01:25 +0200]: The new upload for lenny will build-depend on the old version, so hopefully all buildds will then use the lenny version to build the packages. They won't. Ok, thanks

Bug#494460: grub-pc: update-grub unable to generate a graphical gfxterm menu

2008-08-10 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Sonntag, den 10.08.2008, 14:23 +0100 schrieb Adeodato Simó: * Felix Zielcke [Sun, 10 Aug 2008 14:22:05 +0200]: Luckly we only need that unifont for amd64 and i386. It isn't a problem for us to upload a binary for both. That is normally frowned upon, but I'm ok if you do that for now

Bug#494589: grub-pc: grub-install fails on GPT volume

2008-08-10 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Sonntag, den 10.08.2008, 16:22 -0400 schrieb Edward Allcutt: I looked at the changelog for 1.96+20080724-6 from sid but it doesn't seem to contain anything relevant. You could try current upstream SVN[0], which is a bit more recent (i.e. last change today) then the 0724-X which we

Bug#494158: [grub2] update-grub: uses wrong ordering algorithm (sorts 1.2.3-foo before 1.2.3.1-foo)

2008-08-09 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Freitag, den 08.08.2008, 19:59 -0300 schrieb Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: On Fri, 08 Aug 2008, Felix Zielcke wrote: I really should have sticked with my easy debugging method I already mentioned in the report (that echo /tmp/x thingy) I thought removing the greedy g on the regexps would

Bug#494383: grub-pc: Grub2 cannot find LVM volume groups with a dash (-) in the name

2008-08-09 Thread Felix Zielcke
Hello, Am Freitag, den 08.08.2008, 22:23 +0200 schrieb root: grub-probe: error: Unknown device linux--vg-boot Autodetection of a file system module failed Please specify the module with the option --modules explicitly I never used LVM before so maybe I did something wrong, but I think the

Bug#494383: grub-pc: Grub2 cannot find LVM volume groups with a dash (-) in the name

2008-08-09 Thread Felix Zielcke
Hi, Am Samstag, den 09.08.2008, 12:26 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke: fz-vm:~# ls /dev/mapper/ control linux--vg-lvol0 And again it wasn't that clear with my first mail :( fz-vm:~# l /dev/linux* /dev/mapper/ /dev/linux-vg: insgesamt 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 9. Aug 14:49 lvol0 - /dev

Bug#494158: [grub2] update-grub: uses wrong ordering algorithm (sorts 1.2.3-foo before 1.2.3.1-foo)

2008-08-09 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Samstag, den 09.08.2008, 16:54 +0200 schrieb Robert Millan: It doestn't matter (at least for the lenny release) if this is a bug or if that is intendet, we have to find a solution for this problem. It worries me that combinations with -git are a problem. -git wasn't handled at all

Bug#494158: [grub2] update-grub: uses wrong ordering algorithm (sorts 1.2.3-foo before 1.2.3.1-foo)

2008-08-09 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Samstag, den 09.08.2008, 19:50 +0200 schrieb Robert Millan: I'm not very concerned with distinguishing priorities other than what goes before and after the empty string. I'd rather just put all those known suffixes below the empty string and not care about their relative weights, for the

Bug#494460: grub-pc: update-grub unable to generate a graphical gfxterm menu

2008-08-09 Thread Felix Zielcke
tag 494460 pending retitle 494460 i386 builds are missing fonts thanks Am Samstag, den 09.08.2008, 16:44 -0600 schrieb Javier Vasquez: And there's a difference in here, since for i686: # ls /usr/share/grub/ # See 494473 The reason is that the unifont-bin package doestn't provide anymore

Bug#494460: grub-pc: update-grub unable to generate a graphical gfxterm menu

2008-08-09 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Samstag, den 09.08.2008, 17:38 -0600 schrieb Javier Vasquez: So the reason might just be that things are done differently for these 2 architectures, and the bug is i386 exclusive, :)... I'm mentioning this out of my ignorance, since I still don't get how things still work for one

Bug#494158: Bug#493389: update-grub: uses wrong ordering algorithm (sorts 1.2.3-foo before 1.2.3.1-foo)

2008-08-08 Thread Felix Zielcke
Just CC now both bug reports, although the difference between grub2's and grub-legacy's update-grub should be handled differently. Am Donnerstag, den 07.08.2008, 13:10 -0300 schrieb Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: I was about unsure if I should use 'lt' 'le' 'le-nl' or 'lt-nl' You want to

Bug#494158: [grub2] update-grub: uses wrong ordering algorithm (sorts 1.2.3-foo before 1.2.3.1-foo)

2008-08-08 Thread Felix Zielcke
I just stick now to the `cloned to grub2' bug, so Robert doestn't hit me ;) Am Freitag, den 08.08.2008, 11:01 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke: And I concentrate more on grub2 because that's the one we replace grub-legacy hopefully soon. @Henrique: As you can see below grub2's update-grub

Bug#494158: [grub2] update-grub: uses wrong ordering algorithm (sorts 1.2.3-foo before 1.2.3.1-foo)

2008-08-08 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Freitag, den 08.08.2008, 13:06 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke: This produces me this: Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-amd64-mm1 Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-amd64 Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-amd64 Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-amd64

Bug#494158: [grub2] update-grub: uses wrong ordering algorithm (sorts 1.2.3-foo before 1.2.3.1-foo)

2008-08-08 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Freitag, den 08.08.2008, 13:06 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke: I couldn't figure out with playing with this ~ thingy how to tell dpkg that -rc1-git1 is higher then -rc1 So it seems like dpkg --compare-versions isn't that perfect for official kernel.org patch numbering ;) Ok I noticed I

Bug#494158: [grub2] update-grub: uses wrong ordering algorithm (sorts 1.2.3-foo before 1.2.3.1-foo)

2008-08-08 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Freitag, den 08.08.2008, 09:49 -0300 schrieb Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: On Fri, 08 Aug 2008, Felix Zielcke wrote: I couldn't figure out with playing with this ~ thingy how to tell dpkg that -rc1-git1 is higher then -rc1 khazad-dum:~$ dpkg --compare-versions 2.6.23.1-rc1-git3 gt

Bug#494158: [grub2] update-grub: uses wrong ordering algorithm (sorts 1.2.3-foo before 1.2.3.1-foo)

2008-08-08 Thread Felix Zielcke
I really should have sticked with my easy debugging method I already mentioned in the report (that echo /tmp/x thingy) I thought removing the greedy g on the regexps would just solve the problem for us, but it doestn't: fz:/etc/grub.d# dpkg --compare-versions 2.6.26-1-amd64~rc1-git1 gt

Bug#466797: config script exits nonzero

2008-08-07 Thread Felix Zielcke
Debconf specification says: GO Shows the current set of accumulated items to the user and lets them fill in values, etc. If the backup capability is supported and the user indicates they want to back up a step, this command returns the numeric return code 30. I looked now at a diff between

Bug#493389: update-grub: uses wrong ordering algorithm (sorts 1.2.3-foo before 1.2.3.1-foo)

2008-08-07 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Dienstag, den 05.08.2008, 21:40 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke: The grub2 packages have only one update-grub the one in /usr/sbin Ok and a update-grub2 which exec's update-grub but it's in /usr/sbin too. Probable wasn't that clear so another try: By switching to grub2 as default

Bug#419157: Bug #419157 [update-grub]: preseed for some menu.lst options

2008-08-06 Thread Felix Zielcke
Hello, The 2 bugreports Robert mentioned in the last mail about your report (419157) are fixed long ago now. For the Xen handling there's now another wishlist bug: 469578 For setting the gfxmode variable and the background image: 493106 But we won't make the background image a variable, it

Bug#469578: 10_linux creates xen boot entries that don't work

2008-08-06 Thread Felix Zielcke
Hello, Am Mittwoch, den 06.08.2008, 21:41 +0100 schrieb Ian Campbell: On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 15:41 +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: Attached is now a patch which ignores Xen kernels, Unless I am misreading the patch it appears to ignore CONFIG_PARAVIRT=y type Xen kernels which is wrong

Bug#493389: update-grub: uses wrong ordering algorithm (sorts 1.2.3-foo before 1.2.3.1-foo)

2008-08-05 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Dienstag, den 05.08.2008, 00:48 -0300 schrieb Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: On Mon, 04 Aug 2008, Robert Millan wrote: Why would you want something in /sbin to call something in /usr/s?bin ? You need to port the algorithm. update-grub is in /usr. Crap. I just noticed it is

Bug#430513: grub-pc fails to install on evms volumes (dm)

2008-08-04 Thread Felix Zielcke
I just searched on the grub-devel archived for evms, if there was any progress about it which didn't make it into this bug report. The last message on this report is from Mathias dated 11. February. I found this with evms on grub2's upstream changelog: 2008-07-25 Robert Millan [EMAIL

Bug#488235: ext2.mod should reject extN with INCOMPAT flags which grub doestn't support

2008-08-04 Thread Felix Zielcke
forwaded 488235 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2008-07/msg8.html thanks There are 2 threads about this topic but both with same Subject. Above one is the newer and larger one. The original message from me to grub-devel about this can be found here:

Bug#493744: grub2: Invalid PO file as Spanish translation

2008-08-04 Thread Felix Zielcke
tags 493744 + pending thanks Hello, Am Sonntag, den 03.08.2008, 13:04 +0200 schrieb Christian Perrier: The Spanish debconf translation (debian/po/es.po) recently added for grub2 unfortunately has a double escaping of double quotes on one line, which turns it into an invalid file. I just

Bug#487565: grub-pc: Chainloading fails even without LVM

2008-08-03 Thread Felix Zielcke
Hello, Am Sonntag, den 03.08.2008, 08:49 +0200 schrieb Kai Wasserbäch: Hello Robert, hello Felix Robert Millan wrote: I see that Felix suspects this is a false positive when checking for cross-disk install. If you run sh -x grub-install and send us the output, we could make sure about

Bug#493631: cdbs: please use stamps for configure/build

2008-08-03 Thread Felix Zielcke
Package: cdbs Version: 0.4.52 Severity: wishlist Hello, Not even a month before I started to co-maintaining the grub and grub2 packages with Robert Millan, so I'm still new to this debian/ stuff. We have a 9 month bug old filed against grub2 that the package wastes CPU cycles of the

Bug#478228: grub-probe: can't handle (raid) md-devices

2008-08-03 Thread Felix Zielcke
reassign 492897 grub2 #forgot that it applies to whole grub2 not just grub-probe thanks Hello, Am Sonntag, den 03.08.2008, 21:09 +0200 schrieb Thomas Rösch: Hey Felix Sorry for needing so much time - too much work. No problem, thanks for replying to both mails. mdraids with default

Bug#487565: grub-pc: Chainloading fails even without LVM

2008-08-02 Thread Felix Zielcke
retitle 487565 multibooting core.img leads to double prefix thanks Am Samstag, den 02.08.2008, 06:06 +0200 schrieb Kai Wasserbäch: Followup-For: Bug #487565 Package: grub-pc Version: 1.96+20080724-2 Hello, Hello, I'm not using an LVM on this machine and still get the error that the file

Bug#487565: grub-pc: Chainloading fails even without LVM

2008-08-02 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Samstag, den 02.08.2008, 11:31 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke: You use only /dev/hdd on your linux but it's (hd1) in device.map If you're BIOS directly boots from hdd then change your device.map please, it will only be regenerated if it doestn't exist or is clearly wrong i.e. missing devices

Bug#481542: grub2: please user triggers

2008-08-01 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Donnerstag, den 31.07.2008, 16:46 -0400 schrieb Joey Hess: Once apt trigger deferral is implemented, all the triggers will run at the very end of the apt run, which can be quite a long time after the kernel packages are removed and installed. What exactly is this apt trigger derral which

Bug#481542: grub2: please user triggers

2008-08-01 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Freitag, den 01.08.2008, 12:44 -0400 schrieb Joey Hess: Felix Zielcke wrote: What exactly is this apt trigger derral which will be implemented? #473461 A trigger which runs after every package has been extracted and not yet configured should work fine for us, too. You can't count

Bug#473461: #473461 should use dpkg --no-triggers

2008-08-01 Thread Felix Zielcke
Please consider the wishlist bug against grub2 for implementing a trigger (481542) before implementing this in apt. Currently update-grub, which generates menu.lst/grub.cfg, gets called on a kernel removal, a kernel install and on grub update itself. As you can see in the report with current sid

Bug#481542: grub2: please user triggers

2008-08-01 Thread Felix Zielcke
tag 481542 wontfix thanks Am Freitag, den 01.08.2008, 19:03 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke: Well, then I think this should be tagged wontfix and we just stay with the current method, that the kernel .deb itself calls update-grub when it's configured. Ok I talked now with Robert and we both

Bug#493289: grub2: config parser accesses a pointer after grub_free is called on that one

2008-08-01 Thread Felix Zielcke
Source: grub2 Severity: important If you press e to edit the menu entry and then you want to boot it with Ctrl-x then it can happen that you get a crash with a malloc magic message or that the text gets corrupted and if you fix it then the malloc magic crash The original report on grub-devel

Bug#469578: 10_linux creates xen boot entries that don't work

2008-07-31 Thread Felix Zielcke
Attached is now a patch which ignores Xen kernels, by grepping for the config options which uses grub-legacy to detect them. It seems [0] that Xen Dom0 support will be soon in the official kernel. I don't know anything about the config options which will be then used. So it could be that the

Bug#492589: #492589 winecfg crashes on audio tab

2008-07-31 Thread Felix Zielcke
As I reported the bug I forgot that my TV Card with BT878 chip has an ALSA audio module, too. But now I tried it with any module removed which has oss snd or audio in it's name or else sounds like it has something to do with that. I removed and purged even every package which contains oss and

Bug#493106: New environment variables (for gfxmode and background path and other)

2008-07-31 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Donnerstag, den 31.07.2008, 13:58 +0200 schrieb spamgrinder: My only change in 00_header script is set gfxmode=1024x768. It overwrites default 640x480. I would like to keep the gfxmode variable in /etc/default/grub. Attached is a patch which adds GRUB_GFXMODE to /etc/default/grub ---

Bug#481542: grub2: please user triggers

2008-07-31 Thread Felix Zielcke
retitle 481542 please use triggers for update-grub thanks I looked now at the man-db package which is a very easy implementation for triggers. I think it would be enough for us to do it like they did. debian/triggers: interest /boot debian/*.postinst: if [ $1 = triggered ]; then update-grub

Bug#481542: grub2: please user triggers

2008-07-31 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Donnerstag, den 31.07.2008, 16:46 -0400 schrieb Joey Hess: I didn't say that adding the new kernel failed. A later package could fail. Or the power could fail before dpkg got around to calling the triggers. Once apt trigger deferral is implemented, all the triggers will run at the

Bug#481542: grub2: please user triggers

2008-07-31 Thread Felix Zielcke
(This is also potentially a problem with the initramfs-tools triggers, I guess..) I have now installed etch in a VM and then used aptitude to update it to lenny As soon as the kernel is configured, there's a mkinitramfs-kpkg call and after everything is finished the update-initramfs trigger is

Bug#469578: 10_linux creates xen boot entries that don't work

2008-07-31 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Freitag, den 01.08.2008, 02:10 +0200 schrieb Robert Millan: Do we really want this? I thought it was unnecessary because of those Linux versions being obsolete. Yeah now with grub2 and Debian stable lenny we shouldn't support any old style Xen kernels. Probable the best is to just wait

Bug#475585: grub-probe: error: Unknown kind of RAID device `/dev/md/1'

2008-07-30 Thread Felix Zielcke
reassign 475585 grub-common thanks With current sid I wasn't able to just get the /dev/md/N devices, but not the /dev/mdN too. So how did you get it working? Attached is a patch which I sent to grub-devel too. Plaese reply, if it now works for you. Index: util/getroot.c

Bug#491977: grub-probe fails with Cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/dm-N.

2008-07-29 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Dienstag, den 29.07.2008, 08:39 +0200 schrieb martin f krafft: also sprach Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.07.29.0014 +0200]: debby:~# dmraid -r [...] I don't know enough about mdadm to determine whose fault is it. But it seems this is really a corner case problem, and only

Bug#491977: grub-probe fails with Cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/dm-N.

2008-07-29 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Dienstag, den 29.07.2008, 15:50 +0200 schrieb martin f krafft: also sprach Felix Zielcke [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.07.29.1541 +0200]: There are hopefully not many people who use the normal linux software raid to get there fake hardwarwe raid controllers to work. One should hope dmraid

Bug#478228: grub-probe: can't handle (raid) md-devices

2008-07-29 Thread Felix Zielcke
clone 478228 -1 retitle -1 grub2 should support mdraid 1.X format of superblock severity -1 wishlist thanks /proc/mdstat: md9 : active raid1 sdc9[3] sda9[2] 979952 blocks super 1.0 [2/2] [UU] md6 : active raid10 sdb6[0] sdd6[3] sdc6[2] sda6[1] 97658880 blocks super 1.0 128K chunks 2

Bug#478228: grub-probe: can't handle (raid) md-devices

2008-07-29 Thread Felix Zielcke
From: Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] But we have a check for this: /* FIXME: Also support version 1.0. */ if (sb.major_version != 0 || sb.minor_version != 90) { grub_error (GRUB_ERR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED_YET, Unsupported RAID version: %d.%d,

Bug#492717: debian-installer: choosing grub2 created hd(0, 0) and not hd(0, 1) for windows chainload

2008-07-28 Thread Felix Zielcke
Package: debian-installer Severity: minor I have lenny installed with the weekly AMD64 DVD 1 in expert mode and PPPoE for the files not on the first DVD I choose too install grub2 and it put in grub.cfg set root(hd0,0) for chainloading Windows but with grub2 partitions start now with 1 and not

Bug#478228: grub-probe can't handle (raid) md-devices

2008-07-28 Thread Felix Zielcke
Hello, grub-probe: info: opening md6 /home/rmh/hacking/grub/debian/upload/grub2-1.96+20080704/kern/disk.c:220: Opening `md6'... /home/rmh/hacking/grub/debian/upload/grub2-1.96+20080704/kern/disk.c:299: Opening `md6' failed.

Bug#487565:

2008-07-28 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Montag, den 28.07.2008, 18:36 +0200 schrieb Henry-Nicolas Tourneur: I have the same problem with the latest version available in testing (same as sid). What you mean with same as sid? The Version currently in sid 1.96+20080724-2 just migrated to testing, (I received the mail about it today at

Bug#467169: grub-pc: [PATCH] fails to handle resume=/dev/... or more than one option - in debconf

2008-07-28 Thread Felix Zielcke
Is there any character we could use for the regexp instead of /, that is known not to collide with any Linux cmdline options ? If it can be simplified this way, I'd prefer that instead. Note that I know of . The kernel documentation has no statement in kernel-parameters.txt on this. What

Bug#465144: menu.lst: wrong default entry 0saved

2008-07-28 Thread Felix Zielcke
I'd rather have /boot/grub cleaned up from any grub legacy cruft, everything imported into grub2 and simply make grub2 bullet proof, so the chain-loading workaround is no longer necessary If you choose to chainload then debconf tells you to use upgrade-from-grub-legacy which cleans up

Bug#487565:

2008-07-28 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Montag, den 28.07.2008, 21:03 +0200 schrieb Henry-Nicolas Tourneur: Oh, I just mean that the version of this package is the same in sid and in testing. I'v installed the package this afternoon and I'm using 1.96 +20080724-2. Fine. prefix = (hd1,1)(md1)/boot/grub root=hd1,1 The prefix

Bug#491977: grub-probe fails with Cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/dm-N.

2008-07-28 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Montag, den 28.07.2008, 22:36 +0200 schrieb Moritz Naumann: Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 25450 active sync /dev/dm-5 1 2542- spare /dev/dm-2 debby:~# That's very strange. Normally you

Bug#491404: www.debian.org: providing patch for english /devel/

2008-07-28 Thread Felix Zielcke
tag 491404 patch thanks Here's a patch against current cvs of webwml/english/devel/index.html Index: english/devel/index.wml === RCS file: /cvs/webwml/webwml/english/devel/index.wml,v retrieving revision 1.208 diff -u -r1.208

Bug#487565: grub2 fails to boot with softraid and chainloading

2008-07-28 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Montag, den 28.07.2008, 21:27 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke: The original report was with: invalid file '(md0)/boot/grub//normal.mod' Not a double prefix like you have. I just tried it out now myself in VMware. This wrong double prefix is clearly introduced by chainloading. You won't

Bug#491977: grub-probe fails with Cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/dm-N.

2008-07-27 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Sonntag, den 27.07.2008, 15:07 +0200 schrieb Moritz Naumann: Unfortunately, it doesn't work with 1.96+20080724-2 either: I just saw that PATH contains /usr/local before /usr, I always thought it would be the other way round. So please remove any old grub files lyning there around and maybe

Bug#492589: winecfg crashes on audio tab

2008-07-27 Thread Felix Zielcke
Package: wine-bin Version: 1.0.0-1 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/winecfg I have a Creative X-Fi Soundcard with OpenSoundSystem 4.0 installed from the Linux 2.6 AMD64 DEB from http://www.opensound.com/download.cgi winecfg crashes if I click on Audio, attached is the output My sound devices in

Bug#492591: evolution: option to have english on name wrote part on replying to an email on non-english systems

2008-07-27 Thread Felix Zielcke
Package: evolution Version: 2.22.3.1-1 Severity: wishlist As you can see below my locale is german, when I reply to an email evolution writes Am date schrieb name I would like to have this in english without having whole evolution in english. That's an option I miss from Outlook and Windows Mail

Bug#491977: grub-probe fails with Cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/dm-N.

2008-07-26 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Samstag, den 26.07.2008, 18:00 +0200 schrieb Moritz Naumann: debby:~# dpkg-query -W -f '${Package} ${Status} ${Version}\n' grub\* grub-common install ok installed 1.96+20080724-1 Am I missing something? Should I take additional measures before retrying? Please see the message above in

Bug#477304: closed by Felix Zielcke [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grubfails to find /boot/boot/grub/device.map)

2008-07-25 Thread Felix Zielcke
reassign 477304 grub fixed 477304 0.97-37 thanks Hello, From: Nick Hastings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Interesting but not related to this bug. Yes, I just tried to reproduce it and as you can see on a fresh install with sid version of grub-legacy there's no problem. This is *not*

Bug#473543: if grub.cfg is to big grub-pc (and maybe others) fails to load it and reboot infinitely

2008-07-25 Thread Felix Zielcke
You didn't replied yet unfortunately But anyway: I tested it now with 1.96+20080724-1 currently in unstable in VMware Workstation 6.5 Beta build 99530 with other Linux 2.6 64bit as OS As I already said for me both configs show the menu in grub-emu when I place them in /boot/grub/grub.cfg and

Bug#492204:

2008-07-25 Thread Felix Zielcke
notfound 492204 1.96+20080626-1 thanks I don't like to have 2 versions found with this bug. This applies now only for current sid version. Probable Robert and me the only people who read this, but just in case :) VMware SCSI Disks are numbered X:Y X means controller, can be 0-3 I only use one

Bug#492204:

2008-07-25 Thread Felix Zielcke
From: Felix Zielcke [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have a harddisk as 0:0 booted kernel with root=/dev/sda1 then grub-install /dev/sda then change in VMware this disk to 0:1 and in BIOS to boot first from 0:1 grub boots fine If you boot the system as above Shame on me, I wanted to make it very

Bug#488193: update-grub fails

2008-07-25 Thread Felix Zielcke
From: Shams Fantar [EMAIL PROTECTED] /boot/grub/device.map : (hd0) /dev/hda (hd1) /dev/sda /etc/fstab : Now we know why grub thinks hd1 is your / try grub-install with --recheck if that creates device.map right else you have to change device.map manually and then update-grub works

Bug#467501: grub uses fd prefix even if it's neither in device.map nor grub.cfg

2008-07-24 Thread Felix Zielcke
forwarded 467501 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2008-07/msg00435.html retitle 467501 grub uses fd prefix even if it's neither in device.map nor grub.cfg thanks Seems like the original problem reported is still not fixed. [0] I just had a fd prefix myself, even though I don't use

Bug#492204: grub: if installed to sdb and then booted from it just by changing boot order in BIOS prefix becomes fd

2008-07-24 Thread Felix Zielcke
Package: grub-pc Version: 1.96+20080626-1 Severity: important grub-install /dev/sdb swap hard disks boot order in BIOS so sdb gets booted prefix for grub is fd instead of hd grub.cfg has it right with hd0 set shows root=fd0,1 prefix=(fd0,1)/boot/grub ls shows (hd0) (hd0,1) (hd1) (hd1,0)

Bug#460571: grub: automated migration of menu.lst static entries

2008-07-24 Thread Felix Zielcke
This is from 20. January: Peter Hicks wrote : Robert Millan wrote: This makes a good candidate to start a README.Debian. Will you provide a patch? Sure, it shouldn't be too difficult. I'll crack on with it shortly. Did you have in the meantime something for README.Debian of grub2 ?

Bug#477304: Grub fails to find /boot/boot/grub/device.map

2008-07-23 Thread Felix Zielcke
From: Nick Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, I was very suspicious that it had left my system in an unbootable state, with nothing in /usr/share/doc/grub-common to indicate how to make it bootable ... no README.Debian etc Yeah the documentation for grub2 isn't that good as for grub-legacy but

Bug#475296: update-grub not run

2008-07-23 Thread Felix Zielcke
In either case, whenever you want GRUB 2 to be loaded directly from MBR, you can do so by issuing (as root) the following command: . upgrade-from-grub-legacy That sounds like you should be able to just run it and reboot, wether you choose to chainload or not. I have now commited a fix for it,

Bug#492056: [INTL:sv] po-debconf file for grub2

2008-07-23 Thread Felix Zielcke
tags 492056 + pending thanks From: Martin Agren [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please find attached the Swedish debconf templates translation. Thanks very much. I just commited it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#491977: grub-probe fails with Cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/dm-N.

2008-07-23 Thread Felix Zielcke
From: Moritz Naumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] About the md issue: The patch does not seem to fix it (assuming, after 'make install', invoking the the freshly built ./update-grub is the right way to invoke it, and I'm also calling grub-probe the right way): ./configure; make install installs

Bug#491977: grub-probe fails with Cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/dm-N.

2008-07-23 Thread Felix Zielcke
From: Moritz Naumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] debby:~/grub2-1.96+20080704# ./grub-probe -v -d /dev/dm-5 Urm sorry didn't see that you invoked it with ./ and update-grub just generates grub.cfg. grub-install uses grub-probe. grub-probe: error: Cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/dm-5. Check your

Bug#477304: Grub fails to find /boot/boot/grub/device.map

2008-07-23 Thread Felix Zielcke
From: Teodor [EMAIL PROTECTED] At the configuration question I've answered no for the chainloading from grub-legacy. I've rebooted the machine to see if it works and the surprise was that the boot menu was the same, that is from grub-legacy instead of grub2 (with xen options too). The only

Bug#475718: Bug #475718 grub gets confused by hybrid apple/pc partmap

2008-07-22 Thread Felix Zielcke
From: Chris Knadle [EMAIL PROTECTED] [sorry for the additional copy; forgot to CC the BTS] No problem. On Monday 21 July 2008 06:44:45 pm, Felix Zielcke wrote: Is this still a problem with grub2 1.96+20080704-2 currently in testing/unstable ? Yes, unfortunately it is. I just tested

Bug#469578: 10_linux creates xen boot entries that don't work

2008-07-22 Thread Felix Zielcke
Will list any vmlinu* entry, including xen kernels... ideally it should exclude xen, as they will have to be handled differently. I've never used Xen, but i thought the -xen kernel should be run on domU and dom0. So how should they be handled, can you please be more specific ? Below is a patch

Bug#491872: grub-pc: dual boot needs OS-prober

2008-07-22 Thread Felix Zielcke
block 491872 by 476184 severity 491872 wishlist thanks Ok I talked with Robert. It was already recommended and then was changed to suggest because of #476184 See also bug #476684 Thanks for reporting :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#478228: Debian bug #478228 grub-probe can't handle (raid) md-devices

2008-07-22 Thread Felix Zielcke
From: Thomas Rösch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, I am sorry, i have removed this version and use the old grub again since some month. grub-probe is in grub-common and the old grub depends on it since version 0.97-33 So can you please make sure you have grub-common 1.96+20080704-2 installed and

Bug#478228: grub-probe can't handle (raid) md-devices

2008-07-22 Thread Felix Zielcke
Urm sorry, i think my last mail wasn't that clear :) I forgot that you did reported this against grub-legacy. You can install grub-common without problems with an old grub-legacy even if it's 0.97-33 It only contains grub-probe and grub-mkdevicemap [0] and it doestn't conflict with any

Bug#477304: Grub fails to find /boot/boot/grub/device.map

2008-07-22 Thread Felix Zielcke
Hello, From: Nick Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Seems to be no errors but it seems that /boot/boot/ is being completely ignored. Please see the results of the install, linux-image reconfigure and file listing under /boot below. I used grub-legacy long ago, and I think I never used it with a

Bug#470398: grub-pc: please implement full altoptions mechanism from grub-legacy

2008-07-22 Thread Felix Zielcke
Hello, I have tried but the list keeps rejecting my mails. You need to subscribe to send mails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please do this and start a discussion about this there. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#469578: 10_linux creates xen boot entries that don't work

2008-07-22 Thread Felix Zielcke
From: Teodor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 11:00 PM To: Felix Zielcke [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Gavin Bravery [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bug#469578: 10_linux creates xen boot entries that don't work The same problem I reported for grub

Bug#486624: update-grub causes error for /dev/.tmp.md0 on SoftwareRAID1

2008-07-21 Thread Felix Zielcke
Can you please check with current version in testing/unstable if that's still an issue and please check the patch from Robert [0] [0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=8;filename=md.diff;att=1;bug=486624 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Bug#488571: Bug #488571 [Intl:pt] updated portuguese translation

2008-07-21 Thread Felix Zielcke
You have reported it twice that you have updated translations, both with postgresql-common_88_pt.po attached One went to progesql-common where it belonged to and is already fixed #488570 and one (this one #488571) assigned to grub2 So please reply if you have a portuguese translation for grub2

Bug#467501: Bug #467501 cannot boot when /boot is in RAID

2008-07-21 Thread Felix Zielcke
Running grub-install will wipe the grub1 install and leave me with grub2, right? Is that more likely to work than the existing chainloading grub2 from grub1 approach? Yes, grub-install will replace grub-legacy with grub2. I don't know if that works better then chainloading. If you have a rescue

Bug#475718: Bug #475718 grub gets confused by hybrid apple/pc partmap

2008-07-21 Thread Felix Zielcke
Is this still a problem with grub2 1.96+20080704-2 currently in testing/unstable ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#487565: grub-pc: Grub2 fails to boot after upgrade from Grub Legacy

2008-07-21 Thread Felix Zielcke
Package: grub-pc Version: 1.96+20080621-1 ii grub-common 1.96+20080512-1 GRand Unified Bootloader, version Please try update both packages to 1.96+20080704-2 currently in testing and unstable and try it again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Bug#469585: Debian BTS #469585 grub-pc: consistently resets immediately after using boot command

2008-07-20 Thread Felix Zielcke
Is this still an issue with the current 1.96+20080704-2 in unstable? If you still didn't provide a raw backtrace as Robert Millan told you on 10. March in the Bugreport then please do so http://grub.enbug.org/HowToDebug -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Bug#465365: Debian bug #465365 grub-ieee1275: grub-mkdevicemap writes a device.map with No aliases found

2008-07-20 Thread Felix Zielcke
Is this still an issue with the current 1.96+20080704-2 in testing/unstable? Have you tried out Robert Millan's patch? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#436943: Debian bug #436943 error: out of partition when trying to enter normal mode

2008-07-20 Thread Felix Zielcke
Does this still aplly with 1.96+20080704-2 currently in testing/unstable or even with current SVN? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#477304: Debian bug #477304 Grub fails to find /boot/boot/grub/device.map

2008-07-20 Thread Felix Zielcke
Is this still an issue? Can you please try it with grub-pc 1.96+20080704-2 currently in testing/unstable -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#462835: Debian bug #462835 grub-pc: alloc magic is broken

2008-07-20 Thread Felix Zielcke
Does this problem still exist with grub-pc 1.96+20080704-2 currently in testing/unstable ? If so can you reproduce this in grub-emu ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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