d-i has 99% support for filesystem labels (was: Re: Serious kernel problems on new i386 hardware)

2005-03-13 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 01:20:00PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Miros/law Baran wrote: it worked. I really regard this problem as serious because it probably leaves people with SATA hardware with an unbootable system after kernel-image updates, because the kernel image

Re: d-i has 99% support for filesystem labels (was: Re: Serious kernel problems on new i386 hardware)

2005-03-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Andrew Pollock wrote: Sorry, I do not know anything about partition labels but if this is the solution it should be done in the installer and if this works in Grub menu.lst this should be done here as well. I gave some of the relevant people in the d-i team an education on the

Re: Serious kernel problems on new i386 hardware

2005-03-11 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Jesús Roncero wrote: I've recently had those problems also on a Dell server, using SATA too. The fine guys from #gpul helped me a lot on this. Basically, what happened to me is that kernel 2.4 mapped the SATA drive as /dev/hdc and kernel 2.6 mapped it to /dev/sda Well, after

Re: Serious kernel problems on new i386 hardware

2005-03-11 Thread Miros/law Baran
11.03.2005 pisze Andreas Tille ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): it worked. I really regard this problem as serious because it probably leaves people with SATA hardware with an unbootable system after kernel-image updates, because the kernel image packages just reinsert root=/dev/hda? into grub's

Re: Serious kernel problems on new i386 hardware

2005-03-11 Thread Joerg Friedrich
Miros/law Baran schrieb am Freitag, 11. März 2005 um 12:55:09 +0100: 11.03.2005 pisze Andreas Tille ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): it worked. I really regard this problem as serious because it probably leaves people with SATA hardware with an unbootable system after kernel-image updates, because

Re: Serious kernel problems on new i386 hardware

2005-03-11 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Miros/law Baran wrote: it worked. I really regard this problem as serious because it probably leaves people with SATA hardware with an unbootable system after kernel-image updates, because the kernel image packages just reinsert root=/dev/hda? into grub's menu.lst. Any idea

Re: Serious kernel problems on new i386 hardware

2005-03-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 13:01 +0100, Joerg Friedrich wrote: Miros/law Baran schrieb am Freitag, 11. März 2005 um 12:55:09 +0100: 11.03.2005 pisze Andreas Tille ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): it worked. I really regard this problem as serious because it probably leaves people with SATA hardware

Re: Serious kernel problems on new i386 hardware

2005-03-11 Thread Miros/law Baran
11.03.2005 pisze Joerg Friedrich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Miros/law Baran schrieb am Freitag, 11. Mrz 2005 um 12:55:09 +0100: 11.03.2005 pisze Andreas Tille ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): it worked. I really regard this problem as serious because it probably leaves people with SATA hardware with an

Re: Serious kernel problems on new i386 hardware

2005-03-11 Thread Joerg Friedrich
Joerg Friedrich schrieb am Freitag, 11. März 2005 um 13:01:58 +0100: Miros/law Baran schrieb am Freitag, 11. März 2005 um 12:55:09 +0100: 11.03.2005 pisze Andreas Tille ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): it worked. I really regard this problem as serious because it probably leaves people with SATA

Re: Serious kernel problems on new i386 hardware

2005-03-11 Thread Paul Hampson
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 12:51:16PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Jesús Roncero wrote: I've recently had those problems also on a Dell server, using SATA too. The fine guys from #gpul helped me a lot on this. Basically, what happened to me is that kernel 2.4 mapped the

Re: Serious kernel problems on new i386 hardware

2005-03-10 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 03:10:12PM +0100, Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ERROR: Removing 'trm290': Device or resource busy ERROR: Removing 'vis82cxxx': Device or resource busy pivot_root: No such file or directory /sbin/init: 432: cannot open dev/console: No such file

Re: Serious kernel problems on new i386 hardware

2005-03-10 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Mike Hommey wrote: On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 03:10:12PM +0100, Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ERROR: Removing 'trm290': Device or resource busy ERROR: Removing 'vis82cxxx': Device or resource busy pivot_root: No such file or directory /sbin/init: 432: cannot open

Re: Serious kernel problems on new i386 hardware

2005-03-10 Thread Jacob S
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 15:48:55 +0100 (CET) Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Mike Hommey wrote: On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 03:10:12PM +0100, Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ERROR: Removing 'trm290': Device or resource busy ERROR: Removing 'vis82cxxx':

Re: Serious kernel problems on new i386 hardware

2005-03-10 Thread Paul Hampson
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 03:10:12PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: Hi, I've got a new Dell machine which I was able to install with Kernel 2.4.27. It has a SATA drive but I disabled SATA in BIOS according to the manuals. All I write in the following has this SATA disabled BIOS setting. As I

Re: Serious kernel problems on new i386 hardware

2005-03-10 Thread Thomas Schneller
might be fixable by regenerating a new initrd for the 2.6 kernel: mkinitrd -v /boot/initrd-2.6.x-x.img 2.6.x-x make sure to add this line to the grube menue.lst: initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.x-x.img On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 02:01:42 +1100, Paul Hampson wrote On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 03:10:12PM +0100,

Re: Serious kernel problems on new i386 hardware

2005-03-10 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Jacob S wrote: Which version of the Debian-Installer did you use? We had similar symptoms on a new Dell recently at work and had to grab the latest daily build to get a working version. I can check on the exact date of the daily build we used, if you want. On my desk I see

Re: Serious kernel problems on new i386 hardware

2005-03-10 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Thomas Schneller wrote: mkinitrd -v /boot/initrd-2.6.x-x.img 2.6.x-x I guess you mean here s/-v/-o/, right? Well, I did so mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.10-1-686 2.6.10-1-686 (under # uname -a Linux wr-linux03 2.4.27-1-386 #1 Wed Dec 1 19:43:08 JST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux

Re: Serious kernel problems on new i386 hardware

2005-03-10 Thread Joerg Friedrich
Andreas Tille schrieb am Donnerstag, 10. März 2005 um 15:10:12 +0100: Hi, I've got a new Dell machine which I was able to install with Kernel 2.4.27. It has a SATA drive but I disabled SATA in BIOS according to the manuals. All I write in the following has this SATA disabled BIOS setting.

Re: Serious kernel problems on new i386 hardware

2005-03-10 Thread Jacob S
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:04:55 +0100 (CET) Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Jacob S wrote: Which version of the Debian-Installer did you use? We had similar symptoms on a new Dell recently at work and had to grab the latest daily build to get a working version. I

Re: Serious kernel problems on new i386 hardware

2005-03-10 Thread Jess Roncero
On Thursday, 10 de March de 2005 15:10, Andreas Tille wrote: I tried to upgrade to a 2.6.x kernel but failed always with kernel_panic. I tried 2.6.8, 2.6.8 and 2.6.10 (here -1-386 and -1-686 versions) and all failed with the same result:    ERROR: Removing 'trm290': Device or resource busy