Sarge install: DE DMA not enabled on VIA KT 880, VIA VT 8237 chipset, and DVD-Writer broken by ide_scsi

2005-08-04 Thread J. Grant
[Please include my email address in any replies] Hi, I see debian-kernel is the maintainer of initrd-tools. My sarge install was not correctly setup, /etc/modules floppy ide-disk via82cxxx ide-generic ide-cd psmouse #sd_mod nvidia via82cxxx was missing. and sd_mod was not commented out. For s

Re: kernel install script bug, breaking grub /boot/menu.lst

2005-04-03 Thread J. Grant
Hi Massa, Thanks for noticing my mistake. I corrected my menu.1st to have: # kopt=root=/dev/sda3 hda=ide-scsi ro now as you suggested. Kind regards JG -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kernel-image-2.4.27-2-k7 missing CPU name from description

2005-03-23 Thread J. Grant
Hi Horms, Thank you for your email. Yes, thanks. I have made the same changes for 2.6. If you could review the attached patch, which has been included in SVN and should show up in the next release of the respective patchages, that would be great. They look perfect to me. Thank you for making this

Re: kernel-image-2.4.27-2-k7 missing CPU name from description

2005-03-22 Thread J. Grant
Hi Horms, Thank you for your reply. [...] "Linux kernel image for version 2.4.27 on AMD K7" Could that be revised as well to include the fact that it is 32bit and supports AlthonXP/Athon/Duron I expect other pages could do with this addtional information as well: kernel-image-2.4.27-2-k7-smp Yes,

Re: kernel install script bug, breaking grub /boot/menu.lst

2005-03-21 Thread J. Grant
Hi Massa, Thank you for your response. Hi. You left out the most important part of menu.lst (the one that has the parameters that update-grub copies into the automagically generated part). Sorry about that. I have attached my current revised /boot/grub/menu.lst and menu.lst~ (Which was a backup

kernel install script bug, breaking grub /boot/menu.lst

2005-03-19 Thread J. Grant
Hello, I have just noticed a bug in the kernel install scripts. I have to manually fix my /boot/menu.lst. I am using a January install of debian sarge. I had this in my /boot/menu.lst === title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-1-386 root

kernel-image-2.4.27-2-k7 missing CPU name from description

2005-03-19 Thread J. Grant
http://packages.debian.org/testing/base/kernel-image-2.4.27-2-k7 does not mention this is a 32bit only kernel, and also that AthlonXP are supported. The brief description on http://packages.debian.org/testing/base/ is just "Linux kernel image for version 2.4.27 on AMD K7" Could that be revised