sounder current daily d-i notes

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 03:38:21PM +0100, Thom May wrote:

> Booting with APIC enabled (the default on both our installer and base
> kernels) causes my machine to do extremely screwy things - randomly not
> detect usb devices, hang on doing anything network related, hang on disk
> activity, and some other fun stuff.

Yuck.  Did you find any information about the problem?  Is it something we
can patch, or at least tell the kernel to disable APIC on your hardware?

> Parted tells me:
> [!!] Partition disks
> Not yet implemented!
> This ext2 filesystem has a rather strange layout! Parted can't resize this
> (yet).
> 
> ... on a partition I've told it to use the data and mount, or whatever the
> option is. This is more than mildly concerning, and if anyone can offer
> hints as to how to debug, i'd be more than grateful.

Does running parted's "check" command on the partition produce the same
result?

> the installer is *so* much nicer now the progress bar keeps moving for all
> the packages, rather than the old behaviour.

Indeed.  Thanks, Colin and Joey. :-)

> Grub install halts at 50%:
> grub-install support --no-floppy
> Running chroot /target /sbin/grub-install --no-floppy "(hd0)"
> 
> and then nothing. Killing the grub process appears to restart it and i then
> get a working grub config.
> Grub should probably inherit the fact that I booted with noapic.
> (or we should turn off apic on uniproc machines altogether - Red Hat
> certainly do this).

Hmm, good idea.  grub-installer should probably notice if you had to boot
with special parameters, and propagate those to the installed system.  On my
desktop, APIC seems to do a better job of assigning IRQs, so I like having
it enabled.

-- 
 - mdz