Breezy Badger milestone release "Colony 3" now available

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Thu Aug 18 17:23:28 CDT 2005


On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 10:28:40PM +0100, Stephen Shirley wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > If you test it, be sure to send us a report to
> > ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com.
> 
> Right, 3 things i found when installing colony 3 on my laptop (dell
> inspiron 9300).
> 
> 1) Framebuffer console display doesn't work at all with the X300
> graphics card, the screen just goes completely blank (but the machine is
> not hung). This happens with hoary too. Disabling the framebuffer got
> around this.

This is in the installer?  So you worked around it with
debian-installer/framebuffer=false or similar?

Please file in Bugzilla if it isn't already there.

> 2) There's a bug in the partition manager part of the install process:
> if you return the the partition manager because of an error mounting a
> partition, you cannot continue past it until you deselect a / and
> reselect it again.

Please file in Bugzilla if it isn't already there.

> 3) The kernel handling of lvm parititons is a bit flakey (or else the
> partition manager is too permissive). During the install, i created a
> logical volume called 'breezy-std'. However, the kernel (given the
> parameter root=/dev/mapper/linuxvg-breezy-std) would panic on boot
> saying it couldn't find volume group 'linuxvg-breezy'. Renaming the
> logical volume to 'breezystd' fixed this issue.

http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13387

-- 
 - mdz



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