live CD tests [2005-02-21 daily on powerpc, amd64 x 2 + ia64]

[Colin Watson]

Just some low-hanging-fruit replies ...

On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 06:08:21PM +0000, James Troup wrote:
>  - Non-X Console was coming up as 'Resolution Out Of Range' - maybe
>    the 'video=ofonly' kernel command-line argument didn't get passed
>    through to the second stage?

I'd like to see /etc/yaboot.conf.

>  - I noticed the help text refers to lots of obsolete i386 drivers that
>    probably don't work on amd64 era machines.  Worth a bug?

Yep (on debian-installer).

>  - There are lots of very slow stages (e.g. 'storing language',
>    'configuring user'); on a machine as fast as concordia, that seems
>    very strange?

"Storing language" is doing locale-gen, which is snail-paced at best. I
don't know if it contains sleeps or something silly like that.

>  - I get the full X configuration prompts.  But err, this is a
>    keyboardless serial install?

casper bug, I think. (Maybe.)

> Finally:
> 
>   +?????????????????????+ Preparing for live session +??????????????????????+   
>   |                                                                         |   
>   |                                  100%                                   |   
>   |                                                                         |   
> device '/dev/tts/0' does not exist.                                         |   
> The system is going down NOW !!                                             |   
> Sending SIGTERM to all processes.???????????????????????????????????????????+   
> Sending SIGKILL to all processes.                                               
> The system is halted. Press Reset or turn off power                             
>                                                    System halted. 
> 
> Whoops. :)

Indeed. Fixed in casper 0.40.

Thanks,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]