Re: Solved, maybe (was: Re: Help updating a Jessie installation to Jessie LTS)

2019-04-01 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-01, David wrote: > On Mon, 1 Apr 2019 at 09:56, David Wright wrote: >> >> I hit this bizarre page that has a comparable multitude of possibilities. >> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/212466/what-is-a-bus-error > > The "bizarre" that I'm seeing on that page is probably due to > toda

Re: Solved, maybe (was: Re: Help updating a Jessie installation to Jessie LTS)

2019-03-31 Thread David
On Mon, 1 Apr 2019 at 09:56, David Wright wrote: > > I hit this bizarre page that has a comparable multitude of possibilities. > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/212466/what-is-a-bus-error The "bizarre" that I'm seeing on that page is probably due to today's date being April 1st in some parts

Re: Solved, maybe (was: Re: Help updating a Jessie installation to Jessie LTS)

2019-03-31 Thread David Wright
On Sun 31 Mar 2019 at 16:35:44 (-0400), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Saturday, March 30, 2019 04:12:05 PM rh kramer wrote: > > I already made an attempt, and I'm a little worried that I may have messed > > things up -- I'd like to try to recover and get back to a reliable Jessie > > system. Saw

Re: Solved, maybe (was: Re: Help updating a Jessie installation to Jessie LTS)

2019-03-31 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 04:35:44PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: >* Aside: what the heck does errorackage mean / stand for and what is it > telling me? Who came up with that "word"? Ah, I thought you were aware of what it was printing. It was printing "Bus error" over the top of i

Re: Help updating a Jessie installation to Jessie LTS

2019-03-31 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 04:12:05PM -0400, rh kramer wrote: > I found a post that told me what the content of > /etc/apt/sources.list should be for Jessie LTS. LTS updates (for a limited set of architectures) make their way into the /updates suite that is found on security.debian.org, just lik

Solved, maybe (was: Re: Help updating a Jessie installation to Jessie LTS)

2019-03-31 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, March 30, 2019 04:12:05 PM rh kramer wrote: > I already made an attempt, and I'm a little worried that I may have messed > things up -- I'd like to try to recover and get back to a reliable Jessie > system. Things might be OK. Things I did: * googled for errorackage -- found some

Help updating a Jessie installation to Jessie LTS

2019-03-30 Thread rh kramer
I already made an attempt, and I'm a little worried that I may have messed things up -- I'd like to try to recover and get back to a reliable Jessie system. What I did and why: I understood from some other posts on the list that the mirrored repositories for Wheezy and Jessie went away in early M

Re: File corrupt during Jessie installation - I have ot do something tonight, even use another distro. :-((

2016-03-15 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 15 March 2016 22:20:42 David Christensen wrote: > On 03/15/2016 11:59 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > My husband's computer died today. > > First: > > 1. Back up everything on all of the drives in the old computer. > > 2. Take an image of the system drive in the old computer. > > 3. Copy th

Re: File corrupt during Jessie installation - I have ot do something tonight, even use another distro. :-((

2016-03-15 Thread David Christensen
On 03/15/2016 11:59 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: My husband's computer died today. First: 1. Back up everything on all of the drives in the old computer. 2. Take an image of the system drive in the old computer. 3. Copy the above to another device and put the copy off-site. What is the make an

File corrupt during Jessie installation - I have ot do something tonight, even use another distro. :-((

2016-03-15 Thread Lisi Reisz
My husband's computer died today. We rushed out and got another, cheap, temporary one while his main one is being repaired. I said that I could get it up and running quickly. Famous last words. I downloaded the most recent Jessie Net-install + firmware, didn't checksum it because of the enor

Re: jessie installation problem on arm sheevaplug

2015-06-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 8, 2015, at 7:01 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Rick Thomas [2015-06-07 19:39]: >> I’ve attached a screenlog file from “screen -L /dev/ttyUSB0 115200” >> if that’s any help. The VT100-style curses stuff makes it a bit >> hard to interpret… > > From the log it looks like you didn't fin

Re: jessie installation problem on arm sheevaplug

2015-06-08 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Rick Thomas [2015-06-07 19:39]: > I’ve attached a screenlog file from “screen -L /dev/ttyUSB0 115200” > if that’s any help. The VT100-style curses stuff makes it a bit > hard to interpret… >From the log it looks like you didn't finish the installation. These are the last messages in the log:

Re: jessie installation problem on arm sheevaplug

2015-06-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 7, 2015, at 7:39 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Jun 6, 2015, at 10:55 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > >> * Rodrigo Valiña Gutiérrez [2015-05-18 13:42]: >>> The relevant part of /var/log/installer/syslog seems to be this: >> ... >>> May 17 15:19:13 base-installer: info: could not determin

Re: Re: Re: jessie installation problem on arm sheevaplug

2015-06-06 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Rodrigo Valiña Gutiérrez [2015-05-18 13:42]: > The relevant part of /var/log/installer/syslog seems to be this: ... > May 17 15:19:13 base-installer: info: could not determine kernel flavour The installer is fixed now and you can install Debian on the SheevaPlug (and other plug variants) again.

Re: Re: Re: jessie installation problem on arm sheevaplug

2015-05-18 Thread Rodrigo Valiña Gutiérrez
>> But now the installer fails in the "Install the base system" step, >> saying: "No installable kernel was found in the defined APT sources"... >> when the last time I tested with changed machid and original uImage it >> worked with the same sources. > >What does /var/log/syslog say when this happ

Re: Re: jessie installation problem on arm sheevaplug

2015-05-17 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Rodrigo Valiña Gutiérrez [2015-05-17 16:09]: > But now the installer fails in the "Install the base system" step, > saying: "No installable kernel was found in the defined APT sources"... > when the last time I tested with changed machid and original uImage it > worked with the same sources. Wh

Re: Re: jessie installation problem on arm sheevaplug

2015-05-17 Thread Rodrigo Valiña Gutiérrez
>Does this boot? > >This is how I prepare the image: > >wget >http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/installer-armel/current/images/kirkwood/device-tree/kirkwood-sheevaplug.dtb >wget >http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/installer-armel/current/images/kirkwood/netboot/marvell/sh

Re: Re: jessie installation problem on arm sheevaplug

2015-05-16 Thread Rodrigo Valiña Gutiérrez
I am not an expert... The workaround just worked, but I don't know whether "0692 Marvell RD-88F6281 Reference Board" is a valid machid for the sheevaplug, instead of the 'original' 0831. At the beggining it worked, but now I have a problem: the sheevaplug ethernet subsystem does not work

Re: jessie installation problem on arm sheevaplug

2015-05-16 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Martin Michlmayr [2015-05-16 21:37]: > So the best solution now is to append the device tree blob (DTB) to > the kernel in the installer. This way, the kernel will find the > correct device tree and can boot (and everything else will work since > flash-kernel already appends the DTB on the Shee

Re: jessie installation problem on arm sheevaplug

2015-05-16 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Rick Thomas [2015-05-16 17:47]: > > - In u-boot: > > > > setenv machid 0692 > > saveenv This is not the correct solution. The problem is that there are different ways to boot on ARM machines. The old way was for the boot loader to pass a machine ID to the kernel which would tell the kerne

Re: jessie installation problem on arm sheevaplug

2015-05-16 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 16, 2015, at 10:33 AM, Rodrigo Valiña Gutiérrez wrote: > I had the same problem installing Debian 8 'Jessie' on a SheevaPlug. > > I solved it temporarily by doing the following: > > - In u-boot: > > setenv machid 0692 > saveenv > > - Then install normally. The 'make the system bo

Re: jessie installation problem on arm sheevaplug

2015-05-16 Thread Rodrigo Valiña Gutiérrez
I had the same problem installing Debian 8 'Jessie' on a SheevaPlug. I solved it temporarily by doing the following: - In u-boot: setenv machid 0692 saveenv - Then install normally. The 'make the system bootable' phase will fail because flash-kernel fails: /var/log/installer/syslog: Ma

jessie installation problem on arm sheevaplug

2015-05-13 Thread henri dugenou
Hello I'm trying to install debian 8.0 (jessie) on a Sheevaplug I follow the guide of Martin Michlmayr I don't succeed down is the capture of the output note the same procedure for wheezy was successfull some help would be appreciated (sorry for my english) rb * U-Boot 2011.12 (Ma

Re: jessie installation

2014-09-16 Thread Brian
On Mon 15 Sep 2014 at 16:26:30 -0300, Adrián Orellana wrote: > I'm trying to install jessie amd64 and with the installer I got two > important issues: > 1st: when it asked me about non free drivers, I told him that there were in > an external device (usb), but it never saw after several attemps.

jessie installation

2014-09-15 Thread Adrián Orellana
Hi, I'm trying to install jessie amd64 and with the installer I got two important issues: 1st: when it asked me about non free drivers, I told him that there were in an external device (usb), but it never saw after several attemps. 2nd. I need to manually partition my disk as it have another distri