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Re: Problems with the install kernel on serverworks chipset.

s...@hardwarefreak.com (Stan Hoeppner) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:40:02 UT

If your skills are up to it, I'd recommend building a custom non-initrd
kernel with your storage controller and network drivers (and all needed
drivers for that matter) built in. That would eliminate this boot problem.

an appreciation

r...@biostat.ucsf.edu (Ross Boylan) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:00:01 UT

Perhaps I'm in a peculiar mood, but I so appreciate the candor that
characterizes Debian, in contrast to the marketing talk so common in the
industry. I'm referring to the quotes around "fixed" in the message
below.
Keep up the good work!
Ross Boylan

Re: Problems with the install kernel on serverworks chipset.

m9...@abc.se (Mathias) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:30:01 UT

It's equpiped with 2-chan LSI SYM53C896 U160 and an Adaptec 1200A
ATA-100/ATA-133 controller to replace the crappy Broadcom IDE controller
this board has.
Anyway, I managed to install a basic configuration of Etch, late last night,
booting in with LILO (Wanted Grub 2, but my XFS disks wont work with it).

Re: CPU fan working more than it should

arthur.mach...@gmail.com (Arthur Machlas) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:30:02 UT

In addition to the info above, I use the PHC patch to allow undervolting of
the CPU, or in my case CPUs. Without it on a default kernel my fan kicks in
every 30 seconds or so. With it it doesn't kick in at all unless I do
something like render video or compile a kernel. Haven't bothered to check
the temp differences or do any real benchmarking.

Re: Problems with the install kernel on serverworks chipset.

s...@hardwarefreak.com (Stan Hoeppner) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:50:02 UT

On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 15:38:41 +0000 (UTC), Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com>
wrote:
What SCSI RAID card is in the machine, if any?

Re: How to temporary set dvorak keymap in terminal

noela...@gmail.com (Camaleón) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:20:01 UT

Although I don't like using "sudo" so much, this can be a good reason to
set it up :-)
Greetings,

Re: Problems with the install kernel on serverworks chipset.

noela...@gmail.com (Camaleón) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:40:02 UT

(...)

It's listed here:
[link]
It seems that was tested with kernel 2.6.25.
Greetings,

Re: LVM+RAID+CRYPT

jon+debian-u...@alcopop.org (Jon Dowland) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:30:01 UT

Be aware that RAID-1 in itself is no substitute for a backup
system.
That said, The order should be something like
physical devices partitioned identically, with a small-ish
boot (512M usually suffices) and the remaining space
dedicated to one large partition[1].
two software RAID devices
md0 - with the two small boot partitions as backing

Re: Comparing two debian boxes (find which package is different)

mathieu.malate...@gmail.com (Mathieu Malaterre) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:10:03 UT

Worked out perfectly ! Thanks.

Re: pvmove "Couldn't find device with uuid"

no...@debian.org (Noah Meyerhans) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:10:03 UT

Thanks, this is the most promising lead yet. Alas, etch's clvmd is too
old to have that flag. Hopefully rebooting the nodes will take care of
that, but of course, that's not exactly something that can happen
trivially.
noah

Re: aptitude forces full-upgrade

dburr...@debian.org (Daniel Burrows) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:00:02 UT

It would be easier to answer the question if you provided specific
examples of packages that apt-get didn't install and aptitude did. A
full copy/paste of the upgrade preview from both programs would be
particularly helpful.
Daniel

Re: KVM networking

mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com (T o n g) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:30:02 UT

Thanks a lot!

Re: LVM+RAID+CRYPT

cassianol...@gmail.com (Cassiano Leal) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:30:01 UT

2010/1/8 Ãéþñãïò ÐÜëëáò <gp...@ccf.auth.gr>:
I second most opinions here.
Mainly: NEVER leave swap unencrypted if encryption is for security
(i.e. anything more than just playing around with encryption) as any
data that's on your computer RAM might at some point be written to the
swap space and that has

Re: jabber cliente

rand...@songshu.org (randall) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:10:02 UT

i thought the latest pidgin had this finaly implemented, think i also
heard that it was to be included in telepathy

Re: Grub 2

debianu...@tixy.myzen.co.uk (Tixy) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:00:01 UT

Look for the 'netinst' iso at
[link]
I've used that method several times to install Testing; though as the
installer is built daily, it may on occasion be broken.
I also note that the "Changes for Squeeze in Debian Installer"¹ says
"setting up RAID, LVM and crypto is simplified", which you may