=== cr3 [n=marc@pdpc/supporter/bronze/cr3] has joined #ubuntu-installer === avoine__ [n=avoine@modemcable056.3-203-24.mc.videotron.ca] has joined #ubuntu-installer === secureboot [n=lstclair@coriakin.cse.psu.edu] has joined #ubuntu-installer [03:35] cjwatson: did you have any ideas on the partman error that says "can't have a partition outside of disk" === saispo [n=saispo@ryu.zarb.org] has joined #ubuntu-installer === pkt [n=pantelis@athedsl-137442.otenet.gr] has joined #ubuntu-installer === cr3 [n=marc@pdpc/supporter/bronze/cr3] has joined #ubuntu-installer === pkt [n=pantelis@athedsl-157104.otenet.gr] has joined #ubuntu-installer === highvolt1ge [n=jaagaan@johannesleroux.co.za] has joined #ubuntu-installer === pkt [n=pantelis@85.75.157.78] has joined #ubuntu-installer === pkt [n=pantelis@85.75.157.78] has joined #ubuntu-installer === pkt [n=pantelis@85.75.157.78] has joined #ubuntu-installer === pkt [n=pantelis@athedsl-157104.otenet.gr] has joined #ubuntu-installer === pkt [n=pantelis@athedsl-81335.otenet.gr] has joined #ubuntu-installer === pkt_ [n=pantelis@87.203.71.5] has joined #ubuntu-installer === pkt [n=pantelis@87.203.71.5] has joined #ubuntu-installer === pkt [n=pantelis@87.203.71.5] has joined #ubuntu-installer === highvoltage [n=jaagaan@johannesleroux.co.za] has joined #ubuntu-installer === secureboot_ [n=lstclair@coriakin.cse.psu.edu] has joined #ubuntu-installer === philwyett [n=philwyet@bb-87-81-146-45.ukonline.co.uk] has joined #ubuntu-installer [07:30] anyone know how to preseed with the first hard disk available? [07:30] i mean, make partman use the first hard disk available [07:30] the examples that do that are from dapper, and don't work [07:35] d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sda will work if i have an sda disk, hda works for hda, but i want something that works for both [07:35] any ideas? === philwyett [n=philwyet@bb-87-81-146-45.ukonline.co.uk] has joined #ubuntu-installer [07:55] i've begun to think there's a bug in partman for PATA disks [07:56] the same recipes that work for hdas, don't work for sdas when you have PATA disks [07:56] I get "no root filesystem" when I try the same recipes [07:56] whereas they work fine on hdas (QEMU, for instance) [08:03] first hard disk available> not possible in edgy; use dapper or feisty [08:03] well, only possible with grungy scripting [08:03] or you could use Kickstart, which should be fine in edgy. See the documentation for clearpart [08:04] if you're getting "no root file system" then your recipe is buggy in some subtle way; I'm pretty confident that partman couldn't care less whether it's hda or sda (and much less whether it's PATA) at that level [08:11] cjwatson: hmm - i use exactly the same recipe [08:12] cjwatson: you were mentioning something 2 days ago about this maybe being related to an error someone found [08:18] you were talking about "can't have a partition outside of the disk" which is surely different? [08:18] cjwatson: yes, that's true [08:19] cjwatson: you also said that recipe looked correct, however [08:19] cjwatson: i was wondering if there was just a whole class of problems on PATA disks === mgalvin [n=mgalvin@ubuntu/member/mgalvin] has joined #ubuntu-installer [08:22] http://pastebin.ca/378772 is what i'm using now [08:25] providing the disk is big enough, of course [08:25] cjwatson: it is [08:26] did I already ask you for a DEBCONF_DEBUG=5 log? it would probably also help to add 'set -x' to /bin/autopartition and /bin/perform_recipe [08:26] takes quite a while to debug this sort of thing unfortunately [08:27] cjwatson: huh - i'll try to do that - how do i add to /bin/autopartition? where is that /bin? [08:27] you have to edit it from tty2 with nano [08:28] I would suggest leaving the hostname unpreseeded, and then you'll be able to edit it while the installer is waiting for the answer to that question [08:28] then extract /var/log/syslog and /var/log/partman [08:28] (after the failure, obviously) [08:29] cjwatson: oh - neat. I'll try to do that then [08:31] fairly standard approach to this sort of probblem [08:31] it's quite data-intensive and you need the code as a reference to work out what it means [08:31] it's definitely useful to add DEBCONF_DEBUG=5 to the kernel boot parameters so that you get a debconf protocol trace in there too === philwyett [n=philwyet@bb-87-81-146-45.ukonline.co.uk] has joined #ubuntu-installer === pkt [n=pantelis@athedsl-281822.otenet.gr] has joined #ubuntu-installer [08:51] i didn't evne know /var/log/partman existed - i'll be happy to look at that [09:15] migration-assistant: evand * r38 migration-assistant/ (10 files in 2 dirs): Fixes for non-English systems. === pkt [n=pantelis@athedsl-136147.otenet.gr] has joined #ubuntu-installer === evand [n=evand@ubuntu/member/evand] has joined #ubuntu-installer