[01:50] <mischko> What to put in a kickstart file to get it to use my ubuntu mirror?
[10:00] <tepsipakki> cjwatson_: I've done the syslinux merge, can I upload it?
[10:03] <cjwatson_> does it work? have you tested gfxboot?
[10:03] <cjwatson_> that's the hard bit :)
[10:04] <tepsipakki> ah, right
[10:04] <tepsipakki> I need to build it on gutsy first
[10:04] <tepsipakki> build-deps on gcc-multilib
[10:04] <tepsipakki> which is not in feisty
[10:06] <tepsipakki> cjwatson: how do I test gfxboot? I merged 3.31 in December and at least it compiled fine :)
[10:06] <cjwatson> doko also merged it way back but gfxboot doesn't work
[10:06] <cjwatson> didn't
[10:07] <cjwatson> tepsipakki: http://people.ubuntu.com/~cjwatson/tmp/gfxboot-test.tar.gz is the hacked-up thing I use to test
[10:08] <cjwatson> it's, er, kind of customised for me ;-), but hopefully it should be obvious how to beat the Makefile into submission
[10:08] <tepsipakki> okay.. I'll try that, and look for updated patches from suse
[10:08] <cjwatson> needs gfxboot-theme-ubuntu, mkisofs, and qemu
[10:09] <tepsipakki> ..if they are publicly available
[10:09] <cjwatson> (if gfxboot can't be made to work, it's more important that it continues to work than that syslinux is merged)
[10:09] <tepsipakki> yeah, I understand
[10:10] <tepsipakki> 3.30 brought graphical menus :)
[10:10] <tepsipakki> actually I'm using it for our netboot
[10:13] <cjwatson> quite different graphical menus AFAIK?
[10:14] <cjwatson> I remember looking at them and I don't think they delivered what we're using gfxboot for
[10:14] <cjwatson> couldn't do the language/keymap menus etc.
[10:17] <tepsipakki> ah, it's for netboot only afaik
[10:17] <cjwatson> really? that seems odd
[10:18] <tepsipakki> pxeboot menus
[10:18] <tepsipakki> I mean, you just need to edit the pxeboot-file somewhat to have a basic menu. The graphical bit is only a backround image :)
[10:19] <cjwatson> sure, just seems odd not to support that in isolinux too
[10:19] <tepsipakki> sorry being vague, it's nothing like gfxboot
[10:19] <cjwatson> I know, but what I mean is that for people using the upstream syslinux menu system you'd think they'd want it for CDs as well
[10:20] <tepsipakki> yep
[10:20] <cjwatson> I don't think gfxboot has ever got round to supporting pxelinux :)
[10:20] <cjwatson> (conversely)
[10:20] <tepsipakki> heh, that would be nice
[10:20] <tepsipakki> I'd like it to support better authentication, but it's impossible from what I hear
[10:20] <cjwatson> what, pxelinux?
[10:20] <tepsipakki> yep
[10:20] <cjwatson> I don't know a lot about it, I must admit
[10:21] <tepsipakki> now it has a password protection
[10:21] <tepsipakki> -a
[10:21] <cjwatson> it's one of the pieces I sort of hope works and otherwise leave the hell alone
[10:21] <tepsipakki> hehe
[10:21] <cjwatson> you're more than welcome to maintain it :)
[10:21] <tepsipakki> I use it exclusively, so it does indeed work
[10:22] <cjwatson> let me know if any SuSE changes to gfxboot need theme changes
[10:22] <tepsipakki> syslinux?-)
[10:22] <cjwatson> as long as it's not like "rewrite theme, kthxbye", I'm happy to accommodate
[10:22] <cjwatson> well, the syslinux part of gfxboot
[10:22] <cjwatson> that's just hooks I guess
[10:23] <cjwatson> but I could conceive that it might need a newer gfxboot interpreter as well
[10:24] <tepsipakki> I'll take a look at the suse package if there are changes
[10:48] <tepsipakki> promising.. opensuse 10.2 has syslinux-3.31
[12:09] <systems> hai is there anyone to help me out in installing ubuntu desktop with raid
[02:11] <tepsipakki> cjwatson: ok, syslinux tested.. I get a xubuntu image in it but no menu..
[02:15] <tepsipakki> so I guess it's broken
[02:19] <tepsipakki> hmm, it looks the same as with feisty (and syslinux 3.11)
[02:33] <saispo> cjwatson: it's possible to preseed in the partition scheme, the quota and acl extensions on ext3 ?
[02:45] <tepsipakki> cjwatson: hey, I got it to work :)
[02:45] <tepsipakki> cjwatson: it only lacked the theme, duh
[03:34] <cjwatson> saispo: you mean usrquota/grpquota and user_xattr?
[03:34] <cjwatson> tepsipakki: excellent, thanks
[03:36] <saispo> cjwatson: yes
[03:41] <cjwatson> saispo: I think you can put something like options/usrquota{ usrquota } options/grpquota{ grpquota } options/user_xattr{ user_xattr } in your recipe for the relevant partition
[03:41] <cjwatson> saispo: but that's just from code inspection and I've never tried it
[03:41] <cjwatson> caveat emptor
[03:42] <saispo> ok cjwatson thanks, i will try and say it to you :)
[04:15] <tepsipakki> cjwatson: the SuSE changelog says that your localboot and cpio-swab changes have been applied, but not 1:1. Should I just drop the remaining diff (now they are in patches, easy to leave there)
[04:16] <cjwatson> I think I looked at those and they were close enough
[04:16] <tepsipakki> ok, cool
[04:16] <cjwatson> but you might want to double-check
[04:16] <tepsipakki> I don't understand x86 assy that well :)
[04:17] <tepsipakki> maybe I'll put the debdiff somewhere for a review anyway
[04:17] <cjwatson> mine is distinctly rusty
[04:17] <cjwatson> took quite a while to come up with those changes
[04:20] <tepsipakki> I bet
[04:24] <CIA-19> ubiquity: cjwatson * r2068 ubiquity/ (d-i/manifest debian/changelog): (log message trimmed)
[04:24] <CIA-19> ubiquity: * Automatic update of included source packages: apt-setup 1:0.21ubuntu1,
[04:24] <CIA-19> ubiquity:  base-installer 1.79ubuntu1, choose-mirror 2.15ubuntu1, clock-setup
[04:24] <CIA-19> ubiquity:  0.16ubuntu1, console-setup 1.15ubuntu1, debian-installer-utils
[04:24] <CIA-19> ubiquity:  1.48ubuntu1, grub-installer 1.24ubuntu1, hw-detect 1.52ubuntu2,
[04:24] <CIA-19> ubiquity:  localechooser 1.38ubuntu1, partconf 1.23, partman-auto 69ubuntu1,
[04:24] <CIA-19> ubiquity:  partman-base 107ubuntu1, partman-basicfilesystems 54ubuntu1,
[04:29] <tepsipakki> cjwatson: I see some malloc messages before the gfxboot menu is displayed (too fast to grab them), something to worry about
[04:29] <tepsipakki> ?
[04:29] <saispo> cjwatson: all work fine :) big thanks !
[04:30] <cjwatson> tepsipakki: not sure ...
[04:30] <cjwatson> saispo: great
[04:31] <tepsipakki> hum, is there a way to make qemu slower
[04:31] <tepsipakki> acceleration is not used
[04:41] <tepsipakki> ok, I got the message.. "Initializing gfx code... \n static memory: 0x40020 - 0x9fc00 \n malloc 0: 0x56610 - 0x9fc00 \n malloc 1: 0x800000 - 0x900000 \n malloc 2: 0xa00000 - 0xb00000"
[04:41] <tepsipakki> but I'll look at it later ->
[04:44] <cjwatson> oh, I think that's deliberate debugging output
[04:45] <cjwatson> it's output by gfxboot, not syslinux, so can't be due to your changes
[05:04] <cjwatson> sigh, how predictable, a d-i build failure
[05:09] <thom> cjwatson: have you used digress much? are there any caveats or alternatives before i dive in?
[05:10] <cjwatson> I haven't at all; I keep meaning to
[05:10] <cjwatson> I don't know of any alternatives for what it does
[05:15] <thom> ok, thanks
[05:18] <thom> arse, the machine i got doesn't do svm
[06:09] <CIA-19> ubiquity: cjwatson * r2069 ubiquity/debian/changelog: releasing version 1.5.0
[06:09] <cjwatson> I have absolutely no idea whether that ubiquity upload will work ...