[12:48] <CIA-12> tasksel: cjwatson * r1465 ubuntu/ (6 files in 2 dirs): Update Ubuntu tasks from seeds, removing edubuntu-server.
[12:49] <CIA-12> tasksel: cjwatson * r1463 ubuntu/ (debian/changelog ubuntu-seeds.pl):
[12:49] <CIA-12> tasksel: Handle Kubuntu and Kubuntu Mobile seeds moving to ~kubuntu-dev branches
[12:49] <CIA-12> tasksel: on Launchpad.
[12:49] <CIA-12> tasksel: cjwatson * r1464 ubuntu/ (Makefile debian/changelog): Point Ubuntu task update script at oneiric.
[17:04] <NCommander> does anyone know if sfdisk is available as a udeb for d-i?
[17:07] <cjwatson> yes (fdisk-udeb), but let's please fix partman for your needs instead
[17:07] <cjwatson> or libparted or whatever
[17:12] <NCommander> cjwatson: I don't really want to teach parted proper CHS. I rather feed the partition map into sfdisk generated by parted and make it fix teh geometry on the fly
[17:14] <cjwatson> parted shouldn't *need* to be taught.  as long as it can get the right geometry from /sys or whatever (or some override), and as long as you set partman/alignment=cylinder, that should be all it needs
[17:14] <cjwatson> it already has CHS support from the old days
[17:15] <cjwatson> geometry> or HDIO_GETGEO, etc.
[17:15] <NCommander> It doesn't work properly. It generates an invalid layout when I run parted directly
[17:15] <cjwatson> parted -a cylinder?
[17:15] <cjwatson> (also, not so much interested in the parted command-line tool; partman bypasses that)
[17:16] <NCommander> bah, that fixed it (mostly). It would be lovely if that was clearly menthoned in the blasted GNU book on the subject
[17:16] <cjwatson> man parted
[17:17] <cjwatson> ironically actually more useful than the info pages for this
[17:17] <NCommander> cjwatson: its there but the entire CHS thingin the 'info'
[17:17] <NCommander> yeah :-P
[17:18] <cjwatson> partman/alignment=cylinder is the equivalent of that for d-i
[17:18] <cjwatson> I think I mentioned that at UDS
[17:18] <NCommander> cjwatson: you did, but I was trying to confirm parted itself actually wrote proper CHS geomtry
[17:19] <cjwatson> well, that's not quite entirely useful by itself, since as I say partman doesn't use the parted command-line tool, and it applies its own partitioning constraints directly
[17:19] <cjwatson> so it's perhaps one part of it but is not as useful a test as it might seem
[17:20] <NCommander> fair enougnh, although I still don't have a working SD card which is really irritating
[17:24] <NCommander> cjwatson: using 'parted -a cylinder' generates invalid CHS geomtry when I check it with (s)fdisk. The official documentation says to use fdisk in expert mode, or sfdisk. You won't happen to know a parted guru would you?
[17:25] <cjwatson> give me a way to reproduce it, and I can probably play one on TV ...
[17:26] <cjwatson> Jim Meyering is the usual guru though
[17:26] <cjwatson> you could post a detailed report to bug-parted@gnu.org
[17:26] <NCommander> Well, maybe I should rephrase. What parted is doing MAY be valid, but is not what I need for OMAp3/4 bootloader
[17:27] <NCommander> my understanding is partitioning tools from this day and age should give me a device with 255 heads + 63 sectors, and X cylinders
[17:28] <NCommander> parted, when doing 'parted -a cylinder', and generating one 70 MiB partition, gave me 1 heads, 11 sectors/track, 704046 cylinders
[17:28] <NCommander> (my SD cad is 3965 MiB)
[17:29] <cjwatson> that sounds like a matter of misdetecting the hardware geometry
[17:29] <cjwatson> I would phrase it as a bug and see where that takes you
[17:30] <NCommander> Thanks
[17:33] <cjwatson> might even be a kernel bug
[18:15] <CIA-12> ubiquity: cjwatson * r4742 trunk/debian/ (changelog ubiquity.install-any): Stop installing earth.jpg; it's 250KiB and we no longer use it.
[19:29] <luis_> i have a problem when trying to try ubuntu natty on a liveUSB, it hangs on a step that says "3.970383] pci 0000:00:00.0: MSI quirk detected; MSI disabled"
[22:45] <CIA-12> apt-setup: cjwatson * r216 ubuntu/ (22 files in 12 dirs): Add Release files for oneiric.
[22:48] <CIA-12> apt-setup: cjwatson * r217 ubuntu/debian/ (apt-mirror-setup.install changelog):
[22:48] <CIA-12> apt-setup: Actually install Release files for archive.canonical.com and
[22:48] <CIA-12> apt-setup: extras.ubuntu.com.
[23:27] <CIA-12> apt-setup: cjwatson * r218 ubuntu/ (52 files in 22 dirs): Remove Release files for previous releases.
[23:34] <CIA-12> apt-setup: cjwatson * r219 ubuntu/debian/changelog: releasing version 1:0.49ubuntu6