[12:48] tasksel: cjwatson * r1465 ubuntu/ (6 files in 2 dirs): Update Ubuntu tasks from seeds, removing edubuntu-server. [12:49] tasksel: cjwatson * r1463 ubuntu/ (debian/changelog ubuntu-seeds.pl): [12:49] tasksel: Handle Kubuntu and Kubuntu Mobile seeds moving to ~kubuntu-dev branches [12:49] tasksel: on Launchpad. [12:49] tasksel: cjwatson * r1464 ubuntu/ (Makefile debian/changelog): Point Ubuntu task update script at oneiric. === ara_ is now known as ara [17:04] does anyone know if sfdisk is available as a udeb for d-i? [17:07] yes (fdisk-udeb), but let's please fix partman for your needs instead [17:07] or libparted or whatever [17:12] 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] 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] it already has CHS support from the old days [17:15] geometry> or HDIO_GETGEO, etc. [17:15] It doesn't work properly. It generates an invalid layout when I run parted directly [17:15] parted -a cylinder? [17:15] (also, not so much interested in the parted command-line tool; partman bypasses that) [17:16] bah, that fixed it (mostly). It would be lovely if that was clearly menthoned in the blasted GNU book on the subject [17:16] man parted [17:17] ironically actually more useful than the info pages for this [17:17] cjwatson: its there but the entire CHS thingin the 'info' [17:17] yeah :-P [17:18] partman/alignment=cylinder is the equivalent of that for d-i [17:18] I think I mentioned that at UDS [17:18] cjwatson: you did, but I was trying to confirm parted itself actually wrote proper CHS geomtry [17:19] 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] so it's perhaps one part of it but is not as useful a test as it might seem [17:20] fair enougnh, although I still don't have a working SD card which is really irritating [17:24] 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] give me a way to reproduce it, and I can probably play one on TV ... [17:26] Jim Meyering is the usual guru though [17:26] you could post a detailed report to bug-parted@gnu.org [17:26] Well, maybe I should rephrase. What parted is doing MAY be valid, but is not what I need for OMAp3/4 bootloader [17:27] 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] parted, when doing 'parted -a cylinder', and generating one 70 MiB partition, gave me 1 heads, 11 sectors/track, 704046 cylinders [17:28] (my SD cad is 3965 MiB) [17:29] that sounds like a matter of misdetecting the hardware geometry [17:29] I would phrase it as a bug and see where that takes you [17:30] Thanks [17:33] might even be a kernel bug [18:15] ubiquity: cjwatson * r4742 trunk/debian/ (changelog ubiquity.install-any): Stop installing earth.jpg; it's 250KiB and we no longer use it. [19:29] 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] apt-setup: cjwatson * r216 ubuntu/ (22 files in 12 dirs): Add Release files for oneiric. [22:48] apt-setup: cjwatson * r217 ubuntu/debian/ (apt-mirror-setup.install changelog): [22:48] apt-setup: Actually install Release files for archive.canonical.com and [22:48] apt-setup: extras.ubuntu.com. [23:27] apt-setup: cjwatson * r218 ubuntu/ (52 files in 22 dirs): Remove Release files for previous releases. [23:34] apt-setup: cjwatson * r219 ubuntu/debian/changelog: releasing version 1:0.49ubuntu6