| bpmedley | rrq : I did a legacy bios test and a efi64 bios test with 20210809_amd64 iso. I did use unattended preseed installs, so I had to modify the grub.cfg and menu.cfg a bit. However, those .cfg are the only changes I made. I did get successful installs!! | 03:15 |
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| bpmedley | When you say multi-boot are you referencing Windows 10 and Linux on the same computer/VM? | 03:16 |
| rrq | yes, or could be linux or bsd; an additional install on partition(s) beside another working other .. still working :) | 03:30 |
| rrq | could also be same disk or separate disks | 03:31 |
| bpmedley | Using Linux/BSD makes sense. Also, we should probably agree on VM creation options and preseed options for a test suite. | 03:32 |
| bpmedley | My VM has these options. BIOS: Legacy and EFI64; HDD: ide, scsi, sata, nvme (subtypes buslogic, lso-spi, lsi-sas); TPM: on/off/2.0/crb. | 03:34 |
| bpmedley | For preseed, I assume we'll want to test multiple scenarios for storage setup, is that correct? For example, all files on one partition; separate home; separate home, var, and tmp; custom lvm; and raid setup(s). With the previous with and without encrypted disk. Does that sound correct? | 03:39 |
| rrq | yes sounds very good | 03:48 |
| bpmedley | Ok, cool. I don't have a lot of time, but I will try and make progress and create a test suite over the next few days/couple weeks.. | 03:50 |
| rrq | great... maybe there is someone with wood-fired bare metal as well; would be good give the i386 install(s) a bashing as well | 04:03 |
| adhoc | bulding on i386 would take a looooooooooooong time | 04:11 |
| adhoc | I/O on actualy i386's is much much slower than modern systems | 04:17 |
| adhoc | I wonder if modern linux kernels even run on i386's ... ? | 04:24 |
| rrq | yeah "i386" is just the name, needs to be 686 CPU at least afaik | 04:30 |
| adhoc | ah | 04:30 |
| adhoc | I ahve a pair of P133s on a dual socket Tomcat Tyan board collecting dust in the back room... | 04:31 |
| adhoc | what does 686 mean these days ? | 04:31 |
| rrq | good question; the iso build host is a "QEMU Virtual CPU version 2.5+" | 04:34 |
| onefang | I have two i486 computers. I do embedded work sometimes, they belong to a client. I build my own Linux for them, in a VM. | 04:34 |
| adhoc | heh | 04:34 |
| onefang | He's happy for me to abuse, er I mean use them for testing stuff. | 04:35 |
| rrq | the quest here is to test/verify the installer iso(s) | 04:36 |
| fsmithred | i686 = Pentium Pro or newer | 04:43 |
| fsmithred | but you can install 32-bit on a 64-bit computer | 04:44 |
| fsmithred | use the 686-pae kernel for more than 2G RAM | 04:44 |
| bpmedley | Do the encrypted/unencrypted storage tests need repeating for both legacy and efi64? | 05:29 |
| adhoc | PPro ... sure I have some of those too | 05:33 |
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