Community ROSA Marathon 2012 ISOs with kernel LTS 3.2.16

[NicCo]

La vie en ROSA - ROSA Marathon 2012, Community ISOs with Kernel lts 3.2.16



MIB Blog (for More Info)
http://mib.pianetalinux.org/blog/news/mib-news/1204-rosa-marathon-2012-with-mib-kernel-3216

Community ROSA Marathon 2012 ISOs with Kernel 3.2



from Rosa Blog
http://www.rosalab.com/blogs/rosa-marat ... icially-pr


MIB hosting ROSA 2012 LTS ISOs with Kernel 3.2.16

Mirror 0 > 64bit > http://pianetalinux.org/m0/rosa2012lts/iso/test/279/
Mirror 0 > 32bit > http://pianetalinux.org/m0/rosa2012lts/iso/test/275/

Mirror 1 > 64bit > http://pianetalinux.org/m1/rosa2012lts/iso/test/279/
Mirror 1 > 32bit > http://pianetalinux.org/m1/rosa2012lts/iso/test/275/

Mirror 2 > 64bit > http://pianetalinux.org/m2/rosa2012lts/iso/test/279/
Mirror 2 > 32bit > http://pianetalinux.org/m2/rosa2012lts/iso/test/275/


Some users reported better install success from UBS instead of DVD
To copy ISOs on USB flash stick you can use unetbootin or simply the commands below

ROSA 2012 x64

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dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=8M ; dd if=/your_path/ROSA.2012.MARATHON.EE.x86_64.iso of=/dev/sdX ; sync

ROSA 2012 x32

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dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=8M ; dd if=/your_path/ROSA.2012.MARATHON.EE.i586.iso of=/dev/sdX ; sync

Where X in sdX is your flash USB device name, that you can discover using the command

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df -h

We suggest to insert the USB device only in a USB2 port, in USB3 port often the boot stops with a dracut error


Useful ROSA Links

ROSA Linux Bugzilla: http://bugs.rosalinux.ru/

Have fun

[rolf]

I did try the 64-bit iso from http://pianetalinux.org/m2/rosa2012lts/iso/test/275/
The iso was verified against the md5sum and burn was verified by k3b.
However, it gives me the same crash to reboot as the original Rosa 2012LTS x86_64
Seems it must be some hardware conflict with the installer.
Thanks.

[andreas]

In my case it's the grub installer that fails, not addressing the right disks/ partitions in menu.lst. I had to manually edit that file in live mode to address the problem. on my system there is an ssd + a raid5 controller with it's capacity splitted in three logical disks.

A problem that I noticed after the installation is that there is no possibility to create links to folders and applications on the desktop from the contextual menu. Is it a general problem? (if thereś no workaround I will seriously consider to downgrade to mandriva 2010.2: it's too tricky the workaround i found and this is in addition to the gscan2pdf bug that in 2011 has never been solved and who's workaround is not less tricky)

[rolf]

A problem that I noticed after the installation is that there is no possibility to create links to folders and applications on the desktop from the contextual menu. Is it a general problem?

This, also, concerns me. I am trying to be not characteristically inflexible, to learn the new KDE desktop paradigms, but I will prefer to have the ability, that seems to be slipping away more and more, release by release, to simply add icons and shortcuts for menu items or my own little script or whatever to the desktop, to have control to serve my usage choices.

[NicCo]

Often some laptops could have some problems during install

In these cases, i try the following steps:
- Insert DVD or usb stick with the distro to install
- Install System
- press [Tab]
- go to the end of line, after the word "quiet",
- leave a space pressing the [Space Bar] key
- add these options to the end of the kernel grub line

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pci=noacpi noapic nolapic

press [Enter], and start to install


bye, NicCo

[rolf]

I'm running a mid-tower PC desktop machine, not laptop, but tried the kernel switches strategy. For my situation, there is no difference, install crashes back to reboot after the "Please wait" window.

[rolf]

I made a bug report for my issues, http://bugs.rosalinux.ru/show_bug.cgi?id=275

[NicCo]

A problem that I noticed after the installation is that there is no possibility to create links to folders and applications on the desktop from the contextual menu. Is it a general problem? (if thereś no workaround I will seriously consider to downgrade to mandriva 2010.2: it's too tricky the workaround i found and this is in addition to the gscan2pdf bug that in 2011 has never been solved and who's workaround is not less tricky)

This, also, concerns me. I am trying to be not characteristically inflexible, to learn the new KDE desktop paradigms, but I will prefer to have the ability, that seems to be slipping away more and more, release by release, to simply add icons and shortcuts for menu items or my own little script or whatever to the desktop, to have control to serve my usage choices.

There is no problem in ROSA about all that, it's only a different preconfigured behaviour

You can change the default behaviour of ROSA 2012LTS, following these simple steps

Go in the upper right of screen

Click on Activity
Create Acrtivity > Models > Desktop Icons

Enable Desktop Icons

X Exit

Now you could be again place Icons, new Folders and Text files on the Desktop


bye, NicCo

[rolf]

Thanks for the KDE configuration instructions.

It seems all my problems with disk/partitions not appearing is due to dracut being used to mkinitrd. I used /sbin/mkinitrd-mkinitrd to generate this for kernel 3.2.16-desktop-1rosa.lts and all my disks are visible when I boot that combination.

[NicCo]

It seems all my problems with disk/partitions not appearing is due to dracut being used to mkinitrd. I used /sbin/mkinitrd-mkinitrd to generate this for kernel 3.2.16-desktop-1rosa.lts and all my disks are visible when I boot that combination.

I'm happy that you finally found the solution fo install properly the kernel
We can suggest you the new kernel 3.2.18, wich contain important fixes

We all noticed since the start with 2011 beta cycle, that some new replaced core parts like dracut were still not reliable, and perhaps their adoption was really premature

dracut, plymouth, systemd, grub2, they need growing, are like newborns, we hope they'll be in growing fast

bye, NicCo

[rolf]

For the record

2012/5/27 Moreno <[hidden email]>:

>> http://bugs.rosalinux.ru/show_bug.cgi?id=275
>> Rolf
>
> The culprit is bootsplash, remove it and the next kernel will be
> installed without problems.

then just add conflicts/obsoletes to the kernel/initscripts rpm to fix this !!!
This issue last since at least 1 month !!!

So, I did urpme bootsplash and

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# urpmi -v http://mib.pianetalinux.org/MIB/rosa2012lts/64/projects/kernels/3.2.18/kernel-doc-3.2.18-1-rosa.lts2012.0.noarch.rpm http://mib.pianetalinux.org/MIB/rosa2012lts/64/projects/kernels/3.2.18/kernel-nrj-desktop-3.2.18-1rosa.lts-1-1-rosa.lts2012.0.x86_64.rpm http://mib.pianetalinux.org/MIB/rosa2012lts/64/projects/kernels/3.2.18/kernel-nrj-desktop-devel-3.2.18-1rosa.lts-1-1-rosa.lts2012.0.x86_64.rpm

but, for my case, removing bootsplash does not resolve the issue of disappeared controller. Using mkinitrd-mkinitrd does provide for a boot with all disks present.

-rw------- 1 root root 4763797 May 27 07:58 initrd-initrd-3.2.18-nrj-desktop-1rosa.lts.img

much smaller than the file from the kernel install scripts:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23605364 May 27 07:40 initrd-3.2.18-nrj-desktop-1rosa.lts.img

Not so problematic, as I've been dealing with this for years, but grub device for kernel and root commands got written as (hd2,4), instead of what works, (hd1,4)

This got written for every grub rosa entry, not just the new one, which I don't recall being what normally happens, fwiw.

Thanks.

[NicCo]

Today, we tested some new ROSA 2012 MARATHON ISOs:
Equipped by new lts Kernel 3.2.18 with new and compatible Broadcom wifi drivers
Inside you will find KDE 4.8.3 and all updates like Pulse 2.0, Drakxnet, Firefox, ecc.

Everything seems work fine apart Broadcom, it build fine for kernel 3.2 but
Unable to find network interface for selected device (using wl driver)
does not connect...

After some search, we found that it tries using bcma module instead of brcmsmac
this driver (bcma) is to be put in blacklist
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Br ... rcmsmac.29

Tomorrow I'll be able to test some other fixed ISOs, if my test will be positive with broadcom,
then these ISOs will be released and published

To test broadcom wifi, Im using HP Pavillon DV6 with I5 and Broadcom BCM 4313


Bye, NicCo