Bug#246841: qualified success on iBook G4

[Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg>]

I hope that finaly I understand how newworld boots.  :-) I suppose
that in order yaboot to be able to use a partition, the partition has
to meet two requirements:

1. Its bootable flag should be set.
2. Its type in the partition table should be hfs

I didn't know that 2. is necessary and I supposed that an existing hfs
file system is.

On  4.V.2004 at 12:17 (+0100) Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 01:10:27PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> > On  3.V.2004 at 22:59 (+0300) Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> > > Yes, you are right.  The script partman-newworld/valid_filesystems
> > > should return hfs if and only if the property=newworld.
> 
> I think that should be "should return newworld", as
> parted_names/newworld will convert that to the right name.
> (Alternatively, parted_names/newworld could be renamed to
> parted_names/hfs.)

It should be as you say.  The script is valid_filesystems/newworld, it
returns newworld and parted_names/newworld translates this to hfs for
parted.

You should remove from the templates file partman/filesystem_short/hfs
and partman/filesystem_long/hfs and add
partman/filesystem_short/newworld and partman/filesystem_long/newworld.
This will make the script update.d/newworld_visuals unnecessary and it
should be removed.  (The scripts in update.d are the slowest thing of
partman.)

Anton Zinoviev