Re: Search for patched yaboot testers ...

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas55@pobox.com>]

I was going to wait until I could try it with a "normal" image.  I 
assume that this means I would not have encountered this problem then.

So should I submit a bug report against "monolithic", or is it a "known 
problem -- bug report would be redundant"?

Rick

On Nov 15, 2004, at 11:17 AM, Colin Watson wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 02:44:59PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 04:54:46PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
> > > Then, for some reason I don't understand, it tried to install the
> > > "quik" bootloader.  This is definitely a NewWorld machine, so it 
> > > should
> > > have known better -- I would think!  In any case, that got an error,
> > > and it offered to let me install yaboot instead, which I did.
> >
> > This is definitively a bug, could you fill a bug report about this ? 
> > i guess
> > quil-installer or debian-installer are the packages to report a bug 
> > against.
>
> monolithic is like that; it includes both quik-installer and
> yaboot-installer, bypassing the XB-Subarchitecture: control field
> checks. It's not a problem for normal images.
>
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> Colin Watson                                       
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