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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: yaboot-installer: generated yaboot.conf is broken on IBM POWER hardware ...
- From: Sven Luther <luther@debian.org>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:49:50 +0200
- Message-id: <E1FurTP-0006Or-Fa@pegasos>
Package: yaboot-installer
Version: generated yaboot.conf is broken on IBM POWER hardware ...
Severity: important
When installing on IBM JS21 blades, as well as on the augsbourg quad-power5
machines and p505 boxes, the install failed on yaboot-installer.
After investigation, three issues appeared :
1) There was a device= line, with nothing behind it, which yaboot failed to
parse at boot time, and thus rejected the config file or entries. The device =
line is not really necessary, since yaboot is able to recognize the device
from the OF chosen nodes. Removing this line by hand worked just fine.
2) the magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot, and this is the one which caused
yaboot-installer to fail. ybin doesn't support a magicboot line with a raw
install, that is in a PReP boot partition, as is used on IBM POWER. Removing
this line by hand eliminated that problem.
3) These machines use a virtual serial console, namely /dev/hvc* (hvc0 on the
blade center, but hvc1 on the augsbourg virtual partition). yaboot-installer
needs to add the correct console=hvc* into the append line, in order to get a
console after the reboot.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-powerpc
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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Source: yaboot-installer
Source-Version: 1.1.7
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
yaboot-installer, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
yaboot-installer_1.1.7.dsc
to pool/main/y/yaboot-installer/yaboot-installer_1.1.7.dsc
yaboot-installer_1.1.7.tar.gz
to pool/main/y/yaboot-installer/yaboot-installer_1.1.7.tar.gz
yaboot-installer_1.1.7_powerpc.udeb
to pool/main/y/yaboot-installer/yaboot-installer_1.1.7_powerpc.udeb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 377098@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> (supplier of updated yaboot-installer package)
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Format: 1.7
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 18:22:08 +0100
Source: yaboot-installer
Binary: yaboot-installer
Architecture: source powerpc
Version: 1.1.7
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Description:
yaboot-installer - Install yaboot on a hard disk (udeb)
Closes: 375505 377098
Changes:
yaboot-installer (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
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* Update messages about the syslog to refer to virtual console 4, not 3.
* Only write magicboot= line on NewWorld PowerMacs (closes: #375505).
* If ofpath returns nothing, try leaving out the device= line in the hope
that yaboot will figure it out (it's better than writing an unparseable
configuration file; see #375505).
* Write appropriate console=hvc* into append= line if using an HVC virtual
serial console (closes: #377098).
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