Bug#118276: marked as done (boot-floppies: Changes involving quik in woody b-f should be backported to potato)
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Subject: boot-floppies: Changes involving quik in woody b-f should be backported to potato
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Package: boot-floppies
Version: 2.2.23
Severity: important
I had occasion to install using the potato 2.2.23 version of boot-floppies
on an oldworld. The quik 'Make Hard Disk Bootable' in that version is
unusable. I ended up booting the 3.0.16 installer just to use its make Hard
Disk Bootable menu item, and it worked fine.
So if it hasn't already been done, I think that item should be backported.
It makes the difference between a successful oldworld install and a
disappointing failure.
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Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 19:57:53 -0700
From: Chris Tillman <tillman@azstarnet.com>
To: 118276-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#118276: boot-floppies: Changes involving quik in woody b-f should be backported to potato
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On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 10:42:52PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 10:51:17AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> > Package: boot-floppies
> > Version: 2.2.23
> > Severity: important
> >
> > I had occasion to install using the potato 2.2.23 version of boot-floppies
> > on an oldworld. The quik 'Make Hard Disk Bootable' in that version is
> > unusable. I ended up booting the 3.0.16 installer just to use its make Hard
> > Disk Bootable menu item, and it worked fine.
> >
> > So if it hasn't already been done, I think that item should be backported.
> > It makes the difference between a successful oldworld install and a
> > disappointing failure.
>
> i fixed the problem where the quik.conf that was generated was broken
> (pointing image= at a symlink). but i have not and will not backport
> the nvram changing code, the ofpath in potato is far too broken, and
> drow has made it abundently clear that backporting a newer yaboot to
> potato is not going to happen (i seriously doubt the release manager
> would allow it anyway).
>
> i also fixed the potato make bootable step to refuse to run on
> newworlds.
>
> beyond these changes thats all thats going to change on potato
> boot-floppies.
It's already been done. Thanks...
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