Re: yaboot-installer needs additional files
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 11:23:42AM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> Hi
>
> Additionaly to the problems I just reporte via the BTS there is another
> problem in yaboot-installer. It calls yabootconfig and ybin which in
> turn needs several executables for correct operation. Namely these files
> are needed in the installer root:
> from yaboot: /usr/sbin/ofpath, /usr/sbin/mkofboot, /usr/lib/yaboot
> from hfsutils: /usr/bin/hmount, /usr/bin/humount, /usr/bin/hcopy,
> /usr/bin/hattrib, /usr/bin/hformat
> from debianutils: /bin/mktemp
> from powerpc-utils: /sbin/nvsetenv
>
> I see 3 possible solutions:
>
> 1. In yaboot-installer's postinst make symlinks to these files from the
> installer disk to the files in /target (they are all there). Rather
> hackish solution, but it works, I tested it.
> 2. call yabootconfig and ybin in a chroot environment. to make this work
> we need to also mount /proc inside the chroot (needed by yabootconfig
> and ybin).
yabootconfig has a -t switch which will make it operate as if in a chroot.
Strangely, ybin does not; but yabootconfig runs mkofboot which does the
same thing.
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