Bug#243669: yaboot-installer: yaboot asks for Apple_bootstrap partition even on non pmac hardware.

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

clone 243669 -1
reassign -1 libdebian-installer
retitle -1 libdebian-installer: subarch check incorrectly matches prefix of subarch
thanks

On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 10:43:21AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> Package: yaboot-installer
> Version: 0.0.15
> Severity: important
> Tags: d-i
> 
> Hello,
> 
> yaboot-installer does again appear on chrp boxes, which is ok, but
> aborts because it is asking for a Apple_Bootstrap partition. On
> chrp-rs6k, a PReP partition is needed,

This needs additional parted support to work properly, I think. If I
create a PReP partition on an msdos disklabel using fdisk, parted
displays the partition type as blank.

> and on chrp-pegasos, no special partition at all is needed, and yaboot
> doesn't work anyway.
> 
> A solution to this problem would be to :
> 
>   1) make sure we propose yaboot-installer on newworld and non-pegasos
>   chrp only.

This is a bug in libdebian-installer. It's only supposed to pass the
subarchitecture check on chrp, not chrp_pegasos too.

>   2) do the Apple_bootstrap check on newworld pmac hardware only.

This should be fixed in yaboot-installer, yes.

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]