Bug#244539: firewire not supported

[Nick Lopez <i.am@the.glowingmonkey.org>]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 05:24:30PM +0200, JP Moins wrote:
> Using yesterday's build of the netinst CD gives me the following error 
> at the yaboot install step (last lines of syslog) :
> 
> Apr 21 15:09:02 (none) user.notice yaboot-installer: info: probed: 
> /dev/discs/disc0/part10:Mac OS X:MacOSX:macosx
> Apr 21 15:09:02 (none) user.notice yaboot-installer: info: probed: 
> /dev/discs/disc0/part12:Mac OS X:MacOSX1:macosx
> Apr 21 15:09:02 (none) user.notice yaboot-installer: info: probed: 
> /dev/discs/disc1/part4:Mac OS X:MacOSX2:macosx
> Apr 21 15:09:03 (none) user.info main-menu[252]: (process:10537): 
> ofpath: Driver: sbp2_0 is not supported
> Apr 21 15:09:03 (none) user.warn main-menu[252]: WARNING **: 
> Configuring 'yaboot-installer' failed with error code 1
> Apr 21 15:09:03 (none) user.warn main-menu[252]: WARNING **: Menu item 
> 'yaboot-installer' failed.

  Yeah, ofpath, thus yaboot, thus yaboot-installer, thus D-I as a whole
doesn't know how to guess OF paths for firewire drives, so it doesn't work. 
It's a big ugly path with a UUID embedded in it, but I'm not sure the
information is even available for ofpath to use in 2.4.  I had to manually
kludge a yaboot.conf onto my firewire drive, and make an initrd to wait for
the drive to be detected then smack the SCSI layer into realizing there is a
disk connected.

  It can probably be done better with a tiny hotplug rather than my while
(true) ; do echo "scsi add-single-device 0 0 0 0" > /proc/scsi/scsi; ...
kludge.

  It's an upstream problem that nobody has had the time & equipment to fix.

  - Nick Lopez
    spamtrap@glowingmonkey.org

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