Bug#241569: yaboot fails on Sarge 20040330 NetInst
reassign 241569 rootskel
tags 241569 pending
thanks
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 11:24:24PM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
> I'm trying to install using the latest and greatest netinst installer
> from the daily builds. I'm installing on an 800Mhz G3 iBook. Everything
> goes fairly smoothly during the install, although one has to ^C various
> things during the process to get back to the main installer menu. (I've
> got a few notes if anyone wants them.)
>
> I've installed 3 times and have experienced the same problem each time.
> Yaboot cannot see the vmlinux link to the installed kernel. My partition
> table is like this:
>
> #9 bootstrap
> #10 /boot
> #11 swap
> #12 /
>
> vmlinux is on 12, pointing to the powerpc image on 10. yaboot.conf seems
> fine, but when I tried to run ybin from /target I wasn't clever enough
> to work out all the paths etc.
I've updated yaboot-installer, version 0.0.21, to cope with kernel
symlinks in /boot. There still needs to be a change in rootskel to
actually set the symlink in /boot rather than /; I've checked this into
trunk, but haven't uploaded it yet.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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