Re: status

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 09:28:32PM -0600, Lakin Wecker wrote:
> > yaboot-installer
> > 	Lots of changes, need success reports.
> 
> I just finished trying to use the beta4 and daily images[may-21/may-22] to 
> install debian on my powerbook 12". Yaboot fails miserably on all of them.  
> 
> I thought the sid may-22 images might fix the problem because they have 
> version 0.22 of yaboot-installer, but I was wrong.
> 
> It fails to detect the NewWorld Boot partition that is created from guided 
> partitioning as well as one created with mac-fdisk and it's 'b' command.
> 
> All of the above images also ran the entire install with a red background.  
> I'm not sure this is a bad thing as I've gotten quite used to it, and seeing 
> a red background for an error message doesn't raise my blood pressure like it 
> used to.

Are you really sure that you're using sid_d-i (note that 'daily' is now
a symlink to sarge_d-i)? For me, the red background was a symptom of a
buglet in bogl-bterm-udeb that has been fixed in sid.

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]