Bug#352914: yaboot-installer tries to search for apple partitions on ibm rs6k/pseries hardware
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 07:21:38PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 05:13:43PM +0200, =?UTF-8?Q? N=C3=B6lle,?= Christian wrote:
> > Colin Watson wrote:
> > > Judging from your description earlier in this bug, this is
> > > entirely unconnected to partman-prep or yaboot-installer; you say
> > > it's happening right at the start of the installer, long before
> > > partman starts.
> >
> > Yes, sorry for that, maybe I should have filed another bugreport for this one.
> >
> > > Could you clarify that when you boot using expert64, you don't
> > > even see the installer main menu, but that it just goes straight
> > > into the language selector without giving you any opportunity for
> > > interaction?
> >
> > Yes, that is the case. System is booting up fine, entering the installer and
> > autoselecting the first step in the d-i menu. And so forth, as described.
>
> Have you tried it on something else than apple hardware ?
>
> yaboot-installer also fails on ibm js21 blades and other power5 boxes.
Please let's deal with one bug at a time. Christian's latest problem is
right at the start of the installer and has nothing to do with
yaboot-installer. (It should probably be a separate bug, in fact, and
I'll clone it as soon as I have some vague idea of where to reassign it
to.)
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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