Bug#412723: yaboot-installer: yaboot sets wrong partition number in LVM/RAID situations.
Package: yaboot-installer
Version: 1.1.9
Severity: critical
Tags: d-i
Justification: breaks the whole system
When doing an LVM over RAID install on an apple XServe, we have three
partitions : sd[ab]2 -> the yaboot partition, sd[ab]3 -> /boot and sd[ab]4 the
LVM partition, which holds the root.
But / is on a LVM device, and /boot on a RAID1 device, which yaboot knows how
to read, since a RAID1 partition will be seen as a normal partition
individually.
The problem is due to the fact that our /boot is in /dev/md0, and that we want
yaboot to look at the partitions containing this RAID1 partition, namely
/dev/sd[ab]3.
This leaves the system unbootable on a reboot, thus the severity of this bug
report.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-powerpc
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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