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Unidentified modifications to yaboot.conf [Re: patches to ybin]



Hi,

Le mercredi 28 juillet 2010 à 23:49 -0400, Rick Thomas a écrit :
> > The kernel package just uses the yaboot.conf that's already there.
> 
> Well, that can't be entirely true.  If I install Lenny on one of my  
> test machines then try to upgrade to Squeeze, I get a garbled  
> yaboot.conf and the machine refuses to boot until I do some surgery  
> with a rescue CD.  I don't know whether it's the kernel package or  
> something it drags in that is causing this.  Any help will be much  
> appreciated!!!

I also came to this conclusion : something is touching yaboot.conf in a
weird way. As Ben Hutchings told you in #587290, it might be
yabootconfig, which generates yaboot.conf, but i see no way (by
analyzing the code) it could add spaces around "root=" and "boot=". So,
this must be something else, that does it starting not so long ago as
#580455 dates from beginning of may (BTW, I think you should not try
filling so much bug reports about this; #589701, even if an installation
report, is _again_ about the same problem. That's 3 bug reports …).
Also, as yaboot hasn't been updated for ages, the modification mustn't
come from yaboot. So this is some very nasty thing done by we don't know
who. Hard to track.

So, if someone more knowledgeable on "recent" modifications about
boot/root parameters could help the PPC community, we'd be glad.

Regards,
benjamin


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