Bug#515249: marked as done (installation-reports: Various issues on IBM Power5 (lvm, multipath, yaboot.conf))
Hello Holger!
Closing the bug report in this case is okay, but the actual reason why
this can be closed is that I have switched the powerpc and ppc64 ports
over from Yaboot to GRUB meaning that Yaboot-specific installation issues
should no longer be relevant.
Thanks,
Adrian
On 5/17/20 2:15 PM, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> Base System Installation Checklist:
> * Although the URL above is for the SID installer, when the
> install was complete, I noticed that LENNY had been installed.
> I noticed this by looking at the /etc/apt/sources.list file.
>
> Other issues that I was not particularly happy with were:
>
> 1.
> Selecting guided LVM allowed a the root filesystem to be
> placed in a logical volume (which I wanted), but then the
> yaboot.conf file was still writted to /etc/yaboot.conf.
> I had to manually rescue the system after the install and
> move /etc/yaboot.conf to /boot/etc/yaboot.conf. In my view
> LVM is going to be the way forward and this configuration
> file should not been located on the root filesystem. I
> hope everyone is aware of this issue and has looked at
> keeping files required to boot the system in /boot
>
> 2.
> After fixing the location of the yaboot.conf file, the
> system refused to boot. It was trying to boot the label
> "old" which was invalid because the kernel has not yet
> been upgraded. I therefore had to add the following to
> the yaboot.conf before the correct default entry would
> boot:
>
> defaultos=Linux
>
>
> 3.
> I also had issues with multipath root and LVM:
>
> 3.1
> I had to add multipath to the lvm2 PREREQ's in order
> for multipath to be started before LVM.
>
> 3.2
> Debian installer was called with:
>
> disk-detect/multipath/enable=true
>
> However, once the install had completed, the lvm.conf
> was not configured to filter out the underlying SCSI
> devices. I had to add the following filter:
>
> filter = [ "r/disk/", "r/sd.*/", "a/.*/" ]
>
>
> After rebuilding the initramfs (above two changes
> commited), it all worked quite nicely ;)
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