Hello, As many are painfully aware ofpath in current yaboot does not function correctly under 2.6 systems, worse case it gives out bogus paths therefore causing the system to fail to boot. I have preliminary changes in current development version of yaboot which fixes ofpath to support 2.6.4 and above kernels. I need everyone with 2.6.4 or newer systems to test this version of ofpath and verify that it produces correct OpenFirmware paths to your devices (compare with ofpath output from a recent 2.4 kernel (2.4.23 or newer)) Prerequisites: * You must have 2.6.4 or newer, previous versions lack necessary sysfs information. * You must have sysfs mounted (normally on /sys, but ofpath should be able to detect where its mounted). * You must still have /proc/ide so if this becomes a configurable option like /proc/scsi you must have it enabled (/proc/scsi is also required for machines with SATA drives). The easiest way to test the new ofpath is download the current version from http://penguinppc.org/~eb/files/ofpath and install it manually: as root enter: which ofpath this will return the path of the active ofpath program, probably /usr/sbin/ofpath move it to safe place: mv `which ofpath` /root install the new version (put it in the same place as the old one was, see step 1): install -m 755 /home/youruser/ofpath /usr/sbin/ofpath run ofpath on all your disk devices and ensure its output is correct. then comment out any ofboot= lines in /etc/yaboot.conf and change your macos* entries back to /dev/ nodes, run ybin and ensure the bootloader functions correctly. MOST IMPORTANTLY: * REPORT SUCCESS *AND* FAILURE * I want to know what kind of machine you have, and that ofpath worked correctly, I will release yaboot 1.3.12 once I have enough success reports for enough differing machines, very new machines are most important, as they are the ones which old ofpath failed on. Thanks in advance, and thanks to Nick Lopez for granting me local shell access to his machine so I could get this done. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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