Re: please take a look at Debian Bug#589701: installation-reports: Install yaboot on a hard disk - Failed to install boot loader

[nello martuscielli <ppc.addon@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> wrote:
> At this point, Debian squeeze is un-installable on NewWorld PowerPC Macs due
> to yaboot's failure to adapt to the use of UUID= and LABEL= format in
> /etc/fstab.
>
>        http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=589701
>
> I have provided a partial fix in Debian bug#580455 but I have not gotten any
> feedback from the developers.
>
> Rick
>
>

i think isn't a good practice your cross posting because not every
ppc/yaboot user is a debian user too.
You should need to use at last yaboot-1.3.15rc (released 17/02/2009)
that supports a longer append string.


regards,
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Power Mac G4 AGP 450MHz - CRUX PPC (32bit)/DebianPPC