Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation report
I just tested this disc on a G5 Mac and got the following error:
Oct 7 19:28:15 os-prober:
Oct 7 19:28:15 os-prober: No volume groups found
Oct 7 19:28:15 os-prober:
Oct 7 19:28:15 os-prober: debug: running
/usr/lib/os-probes/50mounted-tests on /dev/sda1
Oct 7 19:28:15 50mounted-tests: debug: /dev/sda1 type not recognised; skipping
Oct 7 19:28:15 os-prober: debug: os detected by
/usr/lib/os-probes/50mounted-tests
Oct 7 19:28:15 os-prober: debug: running
/usr/lib/os-probes/50mounted-tests on /dev/sda2
Oct 7 19:28:15 50mounted-tests: debug: /dev/sda2 type not recognised; skipping
Oct 7 19:28:15 os-prober: debug: os detected by
/usr/lib/os-probes/50mounted-tests
Oct 7 19:28:15 os-prober: debug: running
/usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/10macos6-9 on mounted /dev/sda3
Oct 7 19:28:15 os-prober: debug: running
/usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/20macosx on mounted /dev/sda3
Oct 7 19:28:15 macosx-prober: debug: /dev/sda3 is not an HFS+
partition: exiting
Oct 7 19:28:15 os-prober: debug: running
/usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/40lsb on mounted /dev/sda3
Oct 7 19:28:15 os-prober: debug: running
/usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/90linux-distro on mounted /dev/sda3
Oct 7 19:28:15 os-prober: debug: running
/usr/lib/os-probes/50mounted-tests on /dev/sda4
Oct 7 19:28:15 50mounted-tests: debug: /dev/sda4 is a swap partition; skipping
Oct 7 19:28:15 os-prober: debug: os detected by
/usr/lib/os-probes/50mounted-tests
Oct 7 19:28:15 yaboot-installer: info: ofpath returned nothing;
leaving out device= line and praying
Oct 7 19:28:15 kernel: [ 718.054292] ioctl32(nvsetenv:10901):
Unknown cmd fd(7) cmd(20007043){t:'p';sz:0} arg(00000009) on
/dev/nvram
Oct 7 19:28:15 yaboot-installer: mkofboot: Finding OpenFirmware
device path to `/dev/sda2'...
Oct 7 19:28:15 yaboot-installer: ofpath: /proc/scsi/scsi does not exist
Oct 7 19:28:15 yaboot-installer: ofpath: Make sure you compiled your
kernel with CONFIG_SCSI_PROC_FS=y
Oct 7 19:28:15 yaboot-installer: mkofboot: Unable to find
OpenFirmware path for boot=/dev/sda2
Oct 7 19:28:15 yaboot-installer: mkofboot: Please add ofboot=<path>
where <path> is the OpenFirmware path to /dev/sda2 to /etc/yaboot.conf
Oct 7 19:28:15 yaboot-installer: error: mkofboot failed with exit status 1
with the following yaboot.conf:
boot=/dev/sda2
partition=3
root=/dev/sda3
timeout=50
install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
enablecdboot
image=/boot/vmlinux
label=Linux
read-only
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
image=/boot/vmlinux.old
label=old
read-only
initrd=/boot/initrd.img.old
and this for a partition table:
# type name length base
( size ) system
/dev/sda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1
( 31.5k) Partition map
/dev/sda2 Apple_Bootstrap untitled 1954 @ 64
(977.0k) NewWorld bootblock
/dev/sda3 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled 300830079 @ 2018
(143.4G) Linux native
/dev/sda4 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 11749710 @
300832097 ( 5.6G) Linux swap
/dev/sda5 Apple_Free Extra 1 @
312581807 ( 0.5k) Free space
Block size=512, Number of Blocks=312581808
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
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