Re: Squeeze

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com>]

Hi again,

If you're still interested, I can try it out on a couple of other  
machines, too.

Thanks!
Rick

PS -- I noticed that my bug reports on yaboot not properly handling  
UUID and LABEL stuff in fstab and yaboot.conf have been closed.

Does this mean that we can expect to see these fixes in an "official"  
daily image soon?  How soon?


On Dec 9, 2010, at 2:45 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:

> I just tried it on my G4 PowerMac.  It worked about the same as for  
> Milan.
>
> I don't have any Darwin or MacOS partitions, but my other Debian  
> partition got two entries, both called "Debian" (one for the main  
> vmlinux and the other for the vmlinux.old)
>
> Let me know if you want any details...
>
> Rick
>
>
> On Dec 6, 2010, at 8:14 AM, Risto Suominen wrote:
>
> > 2010/12/5, Milan Kupcevic <milan@physics.harvard.edu>:
> > > Thank you for feedback. I just added support for your controller to
> > > ofpath. Please find new yaboot package and new install cd at [1].
> > >
> > > Milan
> > >
> > >
> > > [1] http://www.quarkline.net/debian/bug/yaboot/
> > Thank you, Milan. Very good, indeed. Now the installation finishes
> > without complaints, and the system boots.
> >
> > But not perfect. Finding other bootable partitions. It does not find
> > my macos partition, nor my macosx partition, and names my darwin
> > partition as macosx partition. The two entries for my Ubuntu  
> > partition
> > receive same label.
> >
> > I'll attach the relevant parts of installation log. This may be  
> > beyond
> > the scope of this patch, but anyway...
> >
> > Actually, this finding of other bootable systems is more than I would
> > have hoped for of Debian. But it's a good feature.
> >
> > Risto
> > <yaboot.log>