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Re: #580455 yabootconfig does the correct thing, your yaboot.conf must be modified by something else

Benjamin Cama wrote:

Hi,

I just found by looking around that yabootconfig, the script used by the
yaboot package (very important distinction) to generate /etc/yaboot.conf
actually _knows_ how to handle LABEL and UUID; see
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debootloaders/trunk/yaboot/ybin/yabootconfig . Furthermore, the yaboot package didn't change in 4 years, so everything is "correct" in yaboot !

But, as we recently saw again on the debian-ppc ML (see
http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2010/09/msg00013.html ) _some_
script from _some other_ package does modify /etc/yaboot.conf ! And add
spaces (very wrong) and does not interpret labels/uuids. The only other
script I know that generates yaboot.conf is the postinst one in the
yaboot-installer udeb (from the debian-installer) but I don't see how it
could add spaces, looking at its code.

So, that's now 3 people including you that stumble upon this, but this
doesn't come from yaboot. So, could you please join the _full_ yaboot te
see if the program that generates it leaves some traces, and please tell
if you think you have any particular package installed that could affect
that. I Cc the list, too, in case someone could look at that.

Thanks,
benjamin


Hi Benjamin,
I just tried an installation using the latest daily sid_d-i netinst image[1]

It failed.  The last few lines of the syslog are:
Sep 19 06:48:58 50mounted-tests: debug: running /usr/lib/linux-boot-probes/mounted/40yaboot /dev/sda3 /dev/sda3 /var/lib/os-prober/mount ext3 
Sep 19 06:48:58 40yaboot: debug: parsing yaboot.conf
Sep 19 06:48:58 40yaboot: debug: parsing: ## yaboot.conf generated by debian-installer 
Sep 19 06:48:58 40yaboot: debug: parsing: ##
Sep 19 06:48:58 40yaboot: debug: parsing: ## run: "man yaboot.conf" for details. Do not make changes until you have!! Sep 19 06:48:58 40yaboot: debug: parsing: ## see also: /usr/share/doc/yaboot/examples for example configurations. 
Sep 19 06:48:58 40yaboot: debug: parsing: ##
Sep 19 06:48:58 40yaboot: debug: parsing: ## For a dual-boot menu, add one or more of: Sep 19 06:48:58 40yaboot: debug: parsing: ## bsd=/dev/hdaX, macos=/dev/hdaY, macosx=/dev/hdaZ 
Sep 19 06:48:58 40yaboot: debug: parsing:
Sep 19 06:48:58 40yaboot: debug: parsing:
Sep 19 06:48:58 40yaboot: debug: parsing: # boot = /dev/hdc2
Sep 19 06:48:58 40yaboot: debug: parsing: boot = "/dev/disk/by-label/bootstrap" 
Sep 19 06:48:58 40yaboot: debug: parsing:
Sep 19 06:48:58 40yaboot: debug: parsing: device=/pci@80000000/pci-bridge@d/pci-ata@1/@0/disk@0: 
Sep 19 06:48:58 40yaboot: debug: parsing: partition=3
Sep 19 06:48:58 40yaboot: debug: parsing:
Sep 19 06:48:58 40yaboot: debug: parsing: # root = /dev/hdc3
Sep 19 06:48:58 40yaboot: debug: parsing: root = "UUID=f988ecea-a347-4580-ab0f-56c4bda7c5cb" 
Sep 19 06:48:58 40yaboot: debug: parsing:
Sep 19 06:48:58 40yaboot: debug: parsing: timeout=50
Sep 19 06:48:58 40yaboot: debug: parsing: install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
Sep 19 06:48:58 40yaboot: debug: parsing: magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
Sep 19 06:48:58 40yaboot: debug: parsing: enablecdboot
Sep 19 06:48:58 40yaboot: debug: parsing:
Sep 19 06:48:58 40yaboot: debug: parsing: image=/boot/vmlinux
Sep 19 06:48:58 40yaboot: debug: parsing: label=Linux
Sep 19 06:48:58 40yaboot: debug: parsing: read-only
Sep 19 06:48:58 40yaboot: debug: parsing: initrd=/boot/initrd.img
Sep 19 06:48:58 40yaboot: debug: parsing:
Sep 19 06:48:58 40yaboot: debug: parsing: image=/boot/vmlinux.old
Sep 19 06:48:58 40yaboot: result: /dev/sda3:/dev/sda3:Linux:/boot/vmlinux:/boot/initrd.img:root=UUID ro Sep 19 06:48:58 yaboot-installer: info: linux-boot-probed: /dev/sda3:/dev/sda3:Linux:/boot/vmlinux:/boot/initrd.img:root=UUID ro 
Sep 19 06:48:58 40yaboot: debug: parsing: label=old
Sep 19 06:48:58 40yaboot: debug: parsing: read-only
Sep 19 06:48:58 40yaboot: debug: parsing: initrd=/boot/initrd.img.old
Sep 19 06:48:58 40yaboot: result: /dev/sda3:/dev/sda3:old:/boot/vmlinux.old:/boot/initrd.img.old:root=UUID ro Sep 19 06:48:58 50mounted-tests: debug: /usr/lib/linux-boot-probes/mounted/40yaboot succeeded Sep 19 06:48:58 linux-boot-prober: debug: linux detected by /usr/lib/linux-boot-probes/50mounted-tests Sep 19 06:48:58 yaboot-installer: info: linux-boot-probed: /dev/sda3:/dev/sda3:old:/boot/vmlinux.old:/boot/initrd.img.old:root=UUID:ro:::: Sep 19 06:48:59 yaboot-installer: info: ofpath returned nothing; leaving out device= line and praying Sep 19 06:48:59 yaboot-installer: mkofboot: Finding OpenFirmware device path to `/dev/sda2'... 
Sep 19 06:48:59 yaboot-installer: ofpath: /proc/scsi/scsi does not exist
Sep 19 06:48:59 yaboot-installer: ofpath: Make sure you compiled your kernel with CONFIG_SCSI_PROC_FS=y Sep 19 06:48:59 yaboot-installer: mkofboot: Unable to find OpenFirmware path for boot=/dev/sda2 Sep 19 06:48:59 yaboot-installer: mkofboot: Please add ofboot=<path> where <path> is the OpenFirmware path to /dev/sda2 to /etc/yaboot.conf Sep 19 06:48:59 yaboot-installer: error: mkofboot failed with exit status 1 Sep 19 06:49:56 main-menu[223]: (process:7376): ofpath: /proc/scsi/scsi does not exist Sep 19 06:49:56 main-menu[223]: (process:7376): ofpath: Make sure you compiled your kernel with CONFIG_SCSI_PROC_FS=y Sep 19 06:49:56 main-menu[223]: (process:7376): ofpath: /proc/scsi/scsi does not exist Sep 19 06:49:56 main-menu[223]: (process:7376): ofpath: Make sure you compiled your kernel with CONFIG_SCSI_PROC_FS=y Sep 19 06:49:56 main-menu[223]: (process:7376): ofpath: /proc/scsi/scsi does not exist Sep 19 06:49:56 main-menu[223]: (process:7376): ofpath: Make sure you compiled your kernel with CONFIG_SCSI_PROC_FS=y Sep 19 06:49:56 main-menu[223]: WARNING **: Configuring 'yaboot-installer' failed with error code 1 Sep 19 06:49:56 main-menu[223]: WARNING **: Menu item 'yaboot-installer' failed. Sep 19 06:50:08 grub-installer: GRUB not yet usable on PowerPC systems other than Pegasos/Efika 
Sep 19 06:50:25 main-menu[223]: INFO: Menu item 'save-logs' selected
I'll upload the full install logs (and /target/etc/fstab and /target/etc/yaboot.conf) to this bugreport #580455. But I won't fill up your mailbox by attaching it here. 

I suspect that Joseph's Jezak's re-write of ofpath will fix this...


Rick
[1] http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-testing-powerpc-businesscard.iso The boiler-plate declares "This build finished at Sun Sep 19 03:26:28 UTC 2010."
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