Bug#587290: initramfs-tools: malformed yaboot.conf created when alternate partitions use UUID= in fstab

2010-06-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
Please send the files /etc/fstab, /etc/yaboot.conf.old and /etc/yaboot.conf from your system. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#587290: initramfs-tools: malformed yaboot.conf created when alternate partitions use UUID= in fstab

2010-06-27 Thread Rick Thomas
On 06/27/10 08:19, Ben Hutchings wrote: Please send the files /etc/fstab, /etc/yaboot.conf.old and /etc/yaboot.conf from your system. Ben. OK. Here they are: /etc/yaboot.conf from the hda6 partition (see note [1]) ## yaboot.conf generated by debian-installer ## ## run: man yaboot.conf

Bug#587290: initramfs-tools: malformed yaboot.conf created when alternate partitions use UUID= in fstab

2010-06-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
reassign 587290 yaboot thanks On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 15:12 -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: On 06/27/10 08:19, Ben Hutchings wrote: Please send the files /etc/fstab, /etc/yaboot.conf.old and /etc/yaboot.conf from your system. [...] [1] the hda6 partition is using my modified /usr/sbin/ybin that I

Bug#587290: initramfs-tools: malformed yaboot.conf created when alternate partitions use UUID= in fstab

2010-06-26 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.97 Severity: important The generated /etc/yaboot.conf contains lines append=root=UUID ro for partitions that have their /etc/fstab root line using UUID=... . This makes it impossible to boot into those partitions: the boot progresses to the point