Package: yaboot-installer Version: generated yaboot.conf is broken on IBM POWER hardware ... Severity: important
When installing on IBM JS21 blades, as well as on the augsbourg quad-power5 machines and p505 boxes, the install failed on yaboot-installer. After investigation, three issues appeared : 1) There was a device= line, with nothing behind it, which yaboot failed to parse at boot time, and thus rejected the config file or entries. The device = line is not really necessary, since yaboot is able to recognize the device from the OF chosen nodes. Removing this line by hand worked just fine. 2) the magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot, and this is the one which caused yaboot-installer to fail. ybin doesn't support a magicboot line with a raw install, that is in a PReP boot partition, as is used on IBM POWER. Removing this line by hand eliminated that problem. 3) These machines use a virtual serial console, namely /dev/hvc* (hvc0 on the blade center, but hvc1 on the augsbourg virtual partition). yaboot-installer needs to add the correct console=hvc* into the append line, in order to get a console after the reboot. Friendly, Sven Luther -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-powerpc Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]