Package: yaboot-installer Severity: wishlist
Kamion, as discussed on irc, i am filling here a bug report to add support yaboot on pegasos 2. This is not urgent, since first we need to convinve Ethan to let Warren include the amiga partition table patch, and second i need to release the fixed OF upgrade that enables support for it. Anyway, the info you asked are : 1) how to detect a pegasos 2 in yaboot-installer ? /proc/cpuinfo has the field : machine : CHRP Pegasos2 or machine : CHRP Pegasos Depending on the pegasos model. 2) What to do to install yaboot ? Well, this one is easy, as there is no magic to do. Just move the /usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot to /boot, and that's it. The OF will be set to autoboot this yaboot binary (we can use code similar to the nobootloader one to tell the user how to do this if needed), and yaboot will get its config file from /etc/yaboot.conf as usual. There is no need to run ybin at all, or to move it to a prep partition or anything such. 3) Inform the user of the OF variable setting as mentioned above. 4) ofpath needs some fixing. In particular there are two issues : 1) OF syntax may differ a little, should not, but may. I need to test this in details. Also not sure if yaboot can make use of devaliases. 2) pegasos partitions start at 0, not 1. not sure how apple or ibm handle those, but the yaboot documentation seems to start counting at 1. Ok, noted here for reference, and as said no urgency. I will probably contribute to this myself next week too. Especially point 3) and 4) which needs real hardware for testing. Friendly, Sven Luther -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-pegasos Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]