Re: Debian PowerPc installer initramfs-tools generates malformed yaboot.conf created when alternate partitions use UUID= in fstab

2010-07-14 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Die, 2010-07-13 at 21:54 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: On 06/28/2010 02:42 PM, Rogério Brito wrote: We could, perhaps, offer two boot loaders for NewWorld ppc machines in Debian and phase out yaboot once we know that GRUB2 works fine. (That still leaves those users of miboot and quik

Re: Debian PowerPc installer initramfs-tools generates malformed yaboot.conf created when alternate partitions use UUID= in fstab

2010-07-14 Thread Rick Thomas
I'm willing to give it a try on some of my test machines. How do I go about installing/testing Grub2 ? Thanks! Rick On Jul 13, 2010, at 8:54 PM, Rogério Brito wrote: Also, it would be very nice if we had reports from people that tried to use GRUB2 on powerpc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Debian PowerPc installer initramfs-tools generates malformed yaboot.conf created when alternate partitions use UUID= in fstab

2010-07-14 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi there, Rick. (I am including the pkg-grub-devel list here, as it may be interesting to them). On Jul 14 2010, Rick Thomas wrote: I'm willing to give it a try on some of my test machines. How do I go about installing/testing Grub2 ? I wrote a summary of what I did some time ago:

Re: Debian PowerPc installer initramfs-tools generates malformed yaboot.conf created when alternate partitions use UUID= in fstab

2010-07-13 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi. Just a quick status update on this (I'm catching up on e-mail). On 06/28/2010 02:42 PM, Rogério Brito wrote: We could, perhaps, offer two boot loaders for NewWorld ppc machines in Debian and phase out yaboot once we know that GRUB2 works fine. (That still leaves those users of miboot and

Bug#572605: Debian PowerPc installer initramfs-tools generates malformed yaboot.conf created when alternate partitions use UUID= in fstab

2010-06-30 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 30, 2010, at 5:39 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 19:00 +0200, Benjamin Cama wrote: Le lundi 28 juin 2010 à 12:13 +0200, Michel Dänzer a écrit : On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 01:21 +0200, Benjamin Cama wrote: I wanted to help for a problem with the buildd but Frans Pop told

Re: Debian PowerPc installer initramfs-tools generates malformed yaboot.conf created when alternate partitions use UUID= in fstab

2010-06-28 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, there. Just a quick status update. I am including debian-boot here. If any mailing list should be dropped, just say so. On 06/27/2010 10:01 PM, Rogério Brito wrote: On Jun 28 2010, Benjamin Cama wrote: - maintenance of yaboot has always been flacky in the sense that maintainers seem to