[Debootloaders-yaboot] Bug#589701: #589701 not reproducible

[Rick Thomas]

Synopsis:  I tried an install.  It failed.  But the 
/target/etc/yaboot.conf is "correct" in that it does not contain spaces 
in the wrong places or use /dev/disk/by-uuid to identify partitions.

The problem that caused the failure is that ofpath can't handle the lack 
of /proc/scsi/scsi and fails.

Joseph Jezak has a re-written ofpath that may solve this problem.

Bottom line: The version of yabootconfig used by the Debian Installer is 
not creating mangled yaboot.conf files.   The mangled yaboot.conf that I 
reported in bug report #580455 must be coming from somewhere else.

Any help you can give in tracking down the real source of the trouble 
will be much appreciated!

Rick

Benjamin Cama wrote:
> Hi Rick,
>
> I tried reproducing this bug, but couldn't manage to : a clean install
> from the Squeeze installer (netbooting the netinstall image from
> http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/main/installer-powerpc/current/images/powerpc/netboot/ ) did install Debian correctly on a PowerBook6,8.
>
> Furthermore, the yaboot.conf you brought shows no signs of UUID or LABEL
> used (as in the other bug you encountered #587290 and #580455) and looks
> correct. Could you verify this is the one you really get ?
>
> Regards,
> benjamin