[Debootloaders-yaboot] Bug#603894: yaboot: mkofboot needs updating to correctly recognize PowerStation CPUs

Nish Aravamudan nish.aravamudan at gmail.com
Tue Aug 23 17:36:10 UTC 2011


Package: yaboot
Version: 1.3.13a-1squeeze1
Severity: normal


mkofboot currently contains the following lines:

if (cat /proc/cpuinfo 2> /dev/null | grep ^machine | grep -q 'CHRP IBM'); then
   fstype=raw
else
   fstype=hfs

I believe the conditional check needs to be extended to also recognize the
PPC970MP processors in the PowerStation. With the code as-is, the installer
consistently fails to successfully reboot after installation. By commenting
out the conditional altogether and forcing fstype=raw, I was able to
succesfully reboot the machine after installation.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-powerpc64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages yaboot depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-10  Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib

Versions of packages yaboot recommends:
pn  hfsutils                      <none>     (no description available)
ii  powerpc-utils                 1.1.3-24   Various utilities for Linux/PowerP

yaboot suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information





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