[Debootloaders-yaboot] Bug#641215: linux-image-3.0.0-1-powerpc: After pata_macio replaced ide_pmac the system doesn't boot

Milan Kupcevic milan at physics.harvard.edu
Sun Sep 11 23:43:35 UTC 2011


tag 641215 + moreinfo
thanks

> * The second problem is that yaboot fails to boot after this change

What do you mean by "yaboot fails to boot"? At which point the boot
procedure failed? What did you see on the screen? Did you get the yaboot
prompt at all? If you did, what happened after that? Did you get a shell
prompt?

> 
> Which is strange as the dist is identified by UUID in the yaboot conf.
> 
> Similar workaround for yaboot:
> 
> mount -t ext3 /dev/sda3 /root/
> mount -t proc none /root/proc
> mount -o loop /dev /root/dev/
> chroot /root/ /bin/bash
> # change root to /dev/sda3 in /etc/yaboot.conf
> ybin -v
> Ctrl+d
> reboot
> 
> After this the system boots fine.


What the yaboot.conf looked like before you changed it? Try to change it
back and run 'ybin -v'. Is it working fine?

I was not able to reproduce this problem on my PowerBook G3. Can you
reproduce this "yaboot" problem again? How do you do it?

If you do, what 'cat /proc/cmdline' shows? What 'ls -l
/dev/disk/by-uuid' shows?

What happens if you type "old" at the yaboot prompt after the upgrade?





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