[Debootloaders-yaboot] Bug#641852: installation on IBM Power 740

[Benedikt Wegmann]

I observed the same bug when installing Debian 6.0.2 on an IBM Power
740.
Installation went normal and as expected. However, when rebooting into
the new system, yaboot hangs with the following error (mind the wrong
line breaks):

Welcome to yaboot version 1.3.13                                                
Enter "help" to get some basic usage information                                
boot:                                                                           
  Linux                      old                                                
boot:                                                                           
Please wait, loading kernel...                                                  
Can't open device </vdevice/v-scsi at 30000002/@1:0>                               
/vdevice/v-scsi at 30000002/@1:2,/boot/vmlinux: Unable to open file, Invalid device
boot:

For further details see
http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2011/09/msg00039.html
and
http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2011/09/msg00050.html

Updating yaboot to version 1.3.16-4 and changing the yaboot
configuration "boot=" to a real device path of /dev/sda1 in my case
fixed this.

-- 
Benedikt Wegmann
benedikt.wegmann at gwdg.de
+49 (0)551 201-1870
bwegman1 at jabber.gwdg.de

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