[Debootloaders-yaboot] Bug#620863: Bug is fixed in testing

Anton Ivanov anton.ivanov at kot-begemot.co.uk
Sun Mar 11 13:08:04 UTC 2012


The underlying bug is caused by yaboot having only 5MB buffer for tftp 
while images are 6MB+.

They can never load with squeeze yaboot.

The solution is to pluck the yaboot binary from testing (1.16) where 
this bug is fixed and replace the netinstall yaboot with it. The easiest 
way to do this is to fetch the deb, alien-ize it to a tgz, get the 
yaboot from the tgz and put it in the tftp directory.

After that it boots OK.

Brgds,

-- 
     Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, "We've always
done it this way." I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock
on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.   -- R.A. Grace Hopper

A. R. Ivanov
E-mail:  anton.ivanov at kot-begemot.co.uk	






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