[Debootloaders-yaboot] Bug#834473: yaboot not booting kernel

[Herminio Hernandez Jr]

Package: yaboot
Version: 1.3.17-4
Severity: important
Tags: upstream

Dear Maintainer,

Debian Stretch uses the version of yaboot that will not boot the kernel. This is the error I recieve:

boot/vmlinux: unknown or corrupt filesystem

I discovered that a workaround is to create a seperate /boot partition and format it with ext2. This issue is also present in Gentoo and Ubuntu-MATE. I have verifed this workaround works in both Debian and Ubuntu.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)

Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-powerpc
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages yaboot depends on:
ii  libc6  2.23-4

Versions of packages yaboot recommends:
ii  hfsutils       3.2.6-13
ii  powerpc-utils  1.3.2-1

yaboot suggests no packages.

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