[Debootloaders-yaboot] Bug#846032: yaboot: Power Mac G5 ofboot.b not configured correctly for second disk

Craig Ruff cruff at ruffspot.net
Sun Nov 27 23:31:11 UTC 2016


Package: yaboot
Version: 1.3.16-4
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

Fresh installation of 8.6.0 on a Power Mac G5 (2005) onto the second SATA disk.
The installation proceeded without errors, but it was not possible to boot
into Linux afterwards.  Booting the DVD in rescue mode showed the second
disk was partitioned correctly and the bootstrap and root partitions were
present.  Installation onto the first SATA disk produced a working boot
configuration.

Mounting the bootstrap partition and correcting ofboot.b with the following
diff produces a working boot of the second stage yaboot program on the
second SATA disk.


10c10
< : bootyaboot " Loading second stage bootstrap..." .printf 100 ms load-base release-load-area " /ht at 0,f2000000/pci at 9/k2-sata-root at c/@ffffffffffffffff/@0:2,\\yaboot" $boot ;
---
> : bootyaboot " Loading second stage bootstrap..." .printf 100 ms load-base release-load-area " /ht at 0,f2000000/pci at 9/k2-sata-root at c/k2-sata at 1/@0:2,\\yaboot" $boot ;

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.6
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-powerpc64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages yaboot depends on:
ii  libc6  2.19-18+deb8u6

Versions of packages yaboot recommends:
ii  hfsutils       3.2.6-13
ii  powerpc-utils  1.1.3-25

yaboot suggests no packages.

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