Bug 141214

Summary:	do not install a bootmanager on Pegasos PPC
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.2	Reporter:	peter czanik <peter>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	Olaf Dabrunz <odabrunz>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P4 - Low	CC:	novell
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PowerPC
OS:	Other
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Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
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Description peter czanik 2006-01-03 10:36:25 UTC

If a Pegasos PPC machine is detected, no bootmanager should be installed (as it can not be used bye the system).

Comment 1 Matthias Fruehauf 2006-02-20 10:02:53 UTC

Olaf, can you check that?

Comment 3 Bodo Bauer 2006-04-28 09:41:07 UTC

Is this fixed by now? If so, please close this bug.

Comment 4 Florian Steinel 2006-04-30 16:07:07 UTC

The only bootmanagers should be bootcreator http://tbs-software.com/morgoth/projects.html
and
yaboot.

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.yaboot.devel/166

Comment 5 peter czanik 2006-07-11 07:41:51 UTC

As talked in private e-mails with Olaf:

   - do not install a boot manager

   - print some info on screen how to boot it on the summary screen, like: Please enter the following at the OpenFirmware prompt to boot the machine: "boot hd:0 susekernel root=/dev/hdb4"
Where hd:0 is the OF device name (hd first HDD, hd0 second HDD, etc., 0 is first partition, etc., this numbering will start with '1' with later firmwares...) 'susekernel' is name of the bootable kernelimage, and the rest are boot parameters.

   - if it's not already there, then warn, that it must be copied to an OF bootable partition (ext2/ext3/AFS/fat/vfat)

   And something, what belongs logically here, but probably worth to file against the kernel too: run 'mkzimage' to create a bootable kernel, when a kernel package is installed or updated and backup the old kernel.

Comment 6 Florian Steinel 2006-07-11 16:12:08 UTC

i'm using a Pegasos II with the Forth script created from bootcreator as an bootmanager.

Comment 7 peter czanik 2006-07-11 16:31:03 UTC

That's 'menu', which will hopefully be rendered unnecessary by later versions of the firmware. You don't need an extra utility to edit that, it's a simple and logical text file, at least the first part of it. You will need all the above mentioned steps anyway to have a bootable SUSE, 'menu' uses kernel generated this way, an OF readable partition and kernel parameters as described above.

Comment 8 peter czanik 2006-09-13 21:01:00 UTC

Concepts changed after heavy e-mailing with Olaf Hering.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 205550 ***