Bug 141214 - do not install a bootmanager on Pegasos PPC
Summary: do not install a bootmanager on Pegasos PPC
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 205550
Alias: None
Product: openSUSE 10.2
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Installation (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PowerPC Other
: P4 - Low : Major (vote)
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Assignee: Olaf Dabrunz
QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf
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Reported: 2006-01-03 10:36 UTC by peter czanik
Modified: 2006-09-13 21:01 UTC (History)
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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 ***