Bugzilla – Bug 205550
use yaboot for booting Pegasos PPC
Last modified: 2007-08-08 09:43:04 UTC
As discussed in e-mail, please use yaboot to boot Pegasos PPC machines: "It just needs some tweaking in the lilo script to do the right thing with copying yaboot and possible the yaboot.conf file over to the boot partition."
*** Bug 141214 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Also make sure, that /boot is on an Pegasos OpenFirmware readable partition. Ext2 works best, but ext3, (v)fat should also work. ReiserFS does not work!
need a 'boot=/dev/hdaN' not 'boot=/dev/hda' in lilo.conf need to evaluate if 'boot=' can point to a mount point need to copy yaboot to that partition, in the root dir need to leave the filesystem on hdaN alone need to document that one has to run 'setenv boot-device hd:$((N-1))' in OF need to create a yaboot.cnf with no hardcoded device paths, use &device; instead
Created attachment 102264 [details] lilo-pegasos.patch do something on pegasos. create a config file, put it into yaboot itself and copy the yaboot to / boot hd:6 yaboot on the OF cmdline
factory from 2006. Nov. 03. was installed to /dev/hdd4 I tried to boot it with: ok boot hd3:4 yaboot which resulted in (copy&paste from serial console): Welcome to yaboot version 10.1.19-r858.SuSE booted from '/pci@80000000/ide@C,1/disk@1,1:4,yaboot' Using configfile 'built-in' Enter "help" to get some basic usage information boot: linux type 2 of '/pci@80000000/ide@C,1/disk@1' not handled /pci@80000000/ide@C,1/disk@1:4,/boot/vmlinux: Unable to parse Please wait, loading kernel... boot: linux type 2 of '/pci@80000000/ide@C,1/disk@1' not handled /pci@80000000/ide@C,1/disk@1:4,/boot/vmlinux: Unable to parse Please wait, loading kernel... boot: linux type 2 of '/pci@80000000/ide@C,1/disk@1' not handled /pci@80000000/ide@C,1/disk@1:4,/boot/vmlinux: Unable to parse Please wait, loading kernel... etc.
open a new bug for yaboot failure, this bug is all about perl-Bootloader
Done: #218692 I don't know, if it belongs to here, or a separate bug: yaboot only gets installed, if a PREP boot partition is there.
this is not a blocker, pegasos not mandatory as far as I know. Not enough ressources to do this for 10.2
*** Bug 115410 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
postponed to 10.3
Will take care as load for SP1 get lower...
Stefan, what's the status on this bug?
Works fine on 10.2 and also on 10.3-factory.
Closing WORKSFORME. Please feel free to reopen, in case the problem persists.