I have been testing the Debian 7.1.0 installers and the configuration file created by
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-==============-============-============-================================= ii yaboot 1.3.16-4 powerpc Yet Another Bootloader is creating yaboot.conf files correctly for vscsi I have two working examples: when the vscsi hdisk0 is coming from a logical partition in the VIOS lsmap -vadapter vhostX output: SVSA Physloc Client Partition ID --------------- -------------------------------------------- ------------------ vhost4 U9115.505.062C0CA-V1-C19 0x00000006 VTD vtopt0 Status Available LUN 0x8200000000000000 Backing device /var/vio/VMLibrary/debian_DVD1_710 Physloc Mirrored N/A VTD vtscsi3 Status Available LUN 0x8100000000000000 Backing device lp6vd1 Physloc Mirrored N/A the key lines are: boot="/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SAIX_VDASD_0002c0ca0000d300000001134deb16ba.5-part1" device=/vdevice/v-scsi@30000002/disk@8100000000000000 partition=2 When the VSCSI target in client is coming from a LUN (in this case an iscsi disk - hdisk8) $ lsmap -vadapter vhost4 SVSA Physloc Client Partition ID --------------- -------------------------------------------- ------------------ vhost4 U9115.505.062C0CA-V1-C19 0x00000006 VTD vtopt0 Status Available LUN 0x8200000000000000 Backing device /var/vio/VMLibrary/debian_DVD1_710 Physloc Mirrored N/A VTD vtscsi3 Status Available LUN 0x8100000000000000 Backing device hdisk8 Physloc Mirrored false the key lines are: boot="/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-36001405eb283f7cd7f8fd44bdd8f12db-part1" device=/vdevice/v-scsi@30000002/disk@8100000000000000 partition=2 Notice the .5-part1 in the name when coming from a logical partition (minor device number) $ ls -l /dev/lp* brw-rw---- 1 root system 46, 1 Mar 15 11:19 /dev/lp2vd1 brw-rw---- 1 root system 46, 2 Mar 15 11:19 /dev/lp3vd1 brw-rw---- 1 root system 46, 3 Mar 15 11:19 /dev/lp4vd1 brw-rw---- 1 root system 46, 4 Mar 17 12:00 /dev/lp5vd1 brw-rw---- 1 root system 46, 5 May 03 14:38 /dev/lp6vd1
