On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 04:33:41PM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote: > On Friday 03 December 2004 12:21, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 12:16:17PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 12:08:56PM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote: > > > > On Friday 03 December 2004 11:52, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 11:41:10AM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote: > > > > > > I did that, verify by "print" that the 1st partition had flags > > > > > > prep-boot, type primary,filesystem ext2. > > > > > > > > > > > > The install came on but at end, says that no boot program was > > > > > > installed either I did choice thus (I didn't do anything like this, > > > > > > of course) or no one manages this hardware. > > > > > > > > > > Yeah, can you try again with the new version of yaboot-installer > > > > > which was uploaded yesterday only (1.0.2 it was i think), and > > > > > includes : > > > > > > > > > > * Colin Watson > > > > > - Install to prep-boot partitions on chrp (closes: #243669). > > > > > > > > Sorry again, but how can I do that ? downloading this new version and > > > > updating my copy of iso cd I made whith Leigh ? or the whole iso image > > > > ? > > > > > > You can just modify the version, but you have to run dpkg-scanpackge or > > > whatever its name is. Would maybe be the easiest solution, am > > > investigating. > > > > 12:16 < Kamion> svenl: dpkg-scanpackages, apt-ftparchive, edit the > > Packages/Packages.gz/Release files by hand ... whatever, > > really > > 12:16 < svenl> Oh. > > 12:16 < svenl> editing by hand maybe the easiest, only filename, version > > and md5sum needs to be changed. > > 12:17 < Kamion> right, also size; note that you must edit Packages, then > > gzip -c it to Packages.gz, then update the md5sums > > and sizes of both in /dists/sarge/Release > > 12:17 < Kamion> you get the hang of it after a while but it's easy to get > > wrong > > > > Hope this helps. > > > > Friendly, > > > > Sven Luther > > before doing such hazardous things, whith a friend of mine we did this.
I don't think this is hazarduous. > chroot on /target/ > apt-get install yaboot > launch yabootconfig You want to test yaboot-installer, not yaboot. > says: unable to locate bootstrap partition on /dev/sda..... > > I am sure the partition exists, whith the flag 0x41 > the man says ...you must create a 800K partition; mine is 10 M because I did > not know how allocate. Fill a bug report against yaboot ? > Is this 800K mandatory ? No idea. I think if it is bigger, the rest of the space is wasted, but then Ethan had some strange ideas on this. Friendly, Sven Luther
