Hi, Le dimanche 27 juin 2010 à 15:30 -0400, Rick Thomas a écrit : > This is reported as Debian bug #587290 -- please followup to the bug > report. > > The generated /etc/yaboot.conf contains lines > append="root=UUID ro" > for partitions that have their /etc/fstab root line using "UUID=... " . > > This makes it impossible to boot into those partitions: > the boot progresses to the point of trying to mount the root > filesystem and dies with > Begin: Running /scripts/local-premount ... done > Mount: mounting UUID on /root failed: No such directory > then a few more errors obviously caused by not having a mounted root > and eventually dropping into the (initrd) BusyBox shell. > > When I went back and changed the offending line to > append="root=/dev/hda6 ro" > and reran ybin, everything was fine. > > See bug # 580455 for another aspect of the switch to UUID naming being > broken on powerPC.
Thanks Rick for your perseverance, I hope this kind of bug could get solved more easily, but from what I *personally* realized : - maintenance of yaboot has always been "flacky" in the sense that maintainers seem to get hopeless on the lack of interest/motivation from powerpc devs/users - there are currently no DD that care about powerpc problems (or we could rather say that no people who care about PPC are DDs) I wanted to help for a problem with the buildd but Frans Pop told us that it needed a DD to be solved, and I also have a patch for util-linux specific to PPC that is waiting for monthes. But there are only users and simple developers left on the debian-powerpc ML, so we're a bit alone and hopeless ... Still, you're right that dropping ppc support for Lenny would be sad, so I may have a look a this, but being so close to the solution (as you were too when sending a patch for the second bug you described) just to be left without any news from anyone is a bit discouraging. Regards, benjamin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1277680862.5765.32.ca...@nsk
