Hi all,
I tested this new yaboot in my Squeeze partition on my PowerBook G3
Pismo. I installed it without problems and I issued a ybin -v. I
rebooted and yaboot 1.3.16 smiled at me. I am back in my Squeeze
partition, no problems!!
If you need more info, let me know.
Regards,
Jeroen
etc # sudo dpkg -l | grep yaboot
ii yaboot 1.3.16-1.1
Yet Another Bootloader
debian
etc # ybin -v
ybin: hfsutils is not installed or cannot be found
ybin: Try --mount if Linux 2.6.32-5-powerpc supports HFS
debian
etc # apt install hfsutils
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
hfsutils-tcltk
The following NEW packages will be installed:
hfsutils
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 80.0kB of archives.
After this operation, 242kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://mirrors.nl.kernel.org/debian/ squeeze/main hfsutils
powerpc 3.2.6-11 [80.0kB]
Fetched 80.0kB in 2s (32.9kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package hfsutils.
(Reading database ... 121595 files and directories currently
installed.)
Unpacking hfsutils (from .../hfsutils_3.2.6-11_powerpc.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up hfsutils (3.2.6-11) ...
debian
etc # ybin -v
ybin: Finding OpenFirmware device path to `/dev/hda2'...
ybin: Installing first stage bootstrap /usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot onto
/dev/hda2...
ybin: Installing primary bootstrap /usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot onto
/dev/hda2...
ybin: Installing /etc/yaboot.conf onto /dev/hda2...
ybin: Setting attributes on ofboot...
ybin: Setting attributes on yaboot...
ybin: Setting attributes on yaboot.conf...
ybin: Blessing /dev/hda2 with Holy Penguin Pee...
ybin: Updating OpenFirmware boot-device variable in nvram...
debian
Op 28/9/2010 schreef "Benjamin Cama" <ben...@free.fr>:
>Hi everyone,
>
>So, yaboot in debian is currently suffering from a lot of problems, and
>until now we were only talking about it. Here is some code to test it,
>now to really see what's still causing problems and what's solved.
>
>Here is the (temporary) place where you can find itâ¯:
>http://benoar.fdn.fr/yaboot/
>
>It contains a .deb and the git repository I used to build it (beware,
>there's a lot of cruft in it caused by my experiments with git and
>debian packaging; I lack experience in both). It basically an up-to-date
>yaboot (1.3.16) + debian modifications from 1.3.13a (some were already
>integrated upstream) + Rogério Brito's debian packaging enhancements +
>some patches (namely Rick Thomas' quotes and spaces fix for latest
>linux-base, and the no /proc/ide fix (which IMHO fixes nothing
>interesting, but still)) + fixes of mine (mainly debian packaging).
>
>Everything should be "nicely" commited, and there's a separate branch
>with fixes but no debian stuff for upstream to pick up from
>(debian-yaboot) which was forked from repository's 1.3.13 (you'll see
>tags to get from here to the debian-1.3.13a version, then to this most
>recent debian-yaboot). The branch containing the full package stuff is
>debian-yaboot-packaging (yes, nothing standard) and master is actually
>the upstream (from ozlabs). And I forgot to merge the
>debian-yaboot-with-doc branch which contains the HTML documentation,
>please excuse me for that, it will be in the next one.
>
>If you want to build it yourselfâ¯:
>git-buildpackage --git-upstream-branch=master \
> --git-debian-branch=debian-yaboot-packaging
>
>Still, I may have done some mistakes, and need advices on packaging (I
>tried to listen to lintian as much as possible).
>
>Please test it and report bugs/suggestions on this ML.
>
>Message to Aurélien: it would be nice if you could comment on this and
>help getting yaboot updated. Uploading that without you would be
>painfull, please answer to this email.
>
>Regards,
>benjamin
>
>
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