Re: Debian PowerPc installer initramfs-tools generates malformed yaboot.conf created when alternate partitions use UUID= in fstab

Keeping the CC'ies, to not leave anybody out of the discussion. On Jun 28 2010, Benjamin Cama wrote: > - 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 That's one of the problems of u

Re: Debian PowerPc installer initramfs-tools generates malformed yaboot.conf created when alternate partitions use UUID= in fstab

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=..

Debian PowerPc installer initramfs-tools generates malformed yaboot.conf created when alternate partitions use UUID= in fstab

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 p