Issue with yaboot and secondary drive on G5
Paul Nasrat
pnasrat at googlemail.com
Mon Apr 21 16:46:07 EST 2008
On 20 Apr 2008, at 23:46, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've come across a series of issues attempting to boot Linux
> (in particular Gentoo Linux 2007.1 and Yellow Dog Linux 5.0) via
> yaboot on a G5 I acquired. I finally determined that the issue
> stemmed from the fact that the drive was being improperly detected /
> parsed from open firmware (root was being mapped to cd instead of
> cd1). I'll see if I can debug / solve this issue and submit a proper
> patch with the latest yaboot sources as soon as possible.
Thanks - can you see if ofpathname from powerpc-utils gives a correct
or even closer output than yaboot's ofpath http://powerpc-utils.ozlabs.org/
Paul
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