Where is yaboot.conf

[Stephen Allen]

Hi Erlon,

I thought I'd try this on a different distro and have just come across a 
paragraph in the Gentoo PPC installation handbook 
(http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-ppc64.xml?part=1&chap=10) which 
says

"If you are using a 64-bit userland, you must use the yaboot-static 
package because yaboot cannot be compiled as a 64-bit application."

My G5 system is obviously 64-bit.  Does this make sense to you?

Many thanks,
Steve :)


On 20/04/2010 16:59, the entity known as Erlon Cruz, wrote:
> Hmmm...I forgot mentioning that :) you have to install e2fsprogs
> apt-get install e2fsprogs*
> Did you tried this same yaboot you have and create that etc folder?
>
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Stephen Allen<p0036343 at brookes.ac.uk>wrote:
>
>> Thank you Erlon,
>>
>> I've tried compiling both the .14 and .15-RC release, and on both - I get:
>>
>> second/fs_reiserfs.c:478: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will
>> break strict-aliasing rules
>> second/fs_reiserfs.c: In function ‘next_key’:
>> second/fs_reiserfs.c:615: warning: operation on ‘depth’ may be undefined
>> ld -Ttext 0x200000 -Bstatic second/crt0.o second/yaboot.o second/cache.o
>> second/prom.o second/file.o second/partition.o second/fs.o second/cfg.o
>> second/setjmp.o second/cmdline.o second/fs_of.o second/fs_ext2.o
>> second/fs_iso.o second/iso_util.o lib/nosys.o lib/string.o lib/strtol.o
>> lib/vsprintf.o lib/ctype.o lib/malloc.o lib/strstr.o second/md5.o
>> second/fs_xfs.o second/fs_reiserfs.o -lext2fs `gcc -print-libgcc-file-name`
>> -o second/yaboot
>> second/yaboot.o: In function `print_message_file':
>> yaboot.c:(.text+0x514): undefined reference to `__stack_chk_fail'
>> second/yaboot.o: In function `load_config_file':
>> yaboot.c:(.text+0x8a8): undefined reference to `__stack_chk_fail'
>> second/yaboot.o: In function `get_params':
>> yaboot.c:(.text+0x14c8): undefined reference to `__stack_chk_fail'
>> second/yaboot.o: In function `yaboot_text_ui':
>> yaboot.c:(.text+0x22c8): undefined reference to `__stack_chk_fail'
>> second/yaboot.o: In function `yaboot_main':
>> yaboot.c:(.text+0x2948): undefined reference to `__stack_chk_fail'
>> second/prom.o:prom.c:(.text+0x17b4): more undefined references to
>> `__stack_chk_fail' follow
>> make: *** [yaboot] Error 1
>>
>>
>> It's Ubuntu-Karmic and I don't know what it's looking for or what option
>> has been set.  Do you have any ideas?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> Steve
>>
>>
>>
>> On 20/04/2010 15:47, the entity known as Erlon Cruz, wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Steven,
>>>
>>> Try this:
>>>
>>>     Create a etc folder inside your  tftp root folder and place the config
>>> file there. If it doesnt work, download the last version from yaboot,
>>> compile it and then I think it will work.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Erlon
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Stephen Allen<p0036343 at brookes.ac.uk
>>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>   Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to boot an Xserve G5 into Linux over the network.  After
>>>> spending ages messing with DHCP I am now at the stage where the client
>>>> receives an IP address and boot filename (yaboot), and duly goes off to
>>>> fetch it using tftp.
>>>>
>>>> However, when yaboot executes it is giving the message:
>>>>
>>>>     method 'load' failed fffffefc
>>>>     Error, can't read config file
>>>>     Welcome to yaboot version 1.3.13
>>>>     Enter "help" to get some basic usage information
>>>>     boot:
>>>>
>>>> The version of yaboot I'm using is 1.3.13a-ubuntu5 and I at ve tried
>>>> binaries
>>>> from both the Debian and Ubuntu respositories.
>>>>
>>>> The contents of [tftproot] are:
>>>>
>>>>     boot.msg
>>>>     initrd.gz
>>>>     mini.iso
>>>>     vmlinux
>>>>     vmlinuz-chrp.initrd
>>>>     yaboot
>>>>     yaboot.conf
>>>>
>>>> So I gues the question is, how does the yaboot binary know where to fetch
>>>> yaboot.conf from?  Or, where is it expecting it to be when booting from
>>>> the
>>>> network?
>>>>
>>>> I hope someone can help as I'm completely out of ideas.
>>>>
>>>> Kind regards,
>>>> Stephen Allen
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
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>>
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>

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Stephen Allen
Senior Computing Officer
School of Technology
Oxford Brookes University
Wheatley Campus
OXFORD OX33 1HX
United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0)1865 484 513
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