https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=376310 User matt@genesi-usa.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=376310#c14 --- Comment #14 from Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com> 2009-01-02 12:39:08 MST --- I'm still beating my head on the desk over this. yast2-bootloader has ample code to support iSeries and PREP with mkzimage, and it's well known that yaboot simply doesn't work on most configurations (here it installed /yaboot file but it's in the root directory, not /boot, and the firmware may not be able to read the root directory which is why /boot exists in the first place). Running yaboot from the disk on my Pegasos does not successfully boot, and it's running a 1.2 firmware (i.e. production) and ext3 (with 128 byte inode) partitions throughout (I accepted the default partitioning proposal in 11.1) Can't we just treat Efika/Pegasos or any Genesi/bplan machine exactly the same?- let's remove the dependencies on specific board names, let's assume yaboot needs mkzimage to be run like yast2-bootloader for PREP and iSeries does, and that all Genesi systems will ship with "broken" firmware and everyone would prefer just to boot the zImage directly)? yast2-bootloader and /lib/lilo/ etc. scripts all detect Efika and Pegasos just fine.. just some wrong decision has been made about what these boards SHOULD run. This is just not the reality, though, and no amount of breaking Linux distributions to try and "coerce" firmware teams into releasing updates should be done, as it annoys users and causes systems to be unbootable even after installation. All this running around working out workarounds and driver updates to resolve issues with a 3 year old decision to force people to try and use yaboot when it would clean up and code fix a lot of problems by simply not supporting it.. it simply makes me want to cry with frustration that nobody can see the real issue here, which is that trying to imply that yaboot is the standard bootloader is both 1) not born out by the code in the ppc bootloader support since it can support mkzimage just fine and 2) never going to work this way anyway -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.