On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 09:54:38AM -0800, LC wrote:
> Hi, I struggled with a very similar scenario, last day or two. I was
> trying to
> install debian unstable on an iBook, via netboot, onto an externally
> attached
> firewire disk device. Failing the install yaboot step (with no details
> being
> obvious), I first tried to do the boot setup and boot manually (which I
> failed).
>
> When I peeked into the process a bit more, I found why the yaboot setup
> didn't
> work, and tried a hack in ofpath. This ofpath states that the particular
> scsi
> driver isn't supported, and quits, so the yaboot installation fails ... you
> can
> see it in syslog on the installation filesystem. I dropped into a shell
> from the
> Debian installer menus, hand-modified ofpath, and manually ran the yaboot
> installer
> script, which finally worked. The vmlinux and initrd.gz I took were from --
> "~luther/d-i/images/2005-02-25/powerpc/netboot" on people.debian.org
>
> In the script "ofpath", in the "scsi_ofpath" function, I added a case
> option:
> sbp2)
> HOST_LIST="$(for i in `find /proc/device-tree -name compatible`
> ; do
> lgrep "$i" "pciclass,0c0010" ; done)"
> DEVICE_PATH="$(printhost $SCSI_HOSTNUMBER $HOST_LIST)"
> echo
> "${DEVICE_PATH##*device-tree}/node/sbp-2/[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]:$PARTITION"
> ;;
>
> That search pattern "pciclass,0c0010" might not be the most very rigorous
> spec,
> but for some reason I was having trouble with the carats ("^"), perhaps some
> difference between busybox's grep and the target's. Anyway, I hope that
> this
> suggestion will help someone, I don't know who currently takes care of
> ofpath.
> (Now I need that pivot_root to work, so I just have to fix my initrd like
> Joerg
> has explained in bug 288010;) Thanks!! Larry.
> are you sure that 0c0010 is not specific to your particular hardware? I suspect this patch would work nowhere else. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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