Package: yaboot Severity: important
Hi, I've been trying to netboot a G5 box with the default Debian net-install (powerpc64) yaboot and vmlinux images. However, it seems that the Debian vmlinux images are > 6MB. A well known traditional limitation of yaboot has been the fact that it's TFTP buffer size could not be bigger than 6MB. I was stuck until I found the new yaboot GIT repository available from: http://yaboot.ozlabs.org/ (git://ozlabs.org/srv/projects/yaboot/yaboot.git) The yaboot in the GIT repository seems to have removed the 6MB limitation (or upped it to something like 16MB). With this new yaboot, I was able to netboot the G5 with the Debian images, and my net-install is well under way. Just wanted to leave this documented here, and maybe ask the Debian yaboot package mantainers to consider upgrading to the GIT version. Thanks, Livio -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-rc9 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
