reassign 587290 yaboot thanks On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 15:12 -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > On 06/27/10 08:19, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Please send the files /etc/fstab, /etc/yaboot.conf.old and > > /etc/yaboot.conf from your system. [...] > [1] the hda6 partition is using my modified /usr/sbin/ybin that I > submitted with my bugreport #580455. So it capable of dealing with > fstab and yaboot.conf using UUID=.... to identify partitions. > > Without the modified ybin, I have to edit those files to use the > conventional /dev/hdxn designations. > > [2] the hda4 partition has the stock, unmodified, /usr/sbin/ybin . > Fortunately, the installed creates its /etc/yaboot.conf using > conventional /dev/hdxn. But it leaves a ticking time-bomb in the form > of UUID= designations in /etc/fstab . The next time yaboot.conf is > created (e.g. with a kernel upgrade) it will pick up those designations > and ybin will crash.
The kernel package does *not* modify /etc/yaboot.conf like this. (linux-base will modify it one-time only.) This is a bug in the yabootconfig script which is part of yaboot. yaboot maintainers, you need to make yabootconfig accept UUID and LABEL specfications in /etc/fstab and in the kernel root parameter. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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