I do not believe yaboot has in active development in a long time upstream. The last set of commits were in 2008 see: https://github.com/pnasrat/yaboot/commits/master
I think we are just stuck with make a separate ext2 /boot partition. On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 12:02 PM, ernsteiswuerfel <erhar...@mailbox.org> wrote: > Yes, Xenials daily iso of yesterday also worked. > > I even tried to get this upstream via yaboot-de...@lists.ozlabs.org as > stated on https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/ but there my message sits > waiting to get approved by the list moderator since 2 weeks... > > "Hello! > > May I bring this downstream bug reports to your attention: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/yaboot/+bug/1606089 > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=834473 > > Seems yaboot 'lost' the ability to boot into current (newly formatted) > ext4 partitions. Booting into ext2 partitions still works. > > regards > Erhard" > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1606089 > > Title: > unable to boot after 'entire disk' install (16.10, ppc) > > Status in yaboot package in Ubuntu: > Confirmed > Status in yaboot package in Debian: > Confirmed > > Bug description: > Just did an entire disk install from todays (24.07.2016) Yakkety > daily. Installation procedure went fine, but the automatically created > /etc/yaboot.conf seems faulty. > > 1st stage-boot runs fine, the boot options are displayed correctly, > pressing "L" leaves me at the 2nd stage boot prompt where you can > choose between "Linux" and "old" boot options. But either of them does > not work, throwing the error message: > > "/pci@f4000000/ata-6@d/@0:3,/boot/vmlinux: unknown or corrupt > filesystem" > > To rule out other issues I did an openfirmware reset, wiped /dev/sda > and tried a second time with a fresh mac partition table. But the > problem stays the same, 16.10 is not bootable on my PowerBook 5,6. It > did run 16.04 before. > > Partition layout is the standard created by "entire disk" install, > /dev/sda4 is swap. > /dev/sda2: LABEL="bootstrap" TYPE="hfs" PARTLABEL="untitled" > /dev/sda3: UUID="b7bdb9a4-7316-4966-aa65-1d546b211204" TYPE="ext4" > PARTLABEL="untitled" > > ## yaboot.conf generated by the Ubuntu installer > boot="/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST9808211A_3LF2VVGH-part2" > device=/pci@f4000000/ata-6@d/@0 > partition=3 > root="UUID=b7bdb9a4-7316-4966-aa65-1d546b211204" > timeout=50 > install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot > magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot > enablecdboot > > image=/boot/vmlinux > label=Linux > read-only > initrd=/boot/initrd.img > append="quiet splash" > > image=/boot/vmlinux.old > label=old > read-only > initrd=/boot/initrd.img.old > append="quiet splash" > > ProblemType: Bug > DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10 > Package: yaboot 1.3.16-4ubuntu1 > ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-31.50-powerpc-smp 4.4.13 > Uname: Linux 4.4.0-31-powerpc-smp ppc > ApportVersion: 2.20.2-0ubuntu1 > Architecture: powerpc > CasperVersion: 1.376 > CurrentDesktop: MATE > Date: Mon Jul 25 00:19:21 2016 > LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-MATE 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Alpha powerpc (20160724) > ProcEnviron: > TERM=xterm > PATH=(custom, no user) > XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > SHELL=/bin/bash > SourcePackage: yaboot > UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/yaboot/+bug/1606089/+subscriptions -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1606089 Title: unable to boot after 'entire disk' install (16.10, ppc) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/yaboot/+bug/1606089/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
