Hi,
The yaboot problem on my G5 is actually in the ofpath script - BenH's
tidying-up of the /proc/device-tree symlinks triggers an old error trap.
Attached patch from fedora fixes it for me on my (non-debian) build from
source.
This only affects boxes using SATA.
Ken
--
das eine Mal als Trag?die, das andere Mal als Farce
--- yaboot-1.3.12/ybin/ofpath.nobootx 2004-04-17 20:22:00.000000000 -0400
+++ yaboot-1.3.12/ybin/ofpath 2005-08-04 07:47:19.000000000 -0400
@@ -425,14 +425,6 @@
{
case "$DEVNODE" in
sd*)
- if ls -l /proc/device-tree | grep -q ^lr ; then
- true
- else
- echo 1>&2 "$PRG: /proc/device-tree is broken. Do not use BootX
to boot, use yaboot."
- echo 1>&2 "$PRG: The yaboot HOWTO can be found here:
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/doc";
- return 1
- fi
-
## use common scsiinfo function to get info we need.
scsiinfo || return 1
