tags 825110 - pending tags 825110 + confirmed block 825110 by 610206 thanks
On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 9:55 PM, Milan Kupcevic <mi...@debian.org> wrote: > On 05/30/2016 12:20 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: >> On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 12:17:19AM -0400, Milan Kupcevic wrote: >>> affects 825110 yaboot >>> tags 825110 pending >>> thanks >>> >>> Yaboot is not able to load files from a partition with metadata_csum and >>> 64bit ext4 features enabled. >> > > [...] > >> Of course if ext4 is being created by default in 64bit mode these days >> (I have no idea), then the installer may need to be taught to not do >> that for whatever filesystem /boot is going in. >> > > It seems ext4 is being created by default with 64bit and metadata_csum > features since stretch beta 6 d-i release. A separate /boot partition > formatted as ext3 would be a solution; as it was for some time before > yaboot got support for ext4. > > Instead of doing separate /boot we might be better off to adjust > newworld partition recipe to accommodate grub installation while > disabling d-i 64bit and metadata_csum features on powerpc to allow for > installation of yaboot.[0] Once we transition to grub we can get rid of > yaboot-installer together with ext4 feature limitations. Mathieu is > volunteering to do some work in this regard.[1] I think I can send a patch later today for #610206. However I am clueless for #691207 or #691209.