Hello Holger! Closing the bug report in this case is okay, but the actual reason why this can be closed is that I have switched the powerpc and ppc64 ports over from Yaboot to GRUB meaning that Yaboot-specific installation issues should no longer be relevant.
Thanks, Adrian On 5/17/20 2:15 PM, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > Base System Installation Checklist: > * Although the URL above is for the SID installer, when the > install was complete, I noticed that LENNY had been installed. > I noticed this by looking at the /etc/apt/sources.list file. > > Other issues that I was not particularly happy with were: > > 1. > Selecting guided LVM allowed a the root filesystem to be > placed in a logical volume (which I wanted), but then the > yaboot.conf file was still writted to /etc/yaboot.conf. > I had to manually rescue the system after the install and > move /etc/yaboot.conf to /boot/etc/yaboot.conf. In my view > LVM is going to be the way forward and this configuration > file should not been located on the root filesystem. I > hope everyone is aware of this issue and has looked at > keeping files required to boot the system in /boot > > 2. > After fixing the location of the yaboot.conf file, the > system refused to boot. It was trying to boot the label > "old" which was invalid because the kernel has not yet > been upgraded. I therefore had to add the following to > the yaboot.conf before the correct default entry would > boot: > > defaultos=Linux > > > 3. > I also had issues with multipath root and LVM: > > 3.1 > I had to add multipath to the lvm2 PREREQ's in order > for multipath to be started before LVM. > > 3.2 > Debian installer was called with: > > disk-detect/multipath/enable=true > > However, once the install had completed, the lvm.conf > was not configured to filter out the underlying SCSI > devices. I had to add the following filter: > > filter = [ "r/disk/", "r/sd.*/", "a/.*/" ] > > > After rebuilding the initramfs (above two changes > commited), it all worked quite nicely ;) -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913