Re: Debian PowerPc installer initramfs-tools generates malformed yaboot.conf created when alternate partitions use UUID= in fstab

2010-07-14 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi there, Rick. (I am including the pkg-grub-devel list here, as it may be interesting to them). On Jul 14 2010, Rick Thomas wrote: > I'm willing to give it a try on some of my test machines. > > How do I go about installing/testing Grub2 ? I wrote a summary of what I did some time ago: http

Re: Debian PowerPc installer initramfs-tools generates malformed yaboot.conf created when alternate partitions use UUID= in fstab

2010-07-14 Thread Rick Thomas
I'm willing to give it a try on some of my test machines. How do I go about installing/testing Grub2 ? Thanks! Rick On Jul 13, 2010, at 8:54 PM, Rogério Brito wrote: Also, it would be very nice if we had reports from people that tried to use GRUB2 on powerpc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Debian PowerPc installer initramfs-tools generates malformed yaboot.conf created when alternate partitions use UUID= in fstab

2010-07-14 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Die, 2010-07-13 at 21:54 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > > On 06/28/2010 02:42 PM, Rogério Brito wrote: > > We could, perhaps, offer two boot loaders for NewWorld ppc machines in > > Debian > > and phase out yaboot once we know that GRUB2 works fine. (That still leaves > > those users of miboot

Re: Debian PowerPc installer initramfs-tools generates malformed yaboot.conf created when alternate partitions use UUID= in fstab

2010-07-13 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi. Just a quick status update on this (I'm catching up on e-mail). On 06/28/2010 02:42 PM, Rogério Brito wrote: > We could, perhaps, offer two boot loaders for NewWorld ppc machines in Debian > and phase out yaboot once we know that GRUB2 works fine. (That still leaves > those users of miboot an

Bug#572605: Debian PowerPc installer initramfs-tools generates malformed yaboot.conf created when alternate partitions use UUID= in fstab

2010-06-30 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 30, 2010, at 5:39 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 19:00 +0200, Benjamin Cama wrote: Le lundi 28 juin 2010 à 12:13 +0200, Michel Dänzer a écrit : On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 01:21 +0200, Benjamin Cama wrote: I wanted to help for a problem with the buildd but Frans Pop told

Re: Debian PowerPc installer initramfs-tools generates malformed yaboot.conf created when alternate partitions use UUID= in fstab

2010-06-28 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, there. Just a quick status update. I am including debian-boot here. If any mailing list should be dropped, just say so. On 06/27/2010 10:01 PM, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Jun 28 2010, Benjamin Cama wrote: >> - maintenance of yaboot has always been "flacky" in the sense that >> maintainers seem