Re: Call for testing

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Alexander Graf <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On 08.10.2012, at 14:56, Dinar Valeev wrote:
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>> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Alexander Graf <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> On 08.10.2012, at 10:10, Alexander Graf wrote:
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>>>> Some more seems to be broken. Yaboot doesn't get the machine up yet :). Invalid device - hrm.
>>>
>>> Simple problem, simple solution. Yaboot can't handle ext4, so I reinstalled with ext3. That one yaboot can read.
>>>
>>> Now someone should probably go ahead and tell lilo that yaboot can't read ext4 and that it instead should copy kernel+initrd over to the HFS helper partition :).
>> We have can_yaboot_read funtion, which checks if yaboot is capable to
>> read such fs.
>>
>> [[ "$fs" == @(ext2|ext3|msdos|vfat|reiserfs|iso9660|xfs) ]] || return 1;
>>
>> ext4 case handled in the same way, as root on lvm handled.
>> At least under PowerVM vfat partition is created, so we can load the
>> initrd and then a kernel from anywhere we want.
>
> Odd.
>
> Oh, well. Here's more breakage:
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>   - touchpad works in X after installation, just not during installation. Missing driver?
>   - nv driver doesn't get detected by Xorg
>   - nv driver doesn't work :). Barely shows anything on the screen. Looks quite broken
>   - nouveau driver doesn't get built
>   - bcm wifi drivers need to be manually downloaded. Now wifi works.
>
That's great! ;) That telling us, core OS works... (except ext4)
> Alex
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