Re: [OpenBIOS] Fix boot-script parsing for openSUSE ppc media

[Stefan Assmann]

[e-mail] wrote:
> > > Fix boot-script parsing for openSUSE ppc media
> >
> > applied, thanks
>
> I've applied it, as it breaks nothing and allows to use Suse, but a better fix should be:
> correctly parse the script to replace &device; by the boot device ("cd:", and not "cd:0", which is "&bootdevice;:&partition;")

Working on a patch for that.
> correctly manage CD partition to be able to use ":1" instead of ":0" (in fact, for the moment, we use mac partition on CD and ":0" to use the entire disk).

I couldn't figure this out yet. When I use cd:1\somepath it doesn't work
for the openSUSE DVD, there's something wrong with the ihandle. Any idea
why it doesn't work?

Here's what parted tells about the iso:
Disk openSUSE-11.1-DVD-ppc.iso: 4126MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: mac

Number  Start  End     Size    File system  Name        Flags
 1      512B   1535B   1024B                Apple       , , , , , , , , , , , , type=Apple_partition_map
 2      8192B  4126MB  4126MB               SU1110.001  , , , , , , , , , , , , type=Apple_HFS

works:
> > =============================================================
> > OpenBIOS 1.0RC1 [Feb 2 2009 09:52]
> > Configuration device id QEMU version 1 machine id 2
> > CPUs: 1
> > Memory: 256M
> > UUID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
> > CPU type PowerPC,750
> > ELF - yaboot_startup: Entering boot, no path
> > ELF - try_bootinfo: Trying cd:0,ppc\bootinfo.txt
> > ELF - open_io: ih
> > ELF - try_bootinfo: got bootscript boot &device;:0,\suseboot\yaboot.ibm
> > ELF - try_bootinfo: fixed bootscript boot cd:0,\suseboot\yaboot.ibm
> > ELF - yaboot_startup: Entering boot, path cd:0,\suseboot\yaboot.ibm
> > ELF - try_path: Trying cd:0,\suseboot\yaboot.ibm
> > ELF - open_io: ih

doesn't work:
> > CPU type PowerPC,750
> > ELF - yaboot_startup: Entering boot, no path
> > ELF - try_bootinfo: Trying cd:0,ppc\bootinfo.txt
> > ELF - open_io: ih
> > ELF - try_bootinfo: got bootscript boot &device;:1,\suseboot\yaboot.ibm
> > ELF - try_bootinfo: fixed bootscript boot cd:1,\suseboot\yaboot.ibm
> > ELF - yaboot_startup: Entering boot, path cd:1,\suseboot\yaboot.ibm
> > ELF - try_path: Trying cd:1,\suseboot\yaboot.ibm
> > ELF - open_io: !ih

open_io calls open_dev which dives into forth and that's were I lost
track.
> Regards,
> Laurent

Stefan