Ubuntu
yaboot package

  1. Bug #35731
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 35731

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laddepp (ladd-ku) wrote :

Somehow, my original "Fix" did not configure my laptop correctly, presumably because some hardware detection happens during the install phase, and is not re-detected, well, ever. In my case, PC Card services fail to load using this method (meaning, no wireless card). I'm lucky enough to have a firewire and usb cd drive. I hooked both of them to my machine and did this:

Boot into Open Firmare and do a:
devalias cd /pci@f4000000/firewire/node/sbp-2/disk@0

then:
boot cd:,\install\yaboot

This basically tricks the machine into booting off the firewire CD drive. At the yaboot prompt, I just hit enter, and the kernel loads fine from the firewire drive. Then, I swapped the disc from the firewire drive to the usb drive. The installer probes for the USB device, finds the Ubuntu install CD, and installation continues as normal. Is there a reason why the installer is not configured to load a Firewire drive kernel module?