Re: [PATCH] Skip boot-device set for powerpc-ieee1275

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 08:36:40PM +0200, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko 
wrote:
> As I've already told when discussing this patch in fedora, this patch is
> both dirty and wrong. On most systems it would just make the result
> unbootable and doesn't provide any compensation for the missing step.
> The most affected systems would probably be PowerMacs since setting
> nvram is the only way currently to boot HD install without involving
> user going to OF prompt which on some systems defaults to a serial port
> which uses nonstandard connector.
> Why isn't completing but issuing the warning like we do on failure not
> acceptable solution on those machines?
> Why isn't it possible to modify nvram on those machines?
> What are the "problems" you're talking about?

Well also already have '--no-nvram' which does just fine.

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Len Sorensen