Bug 758530

Summary: does not add "console=hvc0" to yaboot.conf
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Will Woods <wwoods>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Will Woods <wwoods>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 16CC: jonathan, karsten, vanmeeuwen+fedora
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Description Will Woods 2011-11-30 00:44:46 UTC
In RHEL6 and earlier, anaconda added "console=hvc0" to yaboot.conf on POWER systems using hvc0 as their console. Fedora 16 doesn't do this.

This is needed to allow plymouth to ask for the passphrase for encrypted filesystems at boot - see bug 744415 for background.

Comment 1 Will Woods 2011-11-30 21:37:07 UTC
Proposed fix in http://wwoods.fedorapeople.org/iso/Fedora-16-ppc64-netinst-20111130.iso

Comment 2 Karsten Hopp 2011-12-01 13:54:29 UTC
this adds console=ttyS0 to /etc/yaboot.conf

Comment 3 Karsten Hopp 2011-12-02 16:19:27 UTC
the latest patches correctly write console=hvc0 to yaboot.conf

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