Description of problem: The filesystem label (for ext3 root filesystem) or the volume label (for CD/DVD boot/rescue/install media) is not displayed underneath the media icon by the OpenFirmware loader when booting with the Option key held down. This contrasts with Apple startup disks: the volume name (such as "MacintoshHD") appears below the icon. The label is very helpful in distinguishing among multiple bootable filesystems, and should be displayed below the icon upon Option boot. /sbin/ybin, a part of yaboot, is the program that should put the volume label in a place where the openfirmware loader can find it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yaboot-1.3.13-2.fc6.ppc.rpm How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot or reboot the hardware, while holding down the Option key. 2. 3. Actual results: No volume label appears below the icon for an ext3 or Fedora CD/DVD bootable volume. Expected results: The volume label should appear below the media icon. Additional info:
I'm not sure how much this makes sense for the installed system - we install to an Apple_Bootstrap partition and in theory the yaboot and yaboot.conf there could point to multiple partitions, not just a single volume. For CD/DVD it's possible we're missing an option to provide the hfs volume id and I can look into that - but that's really in anaconda.
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Please change Version to 8; bugzilla won't let me. The problem persists in yaboot-1.3.13-5.fc8. The ext3 label of a bootable root filesystem does not appear beneath the icon shown when booting with the Option key held down during reset.
Changing version per request
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Using the CD image Fedora-10-ppc-netinst.iso from torrent Fedora-10-ppc-CDs: On Fedora 10 and Fedora 9, the label under the Desktop icon is "PBOOT". On MacOS 10.4 and MacOS 10.5, the label under the Desktop icon is "10". Holding down the Option key while booting a PowerPC Apple Macintosh with Fedora-10-ppc-netinst.iso in the optical drive, then the boot choices show no text label under the icon of an optical drive (with Tux "inset".) For booting, I was expecting to see the text label "Fedora 10" displayed under the icon. "od -Ax -c" of Fedora-10-ppc-netinst.iso shows these interesting lines: ----- 008000 001 C D 0 0 1 001 \0 P P C 008010 008020 P B O O T 008030 008040 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 008230 F e 008240 d o r a 1 0 008250 * 008320 2 0 0 008a30 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 F 008a40 \0 e \0 d \0 o \0 r \0 a \0 \0 1 \0 0 008a50 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 * 008ae0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 ----- So: In this case, Gnome desktop takes the icon name from (32K+32+8), while MacOS 10 takes the icon name from either (32K+512+64+5) [as 8-bit chars] or from (32K+2560+64+13) [as 16-bit chars]. I am changing this Bugzilla report to be against Fedora 10.
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