#9409 HIGH 1.5-F11: OFW chokes on ext2 symlinks during boot

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#9409: OFW chokes on ext2 symlinks during boot
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 Reporter:  dsd                  |                 Owner:  wmb at firmworks.com
     Type:  defect               |                Status:  new              
 Priority:  high                 |             Milestone:  1.5-F11          
Component:  ofw - open firmware  |               Version:  1.5-A1           
 Keywords:                       |           Next_action:  never set        
 Verified:  0                    |   Deployment_affected:                   
Blockedby:                       |              Blocking:  9349             
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 I'm having trouble booting our custom "versioned" filesystem layout on the
 XO-1.5 because OFW is having trouble when /boot is a symlink. In the
 versioned fs, /boot is a symlink to /versions/boot/current/boot and
 /versions/boot/current is a symlink itself.

 Isolating those files/directories/links I can't reproduce this, but I can
 reproduce it with a much simpler example where /boot is a symlink to
 bootreal which contains the olpc.fth - OFW crashes and hard-resets.

 To reproduce, flash this 32gb ext2 image onto the first partition of a usb
 flash disk, and insert into the XO-1.5. When your power up, it will just
 get into an endless cycle of rebooting.

 http://dev.laptop.org/~dsd/20090714/diskimg1.ext2.gz

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