#12678 NORM 13.2.0: q7b26 does not boot with an NTFS filesystem on USB drive attached

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#12678: q7b26 does not boot with an NTFS filesystem on USB drive attached
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           Reporter:  Quozl                |       Owner:  Quozl               
               Type:  defect               |      Status:  new                 
           Priority:  normal               |   Milestone:  13.2.0              
          Component:  ofw - open firmware  |     Version:  Development firmware
         Resolution:                       |    Keywords:                      
        Next_action:  package              |    Verified:  0                   
Deployment_affected:                       |   Blockedby:                      
           Blocking:                       |  
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Changes (by Quozl):

  * next_action:  never set => package
  * milestone:  Not Triaged => 13.2.0


Comment:

 Further research:
  * traced to ''/packages/disk-label'' method ''load'', which returns zero
 size,
  * no filesystem driver was interposed by the ''disk-label'' package,
  * there is no filesystem driver for NTFS in Open Firmware,
  * a device open for ''u:\boot\olpc.fth'' does succeed, despite the
 missing filesystem driver,
  * if the device open would fail instead, the next device in the ''boot-
 device'' order will be tried,

 [http://tracker.coreboot.org/trac/openfirmware/changeset/3657 svn 3657]
 changes the ''disk-label'' package ''open'' method to ''abort'' rather
 than ''exit'' when a filesystem driver identified by the partition type is
 not present in the build.

 A tested development build is available as
 [http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/q7b30jd.rom q7b30jd.rom].

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/12678#comment:3>
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