YDL 4.0 boot problem

[friedo at friedo.com]

In case anyone cares, I was able to solve this by changing my partitions
to ext2. Apparently yaboot does not work with ext3 boot partitions. That's
a shame, as I would liked to have had them all ext3, but this works.


> I have a G4 867MHz with two IDE HD's (200GB and 80GB). I am trying to
> install YDL4.0 from the ydl.net ISO images as the only OS. I can boot
> from the CD into the text installer and everything seems to go fine,
> however, when I boot the machine from the HD, yaboot fails to find the
> kernel image, complaining of "invalid or corrupt filesystem."
>
> I don't think there's anything wrong with the install, as I can boot
> from the CD and mount the filesystems and everything appears to be fine.
> The yaboot.conf seems to be set up correctly, although it's been a long
> time since I've messed with yaboot so I'm not sure. It points to the
> correct partition (#5) which has the /boot directory and the kernel
> images.
>
> I thought that yaboot might be trying to boot from the wrong drive; the
> root filesystem (including /boot) is on hda5, but I also used hdb for
> swap space and /home.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
>
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