YDL 4.0 boot problem

[Rick Thomas]

Can you get away with making a small (50 MB or so) "/boot" ext2 
partition? Then you could have / and all the rest be etx3...  You 
would need an initial ramdisk that mounted the real root and 
switched over to it...

Rick


On Thursday, October 21, 2004, at 12:44 AM, <friedo at friedo.com> wrote:

> 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.