YDL 4.0 boot problem

[friedo at friedo.com]

I just tried reinstalling with only the / partition as ext2 and the rest
ext3, and was back to the original error. So apparently yaboot can't deal
with having ANY ext3 partitions at all, which I find baffling. The only
way I can get it to work is to make everything ext2.

> 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.
>
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