YDL 4.0 boot problem

[Terrence Bradshaw]

Interseting - I have a DP G4 500Mhz with only a / filesystem that is ext3 
and i have no problems booting YDL 4.0.


On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 friedo at friedo.com wrote:

> 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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