YDL 4.0 boot problem

[friedo at friedo.com]

After some more googling I found out that some model Macs have problems
loading kernels from high partition numbers. I re-organized my partition
table to have / at the beginning (hda3, right after the Apple Bootstrap)
and now everything works! All my partitions are ext3 and yaboot has no
trouble booting the kernel from hda3. Having the kernel on hda5 seems to
have been the problem, regardless of filesystem.


> 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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