Reposting to correct typo in Subject line. (@#$% spelling correctors!)
> On Sep 26, 2017, at 2:48 AM, Rick Thomas <rbtho...@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>
>> On Sep 26, 2017, at 2:20 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
>> <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>>
>>>> In this context, I just found this commit [2] which added the /boot
>>>> partition. Note the
>>>> additional "$defaultignore{}" designation which apparently means the
>>>> partition is not
>>>> created in all cases.
>>> In light of the above, it seems that it should not be ignored by default.
>>
>> Well, this is something that we should discuss and we should probably
>> open a new discussion for that. We are now facing the situation that
>> Yaboot is not able to work with modern filesystems and we have multiple
>> possible ways to address this issue.
>
> There is precedent for always having an ext2 /boot partition. Any arm system
> that uses u-boot needs the filesystem it reads from the be either ext2 or
> fat. So the installer creates an ext2 /boot by default.
>
> Until we get grub working, would it be possible to temporarily remove the
> "$defaultignore{}”, just as a convenience to keep yaboot happy?
>
> Rick
