Hi!, I've lost your first message so I don't know your specs but here is my experience: 1) the bootstrap partition can be used by more than one distro, you should place the various distro info in the yaboot.conf before running ybin (it only has the binaries to make the booting process); 2) I have always used a /boot partition in PPC, either OldWorld and NewWorld but formatted as ext2 as yaboot cannot read ext3 (at least on the version I have); 3) The several kernels, initrd and System.map for every distribution should be in /boot so it is better if you make it larger than usual; you choose the distro by specifying the root partition and other options (as listed in your yaboot.conf); in that root you will designate the various partitions (specific for each distro or shared by the distros) 4) copy the yaboot.conf to /boot everytime you run ybin to help you share the boot conf.
Hope it helps. bye! G. 2007/6/6, A. Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, Michael Hanselmann wrote: > This is the 800k bootstrap partition, used by yaboot alone (at least > within Linux) and not to be formatted or mounted anywhere. On PowerPC > machines, you shouldn't create a /boot partition. Read the docs, please. I figured it out but you really should go back and re-read my post. I did not mention /boot anywhere and YES I DID read the docs so maybe you could be a little less insulting next time? From http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-ppc.xml?part=1&chap=4#doc_chap3: "Second, create an Apple_Bootstrap partition by using b. It will ask for what block you want to start. Enter the number of your first free partition, followed by a p. For instance this is 2p." I already had what looked like a boot partition but I was asking here to make sure I was doing the right thing by ignoring what the docs say in my particular situation (which, as I mentioned, was a machine which already had another distro on it). Sheesh. -- A -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
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