Bug#559853: Yaboot does not handle ext4 root partition?
Fedora 12 has paches for yaboot for ext4 partition. And fedora yaboot works fine for me. -- AK
Bug#559853: Yaboot does not handle ext4 root partition?
On Dec 8, 2009, at 2:24 AM, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 11:49:44PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: [snip] I don't recall an offer from the installer to try installing grub2. Is there an incantation I'm not aware of that makes that possible? If you boot the debian install cd and choose rescue mode you can install grub2 using apt-get or aptitude. You should have a working network connection so it can fetch the packages. On Dec 8, 2009, at 3:02 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 23:49 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: I don't recall an offer from the installer to try installing grub2. Is there an incantation I'm not aware of that makes that possible? Not that I know of, but that's just the beginning of 'still a little tricky to set up'. Thanks for the encouragement, Amit & Michel! Can you be a bit more specific about the necessary magic to install grub2 on a G4 PowerPC Mac? At first this was just a thing that might be fun to try out. Now it's become a quest! Thanks again, Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#559853: Yaboot does not handle ext4 root partition?
Hi, all.
On Dec 07 2009, Rick Thomas wrote:
> I assume that a separate /boot partition that is formatted ext2
> would allow yaboot to do it's thing with a root partition formatted
> ext4. Do you know for sure?
This would definitely work. Also, do you need a extremely modular
kernel, as that of a distribution? If not, then it would be a good thing
to compile in ext4 support in the kernel.
Then, you could potentially avoid the extra partition with a trick like
Branden's installation instructions, putting things in the same HFS
partition that yaboot gets installed on.
Regards, Rogério Brito.
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Bug#559853: Yaboot does not handle ext4 root partition?
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 23:49 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > > I don't recall an offer from the installer to try installing grub2. Is > there an incantation I'm not aware of that makes that possible? Not that I know of, but that's just the beginning of 'still a little tricky to set up'. > I assume that a separate /boot partition that is formatted ext2 would > allow yaboot to do it's thing with a root partition formatted ext4. Sure, yaboot only needs to read the kernel and initrd. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer |http://www.vmware.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#559853: Yaboot does not handle ext4 root partition?
Michel Dänzer wrote: On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 16:58 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: I installed a squeeze" system (using the sid d-i netinst image) and just for fun I decided to try setting root up as an ext4 filesystem. All went well until the reboot into the new system. TTBOMK yaboot indeed doesn't support ext4 yet. Where did you get the impression that it did? grub2 does support it, but is still a little tricky to set up. I had no reason to expect yaboot to support ext4, now that you mention it. I just thought it would be fun to give it a try. I don't recall an offer from the installer to try installing grub2. Is there an incantation I'm not aware of that makes that possible? I assume that a separate /boot partition that is formatted ext2 would allow yaboot to do it's thing with a root partition formatted ext4. Do you know for sure? Enjoy! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
