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Re: Yabootconfig error on albook 15 inch



On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 03:34:46PM -0500, Pierre Phanor wrote:
> 
> on Thu, 15 Jul 2004 20:42:23 -0800 Ethan Benson wrote:
> >your fstab is quite broken.  there is no such fs type as /ext2, /xfs,
> >or /swap.
> 
> >as for the yabootconfig message that usually occurs when you do:
> 
> >chroot /someinstalltarget yabootconfig
> 
> >instead of:
> 
> >yabootconfig --chroot /someinstalltarget
> 
> 
> Point well taken, one of these days I'll learn how to type.
> Here is a better representation of my /etc/fstab file:
> /dev/hda2            /boot        ext2      noauto,notime     1 2
> /dev/hda4            /            xfs       noatime           0 1
> /dev/hda3            none         swap      sw                0 0
> /dev/cdroms/cdrom0   /mnt/cdrom   iso9600   noauto,user       0 0
> none                 /proc        proc      defaults          0 0
> none                 /dev/shm     tmpfs     defaults          0 0
> 
> However, the issue still stands with yabootconfig.  I am only trying to pass the command without any modifiers or extensions.  I just type in yabootconfig and I still get the same error.  Should I be using the command with the -chrootextension?  I read the man page for it and it dosen't seem applicable.
> Thansk for the response, though.  If anyone has a suggestion or help I'd really appreciate it.

unless your booted into the target system yabootconfig with no
arguments won't work.

it sounds like your expecting yabootconfig to work even though your
in an installation environment.

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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