On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 11:07:03AM +0200, Martin Welk wrote: > Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> wrote on 27.04.2005 04:57:06: > > > yaboot does not support running from a FAT filesystem. > > > > on IBM hardware the yaboot image should be dd'ed directory to the > > bootstrap partition, which is what ybin will do. the config is found > > on the root filesystem. > > SLES9 on POWER is definitely converting the former type 41 PReP > partition to FAT and puts a yaboot.cnf, the yaboot binary, the > Linux kernel and the initrd into that FAT file system. You can > see this in the /sbin/lilo script. This happens, when the partition > containing the kernel cannot be accessed by yaboot natively. > Our kernel is on a software RAID array and therefore, it cannot > be read by yaboot directly. > > As the machines boot properly, I would say, yaboot _is_ supporting > booting from FAT. not my yaboot. as stated on the yaboot web page, suse is using a bastardized, broken and UNSUPPORTED fork. I am upstream yaboot, and the only yaboot I support is that which is distributed from penguinppc.org. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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