On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 02:32:31PM -0800, Matt Kraai wrote: > On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 11:20:14PM +0100, Florian Lohoff wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 01:19:45PM -0800, Matt Kraai wrote: > > > No. The file system must be mounted for is_fstype, and hence > > > verify_powerpc_mount, to work correctly. Since it isn't > > > mounted, is_fstype always returns false, so verify_powerpc_mount > > > always decides that the /boot partition file system is not > > > supported. > > > > Might it be that its intentional to return false if /boot is a seperate > > filesystem ? I could imageing that there are bootloaders which > > are not able to follow a interpartition symlink. "delo" and "arcboot" > > the Decstation and SGI Indy/Indigo2 bootloaders definitly cant thus > > it would be a good idea not to offer a seperate /boot partition and > > to give an error that the architectures bootloader is not able > > to cope with that. > > The PowerPC boot loaders support a separate /boot partition (or > so the comments lead me to believe). If your's doesn't, feel > free to add sanity checks for your architecture. It seems to me that quik doesn't, at least not very well. Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <stephen@marenka.net>
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