Re: confused by yaboot
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 12:58:53PM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 10, 2000, Hartmut Koptein <koptein@inwestnet.de> wrote:
> >
> > >Benjamin: is this fixed now for powerpc's with msdos fs-type?
> > >
> > > Two solutions: yaboot reads also yaboot.con or rename it to
> > > yaboot.cfg
> >
> > No, not yet. I've been busy with other things and I forgot this one. It
> > would be interesting to test the behaviour of OF MS-DOS filesystem with
> > yaboot.conf (will it try to load yaboot.con, or won't work at all?). I'll
> > try to get this fixed this week with a fallback mecanism (I can't easily
> > detect that we are on a FAT fs yet, but I can try to load yaboot.cfg when
> > yaboot.conf fails).
>
> I have tried testing yaboot with DOSfs but OF will reject DOSfs unless
> you also use DOS partition tables, which yaboot does not understand.
I guess that explains my previous question: since I boot kernels from FAT on a
MSDOS formatted disk, I guess the answer is no :-(
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} -- geert@linux-m68k.org
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