Re: confused by yaboot
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 wrote my install scripts to install /etc/yaboot.conf as yaboot.cnf
when the bootstrap partition is in DOS format.
--
Ethan Benson
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