On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 07:57:05AM -0500, Vinai wrote: > On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote: > > } I learned from HOW-TOs that yaboot (lilo-like tool for powerpc?!?) > } preferably wants a small ext2 partition for /boot like you do > } sometimes on ix86 platforms as well. > > Actually, for booting, it is not a small ext2 partition. It is an > HFS partition, and when you are using pdisk to create it, you have to > create it with type "Apple_Bootstrap". and it should NEVER *EVER* under ANY circumstances be mounted on /boot or anywhere else for that matter. this partition should NOT contain kernels. > Quik is an OF bootloader for old world machines. I am not sure if it > works on the new world machines. it will not. > Take a look at: > > http://linuxppc.org/hardware/blueg3/articles/yaboot.php3 > > None of the information there is LinuxPPC specific, except booting and > drive parititioning. But I was able to use those pages (and the yaboot > FAQ linked to on that page) to get Potato installed on my Lombard just > a few days ago. nearly everything on linuxppc.org is LinuxPPC specific. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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