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Re: yaboot.conf: RTFM



On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 06:30:57PM -0700, Benjamin Kite wrote:
> 
> Doesn't this imply that if "partition" is left blank, "image" will
> be used to determine the default partition? Why is it, then, necessary
> to specify "partition", since the behavior of the program as documented
> is to determine the value of "partition" from "image" if it is 
> available?

because yaboot has no idea what the root partition is.  yaboot does
not understand root=

> Perhaps the FM needs to be corrected.

ybin 1.1 has a much improved yaboot.conf man page.  it is not yet
packaged in debian however.

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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