On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 06:28:15PM -0600, Jason E. Stewart wrote: > Hey, > > So after having gotten reiserfs working, I want to move my root > partition over to reiserfs. Apparently yaboot can't yet handle loading > kernels off reiserfs so I need to have my kernels on a separate ext2 > partition. yes, no kernels on HFS. in this case you can use an ext2 /boot partition. > What would the .conf look like for this? I read the man pages but > wasn't quite sure, and I don't want to fsck this one up... man pages are much better now in the yaboot package which should be in sid by now. (thanks drow!) > This is on a pismo laptop with the internal ide drive (/dev/hda). > > /dev/hda13 is my new reiserfs partition that I want to make root. > /dev/hda11 is is the old ext2 partition that has my kernels. > The image is /boot/vmlinux i assume /dev/hda11 is mounted on /boot ? > is this correct? > > image=/boot/vmlinux > label=Linux-reiser > append="video=aty128fb:crt:1" > partition=11 > root=/dev/hda13 > read-only yes this should work. you can also move the partition=11 to the global section if you want, then it will apply to all image sections. > Thanks (Ethan ;-) no problem. someone should look at adding reiserfs (and xfs) support to yaboot, it shouldn't be too difficult... perhaps the grub code could be used at least in part. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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