Re: Yaboot is wonderful ...
"Ethan Benson" <erbenson@alaska.net> writes:
> On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 07:55:53PM -0600, Jason E. Stewart wrote:
>
> ybin: for updates
> mkofboot: for new clean bootloader installs.
>
> mkofboot formats, ybin does not.
Never read the man page for mkofboot.
> actually i am surprised that worked, manual kernel loading is rather
> broken with potato's yaboot. actually what i think really happened is
> you loaded the CD's kernel with a argument of `root=/dev/hda13' not
> the kernel on the disk (since yaboot in potato ignores that entirely
> and uses the first image in the config regardless) in this case it
> didn't matter but if you needed the kernel on the disk for whatever
> reason it would have been a problem.
believe it... ;-)
Unless the stock kernel on the Potato CD have had the reiser patches
applied, there ain't no way they would be able to read /dev/hda13 ...
One issue is that I have the very first release Potato CD's not r2/3
or whatever we're up to. I think they've got yaboot 0.6
jas.
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