On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 10:21:25AM -0500, pstrauss@ln.us.itmasters.com wrote: > >send me the output of fdisk -l /dev/sda > > >or whatever your root disk is. > > <output> > stewie:/home/phil# fdisk -l /dev/sda > > Disk /dev/sda: 70 heads, 62 sectors, 1014 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 4340 * 512 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 1 1 2139 41 PPC PReP Boot > /dev/sda2 2 6 10850 83 Linux > /dev/sda3 7 67 132370 82 Linux swap > /dev/sda4 68 1014 2054990 83 Linux > > stewie:/home/phil# fdisk -l /dev/sdb > > Disk /dev/sdb: 70 heads, 62 sectors, 1014 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 4340 * 512 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sdb1 1 1014 2200349 83 Linux > </output> ok, this might have something to do with it, what is /dev/sdb1 ? if its your / filesystem then that would explain the problem. yabootconfig requires that the bootstrap partition be on the same disk as your root partition. getting around that is tricky since i would need to figure out all the disks you have and search them all... can you run: /bin/sh -x yabootconfig 2>&1 > yabootconfig.trace and mail me the .trace file? thanks. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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