Re: Migrating a pismo to a journalling filesystem

[jason@openinformatics.com (Jason E. Stewart)]

"Ethan Benson" <erbenson@alaska.net> writes:

> On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 12:09:03PM +0200, Andrei Verovski wrote:
> > 
> > The current yaboot with reiserfs patch (avavilable on SuSE ftp) does NOT 
> > supports yet separate /boot ext2 and root reiserfs partitions (it throws 
> > in open formware). You have to make a single Linux partition or wait 
> > until yaboot will be fixed.
> 
> ok, thanks for the note.  
> 
> however mainline yaboot 1.2.1 while NOT supporting reiserfs DOES
> support separate ext2 /boot partitions.  just use yabootconfig to
> generate a working config for this setup, or rtfm.  (don't ask me ill
> just say `rtfm'). 

I've been using an ext2 /boot and a reiserfs /, for over a month using
1.2.1. 

Ethan's manual is excellent, so rtfm.

jas.