Re: yaboot.conf for kernel on partition other than root

[Michel Dänzer <michdaen@iiic.ethz.ch>]

Jason E. Stewart wrote:

> 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. 
>
> 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...
>
> 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
>
> is this correct?
>
> image=/boot/vmlinux
> 	label=Linux-reiser
>         append="video=aty128fb:crt:1"
>         partition=11
>         root=/dev/hda13
> 	read-only

Yep, looks good (it works for me like that ;). I assume you have all kernels 
on partition 11 so you could make that a global option - just a suggestion.

> Thanks (Ethan ;-)

I hope you also accept an answer from me... :)

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