On 7/12/06, brian <cymraegish@yahoo.com> wrote:
Before you start over... might try typing "man bootstrap" -- it will give some hint on what tbxi refers to. just in case some one or other makes an error, it helps to understand a little bit about what's going on ??? half the reason i am here anyway, the other half to escape those who would dictate my thinking for me ... particularly, it is confusing to me why he is supposed to need *two* little partitions, one for yaboot, the other for ??? (?driver partitions?) brian
I'm sure if you are addressing my reply to the OP question; but I'll chime in =) I suggested the /boot partition separate from the / for no other reasons than: 1) I'm old and thats the way I've always done it (since even when SuSE ran on PowerPC). These days the actual variety of "usable" distros that run on PowerPC is a toss up between FC and Debian (and related, like Ubuntu)... 2) Some boot managers expect it to be separate and formated as ext2 (as opposed to ext3) -- however these days yaboot can see the boot software even inside / when formated at ext3. The other "little" partition you are possibly referring to is the Apple Disk Label, all Macs (and Ultrasparcs for another example) must have a Disk Label and it must be first AND it must be formated a particular way -- it's only 32KB so its not like its gonna eat a lot of diskspace, even with a 6GB disk (which is what shipped originally in my iMac.) On PowerPC (read Apple) hard drives it must be formated as HFSl on Ultrasparcs it must be formated as a recognized SUN Disk Label (which I give again, as an example.) That's the way I see it has to be and unless someone can provide step-by-step proof of how to "make" it work another way thats the way I'm gonna keep doing it =) Cheers =) -- WC (Bill) Jones -- http://youve-reached-the.endoftheinternet.org/