Re: yaboot partition + /boot partition ?
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 12:55:21PM -0800, Brad Boyer wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:19:36PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > This /boot would most naturally use ext2/ext3, but a more appealing
> > solution would be to make /boot into an hfsplus partition so I can
> > put yaboot in it as well.
> >
> > Yet, the yaboot documentation says:
> >
> > While it's possible to install <prgn>yaboot</prgn> on a mountable HFS
> > <file>/boot</file> partition, that configuration is deprecated,
> > discouraged and completely unsupported.
> >
> > Does anyone know *why* this is discouraged?
>
> As I remember it, the biggest issue was that if you mark it as a type
> of Apple_HFS so that you can mount it from macos it will become
> unbootable after it gets mounted by the macos. One of the reasons
> people wanted yaboot on /boot was to write new kernels and configs
> from the macos. I think there were also worries about corrupting
> the filesystem due to bugs in the hfs and/or hfsplus drivers in Linux.
That was the official story. My evaluation was that the hfs bugs were a
legitimate problem while the other was related to an inherently flawed
approach. My system provided easy access to Open Firmware so I just told
it to boot yaboot directly and completely ignored that flakey "fake
system folder" method.
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Michael Heironimus
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