Re: Yaboot does not handle ext4 root partition?

To: Rick Thomas <rbthomas55@pobox.com>
Cc: PowerPC List Debian <debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Yaboot does not handle ext4 root partition?
From: Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:56:18 +0100
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On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 16:58 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: 
> I installed a squeeze" system (using the sid d-i netinst image) and  
> just for fun I
> decided to try setting root up as an ext4 filesystem.
> 
> All went well until the reboot into the new system.

TTBOMK yaboot indeed doesn't support ext4 yet. Where did you get the
impression that it did?

grub2 does support it, but is still a little tricky to set up.


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