Re: Yaboot does not handle ext4 root partition?

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas55@pobox.com>]

On Dec 8, 2009, at 7:13 PM, Geoff Levand wrote:

> On 12/07/2009 02:56 PM, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Just FYI, Petitboot now also has ext4 support.  Currently Petitboot
> only supports the PS3 though.  Mac G5 support is in progress.
>
> -Geoff


Way Cool!  Will the Mac support be G5 specific?
Any chance of supporting new-world G4 and G3 machines?

And I guess old-world is *way* too much to hope for  /-:

Rick