Re: yaboot problem? OS won't load after install on a Power Mac G5
On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 07:06:30PM +0200, ilko Iliev wrote:
> Hi Christoph,
>
> Indeed, these files seem to exist http://i.imgur.com/uAPd5sL.jpg
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> As to the question regarding the FS type for /boot I'm not really sure, it's whatever comes with this setup http://i.imgur.com/fPYDHbI.jpg
> but there was a setting including "mac newworld" something in the name.
> I took the screenshot during the last install, I tried a couple of times before that trying different partitioning e.g. LVM and others, in one of my attempts I renamed 'boot' from "untitled" to Apple_Bootstrap as I found a post by someone saying it worked for him when he was installing Ubuntu.
>
> P.S. Sorry if not the proper way to reply to a mail list, never used them before :/
OK, that means your kernel and /boot is on partition 3, which is ext4.
That probably won't work these days.
A seperate /boot partition for storing the kernel and ramdisk using ext2
would probably help.
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Len Sorensen
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