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Re: New discussion: ppc64 installer -- ext2 /boot partition to keep sabot happy.



On 09/26/2017 09:47 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 09/26/2017 03:00 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> I'm still a bit undecided about the ext4 issue with Yaboot. I actually
>> would tend to always use the ext2 /boot partitions for all installations
>> and revert the work-around used for partman-ext3.
> 
> Hmm, I just gave that a try and I still get the original error message
> about the corrupt filesystem because Yaboot tries to read in
> /etc/yaboot.conf
> from partition 3 which is the root partition with ext4.
> 
> So, it seems that your original suggestion to just enable an ext2 /boot
> partition is not enough. Yaboot's configuration file also needs to
> be accessible on a non-ext4 partition.


If I remember it right, there should also be a separate yaboot.conf file
in the small HFS partition. That one has different content from
/etc/yaboot.conf located in the root partition.


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