Subject: Re: Strange, man...just plain strange!
ghannon@cspi.com
Date: Wed Oct 31 2001 - 09:50:57 MST
Chip,
From what I've seen there is no need to do anything with the small boot
partition except create it.
The installer does what ever needs to be done.
I've not tried 2.1 but on 2.0 that's the case, and I can't imagine it
changing.
I just specify mount points on the ext2 partitions I create. ( / is done,
I add /usr, /home, and /scratch)
I also have not had to touch open firmware during the install either.
Mileage may vary on different systems (?). I've been working with
new-world only.
/boot is a directory on the root partition that contains kernels and System
maps, etc.
The boot partition is a different animal all together, and was correctly
described in another email.
Have you already tried using this approach?
It takes a little more than 40 minutes, I would guess, but not much more.
( I do the "everything" install.)
Good luck,
G. Hannon
Chip Witt <chip.witt@westwave.com> on 10/30/2001 09:56:19 PM
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Subject: Re: Strange, man...just plain strange!
Well, after much work I'm back where I began. Pointing Open Firmware to the
partition that should have the bootstrap info in it fails.
When I tried formating an HFS partition via the MacOS boot disks, YD 2.1
installer does not recognize it as a valid partition in which to place the
yaboot stuff. It forces me to create the partition for the bootloader from
within the partitioning section of the installer. When I do this, the
partition is not created correctly (creating a
filesystem labelled as either "none" or "swap" -- even if I delete the old
partitions, save, create new partitions, and save), and although the
bootloader section of the YD installer claims to find the correct partition
and allegedly installs the yaboot stuff, the partition does not have the
cheese to boot into the OS.
On the upside, I can now blaze through the entire text-based YD 2.1
installer in my sleep (and will probably have resulting nightmares).
Downside, I downloaded MandrakePPC 8.0 and got all but X working on my
loverly little Powerbook G4 in about 40 minutes from boot to reboot. Just
tried it out to reassure myself that I do know what I'm doing and it's not
the hardware. Hate to be a traitor after buying the YD 2.1 disks (and the
T-shirt), but I'm afraid I may have no choice
unless someone out there has a mighty fine suggestion.
Cheers.
CW
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