Re: powermac and ext4 as root fs (workaround)

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Alexander Graf <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On 04.12.2012, at 11:59, Dinar Valeev <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Marcus Meissner <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 12:03:58AM +0100, Dinar Valeev wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> it seems I've found a problem why neither root on lvm or ext4 doesn't work.
>>>> It is just not implemented in our lilo (yaboot wrapper). To workaround
>>>> that, you need to manually create /boot on ext2 (or ext3) during
>>>> installation.
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>>>> I wonder if somebody tried openSUSE 11.1 or SLES11 with this scenario
>>>> on powermac.
>>>> In order to fix that we need to fix yast2-storage so it will put /boot
>>>> on ext2 or ext3 partition.
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>>>> JFYI tested that on 12.2 (build 22). Should work on Factory as well.
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>>> SLES11 did/does not have ext4 support directly, so it probably did not show up.
>> But it supports lvm/btrfs, which should do basically the same.
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> Yeah, but pmac is also not supported on SLES11 :)
But openSUSE 11.1.

Actually I was wrong. We just need to copy initrd to hfs partition.
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> Alex
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>>> Ciao, Marcus
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