Re: powermac and ext4 as root fs (workaround)

Got it. It is easier than I thought.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=792657

We just missing copy=true in case of pmac and ext4/lvm/btrfs.

I'm not sure about assignee for that bug. Let see.

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Dinar Valeev <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Alexander Graf <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 04.12.2012, at 11:59, Dinar Valeev <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> JFYI tested that on 12.2 (build 22). Should work on Factory as well.
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Alex
>>
>>>>
>>>> Ciao, Marcus
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