From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D9531389F8 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2013 13:13:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2FF5FE060F; Wed, 13 Feb 2013 13:13:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpout.karoo.kcom.com (smtpout.karoo.kcom.com [212.50.160.34]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B12EE05F9 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2013 13:13:13 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,657,1355097600"; d="scan'208";a="632268" Received: from 213-152-39-89.dsl.eclipse.net.uk (HELO compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org) ([213.152.39.89]) by smtpout.karoo.kcom.com with ESMTP; 13 Feb 2013 13:12:54 +0000 Received: from [192.168.11.4] (unknown [192.168.11.4]) by compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DDEC12854 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2013 13:12:10 +0000 (GMT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1283) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone got a 2009 - 2011 PPC LiveCD From: Stroller In-Reply-To: <20130213103615.GA8071@alpha> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 13:12:52 +0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <20130213093140.GA8017@alpha> <0236828A-7B60-42AC-BD65-E797D24AD711@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <20130213103615.GA8071@alpha> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1283) X-Archives-Salt: 6310baa4-2a15-467e-86fa-b84b1244d029 X-Archives-Hash: d0b38ea3db7f36865980860c8ecf7dff On 13 February 2013, at 10:36, Michael Volland wrote: >> ... >> I hadn't posted back before because it looks like yaboot doesn't = support ext3, so I'm now having to go back and make a separate /boot = partition.=20 >=20 > I boot my G5 late 2005 from ext4 with yaboot: This statement caught me just finished dd'ing a filesystem back into the = new partition, having rearranged everything and created a 100mb boot = partition. So it took me a little while before I could test. Good news: = I've got it working, now. Bad news: because I don't need that separate = /boot, and to keep things tidy, I'm going to have to undo all my = repartitioning before I continue much further. > sys-boot/yaboot-static-1.3.16-r1 >=20 > I don't know anything about G4's, but for me it was, as far as I > remember mandatory to use the static version of yaboot. Ah, I had installed sys-boot/yaboot (I think that's what the manual = suggested) and it has now started booting from my ext4 filesystem. I saw a message about being unable to load VFS, about sda5 not being = found, and then something about "hd:" repeated a few times. I commented / changed my yaboot.com thusly: image=3D/boot/vmlinux-3.5.7-gentoo label=3DLinux #root=3D/dev/sda5 root=3D/dev/hda5 partition=3D5 read-only ran `ybin -v` and, on reboot, it worked! I find it a little strange to be using "hdX" rather than "sdX" now, but = I think that's it sorted.=20 It also seems strange that yaboot and yaboot-static differ in this = syntax, but I don't care enough to investigate. Stroller.