On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 12:58:53PM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Thu, Feb 10, 2000, Hartmut Koptein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Benjamin: is this fixed now for powerpc's with msdos fs-type? > > > > Two solutions: yaboot reads also yaboot.con or rename it to > > yaboot.cfg > > No, not yet. I've been busy with other things and I forgot this one. It > would be interesting to test the behaviour of OF MS-DOS filesystem with > yaboot.conf (will it try to load yaboot.con, or won't work at all?). I'll > try to get this fixed this week with a fallback mecanism (I can't easily > detect that we are on a FAT fs yet, but I can try to load yaboot.cfg when > yaboot.conf fails).
I have tried testing yaboot with DOSfs but OF will reject DOSfs unless you also use DOS partition tables, which yaboot does not understand. I wrote my install scripts to install /etc/yaboot.conf as yaboot.cnf when the bootstrap partition is in DOS format. -- Ethan Benson
