On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 12:09:03PM +0200, Andrei Verovski wrote: > >your probably better off leaving your root partition small, and ext2 > >(so you can boot, yaboot doesn't support anything but ext2 right > >now. (yes i know about the unofficial reiser patch, it needs testing > >first)). then if you create the rest of your partitions strategecly > >you can backup say /var to /home, mkxfs /dev/var, recopy /var back, > >then do the same with /usr and such. > > > > The current yaboot with reiserfs patch (avavilable on SuSE ftp) does NOT > supports yet separate /boot ext2 and root reiserfs partitions (it throws > in open formware). You have to make a single Linux partition or wait > until yaboot will be fixed.
ok, thanks for the note. however mainline yaboot 1.2.1 while NOT supporting reiserfs DOES support separate ext2 /boot partitions. just use yabootconfig to generate a working config for this setup, or rtfm. (don't ask me ill just say `rtfm'). -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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