On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 12:55:21PM -0800, Brad Boyer wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:19:36PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > This /boot would most naturally use ext2/ext3, but a more appealing > > solution would be to make /boot into an hfsplus partition so I can > > put yaboot in it as well. > > > > Yet, the yaboot documentation says: > > > > While it's possible to install <prgn>yaboot</prgn> on a mountable HFS > > <file>/boot</file> partition, that configuration is deprecated, > > discouraged and completely unsupported. > > > > Does anyone know *why* this is discouraged? > > As I remember it, the biggest issue was that if you mark it as a type > of Apple_HFS so that you can mount it from macos it will become > unbootable after it gets mounted by the macos. One of the reasons > people wanted yaboot on /boot was to write new kernels and configs > from the macos. I think there were also worries about corrupting > the filesystem due to bugs in the hfs and/or hfsplus drivers in Linux.
That was the official story. My evaluation was that the hfs bugs were a legitimate problem while the other was related to an inherently flawed approach. My system provided easy access to Open Firmware so I just told it to boot yaboot directly and completely ignored that flakey "fake system folder" method. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
