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Sorry but I'm running some Power6 hardware and I have a different experience. Here is the results of the a few commands : root@alopex-lagopus:~# sfdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 70006 cylinders, 128 heads, 32 sectors/track Units = cylinders of 2097152 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 0+ 3 4- 7168 41 PPC PReP Boot start: (c,h,s) expected (0,64,1) found (0,32,33) end: (c,h,s) expected (3,127,32) found (1,5,4) /dev/sda2 4 247 244 499712 83 Linux start: (c,h,s) expected (4,0,1) found (1,5,5) end: (c,h,s) expected (247,127,32) found (63,58,59) /dev/sda3 248 70006- 69759- 142865408 8e Linux LVM start: (c,h,s) expected (248,0,1) found (63,58,60) end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,127,32) found (1023,254,63) /dev/sda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty root@alopex-lagopus:~# dpkg -l yaboot Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ ii yaboot 1.3.16-2 Yet Another Bootloader So yaboot on IBM hardware install in a Prep boot partition without pb. This hardware, running squeeze, was installed using the official debian install CD. I hope it will help, xavier Le 02/03/2011 13:19, Super Bisquit a écrit : > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Adrian Zaugg > <adrian.za...@ivt.baug.ethz.ch>wrote: > >> Hello >> >> I have partitioned my boot disk in a IBM Power 740 Express with cfdisk >> (msdos disk labels) to have a PReP bootpartition first and a Linux >> partition behind it. The system doesn't recognize this disk as a boot >> disk, although I have activated it. >> >> Some questions do arise: >> - Can I use PC disklabels on the boot disk? >> > Nope. Apple Partition Map only > >> - Is it correct to write yaboot to the PReP boot partition with no >> filesystem? >> > Yaboot requires HFS. This is due to the limits of Open Firmware. > >> - Does yaboot support ext4 for the Linux partition? >> > It boots the kernel. You have to enable that in your kernel. You can add > later and use ln -s. > >> - What do I have to do that IBM SMS recognizes my disk as a bootable media? >> > Have you tried entering the boot path? > >> >> Thank you for your help! >> >> Regards, Adrian. >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >> listmas...@lists.debian.org >> Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d6cfba4.9010...@ivt.baug.ethz.ch >> >> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk1uSOIACgkQVIZi0A5BZF6drgCdEI1Qb69uiYfz9TjZIEbyzV7a tmkAn19paOFxdNdI6YX7d+GMMvB8Fio7 =9rEy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d6e48e2.5070...@ipno.in2p3.fr