On 1/29/19 9:00 AM, Michael Cree wrote: >> Yaboot is unmaintained upstream and does not support modern ext4 features. In >> order for Yaboot to work properly, you have to turn certain features in ext4 >> off, otherwise it won't work and the boot fails. > > Can you not have an ext3 boot partition and the rest of the OS on > an ext4 partition?
Yes, you can. But I still don't want to keep Yaboot as it also requires a horribly outdated version of e2fslibs-dev which doesn't even build in a current unstable chroot [1]. I had to use a very crude hack to get Yaboot to build at all which speaks for itself. The codebase is just horribly outdated and broken. It was last updated upstream 8 years ago [2]. If Yaboot actually didn't have any issues with ext4, would actually build against modern versions of e2fslibs-dev, supporters would have a point, maybe. But under the current circumstances, I consider working on Yaboot a waste of time. Adrian > [1] > http://snapshot.debian.org/package/e2fsprogs1.41/1.41.14-2/#e2fslibs1.41-dev_1.41.14-2 > [2] http://git.ozlabs.org/?p=yaboot.git -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
