Re: Yaboot does not handle ext4 root partition?

2009-12-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 8, 2009, at 7:13 PM, Geoff Levand wrote: On 12/07/2009 02:56 PM, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 16:58 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: I installed a squeeze" system (using the sid d-i netinst image) and just for fun I decided to try setting root up as an ext4 filesystem. All went

Re: Yaboot does not handle ext4 root partition?

2009-12-08 Thread Geoff Levand
On 12/07/2009 02:56 PM, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 16:58 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: >> I installed a squeeze" system (using the sid d-i netinst image) and >> just for fun I >> decided to try setting root up as an ext4 filesystem. >> >> All went well until the reboot into the ne

Re: Yaboot does not handle ext4 root partition?

2009-12-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 8, 2009, at 2:24 AM, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 11:49:44PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: [snip] I don't recall an offer from the installer to try installing grub2. Is there an incantation I'm not aware of that makes that possible? If you boot the debian install c

Re: Yaboot does not handle ext4 root partition?

2009-12-08 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, all. On Dec 07 2009, Rick Thomas wrote: > I assume that a separate /boot partition that is formatted ext2 > would allow yaboot to do it's thing with a root partition formatted > ext4. Do you know for sure? This would definitely work. Also, do you need a extremely modular kernel, as that of a

Re: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.6-1 + libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6-1 working on PowerBook5.8?

2009-12-08 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi All On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 12:44:05PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > But because I have slight usability problems with that mixed versions > scenario on the PB5,8 - e.g. criticalmass, a game that uses OpenGL, is > very slow, and basically unusable here over the last times I used it - > I

Re: Yaboot does not handle ext4 root partition?

2009-12-08 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 23:49 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > > I don't recall an offer from the installer to try installing grub2. Is > there an incantation I'm not aware of that makes that possible? Not that I know of, but that's just the beginning of 'still a little tricky to set up'. > I assum