On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 10:45:42PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote:
> I gave it a whirl. I used the same procedure as described in my previous
> report.
>
> The differences I noticed were:
>
> When it got to partitioning I chose (as last time) “guided — use whole disk”.
> It produced a partitioning th
On 09/26/2017 11:10 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
If you think it would be helpful, I can do it again but leave the partitioning
alone —
not create an ext2 /boot partition. This would verify (or falsify) Frank’s
observation
that yaboot requires ext2.
Yes, can you please test this? Apparently, the /
On Sep 26, 2017, at 12:07 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
wrote:
> On 09/26/2017 07:45 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
>
>> One other oddity I noticed was that the HFS partition was not labeled
>> “bootstrap” as it has always been in the past.
>> The name does not appear to be necessary, but loosing it
On 09/26/2017 09:07 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> When was that machine installed?
>
> In this context, I just found this commit [2] which added the /boot
> partition. Note the
> additional "$defaultignore{}" designation which apparently means the
> partition is not
> created in all cas
On 09/26/2017 07:45 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
> When it got to partitioning I chose (as last time) “guided — use whole disk”.
> It produced a partitioning that had a 1MB HFS partition marked as bootable,
> but no ext2 partition for /boot.
> Based on Frank’s experience that yaboot couldn’t handle ext4
On Sep 25, 2017, at 1:02 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
wrote:
> On 09/25/2017 10:26 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>>> However the partitioning scheme used by “guided — use whole disk" doesn't
>>> produce an HFS+ "bootstrap" partition or an ext2 "/boot" partition.
>>> I created the two m
On 09/25/2017 10:26 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> However the partitioning scheme used by “guided — use whole disk" doesn't
>> produce an HFS+ "bootstrap" partition or an ext2 "/boot" partition.
>> I created the two missing partitions manually, and let it proceed to the
>> “pick a repo
On Sep 25, 2017, at 1:26 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
wrote:
>> I used an earlier CD which went into rescue mode OK.
>
> Hmm. Ok. Do you know when this CD was generated?
Sure… The one that worked was the previous CD from you.
Rick
Hi Rick!
Thanks for your detailed feedback, this is very appreciated.
On 09/25/2017 09:08 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
The partitioner no longer complains about not knowing which partitioning scheme
to use, which is good news.
As I expected and also verified with my POWER7 VM.
However the partit
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