On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Henrik Edlund wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Jonathan Sailor wrote:
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> JS> I might suggest making an ext2 partition for /boot just to make
> JS> yaboot happy. Or since yaboot needs an HFS partition, you might just
> JS> want one HFS partition for yaboot and /boot.
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> Can I, or should I, have /boot as an HFS partition? How does that work? (I
> am pretty new to running Linux on Mac hardware, but have experience since
> 1993 on x86. I just did the huge decision to move from the x86 entirely to
> the PPC architecture.)
>
You can, and I believe LinuxPPC does this, but I don't see the benefit.
We mix MacOS and Linux as little as possible. The bootstrap is a
necessary evil, but the rest of the OS resides on the Linux side. Back
when BootX was the norm, there was a benefit to being able to move kernels
etc. back and forth between MacOS and Linux, but it's really not needed
now, on NewWorld machines. I have also operated with a larger bootstrap
and put the kernel there, but what do you really gain? If the filesystem
is trashed enough to lose the kernel, you're not going to get very far
anyway, and you may as well resort to using the install CD in rescue mode
to pick up the pieces.
Stew Benedict
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