On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 08:30:07PM -0600, Damon Garn wrote: > yaboot on it's own partition? I thought it was on the /boot partition for > Mandrake PPC? And that the Open Firmware would go to the blessed partition > then get redirected to the /boot where yaboot exists? I'm thinking I'm way > off base here... > > Can I ask for partitioning suggestions based on the following info: > OSX on the first 7.5GB > Data on the second 7.5GB > > >From there my assumption was the "blessed partition" had its own space, a > separate /boot partition of about 40MB was needed, a / partition for the > file system was necessary, the a swap partition for virtual memory. Is that > wrong? Should the /boot and "blessed" partitions be the same? Is that where > I've gone wrong? When I looked at the installer's depiction of the > partitions I could see the two Mac partitions, then the 4 above listed > partitions (with the blessed partition just following the two Mac > partitions)...
/boot is on the / partition for Mandrake PPC. Linux/PPC uses the /boot as the bootstrap. Mandrake uses a small 1MB bootstrap partition and then puts /boot on just the root partition. Just a fundamentally different boot design. Threw me at first too. But as a result yaboot basically gets it's own partition, the bootstrap. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org Never take no as an answer from someone who isn't authorized to say yes.
