On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, 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... > bootstrap != /boot One distro did that (LinuxPPC?), and a lot of people assume that, but it's not the case. The bootstrap partition holds only the parts of yaboot needed to boot the machine. /boot is exactly as it would be on x86. The bootstrap is not mounted on the Linux side, and only accessed when you run ybin. Folks that have tried to treat the bootstrap as /boot duing the install end up with a bit of a mess, since we only allocate 1MB for it, and the kernel/initrd generally take up a bit more than that. > Can I ask for partitioning suggestions based on the following info: > OSX on the first 7.5GB > Data on the second 7.5GB > If you're indeed hitting the 1st 2GB issue. (I forget, is this an old iMac?), OSX on the 1st 7.5GB is the problem. You need 1 MB bootstrap somewhere in the 1st 2GB. > >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)... > The above is correct. A seperate /boot isn't mandatory, but some folks like to share it between Linux installs. A seperate bootstrap, or "blessed" partition is definitely part of our configuration on NewWorld machines. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.openproject.net #cooker-ppc
