"Ethan Benson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 07:55:53PM -0600, Jason E. Stewart wrote: > > ybin: for updates > mkofboot: for new clean bootloader installs. > > mkofboot formats, ybin does not.
Never read the man page for mkofboot. > actually i am surprised that worked, manual kernel loading is rather > broken with potato's yaboot. actually what i think really happened is > you loaded the CD's kernel with a argument of `root=/dev/hda13' not > the kernel on the disk (since yaboot in potato ignores that entirely > and uses the first image in the config regardless) in this case it > didn't matter but if you needed the kernel on the disk for whatever > reason it would have been a problem. believe it... ;-) Unless the stock kernel on the Potato CD have had the reiser patches applied, there ain't no way they would be able to read /dev/hda13 ... One issue is that I have the very first release Potato CD's not r2/3 or whatever we're up to. I think they've got yaboot 0.6 jas.
