On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Adrian Zaugg <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hello > > I have partitioned my boot disk in a IBM Power 740 Express with cfdisk > (msdos disk labels) to have a PReP bootpartition first and a Linux > partition behind it. The system doesn't recognize this disk as a boot > disk, although I have activated it. > > Some questions do arise: > - Can I use PC disklabels on the boot disk? > Nope. Apple Partition Map only > - Is it correct to write yaboot to the PReP boot partition with no > filesystem? > Yaboot requires HFS. This is due to the limits of Open Firmware. > - Does yaboot support ext4 for the Linux partition? > It boots the kernel. You have to enable that in your kernel. You can add later and use ln -s. > - What do I have to do that IBM SMS recognizes my disk as a bootable media? > Have you tried entering the boot path? > > Thank you for your help! > > Regards, Adrian. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > >
