Discussion:
powermac and ext4 as root fs (workaround)
Dinar Valeev
2012-12-03 23:03:58 UTC
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Hi,
it seems I've found a problem why neither root on lvm or ext4 doesn't work.
It is just not implemented in our lilo (yaboot wrapper). To workaround
that, you need to manually create /boot on ext2 (or ext3) during
installation.

I wonder if somebody tried openSUSE 11.1 or SLES11 with this scenario
on powermac.
In order to fix that we need to fix yast2-storage so it will put /boot
on ext2 or ext3 partition.

JFYI tested that on 12.2 (build 22). Should work on Factory as well.

Have fun,
Dinar
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Marcus Meissner
2012-12-04 08:18:48 UTC
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Post by Dinar Valeev
Hi,
it seems I've found a problem why neither root on lvm or ext4 doesn't work.
It is just not implemented in our lilo (yaboot wrapper). To workaround
that, you need to manually create /boot on ext2 (or ext3) during
installation.
I wonder if somebody tried openSUSE 11.1 or SLES11 with this scenario
on powermac.
In order to fix that we need to fix yast2-storage so it will put /boot
on ext2 or ext3 partition.
JFYI tested that on 12.2 (build 22). Should work on Factory as well.
SLES11 did/does not have ext4 support directly, so it probably did not show up.


Ciao, Marcus
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Dinar Valeev
2012-12-04 10:59:32 UTC
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Post by Marcus Meissner
Post by Dinar Valeev
Hi,
it seems I've found a problem why neither root on lvm or ext4 doesn't work.
It is just not implemented in our lilo (yaboot wrapper). To workaround
that, you need to manually create /boot on ext2 (or ext3) during
installation.
I wonder if somebody tried openSUSE 11.1 or SLES11 with this scenario
on powermac.
In order to fix that we need to fix yast2-storage so it will put /boot
on ext2 or ext3 partition.
JFYI tested that on 12.2 (build 22). Should work on Factory as well.
SLES11 did/does not have ext4 support directly, so it probably did not show up.
But it supports lvm/btrfs, which should do basically the same.
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Ciao, Marcus
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Alexander Graf
2012-12-04 11:08:01 UTC
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Post by Dinar Valeev
Post by Marcus Meissner
Post by Dinar Valeev
Hi,
it seems I've found a problem why neither root on lvm or ext4 doesn't work.
It is just not implemented in our lilo (yaboot wrapper). To workaround
that, you need to manually create /boot on ext2 (or ext3) during
installation.
I wonder if somebody tried openSUSE 11.1 or SLES11 with this scenario
on powermac.
In order to fix that we need to fix yast2-storage so it will put /boot
on ext2 or ext3 partition.
JFYI tested that on 12.2 (build 22). Should work on Factory as well.
SLES11 did/does not have ext4 support directly, so it probably did not show up.
But it supports lvm/btrfs, which should do basically the same.
Yeah, but pmac is also not supported on SLES11 :)

Alex
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Ciao, Marcus
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Dinar Valeev
2012-12-04 11:48:15 UTC
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Post by Dinar Valeev
Post by Marcus Meissner
Post by Dinar Valeev
Hi,
it seems I've found a problem why neither root on lvm or ext4 doesn't work.
It is just not implemented in our lilo (yaboot wrapper). To workaround
that, you need to manually create /boot on ext2 (or ext3) during
installation.
I wonder if somebody tried openSUSE 11.1 or SLES11 with this scenario
on powermac.
In order to fix that we need to fix yast2-storage so it will put /boot
on ext2 or ext3 partition.
JFYI tested that on 12.2 (build 22). Should work on Factory as well.
SLES11 did/does not have ext4 support directly, so it probably did not show up.
But it supports lvm/btrfs, which should do basically the same.
Yeah, but pmac is also not supported on SLES11 :)
But openSUSE 11.1.

Actually I was wrong. We just need to copy initrd to hfs partition.
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Alex
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Ciao, Marcus
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Dinar Valeev
2012-12-04 13:30:13 UTC
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Got it. It is easier than I thought.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=792657

We just missing copy=true in case of pmac and ext4/lvm/btrfs.

I'm not sure about assignee for that bug. Let see.
Post by Dinar Valeev
Post by Alexander Graf
Post by Dinar Valeev
Post by Marcus Meissner
Post by Dinar Valeev
Hi,
it seems I've found a problem why neither root on lvm or ext4 doesn't work.
It is just not implemented in our lilo (yaboot wrapper). To workaround
that, you need to manually create /boot on ext2 (or ext3) during
installation.
I wonder if somebody tried openSUSE 11.1 or SLES11 with this scenario
on powermac.
In order to fix that we need to fix yast2-storage so it will put /boot
on ext2 or ext3 partition.
JFYI tested that on 12.2 (build 22). Should work on Factory as well.
SLES11 did/does not have ext4 support directly, so it probably did not show up.
But it supports lvm/btrfs, which should do basically the same.
Yeah, but pmac is also not supported on SLES11 :)
But openSUSE 11.1.
Actually I was wrong. We just need to copy initrd to hfs partition.
Post by Alexander Graf
Alex
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Ciao, Marcus
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Andreas Schwab
2012-12-04 19:52:50 UTC
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Isn't grub2 supposed to support powermac?

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Andreas Schwab
2012-12-04 21:45:58 UTC
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Yes. But we're mis pbl part here
Whatis "mis pbl"?

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Dinar Valeev
2012-12-05 01:21:04 UTC
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Yes. But we're mis pbl part here
Whatis "mis pbl"?
sorry sent that from mobile phone.

I mean we need to implement grub2 in perl-Bootloader first. But yes
grub2 should support powermac.
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