| 00:01.40 | pahartik | gomersion: For booting over network, local install of "yaboot" is not relevant |
| 00:45.05 | simonrvn | does yaboot even support lvm root? |
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| 05:51.58 | gomersion | hi pahartik: The install I did was a "network install" - without using a CD-ROM to "local" disks. I let the installer do guided with LVM which created an 8M PReP partition, 250M /boot, then the rest LVM. |
| 05:53.33 | gomersion | pahartik: wrt LVM root, I think that its supported based on reading some messages on lists from circa 2007. |
| 06:23.59 | simonrvn | ok |
| 06:33.20 | gomersion | hi simonrvn: Not sure why sid would not find any disks though? I dropped to a shell which actually works on sid w/IBM power 5 console.... and could run pvscan see all my logical volumes, but the installer could not see any disk |
| 06:34.12 | gomersion | simonrvn: I am trying etch at the moment to see if yaboot install works. It doesnt support dm-multipath during the install though |
| 06:35.29 | gomersion | simonrvn: I'm not sure how easy its going to be to install the multipath-tools-boot and make the required changes, re-create ramdisk etc.... |
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| 06:48.47 | simonrvn | sid install? why? it's bound to be borked anyway. |
| 06:49.03 | simonrvn | move to sid after the installation... |
| 06:54.23 | gomersion | simonrvn: Yeh. I think I will move to lenny which is what I wanted originally. I have never fiddled with priorities before, but would that let the yaboot package install? It looked like it failed only because the latest version of yaboot was already installed according to the log message above |
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| 07:24.07 | simonrvn | yeh, that's cool. you can always reinstall it. apt-get --reinstall install yaboot or aptitude reinstall yaboot |
| 08:11.16 | gomersion | Actually. It looks like LVM root is still not possible (at least on etch). yaboot.conf in /etc/ puts paid to that idea. |
| 08:12.02 | gomersion | I googled it and cant see any particular reason *why* yaboot.conf is written to /etc/ and not /boot as is the case with grub? |
| 08:28.22 | simonrvn | you could symlink it perhaps *shrug* |
| 08:29.28 | gomersion | simonrvn: No... I think its hard coded in the yaboot exe at the moment. Another way is to make your / filesystem about 250M and on a primary partition |
| 08:29.38 | gomersion | at least you can run LVM on /usr /var and others |
| 08:30.07 | simonrvn | of course, it's usually wiser, no need to fuck around with initrds |
| 08:31.24 | gomersion | simonrvn: found the issue with the sid install. If you havea volume group it wont detect the disk... trying sid again to see if yaboot will at least install. etch installed with LVM root but couldnt find /etc/yaboot.con |
| 08:32.14 | simonrvn | 'k |
| 10:59.31 | pahartik | gomersion: At least with "Quik" I have "/boot/etc/quick.conf" and use "sudo quik -v -r /boot" when it has been modified |
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| 17:13.31 | simonrvn | /boot/quik.conf works fine BTW |
| 17:13.56 | simonrvn | and symlink to /etc/quik.conf |
| 17:14.16 | simonrvn | quik -vf works fine. just gotta edit the root |
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