[Ppcboot-users] Re: IDE Boot of Disk with Linux Partition in PPCBoot

[Wolfgang D. <wd...@de...>]

Hi James,

in message <200...@kr...> you wrote:
> 
> I looked at the CFG_CMD_IDE code (cmd_ide.c) and noticed that
> the driver is setup to read mac and dos partitions.

Seems you are running an old version of PPCBoot, or you  should  have
seen ISO (CD-ROM) partititons, too.

> Does this mean that my root partition should be a Dos partition

No.

> and not a Linux partition? Has anyone booted an image from a Linux
> partition or does the support already exist?

The filesystem type of your root filesystem is completely unaffected.
Please note that PPCBoot (so far) does not contain any  cod  to  deal
with filesystems. It loads the kernel image from a raw partition.

So usually you will have one or two SMALL partitions  (1  MB  or  so)
which  you  use  to  store  your  kernel  images  for  PPCBoot. These
partitions will not use any filesystem.


Wolfgang Denk

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