RH 7.1 would not boot from my ext2 partition. It would only boot from a
kernel on a FAT partition. I didn't have any problems with 6.2 reading
from the ext2. I wiped and installed 7.1 fresh and had that problem until
I moved the kernel that I wanted to boot from onto the FAT partition. Is
it known how to avoid this? I would rather not have to have a small FAT
partition on the drive. RH7.1 seemed to leave me no alternative.
James

And this is all with SRM and aboot 0.7.

 On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Michal Jaegermann wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 01:51:53PM -0600, James Fowler wrote:
> > In my experience you have to have both FAT and EXT2 (with BSD labels)
> > support too. I had to have a
> > little FAT partiton at the beginning of the disk with an /etc /boot
> > (something elses too). In order to get aboot to work and boot my kernel.
>
> This is the case when you are booting from ARC, and derivatives, where
> firmware does not know anything about disklabels and ext2. But he is
> using SRM console and 'aboot' - which is a different situation.
>
> Not that FAT, or better yet VFAT, support is not useful then in your
> kernel (it may be in a form of a module). You may need, from time time,
> to look at those pesky FAT floppies. :-)
>
> Michal
>
>
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