Yaboot failing with JFS in primary partition

Paul Nasrat pnasrat at redhat.com
Wed Mar 29 06:58:00 EST 2006


On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 21:31 +0200, Markus Baertschi wrote:
> Paul Nasrat wrote:
> >> The messages I get are the following:
> >> Config file read, 32768 bytes
> >> Config file error: Token is too long near line 0 in file /etc/yaboot.conf
> >> Syntax error or read error config
> >>     
> >
> > That smells like OF is reading it.
> >
> > Paul
> >   
> What is OF ?

Open Firmware
> 
> Just some more things:
> To modify stuff I edit lilo.conf and run lilo. Lilo will convert 
> lilo.conf into yaboot.conf and call yaboot to install it.

I'll state for the record now, calling yaboot lilo is a really bizarre
thing.

> The resulting yaboot.conf is only 573 bytes, not 32768 bytes like above 
> message says.


Yeah OF is just reading off raw I think.

As I said I'll setup here shortly and test.

Paul




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