Hi Mick,
Am Mittwoch, 14. Januar 2009 05:22:17 schrieb Mick Charles Beaver:
> > Looks like the hd partition is not found by petitboot?
> > Maybe I really have installed on lvm and petitboot cannot recognize this?
>
> I'm new to PPC/PS3 Linux myself, so I'm not sure. I can tell you that
> I did not use LVM, so maybe that is the problem.
Yes, this was it.
I booted the rescue system from dvd yesterday and found the entire system on
the harddisk. Only the bootmanager could not find it :-(
> > Where would petitboot or install log their error messages?
>
> The source distribution didn't have any documentation. If you don't
> want to reinstall without using LVM, you could try and debug with the
> network-enabled version of petitboot (downloadable from the petitboot
> web site).
Previous config was ps3da1 = /boot, ps3da2 = vg system with rootfs in an lv.
Petitboot obviously cannot handle this.
I reinstalled last night with no separate /boot, ps3da1 = 0.5GB ext3 root
filesystem and ps3da2 = vg system with only usr, opt, var, tmp, home and swap
lv's. This worked.
Now I am waiting since more than 30 min for the kde 4.1 desktop to become
operable so I can shut it down cleanly and uninstall it again. It obviously
uses way too much memory. Will see if the other standard opensuse window
managers gnome, kde 3.5 or xfce do better.
Regards,
Joachim
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