Joachim Banzhaf wrote:
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 :-(
Sorry to say but petitboot hasn't got support to handle lvm and I don't assume that this is going to happen soon. One thing you might try if you really want to work with lvm is having a separate non-lvm /boot partition. Though I haven't tried this myself I guess that should work and be sure to use petitboot provided with the installation media. In case you encounter and solve any problems it would be nice if you would share your experiences on http://en.opensuse.org/PS3 so everybody can benefit from 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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