**edit**
after typing this I considered it may look like a hi-jack attempt on my part. It's not. just trying to add to the conversation
Nyne,
If your bootloader is on a different partition than the kernel how can you modify yaboot.conf without mounting the filesystem? If you try to mkofboot with a mounted bootloader, it will abort. Should you, in order?:
mount bootload partition
nano yaboot.conf
unmount bootload partition
mkofboot
reboot
If you do not successfully configure yaboot.conf you will have problems either shutting down, rebooting, or booting, no? My attempts at proper kernel upgrade have failed due to my inability to do the proper things in order. I'd like to learn it. Also what is the unmount command? The ones I've tried have been unsuccessful....(newbie forever)
just for kicks here's my yaboot.conf:
# yaboot.conf generated by anaconda
boot=/dev/sda2
init-message="Welcome to Linux Hell! Hit <TAB> for boot options."
partition=7
timeout=30
install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
delay=10
enablecdboot
macosx=/dev/sda3
image=/boot/vmlinux-2.6.8-1.ydl.7g5-smp
label=linux
read-only
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.8-1.ydl.7g5-smp.img
root=/dev/sda7
append="rhgb quiet"
image=/boot/vmlinux-2.6.8-1.ydl.7g5
label=linux-up
read-only
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.8-1.ydl.7g5.img
root=/dev/sda7
append="rhgb quiet"
image=/boot/vmlinux-2.6.10-2-power4
label=ubuntu
read-only
initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.10-2-power4
root=/dev/sda4
append="quiet splash"