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When I try to boot, yaboot only says “read error”! Why can I boot?

April 26, 2017boot Try yaboot

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When I try to boot, yaboot only says “read error”! Why can I boot?

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You’re probably using XFS for your root partition. While this is an option, yaboot has some issues accessing files with holes. To ensure that your kernel will boot, instead of copying the vmlinux file to /boot, simply cat the kernel as shown below.