Tips and tricks: Why is my system unable to reboot after converting my ext3 partition to a diskdump partition. How can I fix this ?

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Jul 23, 2007 3:41 PM EDT
Red Hat Magazine; By Wade Mealing
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When a partition that was previously an ext3 partition is converted to disk dump, the next time the system will boot, it will show a "Token is too" error. This problem occurs and leaves the system in an unbootable state. This is because yaboot tries to to boot from a partition of type “Linux” (Type 83). This error does not occur if the partition is labeled as swap (Type 82).

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