Re: grub2 on powerpc
On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 11:16:02AM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
> Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com> writes:
>
> > This is strange. I know one of the core grub2 maintainers is using powerpc
> > regularly (with code from CVS).
>
> It certainly works--I've used it myself. But there is so much
> duplicated, common, code between the ports, it really is asking for
> splitting into separate arch-specific and generic parts, rather than
> duplicating the entirety for each port.
>
> > As for tools not in Debian, you mean ofpathname?
>
> Yes.
>
> > Is the grub2 debian package usable at all without ofpathname? (I
> > understand that at least grub-install won't work, making d-i support
> > impossible).
>
> It's just grub-install that breaks. Installing by hand works.
Ah, good. Btw, anyone tried loading a 64bit kernel from 32bit grub2? If it
works, we could add ppc64 to the list (using biarch).
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