Gerhard Pircher wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking into building a custom Debian install CD for a non-supported > PowerPC platform. The platform doesn't work with any of the available > bootloaders in Debian. Therefore I would like to create my own bootloader > udeb package. While I can use one of the available bootloader udebs as > a base for my work, I didn't find out yet how the installer selects the > right bootloader for a platform (it seems to load several bootloader > udebs during an installation). Is this done by preseeding (though I > could only find preseeding options for grub and lilo) or by some check > of the architecture/platform string in /etc/cpuinfo? This is usually done with isinstallable scripts in the udebs's control.tar.gz. -- see shy jo
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