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Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)



On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 05:03:02PM +0300, Alper Nebi Yasak wrote:
>On 20/04/2020 16:36, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> I'm just going to test again with that change included, then I can
>> push a netinst image somewhere for you to test...
>
>I'd appreciate it. Here's another patch, this time for the armhf graphical
>cdrom. I checked that it boots into a graphical installer when run in a QEMU
>arm VM (still with 'direct kernel boot') but no further. If you can also make
>an armhf netinst image from this I can test that too (at least in a VM, not
>sure the configs for my chromebook were enabled on the armhf kernel..).

Ah, OK. I wasn't sure if it was worth trying to add this on armhf
too... :-)

I'm just building with a different local patch to add the setting
GRAPHICAL_INSTALLER=y in arm64.cfg and using that to add (or not) the
graphical installer to each of the grub-gencfg calls. I'll let that
finish first...


-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
"We're the technical experts.  We were hired so that management could
 ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs."  -- Mike Andrews


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