Re: New discussion: ppc64 installer -- ext2 /boot partition to keep sabot happy.
On 09/26/2017 11:48 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
There is precedent for always having an ext2 /boot partition. Any arm system
that uses u-boot needs the filesystem it reads from the be either ext2 or fat.
So the installer creates an ext2 /boot by default.
But we're not talking about ARM and not about u-boot, so I'm not sure how this
is relevant?
Until we get grub working, would it be possible to temporarily remove the
"$defaultignore{}”, just as a convenience to keep yaboot happy?
Well, then we should also remove this workaround [1].
But I'm not sure why we should invest time into improving Yaboot. I didn't
even work on my POWER7 system. So, while we would make Yaboot work on
PowerMac G5 computers, it would still be broken on POWER4/5/6/7. Plus,
Yaboot is unmaintained both in Debian and upstream.
FWIW, I wanted to start the new discussion with everyone involved from
the previous GRUB disucssion. I want to hear more opinions. I'm just
currently at work.
Adrian
[1] https://anonscm.debian.org/git/d-i/partman-ext3.git/commit/?id=f87dc92157262de1ad8dd3f2343436f08271b4dc
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