On 09/26/2017 11:53 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
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.
After digging some a bit more into debian-installer, I noticed today that the powerpc installation image actually supports three types of bootloaders for installation: Yaboot, GRUB, PREP with the priority for being installed in that order. Thus, any powerpc system can actually be also installed with these bootloaders when skipping the automatic installation of Yaboot. So, I will next add ppc64 support to grub-installer and prep-installer. I'm still a bit undecided about the ext4 issue with Yaboot. I actually would tend to always use the ext2 /boot partitions for all installations and revert the work-around used for partman-ext3. Opinions? Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaubitz@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913