Re: New discussion: ppc64 installer -- ext2 /boot partition to keep sabot happy.
Hi Frank!
On 09/29/2017 08:50 AM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
> (...)
> To be able to load the yaboot config file from the partition that holds the root FS,
> yaboot needs to know which partition to use. Hence I assume there has to
> be an additional configuration file that is loaded maybe from the PReP partition.
Thanks for the elaborate answer. However, I have come to the conclusion now that
I am going to drop Yaboot from debian-installer in favor of GRUB, both on powerpc
as well as ppc64 and even on sparc64.
I have made some progress and the grub-installer entries already show up in the
menus of the debian-installer images for ppc64 and sparc64, there is still some
work left until everything works correctly though.
Yaboot itself is a lost cause in my opinion. Users have to resort to workarounds
and upstream is factually dead and it's therefore probably just a matter of
time until the package gets removed from Debian. Let's just focus on GRUB
then.
Adrian
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