On 09/29/2017 03:16 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> 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.
>
I fully agree. As soon as creation of bootable iso images transit to
GRUB I can safely ask FTP masters to remove yaboot from Debian repositories.
Milan