Re: Maturity of GRUB on powerpc/ppc64?
On 10/04/2017 06:47 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> No I am not sure. I know there is a partition type for it though, and
> the debian installer for powerpc always created it properly on an IBM
> pseries for me so I never looked at the details.
Hmm. I could create an updated debian-installer image for powerpc and
see if it works there. I might just be missing something, maybe in
the grub2 package itself.
> Looking at the parted source code, they are abusing flags to store things
> that are not flags. So it if sees partition type 0x41, it sets the "flag"
> prep. Setting the "flag" prep makes it set the partition type to 0x41.
Interesting. I guess they made that to make the user interface more consistent.
> So yes, it is in fact a partition type, and it does not need any flags
> set by the looks of it.
You are right then, of course. But I from debian-installer point of view,
it's still treated as a flag. So, I think we need to check where that
is normally set.
But my main guess is now that the grub2 needs additional changes currently
missing for ppc64.
Adrian
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