Re: New discussion: ppc64 installer -- ext2 /boot partition to keep sabot happy.
On 10/06/2017 10:56 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
I tried the latest: "Debian GNU/Linux 9.0 "Sid" - Unofficial ppc64 NETINST 20171005-07:56”
I did an “expert” mode install. At partitioning time, I created an 8MB bootable partition and a 250MB ext2 partition for /boot.
There was no “grub” entry in the main menu of the installer [*], so I went ahead and installed yaboot.
Oh, this must have broken recently. I will give it a try later today and see why that's the case. The
grub-installer package is definitely now officially built for ppc64 and sparc64 [1], so I'm not sure
why it's not showing up for you.
It booted fine. After booting I installed the “grub2” packages (and all its dependent packages)
mounted the bootstrap HFS partition at /boot/grub, and tried to run grub-install. This ran for a
bit then errored out with the message:
error cannot write to `/boot/grub/…` No space left on device.
looking at what it had written, all 8MB was indeed nearly full. The largest part was 4.1MB taken
up by /boot/grub/locales and 1.5MB of fonts.
Ok. Thanks for testing that.
I didn’t use any options for grub-install. There may be some way to trim down the un-needed stuff,
but I didn’t dig into it that far. If not, then 8MB isn’t enough space for Grub.
It shouldn't be a problem to increase the default partition size in this case to something
like 10-16 MiB, depending on what we need. The 8 MiB limitation exists on PREP only if
I understand correctly.
Adrian
[1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=grub-installer&suite=sid
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