On 10/06/2017 11:06 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
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.
Ah, the problem is most likely the debian/isinstallable script in grub-installer [1]. It's already checking for the existence of the /boot/grub HFS partition when the grub-installer package is pulled in by anna (debian-installer's version of APT). However, at the time when grub-installer is pulled in by debian-installer, there are no partitions yet at all so naturally the GRUB installation item will never show up on these machines. Also, the check from [1] is already present in the actual grub-installer script [2], so it doesn't really make sense that it's part of debian/isinstallable. I will therefore remove it from [1]. Thanks for testing and spotting this problem! Adrian
[1] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/grub-installer.git/tree/debian/isinstallable#n22 [2] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/grub-installer.git/tree/grub-installer#n241
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