Re: New discussion: ppc64 installer -- ext2 /boot partition to keep yaboot happy.

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

On 10/09/2017 11:49 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 10/09/2017 11:27 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > Yep, that's about right. I will implement that later today. Thanks for pointing
> > me at that.
>
> I have patched partman-prep now [1]. Interestingly, it used to have ppc64
> support and it was removed [2].

Good news: With partman-prep enabled on ppc64 and after adding the hack to wipe
and find the PREP partition on powerpc and ppc64 in grub-installer [1], the
installation of GRUB on ppc64 works now out of the box on my POWER7 system \o/.

One can simply install GRUB on these systems now by choosing "Back" in the
yaboot-installer menu and then choosing to install GRUB.

Now we only need to get it working on NewWorld Macs :).

Adrian

> [1] https://anonscm.debian.org/git/d-i/grub-installer.git/commit/?id=4c358c031492f2fdc8dfdd41dc96afc77005e271

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