Re: New discussion: ppc64 installer -- ext2 /boot partition to keep yaboot happy.
On Oct 31, 2017, at 12:41 AM, Frank Scheiner <frank.scheiner@web.de> wrote:
> Hi Rick,
>
> On 10/31/2017 02:46 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
>> I downloaded and burned the below image. Then I did an install on my PowerMac7,3 G5 dual processor.
>> When it came time to partition the disk I expanded the HFS NewWorld bootstrap partition to 10MB.
>> When it got to install grub or install yaboot, I first chose grub-installer. That failed. So I went back and tried yaboot-installer, which succeeded. I switched to the F2 console and mounted /dev/sda2 (the HFS partition) on /target/boot/grub then went back to the main console and tried grub-installer again. It failed again.
>> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Currently only the new debconf templates (for d-i/grub-installer) were added to the installer image (i.e. new "text" for [1]). The `grub-installer` and `debian/postinst` scripts of d-i/grub-installer are still the original ones without my modifications. So the GRUB installation won't work without prior installation of the modifications - which I currently do during installations to test and finalize my modifications.
>
> [1]: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/grub-installer.git/tree/debian/grub-installer.templates?id=60b7ec8a721e611b3c47f4327fe4ba3555d32532
>
> Hence some additional time and discussion is still needed before this will be fully included, sorry.
>
> Cheers,
> Frank
Thanks, Frank!
Can you give me instructions for how to install your modifications during installation? I’d love to help with the debugging if I can.
Enjoy!
Rick
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