Re: Unable to boot debian ports debian-9.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso image in QEMU
On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 6:43 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland
<mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk> wrote:
> On 10/02/18 16:07, Frank Scheiner wrote:
>
>> On 02/10/2018 03:29 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>>>
>>> On 02/10/2018 10:22 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
>>>>
>>>> My existing Jessie test image (debian-8.5.0-powerpc-netinst.iso) works
>>>> fine, so it looks like there is a regression somewhere in the boot loader
>>>> configuration.
>>>> Does anyone know what has changed between these two images that could
>>>> cause this to break?
>>>
>>>
>>> Possibly relevant discussion:
>>>
>>>> https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2017/10/msg00089.html
>>>> https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2017/10/msg00118.html
>>
>>
>> Yeah, maybe it's just the yaboot versions (1.3.16 for Jessie, 1.3.17 for
>> Sid), that makes the difference.
>
>
> It's annoying that something has regressed here though: is there an official
> git repo for yaboot to check out the differences between 1.3.16 and 1.3.17?
>
> The fact that it still works on real hardware suggests that something has
> changed here: is it possible to generate a test ISO using 1.3.16 yaboot to
> see if that starts working under QEMU again? That would narrow things down
> immensely.
The main thing that changed was:
https://bugs.debian.org/825110
But I thought this had been fixed in the installer now.
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