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Re: Unable to boot debian ports debian-9.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso image in QEMU



Try installing with one XFS partition. 

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> On Feb 11, 2018, at 12:06 PM, John Ogness <powerpc@ogness.net> wrote:
> 
> On 2018-02-11, Frank Scheiner <frank.scheiner@web.de> wrote:
>>>> 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:
> 
> I have real hardware (iBook G4) where the Debian 1.3.17 does not work.
> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> With QEMU would it be possible to follow the approach of John Ogness
>> ([1])? He used yaboot v1.3.16 from a USB stick and then loaded the
>> config file from the Debian Sid netinst disc.
> 
> How about Debian applies the patch [2] I submitted, which reverted the
> change that caused the problem? Tony's response [3] to my patch was that
> "we're probably safe to apply this".
> 
> John
> 
>> [1]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2017/10/msg00099.html
> 
> [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2017/10/msg00118.html
> [3] https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2017/10/msg00119.html
> 


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