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Re: Debian Sid PPC64 / IBM pSeries 550 --- Bootloaders don't work after succesful install



On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 3:39 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> On 11/13/20 1:31 PM, Anatoly Pugachev wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 3:21 PM Deinsti Suski
> > <projectstudios22@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> We would like to thank everyone for their help and suggestions
> >> and I hope that our discoveries help in anyway
> >> If you'd like to know more then don't hesitate to ask
> >
> > I wonder if it is still possible to give an option to install yaboot
> > (besides of grub) when installing on powerpc hardware...
>
> The problem with such suggestions is that all that works ends up with
> me as there is no one else willing to help with the PowerPC port at
> the moment.
>
> And since I don't have unlimited time and resources available, I limit
> my work to the packages that are part of the Debian distribution.
>
> I also have doubts that GRUB is not compatible with some IBM POWER
> machines as this would be something IBM developers would have reported
> and fixed.

It would nice to have instructions on how to build an iso image,
probably step by step,
since all my attempts to build something bootable on sparc64 and/or
ppc64 actually failed.


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