Re: Updated installer images 2020-12-02
- To: Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola@libero.it>
- Cc: "debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org" <debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org>
- Subject: Re: Updated installer images 2020-12-02
- From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2021 11:43:42 +0100
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On 12/29/20 6:54 PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> I tried once again and edited partition manually: I created a separate /boot
> partition formatted ext3. The system installed and yaboot works just fine.
As expected. Current versions of Yaboot don't support modern ext4, ext2/3 work
fine though. Not sure whether the current upstream fork of Yaboot has made any
improvements in this regard [1].
> I have a very base system, but it boots fine - I'd say no strange problems with
> this machine. I'll try installing some stuff, including X11, sshd server, compilers
> etc.
Yes, there are no known issues on PowerPC/PPC64 at the moment except for the partman
issues during installation for powerpc systems as well as some missing graphics
drivers.
Adrian
> [1] https://github.com/rsaxvc/yaboot4
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