NVRAM emulation issues in QEMU

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

Hi Mark!

As you may remember, grub-installer has issues on QEMU when emulating a PowerMac.

I have now tried installing the latest ISO [1] myself and I noticed it fails with

"nvram: ERROR: there is no "common" partition!"

when grub-installer invokes the nvram command to set the boot-device [2].

Are there any plans to improve the NVRAM emulation in QEMU or is there any alternative
command that we should run on QEMU-based systems?

The ISO image works fine on real hardware, i.e. my iBook G4.

Thanks,
Adrian

> [1] https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2022-03-24/debian-11.0.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso
> [2] https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/grub-installer/-/blob/master/grub-installer#L968

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