Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

[Ulrich Teichert <krypton@ulrich-teichert.org>]

Hi,

>Fixing the kernel and silo installation issue is up next. Currently
>discussing with the d-i people in #debian-boot. I hope they're going
>to merge my sparc64 patches for base-installer soon.
>
>Btw, how did you install silo manually? I did that today with:
>
>chroot /target
>apt-get install linux-image-sparc64
># adding debian unreleased to /etc/apt/sources.list
>apt-get update && apt-get install silo
># this installs silo and makes it bootable, but silo points to
># the wrong kernel by default

Basically the same way, but I stopped the silo install early, edited
/etc/silo.conf to:

root=/dev/sdb1
partition=1
timeout=100

image=/boot/vmlinuz-4.3.0-1-sparc64-smp
        label=Linux
        initrd=/boot/initrd.img-4.3.0-1-sparc64-smp

And ran silo per hand.

>Or did you run silo outside the chroot?

No, but that should be possible too, you just have to point it to the
right config file.

HTH,
Uli
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