Re: GRUB testers on SPARC needed
Hi,
On 02/19/2018 02:37 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Installing it **and** using the mentioned `grub-install` command to
install it on the `/boot` partition over the previous version
(2.02-2+sparc64.3) breaks booting with GRUB2:
Yes, this is something I don't have any control over. The grub2 package
will
break every time on sparc64 until GRUB 2.04 has been released with
hopefully
all of Eric's patches merged.
I see.
Alternatively, you can try to convince Debian's GRUB maintainers (CC'ed)
that
they will merge my patch from #854568 [1].
If they couldn't be convinced by you despite all your hard work on
Debian Ports, not even for the experimental suite, why should they
bother about me? :-)
But if someone cares: GRUB2 (w/those patches) allows network booting for
sparc64 w/modern (aka huge) kernels and initram file systems - something
that wasn't working properly (if at all) for a long time on sparc64.
Though the selection of per MAC/IP address configuration files during
startup as of now is in fact not on par with other network capable boot
loaders like pxelinux or yaboot, one can still script together a
somewhat similar method (see [1]).
[1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=873406#c1
In addition it works on every sparc64 (Sun-4u, Sun-4v) machine I've
tested so far.
Hence I consider it a must have for sparc64. And my machines see things
the same way. :-)
Cheers,
Frank
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