Re: GRUB testers on SPARC needed

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

On 02/26/2018 05:55 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
> Thanks for the upload. The new version works like version 2.02-2+sparc64.3 for me.
Frank, if you like, you can help improving grub-installer for sparc64.

We have extended the hardware detection in debian-installer on sparc and
sparc64 now, so that the installer can detect whether the hardware supports
GPT partition tables or not.

On a sparc64 with GPT support, you get something like:

sparc64/sun4v_gpt as the hardware type.

A sparc with GPT gives:

sparc/sun4v_gpt

And a sparc64 which is a sun4u without GPT, gives:

sparc64/sun4u_sun

This information should be used here:

> https://anonscm.debian.org/git/d-i/grub-installer.git/tree/grub-installer#n628

and here:

> https://anonscm.debian.org/git/d-i/grub-installer.git/tree/grub-installer#n853

and here:

> https://anonscm.debian.org/git/d-i/grub-installer.git/tree/grub-installer#n867

For the different invocations of grub-install on Sun and GPT partition tables, see:

> https://github.com/esnowberg/grub2-sparc/wiki

I am building a new installer image necessary to work on this.

Adrian

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